Stephen Gray realizes

Stephen groaned as he stretched his body on the bed, he was feeling so exhausted and forced his eyes open as the daylight from the window reflected on him. Why was he tired after a full night’s sleep? His head hurt as he sat up; after yawning twice in a row, he stood up from the bed and walked to the window side. He looked outside the building and could tell that it was past early morning. How did he sleep for so long?

As the billionaire CEO turned to find his cellphone, he froze at the sight of something else. Blood!! There was a blood stain on the bed. He quickly checked his body to know if he had injured himself but there was no wound on any part of his body.

Stephen was scared and confused at the same time, he tried to remember what happened the previous night, the memory was blurry at first, like an imagination or more of a dream. He tried to put them in place, piece by piece and slowly it began to come together.

His jaws fell apart when it crossed his mind that he might have forced a lady to lay with him the previous night. He remembered being drunk and horny but the memories after that seemed more like a dream. He was confused… Did it really happen or was it all just a silly dream?

Stephen examined the bed slowly and saw something, it was the rope of a bra; of course he would recognize that anywhere and any day, he used to be a playboy and saw quite a lot of that. His heart dropped at the sight of that.

“No… It can’t be, it has to be a dream,” he muttered to himself as he swallowed hard, trying to convince himself that it was all just a nightmare.

Stephen didn’t know how to feel about it, he turned to the bedside table and the whiskey was still in place. He picked up the bottle and sniffed it for any abnormalities but everything seemed fine. He took his watch from the top of the small cupboard and checked the time, it was ten minutes past eleven already. He quickly turned on his personal phone and messages from his family began to come in, they were worried about him. The only people that knew of his whereabouts was his right hand man, Domenic, who was in the same hotel as him, but in a different ward.

Stephen put a call across to Domenic immediately, he asked him to arrange for a car to pick them up from the hotel in thirty minutes. After that, he rushed into the bathroom for a quick bath. He couldn’t believe that he had gone to bed without a shower; that was more shocking than sleeping with a girl who he didn’t know or remember. He needed to fix the latter, but after the first was fixed.

** ** ** ** **

“What do you mean nothing happened? You came knocking on the door at 2am in the morning, you were supposed to be at work, so where the hell had you come from? And why are you not leaving for work today? I thought your morning shift begins today?” Mrs. McCurry threw a bunch of questions at her.

“Mom… I already told you. Nothing happened, I just can't go back there, I will find another job soon, I promise.” Ana replied, trying to force a smile like everything was fine.

But the truth was that nothing was fine, she was broken on the inside but due to her family’s condition, she had to put on the act; what she wasn’t strong enough to do was return to her place of work. She cannot go back to the place of the incident, even though the manager would be mad at her for bailing, he will be more than happy to have her back, but she just didn’t want to return there.

Aside from being scared, it seemed like that chapter of her life was over. She should never have taken that job in the first place, it wasn’t a place for simple naïve girls like her, and she had learnt her lesson the hard way. The only thing of value she had has been taken away from her, her virginity had been ripped away from her by a selfish man who cared only for himself.

“You are lying to me, Anastasia. Did you get in a fight with someone? Were you fired? Did you do something wrong? You know you can tell me whatever it is, you don’t need to hide anything from me.” Her mother insisted.

“Mom, I am not lying or hiding anything, you have to believe me. I just chose to quit because I don’t think the job is appropriate for me anymore. I know I need the money for college but I will find another job, I just need a little time.” Ana pleaded

Mrs. McCurry sighed and shook her head, and then she came closer. “Is it that boy you are seeing? You came home with him last night, right?” she asked softly.

“What? No mum, this has nothing to do with Jake. He actually picked me up from the road when I was unable to find a cab,” she replied.

“Of course, how did you expect to find a cab by that time of the night? What if something had happened to you? don’t ever do something like that ever again. You should have called your father and he would have come to pick you up if it was so necessary that you left in the middle of the night. And you still haven’t told me why you deemed it necessary to leave the hotel at that time of the day… Did someone say something inappropriate? Did anyone misbehave with you?” she queried.

Ana swallowed hard the moment her mom mentioned that. She found it difficult lying straight to her mother’s face but she couldn’t just tell her that she was molested and sexually assaulted by a crazy rich young man; how would she explain that she was raped by the infamous Stephen Grey of the Grey family… one of the most reputable families in the country as a whole.

She opened her mouth to speak and just then, there was a knock on the door. Ana’s heart skipped as she feared it was someone from work, they must have come to know why she left and didn’t return. She had turned off her phone since she got home that night to avoid taking any calls from them.

“I will go check… check it,” she stuttered nervously.

“Yeah, you do that and come back here to complete our conversation.” Her mother replied and scoffed.

Once again, Ana gulped down saliva and began to walk down the hallway leading to the entrance door. She was scared; if it was someone from work, what would she tell them? She hadn’t thought of any lies. What if the man who raped her had framed her or told lies about her?

As she got closer to the door, her heartbeat sounded even louder; she was petrified to her bones, and then the worst happened. It was either her mind was playing games with her or it was really happening. She caught his scent!! That cologne! She recognized the scent of that cologne… it was the first thing that greeted her when she went into his room last night. This cannot be true!! He wasn’t here, was he??

To be continued!!