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I think it's now the high time for me to get doomed. 

I just smiled faintly at her words. Dad, uncle, and aunty now everyone will know about us staying together. I can't escape this time. I'm getting these bad jitters just thinking about when all of them will ask us questions about me staying with Jack. This is going to be a shock for dad because he still doesn't know I'm living with Jack. But I think he will too soon know about it when aunty tells him. I have to be prepared for his answer and question section. All these things we're making me nervous. 

"Bye Nina," said Liam in his baby voice while bringing me back to my present. I smiled looking at his smiling face. For a second it made me forget all my worries. Kids have the power to make you forget all the bad and disturbing things in your life. They unknowingly cheer you up. That's why I always like to spend my free time at our foundation orphanage. With all this chaos going in my life I have not got time to visit them with cupcakes this month. 

I will soon go to meet them as I miss them so much.  

"Bye when you come next time I will make cupcakes for you," I said while kissing his cheeks to which he gave me a toothy grin and then kissed my cheek making me look at him with awe. For the last time, they all said bye and left. 

As soon as I closed the door Jack again hugged me from the back not letting me go out of his hold. He pressed a kiss on my neck while hugging me thinly from behind. This man can't he stay a little away from me. Why he always needs to be in contact with my body and from the past month he has been more clinging to me than ever before. Even after knowing I don't like him, he sticks to me like the stubborn kid he is and how slowly he is making me used to him being near him. He slowly is making him my bad habit and this thought scares me. 

I dream of getting out of all this arrangement and what will happen if I am not able to break this habit.  

I took a deep breath as the gravity of my thoughts scared me even more. I removed his hands from my waist against his protest. He growled not liking me going away from him but I turned and faced him while glaring at him with a mad look in my eyes which made him shut. 

Good. 

I went to the kitchen to clean before taking a bath. Jack was following me like my tail but I kept ignoring his presence as he deserves it for not telling me who Ava was to him before. He made me think of all kinds of things. I took all the plates and utensils to the sink to clean. I was feeling a heated gaze on me as I was doing my work. 

Why is he standing and looking at me? 

Because it's his work in this house eating and staring at you. He has no other work in this house. Then I should give him work until when he will be mum's boy I need to make him do his work too. He too deserves punishment for not telling me before. I put a smile on my face and stood in front of him which made him grin at me thinking I have forgiven him. He immediately moved his face towards me to kiss me but I blocked his lips by placing my hand on it. 

"Clean the dishes and keep them properly in their place," I said in my commanding voice with a tight smile on my face. My words made his eyes wide in the quake. 

"What," he mumbled with a little shocked face while still my hands were placed on his lips. 

"You heard me," I said in my firm voice. He licked my palm, making me take it away from his lips with a grim face. He smirked looking at my face. 

"But I don't know how to do it," he said still in his little shock voices while looking at me with knitted brows. 

"then learned it," I said in my commanding voice while turning and going away from him. 

"Don't blame me if I break anything," he shouted from behind my back while making me move my head. He thinks after listening to this I will tell him not to do dishes anymore. 

"If you break anything I will go and stay at my dad's place until you learn how to clean plates properly without breaking them," I said in my firm warning voice. I heard a curse when he heard what I said. 

Now I see how he breaks the plate. 

I needed a bath so badly I was smelling like food. I went inside my closet to take my clothes. I took one of his big t-shirts as they are baggy and more comfortable and one of my cotton shorts. I took a bath cleaning myself and my long hair too. After bath as I stood in front of my bathroom vanity, I saw red marks on my body. 

Yesterday I was so in deep sleep I didn't even realize when he changed my clothes. It happens to me when my body gets exhausted causing throbbing pain in my head. Whenever it happens I sleep like dead women. I kept looking into the mirror. My eyes were fixed on the red mark on my neck and one which was little above my breast. I unknowingly moved my hand and touched the bright red mark with my fingers which were above my right breast. 

As I touched it a certain scene flashed in front of my eyes. I immediately moved my hand and clasped my mouth. I was moaning when Jack was putting that mark on me with my hands in his hair. 

Oh god, what I was thinking in my half-sleeping state. Did my reaction encourage him to put those marks on my neck and collarbone? Does he now have the power of making me go senseless in my sleep too?  

I moved my head in denial like it will take all these thoughts out of my head. He is slowly taking hold of everything in front of my eyes and I don't know how to stop him. One day will come that this man will make me go crazy. I need to stay away from him until I get the power of attorney papers. Time is slipping from my hands. I have to take those papers from him before my twenty-third birthday. 

But how he now keeps those papers inside the locker after the last time's incidents. This time I need to make a proper plan to get those papers. I got dressed and thought about the way to get those papers. Letting my damp hair down I took my laptop to do the little office work I brought home. I was busy with my work when I felt a towel rubbing in my hair. Jack was wiping out the wetness from my damp hair. It made me look at him with a surprised eye. 

"Don't leave your hair wet you will catch a cold" he said in his serious voice while still rubbing the towel in my hair. His words did something inside me. He was busy wiping my hair gently. I cleared my throat while still looking at his face. 

"I will do it," I said while trying to take the towel from his hands but he didn't let me. 

