Chapter 8Allesandro"What was the meaning behind the stunt you pulled in front of my friends yesterday?" Edith asked me with her hands resting on either sides of her waist. I wanted to play with her a little. Controlling my laughter I fold my hands to my chest and ask her displaying my complete innocence. "What stunt Edith? I am not able to understand you."Her eyes were glaring at me as big as saucers. "I am talking about you going shirtless in front of my friends. I know you since last six months I never saw you without a shirt, then why the special treatment to my friends? Oh, I did not think this argument is going to go so interesting. Getting totally serious as if going clueless on what she was talking, I ask her. "Edith are you feeling sad that your friends got to see something that you haven't been blessed to witness since staying for so long with me?"Her lips go in a thin line and she stamps her foot to the ground going irritated like a girl of ten. To control my laughter wh
Chapter 9"Edith" I knock on her door but as usual I get no answer. I open the door and what I saw in front of me got me to the thunderbolt of the millennium. The complete closet was emptied on the bed. Her shoes, dresses, handbags were laying abandoned on the floor. What happened? I get stunned looking at the condition of the room. All the cosmetics were tossed to the ground carelessly, bearing the brunt of her anger. Her dressing table was broken and pieces of glass littered the complete room. So much of destruction in a matter of half an hour? Whatever the problem was needs immediate attention. The cot was grungy as I look ahead my eyes reach her at the corner of the bed. She was seen cross laid on her stomach with her head buried in a pillow releasing her tears in soft sobs."Edith?" A knot occupies my throat seeing her defeating form. I can stand anything under the sun but not her pain. The Johny Walker I consumed a while ago had satarted its effect on me. The room around me was
Chapter 10EdithI open my eyes and find I am not in my room but in Sandro's. For a few moments I felt disoriented but later I start remembering everything that happened yesterday night. My cries, my fits of anger that turn the room to a chaos and finally the kiss. His kiss...He kissed me without warning without permission. Without even deciding to do it but simply because he couldn't have done anything else to stop my cries. He is my first kiss. Like a fire within my bones, like a soul has returned to water every part of me that came from the dead star was alive again. The way I felt when being kissed by him for the first time, words fell short in my vocabulary to express my feelings about the warm canoodle. He needed the breathe I was holding. It belonged to him and he wanted it back.His hands went around me like I was his possession. I felt perfect in his arms like his hands were solely made to hold me. He felt like my shield guarding me from all sorrows of the world and final
Chapter 11EdithAfter the two minutes of prayer where I thanked God for being with me instead of mourning the death of Benjamin, I called my driver cum bodyguard Samuelson. "Ms Edith" he acknowledges professional immediately on the second ring. "Hi Samuel, on the sad demise of one of my co-student in the college, we are announced a holiday. Could you please come back and pick me up?" My voice was supposed to comes out in dullness but rather contritely debuts in excitement."Of course Ms Edith." He replies instantly. My previous bodyguard James was fun loving and lively but Samuel is completely professional with 24/7 dead pan expression. No doubt he is the choice of Sandro. James was thin and tall. He was jovial, smart, often told me stories of his wife and his two smart kids who are three and seven. Poor James lost his job because of the hullabaloo I pulled yesterday night. I feel very sorry for him. If not for my outcry he would have continued to serve Sandro.Though I'm only a bat
Chapter 12Allesandro"Edith, wake up princess." I shook her from sleep. "Go away" she squeaks and pulls back the blanket to cover her face. I slide besides on her bed and hug her. Caressing her wild tendrils softly, I whisper in her ears. "Don't you wish to see your family?" She peeks out her head from the blanket and looks at me in shock.I chuckle at her funny face and kiss her forehead. "Good Morning, Sweet Cakes... I forgot to tell you yesterday after going busy in the hospital, today is my dad's birthday and your complete family is visiting. Won't you wish to come to the party and meet your parents?" Her eyes immediately tinkle in happiness. "It is half past nine now." I check on my Rolex and tell her. "Get ready we will have to start in an hour from now for us to reach the party in time."She sat on the bed abrupt and was gaping at me inconceivable. I simper and walk to my room to get her the gown that I had customarily got designed from Newyork's top fashion designer. It is
Chapter 13AllesandroMy vision was directed to the fascinating girl who was dancing a few feet away on the stage with a guy. The man was grinding his hips to her but she was too innocent to understand his lecherous tactics. My blood was burning like fire as I emptied another glass of whiskey. I want to pluck the goat's eyes out. My orbs were getting slightly droopy with the amount of alcohol I consumed but my sight will stand unwavered about anything that is relating to her.Charles was sitting besides speaking to me about a girl who I think has something more to do in his life rather than his employee but I couldn't concentrate. Halting on his speech he was smart to decipher I wasn't listening to him and looks at the direction my eyes were stationed. "Come let's take care of the pig." He suggests and we leave our seats walking to the wolf in a walloping speed. I hold the collar of the imbecile and pummel a blow on his face. Charles thwacks him in the stomach. We take turns to hit hi
Chapter 14EdithI did not know his promise to stay away from me was not after I left his house but from the very next day. It has been ten days since the incident happened and I did not see him from then. We were literally two people living under the same roof but actually only one because when I stayed in the house, he wasn't present. I did not know where he lodged for there had been several nights passed since then. When I call him, he doesn't pick my calls. Getting frustrated one day I called him through my friend's phone. He picked and when I wanted to speak to him he simply avoided me stating he was busy.With the days passing I am getting frustrated living in this house alone. I had no idea when he came home and left. It felt like a burden on me....like I was depriving him of his own place.Today I am determined to speak to him by hook or by crook. I took a leave from university calling sick and stayed home waiting for him. At ten passed eleven there was click on the door knob.
Chapter 15EdithI find something moving on my cheek. Getting disturbed I stir and try to get rid of the obstruction. My hand comes in contact with another hand bigger and rough unlike my soft and small ones. Was this a play of some kind of evil spirit? I woke from sleep with a jerk like a zombie and look around with frightened eyes. In front of me was Allesandro gazing down at me curious in a controlled simper."What was that Edith, evil spirit?" I narrow my eyes at him acting innocence. "What evil spirit?" He looks sideways towards the wall lands to low chuckles and then looks back at me with a stoical countenance. "I thought you were having a dream about some evil spirit." I pick my teddy from besides feeling unsecured and hold it to my chest . His eyes pass from the teddy in my hands to my face. Smiling imperceptible he rubs the skin on his forehead above his eyebrow. "Edith?"Why was everything relating to me so amusing to him? "There are no evil spirits existing in the world.