CHAPTER 66
"Thank you for everything." I said to him, looking down at my plaited nails.
He nodded. "Let me check the back well. I need to make sure that everything is OK." He dropped the gang man on the floor. "Stay put! I want to find you sprawled up in this position when I come back." He warned.
The guy nodded weakly. I doubt if he would have been able to stand let alone escape even without having Scar warn him.
"Yes,we should" I said, walking behind him
"We sounds like a lot of people stay behind and watch over that guy." He ordered.
"You are really something else. This is my fight and you will not keep me in the sidelines. If there is anyone that should stay behind it_"
"Alright you can come too__Jeez!" He sighed, face palming. "Child not again with that speech.." He whispered to himself.
"I heard you, I am not a child and you are just angry because I don't allow you control me."
He ignored me.
We checked the whole backyard for signs of anyone lurking around or for anything that was out of place but we found non.
After surveying the back Scar held my waist and spun me around to face him.
Looking at me with so much passion, he spoke. "You are safe now they won't be coming back. I will also talk to those officers, they would not leave the gate ever again that was highly unprofessional even for them. They just proved to be more useless than I thought. But you don't have to worry even if the officers don't stay I am here and nothing would happen to you or to your family not on my watch."
He held on to my hands_our fingers intertwined. "No man will touch you as long as I am alive."
"For how long will you continue to protect me?" I whispered.
"As long as I live."
I exhaled.
Soon his grip on my waist became tighter, and more possessive. I could hear my heart thumping hard in my chest. I wanted to lean in and be absorbed in his protective hands then I will be safe forever.
"Ken will not stop until he has me. How long can I fight him? How long will I be safe? I may have just this night for all I know. He may take you or You may not be here when he comes next time." I sighed, trying not to give in to the tears filling my eyes. "I can't rely on your words because you are not omnipresent neither are you omniscience. He can outsmart you and when he does what becomes of me?"
When I spoke I tried hard not to show him how panicked I really was about everything. My family needed me and for them I wanted to live. For them and maybe for a tall, sca....
"I won't let anything happen to you, take my word for it Mira. You just have to trust me." He said, caressing my little finger.
"So what do I do when you finally leave? because you will leave people always do."
"I will never leave you, I_"
"My father left me, who are you to think you won't." I scoffed. It was more like a bitter chuckle.
"I am not your father. He is not me." He held my face and looked into my eyes, intensely, passionately. " I won't leave you. Not now not ever."
"You are right you are not my father, you are nothing to me." I took hold of his hands that were on my cheeks and tried bringing it down but he didn't let me. I wanted to be alone now, in my room to comfort myself with my pillow.
I wanted time to reassure myself that I could never get anything good, that I was nothing. I could not risk Scar breaking the wall that I managed to build all these years after Ken's betrayal especially not when my father had already assured me of my damnation.
My own father.
I tried to remove his hands again but he wouldn't bulge.
"Please let me go." I begged, my voice hoarse. I was trying so hard not to cry.
"You anger me, you really do. But then I find that I cannot control myself when I am around you and that's the most aggravating part of it all. You drive me insane whether I am with you or without you." He confessed.
I wanted to ask him to leave me alone then, when he crashed his lips on mine.
It so happened to be my first kiss not counting whatever Ken must have done to me that night, actions that I was not aware of.
I did not know how to react or what to do.