Chapter 32

Freshia Ava’s POV

I still can't believe what I'm facing now. The figure of Eros in front of me is the same figure I met at the diamond exhibition party held by Mrs. Winston yesterday. Does that mean the Eros who has been kind to me all this time is not his true self? I said to myself.

My crying didn't make him melt either. Eros just looked at me and sat quietly beside me. Since then he hasn't allowed me to move even an inch from the bed. "What exactly do you want from me?" I asked finally. I'm too tired now.

“It's very clear. I want you to be only mine.” He said briefly.

“I misjudged you all along. It turns out you were never sincere with me, Eros. Even your feelings for me are not love, but mere obsession."

Eros laughed at my words. "What do you know about love? Just my desire to have you is a clarity of my feelings. Everything I've done for you so far has also represented my feelings for you, Freshia.”

Immediately I remembered an incident that recently happened to me. If you think about it, all of that happened when I got to know this man in front of me. With all the considerations in my heart, I decided to ask him. "Is it true that you are behind all the incidents that have recently happened to me?"

Eros was silent. "Answer me, Eros!" I said in a higher tone than before.

Not long after that, Eros laughed, surprising me. "Then what do you want, if it's true that I ordered someone to break down the door of your previous apartment, I was the one who sneaked into your room secretly, until I was the one who made you enter the White Stone so that you could live in this apartment, then what would you do? Freshia? In the end, you will come back to me too, right?”

I spontaneously slapped his cheek just as he finished his words. "You're impudent, Eros!" I screamed. My anger immediately peaked after hearing all of his confessions which he delivered with an innocent face. What did I do wrong to you that you did something like that to me? I'm almost crazy, Eros!"

“I don't like you being close to other men. I did all that to make you think that in the end, only I can help you. I'm the only one you can rely on, Freshia. I'm angry, I feel like you're playing with me because you can get close to anyone you want. When you were sick, you came to me and asked me for help. However, the next day you just went out with Simon. I want you to know that I am not someone you can trifle with, Freshia.”

"But it's not your right to do all that to me. Remember, Eros! I am mine alone, not anyone else's, especially YOU!" I said loudly.

Instantly, Eros's gaze turned sharp, as if there was a glint radiating from those two eyes. It scared me and I immediately ran out of the room, towards the apartment unit door. But it turned out that the door was locked and I couldn't open it. I immediately turned around and found Eros walking towards me with a grin. “You won't be able to go anywhere, Freshia.” He said then.

Before he managed to get closer to me, I immediately ran to the kitchen to get a knife and pointed it at him. "Don't come any closer or I won't hesitate to hurt you, Eros. Quickly open the door!” I shouted loudly.

But Eros laughed without stopping. Making me keep stepping back when the man started to get closer to me. Until finally the wall behind me prevented my footsteps. But I still pointed the knife at him, trying to put some distance between us. "Stop, Eros!" I screamed again. However, what happened next really surprised me.

Eros grasped the knife that I pointed at him. Then he grabbed the knife from my hand by holding the sharp edge of the knife and then threw it in any direction. I saw blood start to ooze from the palm of his hand, making me flinch. But a split second later my consciousness returned and I still tried to avoid it.

However, he managed to catch me and cornered me against the wall behind me. With his palms full of blood, he clutched my face. His eyes flashed with anger at me. “Don't ever try to test my patience, Freshia. You don't know what I can do to you." He said and I felt a threatening tone in his words.

I cried again. I really felt a fear that I had never felt before. Then Eros' grip on my face began to loosen. His gaze softened and he began to stroke my cheek with his thumb. But I still couldn't accept it and immediately threw his hand away from my face. “Don't you ever dare to touch me? I don't want to be touched by someone like you!" I said.

Instantly Eros strangled my neck with his one uninjured hand. I grimaced in pain and tried to release the stranglehold using both hands. However, instead of letting go, the stranglehold got even tighter until it made it difficult for me to breathe. "Please...please let go, Eros."

My words were broken and almost inaudible. Then he immediately released his grip on my neck. I coughed violently and my body immediately sank down, falling to my knees. I held my neck with both hands, so stunned by what Eros had just done to me. I didn't think that he was really crazy and really had a heart.

Eros just stared at me silently and I saw he was about to turn around and maybe leave me. But I stopped his steps by hugging one of his legs and managed to make him stop. Still sobbing, I said to him, "I beg you, please set me free, Eros." I said. However, he immediately threw his feet out of my grip and left, leaving me still sitting in the kitchen.

Not long after, he returned with a small towel in his hand. He wet the towel in the sink and walked towards me. After that, he washed my face to remove the blood stains. He was just silent and I was silent while still sobbing. Then he immediately grabbed my hand to make me stand up, then half dragged me back to the room. I, who was already weak, could only follow him at that time.

He sat me on the edge of the bed and I again begged him to let me out of this apartment. “Eros, I beg you. Please get me out of here.”

“Where are you going to go if I get you out of here, Freshia? Do you really not want me by your side?"

I shook my head. “Can't we go back to the way it was yesterday? So far, we've started to get close, Eros."

"Oh yes?" Eros looked at me deeply. “But apparently that wasn't enough for me. I want you more than that.” Then he started stroking me with his hands. “I want this face, this body, and all of you to be mine alone. Just for me, Freshia,” he said.

Then, Eros started to bring his face closer to me and tried to kiss my lips. But I quickly avoided it. He laughed again and a split second later threw my body onto the bed. I, who wasn't ready for all that, could only struggle. However, to no avail. He gripped both of my hands with his hands, preventing me from struggling any harder.

My strength wasn't strong enough to fight him and now he managed to confine me. I continued screaming as loud as I could and he actually stuffed my mouth with brutal kisses. Making my screams only get stuck in my throat. His tongue skillfully entered my mouth and started sucking on my tongue. I kept trying to let go, but his grip on my hands tightened, making all my efforts in vain. Again my tears fell.

Still continuing to kiss me to silence my mouth, he moved both of my hands above my head and held them still using only one hand. Then I felt another hand start to go inside my shirt and caress my chest, making my body slowly go limp. At the same time, a bell rang from the front door. He immediately stopped his lecherous treatment of me and released me from his confines. Someone will save me.