(NFTMB)Chapter Nine
Victoria
(Playing with fire)
I don’t know for how long I stood rooted at the hall after Mr Rossi’s exit. My head was spinning and going round in circles.
“What have I done?”
“What did I get myself into?”
“Why do I have such bad luck”.
I slid back to the floor with my hands on my head. I messed up, I thought.
“Yes, I know. He won’t suspect a thing, trust me”.
My head snapped to the source of the voice. It was Sebastian. He seemed shocked at first to see me but masked it quickly.
“Why are you up at this hour?”. He asked me, coming closer to my direction.
“I’m just coming back now”. I whispered, wiping my tears while getting up from the floor and grabbing my purse.
“Were you crying?”. He asked me to pull me back by my arm to inspect my face in the dim lighting.
“Excuse me, I’ll just head upstairs”. I tried to get away but he held me back.
“Miss Abbot, you can talk to me”.
“Please call me Victoria, Miss Abbot sounds too formal”.
“Alright Victoria, what’s wrong?”.
I looked at his face and internally battled with myself if I should tell him. I decided on telling him but holding back some things.
“It’s complicated and you don’t look like the understanding type though, no offense”.
“None taken Victoria, I promise to listen, what’s wrong?”
“Okay but please don’t judge me”
“For fucks sake spit it out already”. He looked like he was holding back from lashing out at me.
“I mistakenly slept with a guy and he was my first, I didn’t want to make it awkward so I acted like nothing happened and he did the same at first but now I just started dating someone new that I actually like and he’s demanding I break it off and never date anybody because he was the one who took my virginity”. I concluded by bowing my head in shame.
“That’s all?”. He looked surprised.
“Yes”. I replied softly.
“I actually thought you committed murder and needed help with disposing of the body”. He said laughing.
I was confused.
“Well thank God I didn’t, I would have been fired and jailed”. I mumbled while twiddling my fingers.
“Victoria never say never”. He said, giving me a weird smile. He looked like one of those psychotic villains from the movies.
“What do you mean?”. I wanted to know.
“Don’t worry your pretty head about that for now, when the time comes you’ll know”. Weird.
“Ohhh”
“Well Victoria, the solution is simple, stay away from the new guy. You’re a small defenseless woman and you wouldn’t like to get hurt, right?”. He drawled out slowly and creepily.
“Get hurt?”. I was surprised by the dark turn this conversation has taken.
“Yes Victoria, get hurt. When a man threatens or warns in the game of love, passion or possession, he either turns to the devil or turns to a devil. This man you speak of, seems powerful and ruthless. Am I right?”. He was scaring me now. I didn’t want to hurt Flynn but I also didn’t want him to get hurt too.
“Yes he is”.
“Exactly Victoria”. My heart literally skips a beat when he calls my name. Sebastian is scary.
“You’re playing with fire Victoria. This is a very dangerous game. Be careful. Tread cautiously Victoria, we wouldn’t want anything happening to Matteo’s favorite person “.
He left me there and walked away. I was exhausted at this point and I needed to rest.
I walked into my room and decided to strip myself down and sleep in just my red lace underwear. I was too tired to wash up. Besides, it’s morning already.
I didn’t know for how long I’d slept till I felt a presence in my room. I groggily rubbed my eyes and tried to sit up.
I looked over at the figure looking out the window. I rubbed my eyes twice to make sure I was seeing well. I looked closely and I finally made out a face
“Mr Rossi?”. I said unsurely.
“Victoria”.
“What are you doing here sir?”.
“Good morning to you too”. He replied sarcastically.
“Sorry sir. Good morning sir”.
“Have you acted on my instruction?”. He asked, completely ignoring my greeting.
I didn’t know what to say so I didn’t respond and just looked down at my hands.
“Victoria”
“Sir please don’t do this, this is unfair”.
“Unfair? I am not a good man Victoria, and you wouldn’t want to awaken my bad side this morning”.
“I don’t understand why you’re doing this. You don’t even like me. You actually hate me and can’t stand me”. I reminded him.
