"Ella" He grumbled again, obviously furious at my stubbornness.

"I can not just sit there." I explained while looking up at him "I can not just sit and think about everything. I will drive myself insane."

"You are driving me insane."

I tried to think of something that would make him leave. I took the last resort and decided that the option I was about to do was worth a try.

I stuck my bottom lip out in a pout and widened my eyes to give him a puppy dog look.

My lip trembling did not even get a chance to start because I ceased what I was doing when he narrowed his eyes at me.

Stone cursed under his breath.

"You cheat, Ella." He growled again and I could feel his voice vibrate through me.

"Please just leave me."

"I am never leaving you." He stated and waited a minute before he added begrudgingly "I will let you make your own way back but you better be going straight to bed."

"Thanks. How kind of you" I muttered sarcastically while ignoring my stomach doing somersaults at the first part of his previous statement.

"You could have died." He raised his voice as he said it and I could feel him start to shake "I could have lost you. You are lucky that I am letting you leave my sight ever again."

I could see how worked up he was so I decided not to argue verbally.

"Medusa, you are going back."

"Yeah. Okay." I fibbed.

Lana and Charlie walked back over and that was when I stood up to meet them. I looked back over my shoulder and seen the dark eyes watching my every move.

It took all my energy to draw my gaze away from him and for me to tell Lana "Lets go."

We walked along the pier. Away from the ice cream parlour and away from him. Lana held on to my arm like I was going to fall over at any moment. Charlie ran in front while waving his arms around like an aeroplane.

I turned to Lana and asked, "Why did you tell Stone?"

"Because you should not be on your feet!" She erupted and then she softened her words as she talked again "He is so worried about you. We all are."

I shook my head while I looked at the sea "Can we go and grab some stuff from my apartment?"

Her eyes almost popped out of her head as she spluttered "You can not be serious."

"I just need to grab a few things."

We were almost at the start of the promenade when she let out a sigh and she spoke again.

"Stone is not going to be happy about this." She vocalised and there was almost a hint of fear in her tone.

"He does not have to know."