Chapter 9

I saved her from those rapists, but that doesn't mean anything close to love or anything related to that shit. It's what normal people do to protect girls from perverts who think they can have their way with them against their will.

"So what about those bodyguards you killed along with her so they wouldn't catch her? You were literally becoming her guardian angel all the way back." My vampire beast teased.

"I did that?"

"No, your ghost did." He laughed, and I grit my teeth, increasing my pace towards my room.

I can't believe I really did all that.

What came over me?

"Jaden!" My mother came hugging me as she stepped out of the palace, meeting me in the sitting room just as I was about climbing up the stairs.

"We were worried." She added, pecking my cheek.

"No more worries." Can I go to my room now?"

"Not yet, son." My father cut in, walking out of the palace too.

I sighed, facing him.

"Please, I'm tired and need to rest my head."

"You have a visitor. They had been waiting since you we