An Arranged Marriage - Episode 22

 

He watches me as he takes another step closer, I refuse to answer his question, he prowls closer. 

"Are you alright darling?" He repeats. 

"Do I owe you an answer to that?" I ask and his face shutters. 

"Well, I understand you must not be used to all this.." He begins. 

"You don't say.." I say sarcastically. ".. . What gave it away?" I ask, at this point I must add that I have no reason why I am this angry, I thought I've come to terms with it in my head already, he owes me nothing, he should have told me nothing, I called this on myself when I went out with the youngest billionaire in history. 

"For one you are curled up in a ball on that a couch, you did that the moment I came in" He says and I notice that indeed I'm curled up in a ball, the pad of my foot to the chair and my arms around my legs, my head resting on my knees. 

"... And for the other you aren't giving me your eyes, eyes to me Anadia" He says and I refuse to think what that did to my stomach, I just continue to stare at the spot on his jacket, a place my eyes unconsciously slid to. 

"Babe.." He says.

"My sister does not want to talk to you, why don't you go herd the dogs out side and maybe, get lost?" Anaya says and I slide her a chilling look, I can fight my battles myself, thank you very much. 

She shrugs as if to say'Well what do you want me to do'. 

I don't say a word, just curl deeper into my ball and continue to look away from him.

A tenseness fills the room, heat, white hot heat feels the room, I tense, everyone does too. 

"Eyes to me Anadia" His voice says, very very low and very very pissed off. 

"You should look at him now girl" Linda says quietly but even if she hadn't told me I would have, the anger in his voice calling to me. 

"Well, my eyes are on you what do you want to do with them?"I ask, he watches me, his eyes boring holes into me but I don't flinch, I just watch. 

If he expected to meet a cool girl who's gonna sit and let him walk all over her then he has another thing coming, I'm neither cool nor docile, I bite when I'm shoved. 

"I see you are angry" 

"You deserve a medal then, master profiler"i say and his eyes stutter with anger. 

" What the hell is wrong with you woman? "

" Oh I don't know? Maybe you getting on a plane and traveling to another continent without telling me? "I retort, shit, I wasn't supposed to say that. 

I glare at him for making me divulge the reason for my anger. 

If I had thought he would become lax at the fact that he now understood where I was coming from I had another thing coming, it's obvious he bites too when shoved. 

"One thing babe, you angry you take it out on me in private.. Not with our family sitting around I do not like that shit" He says. 

"And you think I care what shit you like?" I ask, standing up, my hair, tumbles free, his eyes follow it before coming to my face. 

"It's obvious babe.

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. That you do not know how to play adult games, you angry at your man, you f*cking fight like a woman" He says, taking a step forward to stand in front of me. 

"You did not just insinuate that I am a child Caspian, who says you are my man? " I say, resting my hand on my hips. 

"And you did not just insinuate that I am not your man Anadia..." He says before stepping back.  "... You've had your play Anadia, I thought maybe I had found something worth exploring in us, thank you for tutoring me on the fact that I was f*cking wrong, so motherf*cking wrong"

He says before stepping away, he might as well have gutted me, I feel that way from his words. 

He turns away from me, turning to my sisters. 

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience this must have caused, I will get my security team on it as soon as possible" He says to them and the twins just nod, dumbstruck, Anaya looks like she might say something but she seems to think it over and stop. 

I just stand there gutted, I feel like I've lost something that was not even mine in the first place. 

"Sorry" a voice whispers in my ear and I turn to see Linda. How did she get to me? 

I force a smile.

"It's okay" I say, it goes both ways, if he thought he made a mistake thinking I was the right person then it's obvious I made a mistake too, seeing as a man who knows my worth won't gut me with his words and leave me bleeding on the floor while he goes about his work. 

"Will you stay for dinner? I did some grocery today, I can whip up something very fast." I say and she nods. 

"Alright, I will be in the kitchen then" I say, and as I move across the room towards the direction of the kitchen I can feel their eyes on me, I have never once wished that my leg was good until this moment, the limp more pronounced. 

As soon as I get into the room I shut the door and lean my back against it, I refuse to feel down about this.. 

Isn't it better that I get to know who he is now rather than later? 

I've had my fair share of a man walking all over me with his boot, I don't need another man to do so verbally. 

I begin to bring out spices and ingredients, I don't know if Cash and Kane are going to stay for dinner so I can't decide on the quantity of food to prepare.

But I make for everyone anyway, If they refuse dinner I could always keep the rest in the fridge.

The door opens when I begin to stir the stew and the twins pour in. 

"Anyway we can help?" 

I nod at the used dishes. 

"Why don't you help me wash that, I'm almost done here" I say, not raising my head to look at them. 

"You should talk to him" Aroofa says after a while.

"Just do the dishes" I mutter, wiping down the counter. 

"I.. No.. See you guys should talk.. I don't think he meant.." 

"I will appreciate if you stick your nose in someone else's business" I say quietly and they shut up. 

Good. 

I'm not in the mood for a soothing pep talk. 

AN

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