Chapter 2 Alone With Him

• SOPHIA CASTILLO
• My heart began to race faster than normal when I heard the shower stop and I knew Adrian was done taking his bath.
• When we arrived at the mansion, he asked me to follow him and I obliged without a word.
• He told me to get rid of my dress and to be honest, I was worried when he said so because I thought he was going to have sex with me but none of it had happened.
• He told me he didn't want to see me in that dress anymore as it only annoyed him and reminded him that he had just gotten married to a gold digger which in other words was me.
• He walked out of the room and I took off my dress. I didn't know what else to wear as my clothes had not been brought in yet and our marriage was of circumstances.
• I wanted to ask him for something to wear but I was nervous. I didn't want him saying any more hurtful words to me and so I got rid of the dress and was just in my panties.
• I entered the bathroom and took my shower. I wrapped myself with a towel, not wanting to think of Adrian's reaction when he came to see me in his towel.
• Thankfully, Adrian said nothing when he came back to the room. He only glared at me for a few seconds before getting rid of his clothes.
• I looked away, not wanting to see him naked and although I wasn't looking at him, I could feel him staring at me and it made me nervous.
• So many thoughts filled my mind at that moment and the more worried I was.
• Adrian walked into the bathroom and I heaved a sigh of relief before curling myself on the bed with the towel tightly wrapped around me.
• I covered myself with the duvet and acted as if I was sleeping because I wasn't ready to face Adrian yet and I didn't want him to find any more reasons to insult him.
• I held my breath when I opened my eyes to see Adrian staring at me. He wasn't smiling as always and fear gripped me because I thought he was going to strangle me to death.
• "You are a bold one, aren't you?" He said in a calm tone, almost in a whisper but he didn't whisper and I felt shivers down my spine from fear.
• "You dare to sleep peacefully after making me marry you?" His lips curled to the side and he stood back on his feet.
• "Get up," he demanded and I did as told, my body shaking although I wasn't visible.
• I noticed Adrian staring at me and then he clicked his tongue. "Are you going to sleep in that?" He pointed at the towel tightly wrapped around my chest.
• I nodded my head, unable to speak.
• "You can't speak? Did the cat catch your tongue? Come on, answer me when I talk to you," he demanded.
• He wasn't shouting. He never shouts. He has always spoken to me in a calm tone but each time I felt a tremor whenever he spoke. It was like behind his calm tone was a demeanor.
• Each time he spoke to me, it was never as if he didn't mean any harm to me. It was as if his every word meant something and I would have to decode them to know what he meant.
• I swallow the lump that formed in my throat. "Yes," I replied.
• "Yes, what?" He asked but I didn't understand what he said and so I kept quiet.
• Adrian let out a peal of small laughter. "Never refer to me without adding 'Sir', are we understood?" He asked and I nodded my head.
• "Use your words," he demanded harshly although he spoke calmly.
• "Yes sir!" I almost exclaim.
• My heart was beating in trepidation and although the room was cold, I felt hot and my palms were sweating.
• "Good girl," he said.
• "How can you sleep so peacefully knowing well you just got married? Just how?" He asked.
• I didn't understand his question or how he wanted me to answer and I knew I had to say something or he might get violent with me.
• He has never been violent with me before but I felt he was that kind of man. I felt he was that type of man that raised his hands on a woman and didn't hesitate to put her in her place and I didn't want to be one of the victims.
• "I was...tired," I stuttered.
• Damien placed both his hands in his sweatpants pocket. "You were tired and you thought sleeping would help relieve you?" He clicked his tongue.
• "And you think I would let you sleep when I cannot sleep?" His brows rose slightly.
• I swallow a painful lump down my throat. As it was, I was finding it hard to breathe already.
• "Are you this dense? I mean you don't know how to speak or you can but you don't know how to reply, which is it?" He questioned.
• I said nothing. I wanted to answer him but I didn't know how to and I was afraid of provoking him. I was scared of him raising his hands on me.
• "Get rid of that," he said after some seconds, pointing at my towel.
• "I...I have nothing to wear," I tell him.
• "Get rid of that," he said one more time in a firm tone and I did just as I was told.
• I wanted to quickly wrap the duvet around my exposed chest but I was worried, I didn't want to anger him and so I sat down, watching how he stared at my exposed chest without shame.
• How could he be ashamed of staring at me almost naked when I was his wife, I mentally scolded myself.
• Adrian walked away and when he came back, he handed me female pajamas. I held the pajamas and saw that they were my perfect size.
• I wondered who the pajamas belonged to and I couldn't help but imagine him bringing women to this room and sleeping with them on this bed.