I turned my head to him and focused icy glare on him. “Get your dirty hands off me.” Drake pouted cutely but instead of removing his hand, he moved it slightly lower. Scowl formed on my lips as my hand itched for a blade to strike him. “You think I’m joking? Drake, if you won’t remove your hand now, I’m going to make sure that you remove it quickly. Understood?” While I was smiling at him charmingly, he slightly shrank back and nodded swiftly taking his hand away as quickly as possible. “Good boy.” I patted his head before turned back to the silent lands.
Grumbling under his breath, Drake stretched and yawned silently acting more like a cat. I watched him easily making it seem like I was looking at the moon but instead my eyes were on him. His hair was fluffed up, his eyes were making changes from silver to stormy grey in seconds, his lean but yet muscular arms were showing off from the ripped shirt and I stopped myself there not letting my gaze travel any further. He scratched his head and turned to look at me his gaze scanning me over and over. As annoying feeling yet again begun to rise, he looked away and said. “I’m tired. Can you take me to your room since I’ve nowhere to sleep?”
“Yes. Fine.” I turned around and headed back towards the room, the dress shuffling and glistering at slightest movement. Feeling his eyes on my back, I quickly turned into another hallway and continued our way quicker. He still followed me with same speed and still looking at my back as if I had a target there and he was shooting daggers with his eyes at it.
When we stopped at the heavy black double doors, I turned around and he stopped averting his gaze downwards as I continued to stare at him trying to figure out what his deal was about staring at me. At last I turned around and opened the door for him into the room. Drake almost instantly walked inside the room and to the bed slumping down on it also spreading his arms and legs on it as if marking his own. I followed him inside taking a seat on the chair beside the window and pulled up my legs looking out of the window watching as second by second rain started to fall and droplets rolled down the window lonely by themselves.
Thoughts kept going into my mind poisoning it from inside out making me turn sadder and madder at each second until Drake rolled on the bed and faced me starting once again to watch me while I watched the droplets roll down the window slowly. Finally he said as if he was calling me over. “Oy, Violet!” I turned my head and raised my eyebrow as he continued. “So, I expect you are on good terms with Mr. Duke? Since he treated you so delicately and let you keep me as a slave.” I shrugged mindlessly but he pressed on. “Oh, come on! You are either really into him or just using him to get out of here. So which one of it, princess?” He grinned finally stopping with his blabbering.
“Well, if you want to pay me a price then I’ll answer you. If you don’t, I’m not speaking to you at all.” I crossed my arms to make it look like I was completely serious about it and turned my head back around struggling to hide my smile. Drake laughed softly afterwards he stood up in his ragged clothes and stood in the moonlight with his hands on his hipbones. Even with just a show of slightest bit of skin made me blush as I found myself staring and avert my gaze back down to my hands that were slightly shaking.
He walked over and grabbing my hand gently yet firmly, he pulled me up and against him his other hand moving to my back making me unable to move at all as I stared up to him. My heart once again at the closeness begun to beat faster while I froze there. Drake stood before me expressionless for the first time after hours of smiling also not moving. This unspoken moment gave me an opportunity to look into his eyes and search for any darkness or evil like usually did. When the search came back clean and only with pure goodness which was obviously fake, I noticed that he leaned forward closer and closer by each second.
Sudden knock came making us jump away from each other and gave us few seconds to collect ourselves before door opened and Mr. Duke looked inside frowning. “Violet, feel free to explore library or whatever you want in this mansion. It’s going to become your home soon enough.” He beamed at me again with sharp teeth and ghastly shade of his red eyes and I almost tried backed away but warm arm came around my shoulders moving me closer to warmer body as Drake answered back coldly. “She will. Right after I do my job.” Mr. Duke’s smile turned into some more terrible grimace before he erased his expression and nodded leaving us alone.
