Mine [18+]

15

Xavier

"Come live with me."

The words fly out of my mouth before I can even stop them, and I'm pretty sure Stella just stopped breathing for a second.

Fuck. Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said anything.

"What?"

Okay, maybe she didn't hear me. I can just play it off and act like I never said anything.

"Nothing, sorry. Just thinking out loud." I say. My heart was beating out of my chest. Why did I even suggest that? She's not gonna move in with me. I'm a killer. A murderer.

Fuck, Elijah was right.

"I'd love to live with you."

I sigh, "I knew this was a bad id– Wait, what?"

"I'll live with you." I wish I could see her. See her reaction.

It's been two weeks since Stella has received her eviction notice. However, her landlord has been nothing but rude to her and asked her to leave because apparently, Stella owned him more money. Which I believe is complete bullshit.

So now here we are, talking on the phone while she packs her stuff and I just asked her to move in.

Does this man not know who I am? What I'm capable of?

"You will?" A huge grin spread across my lips and I don't bother even stopping it.

"I might as well take up the offer right? Otherwise you'd never let it go. I know what you're like when it comes to business," she laughs and I automatically stiffen up.

She must have noticed I went silent cause it's not long before I hear her voice come through the phone again. "I didn't mean it like that. I know that you'd never hurt me."

The question is, did she? Because I'm scared I'll push her away at one point and she'll learn to hate me as much as I hate myself.

As someone who was put in the spotlight at such a young age and had to learn to fight in order to survive, feelings were pretty much non existent. Or at least any feelings of closure and love.

Everything about me screamed red flags, one after the other.

"I know. I'll pick you up later okay?" I don't bother waiting for a reply, I just end the call and sigh, seeing Ace walk into the office.

"We have a problem."

I walk downstairs with Ace seeing Elijah at my door. What the fuck?

"You fucking asshole, you asked her to move in with you?" He pushes past me and looks at me, not acknowledging anyone else.

How the fuck?

"How do you know?" I cross my arms over my chest looking at him. Ace is standing near the door, his hand on his gun in case anything happens.

However, I'm not about to tell Stella that her brother got shot because he tried to jump me.

Elijah shrugs, "I was going to talk to her before I saw her packing her bags saying she'd love to live with you. Even a dumb man could tell she was talking to you." He walks closer to me, although I was still towering over him. "I don't like this. I don't like the fact that you're manipulating my baby sister into doing these things because she'd never do this–" he moves his hands around him as if he was proving a point, "–if she never met you in the first place."

I scoff. "I haven't manipulated her into doing any of these things. If you actually took the time to talk to her about this whole situation, you'd know that she was being evicted and she has to leave the apartment. I'm trying to help her and protect her."

Elijah laughs, shaking his head. "No. You're not doing jack shit to help her.  You failed to protect her when she was seconds away from fucking dying! All because of you. Her blood would have been on your fucking hands."

"I fucking know that! I'm trying my fucking best to be the man that everyone suddenly expects me to be!"

"You're a gangster! A killer! How the fuck can you offer her anything besides sex? You can't offer her love, a shoulder to cry on when she needs someone. You can't offer her shit. You're not capable of loving he–"

I grab the collar of his shirt and look at him.

"I'm in love with her whether you want to believe me or not. I'm doing this because I love her, because I want her to be happy!"

Elijah pushes me backwards and fixes his shirt before looking at me. "You can't love her. A man like you isn't capable of loving someone like her. I don't know what bullshit you've been feeding her but I don't believe any of it. I'll make sure to tell her who you really are. A monster." And with that he walks out while I look at his figure disappear in his car.

Ace looks like he wants to say something so I look at him, pointing my finger at him. "I hear a word come out of your mouth and I'll shoot you myself."

I grab my car keys going down into the garage and leave to go and pick up Stella. I'm irritated and I want nothing more than to see her face and kiss her and know that she belongs to me. That she's mine despite of what Elijah said.

She was mine and I was going to prove to anyone and everyone that comes in the way of us, that she's mine.