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I am sorry! I am sorry! " Her lips tremble in panic.

"I told you to turn on the lights as I feel suffocated with lights off." She gasps scared as she pulls out a knife from his arm. 

As soon as she took out the knife the blood started to flow heavily. He grabs her arm angrily as he harshly pulls her towards him. 

Ace scowls at her angrily and Laura seems to be devastated as she couldn't digest the part that she has stabbed him. She is scared, her eyelids are covered with tears. She is almost crying. He tightens his grip on her arms letting her feel the pain he is feeling. On one side the blood is flowing heavily especially after the knife was taken out and on the other side he is hurting her. 

"I am sorry! I got scared. I thought you were.." She sobs as tears start falling from the edge of her eyes. 

"What?" He shouts. 

"What did you think?" He tightens the grip on her arm to hurt her. 

She tries to breathe but she seems to be struggling for each breath.  

"Speak! Dammit!" He snaps rudely. 

She sheds tears as she swallows a thick lump of saliva, "I t-thought you were touching me."  She stutters. 

"I haven't had such a bad day yet that I will touch you." He despises her.

"Come out of your dreams." He scoffs as he points towards her phone. 

She turns to look at her phone, "That's m-my phone?" She asks curiously. 

"I promised you to give your phone back after our wedding." He snaps. "I was just keeping that phone to your side." He points his finger at the phone. 

She wipes off her tears as she shrugs off her arm from his hand. 

She manages to free her arm, "You could have given it to me when I was awake." She sighs in relief. 

"Let me see it!" As she puts forward her hand towards his injured arm. 

"No need!" He shrugs off her hand. "The one who gives the wound never seems to be the healer." He snaps. 

"Let me see it! The blood needs to be stopped." She sounds worried about him. 

"You had asked me a while ago why I didn't let you die, I too wanted to kill you believe me but being a human what should I have done? When you were begging for life, at that very moment, that fucking moment the humanity came in between." He clicks his tongue in regret. 

"And as far as the matter of touching you, I never touch the filth." He snaps rudely.

He covers his wound with his bare hand, "Also, forget about your career, I will make sure that you never go back to the hospital." He leaves the room in anger and on the other side he leaves Laura in angsty. 

 She starts crying a lot and lies down on the bed crying.

At Morning 

It was a breezy and sunny morning for the town but for Laura, it was the sad dark light for her. The sun rose at its peak and was lighting up the entire sky with its orange color. Laura was sleeping and the light was shining on her face from the window. Her pillow was wet with her tears. A sudden knock on the door let Laura open her eyes immediately. 

She jolts herself as she sits up immediately. She glares her eyes to Ace's side as she notices that he didn't come home yesterday. She sighs as she averts her eyes back to the door in the hope that Ace will be behind the door. 

"Who is it?" She asks. 

"It's me, Daniel! sister-in-law!" Daniel speaks. 

"Daniel?" She whispers surprisingly as she is hoping Ace will be there. 

"Come in!" She replies as she rubs her eyes calmly. 

"Wait!" She screams immediately as she remembers what Ace told her yesterday. 

Daniel and Kat don't know the real reason for our marriage. 

Daniel stops as soon as she screams, "What's wrong?" 

"J- Just give me a minute." She stutters. 

She covers her body with the blanket, then uses Ace's blazer to cover the handcuffs and finally, she covers the blood stain with the extra pillow on Ace's side. 

"Come in!" She creases her hair to look fresh. 

Daniel enters and sees Laura on the bed fully covered with a blanket, '"Is the brother not here?" He asked as he was controlling his laugh. 

She swallows a thick lump of saliva as she feels embarrassed, "No, he is not here." 

"Looks like he did his work and went away." He chuckles in a naughty way. 

"What?" She feels embarrassed as she tries to not look at Daniel. 

"Nothing!" He clears his throat, "I saw these carry bags in my brother's car so I thought to give it to him but he is not here so.." He glazes at Ace's side of the bed. 

She notices his gaze as she then averts her eyes back at Ace's side. Daniel was staring at the blood stain which was a bit visible from the pillow's corner. Laura didn't understand why he was staring at Ace's side. 

He blushed seeing the blood stain as he thought that they both had done yesterday. 

He quickly puts those carry bags on the table beside him and starts to walk out of the room. 

"What's wrong with him?" Laura whispers curiously. 

"Wait!" Laura stops him. 

"Do you know, where your brother might have gone?" She asks curiously. 

"He might have some work to attend." He cocks up his eyebrows. "Don't worry! He always does that." He assures Laura as he sees her worried. 

Daniel smiles as he starts to walk out of the room. 

"Umm!" Laura stops him again. 

He turns at Laura waiting to say. 

Laura feels hesitant to ask but she manages to calm herself. " Can I get his number?" 

Daniel parted his lips in surprise as his mouth opened up in shock, "You don't have a brother's number?" He asks. 

She cocks up her eyebrows as she realizes Daniel doesn't know about their relationship.

"I misplaced my phone so.." She tries to cover up as she points at her phone. 

"No, problem." He moves forward to Laura. "Give me your phone!" He puts his hand in the air to ask for her phone. 

She hesitates to give him as one of her hands is still tied with handcuffs and the other holds the blanket tightly.

