Chapter 24
Arielle moved away from him as much as she could, it was a big room anyway, he looked scary, like a wounded lion and he was rubbing the spot she had bitten, she feared he would attack her any moment and she didn’t have anything to defend herself with.
“What do you have in your mouth? Razor? How can your teeth be so sharp?”
He asked. His voice was a lot calmer than he looked and even though she knew she shouldn’t be, she relaxed just a little.
“You asked for it, non of this would have happened if you just let me be,”
“I can’t do that, you belong to me,”
He said in an even calmer voice.NôvelDrama.Org: text © owner.
“I don’t,”
She let out with a glare, she would never belong to him or anyone.
“Well, that’s not for you to decide,”
He responded, again in a calm voice, she just kept quiet, she needed to think of a way to free herself from him, maybe just maybe there was a way out of this and out of here, she was tired, and her legs hurts, her whole body hurt, that devil from earlier beat her up so bad.
“You know if you just stay calm and quiet like this, you actually look really pretty and innocent and no one will want to harm you but you choose to be a wild woman, making things hard for everyone,”
He said as if he felt sorry for her, she glared at him, his pity was the last thing she wanted.
“Well, I don’t want to do anything to please you, leave me alone,”
She said with a glare, she was so tired and hungry, she had gone through everything today without any food and as much as she hated to ask him, she was too hungry to decide not to.
“I need food, or I am going to die,”
She said out loud and she must have shocked him because he looked confused for only a second.
“You haven’t eaten? All day?”
He asked and she nodded.
“You are crazy, you are really out of your mind, do you want to kill yourself? No wonder you are so tiny and weighed so little,”
“Don’t act like you give a fuck and just give me food,”
She responded.
“Yeah, you are right, I don’t care, but I paid huge money for you and if you die, I lose an investment and I don’t like losing money, so do the math,”
He said and she felt like killing him already, if only she could.
“How are you so comfortable talking about a person like that? I am a human and not a commodity for business,”
She replied. She just couldn’t get her head around how his mind worked that he reduce her to something like that, he really was a devil, she already knew but still, she just couldn’t get why he was like that, why he had no value for people.
“You think whatever you want witch,”
He said and turned his big body, his back was wide and broad, he was talking on the phone and she silently watched him weighing her options, she could use this moment to make a run for it again but she thought better of it, she knew she would not get far, she was so tired that she might collapse if she tried it so for now, she just decided to get food and gather her strength back.
“Food is on the way, and while at that you can take a bath, tomorrow, we will talk more about the stunts you pulled today, and just so you know, every wrong behavior attracts punishment here and you aren’t getting any slacks because you used them all up already, and don’t even think about running away, you can’t, don’t just suffer yourself more by trying,”
He said and without another word, he left the room, she sat heavily on the bed looking around the room, she was so exhausted that she couldn’t even see properly, she couldn’t even stand up after she sat down, it was as if her legs lost the ability to move, she was too tired to even take the bath. He suggested, too tired to even think, a knock on the door got her attention, and the door opened to reveal a man who would be around his early fifties or late forties, he came bearing food.
“Hello, molodaya ledi,”
He said in greeting, he looked kind and she greeted him back in Russian, he dropped the food on the bed close to her and turned without another word.
“Thank you for the food,”
She said as he was about to leave, he turned and nodded before leaving the room, she opened the food as her stomach groaned in response, the food, one of the most popular dishes in the country, Borscht, she loved it and being so hungry, she didn’t even fear if it was poisoned and just started eating, she was so hungry that she finished the whole bowl in less than ten minutes, then she ate up the side dish, Olivier Salad too,”
“Aha,”
She said after finishing everything on the plate and drinking water, the most delicious food she has ever had and she had it in the house of her enemy, what a twist, she didn’t know what to do with the plate, she was used to cleaning up after herself, she got off the bed and walked to the door wondering if it was locked but when she opened it, it wasn’t, so he didn’t lock in, she was sure it is because he knew she would not be able to leave, maybe she could prove him wrong, but how far could she really go? That thought was enough to stop her, not today, maybe tomorrow she would find out how to leave.
She looked out to see the man who had given her food outside her door, he had stayed behind, and he turned when she opened the door.
“You are done eating,”
He said and collected the plate from her and started walking away.
“Thank you for the food,”
She called after him and went back inside, now that she has eaten, she felt heavy and tired still, she couldn’t even take a bath, her fears were up now, she looked around the room, it was painted in plain white, everything about the room had a shade of white and sprinkles of other colors, mainly blue, there was a walk-in wardrobe, a table, a chair, sofa, the big bed, it was the typical rich people room, the only odd here was her and she didn’t even want to be here in the first place.
She walked to the bed and lay on it, she needed sleep to regroup, she fought hard today and all the fight in her was gone, there was nothing she could do about it tonight, she needed to rest.
Arielle couldn’t fall asleep, no matter how she tried to fall asleep in the luxurious room, even after giving in and going to take a bath, she just couldn’t find sleep no matter how pretty the room was, she couldn’t forget that she was a prisoner in this house, a prisoner with no hope of escaping, where could she possibly go? She still couldn’t get a hold of her passport and now that she was locked up, there were zero chances of being able to escape from there and run away, she was trapped by a man that she would never have had anything to do with if her parents hadn’t been so greedy, they were greedy and selfish and she hated them so much now and wished the worst on them where ever they were now, she wished they would suffer just as much as they made her suffer, if she ever makes it out of this alive and she ever meets them in person again, she would make sure they both pay for what they did to her, for all the pains they caused her, she wiped the tears that gathered in her eyes and tried to get some sleep so that her body could at least heal.