Protecter's Love by Kayla Trautman (books to read in your 20s female TXT) 📕

I frowned and looked up at him, "Her name is Lucy Granger. She was a human being. Not an it. And she deserves a proper burial. At least have the decency for that." He stroked my face wiping my tears away from my face, "Alright. Sorry. Are you okay?"

I nodded and hugged him again laying my head on his chest, "Yeah. Just scared and upset. I've known her my entire life. We were good friends." He kissed my forehead and looked up at the others, "Please get Ms. Granger's body out of here. We don't have time for a proper burial and we don't wanna have to deal with the police on this planet. They're too complicated. But we can bury her outside in the backyard."

There was shuffling noise before I saw two men carrying her out covered in a blanket but her arms dangled down into view. I turned my head and closed my eyes. Taliesin placed a comforting hand gently on the back of my head.

He leaned down to kiss my neck, "I'm sorry. This is the danger that I wanted to keep you away from. The reason why I didn't want you to come back here. There are still Forelanders in Rahanni but you'd be much safer there."

I took a deep breath and caught control of myself. I couldn't do this right now. There was too much stuff to do. I had to get dressed, pack, call my parents, tell them that their little darling is an alien. That part I was afraid of the most. But the part that would hurt the most was when I had to leave them.

I pulled back and covered myself with the blanket completely. I wiped my cheeks on the blanket wiping the tears. Taliesin looked at the others, "Okay. We're okay in here. Check the rest of the house for the other maids, the butler, and the cook. Make sure they're okay."

I winced at the thought of all of them being dead as well. It wasn't fair. My life was pretty simple and normal. It all started when I found out that I was an orphan and needed more information. It just wasn't fair at all.

Kailie rubbed my back, "I'm sorry." Then she left with the others. Taliesin stayed here. I swallowed as I looked at his questioning gaze that penatrated right through me, "I'll be okay. You . . . can go."

He shook his head and lowered his head, "No. I won't. I'm staying here and you're going to let me stay in here and do whatever I want to you. That's an order that you're actually going to follow."

His lips touched mine and I gasped. I've been yearning for this all week and he chose now and here to kiss me? His tongue parted my lips and found mine at the same time that his hand cupped my breast through the blanket. The touch was ravishing. It was splendid. Sent my nerves wild.

I pulled back while I was still able to and shook my head with my eyes closed, "No. Taliesin. I can't . . . not in here." I opened my eyes, "It's creeping me out to have to still be in here. I don't wanna have to . . ."

"Shh." He touched my lips with his thumb as his hand caressed my cheek. "Don't worry about it. I understand. I'll stay here with you, if you'd like, while you get dressed and pack. I won't touch you. I'll put the restraints on."

I nodded and backed up a step, "Yeah, that would be better." "Alright. I'll sit on the bed." And he did. He watched everything I did.


Chapter 19: They're Not Dead, Just on the Edge of Death

After I was dressed Taliesin and I went downstairs. I looked over at the pile of blue bags on the floor. Taliesin put his arm around me, pulling me into his side. They were body bags.

"Everyone we found in the place was dead. They all died the same way. We need you to look at their faces so we know if any made it out alive." Said the man who sniffed Ms. Granger.

I looked up at him, "Are you serious? How many are there?" If I could do this without looking at their faces then that would be best. He answered, "We counted fifteen."

I nodded, "That's all of them. That's all of the ones that were on this week." I stepped out of Taliesin's arms and ran outside. I stopped at the end of the porch and grabbed the post that holds the canopy there, leaning against it.

Hands grabbed my waist and just rested there. Then he spoke, "I'm really sorry." I leaned my forehead against the post, "This is all my fault. He wanted me and when he couldn't have me he killed them all."

Taliesin turned me around and framed my face, "No it's not. This isn't your fault. This isn't something you started. The Forelanders started when they started killing Seanders. That's all they live for. What their parents have trained them for since the crib. That's what they love. It's their fault, not yours."

I sighed, "But . . . why do I feel so bad? So guilty?" "Don't. Don't feel guilty. You feel bad because you're upset. Now lets go see your parents." He turned around and walked down the steps with me.

