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This Satan.

"What is this," I asked in anger. 

"Finally you are talking," he said in his mocking tone. He wants to take revenge on me for not talking with him in the car by bringing up these papers now. 

Is he for real? 

"I'm asking you what the hell is this," I asked with a set jaw while glaring at him. All my happiness of getting the power of attorney papers was taken away from me like a flame from moths. How did I even think he would give me papers this easily and that too this fast without wanting anything in return? I'm a big fool to think he will give me what I want without tormenting me. Why I'm forgetting the fact that he is a satan of my life. He has taken birth on this earth just to complicate my life even more than it is. 

"Can't you read cupcake" he again asked in his mocking tone making me grind my teeth in anger. He has a Ph.D. in pushing my buttons. He is trying to roll his stupid words in a circle to make me mad. and it is pissing me off even more. In anger, I was about to tear the papers but he took them away from me with a big evil grin on his face before I could do it.

How bad I want to tear these bloody papers in small pieces as I want to tear his ego which is as big as Mount Everet in small pieces. 

"Let me help you with that, my sweet cupcake," he said while taking the papers from my hand. His words made me cringe even more. I crinkle my nose hearing him calling me cupcake from his mouth. It sounds so bitter to my ears. Looking at my facial expression his grin widens. "My sweet cupcake, this is the paper of our marriage contract," he said with the same evilness in his eyes while pinching my crinkle nose. It made me take my head back away from his fingers with glaring eyes. He said like I didn't know what those papers were about. 

"We don't have anything like that between us," I said in my firm voice. Hearing my words he smirked more evilly. 

"Did you forget what happened on your eighteen birthday, wild cat?" he asked in his dominating voice, making me remember that awful night when I signed a prenup in front of everyone. 

I still remember how my eighteenth birthday night was ruined. I didn't want to celebrate it but dad insisted on throwing a big party because I turned eighteen. And that night's celebration turned into a disaster and many things happened that night. I wish that night was deleted from my life. I wish I would have said to dad that I don't want any party because I was a big girl. That memory brought so many unwanted memories with it. I wish I could go back to that disastrous night and change everything. My throat started to clasp, remembering how that night changed my future, and now it is coming back to me. It was the night when everything started to crumble in my vitality. But I don't want something like that to happen again in my life and that's why I'm doing what not to get out of this unwanted arrangement which was created in that kind of situation. 

"It was just to fool those people," I said in my yielding voice while trying to come up with something else, something strong but I couldn't. 

"You think it was just to fool those people," he asked again in his dominating voice while coming near me invading my private space. I didn't move back but kept standing on my grounds. I'm not afraid of him but his words did shake me inside. 

Was it really to fool these people. My mind asked.  

"You think you signed the prenup to fool them. You think you are capable of fooling them" he asked in his mocking tone while looking straight into my clouded eyes making me fall more into this denial I was trying to create to escape my reality. I was so busy fighting with him that I forgot what that prenup was based on. I was so engrossed in all of this that I forgot what was driving my life with hard force and making it crash into the mold molding into something I didn't want. I averted my eyes as his light brown eyes were questioning me with a new question with each passing second. 

"We both know the answer to it and I can see you know what exactly will happen when they come to know what you are trying to do," he said in his firm voice while now standing in front of me consuming all my personal space. I was finding breathing hard as the air I breathed was laced with his intoxicating scent. He has this special feature in him to be right when everything seems so wrong and meaningless.  

What will happen if they come to know that I'm trying to change the arrangement? 

Will they take it away from me? 

I still didn't dare to look at him as I found it hard to do it. His words have kicked the air out of me. Suddenly the remainder of the thing which I was trying to run away from was making me go crazy. The situation in which I was will make me lose something precious to me if I don't make my choices right. If I make the wrong choice and decide to follow my heart I will ruin so many innocent people's lives. These heavy thoughts were clouding my mind with thick dark fog. He put his finger under my chin and made me look back into his light brown predatory eyes. 

"We both know we can't escape this," he said in his obvious voice like reading my mind. "Your twenty-third birthday is coming and sooner or later you have to sign those papers so I'm giving you a good chance to sign them now so we can save ourselves from all unwanted drama," he said in his firm voice while making me look into his eyes. 

God, he thinks all my emotions and all my efforts of not getting married to him are drama.  

"Do you think all my efforts are unwanted drama in your eyes? Then let it be like that I will never sign these papers and I will never get married to you" I said in my angry stubborn voice while glaring at him. His jaw clenched listening to what I said. 

"Yes, everything you do is an unwanted drama for me. Because unlike you I know you can't get out of this. I didn't believe in wasting my time on unwanted things like this so get over it and sign these damn papers because in the end, you have to do it if you want or not" he said with a clenched jaw in anger. I closed my eyes and took deep breaths. I can't even think about it anymore. After a few deep breaths, I opened my eyes and looked at him. 

"I don't have a choice but you do. You can say no. It will solve everything" I said in my impious voice trying to come out with a solution. But deep down I knew he would never say no to it. 

"Do you think I will let go of this chance to make my company big?" he asked in a mocking tone. His words made me look at him with glaring eyes. 

