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Clarissa....

Oh god!she must have overhead our conversation and...

What if Hayden thinks I was the one who tipped them off?

He spoke something to Sebastian who nodded , I was too far away to hear what he told him .

I watched as he followed them into their car, they drove off while Sebastian returned back to the house..

His gaze found mine momentarily , but he totally ignored my presence, walking past me he went straight upstairs.

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I paced about restlessly, I kept glancing at the ticking clock, my nerves were at its ends and I couldn't point out a valid reason why I was this nervous.

No more than ten minutes later the front door pushed open and Hayden appeared.

I stopped pacing as his gaze settled on me.

He approached me in three quick strides, his gaze was blank revealing nothing.

"Y..you are back?" I stuttered in surprise , considering the fact that it was a murder case shouldn't they have detained him for more than ten minutes?

"Shouldn't I be back?" he threw back at me pinning me with a stare.

"It wasn't me!swear...I didn't tell them anything"

" Of course I know it wasn't you...or we wouldn't be having any discussions right now, you would have been getting your ass punished right now "

An involuntary shudder accompanied with relief ran through my body, his gaze looked glazed as if he was enjoying a secret thought.

"Do you suspect anyone that could have done it?"

" I don't know that " I spoke out the lie,squirming under his direct gaze.I couldn't bear to implicate Clarissa, he was going to hurt her and I can't allow that to happen

"I think you do .Your little friend from school took it on herself to run her fucking mouth off, wasting ten minutes of my precious time ."

A lump formed in my throat, he already knew about it?

"H...how did you find out?"

"Does it matter how I found out, what matters is what I'm fucking going to do"

"You are not going to harm her are you? ....please don't " I didn't realize when I clutched one of his arms in desperation

Something flickered in his gaze as he stared at my grip on his arm, I let go immediately as if burned by his skin..

A frown spread across his face before he yanked me to his rock hard chest.

"why do you think you can help every body?It's your weakness...at the same time your strongest point....It makes you so fucking different from everyone else..."

"Please just leave her alone " I croaked out

"Since you are so eager ...why don't I see how far you are willing to go in order to save her..."

"what do you want H..Hayden, I don't have anything I can g..give to you" I said wetting my lips nervously

A slow smirk spread across his face