FLASHBACK
"Where have you been?!" He shouted in anger while looking down at her nervous figure.
She kept her head down. Her long beautiful hair was hiding her face from him. She was clutching her right arm using her left hand while looking down at her shoes. He thought that she was showing her submission and defeat by doing that. She was wearing a long and loose black hoodie in the heat.
'What a loser!' He thought while snickering down loudly at her which made her flinch but she kept her head down.
"I have asked you a question! Where have you been for the last six hours?! And whose permission did you take before leaving?!" He growled at her loudly and she crouched some more in the position she was in.
"I am sorry." He heard her meek apology which seemed to anger him more as he got a hold of the vase which was placed on a small cupboard and threw it ahead. It missed her head b
"Anastasia!" Darius shrieked out loudly and looked around in confusion.It was morning already. Morning sunlight has already entered the whole room and made it bright. He looked at the wall clock and saw it was half past eight.Today is going to be a sunny day, he thought and was going to stretch his muscles. The moment he raised his hands to stress them, his arms, neck and back made weird sounds, indicating how sore they were. He groaned loudly at that and looked around in confusion to find the cause of his tensed muscles.His eyes widened when he found himself sitting on one of the stools of the bar. He slept the whole night in this stool?! He looked confused for a second before everything from yesterday rushed to him in a flash and he got up from the seat while cursing loudly."Oh, shit!" He said and walked toward his bedroom to check up on Anastasia who was the only reason for him to have tense
"What about this bruise on my cheek. It looks like a slap mark." She said in confusion.Now he didn't know how to answer her. She clearly doesn't remember what happened and he doesn't know what happened. But he was sure that the mark was from a slap. But he can't let her know that, without knowing her state of mind.What a troublesome situation it was! The girl in front of him is the main trouble!"Oh, my god! Don't tell me your evil ex secretary slapped me and I fell down, losing my consciousness and breaking some bones?" She exclaimed dramatically, making him confused."My evil ex secretary?! Where did she come from in this conversation?" He asked in astonishment."Well, you can't blame me for thinking that she was responsible for this. She seemed pretty obsessed with you and the title of being your secretary." Anastasia said with a roll of her eyes.
"But it was your first day of office!" Selena exclaimed in confusion."Ye...ah! I know! But… but his secretary was gone in the middle of the month, right? And it's my duty to accompany him in all his business trips like a responsible secretary. Shouldn't I? You tell me what you would have done if your boss would have called you at the middle of night for a business trip?" Anastasia asked her in a hurried tone, a small try of keeping Selena's head off of the 'sudden business trip'.Selena called her just after she and Darius finished having breakfast. They have been talking for almost half an hour and their conversation didn't move from her sudden business trip even for a second. Selena was doubtful of this. But more likely she was worried for Anastasia. Anastasia has never stayed away from her and she gets nightmares almost every night nowadays. So, she was worried of what's going to happen if she gets one in this one week.
"What happened? Why did you call me here so urgently?" Darius asked with a frown as soon as he entered the room.Noah was talking with someone on the phone and so he kept quiet and waited for him to finish the call. He walked toward the table and leaned back on it and heard Noah's conversation. Noah seemed tensed and frustrated for some reason which indicates that whatever happened is something very serious. So, he mentally prepared himself for the worst."What do you mean by you don't have any idea?! Are you kidding me, huh? Leave the job if you are so incapable of doing this! Get that?!" Noah shouted at the person over the phone. He waited for a moment to let the opposite person say something which seemed to frustrate him even more as his eyes turned almost black in anger as he gritted his teeth. "You even dare to say that?! I will make sure you lose your job, you idiot! I was informed about it two days later! Two goddamn days later! N
"What are you doing?" Darius asked, coming into the kitchen."What do you think people do in the kitchen, Mr Henderson?" Anastasia asked and gave him a small side look which said 'duh'."I know what people do in the kitchen, Miss Samuel. But asked, what are YOU doing?" He asked with a small roll of her eyes."I am making food, Mr Henderson." She replied curtly and concentrated back in flipping the pancake which she was making.Darius walked toward the kitchen where she was and turned off the gas making her protest immediately."Hey! Why did you do that? The pancake isn't fully cooked yet." She said in a complaining tone and frowned at him.He ignored her complaint with another roll of his eyes and pulled her toward him by her fine arms. Her eyes widened as he did that and she looked at him with shock but kept her mouth sealed, waiting for him to say som
"What's the status? Did you find anything?" Darius asked over the phone.He was in his office while Anastasia was in the suite, working on the files he had given her. She is better now. Her last set of bandages will be taken off tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be the seventh day of her stay there. After that she is going to return to stay with Selena.And it's been seven days and he still didn't manage to find out the culprits. He was frustrated about that would be an understatement. He wanted to get his hold on that person who did this to her, make him pay, just like he promised to himself.He and Noah got to know that Richard wasn't between all these. So, it must be someone else. Either it's someone from that colony who played a prank beyond limit or someone from the past who wanted to shut her big mouth."Sir, we found something." His personal detective answered which immediately calmed him
"Hmmm! It smells so good! What did you cook?" Darius asked after getting into the dining room."Well, I cooked whatever I felt like cooking and my instincts are saying that you are going to love it." Anastasia said while getting into the dining room with a pot in her hand which she placed on the dining table and smiled at him."Is it?" He asked and was going to open one of the lids to check what she cooked but she stopped him."NO!" She shrieked out loudly, making him jump."Gosh! What happened?" He asked with a small frown."It's a surprise. You are going to see it after you freshen up and we sit down for lunch." She said in a stern tone, making him roll his eyes at her."What's the point though?" He asked."I don't know what's the point but you are going to do whatever I am telling you to do and that's final. Now g
"So, the food was tasty, I guess?" Anastasia asked in a teasing tone after they were done having lunch.Darius looked at her blankly after hearing her but didn't say anything. As if he was lost in a deep thought and didn't know how to voice it out. His face had lines of shock which Anastasia noticed and she got tensed about his behaviour. She kept her hand over his. He jerked off after feeling her touch and looked at her with widened eyes."Darius? Are you okay?" She asked slowly while giving him a worried look."I am not." He said in a defeated tone and looked away from her. He closed his eyes and opened them."Darius, what happened? Was something wrong with the food? Was it too spicy? Are you allergic to something? Did I put too much salt in some food? Tell me, what's wrong?! I am sorry." She exclaimed in one breath while looking at him frantically, waiting for an answer.