Four

Naya’s POV

As soon as I stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my head and another wrapped around my chest, I knew that there was something wrong.

I squinted into the dark room frantically and began tapping on the wall for any signs of the light switch but I couldn’t find any.

I could sense a presence in the room but due to how dark it was in here, I couldn’t say exactly where the person was or what they wanted to do to me.

Thoughts of Zach and his father trying to take me out now that I was already in their den struck me but I quickly shrugged it off because Zach’s father was a man of honor and wouldn’t lure me here just to kill me.

“But what about Zach?” I questioned myself and felt my breath hitch in my chest because I knew I didn’t trust Zach enough.

Zach didn’t look or seem as honorable as his father and in fact, behaved exactly like a child that my own father had borne.

He was just as dishonorable.

“Who is there?!” I shouted into the darkness and was met with silence; but I still couldn’t shake out the fact that there was someone in this room.

As soon as I wanted to run back into the bathroom, the lights flickered on and I gasped when I saw Zach sitting on the wide plush bed in the middle of the room with the bags containing my personal belongings at the foot of the bed.

“Were you not schooled on how to knock?” I snapped angrily at him as I gripped tightly to my towel to keep it in place.

I could see the disgust in his face as he stared at me and could also notice the large Manila envelope in his hands as well, and as usual I didn’t care.

“I do not see any reasons to knock when you’re literally in my house.” He growled, standing up from the bed. I took his cue by stepping backwards a little.

Motherfucking jerk!

“I asked my ‘soldiers, guards…whatever’ to bring in your bags while I brought in our prenuptial agreement.” He said slowly, waving the envelope in his hands around as if I was too blind to see it in the first place.

“Prenuptial what?”

“Prenuptial agreement… or you don’t know what that is?” He snapped with distaste evident on his face.

“I do know what it is, I am only bothered as to why it is coming up because this marriage is purely a business and so making a list of my properties as well as who gets what was never a part of the deal.” I seethed through gritted teeth.

I couldn’t believe his audacity; I couldn’t believe that he would even bring something like this up when I’ve never been interested in his godforsaken properties when I had mine.

The fuck! I never even knew he existed until a few days ago!

“The prenup wasn’t created for the sole purpose of creating lists of who gets what… it was created in order for us to set rules during the five years of this marriage.” He said slowly, steely like he was restraining himself from smacking me hard across the head.

“Five years!” I scoffed incredulously, “what the hell am I supposed to be doing with you for five years?!”

I saw the look of almost hurt flash across his features but as soon as it came, it fled away and was replaced by his signature frown.

“Please change that shitty time frame to two years!” I yapped.

Instead of replying to what I had said, he quickly tore out the Manila envelope and began to read out the contents of the gibberish he had printed on it.

One thing was sure, the motherfucker was extremely good at protecting his money.

“Did you just say an open relationship? You want this marriage to be an open one?” I looked up hopefully at him after he had read out a line from his nonsense and beamed a bright smile at him when he nodded in affirmation.

My heart flirted with joy when I thought of Richie, my boyfriend and how we could continue with our relationship even now that I was married.

A thought crossed my mind that Zach had made up that line because of the blondie I had seen earlier but I shrugged it off seeing as I also had someone else I wanted to be with.

“What? Do you have a problem with that?”

“Me? Oh no! I do not!” I exclaimed with a small smile on my face. “You see, I had this guy who was supposedly my boyfriend… and you just made things a lot easier for me…” I trailed off.

I saw the deep frown that immediately appeared on his face at my utterance but I paid no attention to him. I was lost in my own beautiful world.

I quickly collected the document from him, reread its contents and quickly signed my part with a grin on my face.

All this time, I noticed his gaze fixated on my face, unwavering. It made me uncomfortable in a way and also made me want to feed him with this piece of paper at the same time.

When I was done with signing the document, I stretched my hands towards him to give it to him and was beyond shocked when he took it from my hands and tore it into two unequal halves.

“What the hell?!” I snapped angrily.

I wasn’t sure of what must’ve come over him but I was in no mood to find out. The fact that he had come into this room to give this to me only to tear it after we had come to an agreement angered me.

He was just like my father; sadistic and sick In the head.

“I saw how excited you were to commit adultery and I am not interested in having a wife who cannot keep her legs together.” He snarled in my face, thus infuriating me even further.

“Yea, I know I do not know how to keep my legs at a place but at least I wasn’t the one literally fucking a girl in a corridor only a few hours after my wedding ceremony.” I clapped back at him with equal venom.

I saw his eyes widen momentarily in shock; probably shocked that I had stood up to him or due to the fact that I had just rubbed his infidelity in his face, I wasn’t sure.

His face suddenly took on a deep frown, scary enough to melt bones, he took predatory steps towards me as if about to hit me, and I in turn, took a few steps backwards.

As soon as he raised his hands in the air as if to strike me, a loud knock resounded at my door thus making us both stop and stare at the door.

“Naya, I came to talk to you about something!” Zach’s father called from the other side of the door and I gasped in relief.

This man is my saving grace!