WINNING HER HEART

STILL IT STING

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Sara's P.O.V.

"Yes, mom... you know very well the truth of this relationship. I don't this that it will be appropriate for both of us to live in the same space. We need time and..... I ... think... it will be best that if we live in separate rooms", I tried to make my mother-in-law, Mrs Naomi Winter, understand my point of view. There was no way that I wanted to be in the same room with my so-called player husband. I shuddered hard by the mere thought of him touching me in any way.

“But, honey… how will you go to make your marriage work if you two lives in separate rooms? I mean… I agree with you that it’s not the marriage out of love, still, you have to stay together to strengthen your relationship”, she took my hand in between her hands and tried hard to make me understand her point of view. Of course, she wanted us to be together. She was a mother and I respected her feelings for her children.

I sighed aloud and looked at her defeated. “Mom…. Please…. I don’t want to be rude.. but… please try to understand…. It’s …. It’s not easy for me to stay with a man when we hate each other through our core”, I lowered my eyes and bit my lower lip while saying this aloud. I heard her sighing aloud. “I know, honey… it’s just… I want to see both of you happy together just like a normal couple. I don’t want to pressure you and I am not pressuring you anymore. Your father and my husband have already put you under so much stress. Okay… as you wish… I wish that soon you two work on your differences and”, she paused and at the same time, a tear dropped from my eye and disappeared in the material of my bridal gown.

My eyes were lowered and I was sure that she didn’t see that tear falling from my eye. “Give me an hour… I will prepare the next room for you”, she pulled me closer to her and kissed my forehead. “I wanted to cry in her embrace. She was a woman of great strength and earned a lot of respect in the high circle. Unlike my mother, she had her own views and did what she thought was right.

She went out of the room and I looked up. I looked around the whole room. This was Patrick’s room. The whole room was painted in the shade of blue and sky grey. It was a very odd condition still looked well. Most furniture is black in colour and I wondered whether his favourite colour is black or sky grey. I stood up and went out on the balcony. It was already past midnight. Patrick didn’t return from the party with his friends. I knew what kind of party of it was. What could I expect from a player? We are not lovers still it stung. I felt that staying away from him was the best decision that I took right now. I looked up in the sky and watch the twinkling of stars. It was dark everywhere... inside my mind and hard and outside around me.

“What are you doing outside, Sara? You will catch a cold”, I heard Naomi’s worried voice and looked back. She immediately put a sheet around me and that was when I realized that I zoned out standing in cold on the balcony. I was shivering hard due to the cold. “Let me take you to your room then I will help you coming out of this gown”, she said while embracing me into a side hug and took me out of the room. My room was next to Patrick’s room and I didn’t have any problem with this. It was still separate from his room.

“Tia… prepare a hot chocolate drink for Sara and bring that in this room”, she instructed the maid standing outside the room. Tia nodded and went downstairs. “Let’s in”, Naomi said to me and we both entered our room. She immediately started the heater to give me much needed heat right now. She pulled off the sheet from me and then helped me get out of the gown. “I have prepared hot water bathe for you. Go… take your bath. Meanwhile, I will ask the maids to bring your stuff in this room, okay?” she said to me and I nodded while shuddering due to cold. I was only in my undergarments.

I immediately entered the bathroom and soaked myself in the hot water. I felt calm and all my tensed muscles relaxed immediately. The whole day even had tired my muscles completely. I closed my eyes and put my head on the edge of the bathtub. Naomi had put some essential oil in the bath and its fragrance was so calming. I came out of the bathtub when the water started getting cold. I washed myself and then took a warm water shower. I dried myself from a fluffy full-length towel and wrapped it around myself. The towel was long enough to cover my ass completely and stopped a little lower down the mid thighs.

I came out of the bathroom while drying my hair from the other towel. “Aaaaaahhhhhhhh”, I screamed aloud when I saw a man lying on my bed. The person immediately shot up and my eyes widened in shock. I get a tight hold on my towel.

“What are you doing here?” I screamed at him while looking for my luggage so that I could find anything to wear right now. I found my luggage at one corner of the room and ran towards that while clenching the towel tight by both hands. He didn’t say a thing but stared at me with wide-opened eyes. I immediately opened my luggage and took out a large size t-shirt. “Move”, I screamed and as if he came out of his stance and move in the opposite direction. Now his back was towards me. I immediately put on that t-shirt and then put my shorts on. Once covering myself appropriately, I stormed toward me.

“What are you doing here?” I asked him while standing in front of him. “Uhhhh…. Shouldn’t you be in my room?’ he asked me while looking everywhere but me. “And why should I?” I asked him in an irritating tone while crossing my hands in front of my chest. “I… I… we are married now. And… and… I thought that you are in my room”, he said while thinking hard for words right now.

I huffed and went towards my bed. I immediately pulled the cover to my shoulder seeking a little warmth as I was still shivering. “I am not staying with you in your room. Though we are married, we are not bound to live together. It’s my room and you can go into your room”, I said while looking in another direction. I didn’t want to see him. There was a thick tension in the air inside the room suffocating me badly. I wanted him out of my room but didn’t want to create any scene in front of maids. At the same time, I heard a knock and asked the person to come inside.

“Your drink, honey”, mom came inside but was startled to see Patrick standing near my bed while looking in another direction. “Why are you here, Patrick? God… how much you drank tonight”, she threw a disgusting look at him while eyeing him from head to toe. She put the glass of hot chocolate on the nightstand and stood straight facing Patrick now.

“I… uhhhh… I… thought that… she is in my room… so… so I came here”, he said in a low voice while hanging his head low. “Go to your room, Patrick”, mom said clearly disappointed with his look. I didn’t notice till then that he was reeking alcohol and was in a quite messy state. I was sure that he was with some random chick before coming back home. I gulped hard the invisible lump that had formed in my throat just by the thought.

Naomi looked at me with pity in her eyes. I hated this look so much. I got this look always from our maids, servants and from our employees. I moved my gaze away from her and finished my drink. It calmed my nerves down a bit. "You are tired.... get some sleep, baby.... we will talk tomorrow, okay?" she said with a loving and pleasant smile on her face and I smiled back.

She helped me getting lay down on the bed comfortably and then kissed my forehead. "Good night, honey", she whispered to me and suddenly I felt my eyelids becoming heavy and I said good night to her and drifted into my much need sleep.