"I know exactly how selfish a person you are," I said in anger while mockingly laughing at him in bitterness. My words made him give me an angry smirk. 

"Selfish me who the hell gave you the damn right to decide it," he said in his bitter voice while bringing his face near to mine than it was. "Aren't you selfish too? You are trying to get out of this and put so many lives at risk just to get yourself out of this arrangement. Now tell me who is the bigger selfish in us" he taunted me making me curl my fist in anger. 

"Don't even try to compare me with you. I don't play with people's lives like you do to satisfy your sadistic needs. I don't enjoy seeing people in pain as you do and that's why I'm trying to get both the parts of the power of attorney papers by being the maid of the person I hate so much" I said in anger while glaring into his predatory eyes. His jaw clenched even more and his eyes burned in anger after listening to my words full of resentment. 

"At last, I'm not putting someone else's life at risk but mine. I will make so many lives better when we get married. Many people have jobs through the merger of two multinational companies. It will bring glory to both the companies, making it number one in the market" he said in anger while taking hold of my upper arm and pulling me near him letting me know the gravity of his words. "Now tell me who is the biggest selfish between us," he asked me that same question in his same angry voice while gripping my upper arm more tightly. It made me wince at his tight grip. 

Am I being selfish? His words why are they making this guilt ruse more inside me. I took a shaky breath as his words sunk in inside me. Why is he putting everything on me? Am the one who is playing with everyone's life just because I want something else in my life but not that everyone decided for me. Aren't all the sacrifices I made till now don't count? Don't they get counted now? By keeping all these things aside how can I say yes to get married to him? No, I can't after knowing the truth behind this arrangement. How I can say yes to this vile marriage between us. These unfazed thoughts were making me go crazy.

"This is your problem. You always thought about this arrangement as nothing else but as your profit-making opportunity which you don't want to let go of even if the person on the other side doesn't want it a bit. But I'm not like that. Emotions do matter to me and I don't believe that by ruining my life I'm capable of making someone else happy. You know better than anyone my main reason for not signing those marriage contracts and I will stand on it till the end," I said in my firm voice with blaming eyes. Hearing my words his eyes hardened just like that night when I said why I will never marry him. He gripped my upper arm more tightly listening to my words. It made me move more into me but he pulled me towards him by holding my hand tighter. 

"That reason is not valid anymore because it doesn't exist to be valid don't we both know that," he said in his hard voice making warm tears form in the corner of his eyes. 

How can he say those words without feeling a bit of emotion towards it? How much of an emotionless man he has become in this past year. 

"How can you say something like this? Don't you feel a bit of something for that?" I said with a heavy throat as this feeling of mad anger and bitterness took over me. His words made me want to hate him even more. Don't he have any emotions left inside him? How can he act like a stone? 

"No I don't anymore," he said in his firm voice while looking straight into my eyes it made the ground under my feet crumbled. I kept looking at him with mistrustful angry eyes. 

"We both know we are running out of time? If that time limit is crossed I don't lose anything but you lose everything" he said, making my heart sink into my stomach. I bit my lower lips in resentment as his every word was hitting me like a brick. "So sign this damn paper and make both of us free from this unwanted feud because we both know the fact the situation we are stuck in it's inevitable. If you sign these papers now I will give you those power of attorney papers now at this instant and you will have what you always wanted and pulse you don't even have to be my maid anymore" he said in his dominating voice like he was stating the fact. His words made me dig my nails more in my palm. 

"My answer will be still no," I said in my stubborn voice. Every word of mine was laced in heat. 

"Then be my guest. You want to be my maid then it's fine with me because, in the end, I know you have to do what you have to do and I like to play dirty" he said in his dominating voice with an evil smirk on his face. His words passed a shiver to my body spreading bad feelings inside me. He let go of my upper arm with a push and it immediately let me rub my bruised arm. He looked at my red arm which had deep red marks on my arm and said in his dominating angry voice "It's just a start" 

Rubbing these words on my face he left me alone and went to his room. As he was out I let go of a shaky breath while taking the hold of the couch to support my weak legs. 

What does he mean by these words? 

I know he will make everything hard for me even more. I have not even finished coming out of this big argument between us. I heard him call my name on top of his lungs making my heart jerks in sudden fear. "Nina, come to my room now" he yelled loudly. 

"What's the matter with him?" I whisper yelled in anger and stomped towards his room. Entering his room I saw he was standing near his wardrobe door. "What the hell are you yelling my name on top of your lungs," I asked in my annoyed voice. 

"Is that way of talking to your master?" he asked in the same tone as mine. His master cosplay stupidly is still going on. "Go get my night clothes to change into it," he said in his firm superior voice like I was his slave whom he brought from the dark dungeon. He was standing near the wardrobe and asking me for his clothes. 

"You do have hands so go get them yourself," I said in my pissed voice and was about to go out of his room but before I could do it he took hold of my hand in his firm grip. 

"You are my maid so you must fulfill all my wishes and needs. So start acting like my good personal maid and do what I say if you want those papers," he said in his angry voice with a big evil smirk on his face. With a clenched jaw, I glared at him. 

