FIRE AND ICE

chapter4

OWEN'S POV

" Hi ", she whispered shyly, and it felt like my heart would burst right here by the look she had on her face. Her chubby cheeks were so red that they looked like ripe tomatoes. Strands of her silky brown hair falling on her face in front of her eyes.

"Let's proceed with dinner. I'm sure you must be starving. It's not good to keep our guests waiting, right Maria?", said Jennifer with her eyes glaring daggers at my moon.

" Sure, then we can decide about business too." said uncle Karen, agreeing with him and trying to tell me to stop fussing over Maria with his eyes.

After the dinner was done, me and uncle Karen along with Richard moved to his office. Maria and her sister too went into their rooms.

When we entered his office, he asked us to take a seat and then proceeded to take out the documents.

We discussed the details, and then it was time to finally get this leech out of my eyes. This man is so irritating, I want to f*****g murder him everytime I am in his mere presence.

Finally, when everything was settled, it was time to leave, but I couldn't leave without seeing my moon one last time. The need to be in her presence is so overwhelming, it hurts to breathe sometimes. As we finally made it to the living room, my hope died not finding Maria there. Instead, her mother and sister were there gossiping about who knows what.

"Where is Maria? I told her not to go back until her uncle was there". Richard inquired about his daughter. It could be clearly seen how he was trying to control his anger for our sake.

" Oh, Richard, you are back, actually they are both discussing some business upstairs.", said the old b***h.

This was getting too annoying for me now, so without a word I stormed outside while indicating my uncle to come fast.

After waiting for a few minutes, uncle finally showed up, and we sat in the car and went back to our home.

After reaching home, I headed straight to my room, opened the bathroom, stripped my clothes and took a f*****g cold shower to stop thinking about my moon.

As I laid on my bed, my thoughts started spiraling towards today's events. I needed to up my plans more than I assumed it seemed, surviving another day without my moon seemed like an impossible task now that I have had a glance of those honeybrown orbs.

MARIA'S POV

Now that the fake family dinner was over, I knew it was the time for me to clean the table and do the dishes, better do it without any tantrums of my mother. Just as I was about to move to clean, the door bell rang indicating us about the new presence. And just as person entered the room, my brain stopped working. No matter how many times I look into those eyes, knowing what is about to come, it always feels like my worst nightmare but the only difference is that this is very much real and no one can save me from it.

"hey! Phillip, how are you?, it's been so long", Jennifer recited finally excited to see my tormenter.

Hello, Jen, it's sp good to finally see you. And you too Christine." he replied.

"And my favourite girl, Maria, how can I forget you, did you miss this old man." he said knowingly how much his mere presence disgusts me.

"I am sure she missed you, you know how needy she is.", she mused. "Maria take him to your room upstairs, he will be more comfortable there discussing tghe bussiness."

I swallowed and gestured him to follow me. My heart beat out of control as my lungs struggled to get air past my panic. I was on the verge of having a panic attack and couldn't do anything to stop it. I tried to calm myself, knowing my panic is not going to help me with this. As we reached in front of my room, the urge to vomit was so overwhelming, it was almost impossible to control it but I did knowing the consequences of what my actions would do.

"Come, let's go. I can't wait to hear your screams anymore.",without even giving a chance to run, he pushed me inside the room and looked it from inside.

I have survived this before and I will do it again in a heartbeat to protect my loved ones.