Chapter 17 CAGED
They entered an elevator which took them directly to the third floor. He dragged her towards a highly decorated corridor of his north wing of the building. The place was decked with chandeliers lighting the path. When they got to his door Mahina stood in front of the large door and looking blackly at the door, she wanted to say something but couldn’t she was fazed by her dilemma. She felt a touch on her back when he gave her a light push into his room. She stood still along the entrance path. She was puzzled as she watched him closed the door’;
“What am I doing here!... isn’t this your personal bedroom?” she turned to look at him with her cute troubled eyes.
“Yeah!” he answered nonchalant.
“So what am I doing here?” She persisted. When Mahina agreed to stay with him, she never thought that it meant staying in the same bedroom with him. Right now, standing in his room with him alone frightened her of what he could do to her. All she wanted to do was to run away from there, but she was helpless at that point. In all she was annoyed by everything that was happening.
“According to your proposal... you wanted me to live with you and not to be your mistress” Mahina reminded him angrily. He shot her a sarcastic smile and answered;
“Living with me, means a lot of things...” He took long strides and passed her to his humongous drawer. Mahina shot him an irritant glare.
“Make yourself comfortable!” Mahina was famished, but as she entered the spacious room with a big bed her stomach tightened. ‘what will he do with me’ she became frightened as her imagination played tricks with her, of the possible things Alba could do to her.
Alba could tell she was frightened. What she felt inside was written all over her face but he wasn’t bothered by her fright. He wasn’t going to hurt her in any way. He brought her with him to his chambers because he couldn’t help himself. Alba felt she would be safer with him rather than being alone. She could get attacked like when they were attacked at the airport. So being with him to Alba was the safest place she could be. Although apart from keeping her safe Alba was drawn to her like iron to magnet.
Mahina looked for a corner in the mighty room and went to seat there grumpily. Her eyes never leaving Alba. She continued staring at him even as he was taking off his shirt. Mahina noticed a tattoo on his back. She traced the lines of his tattoo with her eyes. It was a tattoo of a black dragon. Trailing from his left arm to the right side of his waist. It was captivating. Very tempting to the eyes. She looked away when he was taking off his pants. He smiled at her and asked’;
“Do you wanna join me?” she tried her best not to look between his legs as she answered nonchalantly. Unbothered by his ‘oh my god it hurts sexy body.’ She answered
“No!” she was pouting and Alba thought all her actions to be cute.
When she looked away. He smiled and went to have his bath, but he left the door open as an invitation to her. Whenever she changes her mind she can always join him. Although he doubts that would ever happen.
In the west wing of the humongous Mansion was another Mansion all together. It was Fords Personal Mansion and since Alba tasked him with the responsibility of looking after Dora. He took her there with him and showed her to her room. Althea also followed Ford to his mansion as he was her elder brother.
As they sat in the dinning, the place was awfully quiet. Ford was still agitated with Dora. He avoided looking at her, so that he wouldn’t get annoyed. Althea noticed and she teased him;
“You seem to really like your scrambled eggs?” Althea questioned Dora with a smile.
“Yeah they are delicious!... also my favorite” Dora was elated when she answered her.
“I know!... My brother here makes the best scrambled eggs, why don’t you ask him sometime to make it for you” Dora raised her eyes to look at Ford who was unsmiling and immediately looked away, frightened by his intense gaze! she remembered what happened in the plane and gulped.
“Don’t even think about it!” he said angrily and left without touching his meal.
“That’s rare!” Althea said sarcastically and continued talking
“He never does that before... did you do something to him?” Althea acted pretentiously
“No! I don’t think so” Dora looked worried, when she answered her.
“Well! I think so! You should apologize” Althea stood up and left.
After her meal Dora stood up and went searching for Ford, to apologize. The mansion was extremely huge, so she asked one of the maids for direction. She took the rout the maid directed her to and soon she was standing in front of Ford’s door. She looked at the mighty door and knocked a couple of times. No one answered her, then she opened the door.
The room was very big and so she couldn’t get a complete view of all the corners. She moved further into the room and to her dismay she saw Ford standing stark naked, his clothes where lying on the floor. He just finished taking of his clothes and he was pressing his phone when she saw him, he raised his gaze to look back at her. Dora screamed, Ford continued looking at her nonchalant. She was almost about to run out of his room, when he caught up with her.
She was surprised by his speed, but too scared to dwell on the thought. He used his hands to press the door shut, so she wouldn’t leave the room. Dora was caged in between his arms. She looked up at the tall figure and she was speechless. Ford smirked;
“Do you know what you did to me earlier in the plane?”
“What? What did I do” his glare turned dark and she quickly apologized to him? Although she was happy to have met Arlo. The few hours they spent in the plane was intense. She could tell that there was something odd about the squad in the plane. Dora was no magician, nor was she impressively skilled enough. Even at that there was something unique about her. She had the ability to sense human energy. The energy she got from the plane was a scary one but she somehow numbed the fear with the excitement of seeing her favorite star Arlo.
“I didn’t mean to and I am sorry.” She apologized looking sorry and hoping for forgiveness from the tall man hovering over her like he wanted to devour her. Ford stopped in his tracks and looked at her closely. He answered her after her apology saying:
“That was all I needed to hear from you. Don’t provoke me next time Dora. I assure you, it won’t be funny like this time around.”
She exhaled as she watched his back fade into the bathroom. She slips out her tongue and made fun of him as he entered into the bathroom. When he closed the door behind him. she walked to the shelf filled with books and stood there for a while staring at the heep upon heeps of books. Her eyes caught sight of an adventurous book and she picked it up. She lazily walked back to the bed as she was browsing through the book. As she stood in front of the bed she murmured:
“This looks decent enough!” she slumped on his bed as she got engrossed reading the book.
The bathroom door creaked open and she wasn’t even aware of it because of how engrossed she was reading the novel. Ford looked at the back of the book and said:
“The adventures of the man with a golden heart.” She got up abruptly from the bed as his voice echoed in her ears.
“Yeah! It’s a mind blowing novel… it’s very interesting. I would like to read half of it before going to bed if you don’t mind. I promise I would return it by tomorrow” She stood up and was about to return to her room when his voice echoed in her ears again:
“Where do you think you are going to?”