In a Love Nest with the Aloof CEO novel Chapter 64

The ends of the gold chain were clipped together before Tobias could try to help her put it on.

The girl was quick; that spoke to her independence.

After he spent much time with her, he had learned that she was the hands-on type.

Were it up to any other woman, they would have coquettishly commented about how much they liked it and asked for their suitor to put it on for them.

Tobias held her hand anew as the cawing of a murder of crows spiraled overhead. The path grew more foreboding the more they advanced.

There was hardly any warmth emanating from his palm.

When they finally came to halt before a spot where a standing statue was prominently featured, Skylar swallowed hard. Oh God, I knew it! I knew this was all too good to be true – he’s going to kill me here!

“You are not going to conduct a blood sacrifice, are you?”

He looked straight at her without speaking.

Then his lips curled into a smile. “Whoops.”

Skylar’s legs stiffened and refused to move when her subconscious mind screamed for them to run. Her face trembled in her hands as she dreaded to look upon the man’s face.

“It’s no wonder you won’t leave me alone. Killing is against the law. Have a heart, Tobias, and let me go.”

“‘The law’ are just two words for someone like me who has already known the blood of countless innocents with my hands.”

A childlike whimper was elicited from between her paralyzed lips.

That led him to finally understand what drew him to her.

“Please. I don’t want to die.” At this moment, the sky opened up and cast its bloodless light upon the earth. Skylar was now able to see Tobias’s hardened face illuminated in its entirety.

He came close and ran his fingers through her hair. “You are always talking about ending it all. But you are obviously not ready for it!”

Admittedly, he was right.

As she was gripped by her fear and terror, she saw him retrieve two sticks of candles which he lighted up using a flame drew from a spark wheel lighter.

She held her nose against the rising white fumes in case they were an incapacitating agent.

He then raised the candles between his hands and bowed to the statue before he planted them at its feet.

“This is the guardian of this mountain. My mother’s really into this stuff, and we used to visit every year… You didn’t really believe that I was going to kill you, did you?”

Skylar’s mouth was agape. And there she was. Petrified, and begging for her dear life.

She kicked herself for misinterpreting a completely innocuous activity and getting all worked up for nothing.

After all that, she patted down her own chest as her heart was still throttling. “Why didn’t you just say so? Did you think that was funny?”

He wrapped his hands around her from behind in a reassuring embrace. “It was alright, I guess. You squawked like a quail, just like my baby brother.”

At the same time, the rustling of leaves and branches disturbed the stillness of the forest.

Still fidgety, Skylar exchanged glances with Tobias. “Did you bring along bodyguards?”

He shook his head slightly. “Why do you ask?”

Footsteps from a distance drew closer and closer.

Harry emerged at the head of the pack with the rest of the class in tow. The lure of the bonfire party apparently paled in comparison to the promise of a raunchy live stream.

Someone had even brought along a high-definition camera.

The dozen over powerful beams of white swept seemingly at random before invariably coming to rest upon Tobias and Skylar.

To avoid their blinding glare, Skylar buried her face in Tobias’s chest.