“Give me some fucking credit Draven, I think by now I know how your family operates.” At this he growled at me but I just ignored the signs of his rage building, not really giving a shit about it anymore.
“I don’t care for that statement.”
“Well I don’t care if you do or not, it’s the truth and you know it! Christ but will I ever not be played by one of you!? Do any of you know how not to lie?” Ok, so I might have screamed this last part but I just knew there was no way around it feeling the way I did right now.
“Stop being so dramatic Keira, no one has played you.” At this I scoffed,
“Oh really…” I asked sarcastically before snapping,
“So the only reason you came back here tonight wasn’t because you heard about me and Alex…?” He tried to interrupt me but I was quicker with my rage than he was,
“…Oh and you didn’t run to daddy dearest to find out this information and end up ripping into each other…?”
“Now just wait…”
“…Oh and I guess Sophia had not one thing to do with this, huh?!” I added knowing without his answer that of course she did. From the very beginning her, Vincent and even Pip had tried to grind me down to a point of hearing how Draven was having such a tough time being without me but to me, after what he had done, well it was all bullshit on sale and I wasn’t buying it for a second!
“You need to keep my family out of this.” He struck back causing me a second of pain at having it confirmed that I was no longer classed as family in his eyes anymore. Well that was just fine by me! I got up and stormed to the door ready to shake some hinges after slamming it on his arrogant ass!
“What do you think you’re doing?!” He snarled in his anger and stormed towards me.
“I am getting the Hell outta here, that’s what!”
“Oh no you’re not!” He grabbed me by the arm and whipped me back around to face him and I wish he hadn’t done it without hurting me so I had another thing to be pissed about. But wasn’t that just the kicker, I gave Draven my body and he would never harm it but I gave him my heart and he fucking destroyed it!
“Screw you!” I shouted trying to get free from his grip briefly wondering in my red haze how we managed to do a complete 360 in no time at all. He ignored my verbal lashing and instead threw me back over his shoulder. Before I could scream a single complaint he threw me back down so I landed hard enough on the couch to bounce. He then caged me in with his arms holding his body above me and his face was a breath away from mine, killing all notion of personal space.
We were both breathing heavy and staring at each other with a scary and potent mix of anger and lust clogging the air around us.
“Now, are you going to get control of your irrational anger…?”
“Irrational! Why you…!” I started to shout but his hand came out of nowhere and clamped tight over my mouth. He shook his head slowly and said more calmly,
“Now let’s try that again should we…I call it irrational because no matter what you think of me, I have left you alone all this time for what I believed to be for your own good. Now, however, after what I have learned it is no longer the case. So yes, although it may hurt your pride, I came here to rectify an issue I have with who you have unwisely chosen to…” He looked off to the side like he wanted to crush something but his hands were closer to a gentle caress in spite of his anger. Then through gritted teeth he continued with,
“…date” in more of a snarl than an actual word. I narrowed my eyes up at him.
“Now if I let you go are we going to talk about this like adults or are you going to scream more abuse at me like some unruly teenager?” I growled beneath his hand making his eyes once again flash purple but like before I couldn’t tell you why.
He widened his eyes down at me as if asking if I would behave or not, making me just roll mine and nod in a silent and begrudging yes.
“Good girl.” He said and released me, allowing my first response to be,
“Don’t patronise me, Draven, after last year I stopped being a good girl after going to Hell and back!” I snapped and could only hope it hit him like a whiplash. Well at least he flinched. He inhaled a deep and frustrated breath before moving off me completely, finally giving me the space my traitorous body needed to calm down from having Draven nearly on top of me.
“Yes and you’d have thought that trip would have taught you a thing or two.” He threw back at me making me sit up and cross my arms across my chest.
“And just what is that supposed to mean exactly?!”