Trapped by My Ex's Love Curse

Running Away

Bryan entered Shienna's room and found no one in the room. The door was open. Bryan approaches, thinking that Shienna is relaxing inside, but he sees nothing, including her clothes.

He was wide-eyed in disbelief. Shienna had never said anything before, so he was sure that she must have agreed to the agreement she had signed. However, given the circumstances, Bryan thought she must have been trying to escape.

Bryan rushed out and took the public elevator so that he was now on the first floor and headed to the front desk to see if the staff had seen Shienna leave.

"We did see Mrs. Sanders walking around with a large bag a few minutes ago, but we assumed she was doing it with your permission, sir."

"Damn it! What a spoiled brat! What is she doing?" muttered Bryan angrily. He then hurried to find Shienna's whereabouts, which he was sure must not be too far away. He then called the bodyguard he had hired to guard Shienna. "What have you been doing that you didn't know my wife was gone?!"

Before long, both the bodyguard and Elea arrived in a hurry and began to help Bryan search for his wife, who was apparently not far from the building. Shienna's bad luck seemed to continue as she attempted to run away from Bryan, but not a single taxi passed in front of her, so she didn't realize that Bryan was already behind her back.

Without another word, Bryan wrapped an arm around Shienna's waist and carried her back to the building.

"Let go of me, asshole! You can't do this to me! You're a maniac; you're a s*x fiend. You must have deliberately kept me captive for your fetish! Let me go!" Shienna continued to scream all the way to the penthouse.

Several people began to notice the billionaire, who was now painstakingly carrying his defiant wife with two women in tow.

No one dared to comment because if Bryan found out about the rumors behind him, he would not hesitate to fire the person.

"Stop yelling, or I'll gag you!" snapped Bryan, unable to stand it as Shienna continued to scream in his ear. Even when they got to the elevator, Bryan didn't let her off, leaving Shienna desperate to bite her husband's shoulder.

"AARGH!" he screamed, forcing Shienna down until she thought she could escape. But once again, Bryan wrapped an arm around her waist and locked Shienna's body to his while he endured the pain of his wife's bite.

The elevator paused a few times, and a few people got in, reluctant to see the boss hugging his wife so intimately and tightly that it seemed in their eyes how lucky they were to be Shienna Miller.

Bryan remained silent, slightly disturbed by the whispers he could hear coming from his employees' mouths. However, he could not remove his arm from Shienna because if he did, she would surely run away.

He admitted that his wife was very clever. That was why he couldn't let his guard down.

"Ahem!" Bryan cleared his throat as the chatter grew louder. Several people in the same elevator turned their heads and grinned. "Sorry if you're uncomfortable with this. My wife is afraid of heights and small spaces. That's why I'm holding her."

"Please forgive us, sir. We didn't mean to—"

"No problem. Come down and do your work properly."

The others nodded. Then, right on the fifteenth floor, three employees came down and made Bryan sigh with relief. However, he did not remove his arm from Shienna's waist.

"Are you enjoying this?" Shienna asked with a sarcastic smile.

"What do you mean?"

Shienna gestured with her eyes towards Bryan's arm. "You're happy to land your pervert hand on my body, aren't you?"

"Don't think about that s**t. You remember very well that this is not the first time. I've felt more than this."

"You—" Shienna clenched her fists in an attempt to teach her husband a lesson, but she could not move because of the tight grip of the man's arms around her.

"Why are you angry? You started it first, so don't protest my answer. Now tell me, are you really planning to run away from me, hm?"

"I'm not running away!" Shienna replied curtly while ruffling the hair covering her face. "I just want to go home to my parents."

"Oh, really? Aren't you not getting along with your mom? And also, did you forget that we were going to my parents' house today? Why are you planning otherwise?"

"Because I—"

Shienna couldn't continue her words. How could she tell the truth if she was embarrassed to meet Bryan's parents? Shienna remembered the insults she had hurled at Bryan in front of his parents, and there was no way Bryan's mom and dad could accept it.

She didn't have the courage, even to admit the reason in front of Bryan. In the end, Shienna remained silent.

"Never mind. We don't have to go to my parents' house if you're not ready. But don't you dare run away again! Or you will know the consequences. I remind you, once again, that you have signed an agreement with me. And it's an official letter. So if you do the slightest thing that goes against the articles in it, you will lose."

Bryan tugs on Shienna's arm when they arrive at the 21st floor of his penthouse. He led Shienna inside and faced her, locking eyes for the first time in their entire time together.

"What are you going to do to me? Why did you bring me here? My place is upstairs!"

"I'm not going to let you escape again, so I'm going to close your penthouse and move all your stuff into this place! We'll be under the same roof, even if we have to share a room."

"What? Are you out of your mind?"

Bryan didn't answer Shienna's tirade but instead grabbed his cell phone and dialed someone, and before long, several men in maintenance uniforms came to see him.

"What did you assign us, sir?"

"Please take some of my wife's important belongings from the 21A floor and bring them here. Tidy them up in the room I have prepared."

"What should we bring?"

"This is the list. Don't let any of them get scratched because they are my wife's favorite things."

The men nodded, then hurried away and seemed to go back and forth as they carried Shienna's musical instruments one by one from her floor and arranged them nicely in the spacious room Bryan had provided.

"You'll be in the room next to mine, so if there's anything, you can call me."

"I'll make sure you don't hear any calls for help from me, you bastard!"

Bryan snorted in mocking laughter at his wife's response. "You'll definitely need my help. It won't be long before your belly grows. You won't be able even to tie your shoelaces."

"I'll ask Elea to do it for me."

"Alright, whatever you want."

The men had finished doing Bryan's bidding, then Bryan seemed to talk to them and handed each of them an envelope and let them go. Meanwhile, he sat on the sofa and watched television. Lately, he had been watching a lot of gossip shows, making sure there was no strange news about him and Shienna.

Bryan never cared about the news, but since marrying Shienna, he couldn't understand why things had changed. He didn't like the trashy information!

"Bray! I can't sleep in that room. The mattress is too narrow!" complained Shienna after inspecting the new room she was about to move into. "I want your room."

"It's a queen size. Enough for you alone. Narrow, how do you mean?"

"Do you know the size of the bed in my house? King! Maybe even more than that. It's very spacious!"

"Then just sleep on the soccer field. You can roll around freely. Don't fuss! Just use the bed comfortably. I'll replace it tomorrow."

Shienna clucked in annoyance, then turned around and started moving pillows and things from one room to another. Bryan, who had not been paying attention, became confused when he heard no sound. He got up and went to Shienna's room but didn't find her there.

"Where is this woman? What a nuisance!" he grumbled. "Shie! Where are you? Are you in the bathroom?"

Bryan was wide-eyed to find Shienna already asleep in his room, on a bed with fresh sheets on while the previous ones were scattered on the floor.

"What are you doing in my room?" Bryan asked. "And this—what the hell is this, Shienna?"

Shienna didn't answer, as she was already asleep, tired from running around all day trying to escape her husband.

Bryan sighed in annoyance and walked out of the room after closing the door. He then called someone and asked them to come for an appointment. There was no telling what Bryan would do, especially now that Shienna was under his roof.