Nikolai POV.
I shouldn’t have taken my anger off on Elle, I should’ve stayed in control, but I did, I couldn’t hold back, seeing her with my cousin, with Angelo, that put me in a bad mood. The same said cousin who just left my office after making his anger known about us saving Devil, he didn’t even know whom we saved, he just knew I’ve attacked the Irish.
“First you send a spy to them, next you attack! You’re going to start a war!” Angelo yells.
“And is a war with the Irish that bad of an idea cousin?” I answer him, I didn’t have any plans on getting in a war with the Irish not as long as I got some kind of pure bloods coming after me, maybe afterward.
“You’re doing a big mistake” Angelo says between gritted teeth, things went down from there, we had a small fight in Italian, him calling me an idiot, and me reminding him that I’m the boss here, and not someone who he can mess with.
I did have to quick him out of my office, the fight ended there or it supposed to be done by then, but that’s when I had to catch him with Elle, which made me going crazy mad.
I sigh looking at her crying all cause of me, I didn’t want to make her cry, things shouldn’t have went this badly, it’s her first day with me, I should show her she did the right choice with staying here with me, show her that I’m not that bad of a person, I promised Paul that I’ll never hurt her but I just did that.
“Elle” I say with a sigh, I wasn’t mad at her, I was frustrated with myself for what happened, her answer was simply to sniffle.
“Bella” I say calling her beautiful, before pulling her toward me, I should offer her some aftercare, I know I should but she doesn’t want my comfort, she pull back, taking a step back away from me. I growled angry now, she freezes afraid of me, the thing I didn’t want to happen, I should do something, I should make it up for her.
“Let’s go have some food” I say holding her hand, she still tried to take her hand out of mine, but my hold on her wasn’t going any lighter.
“I’m not hungry…sir” she adds the last word when I looked at her, I still dragged her toward the kitchen, I made her sit in one chair while I got her breakfast, filling her plate before setting the plate in front of her, before making mine.
“Eat” I order and start to eat my food, she nibbled on her food avoiding everyone’s eyes, even min, I saw Paul sitting opposite to me, looking at me with knowing eyes, he knew she was sad about something, and I’m probably the reason.
“You’re going to work Elle?” Paul asks, I turn to him with a raised brow, she’s not going there anymore.
“No, she quiet” I say in a cold voice, I don’t want her to go anymore, she doesn’t need that job anymore.
“But, but…I want to go” she says looking at me with pleading eyes.
“I said no” I say ending the conversation, I went and got myself a big mug of black coffee, waiting for her to finish her breakfast.
“You know man, our job isn’t that bad, I can go there and keep an eye on her for you” Paul suggest to me.
“I said no” I snap at him, before eying Elle who’s done eating now and just looking down at her plate avoiding all of our conversation.
“Done?” I ask her, she just nods but quickly adds a yes sir, before pushing her plate away, I get my coffee mug and offer her a hand dragging her with me. I took her back to my office, I’ll be working from home today, I need to order Elle some new clothes, she can’t live on my clothes and borrowed underwear’s. I sat on my desk pulling her with me, until she’s sitting in my lap, she was stiff, still scared, it’s my fault, I need to learn to stop snapping where she’s involved or close to me.
“How about we get you some clothes? A laptop too?” I suggest trying to make it for her, landing a kiss on the side of her head, she just nods, looking down toward her lap instead of looking at me or the laptop where I have the online shop websites on.
“Would you like to chose?” I offer her, a peace offering.
“Anything you’d like sir” she says her voice was breaking with tears, making me feel even worse than before.
“Come on Love, I know you wanted some shoes, I’ll buy them for you” I offer her remembering the whole I’m saving up for the shoes.
“I’m still saving for those” she says before her face shift, she’s remembering something, I suppose or thinking about something, “My savings are back home” she says making my blood go cold, she’s still calling Devil’s place home.
“This is your home now Elle, chose the shoes, I’ll pay for them” I say with a light growl, I guess me trying to stop snapping close to her would take some more practicing.
More tears spilled down her face, she tried to hide her face in my chest, I tried to pat her back, to try and get her to calm down, at least this time she didn’t refuse my touch, I kept my hand over her back trying to get her to calm down, she did that after few minutes, finally calming enough for us to finish our shopping.
She searched for the shoes she wants, we also got some other shoes for her, clothes, she likes hoodies, sweats, jeans, shirts. I added some dresses and skirts, I’d really love for her to wear some more girly clothes, she didn’t mind those either, when it came time for the underwear’s, her cheeks went red, but if she wants some clean panties, she’ll have to order them here and now.
Elle was a bit too shy, I helped her ordering some that I liked, nothing too sexy or crazy, she doesn’t give that vibe at all and I want her to be comfortable in what she’s wearing especially around me. Next I ordered her a phone, I know she said she use a laptop for writing, I do own a laptop but I’m not going to share it with her, knowing her style of writing, she’d publish my emails as a teaser to her next story. Instead I decided to order her a new laptop for her, along with some headphones and a laptop case, once we were done with ordering all the electronics it was time to talk some things out.
“Do you really want to keep the cafe job?” I ask knowing I can’t just lock her in the house, she can’t stay with me all the time, it’s dangerous for her, Paul was right he’ll be there and I could get her some more protection.
“Yes!” she yells right away all excited about that idea, I actually felt bad for taking that from her, the job isn’t the worse, it’s a safe place, it’s on my way whenever I goo the club.
“I’ll think about it then Elle” I say needing to do some more background check on that place.
“But…but” she says her lower lip quivering.
“No buts” I say firmly starting on my own work of the day.
“sir..” she says after about an hour, she’s been yawning the whole time in my arms.
“Yes?” I answer her eyes still on my work.
“Can I please get coffee! Pleaase! I live for coffee” she begs, her voice was higher now, she sounded lighter than she did an hour ago, I really should try and get her to laugh more often, her smile is beautiful.
“Yes, under one condition” I say in a cold voice.
“Yes?” she says looking at me with fear filled eyes.
“Make me one with you” I say with a wink handing her my now empty mug.
“Of course! One coffee coming right away!” she says in the same happy voice before taking off toward the kitchen.