I just want to smack him hard on his head and take this maid's stupidity out of him. He won't shut up if I don't do as he says. Just because I want those papers so bad I'm doing this kind of thing. I yanked my hand away from his tight hold and stomped towards his wardrobe. But as soon as I opened the door my clenched jaw was now touching the floor. Everything was messed up. Every fucking drawer was open and all the things were lying here and there. Some were hanging on drawers and some were in the complete opposite direction. What a mess he had made of his wardrobe in a span of a few seconds. 

"What are you waiting for? Go get my clothes now?" he whispers in my ear making me turn my head and look at him with glaring eyes. When the hell he came so close to me. I immediately made some distance between us. 

"You did this purposely to annoy me. To make things difficult for me," I asked in anger. 

"Right answer. Now go and get my clothes and clean this mess now. You know I don't like it when things are not in their place," he said in his evil voice. I don't like things that are not in their place, my foot. He is the messiest person I know. The urge to kick him over the sun doesn't rise was growing inside me with each passing second. I kept glaring at his stupid face. 

"What are you waiting for, my maid? Go get my clothes only If you don't want to be punished for not fulfilling your master's wishes," he said with an evil smirk on his face. 

He was rubbing that personal maid thing in my face so much and now it was getting on my nerves more than anything. I chewed my inner cheeks in anger while curling my fist in anger and turned to find his sweatpants and t-shirt to make him shut up. I was searching for it in a big pile of different kinds of clothes. How many clothes he has, I don't even have so many clothes in my wardrobe. After searching for a good fifteen minutes in the piles of clothes I got sweatpants and one of his t-shirts. 

"Take this," I said while forwarding my hand which was holding his sweatpants and t-shirt. I was exhausted from all the traveling. I just want to rest a bit. He took it from my hand. 

"I don't like the color of this t-shirt, go and get the black colored one," he said while throwing the t-shirt on my face. 

"You are not going for a ramp walk so wear this t-shirt," I said in pure annoyance while throwing the t-shirt back on his face. I won't search for a new one if he wants to wear a t-shirt he has to wear this one. I won't get another one for him. 

"Rule no one never argue with your master if you don't want a punishment in return," he said in anger, making me look at him in disbelief. 

His stupid rules and him. Can't he see I'm exhausted? 

"Now get it if you don't want punishment," he said in a commanding voice making me clench my fist more tightly. I didn't have any energy left in me to argue with him. I searched for a black t-shirt for another ten minutes. I handed him a t-shirt and felt so exhausted. "I want every one of my clothes folded and iron properly until tomorrow morning. Go started doing your work now" he again said in a commanding tone and turned to go and change his clothes. 

With a head held low, I went inside and started doing my work. I do it fast I may be able to sleep. I started arranging them properly so it will make my work a little easy. Every part of my body was screaming for rest. I took a deep breath and continued my work. As I was arranging the clothes to iron them he came back wearing his only sweatpants. 

"Iron this one-two," he said while throwing the black t-shirt on my face with a wide evil smirk on his face. I glared at him. 

If he didn't want to wear it why the hell did he make me search for a black t-shirt? 

"I hate you so much," I said while grinding my teeth. 

"Feeling is mutual," he said with a big evil grin on his face and went and lied on his bed lazily. He kept staring at me from the open door as I resumed my work. I sat on the floor and started flooding the clothes while resting my back on the wall. I don't know when my eyes closed and I drifted to sweat slumber with open arms. 

The next day when I opened my still sleepy eyes I found him sprawling all over me like a toddler he was. He was acting like a total toddler and making me do all his small things from the moment he woke up. The only difference between the toddler and him is they are cute when they ask you things in their baby voice but this Satan was making me want to punch hard in his face each time he asked me something. I was exhausted by trying to fulfill all his demands. He was being true to his words of making my life hard. 

I sigh in frustration. Today I decided to steal the papers and get the hell out of here. Throughout the week he made me do so much work and now my body was asking for freedom. I will steal those papers and get the hell out of here. I was going so when he gets out of the house but he didn't go out for once. So I decide to do it when he sleeps. Once I get my hands on them then I don't need to be his maid and won't have to see his annoying face anymore. 

I know he keeps those papers in this study. I saw him keeping it there the other day and that's when I got this brilliant idea. I waited till he was in deep sleep. I slowly removed his hand away from my stomach and tiptoed to his study. I slowly opened the door without making any kind of noise without waiting for anything for a single second. I started searching for those papers for my freedom with a small torch in my hand. As I was rambling in the lower drawer I found those papers. 

"God thank you" I sent my thank you prayers to God and took those papers out of the drawer. As I stood up with a happy smile on my face lights were switched on in the study and Satan was standing at the door with hands folded on his chest and sleep in eyes. 

"Found what you wanted," he asked in his spine chilling voice. A cold shiver ran through my body when his light brown eyes fell on the papers in my hand and back to my face. 

"Looks like my naughty maid has earned herself a punishment," he said in his same spine chilling voice. I gulped loudly at his words. The only thought which was running in my brain was. 

What I got caught myself into. 

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