“What’s this?”
Nicole asked, she couldn’t believe what she was reading, why would he bring such an article to her, so early in the morning? She just woke up, she knew she shouldn’t have opened the door but she had felt bad for locking him out last night, well now she didn’t feel bad anymore she felt mad.
“Can’t you tell?”
“And you decided it’s okay to bring this to me?”
“Why not? You asked for it,”
He said smiling and sitting on the bed, the man looked good so early in the morning, if he wasn’t such a demon she could have called him handsome but he was a demon, demons are not handsome.
“What? What do you mean by that?”
“I am saying you did the most, if you had just composed yourself maybe these people won’t have so many negative things to say about you,”
Rafael said and Nicole suddenly had the urge to bite off his head, no literally, she felt like doing it, he was a moron, how could he bring this to her, who does that.
“I have no words for you Rafael!! Salvador!!!”
She yelled at him calling out his full name.
“Why are you yelling again this morning?”
“Are you asking me that right now? You woke me up just to see the hate articles and malicious comments against me, and you are asking me why I am yelling? You could have kept it away from me, or showed it to me later when I might have woken up and was stable but no, you came to my room and woke me up to show it to me, that’s very childish and selfish thing to do,”
“Are you angry?”
“Of course I am, I just got married, I don’t even want to be married but I am married and now my husband is being a hater, and you think I shouldn’t be angry?”
“What the heck? You never told me you didn’t want to be married,”
“Oh, shoot, I just did, so now you know, now leave me the heck alone you hater, humans are vile, I hate humans,”
She yelled pushing him off the bed, he landed on the floor, well it wasn’t her fault if he didn’t have enough stamina because why would he fall off from such a small push?
“You are crazy,”
He yelled getting off the floor and pointing at her.
“Just like you are, so childish and uncultured,”
“What has gotten into you, Natalie? What is wrong with you? Are you feeling some kind of power just because I have married you? You know marriage can be called off,”
“Well, It will be a pleasure,”
She said firmly.
“You are out of your mind,”
“You have been saying that since yesterday,”
“I just can’t believe you right now, wh**”
His phone started ringing cutting him off, he picked up and started barking at the other person, she felt pity for whoever it was, he was always barking, he left the room still barking on the phone, she picked up her own phone and searched Natalie’s name, the things she saw, people can be very inhuman, how could they same such things to her, it not like they knew her or something, she closed her phone feeling bad for doing all those things and ruining Natalie’s name, she knew it wasn’t her fault, at least most of it wasn’t her fault, Natalie was the one that made them run late, she was the reason she was at the airport, thankfully no one mentioned her name, she couldn’t deal with her name being dragged in public, she hoped it stays that way, she got up from the bed and went to take her bath when she got back and went to the living room area, she saw a tray of breakfast but the mad man was nowhere to be seen, she checked the other rooms but he wasn’t there.
“Stupid, he could have just said he was leaving,”
She whispered as she took the food she knew was meant for her and eat breakfast, she spent the rest of the day alone as the moron didn’t return, at lunchtime they brought her lunch at the dinner time too, she didn’t mind him not being around, in fact, she liked it, the more he was away the less the chances of him demanding sex from her, she hoped he would be busy and cancel the honeymoon, she didn’t want to leave Florida, she tried calling Natalie but her calls are still not going through.
“I am gonna try it just one more time,”
She said picking up her phone, the phone rang this time.
“Natalie? I have been trying to reach you where the fuck are you? You better come back if you still want to keep this marriage or you might come and meet a divorce paper and a half-dead man,”
Nicole yelled into the phone as Natalie picked up, channeling all her frustration at Natalie the reason she was here.
