He just promised me that he is going to seize me. 

I hate the confidence in his voice.

I took a few more breaths to stop the fast palpation of my heart. I was still holding the water bottle so closely to my chest. Nina, start moving before he comes back and tells you something else. I made my weak legs to get out of the kitchen before getting completely out of the kitchen. I peeked out to see if he was still there but to my relief, he was not there. 

Clenching my hands on the water bottle I ran fast to cross the living room with a speed of light. Before I knew I was inside my room breathing like mad dogs were running behind me. I tried to fill my lungs with as much oxygen I could swallow. Opening the bottle I gulped the water wetting my dry throat as a desert. When I felt a little composed. I took a breath of relief while wiping out the cold sweat on my forehead with the back of my hand while sitting on the bed. I kept the water bottle on the nightstand and lay down on the bed while covering my body fully with the blanket. 

I was still feeling like his predatory gaze was touching my body's each and every part. His words from earlier were striding in my thoughts making me think more about what he said. That stupid satan. He didn't even let me say anything. How dare he say all of those things in my face. He has the audacity to say those things after lying to me. He didn't even let me speak but kept on threatening me. If he has the power to take me then I have the power to make things hard for him. He thinks just because he threatens me I will do anything he wants. 

Then he is the biggest fool of this world. I will make the path to get me hard for him. If I'm going to lose I won't make his victory easy. I will make him suffer to the point where he will willingly let me go. I know he wants me because of his selfish reasons. He wants to rule everything and for it, he needs complete power in his hand. But he gets that power in his hands only when I'm standing beside him as his wife. He wants that power so badly. His desperation to get it at peek is making him go crazy. 

He is even ready to close his eyes towards the fact that we hate each other to our guts. The craze for power is making him go crazy. And I'm going to take advantage of this and make him do what I want. Just because I said yes to be his personal maid for the papers of power of attorney he thinks using those papers he will make me do anything then he is in a big bubble of delusion. Just because my hands are under the rock he thinks he will make me do whatever he wants. I pity him for thinking this because if I refuse to stand beside him many precious things of his will slip away from his hand like sand. The more he tries to get a grip on me, the more I will slip away from his tight fist. 

These thoughts occupy my mind. I was thinking of ways to make Jack's life hard and I don't know when I slipped in sleep. The last thought in my mind was to have a little peaceful sleep as it was hard for me to get it nowadays. 

Moonlight was sneaking from the open big glass doors of the balcony of his room. A wild wind was making light grey curtains move making more moonlight to sneak in the darkroom. I was lying beneath him and looking at his face. His eyes were the lightest shade of brown as the moonlight fell on them making them glow in the dark. I was just mesmerized by the beauty of his eyes. 

They are so beautiful. 

Just the mere glance of this light brown pair of eyes is capable of making me feel so many things. I lifted my hand and cupped his face. As my cold hands touched his cheek he closed as if he was trying to savor my touch in his mind. He slowly opened his eyes and took the hold of my hand in his big hands, and brought it to his lips kissing in the middle of my palm making a tingling sensation run all over my body. I closed my eyes feeling the movement of tinglings on my cold pale skin all over my body. 

"Open your eyes, Nina. I want you to see me when I do things to you" he said in his commanding voice a shiver run to my spine listening to him. It made my fist hand open which was placed on his naked back with an open palm. I was taking a heavy breath as my heart was racing a little fast. But the command in his voice made me open my eyelids slowly. Still heavy breathing I was looking at his face then my half lids gaze moved to his slightly parted lips. My chested heavy with this unknown urge in me. My eyes were still fixed on his lips. 

"Jack" I whispered a little breathlessly. Listing the want in my voice he caressed his soft lips on mine. Filling my unknown urge unknowingly. I never kissed him but this time someone was different maybe the alcohol in me was making me kiss him back. I didn't restrain myself this time and moved my lips sloppily on his skilled one. 

I was totally a rookie in this field and the surge of learning it took over me. I moved my lips to follow these soft lips. His one hand moved from my bare hands to my neck where his fingers hooked to the hem of my gown. He slipped it down and kissed my bare shoulder tracing a path warm kisses on my cold pale skin. I moved my lips on the red marks on his neck which I planted not a few minutes ago. 

His teeth glazed my delicate skin of collar bone, making me dig my nails in his naked back. He hissed on my skin as my sharp nails dug more scratching his naked back but still, he didn't let go of my skin and started sucking in my collar bone where he marked me. "Jack" I moaned loudly as the varmint of lust lurked in me. 

I short opened my eyes while lifting my body from the mattress. I was breathing heavily as if those things happened just now with the cold sweat of beads forming all over my faces. I lifted my hands and wiped the cold sweat from my face and then rested my face in my hand. Still not getting over with what I dreamed about. 

