The Contract of Shadows ( Part 2)

The next day the entrepreneur's company mysteriously lost his biggest investor.

Coincidence.

Everyone believed it was a coincidence.

Except Orion.

Days later Rose confronted him again.

"Did you have something to do with the Daniel's Company?"

Silence.

" You think I will destroy businesses over jealousy?"

"I don't want to think anymore"

He stood, towering over her.

His voice remained dangerously soft.

"I don't like people assuming that they can take what's mine".

Her heartbeats stumbled.

"I am not yours"

His eyes darkened.

"Not yet"

She left shaken, for the first time....she was afraid.

Instead of avoiding him, she demanded answers.

"You have been watching me".

"I have been protecting you"

"I never asked"

"You shouldn't have to"

"You cross every boundary"

"I removed every obstacle"

"Those are not the same thing"

"No"

He admitted it without hesitation.

"They aren't"

Rose avoided him. But he watched.

Days later she submitted her resignation.

His assistant carried it upstairs.

Orion read exactly one sentence.

Effective immediately

He signed nothing.

Instead.....

He walked to her office himself.

"You aren't leaving"

"I already have"

"You think distance changes this? "

"It has to"

"You've become the only person who speaks to me as though I am just a man".

"You are just a man"

"No"

His smile was faint.

"You are the only person. Without you, I cannot imagine my future"

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She thought that she could escape.

She finally made it to the airport.

But outside a black SUV car stopped beside her in the pouring rain. Before she could escape, two security guards stepped out.

"Miss Carter"One of them said politely, "Mr. Vale requested your presence"

"I said no"

"I'm afraid that wasn't available as one of the answers"

The door opened.

Inside sat Orion Vale.

His expression was calm, as this was just another business meeting.

"You kidnapped me"

"I brought you somewhere safe".

"I hate you"

"I know. "

She glared at him.

"You can't get to decide my life"

"I already have"

The state where he takes her, grounded by security, covered by forests. The gates were locked. Her phone was gone.

"You can't keep me here forever"

"I don't need forever"

"Then what? "

"You."

She refuses to speak, to eat. She ignored every attempt at conversation.

Yet every morning, at 7:00 Orion sat across for breakfast.

One night she tried to escape.

She climbed over the garden wall only to find Guard outside

That is the day when Orion lost all his composure.

He threatened her to kill her family, to kill those animals she cared about. And that is the day when he crossed all his limits.

She became his wife in front of the whole world. But in private.

His prisoner.

Camera placed at every corner of the home.

He watched her, always......

Every move.

Every step.

She knows that she cannot escape.

This live became her fate with an iron chain on her leg.

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The end.

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