Her blood on my rose petal

Chapter 17~ Lonely

I sped my pace and he sped his. My heart started to pump out of my chest and I just knew he felt the same. When we came close enough I closed my eyes and touched his chest. I could feel his heart beating strongly right through his thin shirt. He just looked down at me.
What are you doing here Kai?
"How do you know where I work?" He pushed away.
Kai I work here-
"Lies!" He raised his voice.
Shhhhh! I put a hand on his mouth trying to silence him, but he just walked backwards. I missed you Kai... I really missed you.
"Why are you always around me!? Ive been seeing you everywhere ever since we met! Are you doing this?" I'm not doing this Kai it's just fate... I moved a few steps toward him. And he also then came a bit closer to me.
"Im sorry" he whispered in my ear before he left to the opposite direction on wich I was. I looked back and I could only see his silhouette. How is this happening! First in the cemetery and now here? My heart is still craving his gentle touch, but my brain told me not to touch him. And for some reason I feel like an idiot for not doing it. The taste of his lips, his pungent scent and the way it seeped into my nostrils, his profound voice. I needed time to process my emotions.
I calmly walked back to my room. My mind stuck, my whole body felt stuck. I hated the warm and cold feeling I had about my friendship with Kai. My heart is still screaming for more... more of something I'm not sure I can provide. People come and go around me. I feel like every time someone comes to me I push them away... everyone away and I don't do it on purpose. I changed my clothes and got into the warm bed that had been prepared for me. As I laid in the bed I searched the walls to find something to look at. There was nothing though, only a black dot on the corner of the room. It looked like a little bug so I stood up to take a closer look.
I need to find a ladder... maybe I can find one in the first floor. I pulled my Nokia phone out of my pocket and searched for the flash button. When it finally turned on I speed walked to the elevator. When I got to the garage I found a portable steel ladder. So when I got back to my room I placed it against the wall and climbed it up with a shoe on my hand, ready to kill whatever the black dot was. When my face was just inches away from it I realised that it was not a bug. BANG! My shoe hit the ground making a loud noise. I shone the light of my phone against the little circle and that's when I realised what it was. A camera. What was a camera doing here? Oh god no... he saw me get dressed. Oh shit! I yanked the blue circle out of the wall and held it in my hands. Okay Mari, play it cool, you cannot lose this job! I thought to myself.
I took in a deep breath and thought of what would be the next smart thing to do about this. What ways do I have an option of reacting with right now? Oh no, if they are watching me and they saw me raging mad, yanking a camera out of the wall they will know I know. I need to fix this right now. Maybe I should install the camera again and pretend I don't know about it? No, no, no this can't be happening! I placed the camera on my desk and went to sleep. Maybe tomorrow I could think of a solution.
I closed my eyes and wrapped my self with my warm sheets. I just couldn't escape my thoughts about Kai. I know he is still here in this mansion, and he thinks I am stalking him. I am not! It must be fate that continuously brings us together. I twisted and turned the whole night, praying to just drift off. After a few hours of moving around in my bed I checked the time. 2:45 am? I've been in bed for so long feeling so tired and just couldn't fall asleep. What is wrong with me? I then stood up and took my Melatonin pills that I had ordered from the local Pharmacist. After what felt like two minutes it was morning and rays of morning light where striking through the window directly onto my face. I slowly opened my crusty morning eyes and searched the room for something to look at. A sofa, a table, a window, a chair with someone sitting on it... WHAT! My eyes focused on the guys face and that's when I noticed Kai was staring. Watching me wake up.
"You look good when you sleep you know?" He implied with his enchanting voice.
What the hell are you doing in my room how did you even get in here?
"Woah, calm down missy I'm sorry about what happened yesterday... I can explain why I'm here."
You have 1 minute!
"I needed to be here for a mission; a job that has been given to me. And this is not a safe place for you to be in. You need to leave... please just trust me."
Why should I do that... the owner of the house is rich and willing to pay me a lot of money per hour. Wich I need to escape the school. Paying them more than my dad is paying them is my only way out. I just don't understand how my dad has so much money to pay them. He doesn't even have a job. He is an alcoholic for god sake.
I stood up and stretched, causing my back to crack.
Kai please let me get dressed and fix myself up then we can talk.