"No I will do it," he said in his firm voice while not letting me take the towel from his hand. I didn't protest anymore and started working again but I felt my eyes heaving as he kept moving his hands in my hair. 

"Did you wash the plates," I asked in my firm voice to keep myself awake. He hummed in response. 

"Did you break any plates?" I asked in my cautioned voice while typing the data of the report on my laptop. 

"No, I didn't. So throw the plans of going to your dad's house out the window," he said in his proud voice like he has achieved something big by just washing the dishes. His words made me roll my eyes and smile from inside as I now know how to make him work. 

Saying that he took a seat beside me as he was now done wiping out the dampness from my hair. I immediately made some distance between us as I didn't want him to be my bad habit but he moved near me invading my personal space like ways even before I went away from him. He asked me what I was working on while I was again trying to move away from him. His question made me stop and tell what I was working on. We started discussing it and I don't know how now I was sitting in his lap while still working on my laptop while he was playing with my hair like always. I exhaled deeply while looking at my state. 

Am I even capable of taking myself away from? 

I several times tried to get away but he didn't allow me to get away from him. With a hand firmly placed around my waist and his face resting on my shoulder, he made me sit the whole time on his lap while he kept placing small kisses on my cheeks from time to time. It made me grip the laptop every time as his wet lips touch my pale skin. The day went like that sitting on his lap while I worked on my project. He only let me go when I told him I need to make food. 

While cooking the food I was still feeling his hands on my waist. It sends sparks all over my body spreading this all-new sensation inside me. At night after dinner, I decided to sleep away from him. This is the only way of staying away from him. I will sleep out on the big hanging bed which is on the patio. It's been so long since I slept gazing at the night sky. I took the spare blanket out of the closet and was about to take my pillow when Jack came out of the bathroom wearing only his sweatpants. 

"What are you doing," he asked as he saw me taking the pillow. 

"Taking my pillow," I said as I took my pillow and turned to go out but he caught my hands before I could go out. 

"Why are you going out with your pillow," he asked with hard furrowed brows. 

"Out. To sleep away from you," I said while sighing deeply while looking at him. 

"Why," he asked with the same look on his face. I can't tell him that I want to sleep away from him because his nearness does many things to me. How will I be able to tell him that I forget all my feuds when he holds me. That he is slowly becoming my bad habits which I won't even be able to get rid of even how hard I try. I sigh in annoyance. 

"Because I'm still mad at you. You didn't tell me Ava is your cousin. When I asked you who she is you told me you loved her while putting all the unwanted things in my brain" I said in my annoyed voice taking out my anger and frustration he causes me from the day he told me he loved her. With hard eyes, he looked at my outburst. He pulled me towards him as he was already holding my hand in a tight grip. 

"I never said I loved her like a lover or a friend or like a sister. You assumed everything on your own from above all things you thought I loved her like a lover. I didn't put anything in your brain. It was you who thought I loved her like a lover whereas the truth is I love her as my elder sister," he said while looking straight in my eyes. His words flashed a light in my brain making me look at him with wide eyes. 

How bad I don't want to agree with him but think what he was saying was true. I just hate each and whenever he is right like this. 

The more I think about it, the times when I saw them conversing and laughing together was more like a sibling teasing or talking with each other. My eyes were clouded with her being his lover set in my mind. I was not able to look beyond it and it made me look at everything in the wrong way. I bite my lips out of habit as I do it every time I feel being in a tight spot. He kept looking at me with his hard light brown eyes as I kept thinking more about it. Everything was making me mad. 

"So now you will sleep with me," he said in his firm voice while trying to take me to bed. 

"No," I said in my angry voice while getting out of his hold and going out. I suddenly felt so angry. 

Are you feeling angry because the things he said were right? 

My inner voice asked and at this moment my decision of staying away from him became more determined. I slept on a patio bed while covering my face with the blanket and I didn't feel like looking at the night sky anymore. In a few minutes, I felt a heavy figure moving inside the blanket. I didn't turn to look at his face as he pulled me near his hard chest with his hand firmly placed on my waist. 

"What are you doing," I asked in my angry voice as he placed a small kiss on the back of my neck. 

"Keeping your body warm so you won't catch a cold," he said in his devilish voice while moving me more to his chest if it was even possible. With closed eyes, I bite my lower lip as I know it was of no use in arguing with him because he won't let me go away from him even if I scream on top of my lungs. 

I woke up in the morning as the warm rays of the sun fell on me. I tried to shift while taking away the blanket from him but he was sleeping on my chest with his hands holding me possessively like  I would have run away after he fell asleep. His hair was falling on his forehead. I moved my hands to move his hair away from his face. As his hair was away from his face now I could more clearly see his sleeping face. I looked at his calm sleeping face. 

This man has the power of making me go insane. 

He strides in his sleep as I move my fingers more in his hair. I immediately took my hand away. I shifted him away from me but he caught my hand in his tight grip while looking at me with sleepy eyes. I saw him breathing in relief as he saw I was in front of his eyes. He let go of my hand out of his tight grip. What with him he caught my hand like someone was taking his most precious thing away from him. As he let me go I went and took a bath to get ready for the office. We left for the office together and there too he was clinging to me as we shared the same office. 

