Alcohol, driving and I were never best friends. When I woke up the next morning, I regretted drinking to forget my problems. The pounding in my head was not helping my embarrassment at all. Holding my head, pulling my knees closer to my chest, I let out a painful groan. "So you are regretting drinking your Beer now?" I heard Silas speaking from the door frame. I looked up from my knees, lifting my head, regarding him with the most hostile gaze I could muster. He was dressed in a light pink shirt and gray pants. He walked inside the room, holding a tray in his hands. "Go away. It's too early for your torments." I muttered under my breath, and Silas smiled sarcastically at me, pulling the blanket off my body and handing me a glass of orange juice. "Have this, you'll feel better. Drinking on an empty stomach was not so wise, you see. Next time you wish to get drunk, eat something before drowning beer in your stomach." He said, and I scowled at him, rubbing my forehead. His eyes soft
"So your father forced you into this engagement?" Silas asked me, not beating around the bush once we were done eating our breakfast. I didn't know how to sugarcoat any of my father's deeds. I didn't know how to tell Silas I was not only forced into this engagement, I was forced to get abused. I didn't know how to put it to him without angering him that whatever he was thinking was just the surface of the ocean he had yet to discover. "He was indebted to Ethan. He had no money to offer, and Ethan kept threatening him." My words sounded pathetic to my own ears.The bitter aftertaste of my words made me feel hatred for my own self. I was trying to save my father from Silas' wrath. For what? I was trying to save him from Silas when he sold me to Ethan without a second thought. I was angry at myself for being weak. So weak. "So he sold you to that fucking bastard who thought it would be alright to raise his hand at you? Seriously, Bella? You're trying to justify your father's actions?"
I had to go to the company after my senior designer called me urgently. Surprisingly, Silas was not there. He didn't come to the office for an entire day. My mind was still replaying the phone conversation Silas had with someone when he was rubbing lotion on my knees. He was going somewhere to fight. And the idea of him being around the guns and goons frightened me. And the fact that Martin was not there to guard me didn't help my anxiety even a bit. If both of them were missing, something was serious.Pacing around the hall, my hair tied in a messy bun, dressed in one of the loose pajamas Silas brought for me, I was waiting for him to come home. He wasn't even receiving his phone. "Miss Murphy, have some coffee, please." The house help suggested, looking at me with her concern-filled gaze, and I shook my head, forcing out a smile. "No, thank you. Let Silas come." I replied softly, shifting my gaze back on the door. "You really love him, don't you?" She said after a while, and I
"You are not taking the sofa." Silas' voice was firm when he looked at me with dark eyes, ready to slice something or rather someone into half. I crossed my arms over my chest, tilting my face to have a good look at the man standing in front of me. He couldn't stand up properly and he was talking about sleeping on the sofa. I rolled my eyes at his dramatic ass. "So where do you want me to sleep, Sir?" I asked him sarcastically, and he glared at me. His upper lip twitched dangerously, his dark eyes pierced into my soul. "Bed. Take the bed, Bella. I'll sleep on the sofa." He said, grabbing the pillows from my hands, and I glared at him sharply. "I get it, Silas. Your honor would get handicapped if you let a woman sleep on the sofa. But you can shove your honor down your throat for one night and sleep on the bed." I said, and he shook his head adamantly. "Bella—" "Either you let me sleep on the sofa or I'm leaving you alone. Choice is yours." I said, looking at him with a smile tha
I couldn't sleep. The ideas Silas put in my mind were haunting me. It was hard, so hard to have Silas so close to me and still control myself. My heart was pounding against my chest. Sleeping in the same room as him was making me feel funny and intense emotions. I turned to my side, trying to get a comfortable position to sleep when I heard Silas whimpering. My eyes moved towards him, sitting upright in alarm. Silas was moving restlessly in his sleep. "Dad please don't leave me." He whimpered again, his voice low, shaky and barely coherent. But I heard him. My heart stopped beating for a second. I was so busy pitying myself that I failed to see how lonely Silas was. Now that he was crying in his nightmare, I realized I couldn't see his parents. His father was nowhere to be seen. He didn't even mention his father once. Neither did Mr. Kingsley, Silas' father came once to see me. And knowing how much the old man admired me, loved me like his own child, he would have come here to mee
"Who did this, Bella?" Silas asked me, his fingers tracing my cheeks. His eyes were holding the darkness of the moonless night, dangerous and cold. Even when his voice was cold, and had a dark edge to it, his touch was gentle. So gentle. "I don't know. I don't know who the person was. He entered behind me in the washroom and tried to— and tried to touch—" I trailed off, and I knew he didn't need to hear more from me to know what might have happened inside, or what was the man's intention behind sneaking inside the women's washroom. His eyes darkened. His jaw clenched angrily, and I saw fire burning in the depth of his eyes. He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath in, ducking his face down slightly before he held my shoulders and looked up, right into my eyes. "Are you okay? Did he do something with you?" He asked me calmly, the calmness that was more of an indicator of the storm that was yet to arrive. I shook my head, wiping my tears as I wrapped my arms around myself, the only
Silas was seething when I dragged him inside his cabin. His eyes were dark, they were dangerous, burning with fire that was enough to kill someone just by glaring at them. "I am fine, Silas. Can you please calm down?" I asked him, my voice was soft, trembling slightly, and his eyes shifted on me. "You are not fine. You are still trembling. I will kill him for touching you. How dare he touch you?" His voice was dangerously low, resonating in the depth of my heart, and for once someone's anger was not scaring me. For once someone's anger was not directed at me. For once, someone was angry because I was hurt, and not because they thought I was worthless. For years I had endured abuse, for years Ethan and my father had abused me. I had always seen them angry, unhappy with me. And the brunt of their anger had always left me scarred. The marks on my body were the result of their anger. But his anger.... it was different. It didn't made me feel scared of him. His anger made me feel prot
It has been four days since Jamie Davis last attacked me. Four days since no-one heard of him again. I wasn't shocked when the news of Jamie Davis going on a long vacation spread in the office. And it didn't take much of my effort to know who was behind Jamie Davis' sudden trip."Come inside my cabin, Miss Murphy." A familiar voice spoke from the other side of the phone when I picked it up, making me groan in displeasure. Not again. "And be fast, Miss Murphy. I am a very busy man." Silas spoke again, without giving me a chance to even speak. Taking a deep breath, I got up from the chair, and walked inside his cabin. Much to my astonishment, guards were loitering in the corridor. Unlike the last time, his corridor was not deserted. Warmth spread my chest when I realized why Silas employed security all of a sudden. Ignoring the flutter in my stomach, I knocked on his door twice before pushing it open. Silas was sitting behind the large table, sipping his coffee from one hand and t