Chapter 8 Protecting Them

• LUCIUS
• Lisa's mum had called me to come check up on Lisa. According to her, she had been trying to reach Lisa by calling her phone but Lisa had not been picking up her calls.
• And as to why I gave Lisa the response I had just given her, I just can't tell. The words just rolled out of my tongue like it was my most natural thing for me to have said to her.
• Lisa looked a bit shaken but she soon covered it up with a smile.
• "I was just singing along with the lyrics of the song, da..." She pressed her lips into a thin line, stopping herself from saying the words that the both of us knew quite well.
• A part of me wished she had said it though. Fuck! Can I just reason well when I am beside her?!
• "Fine, your mum was calling and you were not picking up so she wanted to know if you were fine."
• "Oh, I left my phone in my room. I would go pick it up and call her back" she replied in her cute, sweet tone.
• But then all of a sudden, I noticed a red, almost unnoticeable red light in the red eyes of a teddy behind her. My brows squinted at it and I walked closer to it.
• "Is anything wrong?" She asked me but I just reached for the teddy which warranted me to get really close to her too.
• "This is wrong! I am in a relationship now!" She shut her eyes tightly, spilling out the words.
• I grabbed the teddy and pulled back away from her, a few steps. My brows were arched as I stared at her face with her eyes still tightly shut.
• "Now?" I questioned the last word and she slowly opened her eyes.
• "Oh, you were just grabbing that" she said nervously.
• "Now?" I repeated my question.
• "I am a very loyal person, Mr. Devine and today I got in a relationship with a guy I like so please don't touch me or anything" she said and I felt my heart clench a bit as well as my fists.
• I wasn't supposed to be mad that she got into a relationship with a guy she liked but I was. I freaking was. I don't know why exactly but that thoughts of her lips being kissed by another man's lips. The thoughts of her mouth being used by another man. Of her skin being caressed by another man. Of her ass being spanked by another man. And of her pussy being fucked by another man did not go well with me in any way.
• But like the me that I was, I suppressed the feeling.
• "Happy for you" I said to her but my tone definitely didn't sound happy. It was way far from happy.
• I raised the teddy up, paying my attention back to it and reaching for the right eye of it. Putting my new found frustration into it, I reached for the eye and pulled it out making Lisa gasp.
• "Why did you do that?" She gasped but as I dropped the eye to the floor, her eyes widened, seeing the camera.
• "Oh my! I was being monitored!"
• "Who gifted this to you? Your new found boyfriend is a creep?" I asked, feeling myself swell with anger already. I was so going to pull the little guy apart if she just said yes.
• "N-no, Bryant didn't give this to me."
• "Who did, then?" I questioned her, assuring myself that I was just being a protective father figure to her.
• "My... Francesca, my best friend" she mumbled.
• "Your best friend?" I was surprised at the answer I got.
• "Yes but I know her, I trust her. We... We have been friends since highschool. Francesca has no reason to want to monitor me. This... This must be a mistake or a mix up. I don't know but she can't be..."
• "You trust someone this much?" I asked, raising the now ruined teddy up a tiny bit before dropping it to the floor.
• "You don't know how long I have been friends with her. I... I will talk to her tomorrow"
• "And then let this slide?"
• "No, if we can, I am going to find out the real perpetrator because I am sure it can't be Francesca" she replied, her voice a bit shaky and I was astonished at just how much confidence and trust she had in this Francesca.
• "Did this Francesca give you more gifts? I have to check the other gifts she gave to you"
• "Francesca can't do this to me! I know her very well, Mr. Devine"
• "It won't hurt to check just for your safety, cupcake"
• There I was calling her cupcake yet again!
• "I... I... This is so fucking creepy. To think that I change in front of this teddy and do all sort of things"
• Seeing her panic made me want to find out who was really behind this and humiliate the bastard or bitch before getting rid of the person by chopping off pieces of their body bit by bit.
• I did a mental shake up of myself. I had stopped killing and wasn't getting back to it anytime soon.
• "I will check this place out" I said firmly, not giving her another chance to protest.
• I walked around the house, and found her room. I stepped into the room and looked around at every single thing I guessed a camera could have been attached to but it was all safe.
• "Is it safe?" I heard her voice behind me and turned to face her.
• "Yes, completely safe." I replied her.
• "Thank you so much. I am really grateful" she thanked me.
• "It's nothing. This must have creeped you out. Do you want to come over to my place to spend the night instead?" I blurted out the words without thinking.
• "Uhm... I think I can manage myself. After all, you have checked already and ascertained that my room is safe" she replied.
• I walked closer to her, noticing that she was still a little bit out of it. I reached my hand out for hers and held her soft, little hands.
• "Everything is going to be just fine"
• "I hope so" she mumbled and I felt the urge to hold her to myself and assure her that it would be fine so I pulled her close and pressed my lips to her forehead.
• I felt her stiffen for a second before she quickly pulled away.
• "That was a fatherly kiss, I guess?" She mumbled.
• "Exactly" I affirmed in response and she gave me a small response.
• "Goodnight, sir"
• I just gave a single nod in response to her and walked out of the room, knowing well enough that I was going to figure out myself who exactly was behind the camera.
• A part of me knew that if it really wasn't Francesca, it could have been someone else, someone who could be trying to put an end to Lisa and her mother.
• If that was the case, I had to do what I had been doing for years. Protecting them.