CHAPTER 7: THE MASTER'S BEDROOM

***Amelia***

I woke up to the sound of noise, my head on a solid but smooth and warm hard wall, I could hear the beating of the heart of a human, and in a split second, the realization hit me, I was lying on Alexandra Gomez, I feared for my life as I jolted up from the bed and was welcomed with the smiling face of Evelyn, a surprised look of Simone and knowing look on Vinny's face, I saw two other pair of eyes, one from a young boy that looked as though he's fearful for my life and another from a beautiful short length brunette lady with brown eyes, she looked as though she's about to strangle me but was trying to keep it all in, in my half sleep state, I stood from the bed and I could have sworn I saw the look of disappointment on Alex's face as he looked at Vinny, but Vinny only shrugged, in less than ten seconds the duo must have had a full conversation without saying a word.

As I stood, the room was in motion again as Simone started to move to the bed and Evelyn followed suit, followed by the young boy, Vinny, and the beautiful lady that I now know brought about my waking up.

"Good morning," Simone greeted Alex, as she made her way to the bedside, "how do you feel now?"

"Shitty" Alex replied, the confidence in his voice gone.

"From the wound?" Vinny teasingly said, more like an inside joke of him teasing Alex, but more of a conversation only the two could understand.

The pretty strange lady abruptly pushes Vinny out of the way, making her way to the bed and kissing Alex, ouch!

I felt pain, raw primal pain in my heart as she did this.

Amidst her now teary face, she says "Don't ever let this happen again," she said as she sobs, "I can't live without you Alex" She sobbed through her words.

Alex patted her back in consolation, I stared in confusion, who was she? Was she like me, claimed by him? To be his and his alone?

I stood there confused with different thoughts running through my mind, I thought I had been special, but realization dawned on me now, he's a mafia gang leader, of course I'm not special, what was I expecting, that he be a virgin? Hell no, that wouldn't have been possible of course, I thought as Simone checked on his wound.

"The bleeding has stopped completely," she declared closing up the wound back, "but you should refrain from doing any hard spot and just lay in bed for a day, or two." She concludingly said.

Simone begins to round up her things, she's done here and it's obvious Alex will recover, although slowly, but he's alive at least.

"I thought I lost you there man," Vinny said to Alex as though they were lovers that should never be separated.

"Amelia, you should come with us, come, come rest, you need it," Simone said as she and Evelyn started to walk out of the room, but before I could take a step, I heard the pretty mysterious lady from earlier say, "does she now?"

"Come on Kelly," Vinny said, giving her a look.

I ignored the remarks of the woman who I now found out was Kelly and started to walk out with Simone the younger man opened the door for us, such a gentleman, I thought as we made our way out, Simone first, followed by Evelyn and I behind, then I heard.

"You made a decision yet?" Alex asked behind me in a low yet audible voice.

I turned and his eyes looked as though they were pleading with me to give a proper answer, I gave him a long look, our eyes locking for about 30 seconds, and replied "Yes, I have."

"And?" He probed.

"I'll do it," I said in a final tone.

As we walked out in the hallway, I could distantly hear Alex backing orders, "Move her things here Micky, she's to stay here now" Oh I figured, the younger man must be Micky. The puzzle was solved half, I now had a name for the new faces I'd seen.

Evelyn, I and Simone made our way into the elevator and down in silence, immediately the elevator door came opening signaling we were now on the last floor, Simone said, "You should rest, Evelyn, see to it that she rests up" She ordered and starts to walk away to the direction of the kitchen, now leaving I and Evelyn, I knew deep down in my head this was the moment Evelyn was waiting for, and as though I was a seer, she didn't disappoint.

"What happened to there last night?" She questioned teasingly, "what are you both doing" she said amidst smiles.

"Nothing, what could we do?" I asked, shrugging as we started to walk down the hallway to the room we both shared. As we walked past the different rooms, I could see different men carrying pieces of luggage covered with white blankets, I gave it no thought, and we continued walking.

"So you didn't try to do anything? And neither did he?"

"For God's sake Evelyn, the man almost died, what could we have possibly done?" I said.

"True" she replied realizing much really couldn't have happened with anyone in that sort of situation, With our room being the last at the end of the hallway, we still had about 3 rooms to walk past out of the 12 rooms layered in the lodging parts of the bottom floor of the mansion.

"Well, more will happen soon," Evelyn started dreaming, I gave her a questioning look.

"Well, you said yes to being his, so," she added, by this time, we'd reached the entrance of our door and it was wide open, as I opened the door, the room was half empty, my things were gone, realization dawned on me, it's my things that were being moved, my status had been upgraded, how high it was, I didn't know, but I knew I was to no longer work in the kitchens, now, I worked the beds, his bed, and I didn't know what to expect from the new lord I now served, but what I did know was that he's not a man that'd hurt me, in a way, I trusted him.

As we entered the room still trying to register the most recent development in our minds.

"I've been ordered to tell you to say your goodbyes and report tonight by 9 pm to the master's room, your things have been transferred, you stay up there now," Mark, the young boy from before said, and before he turned to leave, he added, "ma'am."