Chapter 5 Let Me Stay

• "Your death."
• "W-What?"
• He stood up and her heart skipped a beat. She thought he would hurt her.
• But she was wrong. He went to the kitchen and put some fruits on a plate.
• He came back and placed the plate on the tea table in front of her.
• She looked at the plate of fruits and then at him.
• "Don't act innocent. Just eat and leave."
• Then she realized she was hungry. She had not eaten for two whole days.
• She glanced at the fruits but she could not stop herself from devouring the fruits.
• She grabbed the apple and started to eat hungrily as if she had never eaten any fruit before.
• He looked at her and sighed. He walked out of the house.
• When she saw him leaving the house she paused but again started to eat.
• She did not have any time to think about whether he gave her a poisonous apple as he told her he was her death. She was starving like death.
• After eating a few apples and grapes, she felt a little better.
• The floor was made of wood, the stairs, the ceiling, everything.
• 'How can the wooden house be here? Who lives here? He? Alone? Where are the others who live here? He must be a fearless man.' She thought.
• She tried to stand up but fell to the couch. Her head was still spinning. She touched her forehead. Was she having a fever?
• She wanted to wrap the blanket which was covered her body from the cold a few minutes ago.
• The moment she tried to wrap it around a hand grabbed her hand and made her stand up.
• "You are done eating. Now get out of my house."
• When did he come into the house? She didn't hear anything. Was it because of her high fever?
• Delilah blinked at him. Her eyes were red because of her fever.
• "I don't know where to go."
• "Do you think I care?"
• He pulled her with him and took her out of the wooden house.
• Her steps were wobbling. She could fall anytime. Her legs were hurting a lot.
• "Please let me stay here."
• He stopped outside and glared at her.
• "What did you just say?"
• Delilah nodded at him.
• "P-Please? Thank you for taking me here when I was unconscious. But now where will I go? You saw me in the forest alone, didn't you? I have nowhere to go."
• His eyes were dark. His bangs were parted showing his clean forehead.
• Fear was rising in her heart each second. Her whole body was shaken.
• The cold air of the forest touched her body over her thin cloth. Her hair was messy. A chilly wind touched her legs and she hissed.
• It felt like a thorn. The wind was like a thorn in the scratches in her legs.
• He looked at the painful expression on her face and scrutinized her from head to toe.
• Delilah rubbed her leg over another. She felt ashamed when he looked at her.
• She thought he was disgusted by her dirty appearance. She was full of dirt.
• For the first time, she felt self conscious. His gaze was like tracing over her body without touching it.
• He let go of her hand.
• "Turn straight and walk onwards. Don't look back or come back here again. This place is not safe."
• Delilah looked at him. "Aren't you living here?"
• He frowned. "Do you think I am safe for you?"
• She felt upset when he said that. She knew for a woman, no man was safe for her except her lover or husband.
• But she felt safe here, at least he was not selling her to others.
• He left her but when she was unconscious he saved her from the beast and took her here, in his place.
• He gave her shelter and let her eat to stay alive.
• If he was not safe then who would be safe for her?
• She thought she was thinking that because she had never met and talked with another man like that. Her step-parents always tried to cage her in their house. Most of the time she went out when they went on a vacation leaving her alone.
• She never got a chance to make friends because of her position in her family.
• Where would she go? Wherever she went, men ran after her for her scent.
• She was an unmated Omega with a unique scent.
• "If I go anywhere, the beast will hunt me." She said with a shaken tone.
• "Beast?"
• "Y-Yes. He saw me last night. Whoever met him, never came back alive."
• She saw him staring at her.
• "A-Aren't you afraid of him? How can you live here a-alone?"
• He did not reply to her. She scolded herself to make him angry again.
• "I won't ask you anything again, I am sorry. Can you please let me stay here? You have a house here. I can work for you."
• "Work for me? How?"
• He asked her. Hearing his reply she felt relieved. He at least talked to her.
• An idea popped into her head. "I can be your maid." She said with a fragile smile. Her head was burning like fire.
• 'This fever!'
• He shook his head. "I don't need any housekeeper. I don't care about any beast. Just get out of my way." He declared and entered his house.
• Before she could say anything he shut the door in her face.
• She stared at the door for some time. She slid down against the wall beside the door.
• Pulling her knees against her chest, she rested her head on her knees.
• In the dark night, the second floor's light was giving a little glow.
• But after a few minutes, the lights went off.
• She bit her lips as she looked at the trees. Her fever was rising higher. She was feeling like dying.
• She started to cry without letting out any sound. She was sobbing.
• In this unknown world, where would she go?
• Suddenly the house's door opened.
• "Do you want to die? Why are you still here? I don't like people around me. I am going to kill you." He growled. It was very loud or she was an illusion.
• She closed her eyes. It was dim everywhere and she could not see him anyway.
• "C-Can I ask for a last wish?"
• She felt him coming towards her as if he would kill her but he stopped when she spoke out,
• "I'll be your slave. Please, let me stay with you."
• "You are digging your own grave."