“Can you tell your master if I can go out. This place feels so empty and suffocating” Sophia threw the cherry into her mouth, suckling on it as she crossed her leg.
It’s one week after the funeral and Sophia was feeling too fine and cheerful for someone whose father died and was buried.
It scared everyone but there was nothing they could do but attend to her every need as per Luca’s instructions.
The maid smiled and nodded, cleaning her room “yes miss” .
She finished in minutes and left.
She was bored and didn’t know what to do, he hadn’t given her her phone yet when he’d promised to do so which irked her.
She threw the tray on the floor and it clattered to the floor, she screamed going to the bed and threw the sheets and pillows as well.
She pushed the vase on the table beside the door and it broke, the water splashing on her but she didn’t care, only stepped on it and moved to the door banging on it as she tried the knob but it didn’t open.
“You asshole. I want to leave this hellhole, come open this door now” she continued banging on it and shouting.
“What’s wrong with her?” Luca stood by the side as the doctor checked Sophia’s vitals and cleaned her wounds.
He had been out and saw the commotion in front of her room when he returned knowing no one would enter even if she was dying.
That was the instructions he had laid.
No one was to enter her room on no account.
“She is drained.
Malnourished.
And her blood level is low.
She needs a lot of healthy food and rest” the doctor packed his things up inside his briefcase, looking up at Luca, his face stolid “she needs a lot of rest”
“And that she would get a doctor” Luca led him out before returning to the side of Sophia.
He tucked a stray hair away from her face and leaned down to kiss her forehead.
With his eyes closed on her forehead, he didn’t see when her eyes opened as she gawped at him “what are you doing?”
He retreated clearing his throat and tucked his hands into his pocket “nothing”
Sophia sat up from the bed making the duvet to pull back from body “that didn’t look like nothing to me. You were…”
“That was nothing” he waved it off “you need to start eating, the doctor said you were malnourished and drained, which shouldn’t be in the books of this place. Eat the food the maids bring up to you, I told you I won’t be letting you go until I know you are capable of taking care of yourself”
She raised her head up in defiance “and if I don’t?” Luca smirked, an expression that didn’t come off easily, bending low to her level to make them face to face, he said “Remember” he tapped the side of her head with his fingers “I haven’t given you your phone yet. I don’t think we would like to know what I would withhold more if you don’t obey me. Would we?” She gulped, pulling her head away from him, clutching the bed sheet tightly in her fist.
“Am I clear?” He asked standing up, his face going back to normal aloof.
He didn’t want to be subject to such a level but she was so stubborn to listen with too many things right now on his plate.
He didn’t want her to add to that and the promise he made to her father.
“Yes” she mumbled.
He kissed her on the forehead and left for the door.
Kissing her on the forehead had become a norm for him.
He didn’t know if he should like or hate it.
He’d never had a woman this close to him who wasn’t related to him.
He knew what he was getting himself into if he didn’t let her go on the expected time and date.
“A maid is going to bring in food right now as soon as I leave. Anything you would want to eat specifically?” He stood by the door not turning.
He didn’t know why but didn’t want to look at her face.
She shook her head not saying anything and he hummed asking again “no” she answered.
He said nothing but opened the door and left, leaving Sophia slumping on the bed releasing a large breath.
She touched her chest feeling as her heartbeat acceleration decreased.
The air had been so thick that she was left breathless.
She gulped wrapping her hands around her chest.
What was happening?
She mused.