Chapter 2 - Lying

Dawn's Pov.

"My hand? Oh, it's nothing. Just a small injury. I fell off the bed and hurt myself! But I am fine." I lied nicely while laughing like I told a joke and he gave me a good, nice stare that I felt like running away.

Then he again concentrated on his work, leaving me sad, wondering why he wasn't willing to talk to me. I never felt bad when the rest of the Playford family doesn't talk to me but I do feel hurt when he doesn't talk to me either.

One thing I like about him is that he never says any rude words to me, though he appears cold but he is still nice in some way.

Thank God, he isn't like his older brother, my stepfather. He is such an ass! But I am deeply shocked by the age gap they have, they don't look like brothers, more like father-son.

I was in my Dreamland when suddenly my body jerked towards him and he quickly held me securely in his arms but I was frozen in shock because my lips were just an inch away from his cheeks. Because of that closeness, I realized how good-looking he really was! The woman would be so lucky to marry him, it would be like she got heaven on earth.

"If you are done staring at me then get out!" His voice was harshly gentle if that's a thing.

Oh shit, he caught me staring. I quickly detached myself from him and corrected my messy hair.

"How come we reached so soon?" The mansion was nearly three hours away from my school so I was very shocked with the speed of driving.

But when I got out of the car and looked at my surroundings, I was confused.

"Hospital? Why are we here?" I asked him while he came out of the car and walked like a graceful King, why am I getting amazed by his every move?

"For your check-up!" He replied and took a glance at his fancy watch.

"Check-up? But Uncle, I said I am fin" I couldn't even complete the sentence because he came very close to me suddenly and kept his index finger on my lips and my eyes got glued to it.

"Shhh, you talk too much, when was the last time you were shut up for a minute?" He asked huskily, staring deeply into my eyes and I couldn't help but look into his ocean eyes and get lost to it forever.

I internally slapped myself to stop my weird thoughts.

Dawn, control yourself, he is your uncle.

But he is also young and handsome!

This is what happens when you are still single and a virgin, shit, lips are virgins too!

"Sorry, I will try controlling myself!" With my every word, my lips danced on his index finger and I saw him staring at it darkly like someone hypnotized him.

"Good!" He gave me a nod and started walking ahead, leaving me trailing behind him like a puppy.

He entered one of the doctor's cabins without an appointment and any choice, I also followed him.

"Good morning, Mr. Playford. It's such an honor to meet you!" The lady doctor greeted him and started ogling at him which wasn't a part of her profession.

Why couldn't he enter into a male doctor's cabin?

"Examine her hand!" He ordered, not giving much glance to her, and went and sat down on the couch like he owned it.

The doctor made me sit and opened the bandage and started examining the purplish bruise and I kept wincing here and there.

"Miss, how did you get hurt?" I looked at him once, his cold demeanor before answering her.

"I fell off the bed!" I felt he would soon catch my lie because I am pretty bad at it.

"This certainly doesn't look like that! Did someone abuse you and you are afraid to say it?" She asked and glanced at him like she was accusing him of doing that to me.

"No, it's not like that, I really fell and broke my wrist!" I replied calmly and she finally believed me.

She again nicely did the dressing and prescribed me some medicines for the pain.

I again started trailing behind him as he dashed out in long steps, making me feel tired.

As soon as we reached the car, he went inside and I also quickly followed him, not to see his anger.

"Mark, go out for a minute!" He calmly ordered his driver and he quickly left after nodding at him.

I looked at his face while he was still looking ahead and then he turned towards me. Oh no, why do I smell anger?

He held my bandaged hand gently and stared at it.

"Who did it?" He asked, rubbing his fingers on the bandage.

"No one!" It's not like I want to save Anne from his wrath but it's just that, I don't want anyone intruding in my matters, I can handle them on my own.

"I hate liars and you lied to me for the second time on the day and I dare you Dawn to lie for the third time then I will not only punish the person who hurt you but also, I will punish you for lying to me!" He spoke so cruelly that I felt goosebumps and again I had no choice.

"Fine, it was my classmate, Anne. But it's the matter between both of us, you don't have to be involved. She did it but in return, I also gave her three slaps so now we are even. No need to punish or anything. It's not like she can hurt me again!" I told him screaming, annoyed with his bossy attitude.

"Right, she can't hurt you again because to do that, she needs to be alive first!" The evil glint in his eyes shook me to the core and the small smile playing at his lips, proved to me he was truly a devil in disguise.

Why the fuck I said the truth?