Chapter Five II

Celestine slowly opened her eyes. It was strange for her to feel softness against her back after waking up that is far from the hard and cold floor of the cell that became her bed for a couple of days. She stretched her body and buried her face on the soft pillow. She missed the feeling of comfortableness that was taken away from her since Vincent took her with him.

She wrapped the soft blanket around her aching body and closed her eyes again. She wants to give time to what she's feeling right now because anytime it will be taken away from her.

As she closed her eyes her mind wandered and thought of Vincent. She can't deny that she got affected by the way he acted earlier. She can't get her mind off the way he caressed her aching wrists.

He does that with an evident fastidiousness and she can't seem to forget the way it felt.

"No, this is not right, Celestine. You shouldn't feel that towards him. He's a murderer or worse a drug addict!" she scolded herself and messed up her hair.

Celestine sat on the bed when someone knocked on the door.

"It's open!"

Expecting that it was Vincent, she fixed her hair and straightened her body position. But disappointment filled her heart when she saw a woman entering her room.

"Hi Miss Oakmont, my name is Angeline Sevilla," She extended her hand to Celestine that she accepted. "I'm a nurse, I'm asked to treat your wounds."

"Oh, okay."

Celestine removed the blanket on her legs and sat on the side of the bed. The nurse immediately pulled a chair and sat on it to fully see her wounds.

"You're a family nurse?" Celestine asked as she watched the woman put something on the cotton balls.

Angeline wiped Celestine's wounds that made her flinched.

"Yes I am," Angeline simply replied.

Celestine remained silent after that as well as Angeline. After a few minutes, Angeline finished cleaning Celestine's wounds.

"Mr. Mogilevich said that you're not allowed to leave this room," Angeline said as she started putting back her things inside of the first-aid kit.

Celestine had expected that already. She knew that Vincent will still cage her but at least, she's comfortable now unlike before.

When Angeline left her room, she got up and walked slowly towards the bathroom. She badly needs to take a long shower. She stinks and her whole body is itchy, as well as her scalp.

She can't believe that she survived not taking a bath for almost two days.

"I can't believe I'm taking a bath," Celestine said in a sing-song tone as she took off her dirty clothes while waiting for the bathtub to be filled with water. She walked towards it and pour lavender oil into the bathwater.

She swayed her hips and light up the scented candles that she placed on the side of the bathtub earlier.

"Oh God, I missed you!" she exclaimed and kissed the bottle of shampoo.

Celestine can't stop herself from smiling even though she already bit her lower lip as she feel the warm water from the bathtub against her palm. She loved staying in the bathtub for a couple of minutes every night to calm her nerves and muscles before in their mansion and she already miss that kind of feeling.

She stood up and walked towards the shower room. She opened it and adjusted the water pressure before she get herself under the shower. She closed her eyes and feel the water streaming down her body.

"Oh God, it feels so nice," she said and reached for the soap and rubbed it to her body.

After shampooing her hair and cleaned her body she immediately walked towards the bathtub and stepped inside of it. She felt excited upon feeling the warm water on her right leg. Later on, she put herself inside of the bathroom and lay down.

She closed her eyes and feel the soothing warmth of the water. It relaxes her body, mind, and soul. She longed for this kind of feeling for two days and now, she felt like she's alive again.

Before she even knew it, the darkness consumed her and take her to oblivion.

"I heard that there will be a transaction later," Vladimir said as he closed the door behind him. As he entered the room he saw Vincent massaging his temples.

"Yeah, you heard it right," Vincent murmured.

Vladimir walked towards Vincent and sat on the chair across to the bed where Vincent is sitting. He took the invitation that was lying on the bed.

"An exclusive invitation for Mr. Vincent Mogilevich," Vladimir read what's written in the envelope then he took out the invitation inside of it. "For the wealthiest men in town. Oh nice, you should bring a date with you," Vladimir suggested.

Vincent dropped himself to the bed. "Of course, obviously everyone will bring a date."

"Yeah take Celestine with you."

He got up from the bed. "Celestine?"

"Yeah, Celestine. The daughter of Fernando," Vladimir nonchalantly said.

He chuckled. "What the fuck are you saying?"

"She's gorgeous, smart, and a sophisticated woman. Surely she can carry out a good conversation with other businessmen. In that way, you won't be embarrassed like what happened before when you take Chloe with you."

Vincent went back to bed and stared at the white ceiling while thinking about Vladimir's suggestion.

"What are you thinking huh? Or are you even thinking at all?!" Sebastian scolded his twin sister, Alice.

"She kicked me! I'm not doing anything to harm her. I'm just protecting myself and you're even mad?!" she shouted back to him.

"She's unarmed and handcuffed! How is it about you protecting yourself huh?"

Alice frustratedly threw her cigarette and stepped on it.

"Can you just please leave?"

"You're still lucky because you didn't pull the trigger," Sebastian said before he left Alice.

Alice kicked the rock in front of her and looked at her phone wallpaper that was a picture of Vincent. She loves Vincent and she will do everything to get him even though it means she has to kill Celestine.