Page 99 of Protective Love

"Go on. I'll be right behind you. Just gonna grab my stuff and call Dominic to make sure some things are sorted out," he says, winking at me. "She doesn't bite, I promise."

"Actually, she does," Kaleb calls out of his window as he parks his car up beside us.

Jaylen grimaces while I laugh.

Sophia passes me a glass of wine and sits next to me on the sofa with her glass of water while I glance over my shoulder at the doorway, hoping to catch a glimpse of Jaylen because I haven't seen him since we turned up.

"They're just busy planning things out," Sophia says. "He'll come and see you at some point, trust me. That man can't go longer than twenty minutes without thinking of you."

I laugh and take a sip of my wine as my cheeks heat at her comment.

"I'm just worried, that's all."

"I get it, but he'll be fine. He knows what he's doing. Plus, he has Kaleb and Leo helping him, and those two are some of the strongest, fiercest, and most calculated people I've ever met," she says, trying to ease my anxiety over the situation.

"I just don't know how they're going to find him, let alone kill him."

She grins at me, setting her glass down on the table in front of us.

"They're going to find him because they've got Miles searching every camera in London, tracking him and following the path he took to and from your apartment earlier. As for killing him, they're all slightly unhinged when they need to be."

I grimace at the thought, taking another sip from my glass.

"How do you feel about all of this anyway?" she asks, reaching her hand over to me and squeezing my leg. "It can't be easy knowing that they're on a mission to get rid of your ex."

I shrug, pulling my lower lip into my mouth as I contemplate whether I should tell her how I truly feel.

"Honestly, it makes me feel relieved. I know that probably makes me sound evil, but Danny's a monster. Not only was he cruel to me, but he's cruel to others too. He's uncontrollable, and impulsive. Even Killian knows what he's like. If they weren't family, and if they didn't have so many rules and regulations you had to follow over there, I think Killian would've killed Danny a long time ago."

She mulls over my words for a few moments and then nods.

"I understand that, and I don't think it makes you evil."

Silence fills the room as I continue to drink my wine and wait for Jaylen, but after a few minutes pass, I sigh.

"You wanna occupy your time here by helping me paint the nursery?"

My brows raise, surprised that she'd want me to help her with that, but I nod my head.

"Yeah, sure."

"Oh, thank God," she says, standing up from the sofa. "I've been wanting to get it started for the last week or two, but Kaleb has told me I have to wait until he can help me because he doesn't want me doing anything too strenuous."

She rolls her eyes, and I laugh as I follow her out of the living room, and through to the foyer.

"Honestly, I thought he was annoying before I got pregnant, but I'd kill for him to going back to how he used to be because now he's unbearable."

"Who's unbearable?" Kaleb asks, walking into the foyer clad in black clothing with a gun in his waistband, another strapped to his leg, and a metal pole in his hand.

"Obviously I was talking about you," she says, smiling at him as he prowls towards her with a smirk on his face.

"I'd rather be unbearable than boring," he retorts, sweeping an arm around her waist and pulling her to his chest.

I glance away from them just as they start kissing, feeling slightly uncomfortable.

"Please, spare my woman's precious eyes from having to watch you two eat each other's faces," Jaylen says as he joins us in the foyer.

Kaleb and Sophia ignore him as they continue to make out like a pair of horny teenagers.