This has been going out with me for the whole past week. I was trying my best to stay away from him but he was ruining all my attempts. Now I was sitting in our shared office almost half the day was over. I was still engrossed in my work. As I was going through some documents I felt my chin gripped with his calloused fingers. He made me look at him with furrowed brows before I could question him. His lips met with mine making my eyes widen in surprise. He moved his lip as I was still shocking. He slowly took his lips away from my face and smirked looking at my shocked face. 

"I'm going out for a meeting. I will be back then we will go home together" he said and then again pecked my lips for the last time. His light brown eyes were asking me my reply which made me nod my head a little. He again pecked my lips and went out of their office. My heart was still beating very fast. 

See this was happening with me from the past week he was collapsing all my defensive walls like this. 

"Yes, I'm trying to get one, do you have anyone you can trust?" I heard Ava's voice which made me come out of my shock state. I looked at her as she came in still talking on her phone. She smiled at me and took a seat in front of me. I smiled back at her but her face was filled with worry. 

In the past week, we have become very good friends. She is such a caring person. I tell you she always brings me my lunch and makes me eat it in front of her eyes. She also nagged at Jack to take his medicine on time and he always refused like the stubborn kid he is. Their cute fights always bring a smile to my lips. 

"Yes please let me know. I'll be waiting for your call" she said in her stressed voice while cutting the call and massaging her head. 

"What's the matter," I asked in my concerned voice offering her a glass of water. She took the glass with a smile on her face and drank it. 

"I'm searching for a nanny for Liam," she said in her stressed voice while keeping the glass of water on the table. Her words made me look at her in question as she doesn't like to let Liam with anyone that's why she never hired a nanny for him. 

"Why are you suddenly searching for a nanny as you don't trust him with anyone," I asked with the same expression on my face. 

"I need a nanny for him for two weeks. I'm going on a business trip for two weeks with the legal team. If it was not urgent I would have never searched for a nanny for him. I was going to leave him at aunty Sam but she is too out on a business trip with uncle Richard" she explained in her stressed voice. Making me nod my head in understanding. 

"If it was not urgent I would never leave him with any nanny but now I have to leave tomorrow and I don't have any nanny," she said while looking at me while still massage her forehead. 

"Why don't you leave him with me. I will take care of him until you come" I said with a smile on my face. I would love it if Liam came to stay with me. 

"Really won't it be a problem for you guys," she asked in the question hinting towards Jack. 

"No, it won't. You can leave him at his uncle's house. I will take care of him as you do so be stress-free and go on your business trip" I said in my assuring voice. 

"Oh God thank you so much. Now I feel a little relieved that I'm leaving him in trusted hands" she said with a big smile on her face. 

After that, I left the office early without waiting for Jack as Ava was going to leave Liam today at our place. Around six-thirty, she left him with me with all his favorite toys and school bags and the remaining all essential things. He was happy to stay with me. I was preparing some snacks for Liam who was sitting down on the kitchen floor and coloring the picture. I told him to do it in the living room but he wanted to see me making snacks. 

As I was preparing the snacks I heard a door opening with a computerized voice. Jack must have come back from work. I lifted my head and looked at him as he walked inside with a tired face. He kept his briefcase on the couch and came up to me. He hugged me from behind while placing a kiss on my bare shoulder. Now I'm used to him doing this to me. 

"Why didn't you wait for me" he mumbled in his tired voice while slipping my camisoles strap almost down from my shoulder to place another kiss on my bare skin. 

"Jack," I said and shoved him away from me. I looked at Liam who was looking at us with his dove eyes. Jack followed my gaze and then looked back at me with surprised eyes. 

"He is going to stay with us for two weeks as Ava is going on a business trip," I said while taking Liam who had his hands out for me to take. 

All the time Liam was in my arms which made Jack hard to cling to me. We had dinner together as I kept feeding Liam with my hands. Jack was looking at me with his predatory eyes. After dinner, I was bathing Liam and it let Jack go to his study with a sulking face. 

What does he now have a problem with Liam too? 

I ignored him as I was listening to what Liam was saying in his baby voice. After that, I dressed him and took him to bed. Liam was sleeping on my chest as Jack came into the room. Looking at me and Liam his face grimed. 

"How will I sleep? He is sleeping in my place," he said. His annoyed voice made me move my head. 

"Sleep beside us," I said while patting Liam's back. With a sulking face, he slept beside us, making me smile. I'm seeing one toddler getting jealous of another toddler. I don't know when I drifted to sleep. 

In the night I felt someone taking Liam away from my chest and it immediately made me wrap my head around him. Looking at Jack was taking him I let him go. He took him and placed him beside him and then he shifted towards me while taking hold of me. I closed my half-open eyes as he pressed a kiss on my shoulder. 

It was not even five minutes when Liam started crying while taking my name. It made me move Jack away from me and take Liam. Jack cursed as Liam stopped crying as soon as I took him. I smiled with sleepy eyes as someone is keeping Jack away from me and now it's just starting. 

I want to see how he will deal with it for two weeks. 

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