Chapter 7

She observed, he was charming, and intelligent. The leopard-like graceful movement with deep voice and adventurous personality could make any girl fall at her knees for him. He had a Titan's shoulders. His bristly eyebrows and hawkish nose were no match even to the models walking out of GQ magazine. Those high cheekbones and the concrete jaw could be compared to Eros, the God of seduction. In short, he was a complete pack of attractiveness and virility that any girl would fall for.

He stared at her with those stoical Turquoise Greens that had a kind of fire and passion in his eyes and probably another emotion that she couldn't fathom. "What are you looking at? Come on dig in, the breakfast will go cold." He told her in nonchalance but with lifted lips.

What was there on her face that made him amused. "I do not know if you like cheese sandwiches but they are the best in the restaurant situated on the other side of the road." He shrugs while serving bacon on his plate and also hers with eggs and cheese sandwiches. 

"It is nothing fancy, but you find a lot of crowd coming there especially in the mornings to have breakfast." 

While he was talking about the restaurant Scarlet pondered on the thought of why a man like him would want to help her and serve breakfast on her plate with his own hands.

She better be cautious with him. 'It is well-known that young and successful businessmen like him with hot looks can bring girls to their bed with a twitch of their eye and wipe them away from the pages of mankind without even a trace of doubt.' - Sister Mary's words rang in her head like a warning.

Scarlet gulped heavily with fear. He may leave her thinking she is not of his class, if she tells him about herself.  "I've been an orphaned girl since the age of six. I was brought up at Mother Theresa's home by sisters. I have neither the looks nor the required qualifications to be associated with rich and high-class people like you. What do you expect from me? Why do you want to help me? On the night I went drunk you brought me to your room before I suffered many mishaps in that club filled with lechers. Now you get me treated by your doctor and serve me breakfast. I'm thankful for everything you did to me but I need to go." Scarlet may not be rich like Ace Taylor but she is smart. 

'When you can't beat them then better join them.' Going stubborn and arrogant in placing her options before him will not work with this man. She has to deal with him amicably before she could leave his place. 

Scarlet  looked at him doubtfully with many questions running in her head. But he wouldn't talk even after several minutes. And ultimately she lost her temper. "I have already mentioned to you that I'm not a slut. You are unnecessarily wasting your valuable time on me." 

Shit!

Ace goes back to his insensitive and cold self. She could press the best buttons to get him to wind up but he needed his answers before he could shout at her for her foolishness.  He avoids Scarlet's apprehensive outpour. 

To be frank he has no answer to himself on why he wants to invest in this desolate silly girl. "Eat your breakfast. You appear malnourished, like you were starving for days together."

Such an insult, malnourished? Did he just call me malnourished? Nobody dared to attribute such a word to her till date. The guts of this freak! She better show him with a jump and dance that she wasn't malnourished.

Scarlet wanted to retaliate and teach him a lesson. The guy was too proud of himself. But the site of delicious food in front of her made her mouth water. She did not know she was starving until she took a bite of a sandwich. Scarlet finishes breakfast within ten minutes like a hungry goat.

Ace gave out an arrogant and understanding smile. Knotting his fingers together he leaned forward in his executive chair placing his hands on the large glass oak wood desk giving his undivided attention to her.

"I want to know, why were you running for a shelter in the middle of the night? 

Chapter 8

"You have already told me two days ago in your drunken state that you were an orphan brought up by sisters. You came here to pursue your education in nutrition on a scholarship and live in a girls' hostel." He typed something on the computer in front and gave her back his attention that she did not want.

Ace was trying to make Scarlet feel at ease but his diplomatic questions and his aristocratic aura were only making her more restive in the process.

"I...I" Scarlet stuttered in anxiety, not able to form the right words but Ace was understanding and softened his next words. "I know you're not a slut. You already told me you're a virgin and I'm not interested in sleeping with you, if that is your point to stay diffident around me." 

Did he just say that to her? Was he not interested in sleeping with her because that was his sole interest when he brought her with him to his executive suite. But then she went unconscious. He doesn't fuck unconscious and sleepy girls. Thus he postponed their congress to another day.

Scarlet assimilated, his voice could be foghorn loud when he was angry but it was normally mellifluous. She didn't meet his eyes and had no idea if it was fear or for the non indulgent languishing effect he created in her by his profound introduction. "This is my personal matter and I'm not interested in sharing it with anybody."

Ace's eyes flared tornadoes. The guts of this girl to counter his decision even when she was breathing under his roof. He was trying to calm his tempered state all this while but he better teach her the reality. "Miss White as long as you wouldn't have taken shelter in my premises you were none of my business but now you are in my office, under my roof and you cannot escape my rule." He stressed the word 'my' in a self-conceited way.

'I hate you, you asshole.' She wanted to scream but could she especially when he was so arrogant and persistent in interrogating her?

Scarlet digested she was caught and had no place to escape. The man before her was no 'nobody' she could defy. She couldn't leave his place in one piece unless he wills. With a heavy breath, she told the words that went indigestible to Ace's conscience. "I killed my fiancée."