"What did I just see in my dream?" I mumbled in my small startled voice still resting my face in my hand. I can't even get over the fact that I just moaned his name in my dream when he was doing things to me. My face was burning with a red tint on my cheeks. 

"Am having wet dreams now" I mumbled under my breath in a small voice feeling embarrassed about it. I remember how I dug my nails in his naked back while moaning his name. As those scenes flashed again in front of my eyes it made me close my eyes in more embarrassment while hiding my face in my hand. His touch never failed to make me feel those foreign things to my body. Every time he tortured me with his touches each time it gave birth to new foreign feelings inside me. I have always restrained myself from giving in to his touch and I will do it in my future too. 

Thank God it was just a dream or else I would have died in shame if I ever responded to his torturing touch like that. That thought made me breathe in relief. 

But it felt so real to be a dream. Are you sure it's just a dream because the scene looked so familiar to me? 

My inner voice butt in with a reasonable question. That thought made me furrow my brows and put some pressure on my mind. But my mind was still fogged with mists. "Nina you are up," said Jane, making me look at her. She has just come out of the bathroom wearing her bathrobe after taking a bath. 

"What are you waiting for? Go and take a bath, we have to go down for breakfast," she said as she was drying her hair. I nodded my head still trying to clear the haze from my mind. "Nina, do you have a fever? Your face is so red," she asked in her concerned voice while coming near me and checking my face with the back of her hand to see if I have a fever. 

"No, I don't have a fever," I said in my anxious voice, finally opening my mouth and stopping her examination on me. I know why my face is red. The realization of it must have made my face turn more bright. 

"what's wrong," she asked me in her concerned voice. 

"No.nothing, I will go and take a bath," I said in my nervous voice while getting down from my bed. Taking my clothes I ran to the bathroom to take a bath. 

Standing under the steam shower I was applying shampoo in my hair while I tried to think more about the things that happened that night. I repeated events that happened that night in my head. I was with Hazel drinking and then Jack took me forcefully to his place and I drank more at his place. Then I was standing in the shower with him and then my memory was of the bedroom where he was kissing me and then. 

Then..! 

I opened my eyes widened in shock. The dream I saw today was not a dream. It actually happened that night. The scene that I saw in my dream indeed happened that night. I was a moaning mess under him when he was biting my skin on the collar bone. I dig my nails in his back. Oh God alcohol in me made me act like that. Wait a minute if the marks on his back are because of this then is he lying about me sleeping with him as he lied about I forced myself on him. It clicked inside me. The fog mist in front of my eyes got cleared making me remember exactly what happened that night. 

He is such a big fat liar. 

I was so miserable thinking I lost my virginity to him in my drunken state. He made me feel guilty about the things that I never did. I even cried my eyes out thinking that I forced myself on the person I hated the most. How desperate I must have looked in his eyes. This thought made me feel even more awful. He tormented me emotionally by saying such a big lie to me. I balled my fist in anger at his evilness. He made me think whatnot and made me feel more miserable. 

What did he get after putting me in such a dismal state? 

All his actions made me hate even more. I thought about it balling my fist more tightly. I just hate that Satan so much! "Ouch" I winced at the burning sensation of shampoo water going in my eyes. 

Can't I even curse him now? 

Washing the soap from my eyes I rinsed my body and came out to change into my fresh clothes. Coming out I saw Jane was still in her bathrobe thinking about something. I thought she must have got ready until I took a shower. "Why are you standing like that? Go change your clothes remember we have to go down for breakfast," I said while putting on my clothes. 

"You go first I will join you in some time," she said with a small smile. 

"Everything all right," I asked while slipping in my off white sundress. 

"Yes everything is fine," she said with a smile. I nodded my head in yes. Letting my half dryer hair down to air dry I went down. On my way to the dining room, I met with Skyler. 

"Good morning bro," he said with a playful smile on his face while playing with my wet hair. 

"Good morning," I said while trying to get the hair out of his hand but he didn't let it go. 

"I wonder how you grew your hair this long this time," he asked me while playing with the long strand of my wet hair. I know why he is asking me that because I never let my hair grow more than my shoulder length. But this time they have grown so long that they end just an inch above my waist. 

"It just I did not give them much attention to their length when I was away from home on my internship. I was so busy with my work and didn't think of cutting them as now I have started to like my long hair," I explained. 

"It's good that you have grown them so long so now I can pull them like this," he said with a mischievous smile while tugging my hair lightly. 

"Skyler," I half yelled as it still hurt a little, making him laugh. I glared at him, making him laugh more after seeing my reaction. 

"Sorry, let's go, I'm starving," he said while putting his hand on my shoulder, making me move my head in amusement. With an amused smile on both of our lips while his hand still on my shoulder we reached the dining room. 

