Iris POV
The bang in my head was quite deafening and I shifted on the bed to attend to whoever had entered the room. Arthur, as called by people around him, had given me lots of warnings, and giving an immediate answer was part of them.
The presence I felt seemed familiar and I spoke up. "Yuri?" I called out to confirm if she was the one.
"Arthur," his hoarse flat voice rang through my head and I flinched at it. Although he saved me, he doesn't behave like he did. It was as if he had done something bad to save me or he was just so ruthless and never cared if he was scaring people or not.
"Hello," I greeted to avoid complaint. I blindly reached for my nightgown because I was not sure of the length of my nightwear.
I heard him let out a grunt. "Don't worry, it's long enough," He told me and I could feel my cheeks heating up.
I lowered my head when I felt he was already closer to me. I felt so embarrassed to blush in front of him.
"Have you gone for a medical test for your eyes before?" he asked to my amusement and I shook my head. I just got blind the day he found me, how could I have gone for a test?
"I got blind from the fire," I revealed to him and an oh escaped from him. I could sense he was amused.
There was a short silence between us before he spoke up, "Well, I came to let you know that I have fixed an appointment for you at hospital de Ojos. You have to see if you can be cured," He mumbled, his voice was low this time and it was surprising but I could not contain my excitement. The brutal man was wanting to help me out again? I was so excited. "Yes! I would so much appreciate that. Thank you so much, sir," I said, trying to go down on my knees but his hand gripped my shoulder aggressively and even though I couldn't see his facial expressions, I knew he was already tense.
He made me sit back on the bed and jerked his hands off me. "We'll leave soon. Yuri will be here to dress you up and note, I won't tolerate any misbehavior, is that clear?"
I nodded in affirmation and soon after I heard the room door close which meant he had left instantly.
I gulped down the saliva stuck in my throat. Losing my sight was something I never expected. Sometimes I wonder which is more painful; losing my sight or the fact that my family abandoned me in a fire. I couldn't choose from any of them because it was so infuriating. Everything about me was just so annoying but I was grateful I wasn't dead.
Shortly, Yuri came in and helped me prepare for the hospital. After a few minutes, I was aided to the car by Yuri where Arthur was already waiting for me. He didn't utter a word to me as we both climbed into his car and we hit the road.
The drive to the hospital was an uneventful one. He still didn't say a word so I kept quiet too. I just can't imagine why he would be someone who had saved me.
"We're here," Arthur finally announced, bringing me out of my thoughts. I heard him open the door and when I tried to open mine, it was already pulled open. He opened the door to the passenger seat and helped me out.
I held his shirt in the middle of his shirt unknowingly and he groaned under his breath so I retrieved it immediately, holding his arms instead. He's such a person I can't dictate. Too defensive of himself. Without knowing him for too long, I can sense pride in his blood.
We headed into the hospital, his hands holding my hands as he led the way. It felt so good that he was interested in letting me see. I wished I could see him too.
Skimming from my instinct, I know he will be handsome but his looks would be that of an arrogant person. He is tall, I could tell but I couldn't figure out how his entire look is with the fact that he didn't like me to touch him. He was always avoiding it and I know it pissed him off that he had to hold my hands to guard me in the hospital.
Unfortunately, I had made a lot of reflections and had no idea he already halted and with that, I hit my head against his back, hardly hearing the sound of it vibrate through me. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I pleaded when his hold on me tightened.
He cleared his throat and I sensed he gritted his teeth "Will you compose yourself now or do you want me to leave you here and return home alone? We're in public, for crying out loud!" He cautioned me and dragged me into the hospital. Why will he bother about the public? Is he a celebrity?
We got to the Ophthalmologist department and I heard someone greeting him, "Arthur! It's good to see you again!" a female voice exclaimed immediately after we entered her office but she scoffed when Arthur gave no reply and only continued walking.
"Sit down, please!" I heard the doctor say again and my treatment immediately began.
"When did it start?" She inquired after some series of tests.
"A week ago," I replied simply.
"That's true. Has it been itching you at all or has there been pain?" she asked again and I guess today would be a questioning day for me.
