The Golden Heart of Leon

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve

Protective or Not?

"He's getting impatient." Ranfore exclaimed. It was a while before he had spoken again since it had taken quite a few attempts to get Liam to leave.

"Yeah well he's going to learn to have to control his temper. I don't care if he is getting impatient or not." Leon seethed.

"I don't care either but he was close to ending your life." Ranfore reminded him.

"Master I don't care about my life and I never shall." he claimed.

"You may not care about your pathetic life but you ought to care about the money and getting the job done boy!" his master roared. Clearly giving him the impression that he was aggravated with the fact that he had not yet finished his task.

"It'll be done by tomorrow, I promise you that master." he lied.

"It better be." the fury was clearly laced in his master's voice.

"It will be." Leon returned the fury.

Flaring up his nostrils towards Leon, he snarled once again towards him.

"It has never taken you this long to finish the job. What has been keeping you so preoccupied? It better not be a woman." Ranfore snarled.

Once again Leon tried to argue back, it seemed that Liam Monroe wasn't the only one that was getting impatient, his master was too.

"I've been trying to come up with a better plan than usual and a better technique." The seriousness could not be missed in Leon's voice.

"Really and what technique would this be?" the sarcasm could not be missed in Ranfore's tone.

"I thought you would've known by now that I never give out my secrets to anyone on how I do things." a smirk this time came to Leon's lips.

No words were spoken after that sentence. Leon left Ranfore and made his way back towards the forest.

Some hours had passed, Johnny's words wouldn't dissipate. They kept circulating around in Evelyn's head causing her to get a headache as a result of thinking too much about them. Azu had been rather timid towards her, he didn't really speak much to her.

A sigh left her lips before she heard the front door opening. Leon stood in the doorway, his eyes fixed upon hers while taking long strides towards her.

He looked wrecked as if he had been doing something that had taken all of the energy out of his system.

"What's going on?" Evelyn questioned.

"Sit down now." that was the answer.

Nodding to his request, she wandered back into the living room while listening to the sound of his footsteps following her. She sat down upon a chair in the living room while he sat down on a sofa giving Azu a look as if to say 'Get out of here' Azu left the room and departed the cottage leaving them alone with each other.

"I have something very important to tell you." he announced after a few minutes of silence.

"Yes what is it?" Evelyn responded shyly.

"You're going to be staying here for a while, this will be your new home for now. I don't want you going back to Sherath." he admitted.

"Leon what's going on?" she questioned trying to seem confident for once.