“I don’t need to like you to want you. I don’t need to like you to possess you Victoria”. He stepped closer to my bed while looking at me intensely.
“What does that mean?”. I asked shakily.
“It means that the moment I fucked you, you became mine entirely. You gave me yourself wholly as a virgin and I am not a man who shares. You are rare Victoria and that is why I choose to keep you”. My heart skipped a beat as my heartbeat thundered.
“I am not an item you can claim sir”.
“I will do whatever the hell I want with what is mine”. He challenged.
“Then it’s a good thing I’m not yours”.
In the speed of lighting his one knee was on my bed as his other leg stood on the ground. He gripped my jaw in a stronghold.
“Care to repeat that Victoria? I was your first and I’ll be the only man to ever touch you. Watch the way you speak to me, I am not a nice man. You will obey my every word and do whatever I say because you’re mine now. You’re the Devil’s Son’s woman”.
I couldn’t understand how we got to this point. I wished we could go back to the days when he hated the sight of me. I’ve created a monster.
“I am your nanny not your woman”. I spat viciously.
“A nanny who waits for her boss seductively in red lace lingerie? I think not. You look like a willing whore Victoria, a kept woman. A nanny knows to put her fucking clothes on”.
The revelation descended on me like a pile of bricks as the realization dawned on me. I was in my underwear. I looked down and swiftly covered myself with the sheets.
“No need for that Victoria, I’ve seen each and every bit of your skin. I know your body”. He seemed amused at my desperate attempts to be decent.
Embarrassment washed over me greatly. I wished I had pushed him away that night. I wish I didn’t give into the passion and temptation.
“Why don’t you let me go sir. I’m sorry for not stopping you. But please don’t make my life this way. I want to experience something refreshing like this. I want to love sir”. I concluded begging him.
I don’t know why but I always get the vibe of a very dangerous man from him. I felt like begging would do better than going head to head with him.
“Don’t get it twisted Victoria, I don’t love you and I never will. I don’t love Victoria. Love is a stupid emotion. It’s a term conjured up by more smarter fools to deceive dumber fools. They make you believe it’s real and then they strike when you’re deep in the delusion”.
He twirled my curl around his finger as he sniffed my hair.
“That’s not true sir. Love is real”. I retorted.
“Really Victoria?. Have you ever been in love”. He was making fun of me.
“Yes I have sir. And Flynn loves me too”. I stood up to him.
He laughed out loud. Like a deep vibrating laughter.
“You were in love with him Victoria and you didn’t fuck him till you met me. You’re a very bad girl Victoria. As for your driver boyfriend, he just wants to get in your pants, don’t be a fool”. He said
For some weird reason that statement angered me. How dare he!
“I can say the same thing about you Mr Rossi. Let me say this to you, stop treating me like I am a brainless doll, I have a brain and I can think for myself. People have sex everyday Mr Rossi, it’s not a big deal. Just because I had sex with you doesn’t mean I belong to you. You don’t own me”.
I spelt it out for him. I needed to get it through his head.
“See that’s where you’re wrong sweet sweet Victoria, I own you. I own your body, your hair, your smile, your tears, even the air you take in. You don’t breathe unless I let you. You don’t feel pleasure unless I touch you. You don’t live unless I say so!”.
Fear gripped my very soul as he said those scary words with all seriousness. Even his hand that gripped my jaw tightened in five folds but I didn’t show any signs of pain on my face as I didn’t want to be the loser in this our intense game of stare down. I wanted to show him that I too was dead serious, I wasn’t backing down but along the line my gaze faltered and I looked down.
Alessandro Rosdi scared me. That was the truth.
“You don’t mess with Alessandro Rossi. You don’t survive it. Do you understand Victoria?”
I could only nod as his hold was keeping my face in position so I couldn’t move.
“Use your fucking words Victoria”.
“Yes sir”. I said feeling hot tears rolling down my face. I was powerless against him.
“Now put some fucking clothes on, you look like a whore”.