Don't Blame Me

CHAPTER -6

"A ship? No,it makes me nauseous",I said when Edward said that we were leaving for the north in about an hour.

"Sorry, sweetheart we have no other choice",he fake smiled.
"My father is going to be there and he has no idea about you and that's why you are going to play along and if anyone asks you just tell them that you are my girlfriend."

"What?What",I was flabbergasted.

"My father doesn't know about this whole Radhika thing and I don't plan on telling him either until I find Radhika, so you are gonna shut your mouth and be my arm candy."

"No,I can't....Never in a million years.You think I'm gonna tell your father but why would I go talk to him in the first place?",I almost screamed.

"Look,I still have men around your boyfriend's house watching on him and so you are going to listen to me and I'm not taking 'No'for an answer",he stepped forward and banged on the table with such agression that I had to shut my eyes.I thought he was going to hurt me but then he backed off.
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Alexander Russo,the most powerful mafia,is sitting right in front of me eating his meat and his son is sitting just beside me and has barely eaten anything.I had a glass of milk and that's all.

"I see that you are not having your food.Is it cooked alright,son?", Alexander asked biting the meat.

"Yeah..I just...I just don't feel like eating at all.I guess I'll see you later father",he got up from his seat cleaned his hands and walked away.
"Kriti meet me in our room after lunch",he said stopping abruptly.

What?Did he just call me KRITI?No,I'm not used to be called like that and I don't like being called by that name.I'm going to tell him. What did he mean by our room don't I get my own room?WTF?

"What do you want from me?",I stormed into the room.

"Calm down love,the walls are not soundproof."

"Don't call me that.Don't call me Kriti.Don't call me anything and don't even talk to me"I looked straight into his eyes and found no emotion just emptiness.

"It's not like I'm dying to talk to you.I thought you could have some good food over here because honestly the food in this ship sucks",he said removing the lid which was placed on top of a container.

"Sorry but thank you. I'm full",I said turning away.

"Okay so what if I'm talking about Indian food?"he said and I stopped mid way.

"What do you mean?"

"I got them make........ what you call these things...idli..?I guess that's how it is pronounced but it's okay if you don't want it",he said smirking because he knew I had not eaten all day.

"I'm hungry",I give up.
"But why did you get them cook Indian food?Was that for me?You are not supposed to be sweet so...

"I'm not supposed be sweet but I can't let you die..you know...if I want to get my shit done,I need you alive and you are gonna get weak if you don't eat and eventually die out of emaciation and I don't want that.I'm looking out for myself because I need to get my work done."

"Thought so",I weakly smiled.
"What about you?You didn't eat the whole time too."

"Are you keeping an eye on me now?",he was taken aback.

"Come on darling,I'm your girlfriend and I'm supposed to watch you out the whole time",I said.

"Hey! Don't call me that.Don't call me darling or anything.Just don't talk to me",he said imitating me earlier.

"Shut up",I pushed him and served myself a plate full of South Indian food.

"So is this the first time you are trying Indian food?",I asked out of curiosity.

"No,I have tried before.I have been to India far too many times",he said.

"Oh."

"Do you like it?"

"Yeah for the taste but not in a healthy way...there is too much oil and spice."

"You should have a lassi",I said it out of nowhere.

"What is it?"

"It is made out of curd,it's sweet and it's really tasty and healthy too.You should try",I said.

"Would you make it for me?",he asked and stared right into my soul.Normally I would say 'No' because it's him and I'm determined to disobey him but he asked me to make lassi and that's like my favourite thing to do so I said,"ofcourse."

"Do you cook?",he asked and I don't understand why he is talking so much today.All he does is stay quiet and intimidate me but something was different in the air today.

"Yeah..I mean not on a regular basis but I love to cook and I'm good at it I guess",I said.

"Do you cook?"

"Yeah,I love cooking",he replied.

"What?",I was surprised.
"You cook?"

"Yeah,I do and on a regular basis except for when we are on ships and travelling",he said it casually but I was really surprised.

"Wow.Someone like you likes cooking...it's a little bit tough to digest..you know",I said and he chuckled.

For some reason he was nice to me today and I guess he could be really nice if he wanted to..

Since we were sharing a room,we had a single bed and I wasn't ready to let go of the bed but then he told he wasn't sleeping anyway so I took the king sized bed.I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tried and at this point I don't want to sleep at all.I keep getting these bad dreams more of night mares about my mother and Stefan.I can't even think of how he is doing without me.With all these thoughts in my head,I closed my once opened eyes.The bed beside me dipped and honestly that terrified me because I'm on a ship full of mafia people and anybody could hurt me so,I screamed my lungs out.

"What's wrong?It's me",he said putting on a disgusted face.

"But it could be anyone who could hurt me",I said.

"Nobody would hurt you because you are with me."

"How are you so sure Edward?",my nerves wouldn't calm.

"I'm the boss here,aren't I?They wouldn't disobey me",he said.

"Okay but what are you doing here,you said you weren't gonna sleep."

"I'm not sleeping..Do I look asleep?",he rolled his eyes.

"But I don't think I can sleep knowing you are on the same bed",I said and got up from there and headed towards the couch.