"Okay Mari..."
I opened the door waiting for him to go out and when he finally did I grabbed my winter skirt and my cute beige turtle neck to take into the bathroom. When I finished getting dressed I went to look for him. I opened the door to leave my room and there he was. He was just standing right in front of the door for the last 30 minutes.
Why are you still here?
"I was waiting for you dummy."
Oh, waiting doesn't mean you have to stand right in front of my door for half an hour... you didn't have to do that.
"Well I wanted to." He said walking closer to me. Very close... until I could feel his breath on my face.
My heart was throbbing faster by the second.
"I want you... Mariana and I know you want me to. I can see it in the way you look at me." he spoke with a strong but tender voice as he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. He pulled back for a bit.
After all that happened he is saying this now? After the way he would brush me off, after he left in the hallways? I can give him a chance, but I swear if he treats me like that again I will leave him.
He was right, I did want him I missed the way he made me feel, the way he touched me. His smile. My eyes where rocking back and forth, scanning his flawless face.
He placed his large hands behind my head, pulling our faces centimetres away from each other. Maybe your right... maybe I do want you.
His lips met mine. They where warm and soft. I placed my hands on the back of his neck and he span without braking the kiss. He then fell backwards on the bed and I fell on top of him. Our bodies pressed together, heatedly against the bed. It was like magic, I felt like a feather flying in the air. All the weight on my shoulders had suddenly faded away. As if it never existed. He is what I needed.
His taste was still the same as the first time we kissed. I love you too... Kai. I whispered in his ear between heavy breathes. I grabbed his arms and I almost forgot how hard they felt.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!! My phone rang startling the both of us. We both paused and looked at the phone. What the fuck was that? Sorry it's time for work I really have to go now. Kai pushed him self off me and brushed his black soft hair backwards. I rapidly grabbed my phone and hit the alarm button but it just wouldn't turn off. Why won't it frickin turn off!!! After the millionth time of pressing the button it finally did it. I checked the time and realised I had to meet my boss in one minute. No come on it's my first freaking day and I am already messing everything up. I grabbed my scrunchy and ran to his office.
"Mari!! Wait I still need to tell you something"
I did not have time so I just kept going. When I finally reached his office I took a deep breath at the door step and placed my hand on the door handle ready to apologise. I heard heavy rapid foot steps chasing after me so I opened his door and came in.
"Well good morning Mariana! I see you found the camera in your room haven't you?" He claimed with an unreadable grin.
Oh I only took it off because I thought it was a bug I don't mind! I forced my self to smile.
"You really think I am stupid? HUH!!!" He roared.
God he is pissed at me... what do I do!
"And then you come late by one minute in your first day? You fucking bitch... your going to pay." He complained as he stood up in a slow contained pace. Slowly roaming around, walking behind me with his hands clasped together.
"I don't show mercy here... that's just not how things go, and you will have to pay with something because of that minute of work that you missed." He whispered touching my chin with his finger and lifting it up for me to look at him.
"I sense your nervous princess? I don't bite."A grin spread across his face. "Take a seat." He walked pass me dragging me with him. His firm grip was just like the one my father had. When I sat down he came next to me placing a hand on my shoulder. He dragged his finger starting at my shoulder down my arm and soon his hand was on my thigh and soon he was sliding it up.
"You can pay that minute in other ways you know?" He offered with a malevolent smile.
No, No let go of me!! LET GO!! I slapped his hand and stood up.
"Don't you fucking stand up like that!!! I AM YOUR BOSS!!" He fumed
I was about to start running when I felt his tight grip on my wrist.
No, this can't be happening. I had a lot of shit go on my life, but my dad was enough, I don't need more abuse.