Everyone was already present over there. As I entered I felt an angry heated gaze on me making me look at him involuntarily. Jack moved his cold eyes though my body but his cold gaze soon turned to an angry one. His furious light brown eyes moved from my face to Sky's hand on my shoulder. He saw how Sky's other hand was playing with a strand of my hair. His angry gaze was saying to remove the Sky's hand away from my shoulder and hair but I didn't do that instead I sat beside Sky. His last night's words roamed in my head, making me angry and scared at the same time. 

Nina, stop getting scared about all these things after what he did to you that night. He doesn't have any rights on you. And I won't give any rights to him after telling me such a big lie. 

I took an omelet and a piece of buttered bread to eat. I was feeling his heated stares on me but I didn't lift my eyes to look at him. I took a bit of my omelet and bread but swallowing it became hard as his predatory gaze was still fixed on me. After some time Jane came down but soon someone caught our attention. It was a teenage boy who seemed so fond of Jane. 

"Jane who is this cutie. Aren't you going to introduce him to me" I said with a smile while going near her as I didn't feel like eating anything. 

"This is Petros, remember when I told you a boy proposed to me with roses and a love letter," she said smiling ear to ear. Petros and her we're conversing about the day he proposed to Jane. He was telling her about his future plans of becoming a supermodel. She seemed so happy but her gaze fell behind me and her smile vanished. I turned a little and found Zanvil was in his early stage to go rampage if Jane didn't stop smiling at Petros. 

God why these boys are so controlling. 

"Yes I remember it," I said with a small smile to distract her. 

Listening to me her vanished smile returned and she said in her small sweet smile "this is him." "Petros this is Nina my best friend" she introduced me. 

"Hey nice to meet you," he said with a shy smile. 

"Nice to meet you, cutie," I said, seeing his shyness. 

I like a shy boy but to my dismay, Jack didn't even fit in one category of a shy boy. 

"Come join us for breakfast" Jane invited him. Listening to her words we heard a loud plate chattering sound make us all look in the direction of the noise. Zanvil stood up with a hard face. 

“Zan, finish your breakfast at least,” the aunt said with concern. 

“I'm not hungry mom. I lost my appetite” he said in anger. What's wrong with him. Aunt looked at Jane with a sad smile. She smiled back at her faintly. 

“He is scary. Who he is. He was looking at you when we were talking” Petros whispered to Jane.

Jane cleared her throat “He is Zanvil Adam's my husband” she said in a small voice.

“Oh What? Did I hear you right you said husband” he said with a shocked expression. 

“You heard it right cutie,” I said with a pitying look in my eyes. He seems so head over heels for Jane. Poor Petros, he doesn't even have a slight chance in front of Zanvil the devil. 

"Let's have our breakfast," I said and aunty asked Jane to take some coffees for Zanvil. I took my previous seat beside Skyler. 

"Looks like Zanvil has competition" Skyler whispered in my ear making me smile and nodded at the same time. As I averted my eyes they met with an angry light brown one. He was clenching the coffee mug in a tight grip with a hard look in his eyes. It was visible in his eyes that he didn't like a bit when Skyler talked with me while bringing his face near mine. 

Our stare was broken when we heard a loud crashing sound of something. It made us all go into the living room to find Zanvil's white t-shirt drenched in hot coffee. Jane has a guilty look in her eyes when asked how it happened Zanvil took all the blame on his head it caused Jane's eyes to shimmer in more guilt and she went to his room to apply ointment on his chest and we went back to complete our breakfast. The expression on Jane's face was making me worry. The guilty look in her eyes was somehow bothering me. 

What did just happen between her Zanvil? 

"Nina," Skyler whispered, calling me. 

"Hmm" I looked at him. He gestured to me to look at Petros who was silently sitting beside me. His facial expression looked a little uneasy. 

"Are you ok?" I asked him. 

"Yes, I'm fine," he said in his tensed voice. Maybe Jane left like this made him feel awkward. 

"Do you want to take a walk with me? You can show me around? Jane told me you have planted roses here" I asked with a small smile on my face. 

"You want to see it," he asked with a bright smile. It lit up his dull face. I nodded my head. 

"Yeah sure why not," he said while getting up from his chair. 

"Sky do you want to join me," I asked him. 

"No you guys go, I'm waiting for an important call," he said to me. I moved my eyes to Jack. He waited for me to ask. 

As if I'm going to do that. 

"Let's go, Petros," I said while putting my hand on his arm. Jack's eyes hardened when I didn't ask him. 

"Yes, let's go,'' he said with a smile on his face. 

