14 February 2011
"Nina, come, darling,"Her father spoke as she watched the shooting star pass by, she turned around and looked at him, her bright green eyes shining in the moonlight, "I have a small surprise for you."
She tilted her head as she saw a boy who looked a little older than he really was walking towards her, the fourteen year old somehow had the looks of a seventeen year old, and little Nina thought he was possibly the most handsome boy she's ever seen.
The boy looked down at her and then looked back at her father who spoke, "This is Jacob, he'll be with you- always, to protect you and keep you safe at all times."
"But what about Luke?"Her eyebrows furrowed as she looked up at the big guy who was holding her hand, Luke chuckled slightly and ruffled her hair before he bent down; "I'll be around, and whenever you need me I'll be there, but for now, Jacob will be the one to accompany you everywhere, and he'll take you wherever you want, whenever you want."
Nina smiled softly and nodded, "Okay."
When Jacob's uncle, Luke, told him he'll be protecting his boss' daughter, he hadn't expected her to be this young, this innocent, this vulnerable and fragile, but Nina was like an angel, and Jacob was always trying to protect her from everything, physically and emotionally, especially because when she got in highschool.
Jacob was a junior.
And he wouldn't let a soul so much as glance her way, one day a boy tried to hold her hand, Jacob naturally broke his, his protective insticts- especially when it came to her- his innocent little angel- had been over the hill since the day he first looked into her dark green eyes, and with his intense glare and incredible height, he perfected the art of scaring people away from her.
Which naturally made her unable to make any friends, and Jacob was strict, he was always silent, Nina would speak to him and he wouldn't answer, he barely batted an eyelash her way, or at least that's what she thought.
She thought he was a bigheaded arrogant man who just wouldn't budge, not that she didn't act like a spoiled little brat sometimes, but she hated the way Jacob treated her, and she never failed to tell him how much Luke actually cared about her, because Luke was like a second father to her, despite the fact that Luke was as old as her older brother- who she barely saw- she considered him a father more than her own.
But Jacob only spoke to her once in her life, saying; "My job is to protect you, Nikolina, not drink tea with you and braid your hair, I don't care about you, I care about keeping you safe."
And Nina was utterly broken when he said those words to her on the start of her sophomore year, but she made herself feel better ever since by getting herself in trouble and creating mischief, just to get back at Jacob- and secretly to make her dad give her some attention.
But it never worked, he never did, and Jacob was always the one who ran to her rescue.
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bulwark // je
Fanfiction"now you're on your knees, while i'm wrapped in his sheets." in which the daughter of a mafia lord falls for the man who's been guarding her since she was ten years old. JACOB ELORDI X OC