The Pentagram Child(55)

This was a good plan but like most good plans putting them into action was often harder than thinking them up. This was proved even more so when I turned back to the reception after Alex let me go and bumped right into the man himself, blowing that plan all to Hell!

“Draven?!” I said looking up at him and finding his eyes rooted to the figure behind me with nothing less than murder in his eyes.

“Keira.” He said without even looking at me but still managed to make it sound like he owned the rights to my name. It wasn’t hard given our height difference for him to continually stare at Alex right above my head, so I moved back a step to fall in next to him and no doubt making it clear that I didn’t belong to Draven anymore. This was finally when Draven’s eyes found mine and narrowed as though my action at choosing Alex over him was alien to him.

“Wh…what are you doing here?” I said hoping, or more like praying he wouldn’t let on to Alex the real answer to that question.

“You know full well why I am here.” Well there went that burning hope I thought with Draven’s blunt answer.

“And that is?” This question came from Alex who stood calmly next to me, folding his arms.

“To see Keira, which I very much doubt is the same reason you are here.” Draven answered arrogantly, folding his own arms, which I had to admit was way more intimidating than when Alex did it.

“Draven!” I hissed looking round to see we were starting to draw attention to ourselves.

“It’s alright, Keira, I am not insecure enough to let time spent with your ex-boyfriend worry me in the slightest. Not when I was the one to bear witness to the effects of what his cruel dismissal did to you. Thankfully though, time heals all wounds and certainly continues to do so with the help of others.” On hearing this coming from Alex, Draven actually snarled at him, which sounded terrifyingly like his Demon side was breaking through.

“Please don’t do this.” I whispered, pleading with both of them. Just then I was thankful when Alex’s phone started ringing in his pocket. He didn’t look like he was going to answer it for a second, not wanting to break eye contact with Draven first but it must have been important because he swiped his thumb across the screen to accept it.

“There is no need to say anything as I will be there in a moment to meet with you.” Alex said quickly and it was more than clear by his tone that he didn’t respect the person on the other end of the line, as he hung up before the person even had a chance to say anything. Draven raised one eyebrow as though he had detected something odd in this, which wasn’t surprising given that he was probably looking for any reason not to trust him. What was surprising however was that he didn’t look smug or in any way happy that he had been right, because unlike Draven, Alex hadn’t made the trip just to see me and that phone call had been his proof.

“It pains me to have to go Catherine, but like you I have to finish my work.” When Alex said this he looked over to the reception area and nodded as if silently reminding me too that I should be working. It was subtle enough that I could have been being paranoid but for some reason I didn’t think so. However, it could have been because Draven looked like he too thought the same as me and as a result wanted to choke the life out of him.

“Its fine, it was nice of you to come and see me before your meeting.” I said hoping this would be the right thing to say for the one person who was supposed to matter to me the most… whether it was Alex was still shamefully debatable though.

“Until tonight, ma chérie.” He said before bending his neck to kiss me and at the last second I turned my head so his kiss landed on my cheek. I wasn’t sure what other people would have done in my position after all the hurt Draven had inflicted on me and with the bitter taste of rejection I had encountered not moments before. But for me, I just wasn’t cruel enough to ram it in Draven’s face that I was with another man, even if Alex could.

“See you later.” I said with my face still turned away and my line of sight made it so I couldn’t help but notice Draven’s hands clench into tight fists at his sides, only relaxing when Alex moved away from me and walked away.

“I know you don’t want to, Keira but at some point we are going to have to have a conversation about…that.” Draven said affirming both the name he obviously preferred I be called and what he also preferred to call my boyfriend.

“That, is my boyfriend and that is who I choose to be with, so if you stopped acting like an ass around him then it would make it a Hell of a lot easier for me to be around you!” I ranted up at him before trying to storm off but not getting very far from him. He followed me close enough so that I could feel the angry heat at my back and I knew if I stopped for a second he would run right into me.