His burning gaze was boring on my back but I don't let it bother me. He has done so many bad things to me. I just don't want to see his face now. I and Petros went to the big backyard of the farmhouse. It is attached to half of the forest. So the backyard was even bigger.

"Wow this place is so beautiful," I said as wherever my sight went it was so beautiful and breathtaking. 

"Nina rose plantation is on this side," he said with a small smile looking at happiness on my face. I nodded at and followed him with this pleasing smile on my face. We walked a little further and there was a breathtaking rose explanation. 

"Wow this view is so breathtaking I can live here for the rest of my life," I said in an aww voice while moving my hands on the delicate petals of the rose. He came and stood beside me. 

"You do really like nature," he asked with a smile. 

I nodded my head and asked, "did you plant this rose for Jane." He nodded his head with a shy smile on his face. "Jane is so lucky but you are some years late for her," I said with a playful smile on my face. 

"I know," he said with the same shy smile. 

"But let me tell you girl who married you she will be so lucky. I would fall head over heels in love with a person who does this for me" I said in my happy voice while still not moving my eyes away from the plantation. 

"Then you will like to see different tree planting which I planted. It's a little further from here" he asked me in his excited voice. 

"Really I would love to see it. Let's go" I said in joy while holding his upper arm in happens. We both walked a little further away. The view in front of me was even more breathtaking. There were so many different trees of different breeds and all of them were full of fruits. "These fruits look so tasty," I said while looking at the trees full of fruits. 

"Do you want to try them? They are so sweet in taste?" he asked me with hope in his eyes. 

"I would love to," I said in excitement. 

"I'll go and bring them" saying that he went to take the fruits. I was waiting and gazing at the beautiful view in front of me. I do really like nature so much. One day I want to live in a place where my house is in the middle of so many trees. With a smile on my face I was looking at the view in front of me but I felt like someone was looking at me. 

I turned my face to look back to see if there was anyone but there was no one there. Strange I felt like someone was looking at me but no one was here. I moved a little further and rested my back on my tree. Closing my eyes I tried to feel the fresh air on my skin and birds chirping in the forest. Again I felt the heated gaze on my face. The feeling of someone looking at me made me open my eyes but no one was there. 

"How strange is it" I whispered under my breath. 

"Nina, I got all the fruits which one you want to try first," Petros asked me in his excited voice. I brushed that feeling of someone looking at me and chose orange to eat first. Peeling it I eat it.

"hmm it's so sweet," I said with a happy smile on my face. 

"You liked it. next try peach you will like it even more," he said in the same excited voice. 

"Ok. I have not eaten peach in ages" I said in my eager voice. I was about to take the first bite but someone smacked my hand making the peach fall out of my hand. In the process, my hand collided with the hard tree trunk making me wince in pain. With anger glaring eyes I looked at the person who did this to me. Jack was looking at me with a little relieved expression on his face. 

"What are you doing" I yelled in anger as the pain started to travel to my palm. 

"You can eat this fruit," he said in his angry tone. 

"I will eat whatever I want," I said in my angry stubborn voice. 

"You are allergic to it. Did you forget when you were ten years old how bad your health became when you accidentally ate the peach? You were sick for a whole week" he said in his angry voice making my mouth shut. 

How does he remember something like that? I don't even remember that incident. I was about to protest. 

"Shut up and come with me," he said in his warning voice while grabbing my hand. "And you little boy stay away from her," he said in the same warning voice to Petros who was silently standing beside me. He took my hands in his and made me wash my hands as we do with kids. I just kept looking at him. Satan in front of me was someone else. The Satan I know was never a concern about me. 

"Ouch" I winced a little as his hand moved on my scratched back of the hand. I tried to take my hand away from his but he didn't let my hand go. He moved his fingers on the scratches on the back of my hand. His touch was so delicate it almost made me feel this person in front of me was someone else. He lifted his gaze from my hand and looked at me. 

Lifting his hand he tugged the hair behind my ear making me almost close my eyes and then cupped my face. His hands were making a lazy circus on my cheeks making me open my eyes and look into his light brown eyes which were filled with so many unknown emotions. I tried to read them but I couldn't. 

"When will you stop doing this to me my wild cat" he mumbled these words to himself like he was in some trance while looking straight in my eyes. But I heard it. His words confused me so much. I looked at him with little furred eyes and looking at my questing gaze made him come back to his senses. He cleared his throat and took his hand away from my face. 

"Never eat or touch that fruit again if you want to stay alive," he said in his firm voice changing his demeanor one eighty degrees. With the last look at my face, he left me. I stared at his retiring back in confusion. 

What is this man doing to me? One second he is so caring and the next thing I know he is back to becoming the Satan he is. This man is making my life more complex by each passing day. 

Will I ever be able to read him as he does with me. 

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