Chapter Twenty-three
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"What was that?" I asked master after I took a step away from him. I can't believe we kissed. Again!
"A kiss?"
"That's not what I mean." I scowled at him. "Why do you keep doing it?"
"Because I like it, Jamaica." Master shrugged causing me to scoff.
"That doesn't even make sense." I thought he said I was "repulsive".
He smirked at me like it was all a joke.
"This is serious, master. You're breaking the rules."
"Whose rules?" Master said, now grinning.
"My rules." I mumbled, looking down at my neon pink socks - master seemed to have a thing for buying me overly brightly coloured items of clothing. I hated it.
"You don't get to make rules." He whispered huskily.
"I know what you're doing, master, and I don't like it." I narrowed my eyes at him as I spoke.
"Tell me what is that you think I'm doing then."
I hesitated.
"Tell me." He stepped closer and grabbed my arms. A hint of warning in his eyes.
"You're trying to control me because everything else is out of your control."
"Bullshit." Master hissed.
"The situation with your father and being his successor... Its stressful and scary, master; I can tell. That's why you've been pulling all these stunts... Asking me to kiss you, climbing into bed with me at night... Its because you want to use sexual attraction to control me. I know it, master." Despite the slight fear of getting punished for all the talking I had done, I was quite proud of myself for being able to read such an unreadable man and I had to fight off a little smirk of my own for the first time.
Master shook his head vigorously while I spoke, a look of disbelief on his beautiful face.
"More bullshit."
"Why else then, master?"
He was silent after that.
"I'm going to bed. Goodnight." I said as I turned to walk away.
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After I had that conversation with my master, it seemed like all the 'progress' we had make before had been revoked. Like we were strangers again. I thought I would have been stress free without having to worry about his mental wellbeing or the possibility of punishments but I wasn't. I couldn't help but feel like a sad excuse of a man had taken away my even sadder purpose in life. A chance to change him. I felt really useless, basically. And I hated it.
The next few days slowly dragged by and all I could do to make them go faster was help Evelyn out around the house but it seemed even she didn't want to make any progress with me.
I sighed as I sat down with my breakfast one morning when master practically dragged himself into the kitchen. His face was unshaven and he let his feet make annoying shuffling noises against the floor because he couldn't be bothered to lift them and walk like a normal person. Well, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed... I huffed to myself as I shoved a spoonful of corn flakes into my mouth so I couldn't be held accountable for not greeting him. I even turned to face the opposite direction to him but then turned back around after realising how petty and childish I was being. I took a deep breath and cleared my throat.
"Hi." I said, cringing internally at my high pitched tone of voice and the incredibly fake smile I had on my face.
Master turned away from the fridge with a blood bag in his hand, grabbed a tumbler from the cupboard and came to lean his hands against the granite countertop in front of me in all his shirtless glory. Heat crept up my neck and I was thankful that he probably couldn't see my blush under my dark skin.
"You were right." Master said suddenly.
"Pardon?"
"I was trying to use you. I wasn't thinking it at the time but I wanted to do it..."
"Right..." I pursed my lips before shoving more corn flakes into my mouth so that I could be done quickly and get out of there. I was not prepared to handle another one of master's confessions since they usually ended with him kissing me and me melting in his stupid, muscular arms like butter under a hot knife.
Master became silent as he tore the blood bag open with his teeth and poured its contents into the cup. He then glanced around the countertop before cursing and stomping off to the liquor cabinet. I watched silently as he took a bottle and returned to pour the alcohol into the cup as well then he took a swig straight from the bottle. Without thinking, I spoke.
"Isn't it too early for alcohol, master?"
"Isn't it too early for alcohol, master." He mocked as he placed his hands on his waist, scrunched up his face and made his voice high pitched as he did a horribly inaccurate imitation of me. He even had the guts to move his head from side to side as if he were a bell or something. I scoffed and scowled at him from behind my heavily loaded spoon of soggy cereal.
"I'm being serious, master..." I sighed.
"Meh meh mehmeh, mehmeh." He mocked again as he took another swig of alcohol.
I froze in disbelief that he actually did it again, my mouth hanging slightly open as I let the spoon splash into the long forgotten cereal bowl. Master then mirrored my reaction to his childishness, an innocent smile forming on his face after only a few seconds. I couldn't help but chuckle slightly - his smiles were infectious like that... And that darn dimple of his! This was a whole new level of annoying for Dimitri and I wasn't quite sure if I liked this new side to him yet. He smiled wider when he saw that he had made me laugh and put the bottle of liquor away before sitting down opposite me.
He waited for our laughter to die down which didn't take long before giving me a serious look.
"I'm sorry..." He sighed, looking exhausted suddenly now that that glorious smile had left his face.
"You're always sorry..." I mumbled to myself.
"I know." He scratched the back of his neck and gazed at me, his expression unreadable. "I didn't mean to push you away and have you see that dead man and I especially feel... guilty for trying to control you like that... Can you.... Ummm... Forgive me?"
I had no idea whether he was being genuine or not but one thing for sure was that he was uncomfortable. I could tell because of the way he was slightly squirming in his seat. It made me feel powerful.
"You won't do it again?" I spoke after a stretch of silence to punish him a bit.
"I can't make promises but I'll try..."
"Okay..." I smiled more to myself than to Dimitri.
Ahh, these two buggers make me tired. Its always back and forth with these two. Its time for some real action, yes? Sorry its short but hey, an update is an update, no? Thank you for reading 💞💝💝💕💕
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