Billionaire Maid

34.

Two weeks later.....

I sat quietly in the deputy chief of police's office telling him all that happened when I was with Angela. He kept on starting at me oddly, like he was reading me and this made me shift uncomfortably wonder his gaze.

When he noticed my nervousness, he softened his gaze and smiled at me. He was definitely a good looking man at six-feet two, he towered moderately over my five-feet seven frame.

"Ariel, can I call you that?" He asked, showing off his pearls. I'm not sure if he was flirting at me but I smiled back. I didn't want to seem rude, he was also an attractive man to smile to.

"Yes if I can call you Antonio. " I say smiling at me. His blue eyes are shinning brightly at me.

"Of course." He says then leans across the desk, closer to me. I freeze momentarily at his closeness. I feel a shiver run down my spine. "You know we never really see pretty ladies like you in the station, all we get are dirty criminals so pardon my enthusiasm at your arrival."

He's grinning at me, flashing his whites. My body reacts to him. Why did he call me pretty? Even through the foundation I used my bruises can still be seen.

"Thank you, Antonio." I say as heat floods my cheeks.

"So forgive me but if you can try and recall what happened to you a month ago?" He said and I can see the pity and sympathy written all over his face.

Anger clouds my brain. I didn't come here so anyone could pity me.

"Mr Del Monte please I do not need you to pity me neither do I need your sympathy. " I say my voice filled with hostility.

"I'm sorry, Ariel." I can see his apology is sincere through his blue eyes. He runs a hand through his blonde hair, in frustration. "I see we are back to last name basis. Really forgive me, I'm sorry."

"It's alright. " I say softening up when I see his apology is genuine.

He smiles at me, probably happy I accepted his apology.

"So..." I pause before I begin again taking myself back a month ago. " I was speaking to Dolores in my car and all of a sudden we were attacked. I woke up and found myself in a hospital bed and there...there was this man...he wasn't dressed as a nurse or doctor. When I struggled he__he held a.." I pause, taking a deep breath, trying to stop my tears from falling.

Antonio lays a hand on my shoulder and I notice he's behind my chair. When did he get there?

"Take all the time you need Ariel." His voice comforts me and gives me strength. I lean into his hand, releasing the stiffness in my back.

"He..he held a knife to my neck telling me to be quiet..I could feel the sharpness..if I has so much as moved an inch I would have been dead...he then took out an injection from his back pocket and injected me.."He caresses my shoulder with affection and my surprise stops me from speaking.

"...I_I was so scared...I thought I was going to die..I couldn't control myself. My eyes were closing involuntarily until I feel asleep. I think__he drugged me." I say as I stand up moving away from him.

I stand in front of the glass window at the other side of his office.

"Angela..." I say remembering how she sounded and looked. "Angela was a different person. She wasn't the kind person I knew...she talked laughed with so much hatred and resentment. She hit me with all the hatred bottled in her and she would worsen my wounds with alcohol....only to open them up again. She..she said I-I betrayed her...by seeing Dolores. She was so wicked and heartless there...I-I thought she would k-kill .." I can't talk through the lump in my throat anymore. I'm in full blown tears, sobbing as I lean my head on the window. As I recall everything she said to me, every hit and lash I took from her, my sobs become louder. I feel Antonio's arms wrap around me. He turns me into his chest and I enjoy his comfort and warmth. His arms wrap tightly around me making me sob loudly, I remember I had no one to hold me like this . I had no one. I was lonely.