Chapter 40 His Uncle's Demands
After some more arguing, we were finally headed to my house but then she seemed to remember that she didn’t have pants on!
“I can’t show up in front of your family without pants on…. and it's very obvious this is your shirt on me! Oh God what would they think happened between us?!”, she exclaimed, horrified by the prospect.
“That you’ve finally come to your senses and picked the much hotter bachelor might I add”, I smirked, my mouth dropping into a frown as she shot me a disapproving look!
“Just drive upto my dorm please”, she snarked, crossing her hands across her chest.
“Might wanna watch that tone with me… since I am your designated driver. Oh and by the way… how about you do me the courtesy of remembering you’re missing a piece of clothing after we’ve been on the road for like an hour instead of 10 minutes?! How about that?”, I sarcastically replied, getting a hypocritical side-eye from her! Making me realize that no matter what she did… I would also be in the wrong! Duly fucking noted.
Ayesha’s POV
Everyone stared at us as we walked up to my dorm room! I had hoped the dorm would be empty but had forgotten how many of the girls had an upcoming test tomorrow.
I had begged Daniel to stay in the car but of course he didn’t listen.
I knew exactly how it looked and it was hard to hold my head high! People would make all sorts of wrong assumptions about us and it bothered me to no ends!
I looked up at Daniel walking beside me. It seemed as if he truly didn’t even notice the stares or the eyes following him around.
I almost cried out my thanks to him in relief when he pulled me close to him once he realized that the people looking were making me uncomfortable!
He shot everyone around us a withering look and they all averted their eyes!
“Thank you for driving me around… and thank you for that that you did downstairs”, I thanked him, keeping my tone low as we entered my room.
I quickly fumbled around in my closet… grabbing at the first pair of jeans and shirt that my hands fell on! I quickly changed and checked the state of my hair in the bathroom mirror. It had almost dried fully and looked okayish. I was in too much of a hurry to be too tenacious with my scrutiny.
“Remember the first time I stepped foot in here”, he suddenly reminisced as if it was decades ago… it certainly felt like a long time ago!
“And boy have things been going downhill since then”, I snarked at him, shooting him a dry look!
“You’ve gotten a lot more meaner since then”, he grumbled, pouting at me.
“Look who’s talking”, I jibed at him. Hunting around for my phone, I glared at him when he pulled it out from his pocket. Couldn’t he have just given that to me before I turned my room upside down, I thought, snatching my phone away from him!
“I’m not mean…. I’m just orderly”, he persisted as we walked out and I shut the door.
“That’s just a posh word for mean”, I told him, earning a slight ‘hmm’ from him in response.
Once we were seated in his car, I made him call his mother to tell her that he was the cause of my being late and we were on our way right now.
“What am I? Your little puppet?”, he side-eyed me, pulling onto the road.
“Oh please! Don’t act like you’re the victim here. I was the one who almost got turned into a human popsicle”, I argued in frustration.
He looked really guilty for a second, much to my satisfaction.
“You’re funny”, he absentmindedly said after a while, making me realize that I had just joked about my deathly cold experience.
“Not on purpose”, I flatly said, looking out the window at the moving world.
“Evening mother”, Daniel greeted Mrs Kane, so formally you’d think he was talking to the president.
I could tell the Amazon woman did not like the way her son spoke to her, so respectful with not the least bit of affection. Polite yet hurtful! I almost felt bad for her but then I remembered that she was majorly responsible for destroying my life.
“Oh! I’m glad you’re home. We could have dinner together as a family then, we don’t have many of those lately”, her tone sounded off, almost as if she was expecting a refusal.
I felt really bad for her, in spite of her misdeeds. “I could eat”, I enthusiastically said. She looked at me, shocked at my audacity to speak without being spoken to and was just about to admonish me.
“Fine, I’ll stay for dinner then”, Daniel grumbled in agreement with me and his mother’s frowning face instantly transformed into a brightly smiling one!
“Wonderful then”, she shot me a grateful look in spite of herself, at least she could acknowledge my help… even if it was with much begrudging!
“Oh, there you are! We’ve been waiting forever.” The voice that I hated most could be heard as two pairs of footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs.
They were my fiance and Daniel’s father, I noticed once they came into view and stood in front of us.
His hand had seemed to heal but he still had a bandage wrapped around his wrist. I found some weird joy in the fact that his hand still hurt from when Daniel had broken it!
“My brother wanted to profess his demand of you”, Mrs Kane said, nodding to her brother.
What the hell did he want to know?
Giving me a lewd stare, he licked his crusty lips and spoke,” This is embarrassing to say and my dear, I don’t want you to take it the wrong way but I would like you to start living with me in my house…. as of today.” My jaw dropped as I turned ashen white unable to mask my horror.
“B..but we aren’t even married yet”, I stumbled on my words, feeling woozy on my heels as fear clutched at my throat… the fear of being in the same room as him, being in his proximity 24/7… it was all too revolting to accept.
“Exactly dear, we aren’t married yet. And you know how college kids are these days, just looking to jump into bed with a random person just for sex. It’s not that I don’t trust you… I do trust you but I don’t trust these young boys to keep their hands off of you. And I would like you to be uh, intact till our marriage and the only way for me to make sure of that is to keep an eye on you myself”, he explained with the most leery glint in his eye!
I was lost for words, fear annihilating me, ripping me of speech as my head hurt and I felt like fainting!
Daniel’s arm suddenly came around my waist, almost as if he could sense my hurt and misery. I couldn’t say or do anything but let him hold me up as I looked up at him with the most painful sensation se
aring through my chest and hurting me from the top of my head to the tip of my toe!