Chapter 16
1348 Words
Author's POV
Jayden woke up early in the morning, he saw the empty couch and guessed that she already left for the gym, he did his morning business and when he opened the drawer to find his shaving razor he saw an opened packet of tampon, it was ivy’s drawer so he quickly closed it and got ready. He walked towards the gym where she was already doing her workout with the same intensity as usual,
but her face was looking stressed, she finished her workout while Jayden was observing her silently doing his own exercise. Ivy stood up and placed her hands on her waist, she gently rubbed her stomach, which confirmed him that she is on her periods.
He finished his workout and ordered maids to make something healthy for breakfast.
After taking shower and getting ready for the day they both head towards the dining hall, Ivy excused herself from Jayden and walked towards the kitchen to make herself a coffee, Riley smiled in excitement when she saw her crush walking towards
her.
"Good morning miss…”
She greeted her blushing, Ivy looked at her confused, she had no idea why this girl always blushes while talking to her, she didn't know that Riley is a lesbian, and she has a huge crush on her.
Ivy greeted her back keeping her mobile on the kitchen counter she started making herself coffee, riley was standing close to her pouring soup in bowl instead of using another empty counters in the big kitchen, she was about to pick up the bowl but by getting distracted by Ivy’s charm that the stupid girl was about to dip her fingers in the hot soup, Ivy noticed it and quickly snatched her hand before she could burn herself...
"What are you doing, be careful you will burn yourself.”
Ivy said in scolding voice, turning Riley crimson red colour...
"Thank you so much.”
She thanked her shyly, Ivy nodded at her and left the kitchen with her coffee.
Stella saw everything but she didn't even dare to make eye contact with ivy, she was beyond scared of her. Stella had seen how Ivy killed that red headed assassin, she witnessed everything while Riley was sleeping peacefully in her room...
She warned Riley to stay away from Ivy saying that she is dangerous, but riley was blinded by Ivy’s charm.
"Wow! She is so caring, did you see stella how she saved me, I am sure she likes me too, oh my god she is so cool.
She chirped in excitement, while stella shook her head at her childish behaviour.
Ivy entered the dining hall and everyone was already present there. She placed her coffee on the table and was about to sit but then she remembered that she left her mobile in the kitchen, she excused herself again and walked towards the kitchen leaving her coffee there in front of Jayden, he smirked looking at her coffee, as soon as she left he picked up the mug and took a sip of her delicious coffee...
"Dude you are literally stealing her coffee...”
Asher said shaking his head...
"Yes, I am.... can't help it, it's delicious.”
Damian said shamelessly...
Ivy entered the kitchen and heard the two maids whispering.
"Stay away from her riley, she is not a good woman, she is a murderer."
Stella again warned Riley...
"Ohh come on stella everyone in this house are criminals and murderers, and don't talk about Ivy like that please...”
Riley defended her...
"You are only saying this because you didn't see her killing that girl, she is heartless and she won't think twice before hurting you too, ivy is a monster riley stay away from her.”
Stella tried to make her understand...
Riley was about to answer her but stopped when she saw Ivy standing behind stella, stella followed the direction of her eyes and her heart almost came out of her chest when she saw ivy, stella started shaking in fear...
Ivy noticed how much the girl was scared of her and why wouldn't she be, she kept her face calm like she didn't hear them calling her a monster, she picked up her mobile from the counter and went to the dining hall, even if she didn't display it on her face deep down it hurt her when people judge or call her names, this was the same fear she saw in Sophie’s eyes that night that's why she decided to keep minimum contact with her and ignore her...
She herself always regrets killing people but she has no choice so she always consoles herself saying that the people she killed were not innocent, she has never hurt any innocent person in her life and she promised herself that she will never do that otherwise she will die in her own sea of guilt in which she is already drowning, even if she have to break the rules she swore by she will never hurt an innocent…
But still stella’s words hurts her...
"Am I really a monster?"
She asked herself but got no answer, all the faces whom she has killed mercilessly flashed in front of her face making her shiver.
She sat beside jayden and saw him drinking her coffee, but she was lost in her thoughts to acknowledge that…
Asher made a joke on something and saw that ivy was zoned out.
"Right Ivy?"
His voice brought her out from her trance...
"Sorry, I didn't hear, what were you saying?"
She asked looking at him.
"I was saying that I hate you...”
He said giving her a tight smile, Sophie’s eyes snapped towards him.
"Cool, I am not here to impress you.”
Ivy said with a shrug making asher drop his playful smile, sophie burst out laughing, and Jayden chuckled seeing asher’s expression.
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Jayden went to his office and Ivy went to the library, she walked towards the section from where she took previous books, but her eyes narrowed in confusion when she saw all the crime stories books were replaced with erotic ones, she checked other sections but even horror and action genres was replaced by romantic and erotic books…
"Who replaced all the books?
She mumbled in confusion, she decided to do something else for passing the time but she didn't had much to do, she started to sharpen her Blades and knifes, cleaned her guns but still got bored after that, sighing she decided to read books once again thinking not every aisle will contain romantic books, she entered the library and started looking for books but all of them turned out to be love Stories, finally she found one book which she thought she can read to pass the time...
Jayden was watching her actions sitting in his office through cameras grinning evilly, last night when he saw her reading thriller genre he texted asher to replace all the books with erotic stories, he wanted her to come out of her world of fight, violence and crime and introduce her to the world of pleasure, lust and maybe love and care...
Ivy read half of the book and placed it back on its place, she didn't like it, that book was pulling her towards the emotions from which she always ran away.
She turned around and saw Sophie standing there, she gave a nervous smile to Ivy...
"Hey, I am just here for some books, sorry if I disturbed you.”
Ivy noticed the hesitation in her voice...
"No, you didn't…”
Ivy wanted to talk to her but to whom she was kidding, she didn’t know how to talk or start a conversation with someone...
"Why are you so scared of me?"
She asked straightforward catching Sophie off guard.
"W. what m. me scared, no why would I be?"
Sophie asked nervously...
"I can clearly see that in your eyes... Is it because of what you saw that night?"
Ivy said grabbing her attention, Sophie stood there silently thinking what to say...
"Y ...Yes"
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