Chapter 4

Author’s POV

The door of the room slammed open and Cyrus entered into his room in this hotel, which actually belongs to him.

He threw the jacket of the three piece black suit he was wearing for his birthday party and undid the top three button of his black shirt.

His jaw is clenched so tight, eyes are full of rage. He just left his party in the middle and returned to his room, because he is really pissed right now.

And he knew if he stayed there, someone would have gotten burned in the fire of his irrepressible anger.

He knows himself too well.

He heard the knock on the door of his room and without even turning around he knew that it’s his secretary William, who is also his good friend.

“I want you to find out everything about her. Every single thing” he said as soon as William entered into his room.

“Calm down, Mr. Knight” William tried to calm his raging boss.

“Oh, I am not calming down William. Not until I make her regret what she did. Now get to work, you only have twenty four hours” Cyrus ordered his man.

William sighed in defeat because he knows how stubborn Cyrus is. He never listens to anyone.

“Okay, I will get to it right away” saying this William left his room after closing the door.

Cyrus walked towards the couch in his room and plopped down on it. He raked his hand through his hair. Everything that happened during the party started repeating in his mind.

He was just sitting around the bar counter with his friend Ryker Jones and William. He had a glass of wine in his hand and was just looking around to find something interesting to do in this boring party.

Yeah, it’s his own birthday party. But he was still finding it boring. He didn’t even want to organize this party in the first place.

But his father, Curtis Knight wanted his son to celebrate his thirtieth birthday. So Cyrus couldn’t say no to his father.

He respects his father the most in this world.

He was just looking around, every once in a while smiling playfully at those women present in his party, who were clearly drooling over him.

He is used to getting this kind of attention. He knows wherever he goes men are going to be jealous of whatever he has, be it looks, money, popularity, his success, everything.

And women are going to be willing to do anything just so they could get his attention.

But tonight even all these women were not able to make him excited. Everything seems uninteresting and bland in his eyes tonight.

Until his eyes fell on Natalie Miller.

He saw her entering through the main door of the hall and couldn’t take his eyes off of her after that.

His eyes went to her feet in which she was wearing red high heels. He slowly scanned her body from bottom to top, stopping at her face.

Well, it’s not like his eyes didn’t linger here and there on certain parts of her body, mainly on those smooth milky legs and her cleavage.

But in the end he managed to reach her face and his mind could think of only one word and that was, beautiful.

Well, it was also screaming sexy.

Her brown waist length hair were swaying over her hip, with every step she took. Her brown eyes, even though they looked lifeless but still managed to make him want to drown in their depths.

“What do you think about it Cyrus?” Ryker asked but he didn’t know that his friend’s whole attention was somewhere else.

Ryker followed Cyrus’ gaze and his eyes landed on Natalie. He smirked after seeing how intently his friends was eying that girl.

“Don’t tell me you are already imagining doing all sorts of things with her” Ryker asked with a smirk on his lips.

Listening to his words a small smile appeared on Cyrus’ lips and he replied, “You don’t wanna know man”.

He sipped on his wine, eyes still fixed on the woman who was right now with Edwin Miller.

“Is she Edwin Miller’s step daughter? What’s her name again?”

“Oh yeah, Natalie Miller I guess. I had only heard about her but never saw her before” Ryker said.

“But she seems to be taken or maybe about to be taken. Look that’s Andrew Smith. He looks like he is close to her” William said.

Cyrus was watching it. He saw how Smith was whispering close to her ears, how his hand rested on the bare back.

His eyes followed them, in particular, they were following Natalie, until they sat down on another bar counter which is at a little distance from the one Cyrus is sitting on.

His eyes were fixed on her all the time. He sipped on his wine again without moving his gaze.

He saw her looking around and a smirk appeared on his lips knowing that she perhaps sensed his gaze on her.

“Who cares if she is already taken or is about to be taken? All that matters is if she is willing or not. And I don’t think I have ever faced a situation where a woman has refused me”

“In fact, they are the ones who throw themselves on me. I don’t remember the time where I approached someone first. They all come to me and even when I try to shake them off, they act clingy”.

He said cockily. He is not narcissist. Just too over confident.

But it’s fact though. He never goes to them first, they come to him, always. And this is what makes him think that he is a person, who is irresistible.

“Yeah we know” Ryker said while rolling his eyes.

“But what if she is not willing?” Ryker asked.

“Then nothing. Mr. Knight never force anyone to be with him. It’s his rule, ruin only those who are willing to be ruined” William said.

Cyrus whose eyes were still fixed on the girl in red dress smirked and said, “But I don’t think she will be able to refuse”.

He was watching how that Smith was tracing her thigh with his fingers. The thighs Cyrus wanted to be wrapped around his waist, when he would kiss her like crazy.

He was eying Andrew Smith and his hand which was resting on her exposed thigh, with clenched jaw.

For some reason he wasn’t liking his hands on her. Maybe because he wanted her for himself, at least for tonight.

He saw her going in the direction of restroom. He gulped the remaining wine in his glass in one go and got up on his feet.

“Where are you going?” Ryker asked.

“To have some fun” Cyrus replied with a smirk on his face and started walking in the direction of Natalie who was returning from restroom, he guessed, and was making her way towards another bar counter where she was sitting with Smith.

