FOUR

A maid showed Mary to her room, promising to give her a tour around the house the next morning.

Mary's mouth hung open the moment she got to the room, the room though not as exquisite as the rest of the house, was quite fancy — at least way better than her house, and even her parents house at Ohio.

The bed was more than twice the size of the bed she was used to sleeping on, she wondered how it would feel like having such a big bed all to herself.

   It did not take long after her head hit the pillow before she goes into Dreamland.

The next morning Mary was still in unbelieve, it almost still felt like a dream that she was in Adonis's mansion. Especially when he had brought his lips to hers the previous day.

  The maid who had showed her to her room the previous night had started to give her a tour around the house, if she was going to work there she needed to get familiarized with the environment.

Mary Wondered if Adonis had gone out since the house seemed quiet save for the sound that was coming from the tools used by the men working in the house.

She could not help but notice how magnificent the house looked as the maid took her around in tour. Even she was been escorted by the maid, she still could not get her mind of Adonis and the encounter she had with him the previous day.

She still could not get over the feel of his body against hers, the feel of his soft but firm hands on her bare skin, she still was unable to get over the feel of his succulent lips on hers, though it was for a short period of time, it was still enough to live it's mark on her.

   Her fingers unconsciously moves to her lips to caress it, reminiscing every single one of the intimate moments she had with him.

And just at that instant, the door to a room adjacent where they stood opened and Adonis strolled out of the rooms.

Her mouth hung agape as she looked at him, she had always thought him to be beautiful, buy the man standing in front of her at that instant was something even more magnificent than beautiful - if there was anything like that.

His deep blue eyes pierced a thousand holes into her as he watched her from the front of his room, his eyes slowly traveled down from her eyes down to her lips. And that was when she noticed that she still had her fingers on her lips.

Adonis licked his lips unconsciously as he watched the young innocent looking woman in front of him.

He swallowed hard when his eyes caught her fingers caressing her succulent lips.

She dropped her hands the moment she noticed his gaze rested on her lips.

"Good morning Mr. Scott" the maid greeted first and bowed slightly.

"Good morning Mr. Scott" Mary managed to mumble trying so hard to avoid looking into his face.

He started walking elegantly towards them, his blue gaze still fixed on Mary, boring several holes into her skin.

She shifted from one foot to the other due to the nervousness that was starting to rise in her.

"I can see you are already giving her a tour around the house" he said facing the maid.

She nodded.

He had a simple white T. Shirt and grey sweatpants on, the T. Shirt he had on accentuated all the figures of his body, from his sexy chest down to his abs.

His deep voice did something to her as he spoke.

"I will take it from here, you must have other things to do".

He turned to look at Mary who still had her face bowed.

There must be something really fascinating on her shoes.

"How did you enjoy your sleep on your first night?" She could not tell if he was flirting or if he was just being nice, with the way can close to her.

"It was good" she managed to say while stuttering at the same time.

She still had not forgotten what he said the previous day - he could only have sex with her. She could not help but imagine the both of them together in bed, naked and doing things to each other.

She was brought back to reality by the snap of his fingers across my face.

 She looked up to see him staring at her with corked eyebrows, and then a smirk appeared on his face.

   She knew she must look like a complete idiot at the moment.

"Shall we?" He finally said gesturing with his arms.

    "Of course" she nodded slightly, giving him an awkward smile before walking clumsily ahead of him.

He doubled his steps to meet her pace, wondering why she was walking so fast even though he was the one showing her around.

"You should already know, this is my room". He said as they walked past his room, she nodded.

"So you've never been married?" Mary found herself asking before she could realize it.

"He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her. It was as if his eyes were boring holes into her.

  "What do you think?" He asked bending down to meet her height.

  Mary had no idea what to say, she knew she had asked one hell of a stupid question.

And his closeness, his closeness affected her so much, she could feel his warm breaths caressing her face. She opened her mouth to say something but then closed it again.

 After scanning her face for a long time with his deep blue ever piercing gaze, he finally stood straight and cleared his throat.

   "I wonder what you would want to do with that information, but just as I told you yesterday, the only thing that can happen between me and any woman at all is sex".

   She felt a pang of pain in her heart when he said that, but still she tried to console herself and act as though she was not affected.

  "Too bad, you won't get to enjoy all the bliss that comes with marriage" she finally said.

Adonis laughed inwardly wondering what must have prompted her to say that. She really did have a big mouth.

 "Bliss? Have you been married before to know about all of these bliss".

   Not knowing the answer to give to him, marry turned and walked ahead of him making him to let out another laughter.

 They continued their tour around the house until they got to a room which door was closed.

  Mary felt their was something awkward about the room. "What is this room?".

    "What the room is should be less of your concern for now my dear". He answered with a straight face, but Mary still managed to see the hesitation that appear on his face as he spoke.

She wondered what could be in the room and why he had that look on his face, and such reaction when she had asked about the room. She continued to look back at the room even after they had walked passed it.

He showed her to the pool, and other part of the house. Occasionally they would walk past some of the workers doing a minore renovation in the house.

    "So you do this often" she asked referring to the renovation.

"Once in a while a house would need some retouching to make it look even more appealing" he said watching her closely. "So yes I do this, but not that often".

Mary noticed even how big the house was. How could one person own a big mansion as this?

  "Do you swim?" She asked him when they got to the pool area.

 He cleared his throat. "Once in a while".

She nodded.

The pool was vast, more magnify than any she had ever seen or been to.

'Even the wines get to live in luxury' she thought when they got to wine cellar.

She looked around with agape mouth, and somehow. She wished she was one of those wines enjoying such luxury instead of having the kind of life she had.

She ran her hands through some of the wine bottles, wondering what it would feel like to own something like that.

She knew she was dreaming to far, she probably would not be able to afford a life like that — at least not in this life.

"Do you drink a lot" she asked again before she could catch herself.

But much to her surprise, he answered that anyways.

"I drink when I have to" was his short reply.

"So what's your favorite wine".

He pulled a long face. "I wonder what interests you in that"

"Sorry Mr. Uhhhm......"

"Let's see the kitchen" he said interrupting her with a cold voice.

She does have some nerves.

She stared with both her eyes and her mouth wide open as they got to the kitchen.

This has got to be the biggest kitchen she had ever seen in her entire life. She wondered what all the space was for.

She suddenly started to imagine Adonis cooking in the kitchen, bare chested with sweat dripping from his body, down his sexy chest and into his pants.

"Do you cook?".

He found that question quite amusing, and he did not hesitate in showing her how amused he was at her question.

She wondered what was so funny in such a harmless question.

"I don't cook" he finally said. "Now tell me" he said drawing closer to her, "why would I cook? When I have enough domestic staffs to do that".

She finally let out the breath she was holding when he stepped away from her.

  She  summoned the courage to ask, "your mother must have cooked a lot for you when you were little".

  He did not answer that, instead she noticed his countenance changed.

  But she did not stop there, she was curious to know about his parents.

  "How about your mum? Why isn't she here?".

"I think that should be none of your business" he snapped.

  She immediately realized herself and tried to apologise but he stopped her by raising his hand.

"I think that is enough for today" he said rudely before walking away, leaving her to wallow him get confusion.

  Mary looked on in confusion at his retreating back wondering what she had said wrong.