"Sometimes but it's rare. It just feels heavy most times and I will just want to close it but there are times I feel like I see shadows. There are times I see fragments of things which always give me hope that I'm not completely blind," I replied to her, stating everything in detail. I was eager to get my sight back so telling her things that happened to me would be better.
I heard the doctor sigh and it made me nervous, "With the test I carried out, your eyes should have returned to normal by now and your sight should be back but you're restricting it because of the trauma hidden in you. The picture of whatever happened to you that made you lose your sight is still very vivid in your head and it is stopping you from gaining it back," the doctor explained and before I could say a word, she turned to Arthur, "Arthur, What you have to do for her is help her forget whatever happened so that her sight can return," She added but I couldn't see Arthur's reaction. Did he agree with her or what? Because I know he didn't want anything to do with me.
"Can we leave now or is there anything else?" Arthur asked, his voice still as cold as ever as if he was the ice man himself.
"Nothing. The nurse outside will give you some medicines she has to take every night before sleeping and with that, I'm sure she will regain her sight soon. But, you have to bring her for a checkup every week," The Ophthalmologist concluded and Arthur sprang up immediately.
I cursed under my breath when he grabbed my hand, pulled me up, and led the way out of the office. When we got outside, I heard a nurse talking to him about the medicine and I felt someone pushing a small bag for me to hold. I collected it immediately knowing it was my medicine and I wondered why he couldn't hold it for me.
"Isn't that Arthur? Wow! It's him! He looks so godly just like I heard!" I started to hear voices wailing like this at us. Was Arthur this popular in the hospital?
"Look at his hair and eyes! OMG! I wish he was mine!" Their words somehow vexed me but what could I do? They could see his handsome look and compliment it but I can't.
"Who is that blind girl beside him? Is he volunteering in one of the disabled agencies?" Geez, this one hit me so hard that I cringed in anger. I rolled my eyes and hissed angrily.
"We are here," Arthur announced again. Does he have anything else to say than that word? Can't he just talk properly? I rolled my eyes again, still tense from the hospital. I don't know why they will have to like him when he's this annoying. Everything is not about looks, it is about character!
Iris POV "Let's go in. " Arthur said again but this time, I could feel that it wasn't Arthur holding my hand anymore and that strangely sour my mood. I walked alongside the person that held my hand while Arthur walked behind us, muttering something to the man in a code that I did not understand but I wasn't ready to understand either as I already had a lot to think about and I did not want more. "Can I really forget about that day?" Was the question that kept troubling my mind and I was frustrated. "Leave the room, I want to speak with her. " I heard Arthur said to the men in the room and I wondered why. I was helped to a seat before the men left the room and I heard the sound of a seat being pulled before Arthur sat across me. He was so close to me that I could clearly perceived his scent and it made my inside churn with weirdly. As a girl that never had intimacy with any guy before, I expected myself to be shy and scared but... It was the complete opposite!
Iris povI didn't know what I was thinking when I interlocked my lips with his own. All I knew was that it felt so right that every other thought was shot out of my mind like a speeding bullet and my only focus was on his plump juicy lips wrapping around my own.Since I had never been with a man before, the closest I ever came to kissing was when my lips would press against a pillow imagining what it would be like to actually kiss.And now it had now been strapped into the wangon of reality and it was far more amazing than I could have ever imagined.But then it was all interrupted when suddenly there is a hard knock on the door that sent both of us jumping away from each other I thought that I was going to fall off the bed and suddenly I felt his wrist and my hand holding me back but this time I wasn't landing on his chest again and I ached to feel the warmth that was there.Even if he didn't bring me back to his chest I noticed that you didn't stick his hand over him as he conversed
Arthur POV"Ugh!" I groaned in frustration as I sent my pillow flying across the room, bitterness rising up my throat and coming through my lips as hardened curses against that bastard that called himself Sebastian Scott. I still remember those bitter cold nights, taking care of my sister and sometimes my small body as a child and I would shake so hard watching my hatred for the man mount every single day. Despite all my careful planning he had still escaped. I sat on my king size bed and ran my fingers through my hair, trying to calm myself down. He wasn't going to escape not anymore but for now I needed to be a little bit patient. After all, I had waited my entire life to end this man…just a little bit longer. As I began to steady I closed my eyes, pulling in to make my entire body relax and the moment I closed my eyes the only issue of a frail body with sharp blue eyes penetrated my thoughts and I immediately opened my house.Darn it!How can a bastard like Sebastian even have
