Chapter 5

Logan's POV:

"D-don't t-touch m-me!"

"P-please, d-don't h-hurt me. I'm begging you"

"Ahhh!"

"H-help!"

"D-don't ...."

The man got up from the bed and he was full of sweat.

"I had a nightmare ... again"

I checked the time on my cellphone and it's 4:30 in the morning. I stood up and took a towel. I was about to go to the bathroom to take a shower when I noticed something on the table, and it was such a mess.

I walked over to my table and cleaned it first. I didn't put away the papers last night because I was tired.

After cleaning up, I went to the bathroom. 

3 months ago, when I last dreamt of what I dreamt earlier. This is the incident that I want to forget and at the same time, I don't. There were parts of the scenes that I already forgot because of constantly taking medicines.

I just closed my eyes as I felt the water dripping down my head.

"Looks like I need to go home first to get medicine"

After showering, I went out and got dressed. I immediately went downstairs and found one of the assistants close to Vianne.

"She is close to her"

"What's your name again?" I asked, as I went downstairs.

"I'm, Hilda" she replied.

I nodded and got water to drink.

"Hilda, can you do me a favor?" I asked.

"What is it, sir?"

"Can you wake up your friends and get ready now? I rented a resort for the maids. You need to relax."

"Pardon?"

"I already asked permission to Vianne's Mother and she said yes" I simply said.

She hesitated to look at me.

"You can call Mrs. Griffin if you want." I smiled at her.

"Okay, I'll call Madame first, and we'll get ready."

"Okay, don't worry, you're just going on a vacation only for today and later tonight, you may come back."

She immediately nodded and walked to their room.

I just want the two of us today.

Why?

'Cause I want to know her more.

I'm curious why he's scared when I was close to her and why she doesn't want to be touched. I remember, when we first met she suddenly slapped me and I got bored there so I teased her when we were cooking dessert.

I only know very little of her.

"I still want to know my future wife more"

To be honest, even when uncle and Brick told me that I'm getting married, I didn't protest, because I really wanted to have a family.

I opened the refrigerator and looked at what to cook.

"Next time, don't cook, let Hilda take care of it. She knows everything on what to do."

I remembered what she said yesterday. I was smiling while shaking my head.

"Too bad. Your personal maid is going to have fun today" I smiled for what I said.

I was shocked about yesterday when she shouted at me, but I just let it go, because I knew it was my fault. I held her, that's why she got angry, but I was really worried about her.

I was busy cooking when someone called me.

"Sir, we're ready" said Hilda, next to her were her companions who were dressed and packed some things.

"Ohh, wait!" I took the paper stuck to my book and handed it to Hilda.

"You can do whatever you want to do there. I've reserved that so enjoy yourselves" I smiled.

"Thank you, sir" said Hilda, and they walked towards the door but a woman stopped in front of me and asked me, so they also stopped.

"May I know, sir, why you are doing this?" The youngest among the maids asked me.

"Josephine!" Hilda called.

"I'm doing this because I want to spend more time with her, to know her" I answered and I heard a scream, so I smiled.

"Ahhh. Thank you for answering, sir" she said and I nodded.

I finished cooking and went to the garden to read, and to wait for her to come down.

