Chapter 19

Nineteen

Chloe

"For goodness sake! Will you lower the sound of that damn thing?!" Nathan bellowed, rushing into the kitchen.

I blinked back at him as innocently as I could and cranked up the rusty old blender. I had found it discarded in the store room and because I was bored out of my mind anyway, I tinkered around with it.

What the hell was a girl supposed to do anyway? Getting condemned to a marriage with the most annoying man on the planet was too much of a curse. And it made it even worse that he was good-looking.

Especially when he was furious.

Nathan stood at the kitchen door, his bare chest gleaming in the light, heaving as he gnashed his teeth in fury. Oh, I wanted him to be mad. He drove me mad anyways. This was me simply giving him a taste of his dashed medicine.

"Chloe, turn that shit off right now!".

Oh, if he thought that tone was going to work with me, he was much more foolish than I had thought. I placed my finger on the dial and twisted it to the highest number. T