Page 121 of The Forbidden Villain
I knew she’d come to me the minute I listened to her conversation with Aunt Phoenix, and the possessive part of me thrived in the knowledge that my woman finally chose me.
All this idiotic sneaking around started to piss me off. My woman spent years in the darkness, so she deserved to be shown around in the light. I wanted everyone to know that she owned me and that she belonged to me.
“I do not approve of this.” I look over my shoulder at Gavin, holding a tray with a glass of water and Lavender’s favorite cookies. “You do not put your future wife in the basement.” His brow furrows. “You are going to marry the girl, aren’t you?”
Usually, no one besides my parents dares to speak to me in that tone, but I let it slide because Gavin proved himself very loyal and has helped me out over the years.
He lost his daughter to a rapist, who I killed, and since the man was on the verge of suicide, I decided to hire him as a butler for this mansion even though I didn’t need one. It gave him enough purpose to live and help me out. “Someday.”
“As long as we are clear, you do not bring a girl home and have a fling with her.”
“Well, thank you, Gavin. I don’t know what I would have done without your permission.” I turn around to face him and tap on the tray. “She won’t eat it. Probably will throw it in your face and ask you how you could help me.”
“Still, I will try. Out of the way, boy.” He rolls his shoulders back and goes in, and I wait for a few seconds before smirking when I hear the tray clank against the floor, and after five seconds, he comes back, his suit wet from the water. “God knows you’re a match. You'd better fix this and fast, Levi. Gordon won’t wait forever for her, and if she doesn’t show her face tomorrow morning, he will notify the brothers. Do not start a family war for nothing.”
The clash is inevitable anyway.
My phone rings, and taking it out of my pocket, I see the security guard’s number flashing on the screen. “Yes?”
“Hey, boss. There is a drone in the sky. We’d have shot it, but you told us not to. It’s very small and tries to fly under the radar toward the property. My guess is it’s recording. Double-checking if we should still follow your previous order or if we need to get rid of it?”
The thing about vindictive cowards?
They always think they are smarter than you, and while I still can’t locate Robert or his family since all his followers are dead…I know he’s spying on me.
He needs to see for himself how much Lavender means to me, so he can try to take her.
Sometimes a good hunt is not about chasing your prey.
It’s taunting it with a bait so tempting, they can’t resist and come to the hunter themselves.
And while in the past such a notion was acceptable to me because I knew I could protect her…now it is not.
She’s mine.
He doesn’t get to watch her in our home and smear it with dirt that’s impossible to wash away.
“Shoot it, and should anything else come our way, get rid of it too.”
“Got it, boss.”
I’ll find another way to get Robert.
Lavender is precious and sacred to me, and as such, I won’t let him go near her.
Even if she doesn’t want to be with me after she learns the whole truth.
CHAPTER TWENTY
“We should stay away from our shadows.
Because there we hide our deepest desires.
And some of these desires?
Are deadly in their nature and demand our sacrifice.
A sacrifice that will inevitably destroy us.”
