6 THE TRAITOR

He was looking at her with bloody eyes. Closing his fists tightly, he tried to calm down his nerves yet he couldn't. His blood was boiling. 

She looked back at him with horror. It felt like she was going to faint again. She knew he was going to kill her now. 

He moved toward her and held her tightly from her arm and jerked her hard...

"WHO ARE YOU??" He asked angrily, gritting his teeth. 

Her eyes filled with tears, and she started to tremble. "Berry" 

That's all she could say. 

He got angrier thinking she was acting innocent for so long and fooling him. 

"WHO'S AGENT ARE YOU? WHO THE FUCK DO U THINK U R MESSING WITH?" HE yelled badly. 

"I .....i... didn't.... do.." she stammered as she spoke slowly. "Please... no" tears fell with speed from her eyes...

"STOP PLAYING INNOCENT BITCH!! Speak before I rip your bones apart" he said coldly. His fingers bore into her skin

"I don't... kn..ow.. nythin...g" she spoke with broken words. Her whole body was shaking with terror.  It was the look in his eyes that made her tremble. 

He let out a sigh and raised his hand to set his hair back but as soon as he did. She winced and suddenly sat down on the floor with her hands, covering her ears and her knees close to her chest. She was shaking badly. 

He stopped on the spot. His heart ached when he saw her like this.

 "She thought I was gonna hit her," he thought.

 His shock stopped when he saw blood running through her hand. She was wearing his white shirt, and the right sleeve was all full of blood.  He quickly sat in front of her and held her hand.

As soon as his hand touched her she let out a little shout " ple ...ase.... don't .. I didn't do anything... " 

She was sobbing badly until she got hiccups. 

"It's alright. I'm not gonna hurt you" he said gently this time. He felt guilty for talking to her in that way.

She wasn't listening. "Ple..ase.. ... don't... i ..beg you.. plll..ease." 

He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer to him.. he was still holding her injured hand and gripped it tightly to stop the blood flow.  

"Shh !! I'm sorry. It's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you" he slowly soothed her. 

He got up and held her close. Walked with her to the couch and made her sit ..he kneeled in front of her so that he was sitting on the carpet in front of her. He held her hand and looked at it. It was cut badly.  He got a handkerchief from his coat pocket and wrapped it around her hand. 

"You wait here, and I'll get a first aid box," he said slowly. 

She nodded her head as she was still sniffing.

He got up and walked toward the bathroom. Got the first and box and on his way back he noticed blood drops near his picture and on the clip too. He pressed the clip backwards, and the cupboard closed slowly. He came toward her and sat in front of her again. He cleaned her wound with antiseptic and applied for some medicine on it and then dressed her wound. She didn't wince a single time during the dressing, and it didn't go unnoticed by him

Once he was done, he washed his hand and sat with her. He turned her slowly toward him and raised her face from her chin to face him 

She looked him in the eyes. And the moment he saw, he felt a strong thrust in his stomach. His eyes were boring into hers. 

She had two different eyeballs. Her base colour was blue, but her left eye had a specific rainbow shade on one side. 

HOW IS THIS EYE COLOR EVEN POSSIBLE? 

 Her eye had a tear forming a drop at the end of the eyelashes. She had a small nose and gave the appearance of a doll. Full lips. Those dark pink lips. They looked like a ripened apple. Her hair was wet, and a strand of her wet hair was on her face. WOW !!  He thought

He raised his hand to her face to remove them, but as soon as he did, she closed her eyes tight and winced. He stopped for a second and then tugged the hair strand behind her ear. She opened her eyes in surprise. 

He looked at her and smiled. His expressions softened. 

What was the last time he smiled? It's been ages, he thought. She smiled back slowly.

"You okay?" He asked. And she nodded her head.

"Will you tell me how you cut your hand?" He asked softly...

"I... I was looking at that...." she pointed toward his picture " and a sil...ver thing cut my ha.. nd.." he nodded as he was listening to a baby telling a story.

"I thought it was something.. ruining... the piccc..ture.. so I pulled it out and the do..or opened" her eyes filled with horror again on the name of the cupboard. 

Feeling her fear, he said quickly " you have got nothing to worry about alright? Those are just my work stuff. You don't have to be scared of me or anything around you. You are safe as long as you are in my house. Okay?"

 For the very first time, he didn't want someone to be scared of him.

"I saw two things" she raised her 2 fingers. 

"Mhmm. What is it that you saw?" He panicked inside but said calmly.

"I saw a ... a ....a .. gold thing... big.. " she couldn't comprehend in words what she saw. 

He closed his eyes and let out a breath. She saw what she shouldn't have seen.. she saw the way to THE PRECIOUS. 

"I just saw shiny.. gold... it's covered" she quickly said feeling his discomfort. 

His mouth turned into a tight line. He couldn't decide whether to trust her or not. She could be one of the Lord's members.

" I should kill her," He thought.

 "DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON HER"... "SHE IS INNOCENT" ... "she needs to stay here forever now." 

"If it's something impo...rtant....  to you..... I won't tell anyone.. you ave.. the gold..... I don't have anyone.. to tell" she said in a low voice. 

He let out a sigh and looked at her again.. softly this time... 

"It's okay !! Don't worry. Just don't try to run away okay? You are safe as long as you are in this house. Okay?" 

"What if.... if... " she wanted to ask a question. 

"If???" He asked amusingly. 

"If those men ... the shoo.. ting.. men.. come back?" She asked hesitantly.

"They won't !! I promise. No one can hurt u in here" he assured her. 

"And ...if....." she asked once more in a slow voice. 

"Yeah??" He asked softly.

"If...if... I want to eat.... ice cream?" Her voice became nearly inaudible.

He let out a laugh. He was amused by her. She made him laugh. It was so rare for him to laugh. It was a feeling that was not very usual for him. 

He looked at her amusingly, and she was looking at him with a smile. 

"Then ...tell me... and I'll take you out.. and you can have as much ice cream as you want" he assured her...

She showed him a grin. Her face was dry, and it hurt her skin when she smiled. He was looking at her and noticed she has pain in smiling too. He was about to say something when his phone rang. 

He took out his phone, and his brows drew closer as he read the text. 

"We have found the clue for THE PRECIOUS"  -Levi

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