Savage: Confessions Of a Tainted Lover(Book 2)

Chapter 4 - Then...(Edit)

Then..

It's about 3 AM when I wake up, the sheets feeling cool against my bare skin. I roll over to my side, expecting him to be laying next to me but find the space empty. Sitting up slowly I get out of bed, putting on the first thing I could find which is Julius's button up shirt. I tiptoe out of the bedroom and down the dark narrow hallway that leads to the livingroom, thinking I'd find him in here. 

"Julius.." I whisper, calling out into the darkness while rubbing my eyes but only getting silence in return. I shuffle off into the kitchen to get a glass of water when I hear the sound of chains rattling. I still for a second before hearing the sound again coming from upstairs. I rarely go upstairs since it's just an extra bedroom, Julius office and that room. I reach the foot of the steps that lead to the top floor and hear more noise. 

Maybe he's in his office... 

Walking up the steps, I continue to hear more noise, as if someone is moving something around. With his office right in front of the top steps I don't see him in there. It wasn't until the dim light coming from the end of the hallway is where I knew he was.

That room..

I walk slowly down the hallway towards the room, the door cracked enough so the light from inside glowed a dark red. Reaching the door, I peek in a little to see what he's doing and spotting him standing in the middle of the room putting what looks like a rope away in a box. Maybe it's the lighting but seeing Julius standing there in that kind of lighting does things to me. After awking at him, I knock lightly on the door which causes him to turn around quickly.

"Hi." I say softly, "What are you doing up so late?"

"I could be asking you the same thing." He replies, holding a pair od handcuffs in his palm. "I woke up because I couldn't sleep and I didn't see you in bed so I came looking." I say, leaning against the door frame.

Julius rubs the back of his head. "Yeah, sorry about that. I was having a hard time sleeping." He says. 

"You've always had a hard time sleeping. Ever since we were young." I say, and it's true. He never really slept, just stayed up reading books or comic. And when he did sleep, it was only for three hours or less.

"You should probably go back to bed. I'll there in a few." Julius picks up a box and carries it over to the walk-in closet on the other side of the room. As hes doing that, I start walking around the room to get a good look. The last time I was in here was when Amber, Julius ex-girlfriend suddenly dropped by and led me to this room where she showed me the buries on her back, she told me that Julius would tie her up and beat her and like a fool I believed her.

I walk over to the queen sized bed in the corner of the room and sit down on the edge, feeling the smooth silk against my skin. Julius comes back out from the cloest and spots me. "Not going back to bed huh?" 

I nodded my head, watching as he walks over to another box. "You know that day where we had that arguement about this room? I didn't know what it really was, just what Amber told me." 

Julius sets the box down and leans against the dresser, crossing his arms over his chest. "Yeah, I remember. That was the first time you've yelled at me in years."

I smile. "I'm sorry, I was beining such an idiot that day. Seeing Amber and this place where you brought her.." I trail off, looking around the room. "I don't know, it just bothered me a little." start to chew on my lower lip.

I hear Julius chuckles. "So, you were a bit jealous of Amber huh?"

"Pft, no..just annoyed." I respond, folding my arms over me chest as I look at him. God, I swear it's this lighting because seeing him standing there, his muscular arms crossed with his black undershirt showing off his chest and his grey sweat pants hugging his waist just right. The only thing I knew in that moment was that I wanted him. Bad. Out of all the time we've been together intimately, he's always been the one pleasing me. Doing all the things that he knew would give me relief and always meeting my needs. But I'm not sure if I'm doing the same.