"Where do you think your going? You haven't paid the camera you broke nor the minute late." His voice was a notch lower now. "He forced both my wrists together and pulled them over my head as he pushed me against the wall. I could hear my wrists crack. The pain was as sharp as a knife not the physical pain, but the mental one. "SLAP ME AGAIN YOU DAMN BITCH! I swear you will die." He giggled as he grabbed my hair and pulled it. This time there is no Kai to save me. Like a jolt of electricity the pain shot through my nerves, reminding me of the first time I could feel something again; the time I could still heal. This is probably the last few minutes of my life. I will be forever forgotten when I die. Everything started to turn black and soon I was out. I woke up the next day in a dark room. Not remembering anything that happened to me. I felt dizzy and like the whole world was spinning. What the hell happened yesterday. I had no idea where I was or what time it was. I checked for my watch but it was not there. Nor was my phone. Oh god I got kidnapped. The room was pitch black and cold. I had no sense of where I was whatsoever and the only thing I could feel was blood gushing down my neck. I touched the floor and it was all wet with it. The only thing I could smell was the iron in it. I stood up with my hands stretched out in front of me, searching for a wall of something that wasn't just empty space. I needed light or something solid. I decided to walk forward until I hit something, it took me about two minutes of just walking but I finally hit a wall. My hands searched for some sort of light switch, but I just didn't seem to find one. I kept walking sideways, my hands still on the wall. When I finally hit something that seemed like a switch I turned it on. And I saw a small spark about a 8 meters away so I went towards it. After about a minute the light fully turned on and I could finally see clearly. The room was basically a big cement square. Fuck this is my end, I will probably die here and no one will ever know I existed. My life is over... and it was absolutely pointless, only made of pain. I leaned against the wall and slowly sat down on the concrete floor. I tucked my face in between my knees and just looked down. Trying to conserve the bit of warmth I had left. I was only wearing a pair mini shorts and a top. I scratched the back of my head and felt more blood on my hands. I licked all of it straight off and I was surprised at how good it tastes. Where else was I bleeding? I looked at my arms and legs, but did not see anything except the blood on my head and neck. My left wrist was broken because I couldn't move it, but that was the least I cared about right now.
Pain wrapped it's cold fingers around my throat chocking away the last good minutes I had in my life; the last valuable ones. My fathers sharp words wrapped me like a heavy blanket. All the things my father did came back to my mind. The way he would lock me in our basement sometimes for days. The way he would get drunk and hit me. All of my agonising memories flooded back and I couldn't stop them. Wanted to occupy my mind with something else, but that's the only thing that came in. I couldn't just dodge my thoughts and I didn't know why they where just creeping into my head. I let the ocean of tears gush out of my eyes for the whole day, or night. I cried so much that I couldn't hold my eyes open anymore. This is bad, really bad. Sadness was a prison, a prison I couldn't escape. After a few hours of just laying on the hard cement I heard a knock at the door. Who is that? I ran over to the door and tried to open it desperately, but it was locked. I bit my lip in fear of what could happen next. I couldn't remember anything I never felt so lost. Bang, bang, bang!! Someone banged the door even louder this time. My heart was pounding out of my chest.
WHO IS IT?
The door continued to rattle and the voice I most wanted to hear was there.
"Move im going to break the door" Kai shouted. I moved to the side and the door broke. The blinding light from outside of the room made me incapable of looking forward.
Kai?
"It's me, you will be okay Mariana. I am here you safe mow." I felt his strong arms wrap around my waist as he picked me up. And every thing looked fuzzy again. All I could feel was relief, being picked up and knowing I was safe made me go unconscious, but in peace.
Kai's POV
It is so fucking painful to see the person you love get hurt. It made me want to kill anyone who lays a finger on Mari. The problem is I work for the dick that hurt Mariana, and even though it is my dream job to work for the biggest mafia in history... I want to protect her, at whatever cost is. Even if it means sacrificing my happiness and even my life.
I didn't really know where to take her or what to do so I just took one of the cars parked in the garage and ran to the hospital, thinking about how the fuck I am supposed to solve shit like this. When I arrived at the local hospital I carefully picked her up like if I where picking up a rose petal and ran to the hospital secretary . Holding her frail body in my arms made me feel secure... secure that she was going to be okay. I swear no one, will ever lay a finger on her. Her face looked looked white as snow and her expression was cold. Stay with me come on!! I hit gently tapped her face in hopes she would give me a sign. When the paramedics saw me with her they rushed towards us with worried expressions plastered on their faces.
"What happened to her?" One of the nurses feeling her pulse said.
She fell of the stairs!! I lied.
The nurses did not even look at me and just took her out of my arms and gave me a reassuring look. I nodded my head confirming her actions and watched her disappear into the crowded hallways.