Under His Protection

The interior of the car welcomed a painful silence, she almost believed that he did not hear her or perhaps she just hit a forbidden territory. He finally answered after a long moment, ” Why do you want to know?”.

Laura shrugged casually, trying to look not interested, ” Iam just curious, that is all”

When he didn’t answer, she proceeded again ” So, have you? Don’t worry I won’t tell the police if you killed anyone under my father’s command”

He surprised her when he burst into a laughter ” You are really serious with your question, are you?”

She felt the heat on her cheek, now that sounds so interesting, ” You know what? You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to”

“Alright, here is the thing” he said with a serious tone, ” It is my job to protect people and it comes to the job description that when my employer is under threat, I need to eliminate those dangers even if it means killing them”

When she gasped from the back seat he nodded and continue, ” Iam working for a prominent man so I expect danger lurking around him, thankfully in my years as his bodyguard people never try for once to pose as danger to him, well maybe they also know how powerful Jadua Van-Lerie is, so they didn’t even bother to try”

The thought that her father is in danger always was too much for her, Laura soley regret strating the conversation with Michael, ” Will you kill a person if my father ask you to?”

Michael thought for a moment before answering her, she saw the corner of his lip twitching with a smile again, ” Now that you mention it, I believe there was an instance that he soley tempted to ask me vanish this man off the face of the Earth”Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

Laura pale visibly at his word, ” Oh my goodness, who is this man? What did he do to irate my father so much?

“Can’t you guess?”

Laura stared at him for a long time as she mulled her brain for the mystery man who almost died in her father’s hand, she shook her head and finally give up ” No idea atall”

Michael smiled devilishly, ” His own wife Ex fiancee, who else?”

Her eyes widen considerably, ” OMG! Why would he want to kill Raphael?”

“Jealousy I guess” he stated nonchalantly, ” He probably could not take the fact that the woman he love nearly married this guy”

“Poor Raphael” she commented, feeling sorry for her mother’s Ex, Laura never thought she would hear such take about her father’s jealousy, she previously thought in the past he was immune to those feelings which almost made her mum divorce him because of his cold attitude towards her and the kids. She knew very well her father broke countless of heart in his bachelor days.

They finally arrived her apartment building, before Michael would have a chance to open her door she was already sliding out of the car. He fell few steps behind her, following silently inside the lobby, she smiled at the elderly couple who went out of the elevator before riding the lift alone with Michael.

Once they were on her apartment floor, she was already fishing out her key from her bag when he stopped her, “wait!”

“What?” She eyed him questiongly.

“I have a bad feeling about this” he said eyeing her door suspiciously, ” Come this way”

Before she could ask him even further, he grabbed her wrist and ked her into his apartment unit that was next to hers.

” what the devil do you think you are doing?” She hissed at him softly.

“I think someone is inside your room just now” he whispered softly, locking the door behind them.

Laura paled at his word ” What? Are you serious?”

“Not really, but I want to be sure” he replied grimly. From the look on his face she knew he is bothered at the thought, Laura could not help but to shiver in fear.

” stay here while I investigate”

“Are you crazy?” She grabbed his jacket tightly, ” You are going to leave me here alone while you inspect inside my apartment? Iam coming with you”

He eyes her experatingly ” It is dangerous Laura, just stay here I won’t be long”

“No! I will come with you” she demanded stubbornly, Laura doesn’t want to be left alone in his room while he is probably going to catch that stalker, she want to see the man behind all there mess.

“Laura….” He watched her like a five years old child, but right now she really doesn’t care what ever he wanted to say because he knew her mind was already made up to follow him, finally he agreed.

“Don’t do anything stupid, if your father hears about this he might have my head serve in a silver platter in his dining table, come this way”

Her heart skipped in her chest when his hand made contact with her flesh, he grabbed her hand and led her to the kitchen where the fire exist was located, she ignored the thundering of her heart as he helped her with the iron railing of their apartment building.

“Careful” he instructed, hen the Gusty cold wind greeted her as she saw the busy traffic below, they cautiously walked on the iron railing until they reached the window of her apartment. They both bend down to inspect inside her dark apartment.

“So, what do you think?” She whispered so quietly at him, ” Is he here?”

“I can’t be sure” he replied cautiously trying to reach the lock of her window, ” maybe it is not the stalker but more of a common thief, I can’t reach for the lock”

She rolled her eyes ” Probably those windows weren’t designed to open from the outside Michael, Incase you are not aware”

“Can I borrow your shoe for a moment?” He asked, ignoring her sardonic remark and held out his hand. Laura eyed him questiongly but did as she was told, she removed one of her heel and placed to his waiting hand, he surprised her when he like the thin glass of the window with the heel of her shoe as he opened the lock.

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The stalker hide in the dark as he watched fascinatingly the two people imitating spider Man with their stunt climbing of the rail of the building, he had made sure to leave signs that he was inside Laura’s apartment when his mobile phone buzzed in his pocket, the Stalker sighed as he knew who the caller was even before he looked at the screen, reluctantly he fished out his phone and slid his finger on the screen to answer.

“Hello to the mother manipulator”

“So, any update?” The female voice inquired from the other line, ” I want full details, do we have any improvement?”

“If climbing to fire exist together is an improvement, then yes we have improvement” he replied sardonically.

“What the hell are you talking about? I told you to do something so they would be in each other Pocket, why the devil were they climbing fire exist?”

The stalker clamped his mouth to prevent his laugh, he could almost imagine the caller’s annoyed expression all the way.

“Iam doing what you asked me to do with these people, seeing them together almost all the time makes me feel nauseous”