Ariel’s P.O.V.
“Wake up….. you should eat something.” I heard a monotonous male voice asking me to wake up. I frowned while snuggling into the soft pillow. “I don’t want to.” I muttered sleepily and flipped on the other side.
“Ariel….. wake up.” I scowled this time when I noticed some impatience in his voice. Who the hell is here in my room, and why did he want me to wake up so bad? I huffed and craned my neck to the other side, and slowly opened my eyes.
My whole body was aching so badly and all I wanted right now was to keep sleeping but he was a jerk enough to make me wake up. I blinked to clear my vision as I saw a blurred silhouette of a man standing in front of me.
His outline was enough to tell me that he wasn’t Tony. I blinked and my gaze met with a pair of familiar phoenix eyes. They were still as cold as they were always. I blinked harder in a daze, trying to understand why he was here? He never set his foot in my room, and here he was standing in front of me, trying to wake me up.
“Hi.” I waved my hand dumbfounded when he didn’t say a word again. My eyes widened in shock when I saw a slight change in his expression. He looked…….. amused? But why?
“Go and freshen up…. You need to eat dinner before going to bed again.” He instructed me in a bit gentle tone??????
O my God??????
He knew how to be gentle??????
“What are you waiting for?” he asked me in the same tone, but bit of hint of impatience once again after some time when I didn’t react.
“Yeah… yeah… I….. I ‘m going.” I replied to him immediately and sat up. Unintentionally I yawned aloud, opening my mouth wide open and closed my eyes again. I was so tired…. Can’t I eat after completing my much needed sleep??????
“I didn’t remember you hitting your head on floor when you fell. How did you become so lazy?” I opened my eyes again and immediately shut my mouth tightly when I heard him commenting on me in a amused tone.
“I… I just woke up…. This is natural.” I immediately defended myself out of habit but didn’t look towards him. I didn’t remember that we have had any conversation like this in my previous life. I remembered that he went to a business trip at our wedding night, and came back after two weeks. Why he was here then?
To avoid further conversation with him, I immediately removed the sheet and slowly moved out of the bed on the other side. I was about to get up when I stopped and looked around. I narrowed my eyes in confusion. This wasn’t my room. Heck, I never knew that Atkin’s Mansion had such dull and monotonous room. The whole room was in black and grey.
What the hell…..
“Now what?” Winston asked me again while coming towards me. “Wh… which room is this?” I asked him in confusion and slowly stood up. “This….. is my room?” He answered me with a hint of confusion this time, and I snapped my head towards him, still in confusion.
“Why am I here?” I asked him in the same confused tone. “Because we are married?” he answered me questioningly, but soon his eyes travelled down on my body. I narrowed my eyes once again in confusion and slowly looked down at myself.
I snapped my head up once again, widening my eyes in horror and immediately crossed my hands in front of my chest while clenching my thigh. I had only a white thin t-shirt with no undergarment inside.
“I… I don’t know who ch…. Changed my clothes…. I…. I swear… I… I didn’t do anything.” I immediately yelled in panic, defending myself with a furiously pounding heart against my ribcage.
I went pale when I saw his eyes went one shades darker, and his adams apple bobbed hardly. “I… I know…. Go and freshen up.” He answered me in a low and hoarse voice and my boys turned towards the bathroom automatically, and before I could understand my own actions, I was almost running towards the bathroom, still my hands crossed in front of my chest.
I bang shut the door of the bathroom, and leaned my back on the frame, panting furiously. What the heck did just happened? Why I was here, and how embarrassing it was to stand in front of him in half-naked….. no…. almost naked state?
“AAAahhhhhh.” I screamed with closed mouth to keep my scream muffled while cursing whoever had changed my clothes. It seemed that everything had changed after my rebirth.
No…. I couldn’t let this happen. If the trajectory changed completely, then how would I be able to save myself and Tony? No…. in my past life…. There was no scene like this and it shouldn’t be now.
I slowly walked towards the sink while thinking about what exactly happened after I came to the Atkins Mansion. I reeled out all my memories while freshening up and realized that I actually had no married life or even friendly life with Winston before.
I was always cautious around him, and always tried to stay as far away from him as it was possible for me. I didn’t have any career because Tony was the one who took care of my family business from my maternal side. I was the major shareholder in that company, and had a lavished life because of the dividends that I got from those shares.
Tony was just managing the company on my behalf because I had no desire to take over the company. He had his own company to take care but as his favourite niece, he couldn’t bear to see me working my a** off to keep the company running and that was why, we had an agreement that he would help me managing the company until I turned 25.
I needed to change the situation now. At first, I needed to manage things here as they were in past, and then, I would talk to Tony about my working in the company. If …. If I had to take over the company, and avoid the circumstances in which Tony died, I had to come forward.
After freshening up, I was about to open the door, when my gaze went to my attire once again. I groaned in frustration and slowly opened the door a little. I didn’t bring the change of clothes in hurry. So, I needed someone’s help now.
I peeked out of door, only poking my head out to see if Winston was still in the room or not. I smiled brightly when I didn’t notice any presence in the room. “W….. Winston…. Are you here?” I still called him cautiously while trying to see as much area as I could see.
I took a deep breath of relief when I didn’t hear any response from him. I opened the door and went out of the room. I was about to walk further when I stopped. Where was the closet?????
Where were my clothes?? What I was supposed to get something to wear better? I looked around frantically for anything that could lead me to the closet and to my horror, there was nothing on the all walls around me.
I facepalmed myself in horror and ran towards the straight wall in front of me. I started knocking it just like in those thriller movies where they get some hidden button or…. Lever…. Or something like that…. To open the door hidden within the wall.
“What are you doing?” I screamed aloud in horror while jumping on my feet frantically when suddenly someone said in my ears. The person immediately held my by my waist from behind, making me scared to my wits. Was there a ghost in this room? Did …. Did Winston put me in a haunted room to torment me????
“God…. What’s wrong with you?” I heard Winston’s impatient and angry voice and stopped screaming and jumping abruptly. I looked behind while blinking hard. I almost stopped breathing when I saw him holding me.
“What are you doing, Ariel?” he asked me in a bit of calm tone after a short pause. “I…. i…. I… need m… my c… cloth… clothes… b.. but the.. there i… is no closet here.” I answered him while stuttering hard in bewilderment.
He sighed while looking at me in amusement. “The closet is right beside the bathroom.” He answered me and slowly moved our bodies in the same direction. My breath hitched when his hot breath fanned the side of my face.
This was the first time in both lives that he was so close to me. He pointed towards a small panel right beside the bathroom door. “Your clothes and all other accessories are already there.” He told me, and I pursed my lips into a thin line.
“You… you should really wear something else if…. If you do… don’t want to consummate our marriage until we understand each other better.” He whispered right into my ear and I shuddered lightly because of this very weird and strange sensation all over my body. I stopped breathing once again when I remembered that I was still in the same thin t-shirt and now was in his embrace.
Gosh…… I never felt so embarrassed in my past life…. Why now?????