Galaxy Of Hope

‘I did not agree to this.’ I angrily glared at him. Andrew just walked around my dorm as if he had been here before. Picking up my brush and playing with the bristles on it.

‘Cute room.’ He smirked at me and I wanted to punch him. ‘You are not doing this.’ I reached for my brush but he held it far from my grasp. I picked up on his sandalwood scent in the process. He was so much taller than me, probably Sebastian’s height and I had to glare upwards to give him my meanest scowl.

‘Feisty.’ He smiled. ‘I like it.’

‘You have nothing to like.’ I bit back. ‘Get out of my fucking room.’

‘Now you see.’ He put my brush down and pointed it at me. ’I have been giving the assignment of shadowing you by Vincent Orion. That is not something one just neglects.’

‘I understand you have a job to do and we have an agreement. But I need my privacy.’ I stepped closer to his chest. Not afraid of the bodyguard at all. ‘If you’re too scared of big ol’Vincent Orion, please let me call him. I will explain to him that I need my privacy and his bodyguard in my room is not part of our deal.’

‘I was given permission to decide what is safe and what is not safe.’ He stepped even closer now. ’Didn’t Kai Welkin kidnap you from this very room last year?’

I flinched at hearing his name. Andrew’s eyes followed the movements of my micro expressions closely. He saw that he had hit the nail on the head. ‘Well.. y-yeah… I guess… but that doesn’t-’ I stumbled over my words but he raised one long index finger and placed it on my lips, eerily similar to what Sebastian had done to me last year. This one had some balls. ‘Hush now.’ Andrew sighed. ’So I will check your room whenever I feel like it, to keep you safe princess.’

‘Don’t call me that.’ I softly uttered against his finger, still perplexed with his nerve.

‘I think that nickname suits you.’

’I don’t think so. Don’t you ever listen to what your fucking prisoners say?’

He rolled his eyes at me and smiled openheartedly. Revealing a dimple in his left cheek. Just the one criminally hot dimple. Ugh.

’Prisoners. You are funny.’ He flicked my nose a little aggressively. ’I’ll be outside when you need me, princess.’ He strutted out.

Just great. Now I was the girl on campus mated to all Paramore’s with a personal bodyguard and personally responsible for the disappearance, some even claimed murder, of Kai Welkin.The only Paramore that didn’t want the mating bond, or so the general population had fabricated the story. It got worse each week. By next month I would have probably butchered him and stored him in my fridge to be snacking on his body by the rate this was going.

Skylark came through the door. She was wearing a way too bright pink bodycon dress, white sneakers and a little red bowler hat. She made big eyes towards the door, as if she liked Andrew. Ieuw. Ok not eew, I could see he was hot. But eew.

‘Who’s the hottie?’ she whisper squealed.

’That’s the bodyguard.’ I dryly added. I had explained to her yesterday what was about to happen so she could be prepared to also be shadowed since Sky and I were attached to the hip these days.

‘Is he single?’

‘God knows Sky.’ I flipped my hands up. ‘I’m not exactly on friendly terms with the guy.’

’Single.’ His deep voice with a tang of amusement reached us from outside the closed bedroom door.

I cringed and hit Sky’s arm. She just fanned herself a little more.

‘Noted!’ she yelled back and I hit her again. ‘Ow, silly. Don’t hit me!’ She took a pillow from my bed and hit me in the face. I grunted. ‘That was harder than I had hit you!’ I squealed. We were both joking but still a pillow fight ensued. The door opened. Skylark was straddling me and was just about to press the pillow in my face when Andrew lifted her up and placed her on her own bed. Sky just gave him googly eyes and was nearly drooling over him.

’No hitting of my subject. Vincent Orion’s orders.’ He wittily said to Sky and winked at me. I rolled my eyes at him.

’I don’t make the rules princess.’ He added.

Sky chirped in. ‘Well, she will get hit quite a lot since she likes to get spanked in bed. Will you come and rescue her then?’

I wanted to strangle Skylark. I felt my face heat up. It was the truth though.

Andrew just curiously glanced my way. He licked his lips and ran a big palm through his dark floppy hair. ’Well shit, princess. I guess my job just got a whole lot more interesting.’ He winked at me and walked outside once more.