Cyrus was taken aback at first when she didn’t accept his offer of dancing with him.

But to him, it didn’t seem like she was refusing him, not yet at least.

It felt more like she was trying hard to get. He was finding it amusing, how she was trying to make excuses to not dance with him.

He didn’t expect it. He never thought someone would say no to him. It felt fresh to him and it also made him feel competitive.

Now he wanted to dance with her at any cost. As he didn’t like losing. And he felt accomplished when she finally said yes to him.

He was staring at her face in amusement when they were dancing together.

But his amusement turned into shock and then into anger when she suddenly pushed him away from herself, in front of everyone.

Now it felt like rejection to him and he didn’t like that at all.

He came out of his thoughts when his phone started buzzing in his pocket. He fished it out and answered it without looking at the caller ID.

“Where did you suddenly disappear to?” It was Ryker who called him.

“Came back to my room and not planning to return to that stupid party again.” Cyrus said in irritation.

“Oohh… to your room, already, I thought she wasn’t going to give in. But she did I guess. You are really something, I must say” Ryker said.

Cyrus’ jaw clenched upon hearing his words. It reminded him of his defeat again.

He pulled the phone away from his ear without responding to Ryker and threw it with all of his strength, smashing it on the wall.

His hand went up to touch his left cheek and the moment she slapped him came in front of his eyes.

Flashback…

She slapped him.

“Keep your filthy hands off of my body” Natalie shouted in anger.

Cyrus' jaw clenched as he shifted his eyes to glare at her face.

His blue eyes had turned a shade darker. His fists were balled to his side, he was holding himself back because he didn’t want to hurt a woman.

“How. Dare. You?” he gritted out.

“How. Dare. You. touch me in such an inappropriate way?” she also spat with gritted teeth.

“Who do you think you are, huh? A god? What did you think, that I would like it if you touched me without my permission, huh? If you thought that I am like those girls who die to sleep with you, then you are mistaken”.

“Because I don’t hang out with a man like you who thinks that woman are just playthings and nothing else” Natalie shouted.

Cyrus’ bloodshot eyes were throwing daggers at her. His blood was boiling in his veins. His breathing was heavy as he was trying to control his anger but was failing miserably.

“Mind it, I am not a thing you have bought from the market, so that you can do whatever you want with me”

“What I do with others? Who I let myself touch? What I wear? It’s my choice. It has nothing to do with you. Just because I am wearing a revealing dress, doesn’t mean I want a man to notice me. This kind of thoughts show how rotten your mentality is”

“Mind your words…” he started with gritted teeth taking a threatening step towards her but was cut off by her.

“You should have minded your actions”.

“You are going to regret this Natalie Miller” he spat with a tone which held a hidden promise.

“I just tried to show you your place, I don’t think I will regret it” saying this Natalie turned on her heels and left the place leaving him standing there, watching her retreating back.

Flashback end…

He was feeling very angry. To cool himself down a little, he decided to take a shower.

He wanted to take her out of his mind so that he can sleep peacefully. But he knew in his heart that she wasn’t leaving his mind any time soon. Not until, he gets what he wants from her.

Next day came. Cyrus is in his office right now. The day went by in blur. But he couldn’t take that brown eyed woman out of his mind.

Natalie Miller, she didn’t leave his mind whole day even for a minute.

The sound of her slap is still echoing in his ears, making him want to go out of his way to punish her.

He heard the knock on the door of his office room and entered his secretary William.

Cyrus waited for him to tell the information he was expecting and without wasting any time William started telling him everything that he could find.

“Natalie Miller, she is step daughter of Edwin Miller. Ruby Miller is her biological mother who got married to Edwin fourteen years ago”.

“Natalie is twenty four years old. She doesn’t have any friends, doesn’t go out much except with her father and family”

“What does she do? Does she work in Edwin’s company?”

“Unlike her step siblings, she doesn’t have any official position in either of her parents’ company” William paused when Cyrus asked.

“Why is that? What does she do then?”

“I found out that she mostly attends the business meetings with Edwin before signing the deals. Maybe she is still learning the business” William said.

“Anything else?”

“She also attends many parties with Edwin. It seemed really odd to me but I heard that Edwin can show up to these parties without his wife or his biological children. But he never shows up without Natalie”

“Also she seems to spend a lot of her time during parties with Edwin’s business partners or his potential clients” William said.

Cyrus furrowed his brows at this information. Even he is finding it a little strange.

‘Does she help in convincing those clients? But how?’

He shook his head and decided to focus on what he wants from her and how he wants to show her, how big of a mistake she has made by slapping him.

Right at that moment a thought crossed his mind and an evil smirk appeared on his lips.

“Call Edwin and fix a meeting with him. Tell him that it’s regarding business as well as there is a hidden personal agenda” Cyrus said to his man.

William frowned at his boss and asked, “What are you thinking Mr. Knight?”

But Cyrus didn’t say anything and just kept smirking evilly as he thought in his mind,

‘Natalie Miller, tomorrow I will show you what happens when you disrespect Cyrus Knight.

You will regret what you did for the rest of your life, I will make sure of that'.