Iris POV I was surprised when he allowed me to speak, now I had expected him to just cut me off but to my great surprise he actually seemed inquisitive about what u had to say. "Well, what is it?...get it out!"He snapped in such a cold voice that I felt shivers shoot all over my body instantly and I almost froze up in that instant.Recovering from how he yelled at me, I finally managed to speak."I was thinking that…maybe you can call him and tell him that I'm trying to elope…or something like that…"In my head this plan had sounded so cool but now that I was saying it to this cold man I suddenly felt so stupid and he didn't fail to tell me just how stupid I sounded."Did you really come all the way here…to say THAT?!"If his voice had rose by a single decible then I would have leaped off my seat in an instant because of the mere shock of it, did he have to be this way?I just gave a suggestion if it was no good then he could just tell me instantly but instead he would rather make
Iris POV"...You are so disgusting…no man in his right mind would ever want to be with you…" My father said this to me heatedly one Sunday afternoon my offence was that I had tripped and shattered a glass of wine that I was supposed to delivered during dinner. I thought that my short miserable life was going to come to an end on that day as my father's eyes were burning with fury and anger while the rest of my step family were egging him on. An apology tried to escape my lips but before I could even manage to see that he immediately slapped me across the face and began to pour curses on me one after another as if it was a heavy rain that was beaten down against me.He told me that I would never be useful in life and when he felt that he had run out of insults he began to say things that he didn't even make any sense at all including the one that no man will ever want me. I was used to soaking my pillow with tears but that night I couldn't even cry pain was so much that tears alo
Arthur POV "Did I go too far?" I asked myself as I sat on my bed and my mind quickly replayed something that had happened just a moment ago, did I really go too far? No I didn’t She was becoming far too cosy with me for no reason I had to remind her that she was just the daughter of my enemy and I despise her just as much as I despised the man which lungs she came from, it didn't matter to me jackshit if she was innocent so what, I was innocent to so was my sister and yet that bastard Sebastian Scott ended our parents lives heartlessly. Infact my revenge will not be complete if I didn't scare her the same way my sister and I were scarred 15 years ago. Compared to the way we suffered she had not experienced anything at all, some nights both me and my sister will chat and make up silly stories because there was nothing to eat in fact that was most nights but sometimes it got so bad that it felt as if our internal organs were getting feasted on because of the hunger that we were
Iris POV Slowly but steadily I began to regain my consciousness, it was a gradual process but eventually I was becoming aware of myself again the first thing I felt was the ache around my entire body and this time I only had to search for my sight for a couple of seconds before the memory that I could no longer see came back again crossing my heart wickedly like a sharp knife. I had lived my entire life being able to see colors and the world around me and all of a sudden that ability was snuffed away. I was still getting used to it, but maybe I will never really get used to it but just come to a forceful acceptance that it was gone forever. Soon I remembered that my entire body aches and I couldn't even move a single inch because of how much it hurts. How long had that flight of stairs been? I couldn't see but I felt like I had fallen quite a lot. Maybe I should cry out for help? even my voice just cracked before I could speak and so I just lay there maybe it was better this wa
Iris POV I didn't think that I would come into a situation when I would have to agree with this man so much and I would have to admit that I have finally fallen into that because indeed we really needed to talk. "What kind of business are you doing that your former partners come with a gun after you?" I asked him genuinely curious and afraid for the answer that I am going to get. There was silence as if I hadn’t asked any question. “I will be the one asking questions and you respond not the other way round” he said breaking the silence and making me furious. I put my arms across one another still staring into space I wish that I could see him so I could glare him just as much as I wanted to but I had a feeling that he was looking at my face so he would probably realize just how serious I was from my facial expressions alone or at least I hope so. "Okay since I don't get to ask any questions go ahead and interrogate me I just hope that I am able to tell you the correct things,"