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I had just finished taking a shower when my cellphone rang.

~~~~ DOC.SANCHEZ CALLING ~~~~

"Yes, Doctor?" I answered the call.

"Vianne, I'll just send my driver the additional medicine you're going to take. I can't go there because there are many patients in the hospital now" said the Doctor on the other line.

"OK, I'll just wait here, Doc." I said, and turned off the call.

I just got dressed and went downstairs.

When I went down, I immediately saw that there was food ready on the table.

"Hilda must have cooked it"

"Shall we eat?" I jumped in shock when someone spoke behind me.

"You go first, I'm not hungry" I lied. The truth was.... I'm hungry. 

"We should eat together even just for today."

"I said, I'm not hungry " I said calmly. But my stomach is a traitor because it made noise.

I heard his weak laugh. So I secretly looked at him.

"Hilda" I called my personal maid. I'll just want to ask her something, but no one answered.

"Hilda!!" I called her again.

"The maids aren't here" he said, preparing dishes on the table.

I ignored him and walked around the house while calling the maids. When I realized that the maid wasn't there, I went back to the kitchen.

"What did you do to the maids?" I asked nervously.

"I gave them a vacation. They need to relax."

"What?! Why did you do that, huh?"

"Beacause I want to"

"When mom knows about this, she'll definitely get angry-"

"Your mom knew about it. She was the first one who agreed when I asked permission."

I looked at him angrily but he just ignored it.

"Let's eat. I know you're hungry"

"Just eat here alone!" I hurriedly walked to the bedroom and slammed the door shut.

I immediately called mom but she just declined it. I dialed again, but mom didn't answer.

I should have called again when mom texted me.

"I can't answer your call right now. I'm in the middle of important meeting."

Annoyed, I stamped my feet on the floor.

Next, I called Dad but his phone was turned off. I called again but the line was still off. I immediately threw the cellphone on the bed.

Still annoyed, so I planned to just lock myself in this room but I couldn't, because I was so hungry.

When I entered the kitchen, he was reading a book and the dishes were still there. It means he was still not eating.

I sat away from him and got some foods. He was still planning to move. He was going to sit close to me when I glared at him. He immediately returned to his seat while smiling.

"Why are you so mean to me?"

"Why do you care?!" I said, gave him a death glare.

"Do you hate me?" he normally asked.

"I already told you when we first met. I DON'T LIKE YOU and you said, you didn't like me too, so the feeling is mutual."

"No, the feeling is not mutual, 'cause I like you" I stopped eating and laughed out loud.

"AHAHAHA"

He looked at me seriously while I was laughing.

"This is the first time that you made me happy" I said while laughing.

"I like you as my wife and you need to like me, too, as a husband"

"I really don't want to! We can be married even if we don't love each other. There are so many couples who don't love each other.

"Yes, there are some couples who did not love each other, but they also learned to love each other. So, It's the same. You should like me now. "

"He's very straight forward"

"I'm sorry, but I don't believe in such things"

I continued eating, and when I was finally finished, I put the plate in the sink and went out of the house to go to the beach, but I think I'm unlucky right now because it started to rain when I came out.

"You can't go outside. It's raining cats and dogs, you might get sick"

I can't do anything, so I entered the house and decided to just watch a movie.

I chose from the movie lists and decided what should I watch. I picked the horror movie even though I don't like it. It's raining and it's better to watch horror while it's raining.

I immediately sat up in the couch ando covered myself with a blanket.

"I thought you didn't like horror?" he asked me and sat on the end of the couch.

"It's raining now. It's better to watch horror movies when it's raining"

There is silence between us and we could only hear the voice on the TV. I admit, I'm scared but I just didn't make it obvious.

The scene was beautiful, but it immediately turned off because of brown out, so the whole living room became even quieter.

"Why now?"

I acted not nervous but the truth was my heart almost burst with nervousness.

"I took a leave on my job to come here and get to know you better, but you always tease me, push me away and don't want to be close to you. Why, Vianne, are you afraid of me?"

He said seriously, so I swallowed.

"Go back to your work! I didn't tell you to leave your work, so why are you here?" I walked to the kitchen to get water from the refrigerator but I didn't expect him to follow me, but I just ignored him and forced myself not to show that I was nervous.

I took a glass and turned my back on him to pour water. I can feel him behind me and I didn't realize that the glass had filled-up with water, and it overflowed and spilled on the floor. I put the glass on the table to get a rug to wipe the wet floor. When I turned around, he was in front of me and he was so close to me. I got even more nervous and I couldn't hide that anymore.

"You haven't answered my question yet, Vianne" He slowly stepped closer to me, so I stepped back but when I stepped back, I slipped in the water that I accidentally spilled earlier but he caught me immediately, so I didn't fall to the floor.

I can hardly breathe and I was losing strength, but I was forced to put my hands on his chest to push him but...

"Why are you afraid of me, Vianne?"

And that question made me even more weak.