Chapter three

Chapter 3

Eden pov

Banging. That’s how my head felt when I opened my eyes, correction tried to. My head was pounding as if a baby elephant sat on it all night. All night. All night. I shot out of bed, I was in bed. My bed.

“Ugh- what in the world?” I tried to clear my eyes with the back of my palms but was failing to do anything right instead I some how managed to poke my right eye instead.

“Argh, fuck!!” I fall back flat on my bed as I nurse the painful stab on my face.

“Swearing just as you wake up isn’t the most ideal way to start your day.” A Kasumi e voice said calmly. It took me a while to register what was going on, I wasn’t alone. Someone was in this room with me, a man.

Forcing my self to look in the direction of the voice I gasped at the man standing just by my door with a huge smirk on his face.

“Good morning Love.” He greeted with a charming smile on his face. “Slept well?”

“What in Gods name are you doing here?” I scrambled out of bed not in the bit bothered that this man was seeing me in my wild hair and lacy underwear.

“You don’t remember?” his brows quirked up at me with amusement all over him.

“Remember what? You being a creep and breaking into my house.” I shot at him finding my hands across my chest which was a bad idea, his eyes glanced down my neck staring shamelessly at the full flesh.

“My eyes are up here.” I snapped at him, he took his time before glancing back into my eyes.

“I’m very much aware love.” He grinned revealing pearl white teeth.

“What are you doing here Percy?” I asked again the time my eyes were narrowed and lips thin.

“You asked me to bring you here.” He answered calmly with his hand dipped in his pocket.

“No I did no-” the rest of the words stuck in my throat as I remember the drinking from last night. Drinking. My stomach charred and in that moment I knew that I had just a few seconds before my stomach contents gets poured out. Percy read my face and he mouthed a low o

“You sh-” I rushed past him to my bathroom, hunched over the toilet seat and then then

“Arg-” my head was banging all over again and my body was burning, I could feel it through my opener pores.. My hair was getting in my face but I had other issues to attend to. With my eyes closed I felt someone beside me helping to hold my hair away from my face. Percy.

“There, there-“ he rubbed my back. “Don’t worry about getting your hair in a mess-” I poured out again and again until everything in my stomach was done. Now I wanted the ground to open up and swallowed me, or him, Whichever, one of us didn’t have to be here.

“You drank a lot-“ he managed to pack my hair with something to make it stay still and crouched down beside me closing the toilet lid.

“No shit Sherlock.” I answered with my eyes closed trying to calm the pain dancing in my head.

“Come on, let’s get you cleaned up-“ he tried to hold me up but I brushed him aside and used my sink as a support.

“Get away from me.” Percy sighed and raked his hands through his hair in frustration, he was trying his best to hide his annoyance.

“Look, I’m just trying to make sure you’re okay, you might not remember but you crashed into me last night and-“

“You were following me?” My voice dipped along with my eyes. “Even after I said there was nothing to think about, you kept monitoring me?”

“I wasn’t- I didn’t, you just happened to be where I was. I own that bar and as far as I’m concerned I can go there whenever I like.” He answered putting his hands in his pocket. I eyes the man one more time, there was something that I couldn’t point out. I examined him, his black shirt dress were a bit rumpled, not too much, his pants were very much on, his lean muscles form filled in his clothing quite well.

“You were drunk and upset about something, you were ready to throw yourself at a random stranger-“

“Did we-“ my face slacked in horror. “No- no- tell me we did- didn’t.” I hoped that we

“No we did not. Although you were keen on getting me naked and in your bed.” His voice grew in amusement. My face flushed and my breathing heavier.

“Are you okay?” he asked. For a moment I could see some form of sincerity buried in his eyes. Did he really mean that or?

“Your father wouldn’t be happy if your face made the front papers.” He added and my mouth turned sour. Of course, everything lead back to my father.

“Now that you’ve helped him be a guard dog, you can very much leave right now.” Percy stared at me his jaw tight and body stiff, he wasn’t happy with my choice of words.

“Whatever don’t be so careless, you’ll not have someone clean after your mess all the time.” He said through his teeth. With another sweep over my body Percy grabbed keys and left closing the door behind him.

My eyes fixed on the door I didn’t move an inch until I heard the sound of his car drive off. For the second time in that month my eyes turned teary and the warm liquid rolled down my eyes, my life was chaotic and I had no one to turn to, no one to talk to, I was very much on my own.

“I’m going to make this work mum, I promise you. I will make this work.” I swore to myself.