What a Fairytale

Chapter 8: Sleepless nights

A/N: Triggering scene ahead, I'll mark off when it ends if someone wants to skip it

***Rosemary***

"Why John, Why?" I ask him with tears in my eyes. "Why would you do this, he was just being nice to me" I whispered, dropping to my knees. "Rosy, he wanted to steal you from me. He was flirting with you!" He yells back at me, grabbing me by my hair and pulling me back up "Let me go John!" I scream at him, he only pulls harder. He drags me to the bathroom, throwing me inside, I hit my head on the side of the bathtub, knocking me out temporarily. When I wake up, John is sitting on a chair with his belt in his hand. I try to sit up, but notice my hands and feet are tied and a cloth is in my mouth "You've hurt me Rosy, you let a man try to take you away from me. You must be punished" He says standing up and walking over to me. I shake my head fervently, tears streaming down my face. He picks me up and bends me over the bathtub.

*SMACK*

"I will spank you three times Rosy, stay still for me" He gets ready to hit me again. I want to scream, yell, kick. But I can't do anything

*SMACK * *SMACK*

He unties my hands and ancles and take the cloth out of my mouth. He picks me up and throws me onto the bed "I hope you have learned your lesson Rosy. I don't like to punish you" He smiles weakly at me. "Then why do you do it!" I yell at him. "Shh, shh. You'll wake up Bells!" He hisses at me "I do it because you must learn not to disrespect me, and for you to listen when I talk!" He whisper yells, I look at him with shick written all over my face. "You are not my father John, you are my husband!" I screech, I try to stand up to walk out of the door but a hard slap to the face stops me. i hold my cheek, trying to process what just happened. It was not the first time he has hit me, and was not the last either.

"Oh my god Rose, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it"

(A/N - END IF SCENE)

With those last words I wake up in a cold sweat. I roll over to check the time on my alarm clock, 6:15.

Time to get up, Me and Bella go through our usual morning routine for school and work and head out.

Later that day, at work I get another message

'Good morning Rosy, I hope you have a great day my love, see you soon'

I feel nauseous, I run to the bathroom and lock one of the stalls. Hunched over the toilet I release my breakfast. After a few minutes, I compose myself and walk out of the stall. I clean myself up, checking my make up and rinsing out my mouth. When I enter the office, I pop a bubble gum into my mouth and try to continue with my work. I have a board meeting with Zack and a few staff members in ten minutes. I spray a little perfume on myself to make sure I atleast smell better than I did a few minutes ago.

Zack meets me in the board room with a bright smile, but his smile falters when he sees me. "Rose, are you okay? You look pale" he says coming closer to feel my forehead. "Yeah I'm fine, don't worry about me" I say, swatting away his hand. He was about to say something when Matt and a few other staff members enter the room, taking their seets. Zack lets it go for now, but gives me a look thay says we'll talk about it later.

"Good morning everyone" I say as I take my seat. Zack follows my action and greets everyone with his dazzling smile. 'No, stop thinking his smile is gorgeous' I scold myself internally.

"Let's start the meeting off with you Matt, hows everything going with your new managing position" I look at him, waiting for his reply. "Everything is going great, our sales has increased with another 25% in the last 3 weeks. But I fear we might be slightly under staffed" He frowns at the last part, everyone nodding in agreement with his statement. "Alright, that's not a big problem, in which area do you feel we might need to hire more people?" Zack asks Matt.

"Well, at reception we need one more person, Grace and Zoey are the only ones managing it there right now with me gone, I help them from time to time when I get the chance. We need two more chefs in the kithcen, as we only have three right now. They can't keep up with all the orders" Matt sighs, looking at us. Zack and I nod in understanding, both of us in thought. "We need six more maids as well Ms Valentino and Mr Richards, we are five right now. This is a big hotel and with the rooms filling up more and more every day, we struggle to get to all of them on time" Veronica exasperates, she is the head maid of the hotel, she makes sure all rooms are cleaned on a day to day basis. "Alright Veronica, well look into that aswell" Zack says, writing down all the departments we need to look at. "How is the new bar tender coping that you hired Matt" I ask focusing on new problem. " Well, he's great actually. All the customers love him" Atleast that's a positive thing so far for the meeting. "We will need to add another valet to the team, I see cars are lining up and a lot of customers have to wait. we can't have that" Zack says to me. "Okay, so extra staff members are the problem for today, anything else?" I ask everyone at the table. "Well, Yes Ms Valentino and Mr Richards, is there any room in the budget for a small pay raise" Veronica asks, looking a bit nervous to ask us the question. I look over at Zack and he answers for me "We'll crunch the numbers and have an answer for you about that at our next meeting next week Wednesday, does thay sound good" Veronica nods her head and thanks us. We end the meeting there for today, Zack and I gou g back to his office to discuss the issues for the day.

"Okay so I'll look into getting a few more chefs and valets, are you find with the maids and receptionists? theb we can regroup in your office at 3pm to check the budget for a raise?" He asks taking a seat in his chair. I stop at the foot of his desk, as I don't see the need to sit down if I have to leave right now anyway. "Yeah sure we can do that, I'll put an add in the news paper for the job descriptions on my part"

"Great and I'll put mine on the radio" we adjourn our small metting and I head back for my office. I sit down in my chair and look around. I have a quite spacious office, I have a big wooden desk, with a leather chair, all kinds of paintings hanging on my walls, two floor to ceiling windows and blinds that I can lower if I need privacy. I have a small desk and chair in the corner of the room for Bella to sit at when she comes here after school. I'm quite content with the space I have.

I'm about to send the news paper a mail about the advertisement when I hear a knock on my door. "Come in" I yell, when I look up to see who wants to bother me now, my face hardens with annoyance. "What do you want now?"