Trouble

Crystal's POV

I tried my utmost best to avoid Eric when he returned from work. I was in the kitchen with Karen when he returned. Adele had jumped into his hands kissing him passionately. Eric had shamelessly kissed her back knowing well that Karen and I were there.

I didn't feel any jealousy; all I felt was disgust at the sound their mouths were making, but who am I to complain? Karen and I stood there and watched them kiss. I signaled for Karen to go back into the kitchen while I stayed where I was since I didn't know maybe my leaving would provoke him.

'You stood there while I kissed my girl?' Eric asked me shamelessly after he was done plunging his tongue down Adele's throat.

'I was waiting for instructions. Can I serve your dinner?' I asked.

'Yes. My sweet girl and I will love to eat now,' Eric said, making Adele laugh like the bimbo she was.

'Ok,' I said and served his meal and that of his girlfriend on the dining with the help of Karen, and I made myself scarce.

Karen promised to take care of the cleaning so I went to my room and kept staring at Midas' pictures. Many nights I slept with his picture on my chest or under my pillow. He was my first and only love.

I was almost sleeping off after hours of turning and twisting on the bed feeling depressed when my phone started ringing loud. I wondered who could be calling me at that time of the night. I had no friends. Midas was the only friend I was able to hold on to all through high school.

But then my grandmother came to mind and I quickly rushed to where I kept my phone on the reading table. I frowned when I saw that it was Eric calling me.

'Hello,' I said quietly.

'Come to my room,' he said simply and dropped the call.

I stared at my phone in confusion, wondering why he would want me in his room. He had never invited me into his room before. I only go in there after he has left for work to do the cleaning because he specifically told Karen not to enter his room.

I dropped my ghost of a phone on the table and wore my slippers. My phone was the worst version of what a bad phone should look like. The back had pulled away from the body so I had to use cello tape to keep it in place. Sometimes, I used a rubber band to keep it in place.

I got out of my room and walked to Eric's door with my mind preoccupied with the question of what Eric wanted that late. Eric's room was at the end of the corridor far from mine. Eric chose a room very far from his for me because, according to him, he didn't like my stench.

I knocked and went inside when he asked me to. He was the only one in the room when I entered. Adele was not in the room. He had a towel around his waist. The towel was almost falling off because he was not trying hard to put it in place.

'Like what you see?' Eric grinned at me wickedly. Eric was a handsome man. He had the six packs from exercise and a face to kill for his smile was beautiful. Any woman would easily drop their pants for him. Any woman but me.

'No,' I answered his question.

'Really? Are you sure you don't want to have a taste of my flesh? I can actually pity you and give you a taste of it. The only problem here is that you disgust me. No breast, no bum. How do you cope?' Eric said trying to demean me but I wasn't bothered.

I had a firm breast that wouldn't be called small and my bum was adequately proportioned to my body. I was less concerned about what he thought. Midas loved me the way I was. I became sad as the thought of Midas came to my mind again. I was thinking of him too much recently.

The bathroom door opened and Adele came out In a robe. She smiled at me wickedly and suddenly dropped her robe shamelessly without minding the fact that I was there.

'My baby said she promised to teach you a trick or two about making a man happy. I brought you here so that you can learn,' Eric said winking at me

'Are you both on cheap drugs? You brought me here to watch the both of you go at each other like rabbits? You must be insane,' I said in anger.

I had not expected the slap that landed on my cheek. The slap was so hard that I fell hurting my knee in the process. Eric was on me before I could recover from the slap. He dug his hands into my hair and pulled, making me scream as my scalp hurt so bad.

'How dare you talk to me like that. Do you even know your place in this house? You are nothing but a maid I bought with my father's hard-earned money, and you will do as I say. Is that clear?' Eric asked. When I didn't answer, he pulled harder at my hair and I screamed what he wanted to hear out loud.

He removed his hand from my hair roughly and I massaged my hair gently to ease the pain. Eric was an animal covered in handsome human clothing, and he was getting worse by the day. How could he think it was a good idea for me to look at him and his girlfriend while they had sex?

Adele dropped to her knees in front of Eric. She was wearing only a bra and panties. I blushed seeing so much flesh on display.

'If you look away for just one second, you will not like what I will do to you,' Eric threatened me.

Adele held the towel that was around Eric's waist and unknotted it before dropping it. If Eric and Adele intended to let me die from embarrassment, they were surely going to get their hearts' desire that night. My face became so red that I would have burst into flames from the embarrassment.

Adele took him in her mouth, and I almost threw up. I closed my eyes and the sound her mouth was making made me close my eyes tighter.

'Open your eyes this minute and look at me,' Eric shouted at me but I didn't answer him.

'Open your eyes. Damn you Crystal, don't make me repeat myself,' Eric said the second time and I had no option but to open my eyes and look at him.

'I am sorry,' I said as I stared into his angry eyes.

'If you dare avert your gaze from me again or dare close your eyes you will have to do this yourself. Is that clear?' Eric threatened, then groaned at the end of his words as if he was in pain.

I kept my gaze on him and he stared back at me with a look that scared me. Was Eric assuming that I was the one doing what Adele was doing to him?

'Get out,' Eric said to me suddenly, and I quickly scampered to my feet and ran as fast as my weak knees could carry me.

When I got to my room, I rested my back on the door and slid to the floor. I held my head in my hands as it pounded as the effect of what had just happened hit me hard.

Why would Eric ask me to come into his room to witness that. Why was he looking into my eyes as if he wished I was the one on my knees before him?

Questions tormented my heart as I sat on the floor thinking, wondering what I had gotten myself into. I was a little scared also. I hoped Eric wasn't about to turn his lust to me. I would rather die than allow Eric anywhere near my body.

I stood from the floor and went into the bathroom to put water on my face. I came back into the room feeling exhausted.

I wasn't expecting that I would fall asleep but I did. It wasn't immediately but I eventually fell asleep with my mind preoccupied with what Eric and his girlfriend had made me witness.

As if in a trance, I felt his lips on mine. I felt so happy as I kissed him back. My Midas, I wrapped my hands around his neck and kissed him back with the same urgency with which he kissed me but then I came to the realization of something, I was married, I can't be kissing another man!

I came awake with a start only to find Eric looking at me with anger in his eyes. A shiver ran down my spine. Did I just kiss Eric thinking he was Midas?

'Who the hell is Midas?' Eric asked angrily.

'No nobody,' I stammered. I knew I was in trouble. Eric must have come into my room to see me mumbling Midas' name in my sleep.

'Who the hell have you been sleeping with, bitch?' Eric asked his voice rising with each word.

'I came into your room now to see you hugging your pillow and shouting another man's name and you say there is no one? Are you sure you are ready to face the consequences of lying to me?' Eric asked grinning wickedly.

I knew that look. It only meant one thing and it was trouble!