His Queen (18+)

Chapter XLV

THE ANGERED

So forgive me, forgive me,
I've been going too hard in your city.
So forgive me 'cuz I'm not teary
Best believe I move onto better things.

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CHAPTER XLV

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DANIEL WAS GONE. The month he had anticipated to take his trip had turned into two months, which in turn had turned into three but eventually, the day came when I finally got to see him off at the airport. I still wasn't sure where he was going and I didn't think he was either, but I figured he'd find a way to work it out. He always seemed to.

I also wasn't sure how long he would be gone and that too worried me. It had been a couple days and I was already beginning to miss him a lot. If he ended up gone for months at a time, I wasn't sure what I would do. My birthday was in two months and I had the assurance from him that he would definitely be back way before it though so I took his word for it.

Now I just focused on putting one foot in front of the other. I had been teaching myself to prioritise other things in life and not just him and while it had been a long journey, I found it was a successful one. I allowed myself to miss him, but I also lived with and without him. Life carried on whether he was here or not and I was starting to realise, life carried me along with it.

I walked down the solitary road leading to my house, two grocery bags in each hand with the hot summer air surrounding me. I was doing extremely well and that made me walk with an extra skip to my step that I felt no one could take away from me. It finally felt like everything was falling into place after so long of things just going wrong.

Unfortunately, I quickly realised that not everything had been resolved as soon as I rounded the corner and walked past the gates that had been left open for me. As soon as I stepped in, I immediately took notice of the unfamiliar black car that had been parked in the middle of my yard and very cautiously approached it. From where I was, there seemed to be very little guards in sight and despite Daniel's warning, I wasn't armed.

Once I had gotten closer to the car, one of the back doors swung open and much to my dismay, a very familiar face had stepped out to greet me with a sneer.

I made to walk past him and ignore him because despite me being in a good mood earlier, I knew I didn't have the patience to deal with Lucien's bullshit today. When he was tired, he'd take his stupid ass back home. Unfortunately, before I had fully walked past him, I felt his cold hands wrap around my arm and forcefully pull me into his chest, making me accidentally let go of my groceries. For his own good, my tomatoes better still be in good shape.

“Let go of me,” I said, keeping my voice even to mask the pain I felt from his hold of me.

Marks showed very easily on my skin so I didn't appreciate having to walk around with red handprints on my arm for the rest of the day. Especially since I detested long sleeved clothes.

Instead of letting go of me like I had so kindly requested, he instead pulled me closer to him and lowered his lips to my ear before speaking in a low tone. “I'm going to ask you this one time and one time only. Where is Daniel?”

“Leave me alone, Lucien,” I demanded again instead of answering him, trying to wriggle myself out of his tight grasp, but he only held me to him tighter and pulled me back against his chest.

“I said where the fuck is Daniel!” he yelled this time, immediately activating my fight or flight response but I wasn't going to run away from him in my own home. Not while he was on my property, so I chose to fight.