"If he ever so much as breaths the same air as you again then I will rip his heart out of his chest and make him eat it." Stone barked the threat, running his hand along his jaw.

"My next question is if you are a serial killer." I deadpanned.

He continued to take deep frenzied breaths. He flexed his hands while he looked away and closed his eyes.

"The comment Chase made about me in English class was not okay, but I am handling it." I remarked while pointing a scolding finger up at him "I don't need a gorilla-sized babysitter. I fight my own battles."

Rage continued to ignite across his face as his thick jaw clenched and his nostrils flared.

The look was so intense that it made me shiver.

A small buzz interrupted the tensed moment.

The giant took out his phone and let out a deep curse "Fuck."

I almost jumped back from the harshness of his voice. I widened my eyes as I looked up at him.

Stone noticed my reaction and quickly tried to soften the roughness of his voice as he uttered "Sorry."

"Is everything okay?" I asked while motioning to his phone.

"We need to go. Now."

I followed him along the seafront while trying to match his speed. He was striding determinedly while forgetting that I had small legs.

He then slowed down when he noticed I was struggling to keep up with him.

The time we had arrived back at the beach where Lana and Brennan were, I had to fight the urge to keel over and catch my breath while lying down.

"Where have you been?" Brennan appeared slightly vexed when he turned to Stone and questioned him "It is half eight."

Stone glanced at me before recollecting his surfboard from the sand where he left it.

Lana watched the two guys as they packed away their stuff in a hurry. I stood next to her and joined in as the two men rushed around.

"What is going on?" Lana asked them.

Neither one of them answered her.

"I don't know what is going on." I whispered to my best friend "Maybe their surfboards turn to pumpkins at midnight. Or in their case half eight."

Brennan jogged over to Lana and kissed her on the cheek.

Clenching his jaw, Stone glanced at me for a few seconds before he looked away again.

"I'm really sorry. We have to go." Brennan told Lana with a small sympathetic smile "I'll see you tomorrow."

I offered Brennan a small wave before he walked over towards Stone.

The giant had his sights set on me when he insisted in a way that came out more as an order "I will take you home."

I shook my head at him "That is okay. Lana and I will probably go and get some ice-cream anyway."

Stone gave a stiff nod as he ran a vein-struck hand through his hair.