Chap.4*Kicked Out Of His Room*

“You tricked me,” her dry lips could hardly utter whilst a very fake smirk on his face irked her.

He glared at her in response and then shook his head in disbelief, “you thought you were the only one good at that?” he had extended his arms on the sofa’s hand-rest and his one foot over the other.

“Now, do you guys mind leaving?” he tilted his head very slightly, “as you know this ain’t your picnic spot.” He made direct eye contact with Lady Lyl, the threat he made through his eyes was enough to announce to Lady Lyl that her entire business will go downhill if she didn’t do what he said.

“Kathleen!” Lady Lyl stared at her daughter’s face, who hasn’t looked away from Ryker. Her eyes were glued to the man she had once loved unconditionally, the man she never thought could be this evil.

But the question was, why?

“I will be fine, mother.” She responded without looking away from Ryker, who was now resting his head back and comfortably staring her right in the eye.

“Are you sure?” Roy decided to hold Kathleen’s hand and pat the back of it. Seeing him care so much made Ryker look down and scoff while shaking his head. The taunting way he used to close his eyes and hold his laughter back even confused Kathleen. What was wrong with him?

“Yes,” Kathleen tried to get a hold of herself and straightened her back. She wasn’t going to satisfy Ryker’s ego by acting weak. Soon her family left and now she was once again alone with someone she was afraid of.

“How many times did you sleep with that guy?” Ryker was still sitting in the same position when Kathleen walked back into the lounge. She had admitted to the fact that she couldn’t hide from him anymore, if he thought he could make her sign some documents and then scare her into leaving her baby behind for her freedom, then he thought wrong.

She stared at his face in disbelief while he steadily pulled the corner of his lips upward to form a very sarcastic smirk.

“Speak for yourself, not everyone is an as*hole as you.” She didn’t care what he says anymore, he was not going to hurt her as long as she was pregnant.

“Ehh!” Ryker let out a very bizarre little laugh and then staggered up on his feet, making her step back as a reflex.

“Well, I am tired, I need someone to massage my feet.” He stretched a little, pulling his hands up, yawning and sighing, “You know what to do if you don’t want me to make your life miserable.” He straightened his back and pointed at Kathleen.

“You are losing your respect in my eyes by every passing minute,” as naïve as she was, Kathleen thought he would care about what she thinks of him if not much at least a little.

“You heard me, I am not in a mood for your emotional Oscar award-winning acting,” he rolled his eyes at her attempts to keep talking to him, to keep lying to him.

“I am not touching your filthy body,” Kathleen responded back, “Do you have any shame in you? I get it, that the incompetent man inside you doesn’t care about me but do you not see that I am carrying your child? First, you terrorized me into locking myself out in the cold and then I found out that you tricked me into signing something that I wasn’t aware of and now you want me to massage you?” If only she hadn’t signed those papers, she would have slapped some senses into him.

She waited for him to respond, maybe at least he will spare her for their baby.

“You want some peace or not? Then do as I say and you will live here calmly or--,” Ryker took one step closer to Kathleen, which made her then back away from him, “or I will make sure your life here is so hard that you decide to leave, even, you’ll beg me to keep the baby and let you go.” The hatred in his voice was so intense that Kathleen couldn’t respond to him.

“Now!” he parted his lips to let out a tiring sigh before he turned around and walked towards his room, he paused for a second, and when Kathleen has begun to follow him, he continued his walk.

She was tired of how he was treating her, when will her misery end now that she is stuck due to that stupid contract?

“You know what,” As Ryker sat down in his bed, he mumbled, “just get out of my room.” Just when she was getting ready to do what he had told her, he dismissed her with a very bad attitude.

“Are you okay in your head?” she stepped away from the bed and glared at his image.

“Get the f*** out,” he repeated himself and this time, even angrily. She wasn’t going to argue with him as he wasn’t ready to hear or have a proper conversation. She turned around and began to leave when he voiced again, “a girl will leave some food, eat that sh**, I want my baby healthy.” She didn’t turn around to him and just exit the room.

She had only reached the living room when Nichole knocked on the door.

“Hey,” Kathleen smiled the moment she opened the door and saw a known face, though they had started off rough after Willow made amends with Kathleen, she thought other girls had changed their feelings towards her as well.

“This is for you,” Nichole’s bitter tone didn’t go unnoticed by Kathleen, as she narrowed her eyes in confusion, Nichole added, “You successfully trapped him.”

The smile from Kathleen’s lips vanished and she clenched her jaw. Why was it that everybody was willing to judge her without even knowing her?

“What did you say? I trapped him?” the tone Kathleen used was enough hint that Nichole was not welcomed to bully her anymore, “Nichole, if you used such terms for me again, I will not warn you, I will take an action.” Absorbing the tears of being judged all the time, Kathleen kept her posture straight and stared her right in the eye.

Nichole got the hint and after nodding her head, she turned around and parted for her room.

“Everyone!” she shook her head in disappointment and tailed back to the couch she was going to sleep on. The night ended with her dozing off on the couch and when she woke up the next morning, she noticed that she had a blanket over her body and there was only one person who could do it.

“Ryker?” she murmured with a frown on her forehead, “But why would he care, he is the reason I am suffering.