The Marvelous Elijah's Return novel Chapter 70

I hate you so much, Elijah

A faint smirk crossed Elijah’s face, thinking Peach was joking, as he chuckled lightly. However, seeing her expression, he stopped chuckling and said, “What?!” 

“I don’t think I can go back home and have the same strength that I mustered up today to deny my mother’s request… If not now… I don’t think…” Peach trailed off, lowering her head. 

“What did Miss Grace say?” Elijah asked calmly, his eyebrows furrowing slightly. “That you have a gangster tendency, and I need a man that is not as complicated as you,” 

“Wow…” 

A small laugh escaped Elijah’s mouth as he glanced at her, and then he sighed quietly, shaking his head. 

“I am not marrying you without your mother’s concern, Peach” Elijah muttered, his voice low and steady, 

Tilting her head sideways, Peach gazed at him curiously and said, “Why are you telling me this? I thought it would be something you wanted… that you were waiting for me to tell you.” 

“Yeah, but… we are going to do this the right way,” Elijah stated, looking straight ahead, still driving forward. “We are going to give that a shot first, alright?” As Peach moved her lips to speak, Elijah’s ringtone interrupted her, and Elijah cleared his throat, pulling out his phone and answering, putting it on speaker because he was driving, mumbling, “Matt?” “A bunch of street thugs is outside of the motel. We have the front door locked, and wherever you and Peach are, you guys should stay there and not come back… I will call you when they leave.” Matt’s voice sounded panicked and frantic, causing a frown to grow on both Elijah’s and Peach’s faces. “Mama,” She whispered, grabbing Elijah’s attention and causing him to meet her gaze.” What’s going on?” “I am on my way back,” Elijah uttered as he grabbed the steering wheel tightly, and circled the car in the middle of the road, driving at a full speed that made Peach grab the sides of her seat, her heart hammering heavily against her chest. “Boss,” Matt stated, sounding anxious and concerned. But Elijah ended the call, multi-tasking in between calling Jerome and focusing on the road, and finally, he got Jerome on the line. “Boss,” Jerome answered, and Peach couldn’t help but frown slightly at the fact that both Matt and Jerome were calling Elijah, ‘boss.’ 

“I need men at the motel. We got a bunch of disturbing thugs at the entrance to the motel. Get over there fast.” Elijah ordered Jerome. “On it Boss.” Jerome hung up and Elijah immediately began speeding towards the motel. “What’s going on Elijah… Why did Matt call you, ‘boss,’ and who was that other person you just talked to?” Peach asked worriedly, placing her hand over her heart which was beating 

rapidly, the fear evident on her face. 

But Elijah refused to answer her questions and instead focused on driving faster, speeding towards their destination. 

Once they were reaching the motel, Elijah saw his way was blocked by a bunch of street thugs. 

Pressing the accelerator, Elijah kept his eyes on them, the car’s bright lights flashing in their direction and making them flinch from the brightness of the headlights, which caused them to cover their faces with their palms. 

“Elijah, what are you doing?” Peach whispered, gripping onto her seatbelt. 

“Relax,” Elijah responded in a commanding tone, glancing at her, realizing that he drove back too early and Jerome along with the others was not there yet. 

Staring at the faces looking back at him, Elijah counted twenty thugs, so he knew this was just a test run to see what he was made off, or they thought he was just too useless to waste manpower on. 

“Who the fuck keeps flashing their headlight in our direction?!” One of them shouted, fighting to see past the brightness of the headlights. 

“Shit!” One of the thugs cursed, clearly pissed, because the light reflected off his glasses, blinding him. 

But when they tried to step forward, Elijah hit the accelerator, causing the tires to screech without putting the car in drive as he watched the thugs back away slowly. 

“Are you okay?” Elijah asked, seeing how heavily Peach was breathing and sweat forming on her brow, a look of panic etched on her face. 

“Yeah.” She replied in a shaky tone, biting her lip hard. 

The one minute he took his gaze off the thugs to focus on her, a sudden loud “bang” echoed as a rock slammed into his window glass and Peach let out a scream before covering her ears.