5. Move in

[Tanya]

Anger makes you do crazy things and that was why I was banging on my step brother's door in my oversized shirt and was I wearing flip flops? Nope, I walked barefoot to his door.

He opened the door, looking pissed, but when he made eye contact with me, his expression softened to be replaced with surpise.

For a moment, his appearance put me in a daze. I can see that he already changed his shirt to a simple, plain white one. I can't help but notice the way his shoulders were broader, and his chest wider, but those mysterious dark eyes was enough to bring back memories that troubled me.

"Virgin...."

"Don't fucking call me that or I'm gonna break your fucking nose with my fist" I said with rush, pointing to his face as I entered his room angrily.

He was calm, looking cold and that added to my anger.

I showed him one of the things he had bought for me, a red pant and a matching red bra. "What the fuck are these?"

"Bra and panty" He answered without blinking.

"And you got my exact size" I pointed out harshly "You pervert, you were checking me out, right?"

"No"

I waved the underwears at him "You were not?"

He exhaled softly. "Okay, I stared at you, alright?"

I felt heat over my face at his confession.

"It was hard not to, but it was your mun who had blurted out the size of your....clothes" He explained calmly.

"My mum?"

That was the twist I was not expecting, but I wasn't too surpised. Mum reveals too much information sometimes and does not even get awkward about it. She had once told one of her friends that I love black underwears.

"Yeah" Kieran got my attention. "We talked about the cancelled shopping plans and when I offered to order some things for you, she started giving me the size of your clothes and shoes, in the process, she blurted out the size of your underwears" He elaborated and everything he's said showed how much my mum trusts him.

I groaned, throwing the underwears on his large chest and he caught them smartly. "I don't need them, okay?" I said.

"Your mum will be displeased to find out you rejected my gifts"

True.

I snatched the underwears from his hold "Don't touch them!" I barked at him.

The corner of his lips lifted in a small, amused smile "But you gave them to me"

I wanted to say something, anything, but there was nothing else to say to him. He won. So I marched off to the new bedroom given to me in the mansion, panting like I had fought an elephant.

I threw the underwears on the bed and started pacing the large bedroom.

Why the fuck is Kieran doing this? Is he just being nice? Or it's part of his scheme to punish me?

After thinking for few minutes, I let anger consume me completely and started leaving the mansion.

As I landed on the first floor, my eyes unintentionally connected with Kieran's blue ones.

Shit.

"You are leaving now, I thought you were sleeping over" He said, striding towards me to stay beside me so we can walk side by side.

"If I'm sleeping over or not, it's none of your business" I fired.

"It is my business, Virgin, Clara and dad had asked me to watch over you and keep you safe"

I paused on my track and he also did. "Bodyguard now, huh?"

His face brightened with amusement "Exactly"

I scoffed and resumed walking. He did the same thing, and I just wished I could push him away.

"So as your bodyguard, let me drive you to wherever you are going to" He said, his voice close to my ears since he was right at my side.

"No, you are not driving me" I told him, sounding certain and trying not to look at his face.

"I have to" He said, also sounding certain, no, he sounded more certain. "If your mum appears any moment from now, she could stop you from leaving"

He is right. I stopped walking and faced him squarely, my arms across my chest. "Why are you helping me?"

"I told you, Virgin" He sighed, standing straight "I want to fix things"

I shook my head. "Not all broken things can be fixed, Kieran. There is nothing to fix here"

He froze and I smirked, turning away from him to dash out. I don't have to wait for him to say anything else.

****

For the rest of the day, I had waited for my mum to send a text, or call me, yelling at me to go back to John's mansion, but there was nothing like that.

I think I should be worried, and I was right when mum appeared the next day with a deep frown on her face.

"Why didn't you tell me you were leaving yesterday?" She asked, standing akimbo.

"You were resting. I didn't want to disturb you" I said with a quiet voice, feeling like a child that knew she was about to get scolded.

She gave me a fake sweet smile. "That's sweet of you" Then she frowned. "You are leaving with me now"

"No" I said immediately.

"Tanya" She sighed and dropped her hands from her noticeable hips "You just have to move in with me this time because you are resuming a new job tomorrow. You can't just leave from here because that would make you get to work late, and I'll also remind you that you don't have a car anymore"

Why didn't I think of that before leaving?

Right. I was blinded by my anger.

"So you don't have a choice but to leave with me, John's driver is waiting outside"

It's always John's driver.

Oh, I hate my life. I hate that everything is becoming a routine now.

When I'm enjoying my life, mum comes here, she forces me to go to John's house and I see Kieran. It's just that Kieran is unpredictable. He always does new things every second to surpise me. I suddenly felt like I'm not ready to face again.

"Mum, I don't wanna go" I pouted.

She glared at me. "You are coming with me, young lady"

I shook my head to tell her no.

"Stop acting like a child" She warned, her eyes wide and hard at me.

I pressed my lips together.

"You're leaving this place and going to the big house!" She said loudly.

"I love small houses"

"That's not true because you loved Shawn's mansion. Now, let's move to John's mansion" She said sternly.

I shook my head, my lips pressed together.

"Tanya!" She stood akimbo again "Don't start with your stubbornness"

"Mum, you should just leave me here" I cried.

"And why would I do that?" She barked.

I think I got that stubbornness she talked about from her or she would have left me here without questions.

I knew I couldn't change her mind now, so I ended up in John's expensive car minutes later, sulking.

"You got a new, big job now and a new, big brother"

I reflexively coughed, placing a hand on my chest as I did. Big brother?

"And I'm sure he can't wait to see you again" She added, grinning.

I suddenly felt nauseous.

"Can I go back home? I forgot my glasses" I said, trying my luck.

Mum glared at me "You don't need your glasses"

"My eyes are aching me" I lied, rubbing my eyes with my fingers.

"No they are not. You don't have any issue with your eyes" Mum said curtly but I still wasn't giving up, not when she kept talking about Kieran every second.

"But I've had issues with my eyes before" I told her with a pout.

"You were eight at that time, Tanya" My mum reminded me. "Eight"

I twisted my lips like I do whenever mum has caught me lying.

"Then can I go home to pee?" I mumbled.

Mum eyed me with heavy suspicion "Pee in the car"

"The driver will see me!" I whisper yelled.

"I don't care" She shrugged.

I don't think there's any way I can try to go back home now, except I'd escape when I get there.

"The house is surrounded by tight security"

I blinked at my mum's word.

"So don't try to escape when you get there, okay?"

Mum knows everything that goes on in my head.

I want to cry– no I want to wail.

"Don't cry, okay?" My mum patted my thigh with a hand "You'll like it there"

I won't. Kieran will be there and I really don't know what else he would try to do now that I'm fully moving into the mansion.