The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

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.

saw his

flashing in their direction and making them flinch from the brightness of the headlights, which caused them to cover

doing?” Peach whispered, gripping onto her

glancing at her, realizing that he drove

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

headlight in our direction?!” One of them shouted, fighting to see

clearly pissed, because the

the accelerator, causing the tires to

sweat forming on her brow, a look of panic etched

She replied in a shaky tone, biting her

off the thugs to focus on her, a sudden loud “bang” echoed as a rock slammed into his window glass

and he kicked the vehicle into drive, the engine roaring as he raced towards them, causing everyone to jump aside, dropping flat on the ground, some scraping their knees, others bruising their elbows from the impact with the pavement, and the rest running, tripping, and stumbling until they managed to move out of sight. “Oh my God…” Peach gasped as the adrenaline left her system, her hands trembling as they clutched tightly to the handle above her, staring down

your breath, Peach. Breathe…” Elijah instructed, watching closely, but not having time to focus on anything else except her

looked at Elijah, looking like she was about to break down,

a thug with a rock in his hand, repeatedly hitting the glass, yelling angrily

begged, squeezing her eyes shut and shutting her fingers

the thug’s voice calling out Elijah’s name again, “I said get the hell out of the fucking car! You lowlife piece of shit! Or else that pretty

then when his head attempted to rest on the cracked glass, Elijah hastily unlocked the door, and bang the shit out of his head, causing

jumping back and holding his bloody hand to his head, cursing as he fell backward. Before Elijah could close the door, one of them leaped up and stuck a foot through, forcing the door open. Then another one grabbed the collar of

to completely shut it, and then pressed the lock button on his key, and all this while, Peach’s body had shut down and she was just staring in a daze. But when she heard the car completely locked and the engine died down, that’s when she started screaming, “Elijah!!! Please don’t hurt him!!! Elijah!!” Tears trailed down her face, and she started beating the windshield, screaming at the top of her lungs, “Matt!! Help!! Someone help!!” Her body was shivering as she turned and saw