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I hear Knightly’s voice coming from inside his room and he sounds a little calmer than he had before
“We have to meet, I catch his conversation. “Because Perry I didn’t expect this to happen and I need your help. You and Vy are the only people I trust with this I need you to get me more information on her, there’s a long pause “It’s not that I don’t trust what’s happening
Tve been here before. My brother paid for what I did and there’s more at stake now don’t do damsels. You better
anyone knows that. I have a lot going on right now. The last thing I need in to be around someone who can’t see the dange that’s right in front of them,”
The words smack me in the face and I take a step back before spinning around and heading back to the room.
“Phoebe,” I glance back to see Elliot standing there with several gift boxes in his arms.
“Hey, I greet him
“These are for Aizen’s. Knight told us he popped off about monster trucks. I hope he likes them he comes over to me and help him with the boxes. When we’re done Knightly is standing outside in the hallway. I bid them both a good night and shut the door
“What did you do?” I hear Elliot growl.
“Nothing, Knight is quick to defend.
“That wasn’t nothing, you turd. I’m telling Mom,”
There’s a quick shuffle and a couple of growls before it’s quiet. I take a deep breath and go over to the loveseat where ! placed the kid’s gifts. It’s hard to place myself in his shoes. I’ve always been good at climbing out of the holes I dig for myself.
The hardest one was getting the hell off the reservation. Not because I hated being there. I didn’t. I just hated my house Everything after that was all on me, I made choices and they ultimately led me here and it’s starting to feel like I’m caged in again. We both are. No matter how sweet either of us tries to be. This curve ball is curving
I reach for the notebooks and books Tessa let me borrow from her high school days. I had wanted Knight to go through some of this with me so he could explain it better to me but I don’t think I’m ever going to forget that he said that to one of his friends and by the sound of it, they’re very close.
I groan annoyed when someone taps on the door. I open it and it annoys me more that my stomach twists when i see Knightly standing there.
“What?” I ask holding the door so he knows he’s not welcome at the moment.
“Umm-” he hums blinking away confused. I stare back at him waiting for him to get his words in order. “Did I do something to offend you?”
“What do you need, Knight?” I ask.
“I have to go away for a couple of days. Work–related shit.be back Sunday night so I don’t miss the twins‘ first day of school,
“Great,” I nod. Yes, great. I don’t have to pretend my eavesdropping tendencies have gotten my feelings hurt once again.
“It feels like you’re really mad at me,” he says quietly.
“I heard you,” I admit because I don’t think I can sit here a couple of days stewing over this shit. “Im not a damsel. I was perfectly fine before I met you and thereafter. It wouldn’t do shit to me if you decided to leave for your work–related shit and never come back,”
He stands there stunned but he doesn’t try to tell me that it was a misunderstanding or scold me for eavesdropping. So I take a step back and shut the door. His hand stops it just before it closes on him, I don’t try to keep him from forcing it back open. It would make enough noise to wake up the twins.
“Is that right?” he growls.
The darkness in his eyes bleeds in and for the first time, I feel scared. His hand shoots out and he grips my face. With his other, he wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me out of the room in one lightning–fast motion
“Knight” I mumble into his hand, but I don’t think it’s Knight looking back at me.
“Let’s take care of that, Angel” he leans in takir Successfully unlocked! to need me and only me.”
His grip on my face tightens. Fear overwhelms he animo make my body move. Ice–cold pain floods my body on my left side. I scream into his hand when the sound of his teeth piercing my flesh crunches in my ear. The pain snaps me out of it and shove him as hard as I can. It’s all it takes for him to let go.
I immediately reach for my shoulder and feel the warmth bleeding out of me. I hold my hand out to see it dripping red. I
look up to see Knight on the floor about eight feet away from me looking back at me as panicked as I feet. My blood is dripping out of his mouth onto the graphic t–shirt he’s weating.
“You bit me.‘ Ichinke–out.
Phoebe
“You fucking bit mer I shout.
The room spins and 1 back up until my hack hits the wall behind me I slide down the wall until my ass hits the floor as I stare down at the blood in my hands. I cover the wound trying to calm my breathi
Phoebe Hook up to see him trying to come closer
“Get the fuck away from me, Knight Lory out
“Get away from her, asshole, his mom appears and runs over to me. Maria falls to her knees in front of me. “Hey, you’re okay Fuck, she’s bleeding a lot. Tess get the medic,”
“The twins “I reach for her trying not to pass out from the pain.
“They’re fine, baby girl. I’ve got them. Just breathe. Stay with me, she cups my face. “She’s mortal you fucking idiot. We had to be prepared! What did you do?”
“She’s not mortal Knight says calmly. “They’re going to come for her. We all need to be prepared,”
“Not like this, Nathan! How could you do this to her?” Maria cries out. Everything sounds so distant. Like an echo of a memory inside my head.
“I had to. So she can feel it. So she knows she can never run away, he growls at her. “She’s mine now. Mine!”
“Nathan, a growl echoes around me as my vision starts to darken.
“Enough,” Knight growls, and that single word stops all of them.
I feel a sting run down my spine. My body convulses at the sound of it and it feels a lot like he had said the word directly to me. A hot burning sensation erupts out of my chest and when I open my eyes again, Knight is crouching down in front of me. I gather all the spit in my mouth as he leans in to inspect the damage on my shoulder. When he backs away I spit it at him. He flinches and his dark eyes snap to mine. I watch as my saliva slides down his cheek.
“Bitch,” I growl and then flinch back because that sound came out of me. He grins. The fucking asshole grins completely satisfied.
“There you are, Angel,” he caresses my cheek with his bloodied hand. “I’ve waited long enough to be able to see you. Forgive how late I am. As you know, skins can be a little dramatic. You will never ever say something that hurtful to me again,” he pinches my chin making sure I see his sharp claws. “You’re going to miss me when I’m not around, he leans in so his lips are hovering over my wound. “My scent. My voice. My touch,” I cry out when his tongue laps at the wound. I expect it to hurt but it doesn’t. It soothes the cold burning sensation. “Enough to make you beg me for more,” his mouth closes over the wound and I feel a hundred times more lightheaded. “I have to take care of something important for us, but when I return. You’ll have my undivided attention,”
He pulls away with his stupid smirk on his face. I muster all the strength I have left in my body and lift my leg to kick out. He doesn’t move out of the way fast enough. The tip of my Hi–Top clips his chin shutting his jaw hard enough for the clack to echo in the high ceiling.
“You should prepare for more of that, my voice comes out scratchy as dark spots in my vision overwhelm me a little faster now that I tried to move. “I don’t beg. I may look like a damsel to you, but I assure you. I can burn this entire place to the ground if it meant putting you in your fucking place, asshole,”
“Showing your true colors, baby?” he laughs.
“You started it,” I pant leaning into the pain.
“Knight, enough. She’s lost a lot of blood,” Mr. Blake’s voice follows.
“Take care of her,” Knight growls.
“Don’t leave her like this, Nathan. She doesn’t know what’s happening. You can get yourself killed out there. You don’t need to do this,” Maria begs him.
“They’ll come for her, he growls and not in the playful way he had with me. “This is what you wanted, isn’t it? There was never another way and if you thought there was, you’re as delusional as Arnold,”
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