please

-7-

The next day I got ready for work, I still needed to cover my bruises.

And they hurt like hell.

I'm just happy Nathan hasn't seen them.

Good thing I cover them even if I'm in bed.

When I arrived at the office I was greeted by my father.

"Enjoyed your free day yesterday?" He asked

"No sir of course not" I muttered looking down at my desk.

"You know every time I get angry it is because of something you did"

"I'm sorry sir"

"It's okay, for now I need you to prepare conference room 2" I was shocked normally when something like this happened, I would get a beating.

"Yes of course sir" I said standing up when I walked past him, he grabbed me by the hair.

"You didn't think you could do something like this without a punishment did you?" He asked me with a wicked smile on his face.

Oh no.—

At 2 P.M. I was at Nathans office.
we were going to let the media know that we were going to get married.
before I walked into his office, I checked my makeup to see if you could see any bruises.

"hey perfect timing, they will be here any moment" Nathan said standing up walking over to me.
"good I was afraid I would be late, I had to walk here"
"you had to walk?" he asked, I nodded giving him my answer.
"my driver will drive you from now on, you shouldn't be walking all the way to the office that's dangerous" Nathan explained, when his office phone rang "here they come, let me do the talking about how we met" Nathan stated hanging up the phone without room for discussion on both the subjects.

not even 5 minutes later there was a knock at the door.
"come in" Nathan called out.
I was shocked at how many people walked into the office, and they started all the questions right away.

After the day was over, I drove home.

Lilian was still there so when she saw me, she was shocked.

"Miss Rivera what happened to you!?" Lilian rushed to my side to help me to the couch.
I didn't know that my makeup wore off.

"It's alright Lilian, it doesn't hurt that bad" I replied when I realized.

"What happened?" She put an icepack on my eye to keep it from swelling.

"I can't talk about it, please don't tell Nathan" I pleaded, to my luck Nathan wasn't home yet.

She looked at me, hesitating if she should tell Nathan.

"Please"

"Alright but please come to me when it happens again, I can help you"

"Alright thank you Lilian" I sighed.

After a while Lilian left but not before asking if she could do anything else for me before leaving.

After I convinced her to go home, I warmed up some food that she made and ate it in my room.

When it was after 7, I heard the door, Nathan is home.

"Victoria?"

"Yeah?" I replied walking out my bedroom door to the living room to see him hanging up his coat.

"Would you like to watch a movie?"

He wants to watch a movie with me?

"Never mind" he muttered under his breath after a while.

"No wait, we can watch a movie" I said with a smile stopping him from walking away.

"Alright, living room?"

"Yeah okay" I replied jumping of the bed making me grinch, Nathan saw me scrunching up my brows in pain.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing bumped against my desk today"

"Let me see" Nathan said walking over to me, before I could say no he already grabbed my blouse and pulled it up.

"That's a nasty bruise"

"Yeah, I know but it doesn't hurt that bad"

"Are you sure we could just watch a movie in your room" Nathan suggested not questioning the bruise further.

"No living room is fine" I smiled.

"Hey Nathan?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"Why was there a bodyguard, there isn't going to be one from now on is there?" I really didn't want to have a bodyguard hanging around the house.

"It's for safety Vic please understand"

"I do, I just want to leave the house whenever I want to" I explained.

"You can, but you have to let me know"

"Alright" I sighed, I knew better than to argue.

So, we watched the movie, but I didn't know what it was about because I was looking at Nathan almost the whole movie.

He was really handsome.

I didn't even know I was doing it until he asked me if I wanted something to drink.

After a while I fell asleep on the couch but woke up in Nathans's bed with his arms wrapped around me.

I just looked at his face, he looks so peaceful when he's asleep.

"Good morning" he grumbled rolling onto his back.

God, he has a sexy morning voice.

"Good morning" I whispered, "why am I in your bed and not in mine?" I asked still looking at him, but this time confused.

He just shrugged his shoulders.

That's a good explanation.

"I'm just going to get ready" I muttered walking out the door.

I was relieved to see that my clothes were still on.

I mean I wouldn't want him to change my clothes.