He ushered a group of men to follow us. I asked, "What am I going to tell them? They're going to break?" "Do you trust them with the truth? To keep our secret?" He asked. I looked up at him, "Yes. But ... you're not going to make me lie to them?"

He shrugged and looked ahead, "I trust you and if you trust them, then I trust them." He smiled then. "And I'll always have time to boss you around. I can wait until another time."

I rolled my eyes and looked forward, "You think you can." "I know I can. Just like I can make you admit your feelings for me." He said; watching me from the corner of his eyes carefully. I grunted and climbed into the car they had waiting.

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"I have the key." I said as I pulled it out of my pocket. I put it in the hole and turned. I saw the frown on Taliesin's face from the corner of my eye and felt his arm go around my waist. I pushed the door open and put the key back in my pocket.

I went to go inside but Taliesin pulled me back and against his side with his arm that was around my waist, "No! The Forelander's scent is all over this place!"

I gasped. No! My parents! I pushed away from him and ran inside. "No! Elena!" I had one foot on the first step when he wrapped his arms around my waist, lifted me up against him, and carried me outside like that.

"Go!" He told the others. Half of them went inside my parents' mansion armed with some type of gun. The others readied themselves for a possible attack. Taliesin stopped a few feet away from the mansion to put space between us and the mansion.

He put me down and I ran for it again. He grabbed my arms, "No!" He yanked me to face him and gripped both my shoulders, "Dammit, Elena! You can't go inside! He may be in there waiting for you!"

"I don't care! My parents are in there! I have to make sure they're okay!" I argued trying to get loose. But he wouldn't let me. He touched my face, cupping my cheek in his hand, "Hey. We don't know if he killed them yet. Calm down. They'll scope it out and then let us know what's up. Okay? Can you please stop trying to go in there? I don't want anything to happen to you."

I nodded and turned to face the house. I bit my lip and folded my arms around my breasts. Taliesin wrapped his arms around my waist, pulled me against him, layed his chin on my shoulder, and rocked us slowly from side to side.

About ten minutes later the men came back out. With nothing but a tape. My breath caught in my throat. I quickly started towards the man holding the tape. Taliesin followed me.

We stopped when we were right in front of him. Taliesin asked, "Have you found anything, Luther?" Luther answered, "The scent is recent. No more than a day old. Her parents weren't in there. Not even their bodies." I was relieved a little. They weren't dead. They probably went to the police telling them that I've been kidnapped or something.

"But we found this tape. It's entitled to Princess Elena." He added. Taliesin took the tape from the man and said, "Elena. Why don't you stay out here? I'll go find out what's on the tape."

I shook my head, "No. I want to see it. It has everything to do with me and I'm watching it." He frowned and grabbed my elbow as he led me to the house. We went inside and into the living room. Everyone followed us. Taliesin and I sat on one of the couches closest to the TV. The men didn't sit down. Luther took the tape and put it in. He turned the TV on and hit play before backing up so that everyone can see.

I gasped and my heart started to race as my parents appeared on the TV. They had tape over their mouths and their hands were bound by ropes at their wrists in front of them. They sat on a couch, but not one from here. Mom was crying as she layed across dad's lap leaning against his chest. His arms were around her, holding her, as he glared at something to the side. Or someone.

That's when the man who tried to kidnap me came into view. He had one of those guns that the guards had in his hand. He sat down next to my mother and my parents moved over away from him.

He smirked at them before turning to the camera with that same smile, "Our dear Princess Elena, your pathetic human parents are okay . . . for now. My name is Daniel. I want you, you know that already. If you want them to stay okay then you will turn yourself in. I won't tell you where or when now because I know that you're not the only one watching this. But when the time is right, I'll let you know.

"Don't let them stop you from coming." He grabbed my mother's hair and pulled her to him, seperating her from my dad, a muffled cry came from her and my father stopped trying to keep her with him when the man hit him over the head with the gun.

I cried out in agony. Taliesin placed a hand on my lower back; I was sitting on the edge of the couch, ready to jump up at any moment.

My father now layed unconscious on the couch but breathing, he was still alive. The man laughed and looked back at the camera. He tilted my mother's head back and said, "Or else it'll be their lives I take." Then he hit my mother in the head with the gun, causing her to be in the same condition as my father,