At home

Lily quickly followed Zared before he disappeared from her sight.She went behind him and followed him upstairs to where his room was.

"Come with me" Zared said with a straight face and went along the hallway of the first floor. Lily followed him quietly until he stopped at the end of the hallway.

"This will be your room. I don't like anyone invading my privacy so you'll stay here and I'll be in my room" He completed his sentence with a cold voice and a straight face and made his way to his room without turning back to even take a glance at Lily or wait for her to reply.It was as if he was talking to himself.

“Wait” Lily said, making Zared sigh and turn around with his eyebrows raised in question.

“I know we've both been forced into this, but let's just accept it? After all, there's nothing else we can do“

Zared scoffed a little, turned around and brought his steps forward towards Lily.

“That's probably what you wanted all along. Listen to me, I'm never going to accept you neither this relationship. It's just on the papers for me so don't fly high and just pretend like we don't exist to each other is that alright?”

Zared said and left leaving Lily alone in the hallway one again not caring what ger reply would be.

Lily has always been lonely all her life,she didn't have any friends because she was said to be the 'nerd' who was always studying and was no fun. Her parents always forced her to study 24/7 but all she could do was rank 2nd no matter how hard she tried.Lily went into her room which looked like a guest room and soon drifted to sleep after changing into her night dress.

Lily was awakened the next morning at 7:00 a.m by the ringing of her phone alarm, she decided to wake up before Zared left for work to prepare his breakfast.

She has already asked his mother beforehand about his time schedule for work and breakfast and everything ,even though she was a bit shook after getting to know he was going to the office the next day of his wedding. She wanted to do these stuff for him. She wanted to please him because doing other people's work for them is what you earn love through is what Lily was taught since childhood. This made her turn into a people pleasing person more than a pleasing herself one.

She freshened up and made her way to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for her and Zared. It was 8 am when Zared was seen by Lily coming down the stairs fixing his handcuffs looking like a charming knight straight out of a movie.Lily couldn't take her eyes off of Zared, she'd never seen someone this perfect....until she realized he was standing right infront of her staring at her.

"Uh-Uh here...breakfast is ready"

She said with an awkward yet delightful smile on her lips meanwhile Zared rolled his eyes and took his place on the dining table and started with his breakfast ,Lily joined him and both of them spent the time in silence while having their breakfast.After completing the breakfast, Zared got up and proceeded to the main door to leave for his company.

"Have a good day!" Lily exclaimed then pouted sadly getting no response from Zared.

The day passed with Lily getting bored and having nothing to do.The sun set and it was now 8:00 pm and Lily was apparently waiting for Zared in his room.Without realizing Lily started playing on her phone and soon Zared came back home and entered the room completely ignoring Lily.

She was left upset as he went towards the washroom to take a shower without acknowledging her presence.He came out the washroom with just a towel hanging low on his torso making his abs visible and making Lily more mesmerized by him, he went to his closet and came back with PJs on and saw Lily.He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and annoyance

"What are you doing here ?" He asked Lily in a stern voice .It took Lily some time to process what he was trying to say until she realized and widened her eyes.

"I am -I am so sorry, I forgot-" Lily hurriedly got up.

Lily made her way out of the room but Zared grabbed her arm and pulled her infront of him

"I know you're doing it purposely, don't try to act so innocently in front of me, it doesn't work here lady. Make sure you don't 'forget' again" He let go of Lily harshly pushing her and making her stumble.

She went back to her room controlling her tears and burst out as soon as she locked the door to the room.

'I didn't mean to go to his room, it's just that I forgot I wasn't supposed to be there, I didn't know, I wasn't acting innocent, but I really did forget.'

She kept telling herself as she lied on the bed in tears, her head was aching from all the crying and she just couldn't stop it,

she kept crying silently thinking about what fate had planned for her and how much more she had to suffer like this.

'Why do I crave love, why can't I just be a normal human being who has a normal relationship with her husband and is happy?

I just wish I had at least one person with whom I could share everything, one person who would understand me and not think that all I do is act, act innocent, act like crying, act like I'm hurt, I want someone to understand that I don't act like anything, it's just how I feel, why doesn't anyone get it. Why do I always have to go through this? Why me?'

She thought to herself as she lay on the bed in despair.