Beautiful Lion

Chapter 5

Arabella 🌹

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My throat is dry, my head is pounding  and I'm pretty sure I was close to getting alcohol poisoning.

I peel open my eyes only to screw them back shut when the harsh light hits them.

Now I remember why I didn't drink. I pull the sheets over my head and snuggle closer to the pillow when suddenly realization hits me.

I jump up completely forgetting about my soul crushing headache and look around the room.

This was definitely not my apartment.

Before I start panicking too much I start thinking back to last night and what I could remember...

My heart stops when a door to my left opens.

I quickly throw the cover back over my head and pretend to be asleep. Maybe if I wait for them to leave or go back into the bathroom I can sneak away.

"I know your awake princess, your breathing is so erratic there's no way you were trying to pretend to be asleep."

I freeze at the voice.

I pull the sheets slowly from over my head and lo and behold Asher is standing there in all his naked glory.

Well with a towel of course.

It was obvious he had just come out of the shower, his hair along with the rest of his body was dripping wet. I couldn't help but stare at his chest, arms, abs and everything else a lot longer than I cared to admit.

When I look back up to his face he has a stupid smirk on his face.

"Staring again princess?" he says with a raised brow.

That's all it took for my annoyance to grow and for me to sit up to leave. But yet again I get up too fast and my head swings.

"Woah not so fast. You basically threw up your guts last night. You should feel like shit." Asher says to me and walks to the side of the bed. "Here take these."

He reaches his hand towards me and it has two pills in it with a glass of water in the other.

I eye him trying to figure out if this was a new way to poison me.

"I am not poising you." he says reading my mind.

I sit there for a minute longer.

"They aren't laxatives either." He finally says. " which again I only did once"

I breathe out a sigh and take the pills from him and take them.

After a few minutes of silence he speaks up again.

"You're awfully quiet." He says walking over to a walk in closet. He disappears in it for a few minutes then walks back out in a grey jogger pants. Still no shirt. "I was expecting a much... louder reaction."

"I'm not sure how I should react when I'm not even sure what happened. How did I get here? Where is Maddy? And what the hell happened last night?" I ask getting more frustrated the more questions I realized I didn't know the answer to.

"I brought you here after you passed out. Maddy is here too, just in a guest room and as for what happened..."

He looks away from me and scratches the back of his neck.

"Asher just spit it out, I'm sure whatever it is wasn't that bad."

"It's less of what happened and more of what you did." Asher says, refusing to look at me.