Daniel was feeling shy. He was thinking that Laura was naked under the blanket as he saw a bit of blood stain on Ace's side and also Laura was hesitating to give the phone to him. Daniel moves to Ace's side to take the phone from there. He quickly grabs the phone and dials the number of Ace on it.

"Are you teasing me?" He chuckles surprisingly as he glazes at the phone. 

"What?" Laura cocks up her eyebrows in curiosity. 

 "The number is already safe." He shows the phone screen to Laura. 

"My hubby?" Surprisingly she read the name saved on Ace's number. 

She blinks quite a time as she thinks that Ace already saved his number on her phone. 

Daniel gives back the phone to Laura as he smiles. 

"I am going, otherwise I'll be late." Daniel says as he starts to walk out of the room.

"Where are you going?" She asks awkwardly. 

"To college!" He replies. 

She widens her eyes open, "You study?" She questions surprisingly. 

"Yeah!" He gives an anxious look. 

"A thug's brother goes to college as well?" She frowns as the lines of wrinkles form on her head. 

"What?" Daniel scowls.

"Nothing! I just thought that you attend private classes" She gives a tight smile.

"No, what's the fun in private classes?" He turns down the corner of his lips furiously.

"Yeah!" She sighs in disbelief. 

Daniel left and closed the door behind. 

"My bad mouth! He almost gave me a death stare." She whispers as she lightly hits her mouth.  

She averts her eyes at the phone screen and stares at Ace's number which was saved by the name 'My hubby'. 

"My hubby! My foot." She scoffs. 

"Mr. kidnapper!" She chuckles as she changes his name from My hubby. 

She sighs as she calls him and puts the phone on speaker. 

At first three bells rang but then, "The number you have dialed is currently busy so you can either wait or call again later.” The answering machine says. 

"Did he cut my phone?" Laura whispers curiously. 

The phone connects at first and the bells also ring but Ace cuts the phone instead of taking it. Laura tries a few times but he cuts her call. 

"What an idiot, he can't even answer the phone. What type of husband will he become? She snaps the phone rudely on the bed. 

"You don't have to worry about what kind of husband I will be." Ace opens the door and he walks inside. 

He quickly walks towards Laura and removes his blazer which covers the handcuffs. He unties her, "I was already in the house so I didn't pick up the call." He gazes at the scratch on Laura's wrist which she got because of the handcuffs. 

"Are you alright?" She stares at the strip of bandage which barely covers his wound. 

"Get ready, we are getting late!" He shrugs as he leaves the room. 

"He has so much arrogance, how does his family tolerate him?" She yells so that he can listen to her. 

Ace bangs the door loudly behind him as he ignores her. 

She quickly stood up in anger blabbering her heart out.  She went to the washroom and took a smooth shower for fifteen minutes. She comes outside as she wraps her bare skin with the towel. 

"I forgot to ask him about the clothes." She whispers. "What will I wear now?" She creases her head as she thinks. 

Suddenly she heard footsteps approaching her. She turns as Ace opens the door and enters. 

Ace lingers her eyes on Laura from bottom to top embracing her. His lips parted away in surprise as he swallowed a lump of saliva anxiously. He blinks in confusion, what to do or what to say? He seemed to have cold feet as he was neither coming in nor going out. He froze glancing at Laura. 

Meanwhile, Laura was surprised as well because when Ace opened the door he was also in the towel. The droplets of water slid from Ace's chest to the floor in no time. It seems he also took a shower in another washroom and later came into his room. His wet messy hair shreds the water on his face, neck, and chest and ends up on the floor. Laura seems to be fascinating Ace with her eyes lingering on his chest.  

Laura Lewis 

I heard the footsteps approaching me as soon as I turned I saw Ace open the door. He grabbed one of his hands on the doorknob and with the other hand, he clenched his fist as soon as he saw me. He parts his lips in surprise as his mouth opens up slightly. He licked his dry mouth as I started to gaze at him from bottom to top embracing him with my eyes. He was wearing the towel as he also took the shower somewhere else. His long and broad body shows his curves perfectly. His body was an athlete's body he must have worked on. His busty breasts and broad muscles show his apple-shaped body gradually. That six-pack abs must have taken a lot of time to build them. 

As I was having my time to fascinate him meanwhile he was also checking me out. I couldn't help but glance at his crook of the neck which had a little cute mole on it. I bite my lips as I can't take my eyes off that mole. He arches up his eyebrows making me realise that I was all drooling on him. I snapped out of my thoughts as I took the pillow from the bed and threw it on his face. 

He came out of his thoughts as he caught that pillow and left the room, closing the door behind him. 

"Knock before entering! " I snapped.

"Y-You could have locked the door." I could hear him stuttering from behind the door.

"I didn't know that some people don't even know the basic etiquette." I sighed mockingly.

"This is my room where I can come and go whenever I want." He snaps back.

"Also you seem to be enjoying the view earlier." He teased. 

"You also didn't even take a step back in fascinating me." I teased him back.

"Get ready soon because I want my clothes as well." He shrugs.

"What should I wear, this wedding dress? " I point towards the wedding dress.

"Didn't Daniel bring clothes to the room? " He asked.

"What clothes?" I ran my palm through my hair. 

To be continued...