Part 35 (2/2)
”Really you're there now?”
”Umm...yeah!” I said knowing I was busted.
”OK, so how many messages have I left on the answering machine?” d.a.m.n IT! This question was too much for Draven to contain the roaring laughter that erupted from him. I only now guessed that one of his other gifts was great hearing!
”Who was that?” Libby asked as she to, had acute hearing!
”It was n.o.body, just the TV, one of those crummy sit coms...its nothing.” I said but she wasn't buying it!
”Was it Jack?” She asked and Draven replaced the laughing with a low growl at the sound of his name. Before I knew it he had my phone in his hand and to his ear. My dread doubled.
”h.e.l.lo Libby, its Dominic Draven here.” He said with such ease and confidence that I was in shock. Why would he admit to where I was?
”No, she's fine, she's obviously not at home but I think she was a little embarra.s.sed to tell you herself.” He said and I couldn't hide my horror, what was he doing? I could just hear Libby ask, ”Tell me what?”
”Keira and I are involved.” He said and I stood looking up at him like he had lost it. But just when I thought it couldn't get any worse it did! When Libby asked, ”Involved how?”
Draven replied that last thing I could have ever imagined out of his lips....
”I'm in love with her.”
Chapter 40 Involved.
I couldn't speak. It was as if Draven had once again stolen my voice only this time it wasn't done intentionally. So when he had finished on the phone to my sister he pa.s.sed me it back saying...
”She wants to talk to you.” He looked down at me but I still couldn't comprehend what had just happened...Did he just say he loved me? Why? How? When?! My mind was overloaded as if my mental dam had just cracked, flooding my mind with too many questions to process.
”Keira!” Draven said louder, bring me around but I was still in a semi daze when I put the phone that was now in my hand to my ear.
”Keira...Keira are you still there?” I nodded but knowing she couldn't see me, I found the words I needed.
”Umm yeah, what's up?” I said trying to sound casual ”What's up? ... Are you frigging kidding me? Keira, your Boss Mr Zillionaire and the most powerful man in the town, h.e.l.l not just the town.... but well... you get the picture...Kaz he just said he was in love with you!” I swallowed hard as she confirmed that I wasn't hearing things. This was impossible wasn't it? How could he be in love me? When I didn't answer she carried on and I could feel Draven's eyes on my face but I couldn't look at him, I just couldn't!
”Keira, what the h.e.l.l is going on? He said you're there, with him and have been since Monday...well seeing as it is Tuesday, that could only mean one thing!” Oh G.o.d! She couldn't be allowed to know, to think...oh G.o.d!
”What so I stayed the night.” I said clearing my throat feeling the heat invade my face making it redden.
”OH come on! Just answer me two things and I will leave you alone as you are obviously in the safest place imaginable.” I shook my head but I kept forgetting she couldn't see me.
”Look Lib's I don't have time for this!” I said trying to put her off with irritation.
”Ok well you want to play that game, if you don't ...I will call mum!” Oh s.h.i.+t! She had me there!
”You wouldn't!” I said testing her, knowing that she would, if she didn't get her way... she always did this! I heard Draven laugh and I finally found the strength to turn to him and I held up my hand and shot him a look as if to say' this is all your fault!' He didn't look as though he took my threat seriously.
”Lib's we're not kids any more, you can't just pull that c.r.a.p on me!” I said trying to make her see sense but it was like reasoning with Joseph Stalin!
”Well you have your choices...pick one” She said as this was set in stone.
”Or I could just hang up.” I said playing that card but seeing as I was playing against a master I wasn't surprised when she said.
”Yeah but you can't hang up on mum! So try me!”
”FINE!” I shouted turning away from Draven as he was making this harder, acting like a child himself, acting as if this was the funniest thing he had seen in years.
”Ok and remember that I will know if you're lying...First question...did you do it?” She asked getting excited and this just made me want to chuck my phone outside and over the edge!
”Do what?” I said feeling my face tense.
”Play scrabble! What do you think I mean...s.e.x?” As soon as she said this I wanted the earth to swallow me whole. The last thing I wanted was to be having this conversation with my sister when I had just heard Draven say that he loved me!
”Fine! Yes...next!”
”OH my G.o.d...no way! Way to go Kazzy!! How was it?” She sounded like she would soon hyperventilate and I cruelly wished she would so I could get off the phone!
”Is that your next question?” I said sarcastically knowing that it wasn't.
”No, I will drill you on the details later, when I'm home but what I really want to know is, just answer yes or no, as I know he's there, but tell me.... do you love him?” Of course as soon as she said it Draven was up out of his seat coming over to me, waiting for my answer as well. Libby was not to know that he could not only hear my side of the conversation but hers as well!
I looked up into deep pools of emotion, seeing the eyes of a desperate man. I knew my heart but he didn't, for all he knew I might not but come on...that wasn't going to be likely now was it?
”YES, I do love him!” I said feeling every word as though my heart had finally spoken the truth to the one it mattered the most. Draven took the phone off me as I could just hear excited screams from Libby on the other end. He raised it to his ear and said, ”Bye Libby, she will call you later,” And then he snapped my phone shut. He turned to me with his eyes ablaze, took me into his arms and kissed me so pa.s.sionately that I could feel the tears welling up. I was still in shock when he finally put me down. I didn't know what to say, from the first time I saw him the obsession began. I couldn't think of anything but the man that stood opposite me now but I would never have believed in my wildest fantasies that he could be thinking about me too...but in love with me as well!
That was a b.l.o.o.d.y miracle!
”What are you thinking about?” His soft voice brought me back.
”I umm...I'm in shock” I admitted.
”Why?” His voice sounded confused.
”Because I don't understand, why...why would you ever love me?” I blurted out before I could stop myself.
”And why not? Why is that so hard to believe?” He looked hurt and a little bit angry.
”Because it's just me. I'm just some plain looking, messed up girl with no right to have you!” I said looking at the floor ashamed that I had to admit how I felt. It was the truth, how would I ever feel good enough for a man like Draven, who was swimming in a sea of beauties and I was just the outcast looking in. His hand raised to my face and with a fingertip under my chin he raised my face to his.
”Keira, why do you simply refuse to understand what you mean to me? I have waited for you for far too many lifetimes to mention. You were made for me and for years I have searched in vain only to find disappointment! Until the day I finally found you.... and trust me when I say I would fight Heaven and h.e.l.l to keep you!!!” His hand now gripped my neck to lift all of my face to see his and at the sight I could do nothing but believe him...as hard as it was, I knew he was telling me the truth.
”But if that was the case why have you been determined to keep pus.h.i.+ng me away?” I asked in my shy voice.
”Because you have become the only weakness in all of my years. I have many enemies, Keira and up until now they had nothing to use against me...I had nothing to lose...until you.” He motioned for me to sit as I knew now I was about to hear the rest of the story. The reasons behind every lie he told, as now there was nothing left to stand in my way, all cards were now on the table.
”Are you ready to continue our earlier conversation?” He asked sitting next to me, with my hands in his.
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