“Wow, calm down, you will be fine, no one is going to die,”
“I am serious here Natalie, I am this close to eating off his head and it’s just the first day what more a whole week? I honestly can’t stand him and his double standards,”
“What did he do? I know Rafael is not that bad, I mean he is one of the sweetest guys I know,”
“Yeah right and you ran off, the sweetest guy, honestly you guys deserve each other, imagine waking me up and showing me hate articles about me, like negative backslash not even thinking of my mental health, well I am not the real Natalie so Natalie I hope you are feeling the heat so better come back quick and clear your name,”
“Don’t worry, I am enjoying the drama, I saw your photos, you guys look good together though,”
“Are you out of your mind? I can never look good with that uncultured demon, better come back fast,”
“I will just take it easy, and be nice to Raf,”
“I will not,”
“You are a nice person,”
“Well, I guess not with Rafael Salvador, I hate him,”
“I have to go, Nicole, thank you again, I will try to call you but I can’t guarantee because I am really busy,”
“Where are you and what are you busy with?”
She asked but her twin hung up on her, she dialed the number again but it didn’t go through.
“Well, I guess I am stuck with the demon for a week, no six more days,”
She said laying lazily on the bed, she missed her studio and wanted to go back to it, but she knew she couldn’t, that would blow up her cover at home, she planned on ignoring her parents until Natalie comes back…
“What was that about?”
Rafael yelled at her as they got into the penthouse they have been using for the past three, days, more like her because she had been the only one here, he hadn’t been around and only comes into sleep and the next morning he was off, he had called he this afternoon to get dress, that his driver would come to pick her up, she hadn’t wanted to go but she didn’t want to rush n Natalie’s image further, those articles had done a lot of damage and her parents had been furious when they called, she hadn’t given them much chance to talk her down though, the past three days have been worst for her, adjusting to living as Natalie and all, not to mention she had to attend to some of Natalie’s brands that needed answers, she just told them she was going through a lot of post-wedding stress and would like some time off, which they agreed to.
“I am talking to you,”
“What do you mean? Did I say anything wrong?”
“Yes you did, and in front of my staff,”
“Really, well I can say that about you too,”
He had insulted her and expected her not to say anything in return.
“Whatever nonsense you have been doing since the day we got married, I was only condoling it because I felt you were going through stress but if you keep this up you won’t like it, first of all, you have to learn how to respect, I have the upper hand in this relationship and I can’t stand you talking down at me even in the presence of my workers, know you play, you are my wife not my mother, and I won’t just sit and watch you keep showing this foolish behavior of yours, I swear to God, you don’t know me and the things I can do, just don’t get on my nerves,”
He yelled at her, she most her words looking at him, he was a scary bit even fear couldn’t stop her from feeling insulted, what? He had the upper hand? What happened to be equals I’m the relationship? She insulted him? He did that to her first and it was in the presence of the same worker, she couldn’t just keep quiet, he wasn’t her father or mother either.
“Have I made myself clear?”
He yelled again and she realized he had been talking since but she didn’t listen, why would she when he was talking nonsense?
“No, you have not said anything that made sense in the last five minutes you have been talking,”
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Let me talk will you, I just give you chance to speak now would you do the courtesy of listening to what I have to say?”
“Not if you are going to start talking rubbish because I don’t have the t***”
“Fucking listen, first of all, you don’t have an upper hand here, excuse me? I am your wife, not slave, secondly, I am not your mother, I agree, neither are you, my father or mother, again, you insulted me first I just use your exact same words back at you, if you are going to be bossy, go do that with your workers and not me, the fuck do you think you are that you can just ride on me? Let me remind you that I ain’t a pawn neither did you buy me, if you decided to start acting like some kind of boss over me, trust me you don’t want to know what I can do either,”
She let out, saying each word in a rush before he could stop her, yes she was scared of him, he was obviously bigger than her but she couldn’t stand him talking down on her, just three more days, just three more days and Natalie will be back then she will be gone from his sight if he wanna boss Natalie around and she allows him that’s her problem, but she wasn’t going to let him do that to her.
“We will see who will win this fight,”
“Oh, well, I will love to see, just so you know this is the twenty-first century and this is fucking twenty-twenty-one, so mind how you talk to me too, it’s not a men word and I ain’t a lonely girl with no family, you wanna do shit, I can pull just as much shits,”
She threatened, she knew she didn’t have much power but she couldn’t let him frighten her or threaten her, no way was she going to let him stop her from standing up for herself.
“Oh really?”
He asked moving closer to her and invading her space.
“Yes, she said and moved away from him, he caught her by her waist and before she could push him off his lips claimed hers…