Short chapter, but one of my better ones…if I do say so myself lol.

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Chapter 10

"Let me make sure I understand all of this. Cal…Cal Hockley, has been harrassing you?"

"Well, he's only really been saying things, not much el-"

"That's just as bad if not worse! Who the hell does he think he is?"

I hushed him and looked quickly around the hotel's restaurant to make sure no one had taken notice of us, "Please, I'm telling you this in confidence." I whispered.

His face was now full of blotches of red and he leaned over our table and replied through gritted teeth, "You're my sister. I'm supposed to protect you from people like that, and it's under the guise of being my friend that he gets to you. He used me and you and now he's going to pay." he sprung up from the table with a kind of fury I had never seen in him before and began to walk in swift steps out of the restaurant.

"George!"

The others in the restaurant were now all staring, but I couldn't think about that right now. "George!" I got up and ran after him, finally catching up with him in the corridor that led to the lobby. "Please, will you calm down? I didn't tell you that so you could have an excuse to act like a barbarian!"

He pried my fingers off of his arm and started off again, this time faster. I ran after him though, struggling with all my might not to slip and fall. He was getting farther and farther from me, causing me to lose him in the crowd. It was getting to the point where I was struggling to even see the back of his head, when he suddenly stopped altogether. I ran faster to catch him while he had stopped and when I approached him I saw the reason he had.

"Harry."

George was like a hot tempered bull just waiting to be let loose from his cage, but Harry kept his hands firmly planted on George's shoulders until the anger started to fall out of his mind and he began to calm down.

"Unhand me, please." George asked him.

"Can you control yourself?"

I looked on as George nodded and Harry removed his hands. George regained his composure and the people around us started to go on about their business. Harry's eyes met mine and it all came together in his head. He turned back to George.

"She told you about Hockley, didn't she?"

George swallowed back uneasily as if he had just drunk a glass of lemon juice and answered Harry's question with a nod.

"I can't say I didn't feel the same way."

Harry looked back at me and this time George followed him. I stood there under the gazes of the two men I cared about most in this world and felt small. I damned Cal in my silent thoughts for what he had done. Because it hadn't only affected me, but George and Harry as well. I felt horrible, like I was the one who had done something wrong, and I couldn't explain why.

Harry reached for my hand and took it; he pulled me to him and hugged me close to him. It was just the kind of reassurance that I needed and when we parted I looked at my older brother,

"I'm sorry, George."

For a brief second he almost reminded me of Jack. His hair had fallen into his eyes and he looked angry, and ready to take on the world, but at the same time he wasn't going to forget about the important things. And then he smiled awkwardly at me, "No, I am. I was being irrational. I just don't want anything or anyone to hurt you."

I nodded, "I know that."

"But I'm not worried," he looked at Harry, "because it looks like you have a worthy protector."

Harry arm tightened around my waist where it had been resting, "Yes, she does."

"You keep him away from her. I don't ever want to see that ass within 10 feet of her." he said to Harry with clear and punctuated words.

"Anyone I know?" spoke another voice, the three of us turned towards its owner, and I could feel Harry tense up when we all saw that it was Cal, "You know, it's not in good manners to talk about someone when they're not around to defend themselves."

"I think that's the least of your worries." George growled at him.

"Ah, I take it your sister has informed you of my pursuit of her. Well that just goes to show you how much our friendship meant when you believe the word of child over mine."

"If she's such a child why are you bothering with her?"

Cal smiled and shook his finger at George, "I think you meant to ask Mr. Lowe that question," he gestured in our direction and then smiled wickedly at us, "Well look at you two, together in public. That's an improvement, I must say," he turned back to George, "I'm sure you don't know that libraries, dark ship decks, and officer's cabins were among their haunts on the Titanic."

George looked at Cal with a blaze of fury in his eyes, while I clung to Harry even more tightly, not believing that Cal had the nerve to bring this up in the lobby of a hotel, with people coming and going every which way.

"Your presence isn't wanted here right now, Mr. Hockley." Harry said in a shockingly calm and deep voice.

Cal looked at Harry with an arrogant, amused expression, "I wouldn't say that, look at Sarah. Someone that stunning knows when she has an opportunity to make the most of her life and she knows the only way she will have that is with me…or my brother, which ever comes first. Of course I'd never want Taylor to win, but I'd rather have her in his bed than in yours…at least that way she'd be closer to mine."

"What the hell are you talking about?" George demanded, obviously just as disgusted by Cal's words as I was.

Cal scratched his chin, and smiled deviously, "I've just come from Hailey's, where she informed me that a marriage between Taylor and Sarah was being arranged by my father and herself."

I couldn't help but be shocked when I heard that and he saw that.

"Oh not to worry, my dear. I don't want you to be Taylor's wife anymore than you do. Of course I don't think he'll have anything to worry about when he finds out about you're…" he cleared his throat, "recent actions."

I glared at him and he came closer to Harry and I and for the first time I could see the true evil in his eyes. I moved as close to Harry as I could, until I was pressed up against him and Cal was only a inch or so away from us. "Make the most of your time together, it won't be too much longer…I promise."

My sisters reaction after she read this part was "ooOOOOOOooooOOO" lol ß-----I had to put that in : )