Chapter 4

After a while, Aunt Jennifer came back to the kitchen while I still stood there like a statue.

She told me her son's friend will join us for dinner, so we have to prepare more food. "Jane are you ok?" she asked me in a worried voice because I had not responded to her "yes I'm fine." I finally replied to her.

"What more we have to prepare for dinner," I asked her.

When dinner was finally ready, I went to the dining room, and I started setting the table. I knew the servants could do it, but I can handle small chores like that instead of sitting ideally.

I was so lost in my work that I didn't notice that he had entered the dining room with his friend and that he was staring at me, while I was setting the table and his friend was just staring at both of us with a smirk on his face.

Why is he smirking?

When I finally noticed him, my body immediately became stiff. He continued staring at me while I was setting the table. Soon, Aunt Jennifer came with food. We all took our seats; I was seated opposite him with Aunt while he was sitting with his friend and uncle was sitting on the family head's chair.

"Jack, this is Jane." Aunt Jennifer introduced me to her son's friend because her son was not interested in introducing me to his friend. Jack is a good-looking guy with brown hair. "Hello," Jack greeted me happily. I smiled at him and replied "hello," and then we started chatting.

"I didn't know I would meet such a beautiful girl here," he exclaimed. My cheeks started becoming red, most of the time, he was talking with me and he also made me laugh with his silly jokes, all the time I was laughing during our dinner, aunt Jennifer was delighted with Jack's conversation with me because for the first time she had seen me laughing so much.

Through our conversation, I was constantly feeling his stare at me and I ignored all his stares at me and enjoyed my dinner and when Jack offered me to show New York, I involuntarily looked at him and saw his cold sea color eyes have become even colder.

I immediately turned my gaze to Jack. I didn't answer him and after some time we were all finished with our dinner and Jack said his goodbyes to us while leaving, he said to me he will be glad to meet me again and my cheeks started becoming red again. After he went, aunt Jennifer told me I should accept his offer of seeing New York with him because I had not stepped out of this house.

I told her, "I'll think about it," with a smile on my face and she smiled back at me. She told me to go and rest and that she will do the remaining work. I nodded in response and started heading to my room with a smile on my face. Maybe today I can sleep with little peace.

I was about to open my room door when suddenly someone grabbed my arms and I was pushed against the wall. I was in shock; my body became stiff, it was dark there and I couldn't see properly but then I saw a pair of cold sea color eyes. I immediately knew who he was. He pressed his body hard against my body and his face was very close to mine and then his cold voice came "You are not going with him anywhere," my eyes widened than their normal size. "What," I exclaimed looking back into his eyes and I saw his cold eyes becoming even colder. "I don't like to repeat myself, Jane," he said by saying my name while moving his face closer to me, now he was breathing on my skin. "YOU ARE NOT GOING WITH HIM ANYWHERE," came his rough but cool voice.

It shocked me, why was he playing with me, anger aroused in me. "I will go wherever I want and with whomever I wish. It is my choice, you are no one to decide for me, you have no rights on me," I said in a voice filled with anger and I started resisting his firm grip.

Hearing my words, his grip on my hand got tighter, and he leaned till his mouth was near my ear. His lips were touching my ear and were sending a tickling sensation to my body, but it was nothing compared to what he did next.

His words sent a shiver through my body, "I have all the rights over you and they only belong to me because you live in my house. Obey your landlord or I'll make your life a living hell in this house." and then what he did next, made my body stiffer, he pressed soft kisses below my ear. He bloody kissed me below my ear. And then in a second, he was out of my side, and he left me alone. I slid down the wall and sat down on the floor. He... he bloody threatened me first and then he bloody kissed me below my ear.

That night I didn't sleep well ... my thought of sleeping in peace was shattered by him in pieces.

I heard something falling, someone had dropped something down and then I saw Gray was sitting in front of me, his food was almost finished and he was staring at me with my food still untouched. "Are you out of your dream?" he asked me with an excited tone. I narrowed my eyes at him and told him to shut up, as he was making fun of me. After lunch, we went to the library to select some books for our assignment and then I headed home.

I was so tired that I wanted to feel the softness of my bed against my back but something waited for me at the home which I would have never expected.