Swiftly as if he knew what was about to happen, Lu dodged to his left. He held Alita’s wrist and twisted it awkwardly.
Alita gave a piercing scream as she dropped a dagger, She held her right wrist and fell to the ground and groaned. Her green eyes were filled with tears but she blinked rapidly, not letting a single teardrop. She looked at her wrist and gasped.
“I’m sorry” Lu whispered his gaze zeroed on her weird-looking wrist.
Mere looking at it, he could see it had dislocated and it would begin to swell. He tried to touch her but she yelped and crawl back, she kept crying and cussing him.
“I swear it was an accident” he moved close to her but she kept moving back “Please let me help you!”
The sincerity in his voice shows how tired of the situation he is, on his knees where he had been trying to help Alita was where he stayed. His sad blue eyes were stormy, it was surprising how much emotion he was hiding and it hurts him more.
It didn’t hurt him that Alita is mad at him, he couldn’t just help her. The fact that he had added more pain to her non-healing pain made him want to hit a baseball bat in his groin.
“Alita?” He started in a whispered “Can I come closer? He went ahead as she had refused to answer.
His lips twisted as she remained still, she didn’t retreat or coil more into a ball, she just sat still with an uneasy expression.
“Drop it Alita” he voiced sternly.
Although he couldn’t tell if she had anything but with the look on her face, he knows she is surely up to no good. He tilted his head to see her back from where she stayed on the floor.
“Alita??!!” He was about to get up to her when the door burst open.
“Alita darling” Jordan squeaked “Gest what we have for lunch today?” He turned slowly to reveal the bag he was holding.
His cheeks dropped and his smile vanished when he noticed her on the floor with Lu in the opposite direction, they were both glaring at each other. At first, Jordan wanted to drop the food and pretend he didn’t see them by walking back out the door but he couldn’t just.
“What happened?” He whispered as he rushed Alita.
“I tried to stab Luciano with one of the rusty dangers I found under his bed,” Alita said, her cheeks curved into a weird smile as she noticed Jordan froze halfway “Then he broke my wrist” she concluded, and looked at her wrist.
Pain and rejection filled her eyes as she stared at both Jordan and Lu, she wished she could get help and threw the second rusty dagger at him. Alita dropped her head and sat still, her hair covering her face, shedding them from seeing her cry over the pains she couldn’t contain.
Her body went rigid as she felt someone place a hand on her shoulders, she was rushing to stab the person before she had the second thought of seeing the person’s face first. Her heart dropped in her stomach when she looked up to see Jordan smiling down at her, he had a sweet smile on his face and a sweet smell coming from his body.
“You don’t think I could have killed you?” Alita asked as she let him balance his hands under her thighs and her back.
Jordan made sure he allow her to balance her wounded wrist on her stomach before he carried her to the bed, he placed her gently and sat by the side.
“Give it to me,” He said with his palm open “please” he added. He haven’t been expecting any reaction from Alita but she bent and pulled out three rusty daggers “Please” he said again.
He smiled sweetly as she placed the daggers on his palm, he was about to think about something to say when he felt Alita place her left palm on his neck and pull him close.
Nothing or no one would be able to explain a dream come true than Jordan when he felt Alita’s lips on his. He was still at first but when Alita moved her lips, he did the same, devouring it in a deep kiss. He tangled his fingers into her hair and kissed her like he wouldn’t be able to do it again.
He definitely knows he would be dead by the time he is done so it’s better he gets all of it.
The kiss was practically going into another realm as Jordan felt been yanked away. He haven’t even landed on the floor when he heard Alita scream.
“Fuck YOU!!!” She yelled as Lu moved away from her “Count today as your lucky day because next time won’t be ”
Her eyes moved from Lu’s palm where the rusty dagger had pierced his palm but not deep, Alita stared at it for a long while before staring at his face to see nothing but anger and rage.
Alita couldn’t understand why it had been hard for her to kill Lu and fulfill her Destiny. If there was anything else she had waited all her life for, she wants to kill Luciano so fast and watch out for his father. Her green eyes stared at his palm which was now bleeding and free from the dagger, she blinked, wondering how he had pulled it out without yelling.
“Take care of her” Lu instructed Jordan and walked away to wash his hand in the washroom first.
He walked back to the room to see Jordan seating next to Alita with both palms on her wounded wrist. The corner of his lips curves in a sly smile as he watches her place her left palm over her red face while Jordan caresses her palm.
He felt a knot in his throat as he tried to swallow, looking at Jordan in peace after he had just given his possession a breathtaking kiss is indeed a huge miracle. He felt like he should walk over to their little care route, snap Jordan’s neck, and take away his lips from hers.
Yes! He wouldn’t lie about it and won’t deny it either that he is obsessed and there is nothing no one can do about it.
He stared at them for one last time before he walked away, going through the same hidden door he had entered with. He didn’t bother if Jordan would want to have sex with Alita, or she might kiss him again, or do anything stupid just to get him close. It was already obvious she is doing all for it to get him close so she could kill him, it felt like she is determined to kill him at all cost but the bad news is that-
Lu is afraid to die! He had killed so many people, treat them like trash. He had stabbed a lot of people until no amount of stitching would save them but still, he is afraid to die.
The thought of closing his eyes eternal sleep scares him like a bow going to help scare him.
“Breathe Alita” He heard Jordan’s calm voice “Just look at me and nothing else, imagine you feel no pain”
Before he could smile over Jordan’s Little sermon, he heard Alita’s piercing scream. His heart cringed, he stood still at the entrance of his room wondering if he should go back or ignore it. It hurts him to see her in so much pain especially when he just caused the most recent one.
Mere listening to her voice, he knew she must have lost her sweet voice over all the screaming. He imagined her accepting Jordan’s generous hug as a form of friendly and he cringed again, he shook his head to wipe the image off his head and locked the door by saying Alita’s name with his last name.
He dashed into his cabinet to get first aid for his hand then something strange caught his attention. The reflection of his face on his mirror, he showed him clearly including the healing gun wound below his left eye. It looked perfect as it was meant to be until he caught glimpse of fingerprints on the mirror.
With a shrug and he went ahead to bring out his first-aid and began to dress his wound. He dispose of the used cotton wool and nylon from the bandage he had used. After kicking off his shoes, he collapsed on one of his couches and places his hands under his head.
“I wish you are alive to see the shit you put me into, Father” Lu sigh, he stood up after restless tossing and walked to his bed.
He saw his towel again but this time, it was on the other side of the bed, not the floor he had kept it. Even if he forgot to drop it, it should have been on the same spot, not the other side entirely.
“Someone had been here!” He panicked.