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I jumped at my feet, rearranging my dress, thinking about something to say…anything that could serve me as an explanation, though he hastily spared me of the trouble of finding my words.
‘I’ll see you tomorrow. Antonio will take you back to your place. I can’t have you walking the streets in this condition,’ he smirked, revealing the top bastard he really was.
Without saying a word, I turned to walk out the door, leaving his infatuated piece of ass behind.
In his eyes, I was no different than the girl that left the room before me... And yet,different in all the ways.
Chapter 11
My visit to Brax was shorter than anticipated, and by the time that I got back to my home, it was still only 11 pm. Maybe late for the rest of the world, though not too late to visit Ferris. He did declare that he never goes to bed before dawn, so what point in stretching out a necessary evil? Besides, I needed to save all the time I could get.
Changing into the black skirt that I wore when I first met Vanya, and in a shirt that unfortunately had seen much better days, I decided to leave again in search of a cab. A little difficult in this part of the town and at this hour, though not impossible....after walking for a couple of streets.
This time I paid much more attention while climbing to the top of the hills. It wasn’t about social classes any longer, but about the means to obtain my goal. And the higher I ascended, the closer I was to my family.
The darkness of the mansion seemed like a beautiful sonnet, wrapping around me and carrying me through divine rhythms to knock on the main door.
‘Ishe with company?’ I asked Alfred, praying that he would be alone. I had just let my cab go and there was no way I would find a ride back from the top of the Hill to the Pit. Besides, postponing things even for a day was something that I couldn’t conceive.
‘He’s never with company unless I leave.’ The man opened the door widely so I could step in. ‘You know your way up,’ he nodded, bowing his head as I walked past him, then vanishing on a long corridor that formed from the main lobby.
The stairs seemed like mountains, barely dragging my feet to move to climb them, wearing the invisible weight of the burden that now lied on my shoulders. I had two deals and just needed one more. The final one, that will get me to my goal, even if the price I was paying seemed impossible for most people.
With trembling hands, I pushed the door to open and entered his room. The same warm atmosphere of the fireplace embraced me from the first step inside the space, though there seemed to be no one around.
‘Ferris,’ I called, trying to decipher his location, pacing the length of the room to the balcony and see if he’s there.
No answer.
Maybe he stepped out for a little, or maybe he was in another room. In any case, I wasn’t leaving before I got to talk to him, so I decided to wait there.
I walked towards the sofa when the unlit candles caught my attention. I loved their flames the other day, so taking a match, I decided to light them up one by one.
‘You said you wouldn’t return,’ his husky voice echoed from somewhere in the back, making me turn to acknowledge his presence, feasting my eyes on each divine line of him.
A dim light coming from the bathroom was framing his sculptured body as only a black towel wrapped around his waist, letting on display the wet drawings that were guarding his chest. My throat suddenly went dry as his torso seemed to have harvested all the water left on this planet.
I found myself forced to swallow the lump that was preventing me from breathing and try to mender my voice to say a word. ‘I changed my mind,’ I barely spoke, lowering my eyes to the ground so I could focus.
As usual, his sense of observation was spot -on, so it didn’t take him long to pick up on the distress that he was causing ‘I should put something on.’
‘Yes, thank you.’ More likethank God!since this was turning into an impossible task to complete.
The air in the room got lighter as he depleted me from his presence for a few minutes, only to reappear in an even finer version than before. Black jeans and a ripped tank top that let most of his chest on sight were luring me to walk over there and finish tearing off the rest of the material.
‘So, in what ways did you change your mind?’ His question made perfect sense since I hadn’t stated whether I was referring to continuing with the Pleasure Room or actually agreeing on his deal.
‘About your proposal,andI don’t want to go back to the Pleasure Room anymore.’ It wasn’t that I didn’t see the chance Vanya gave me as a tremendous opportunity, but I was certainly not able to withstand another Pleasure like one of the last three, or who knows what newdeal.
‘You won’t ever have to,’ the promise of a man that could guarantee exactly that.
‘But I still have other arrangements I have to fulfill…at least for a while.’ I felt that I should add this part, as keeping it from him was a form of betrayal, even if it could jeopardize my final deal.
‘I understand,’ he took a moment to think things through, understanding exactly what I was saying. ‘So, I should take this as ayesto my offer.’
‘Yes, it’s ayes.’
With Ferris, it didn’t feel so difficult to tell him that I accepted, as it did with Cole or Brax, yet it felt much more difficult in every other way. ‘But we’re keeping the condition.’
