"How do you feel now?" Maria asked Iris while making breakfast for everyone.
"Better. But my body aches a lot." Iris flexed her right arm before grabbing a piece of apple.
"Training must be tough right?" Maria placed those plates on the small food trolley and extended her hand towards Iris. It was her responsibility to serve them breakfast along with Maria.
"Jim is not that bad what I had thought earlier. But he is strict about his schedule." Iris made a sour face remembering her recent training days in the basement. Jim was assigned to train her. Especially in the morning before anyone wakes up. She had to go down in proper attire to get trained. At first, she was scared and with time Jim made it easier for her. She understood that Dimitrios's decision couldn't be altered by any force. But she could make use of it. Instead of crying over the same matter, she could make herself strong and worthy enough to break this cage.
"Good then. How i
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"Boss the Malaysians have already arrived. We can discuss the matter." Igor placed a file in front of Dimitrios who was a little lost in his thoughts. "Yeah... We will see." Fixing his tie, he walked away from his cabin and reached the conference room. Watching the certain changes in his mood, Igor didn't get the courage to ask further. He knew there might be something that was bothering him, but what exactly, he didn't realize. The only information that Dimitrios passed was of Iris going out of hand. But Igor didn't see such things. "Is everything fine?" Igor asked for one last time before getting inside the room. Nodding his head reluctantly Dimitrios initiated to finish the meeting as soon as possible. "Bratva......" Dimitrios heard Bentong pronouncing his name with a wide smile on his face. "Bentong... Long time....no see..." Pulling the chair away he sat and mentioned his secretary to bring those papers of new deals.
"Tell me what can you do to save him." "What?" Iris couldn't believe her ears when Dimitrios pronounced such words with no emotions plastered on his face. Leaving the clutch on his suit, Iris drew her hand back and maintained a distance of a few feet from Dimitrios. His hands were still gripping her wrists but she pushed her body back to create an unforgivable distance. The thunder roared for the nth time bringing a huge amount of rain outside. She could see through the corner of her eyes the balcony getting drenched in heavy downfall. As if nature was pouring every ounce of tears watching her miseries. The lightning showed her and the sound made her shiver even being inside the room. Heavy wind flow crashed against the glass making her widen her eyes. "What happened. I asked you something." Dimitrios jerked her body holding her hands to get her out from the trance she was sleeping into. "Daniel knows nothing about you. He is i
"So, how are you now? Last week you were sneezing too much." Daniel tucked the loose strands of her hair behind her ears. "Yeah... I just went out in rain to enjoy but eventually fell sick." Iris gave a small smile to Daniel. "Too childish. That was not even raining to enjoy. It was a thunderstorm." "I wish some people would understand," Iris mumbled under her breath remembering how Dimitrios ordered her to go out in such conditions. "What did you say?" Missing those incoherent words Daniel tried to grab the statement but Iris just nodded her head by saying "Nothing." "So, are we still friends?" Daniel asked guessing her little off that day. "Of course we are." Iris smiled back. The devil might have done enough, but she couldn't just leave the only person who made her feel normal and happy in life. She knew there would remain a chance of risking Daniel's safety but she made that sure with Igor to keep it a
Days passed, the complications never ended. Igor was furious watching the increasing load of work, training, and academics on Iris. The girl was not even getting time to breathe. Dimitrios became more reluctant to hear any of Igor's words for Iris. Maria was tired of handling Dimitrios's weird demands like waking Iris up early in the morning for training or making her run fast in the tracks. Sometimes she wondered what Dimitrios was trying to do. Iris was sitting for dinner beside Dimitrios as it became quite a new trend in the house. Igor was having his food but only Iris was moving her fork and spoon here and there on her plate. Picking up a small portion of the meat she tried to gulp it down for the second time. The strange smell made her a little nauseous and she couldn't understand how her appetite had actually gone. "Is everything fine Iris? Do you want something else?" Maria asked watching her plate but she just nodded her head.
"I doubt if I had ever faced this." Dimitrios tapped his fingers on his forehead while pacing in his corridor and speaking to himself."Fuck....I didn't even see that coming...." He growled while punching the nearby wall making the painting of the wall brush off a little."What haven't you seen coming?" He snapped his head towards the source of the voice and found Igor standing in his night suit holding a cup of coffee."What the hell are you doing here at this hour of the night?" Dimitrios yelled back without even paying any heed to his intentions of coming at his wing."Why the hell have you awaken half of the mansion? And I heard of calling a doctor again? What's wrong with Iris?"Igor knew the major reason for calling a doctor home would be Iris only. This was not the first time Dimitrios was reluctant about accepting his faults but Igor was pissed off with his continuous torturous behavior."Igor, let
"Iris......" "The small scissors she was holding to cut open the tag of the new material dropped from her hand when his voice echoed in her room. "Jesus...." She gasped turning behind and watching a furious Dimitrios standing there with his hands in his pockets. "What's wrong with you?" She gathered a little amount of her courage to ask but regretted that immediately. Taking some menacing steps towards her Dimitrios closed the gap in between. "What's wrong with you, Slave?" After a certain time, the annotation "Slave" seemed foreign to her ears. Even though she was not fully excused from household works, Dimitrios had rarely used that tag to call her in public or private. Now that he had again used the same, a strange pain shot through her heart making her eyes moistened. "Slave......" She murmured under her breath expecting that he won't be able to hear. But to her surprise, he heard and a throaty chuckle left his mout
"Happy Birthday Iris...... Many Many happy returns of the day...."Iris opened her eyes hearing the sweet voice of Maria who was holding a breakfast tray along with a small decorated cake in her hand."My God, Maria. How do you know that?" Iris rubbed her eyes while sitting up on her bed with a smile worth million dollars."Well.. that's a secret...." Maria winked her eye bringing everything to the nearby coffee table. Iris jumped out of the bed to hug her tightly with a little number of warm tears in her eyes."You know I thought, no one would wish me." She laughed while dropping a small drop of tears on Maria's shoulder."Who wouldn't wish you? Tell me, I will take care of that."Hearing the voice Iris lifted her face and met Igor standing there at the threshold of the room."Igor...." She ran towards him and hugged him tightly."Happy birthday champ..." Ruffling her hair with h
"Time flies. Isn't it?" Iris asked Maria who was watering some plants in the garden. Rather they were Iris's favorite plants that she had picked up randomly."True... When you first came here you were this much..." Maria showed her the height of a small kid and Iris just rolled over the grass laughing loud. Definitely, it was a joke because it had been almost two years only since she stepped inside Bratva's Mansion. So no way Maria had seen her as a kid."Nice joke...." She replied clutching her stomach tightly."Well... What can I say? By the way, how is Daniel?" Maria asked taking a look around the corner of the premises."Shh... " Iris immediately stood up from the ground and ran towards Maria to suppress the matter. She knew what had happened earlier when Dimitrios got to know about Daniel. It was still an unresolved matter for them."Relax..... There is no one." Maria moved her head almost 360 degrees to confirm.