No choice but to love

8. Fourth night

Tara was stunned by the mention of a wedding. "W-Wedding?" she exclaimed.

Derek said playfully, "Oh I forgot, you haven't even said yes yet." He pulled Tara close and kissed her cheek lovingly as she felt her face flushing with embarrassment. Derek laughed louder and said, "Relax baby doll. I will give you some time before that. But that doesn't mean I am not planning on making you my wife, anyway."

Tara's face went red and looked away. Derek leaned in and kissed her on the cheek and smiled.

She suddenly realized that she didn't actually have any other options. Her heart started beating to that idea. But still, despite his dominance and control over her, she couldn’t help but notice how much he cared for her. He leaned back and smiled at her, seemingly content with her reactions. She suddenly felt cold and shivered for a second.

"My precious little one...are you cold? Come here," Derek said and embraced her tightly in his arms and started to caress her back to warm her up. His body was so hot and Tara was enjoying his heat on her cold, partly naked skin.

They lay down in silence together for a few minutes. Derek put small gentle kisses on her head while having her in his arms. She was feeling exhausted, confused, scared, loved, humiliated, wanted, and hungry all at once.

After a few minutes, Tara looked up at him and said, "Derek?" He looked at her innocent eyes, smiled and kissed both her eyes one by one, "Yes my love.." She said "I'm starving." Derek looked shocked for a moment and suddenly closed his eyes as if he was sorry for his thoughtlessness and said, "I am sooo so sorry baby. Your beauty makes me lose the track of time." Tara chuckled.

He called Mai through the walkie talkie and asked her to bring some food to his room.

He then got out of the bed and walked up to a wardrobe at the corner of his room. He looked and browsed for a few seconds, and finally took a blue hoodie, a pair of black leggings and a black underware out. Then he went back to Tara, took her hand and helped her to stand up. He kneeled in front of her to put the underwear on her. Tara placed her hands on his shoulders. He pulled it up on her and then gently kissed both her thighs a few times. Tara blushed. He then helped her wear the leggings. He got up and said, "hands up miss". Tara held her hands up. He took her black blouse off. Her nipples were so red and swollen. He kindly caressed and kissed both her breasts, and then dresses her up in the hoodie. Her hair got all messy. Derek smiled and messed her hair more and laughed. "Heeey! Stoooop!", said Tara and put her hands on her hair, not to let him mess it more. She looked so cute and adorable in that very moment. Derek chuckled and picked her up and held her in his arms. Tara wrapped her arms around his neck. Derek looked into her eyes with love, and very gently and slowly kissed the corner of her lips, then her lips, her neck, her cheeks, her eyes... "You are mine.. MINE", he said with a serious face. Tara nodded and kissed his cheek. His heart melted and smiled.

Mei knocked. Derek put Tara down and went to open the door. "Thank you Mei, please put it on the bed", said Derek. Mei nodded and did so, and then left. Derek closed the door. Tara sat on the bed and started eating ravenously. Derek sat at the other side of the bed and stared at his precious little doll with a smile. After a few bites Tara said, "you're gonna stare at me the whole time?" Derek smiled and nodded. Tara giggled and shrugged and continued eating. The food was delicious.

Once she finished her food, Derek picked the tray to take it back to the kitchen. He kissed her forehead and said, "take some rest baby. I'll be in my office; I have to take care of some stuff from work. You can come to my office at anytime though ok? Or you can just go and watch some TV in the living room. Anything you'd like." Tara nodded. He pecked her lips and left.

She was literally exhausted, both physically and mentally. She didn't know what was the future like. She couldn't picture the life that was ahead of her. All she knew was that she had given up. She wasn't gonna try to run away anymore. But what about her job and all she had tried so hard for? Probably she would never need to worry about any of it again. What about Derek? Could she ever fall in love with him? Well of course she was clearly into him. He was such a handsome guy after all. How could any girl resist this man? But still... love meant something else to Tara. A completely even and two-sided relationship. But this relationship was the total opposite of what she had in mind.