Love Does Cost A Thing

Book three: Chapter three

Previously on LDCAT, Lui finds Zuri in his room, sniffing his blazer which gets him livid and he yells at her...😫

Zuri's POV

"What the hell is going on here?!!" An angry voice barked, followed by the banging of the door.

Turning back in fright, the blazer fell from my hand as I saw the rage in his eyes and his chest heaving so hard like he had just run a race and won.

"Uh..uhm sorry..I'll just leave." I stuttered and managed to form a correct sentence without sounding like a dimwit. My heart was actually sprinting in my heart, my legs feeling like they were about to collapse any minute.

All these weren't only because of the harshness in his voice but the anger in his eyes and the fact that he caught me in his personal space, touching something which belongs to him that I should never have come close to, I've lost that right.

"Come back here." He boomed again as he gripped my hand tightly and hauled me back to stand in front of him. In other situations, I would have been happy with he touching me but this is different, I tried not to whimper from how tight and hurting his grip was. "I asked you a fucking question that wasn't rhetorical!"

I swallowed thickly as I tried to stop myself from shedding tears while fathoming why he's being so cold hearted with me. What happened four years ago was my own damn fault, yes, I get it so do I get he's supposed to be angry but not like this!

"I...I....oww!" I winced and hissed in pain as his clutch on me got tighter than I could bear.

"What? Cat got your tongue?" He sneered and still didn't let go off me but dragged me to the wall, pinning me against it.

Wtf is wrong with him?

I don't know how and where I found this sudden strength and confidence, I lifted my head to scowl into his face then yelled at him with my all. "I wish it had...I badly wish it had so I don't have to talk to a disgusting person like you!"

Hurt flash his face, he loosened his grip but still didn't let go. I found myself wishing I hadn't been that harsh in yelling at him but he left me with no choice, he was manhandling me and I won't stand that.

"If you don't want to talk to a disgusting person like me then why did you come back from whatever hellhole you went to and why did you come into my room, huh..c'mon answer me!"

"I had no idea this is your room, trust me."

He scoffed, eyes blazing with rage as he brought them to my face to glare at me. "You talk about trust like you know it too damn well! Even if I had trust for people, you know something? I wouldn't waste it on a cheap person like you." He said the last part with clenched teeth.

I returned his glare. Well he isn't the only one angry, even I am. I am mad too, I listened to every bit of the crude names and insults he hurled at me on that fateful day but I'm not going to have any of it tonight, tomorrow or the day afterwards so I slapped him before I could stop myself.

"Don't you ever in your life call me you cheap, don't you dare!"

"What if I dare, huh? What if I dare, I'll call you cheap again and again after what you did to me and my love for you, I will!"

"Then I'll slap you again and again if you dare, I'll hurt you!" I spat at him, shooting him another glare before walking away from him. Too bad my hair was in a bun, I'd have flipped it his nasty face.

"Oh yeah?" He dared me, snickering.

I turned to face him with blazing eyes and dared him back tauntingly. "Oh yeah." And crosses my arms, I can do it better than he does  but I'm not going to fight him or resort to his low level, I can do better than that.