(CHAPTER 1)Need to keep her safe

"What did I do wrong Scott?!, why are u treating me like this?!, you barely talk to me anymore, I rarely see you except on television interviews, you barely call or text, heck! you don't even reply to my text or calls" Scott stood there like a statue watching jean rant on about his neglect. he couldn't blame her though, he was breaking her heart, he deserves everything she'd say or do to him, but he had no choice he had to end things, he had to keep her safe and if he had to be an asshole to do that so be it.

"let's break up jean" Scott said without missing a beat his sentence seemed to have caught her off-guard she stood there frozen "W-what d-did you s-say Scott?" she managed to stutter out after a while

"I said let's breakup" he repeated, he saw her shoulders begin to tremble and her bottom lips quivering in suppressed emotions. Her eyes were brimming with tears that she refused to shed, she looked so pitiful. He could feel his Insides recoil uncomfortably he wanted nothing more than to take back his words and hug and comfort her but he had to stay firm as much as he hated this he hated the idea of something bad happening to her because of him more.

She just stared at him unblinkingly with her glossy emerald green eyes

"Why....." she whispered after a while of silence, a lone tear drop finally escaped through her eye lids then another and another and like a chain reaction the dam broke "is there someone else, are you in love with someone else?" she asked in between muffled sobs, he just stared at her without responding

"is there someone else" she asked again struggling to keep her composure even though she was already a sobbing mess, still no response he just stared at her, trying to keep his resolve not to take back his words and hug her "is there someone else?" she asked her voice more demanding this time still he didn't respond "answer me!!!!" she finally snapped, her voice echoing off the walls of the empty alleyway they currently stood in "you owe me that much Scott, we dated for four years Scott, four years!, apparently that means so little to you, your willing to throw it all away. Please don't do this Scott." She pleaded, wiping her tears and snort with the edge of her polo sleeves "is it me, did I do something wrong tell me and I'll fix it, I'll change, just don't breakup with me Scott, don't end this, don't end us" jean continued to beg him and he could feel his chest shudder he wanted nothing more than to laugh and call this a prank but he couldn't leave with himself if something happened to her

"it's not your fault jean I have my reasons" he could only say for now.

"I should have listened to my friends when they said a relationship couldn't work out between the two of us" she whispered in self loath "I should have seen the red flags when you said to keep our relationship a secret for years 'for my protection'." she raised her hand to her head to air quote 'for my protection' "but what can I do Scott, I'm in love with you, I love you!!, God this hurt!" she said hyperventilating at the end of her speech

Scott throat felt dry he found it hard to form any sentences he had never been put in this kind of situation before nor had he ever seen jean so worked up, he didn't know how to comfort a weeping woman or anyone for that matter he knew his EQ was fucked.

He moved closer to her but still left a one foot distance between them. He Raised his hand to wipe her tears away but before he could touch her, jean swatted his hand away, she took a step back and glared up at him, her gesture made his chest burn, but he deserved that, retracting his hand back to his side he cleared his throat "there's nobody else jean" he uttered ' you're the only one who would ever move my heart like this' he wanted to add but couldn't

"Then why....." jean asked she was still sobbing, she kept using the sleeve of her oversized polo to clean her eyes but the tears just kept coming "why Scott?"

He didn't know how to answer that question. He couldn't tell her that he had been lying to her about himself all this time, he couldn't tell her that he wasn't who she thought he was, That he wasn't just a billionaire from a prestigious family, he wasn't just the CEO of the Hawthorne enterprises holding, Inc, That, that was just his persona in the human realm. He was a dragon shifter and the heir to the throne of Dragonor, he couldn't tell her that there was a whole other world aside from this one, The lore, a realm filled with supernatural creatures he couldn't even name. He couldn't tell her that this world was more than what meets the eyes. Heck! Her neighbor miss Sharman wasn't even human. As much as he wanted to keep her safe physically he also needed to keep her safe mentally too. The less she knew the better. She's too innocent, he didn't want her to get tainted by his world.

There was tension in the atmosphere, not the atmosphere around him and jean right now but that of the realms, something was coming and it was something big, something evil was brewing, every supernatural creatures could feel it. And that's why he needed to keep jean away from him right now

"then Is it because of my-my family background?" jean choked out. He knew of Jean's family, her parents were divorced, her dad was a drunk and her mom owned a small fast food restaurants on vee district, he helped her mom get the restaurant, he would have done more but jean refused his help, she said she didn't want to take freebies and wanted to work hard for her and her mother and he respected that. he loved her and that was all that matters but right now he had to say something that would get her off his back "yes, it's because of your...…" just then he caught something moving in the shadows, he quickly looked up in the direction 'what's that?!' he wondered as he narrowed his eyes at a figure in the shadows

"Scott look at me"

"Shhhhh!" he hushed "start heading home now jean"

"But we're..."

"listen jean" Scott lowered his head to look jean in the eyes his, icy blue ones meeting her rich emerald green ones. he placed his hands on either sides of her shoulder to get her full attention and he said in all seriousness "I need you safe, can you do that for me?"

"I—"

He cut her words short by quickly pulling her into a tight hug, looking over his shoulder he called his chauffeur "Stefan!" a man who looked to be in his mid 20's appeared from the shadows and stood behind jean

"yes master?"

"take her home" he said to his chauffeur 'and keep her safe if u see anything suspicious, get rid of it' he added on telepathically. Telepathy was one of the ways the shifters could communicate, especially when they were in their beast form.

"Yes master" Stefan bowed at his master

Scott finally released jean from the hug "follow Stefan" he said, gently rubbing her head before walking past her In the opposite direction in pursuit of the shadows he saw.