CHAPTER 59
1050 Words
"I don't want to go," I promptly replied while settling myself on the bed. I clutch my knees close to me as I bury my head on it. At this moment, I could really feel being helpless. And this man before me is taking advantage of everything. No matter how I try to decode and understand-y the situation, it's just too complicated for me to perceive especially when someone like him is always in the way or was always trying to keep it away from me.
What's so hard about telling me the truth anyway?
"Come outside now, " I heard him said again. But I still refuse to obey him once more. I need to be firm if I want to resist him. It's the only way his manipulation over me will stop. Florante took his distance closer to me as he tried reaching his hand and touch me.
I immediately refute his attempt with an ire cry, "Don't come closer to me!" I flinch just so I could move away from him before the tip of his finger could even touch me.
There I witness how his oceanic-blue eye widened in an appalled manner. He sighs before dragging his hand away from me. "You have the right to be mad," he suddenly said.
"Of course I do! You deny me of truth, Florante. Truth that I deserve to know."
Florante remain silent after that, I was hoping he'd make up for it and tell me the truth here, yet He still chose not to speak. Instead, he just let out a sigh once more as if sounding too fed up with this drama. I can see that very well from his expression which he can't deny. And then he sprung up to head for the exit. before he left, He then told me, "There's a hot cocoa outside for you. Drink it before it gets cold."
"Wait!" I took the swift call to stop him before he goes outside. My feet dragged me to rose from the bed and walk near him so that I could bunt my words against him, "You're doing it again! You keep dodging it whenever I ask about explanations or truth to you. Where did that phrase of yours, "I'll answer all of your questions tomorrow' go, huh?"
He titled his head towards my direction, "It makes me wonder, what is it to you that makes you this eager to know?" He suddenly asked. The curiosity in his eyes, however, seemed frightening. I can tell by the way he looks at me that there was more he wish to know that what he just asked. And then he added asking, "I am curious, why do you have so much knowledge about Amanikable and everything about him that you keep associating to me?"
How unbelievable of him to turn the tables and fire my questions against me.
"You don't have to know." I answered him back. That was a stupid defense. It would only make him more suspicious of me in this sense. But since it's already out of my mouth, I had to be firm on my stand now.
Yet, what he said just made me infuriate more, "Then it goes the same with me," as if really mocking me with the way he retorts back my words.
At this moment, I really couldn't think of any better words to defend myself and force the words I wish to hear from him. I'm all fed up to be honest, and the only thing I have left as option is to clutch on the lining of robe and beseech him. "Well then, can you at least tell me what do I have to do in order for you to tell me what I'm asking." It was a fetching line I never thought I'd even show in front of him. Even the tone of my voice was too pleading. Something, I don't normally do with people I don't wish to get myself involve with. And yet, here I am.
What I just didn't anticipate is when he held me forcible on my shoulders, followed by his quick drive to pin me on the bed. I wasn't even ready for his swift attack, all the more when he suddenly came above me. All of a sudden, the image of our first encounter visited back my vision. The very memory that always gives me tremendous shivers every time I came to recall it. And right now, my nerves are shaking intensely seeing him above me once more.
His eyes, those oceanic-blue eyes, were tinted with greed and craving. I could even sense the carnality nearly overpowering his mind. My chest tightened as if my lungs fully stop its function, all because Florante suddenly lowered his head closer to my face.
"Undress yourself." He mumbled before my face that totally shocked me.
"What?" I dare to even clarify.
"Didn't you hear me?" He said as he move his eyes to meet mine before adding, "I said, undress yourself."
"U-undress myself?" I stutter the words as I repeat them again.
His eyes were penetrating through my soul, it was like I haven't done anything yet but I can see my clear reflection of on his oceanic-blue eyes how I am bare and naked in front of him. Completely ashamed I tried to move my vision away from him.
"Didn't you want me to tell you what you have to do so that I'll answer your senseless questions?"
"Yes, but this--"
"What's wrong about asking this?"
"What's wrong? Don't you have a little sense of decency? Forcing a woman in bed because she needed something from you, you really are a hideous monster! Perhaps you're right, that you aren't really Amanikable. Because a God won't go so much to stoop into this kind of humiliation."
"Amanikable! Amanikable! I'm done hearing that bullshit of name!" He roared as he pressed me further into the bed.
I am in total shocked with his sudden uproar and my bondage, his strong grip on my wrist makes me ache for it and build the fear that it might really break. At this point, struggling for my freedom is indeed futile, he's too angered that doing so will just make my current situation worst.
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