Chapter-5

Author Pov

"Eat this mam," Stella said giving her a tray full of different kinds of fruits. Rose frowned at the hospitality of the woman. It's been two days of that incident in that office and her blacking out.

When she woke up Stella was beside her and informed Rose about Rafael going out of the city for some business work. Rose neither was relieved nor sad. She simply didn't care.

She knew Rafael will question her why did she had fainted? And she has no answer to his question. After his departure, Stella told her about all the duties that were reserved for her by Rafael.

It wasn't much. She has to manage his every work. She has to prepare breakfast, his office attire every morning and also she needs to prepare his dinner and the only work that bothered was she has to take his lunch to his office every day. She was confused and annoyed as well.

She can simply prepare his lunch and send it through the driver but no Stella told her that she has to go there to give it to him personally. Maybe he just wants her to keep on working and have no rest and that was something she also wants.

Whenever she averts her attention from work all those painful memories strike her mind hard. And she doesn't want to remember them anymore.

Placing the cleaned suits of his on the bed she started folding them instead of hanging them in the cupboard. She had no idea what chaos her small mistake will bring for her.

She placed the folded clothes in the cupboard and hung the coats in the wardrobe before cleaning his room. She has to admit his room was the widest and scariest one in the mansion.

The room was painted black and the furniture was grey in color. While cleaning the dressing table her eyes fell on her reflection. She tilted her head to the side taking her condition in check.

This wasn't the girl she used to be. The girl full of life how did she turn into such a lifeless soul? Her eyes met hers through the mirror making her gulp down.

These eyes are responsible for captivating me. You forced me to become the monster I am today.

She blinked rapidly turning around and walking out of the room. She sighed heavily before continuing her work.

Days turned to weeks and weeks into a month. It has been a month since Rafael went to another city for his work and today he was coming back. But Rose wasn't aware of it.

She was walking towards the kitchen when her eyes fell on the wallet laying on the floor. She grabbed it and looked around only to find the boy who looked the same as her age peeking around. He seems like he was finding something.

"Hey!" Rose said raising her voice a little. The boy flinched a little looking up.

"Is this yours?" She asked showing him the wallet and a relieved sigh left his lips. He strolled towards and grabbed the wallet.

"Thank you so much I was finding this. I thought I dropped it outside." Rose nodded her head with a poker face.

" Where is your mother? I haven't seen her from the morning." Yes, this boy named Jay was the one and only son of Stella. Stella is a single mother.

She got pregnant with her high school boyfriend. They both got married at a young age and didn't even complete their studies. After a few years, Stella's husband found another girl and left them.

Stella talks a lot even though she hardly gets any reply from Rose but still, she keeps on talking and asking Rose if she's annoyed by her she can tell her she will shut up. But Rose never said anything to her she listens to her and never complains about her being annoying.

It feels like a woman is too lonely and wants someone to share her every problem. And for the first time, Rafael got someone like Rose who never gets annoyed by her or tries to tell her that she's just a maid she should keep quiet.

Seeing Rose, Stella from the first day said Rafael doesn't deserve such a beautiful yet respectful girl as his mistress. Rose was different from all his women before. Stella for the first time felt like she can share her every worry without getting scolded.

Stella's ex-husband now has a daughter with his second wife and comes to meet his son sometimes but Stella doesn't meet him much. Only exchanging pleasantries and greetings. That man's relationship starts with her son and ends with him.

Jay does meet his father but the love and possessiveness he has for his mother can't be replaced by anyone. He once twice asked his father to stay with his other family but his father never listened to him.

"She's quite sick. She wanted to come but I forced her to not. I am sorry mam I should have asked you but my mom wasn't in shape to work. You can tell me I will do it on behalf of my mom." Rose shook her head.

"It's alright. I was just asking. How is she? Is she too much sick? " Jay sighed.

"Not too much but she still was sick and I forced her to take a rest." Rose nodded her head. Seeing the guy in front of her she felt like his older sister. She already knew he was 3 years younger than her Stella told her. He reminds her of someone making her unconsciously pat his head.

Jay froze for a second. It was like he was getting patted by his older sister. Rose gulped pulling her hand back.

"Take care of yourself. She's lucky to have such a great son. Go and be with her. I can manage everything." Jay came out of his trance and nodded at her.

As soon as he turned around he almost got a heart attack seeing familiar sharp blue eyes glaring straightly at him with a murderous look.

"S-Sir." He mumbled bowing his head down in terror. His hands started trembling he wasn't allowed inside the mansion but to take Stella's stuff and to inform Rose about his mother's absence he had to come in.

Rose also turned around only for her eyes to meet with his figure wrapped up in his messy business attire. She frowned watching his eyes fixed on Jay. He was scaring the boy.

Rafael walked towards Jay with slow and dangerous steps making the trembling boy stiffen in his place. Rafael stood in his personal space making him close his eyes in terror.

"What the fuck are you doing here? Didn't I already tell you that male workers are not allowed to enter the mansion?" He questioned in a hard low tone.

"ANSWER ME! " Jay jumped in his place peeking at him from time to time. Even Rose was confused why he was behaving so viciously.

"I-I am s-sorry sir. My m-mother was. She---" Rose could see he wasn't able to explain himself to Rafael because of fear so she decided to help him.

"Stella aunt is sick and she has her some stuff left here. He came here to take them and inform me that she wouldn't be able to come." She completed looking at Rafael whose eyes still didn't move away from the trembling boy.

"You need a lot of training boy. Such a pathetic weakling you are. Can't even talk to me! "Jay gulped closing his eyes in humiliation. Rose's eyes soften seeing how scared he looked.

"Now what are you waiting for? GET OUT!" Jay jumped almost running out of the house.

Rafael's dark blue eyes slowly turned to Rose's grey ones who stared at him with a frown. He looked mad. But why? He just came back and is already seething.

He took a long stride towards her standing in her personal space. Her arm all of a sudden was held by his large hand, her body was pulled forward harshly. Her chest touched his, her one foot stepped above his shoe.

"What the fuck you were doing with him?" With a dark tone low tone, he asked her making her frown at his words.

"Stella aunt is sick and she has some of her stuff left here so ---" She started repeating what she told him before successfully annoying him.

"Stop trying to be over smart." He snarled on her face squeezing her arm. But Rose showed no reaction only stared in his eyes blankly this time successfully frustrating him.

"No, Master I am not trying to be anything. I just answered your question." He gritted his teeth before grabbing her other arm as well. The coat that was hanging on his arm fell on the floor.

He pulled her dangerously close eliminating the little distance that has left between them. Her other foot also stepped above his. Their chests brushed together.

"Then why the fuck you were patting that bitch's head? Huh! " He finally let out and Rose instantly recognized emotions in his eyes.

Possessiveness and madness.

Something she was familiar with. Her hands on their own went to his chest to keep a little distance between them but the looks in his eyes were suffocating for her.

"If you don't like it master I will never do that again." She whispered only to earn a small dark chuckle from him.

"Oh, Mio Fiore trust me. The lesson I will teach you today you will never even think of looking at him." He sneered on her face with an evil smirk plastered on his face.

That evil smirk told her something bad is coming for her.

The look in your eyes reminded me of a nightmare I had lived.

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