Chapter 58 Chapter 58

Chapter 58 Chapter 58
Kyla's POV

“What are you looking at?” She asked, her eyes bulging as she noticed I was looking at her neck, she let me go and covered it immediately. 

“That mark is a sigh, Daciana. That you are just like me–” She grabbed a knife from her waist band and placed it against my neck and I went mute. 

“How dare you compare yourself with me?” She growled. “We are nothing alike, you tramp.”

I gulped, looking down at the knife. “I think you should put that away though,” I gasped as hair tried to rise at the back of my neck.  

She narrowed her eyes at me, her brows crossing. “Why should I?”

“Because I have a feeling that Kendrick would be here soon–” I licked my bottom lip and nodded. Though I wasn’t sure if Kendrick would come, I noticed a pattern with him. Ever since I arrived, he had been there just when I needed him and I was going to use this to scare Daciana away from hurting me.

“What the fuck are you saying? That there’s an alarm on Kendrick’s head that would go off when I am about to kill you?” She raised a brow and I could see the danger in her eyes. It was glazing with hatred and I didn’t even know why she was so angry at me. 

“I don’t know how I know, but I am sure of it, Joey.” I bit my bottom lip and closed my eyes as she pressed the knife against my neck. I instantly retreated using her real name. 

I sighed heavily. “You don’t want to hurt me, I promise. Else you’ll be in his bad books. I know you don’t want that.”

Daciana was taken aback a little. I was also shocked as to where this amount of courage was coming from. She had a knife to my throat and I was still saying all this?

We locked eyes for a while and then she took out the knife and stepped away from me. “Who are you? How did you know all this about me?”

I sighed. “Keep your knife away,” I demanded, pointing at the dagger that she was still gripping tightly. She clicked her tongue and placed the dagger back in its place. 

“Speak, else I would have to put it to work,” she ordered. 

I walked back to her and went to my bed. My chest was heaving but I tried my best to hide it. I couldn’t let her know that I was dying of fear and I was only using Kendrick’s name to cover up– though it was kinda true. 

“I know about your grandma– I met her when I was away,” I started. “She told me all about you and about how she had been waiting for you all these years.”

Daciana’s gaze darkened as she locked them on mine. “My grandma?” She seemed surprised as she ran her eyes over me. I nodded, licking my dry lips as I tried to know why she was reacting that way.

“My grandma lives in the heart of the woods– how did you?” She asked, then her jaw dropped. “Ohh.”

I shook my head at her, confused. “What are you talking about?” I asked her. 

“No one survives at the heart of the woods, that was Venom’s territory. He lets my grandma stay because we made a deal.”

I nodded. “But I survived, Kendrick came to save me–”

“Kendrick sure did. That was why he was trying to kill Venom earlier,” Daciana said. My lips twisted upward in a soft smile. “I had to help Venom out, so he won’t tell Kendrick my true identity– that my grandma lives in the woods alone.”

The thought of him punishing Venom for me, made me feel good. “That’s nice, someone fighting off me for a start,” I muttered to myself. Daciana looked confused. I raised a brow. “When are you going to meet your grandma?” 

Her eyes went cold. “Me? Go back to the woods? Never!!” She spat.

I blinked at her. “Why?” I asked. “She had been looking forward to seeing you.” 

“I can’t go. I can’t leave Kendrick,” she spat at me. “Grand ma would force me to stay with my mate and I don’t want him.”

I blinked at her. Kendrick was not her mate and she was only staying back because she wanted to make Kendrick hers. That wasn’t as innocent as I thought. 

The way she exercised ownership over Kendrick the other time, I thought she was his mate or something. 

I shook my head. “So you are willing to neglect your grandma for a man?” 

She chuckled. “No– but Kendrick was  not just any man.” she stepped closer to me, narrowing her eyes at me and I leaned away on the bed, looking up to meet her gaze. “You know right?” 

I gulped. “Know what?” I asked her.

“That Kendrick is different, I see how you get yourself in trouble so he would come after you like a knight in shining armor.”

I shook my head, denying her allegations. “So far I have only been trying to get away from him and this pack.”

She sighed. “That better be– because if I find out you’ve got eyes on my Kendrick, I would make life unbearable for you.”

I nodded at her. She continued, “Besides, don’t ever think he would ever want you. Kendrick doesn’t have a heart, I have been with him all these years and I still can't get to crack his shell.”

I gulped, thinki99ing about how close we are and how much he cared about me and saved me on different occasions. Was that cracking his shell?

I had allowed myself to stop thinking of escaping again because I always throw myself in danger and appear weak before him. “Kendrick has a heart.”

Daciana smirked. “Keep deceiving yourself, I had that mindset earlier, but look here.” she leaned to my ear and whispered to me. “Kendrick might even sleep with you but he would never be yours. You might only be a mistress– just like me.”

I grabbed the bed as chills ran up my spine with her words. Was that why he kept saving me? The way he looked at me and cared for me– was it so he would someday get to make me his mistress too?