You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 71

Jeremy pulls back and looks at me incredulous. He keeps staring at me trying to assess if I'm telling the truth or not, but over the months as leader and council member I've learned to put on a poker face or how I call it a "Four-face".

"I didn't do anything to Monica," he says pulling back even more, leaving enough space between us for another person to stand there.

"Yeah, you did and I'm going to make sure you will get punished," I say confident. His eyes widen and for a split second, I see fear, but then it is replaced with something else. Something dangerous.

"I didn't do anything she didn't want. She threw herself at me. What was I supposed to do? I'm a young man and she's just a whore," he says and now I know. He abused her. He raped her. I need to stay cool. I can't let him know that he just confessed to something I didn't even know happened.

"You will have to answer in front of the authorities, who to your extreme misfortune are none other than me and Four," I say. He looks at me surprised, but then glares. He grits his teeth and clenches his fists.

"We'll see about that," he says and lunges toward me. But I'm a trained soldier, I know how to defend myself. I grab his arm twist it until I hear a snap. It's not broken, I only dislocated his shoulder. However, when he tries to kick me in the stomach I defend and kick his own feet from under him. Just for good measure I step hard on his leg, breaking the bone in the process and making sure he won't be able to escape. Just as I take out my phone to call Dwayne to send some guards over here I see Tobias coming from around the corner, followed by Dwayne and four guards.

"Tris," Tobias shouts when he sees me. He runs toward me and embraces me tightly, peppering my head with kisses. "Thank God, you are alright," he sighs in relief.

"Help," Jeremy whines. "She attacked me," he says accusingly and Tobias turns around and grabs him by his collar. It takes Dwayne and one of the guards to make Tobias let go.

"Take that lowlife to the infirmary and stand guard," Dwayne commands his men and Tobias turns around to look at me. He looks me up and down and crashes his lips over mine. We ignore everyone else around us and just kiss for a moment. When we part we stare into each other's eyes.

"How did you know where I was?" I ask confused.

"Zeke called me. He was just heading to the cafeteria when he saw you wandering around, not paying attention. He was about to call you to tell you that you took the wrong turn, he assumed you wanted to go to the cafeteria, but then saw Jeremy follow you. He called me and I called Dwayne. We came here as quick as we could. Thank God we were here in time," he says and kisses my temple.

"Yeah, imagine how that little shit would have looked like if we would have let Tris beat him more up," Dwayne says with a chuckle. At that Tobias looks up at Dwayne and gives him a questioning look. "Man, you are so in love with your wife you didn't even notice that she beat the crap out of that little prick," he says now laughing.

"I didn't even notice that," he says and looks at me.

"Of course, you didn't. You went all caveman and came to my rescue. But guess what? This cavewoman can take care of herself," I say chuckling and he laughs.

"I know, babe."

"Do I even need to know?" Dwayne asks.

"Nope," Tobias and I say at the same time, but then his expression changes to a more serious one. "I want two guards at all times guarding Jeremy. Don't leave him out of your sight under any circumstances," Tobias orders.

"Understood," he says and he and the two remaining guards leave. Tobias takes my hand and leads me back home. We remain quiet the whole walk. The moment we are inside our apartment he picks me up in his arms and holds me tightly to him, seemingly unable to let me go even after I asked him.