Chapter 27
FREYA
I managed a smile, small but a genuine one. “Thank you for everything”
“You said that once.” He muttered in a matter of fact tone but it was soft, soothing almost
Then I’ll say it again.” I swallowed. “You know, after I got out of the apartment, you were the first person I had thought of calling.” I don’t know what made me bhurt it all out like that.
He quintly stared into my eyes. Then why didn’t you?“.
“I didn’t know if you were busy.”
He frowned at my reason.
“I can never be busy enough for you two. I’ll drop everything in a split second and come running to you everytime you need me, important to me than you and Gia.”
Nothing’s more
The sincerity burning in Aiden’s eyes had rendered me speechless. Emotions clogged my throat. I was one tiny inch away from crying again. How could he say things like that and appear like he meant it?
to subside.
1 let his religne sooth me for another second before I pulled away 1
I rubbed my nose, urging the burn at the back of my eyes to su
“Til get you a shirt of mine for the night. Get some sleep. He stood up and walked out of the room. As I watched him close the door behind him, I fch something had changed
I knew I had come to trust Aiden, a man I barely knew but had a daughter with, I cried on him, probably ruined his shirt and he let me. He comforted me through my breakdown.
For one, Aiden didn’t seem like a man who would comfort people but he did. He got us when we needed him. And Gus, he is so good with her
He almost made it impossible to not trust him, but that’s all I could afford. It couldn’t be more than that, I for a reason knew that my heart was in dangerous territory and I had to protect it before it again walked on a path of destruction
AIDEN
“He’s awake” Cillian reported and I could practically hear his sadistic grin over the phone. When I had informed him of everything last night, he demanded to be let in to the Tun.
“Good. I want him awake and fully conscious I heard him hum before I hung up on the call Freya had just walked in. She had been quiet but still I had heard her steps.
“Good morning” Her soft voice reached me. I pocketed the phone and turned around to be greeted by the sight of her in my clothes. That would have counted as one of the best mornings of my life if the bandage on her forehead wasn’t glaring back at me. Almost as if it was taunting me.. Automatically I felt my facial muscles tensing as I looked away.
A tense best passed between us.
“You’re up early.” I mutiered, glancing at my watch. Freya shifted her weight from one foot to another, a slight discomfort her form.
“Yeah_l–maybe it’s the new place.” She shrugged, glancing around.
“As I told you, you can make changes to your room if that makes you comfortable”
“No, there’s no need for it’s just a few days” She put up a small, very awkward smile which looked close in a grimace. My eyes narrowed slightly at her words. A few days? Was she considering moving out? Even the thought of Freya moving out filled me with immense displeasure.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” The low undercurrent in my words wasn’t intentional but it was there. I knew she had sensed it too if the fidgeting was something to go by.
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“Uh–Imran I’ll move out once I find a decent place.”
So, slar was in fact considering moving out of my house. From another person’s point of view that might have been a logical decision but for me all logic took a back seat when it came to Forya.
“Will you now?” Lask, thrusting my hands huside my pocket.
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Freya carefully considered me, nervously licking her lips. “Yeah I know me stayi here, it’s bothering you. I get it. You’re not used to sharing your space”
Not used to sharing my space, my ass! There’s no one I would rather share my space with than her and my daughter. What was she on about?|||
I regarded her with a sl
a slight tilt of brad
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“No. But Lawsumed that you
“I hate assumptions” I clip.
She fell silent for a second, her brows dipping gently.
“Seconds ago you were avoiding looking at my face and you looked angry.” She explained very slowly like I was some child who wasın’lamare of my own feelings.
“And you thought that’s because you are in my space?”
Freya stared at me with a confused expression. Her mouth opened and closed, no words coming out.
1 grilled out. Freya almost spun on her heels, thinking the order was directed at her till she saw the staff scurrying out of the room.
I breathed, trying in exhale some of that rage si
e simmering in me but it seemed impossible.
“You’re right. I was avoiding looking at your face. I pointed at her handiged forehead. “Because that right there is the reminder that I wasn’t there to protect you from that fucker. Angry is a miserably small word to describe what that makes me feel”
I felt exposed, laying it all our like that. I had stopped slowing my emotions the second I had realized they were useless. Staying in control of my feelings gave me a sense of power and balan
Hus Freya had knocked me right off that balance the second she had walized into my life. The sight of her hurt and bleeding last night made me feel fury like never before. The need to deliver unrelenting pain was bubbling inside me. I knew I could feel slightly better only after I had dished. out my punishment to that sorry excuse of a mun.
“It wasn’t your fault.” She stepped forward as if to touch my arm but ultimately decided against it. I watched her hand drop to her side awkwardly.
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I need
you to te
to tell me what exactly happened.”
I watched Freyn stiffen at my demand. I agree it wasn’t the best idea to make her relive the whole thing, probably a little too early for that. But it had to be done. I hadn’t asked last night. She was emotionally and physically extunisied.
But now I needed to know. I wanted every tiny detail so that when I dealt with that slimy fucker, I would know just how much pain to deliver.
She blinked before shaking her head. “It–It’s in the post”
My lips pressed in a thin line while I considered her. It wasn’t in the fucking past! It was very much in the present, fresh and throbbing with the
need to inflict violence.
Even though the time period doesn’t change shit. If there was anyone in her past that had hurt her in any way. I would be sure to hunt them down and deliver them their fate, I just hope there isn’t anything or anyone like that.
“Why do you think I didn’t get the cops involved?”
Freya remained silent, skeptically observing. By the look on her face, she had guessed the answer but didn’t want to believe it.
I walked closer till I had almost stenned into her space. She stared at me with sued heath
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