She is Not Who You Thought She Was

Chapter 104/Of Course She Did

"Scarlett Buzzby, don't you ever lie to me like that again." I swallowed my blue eyes dry not being able to blink, his stare keeping me locked. "Understand?"

"Y-Yes." I'm barely able to get out. It sounded like a squeak coming from my mouth more than the English language. I wanted to kick myself. I become into such a mess when he talks to me this way. With so much authority...So...seriously so...dominantly. I feel his thumb slightly rub against my jawline as his grip loosened.

He stepped back as if stopping himself from something. I tried to study him to figure what he was thinking or feeling but it was hard with his back to me. His muscles have too much definition for me to ever know if they are flexed or not.

"Are you not curious about what happened?" I asked him. He froze and turned to me.

"Should I?" He tilted his head slightly.

"Well I mean...I think I would be." I stopped my shoulders from shrugging. I need to regain my composure.

"What happened princess?" He leaned forward bending down just slightly. Is he asking just because I said that? I pressed my lips together firmly before speaking.

"Well first things first I think he wanted me to ask questions about Black Vlevet and you...behind your back." I said slowly but Rock's blank expression didn't change. I thought that would enrage him. He focused on me as I continued to speak. "He told me, I was important...to black velvet. He told me to tread carefully...however he said something really odd. He said..." I swallowed feeling a little awkward, " he said I can be a bit of a bitch and he won't do anything about it" I paused, "I have no idea what any of it meant really." Rock nodded as I spotted a small curve in the corner of his mouth. "What? What did he mean by all that?"

"Well first of all thank you for not asking him anything about me or Velvet." My chest felt warm but my heart also clenched. "Secondly," he paused, "you are basically under our protection now." Rock said but I felt like he was still holding something back.

"Protection? Protection from what?"

"What do you think?" Rock's eyes turning their soft pretty hazel. The eyes he said only look pretty when he looks at me because I'm pretty.

"Am I in some kind of danger?" Those two ex-velvets, they are dead. There are still bad people out there, but he makes it sound like there is something specific about why I am receiving protection. Maybe it's not what they are protecting me from maybe it's why...

"You are not in danger. Not at the moment." Rock interrupted my thoughts. "But if you ever are you'll be protected." Rock gave me a reassuring look. I studied him for a moment. Only one thing raced through my mind: Why is he doing this to me? Rock took my hand again and led us out of the random room he took me in before. "Let find everyone else." We took a left turn down the hall. "Should be here." He opened one side of a double door entrance. He held it open for me letting me go first. I looked at him for confirmation. "Go on princess." He smirked at me.

I thought I had stepped into a speakeasy longue from the nineteen-forties. I felt Rock follow in close behind me. To the right was a bar decorated with every different type of alcohol glasses. Wine glasses, whiskey, champagne flutes, etc. To my right the room expanded with a pool table, lounge furniture, and, even a dart board in the back corner. Once I memorized the room I memorized the personnel. Lumberjack now know as Flay was playing pool with Julian. José leaned against a wall holding a drink and talked to a small Latina. I have never met or seen a female Velvet. The room smelled of tobacco and leather. The only other thing that tingled my senses was the low music in the background.

"Hey, what's up?" Rock did a little head lift towards Flay who noticed our arrival.

"Hey, man." Flay said with a curve of his lips as he saw me.

"You brought mi muñeca." José smiled widely as he turned away from the brunette girl to greet us.

"No juegues conmigo, Jefe." Rock's grip on my hand tightened, and it made me glance up at him. José grinned at Rock playfully.

"Hola, Escarletta." Jefe smiled kindly at me. I waved to him.

"Hey José."

"What's up, I'm Valentina, but everyone calls me Vivi." She stepped forward. She had full lips the color of a brusied plum with a lip ring in the middle of her bottom lip. She had sharp eyes with winged eyeliner. Her brunette hair was just above her shoulders and pin straight. She was wrapped in leather head to toe. She looked scary but hot at the same time—the type of woman who would make me question my sexuality.

"Scarlett." I replied.

"How long have you known Rock?" She asked me as José and Rock started talking about something while Vivi introduced herself.

"We met in the fall." We meandered towards the back of the room. She picked two sets of darts and gave me the ones with the red wings. "How old are you?"

"Twenty-eight. You?" She stepped aside for me to go first. I throw it and hit the inner ring. I assumed she was older because of how mature she looks and her confidence. I throw the other two and keep hitting the inner parts but never get the bullseye to my dismay.

"Twenty." I step aside for her turn.

"You're younger than Rock then." She throws it and it hits the bullseye perfectly.

"Not by much, but yeah." We are only a year apart. Flora told me her birthday, and she is actually the older twin. "How long have you known Rock?" I keep up conversation as she contiunes to hit the bullseye. "Damn." I mumbled.

"Pretty much my whole life. My mamo was his nanny." I nodded with an 'ah' sound remembering Flora told me they had mexcian nannies as kids.

"You win." I sighed lightly, but very impressed.

"Of course she did." Jefe came walking over his height towering over us. I turn to him confused wondering if he was insulting me. Rock joined standing next to me casting a shadow.

"Vivi is a bounty hunter. Her speciality is knives." Rock explained.

"Knives?" I questioned looking over at her. I hear shing of metal and a blade appears in each hand. I leaned forward and she handed me one, handle first. The handle was metal with a finger sized hole. I glance over at her as she twists and turned the blade around her hand in practice percsion. The blade had one at the center in a triangular shape then two coming out the side in a crsecent shape. "Wow they look awesome." I smiled and went to touch the smooth side of the blade.

"I wouldn't." Vivi took it back before I had the chnace. "They are insanely sharp at every angle." She twisted them around again befrore another shing resounded as she must have tucked them back in a sheath somewhere on the side under her arms.

"Bounty hunting must be the coolest job." I said to her.

"Hunting down scumbags." She shrugged, but then a smirk spread onto her face. "Yeah its pretty great."

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