Obsessed |✔️ (Obsessed Series #1)

chapter 5 - back to square zero

Damien only grunted in frustration. He needed a new lead, but receiving it would prove more difficult than he could handle. Damien knew that he had bit more than he could chew- literally and figuratively. Damien was gnawing on a hamburger steak with Pumpkin eating a slice of sweet potato pie.

Roger and Alana had separated from the two to go back home. He haven't heard much from them and truthfully, he liked it like that. He enjoyed the peaceful times with Pumpkin. Pumpkin was still silently munching on her pie as Damien watched with curiosity. Where does it go? He wondered.

He knew that it wasn't her stomach as her stomach was slightly medium size. The woman was plump, but she was also short in stature, so where does the food goes, oh! Damien felt guilty watching Pumpkin, but he eyed her entire body and he quickly looked away.

He grunted again and that was when Pumpkin looked up at him. "What's wrong?" She asked, concerned.

Damien gazed at her beautiful eyes and he turned away from her. He didn't want to have feelings of wanting her. She was pure. She was innocent. He was practically everything that defines a villain. And, yet, I care for her. He thought. He wasn't a hero and yet, he was her hero.

He didn't want to hurt her ever. "Don't leave me." He only spills out. Pumpkin merely smiled at her rude roommate that was only sweet towards her. 

"Never. You've saved me from my loneliness." Pumpkin tells Damien. Damien let a small smile spread across his face as he stares at her. He couldn't deny it any longer. He wanted her. He wanted her to be his wife. As long as they have been helping each other, he finally wanted to admit that he loved her. 

"You've saved me as well." Damien admitted to Pumpkin, who stared at him in shock. This was the first time that Pumpkin heard Damien that she saved him. Damien didn't notice a shadow watching him and Pumpkin, getting an idea for revenge. The person walked into the diner and Damien eyed his boss. What is he doing here? He said that he hates this diner. He thought, showing his curiosity. Pumpkin was also curious and she looked where Damien was looking. She saw Damien's boss and she simply looked back at Damien, look had left the table that they were sharing. What is he doing? He's not going to start a fight here, is he? She was worried. When she finished her pie, she prepared to drink her water, when she hears a gun cock. 

Pumpkin looked over her shoulder and she saw Damien's boss with a gun in his hand pointed at her and she whimpered in fear. "Don't worry, you're not the target." Those words did not make her feel any better, because she knew that Damien was the real target for his boss. 

When Damien saw the situation, he roared with anger and his boss's men grabbed him and held him down. His boss smirked at him and Damien glared at him. "Let her go." He growled out, referring to Pumpkin.

"How about 'no'. She has seen me, Damien boy. Besides, she needs to know the truth of her lovely roommate." He tells Damien, gazing at Pumpkin's fearful eyes. Damien fought against the tight hold his boss's men had on him. He tilted Pumpkin's chin up with his free hand. "Ah, so innocent, so gullible." He whispers to her. 

"Leave her alone!" Damien shouted at him. His boss merely coldly smiled at Pumpkin. 

"That man that you trust...he is a killer." Damien's boss none too gently pulls Pumpkin's face to gaze at Damien's anger-filled face. Damien's angry look softened up when he stares lovingly at her. 

"Is that true?" She simply asked Damien. Damien looked down and he had two choices. He had his poisoned boss to show her pictures or he could tell herself and live with her hating him. 

"Yes. I've killed people before." Damien answered truthfully to his secret love. He was looking down at the ground. He couldn't bring to himself to look at his now sobbing Pumpkin. 

"Y'know, I had my suspicions, but this...is rich." She sobbed. This makes Damien stare at Pumpkin in shock. How did she know? He thought. "Of course he's a killer! He likes no one but me! People love to enrage him!" She shouted. After she shouted that, she fainted due to shock.

Damien was shocked that Pumpkin knew him so very well. He then felt incredibly stupid. She knew this whole time! He thought. Damien's boss eyed Damien as his point was pointed Pumpkin. "She probably hates you." He spoke up after a while.

"I don't care if she hates me. I just care about keeping her safe." Damien tells the vile man in front of him.

"Your words are still like poison. You will never change. Even with having a woman, you will never stop being cold-hearted." Damien's boss tells him, but Damien didn't care about his opinions; he cared about hers. Damien didn't care if he died, knowing that Pumpkin will be forever safe. No, wait! She will be utterly destroyed if I die. No! I need to live! I only bend to Pumpkin because she's my light. My Esmeralda. Damien thought.

"You're wrong, Zack. I will change." Damien tells Zack. The man shrugged his shoulders.

"You should have just did your job quietly. But, no, you let her look at the important files and you blackmailed me!" Zack shouted.

"What? It's not my fault if you wanted to angered the mafia." Damien tells Zack. Zack lost his mind and he aimed his gun at Pumpkin, who had just regained consciousness.

Damien looked horrified for the very first time in years. He wanted to protect Pumpkin, but the men holding him down increased their grip, making him groan slightly in pain.

Zack's gun went off, making Damien's blood go cold. The last thing he was thinking of in that moment was Pumpkin.