Salvation (An Arranged Marriage ll) - Episode 29

 

The sound of a voice speaking sends me slowly awake.

I smack my lips, and wonder why it feels as if I licked sawdust.

Ugh.

I slowly open my eyes as the words the person is saying becomes more intelligible.

"Yes, I will be fine after a day or two... Thank you boss, have a good morning" The voice says and I wonder why it sounds familiar.

I snuggle deep into the comforter, before flying up from the bed. 

This is not my room, this is not my cloth I'm wearing... That was.. . My eyes flies to the door to see a very shirtless, a very good looking Maurice looking at me in concern. 

"You are awake, how are you feeling?" He asks and I gulp. 

"Uh...." 

He nods to the nightstand and my eyes follow his to see a tablet and water. 

"Drink that, it will make you feel better" He says, still leaning against the doorpost. 

I don't know what to say so I follow his directives using it to buy time. 

When I finish taking the drug he nods at me. 

"Eh.. Uh.. Why am I in your house?" I ask in a small voice. 

I always knew he had a house in town, one that isn't his typical quarters in the house on the hill, but I never, not in a million years thought I would see the inside of it. 

"You were drunk last night and you wanted to be brought here" He says. 

"I.. I wanted to be brought here?" I ask, why, why did my drink self want to be brought here? 

"Yes, you were sobbing and everything" He says and I get the feel he's enjoying seeing me miserable. 

My eyes leaves his to settle on the bed and I blink when I see the indention on the other pillow, it flies back to his. 

"Did we sleep on the same bed?" I ask. 

It would be just my luck to sleep on the same bed with Maurice and doing just that..

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. Sleep. 

"Not at first, you kind of ambushed me in the middle of the night" He says. 

"What do you mean?" I ask., he points at an open door, my eyes follows to see what looks like a master bedroom. 

"I put you to sleep in my room, you made your way here later" He says and mortification flows through my body. 

Even in sleep I was still a messy needy thing. 

"I'm sorry you had to go through all that for me, I'm sure it wasn't in your job description, let me just wash up and be out of your hair" I say, my body wanting to escape from his scrutiny. 

I'm so embarrassed. 

He watches me stand up, I do so with little grace, it's not as if there's anything I have to pretend about, he's seen me at my worse.

And there's no other worse a girl will be than when she's drunk.

My brain finally notifies me of the fact that I'm not dressed in my own clothes but a navy blue long sleeve.

"I presume you changed my clothes?" I ask, is it okay if I pass out from embarrassment?

"You presume correctly, yours are in the washer, I will get them for you when you finish bathing" He says and I nod, fleeing in the direction of the other room before slinking back and hanging my head.

"Where's your bathroom?" I ask and he looks amused before pointing at a door I didn't notice in the first place.

"Thank you" I whisper before fleeing for the second time.

When I finish bathing he's waiting for me in the kitchen, I'm dressed in my own gown, he put it out for me in the bedroom.

I'm too embarrassed and hungover to completely enjoy the fact that I took a bath in Maurice's bathroom or that I'm in his house.

"Have a little breakfast" He says, standing at the stove flipping a badly burnt pancake.

"You don't expect me to eat that do you?" I ask.

He sighs, switching off the stove.. "I was going to impress you with my mad coking skills but I can't cook anything to save my life" He says and I almost laugh at the grimace on his face.

"Me too" I say, giggling a little.

He smiles at me.

I almost die.

"We have two options, go out and eat or settle for cereal and order breakfast in" He says, as if he didn't hear me say I was going to go home after bathing..

"I'm going home..." I begin..

"I called in sick for you Linds, something I've never done in my ten years of working for your brother, I will be damned if I let you walk out that door" He says and I blink.

"You've never called in sick?" I ask.

"No"

"What if you were actually sick? "

"I don't get sick" He says..

"Everybody gets sick".

"I'm not everybody" He says and I will give him that.

I agree with him, he isn't everybody.

"So, what's it gonna be woman?"

Well, screw it, I need a break after all, there's nothing stopping me from actually taking a break and hanging out with the ever studious Maurice.

"Can we order in?"

"Good choice, I've got an update for you on the leak" He says.

"You do?" I ask, Surprised, I didn't ask him to do any of that, infact I was going to let it slide.

"You pay me to take care of you Linda so yes, I've got an update on the fucker who stole your designs" He says..

Oh my God

He's sexy when he curses.

"So, what has changed?"i ask when he picks up his phone to call the restaurant I presume.

" Change? "

" You are calling me Linda, not ma'am, not miss "

" I spent the night with your ass tucked against me woman, I will be a bastard or a eunuch not to feel anything "He says as the phone connects.

" My ass? "

" You've got a nice ass Linda "He says before placing our order.

Oh, thank you drunk Linda, thank you.

AN

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