Damien

Chapter 4

"Madison" my voice cracks when I answer the call, I hear heavy breathing on the other side. Tears start to fall out of my eyes "Skylar what do you need to speak about?" her voice is so harsh and impatient "I.... I..... Wan-" she cuts me of "stop stuttering and speak! I don't have all day!" I sigh and hang up. I'm honestly not in the mood for her nonsense.

I walk downstairs barefoot as my nose catches the scent of delicious bacon. I sniff my way to the kitchen and see one of the maids by the stove while Daniel sits on the bar stool, ready for work and a mug of coffee in his right hand.

He looks up at me and I'm about to give him a smile but his eyes runs down my body "what did I tell you about your dressing, Skylar?" I roll my eyes and put my hands on my hips, looking down at my pyjamas from last night "I'm not going out, paparazzi is no where in sight and plus I'm comfortable" he shakes his head "you are my girlfriend! I expect you to always be dressed according to how I want you to be dressed"

I ignore him and walk towards the fridge,  opening it and grabbing a bottle of water "don't ignore me in my own house!" he shouts as I see the maid jump from the corner of my eyes, I spin on my heel and glare at him "I don't want to hear from you! This is getting annoying! We always fighting and you tend to just ignore it the next morning! If you don't want me then let's break this useless relationship up" I flinch at my own words, I didn't want to say that but deep down in me I wanted to know if Daniel even cared about our relationship.

He sighs and picks his blazer up from the stool next to him "when I get home, you have to be dressed accordingly" my eyes sting with tears that don't fall and my chest burns, he walks out of the kitchen. He didn't even take in consideration of what I just said, he said what he wanted and now his gone "damn" I look up and see Damien, perfect timing.

I lower my head in shame and walk pass him but his voice stops me "can I speak to you?" he walks in front of me, lowering his head to my level, looking into my eyes while frowning "what do you want?" he stands up straight and puts both his hands on his back, rubbing it "my back!" he groans out "is that what you wanted to speak about!?" he shakes his head and stretches out "sorry, my height destroys my back at times so as I was saying....." he continues talking but I let my gaze travel down his body, surely he is really tall. I only realize now that his taller than Daniel and his voice is more gruff.

"Earth to Skylar" he waves his hand in front of my face as I blink "sorry... What were you saying?" I rub my eyes as it hurts from the recent lack of sleep "I was asking you why do you let Daniel rule your life?" he does the same thing he did yesterday, he tilts his head sideways like his observing me "I don't let him rule my life.......now I need to go take a shower" I push him out of my way and ascend up the stairs but my feet freezes when I hear him speak "keep telling yourself that..... One day you will realize"

I ignore him and continue walking but I know his right but I just choose to not satisfy anyone by making them think that. Walking to our room and opening the door, I grab some clothing because I don't know for how long I will be staying in the guest room. I kind of hate Daniel for doing this to me but at the same time I love him but not the Daniel I know now but the Daniel I once knew in high school.

After he started working, I debated with myself so many times on leaving him but I won't manage on my own, I don't even have a job! That reminds me, I should start applying. I walk into the bathroom, pulling my pyjamas out and walking into the shower. I turn the shower on and let the hot boiling water run down my naked body.

I have this issue from small, ever since my parents left Madison and I, I would shower with boiling water. Once it got to bad that I stood under the water for an hour and Daniel had to pull me out, my body was filled with blisters and my skin was blood red. I sometimes think of it as a punishment.

It had been over an hour now and my skin is getting wrinkled up. I turn the shower off and step out of the cubicle, I grab the black towel and wrap it around my red body. Looking into the mirror, noticing my red skin and blisters forming. I look at the clothing I picked out, a baby blue lace crop top with white high-waist jeans and Daniel's favourite type of shoes, heels.

I drop the towel and lotion my body, my body slowly starts cooling down as I pull my clothing on and start blow-drying my hair. I feel the water droplets from my hair splash onto my face. I run my fingers down my brown hair that I managed to tint so well that you can't see the pink. I miss those times, Daniel would love to see me with different colour hair every month.

I pull my hair into a bun and walk out of the room, my heels tap onto the tiles as I descend the stairs with my head held up high and my back straight, something that Katherine, Daniel's sister has thought me.
"Get all my stuff removed from Mr Ellis room and put it in the guest room down the hall" I speak to no one in particular, a few maids leave the living room and hurry upstairs.

I walk to Daniel's office and take a seat on his leather chair, opening his laptop and typing my name in. A picture of Daniel and I back in high school appears as the background when I once had green hair. I smile and quickly go to the internet, typing jobs in New York. A few pop up as I go through them, babysitting, accounting, nursing, teaching.......

I press onto the secretary one and my eyes widen, the money! I start reading the description and see that it's for a rich woman who makes her own clothing brand only NY. I quickly send an email about me been interested in the job. I leave it to that and switch his laptop of and walk out of the office but come to a stop when I hear mumbling coming from the room next to Daniel's office "are you fucking mad!?" I hide, making sure I'm not in sight "okay just listen to me..... I'll try my best in getting access into the business but after that I don't want to be involved in this!"

I peep and see Damien hang up, I walk in front of his view while I lean on the door frame with my arms crossed "no wonder your parents kicked you out and sent you to Military School" he looks up from his phone and I see the shock evident on his face, I take my lip in my mouth and point a finger at him "now Mr please enlighten me..... Who's telling Daniel about this-" I point at him "you" then I point at myself "or me"

His cheeks go red and his hands turn into a fist, I gulp but stand my ground "you better shut that pretty mouth of yours Skylar" I smirk at him, trying to show him I'm not afraid of him "I'm not scared of you Damien, now would you like explaining yourself" he glares at me and laughs "I don't need to give you an explanation" he walks past me and pushes me into the door "Damien!" I grab his hand and dig my nails into his skin "you are either telling me or I'm taking this issue to Daniel"

He yanks his hand away from me and smirks "why do you even care about him? He treats you like shit" my eyes widen at his statement and I stop myself from slapping him "if you keep having an attitude like that Damien...... I doubt your family will ever think of taking you back" he smiles at me and walks away.

I lean onto the wall for support but his footsteps soon come to a stop "you don't know anything beautiful so I don't think you should be using such words"