HER ONE AND ONLY

CHAPTER 33

"What?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper, and looked at him with dazed eyes.

"Your lips..why are they red and swollen at the side?" he asked once again.

"we...we...uh..we just kissed.. and that...." she stopped mid sentence and touched her swollen lips.

"I never bit your lips." He stated as a matter of fact. Rose just looked at him and she slowly started to come back to her senses.

"I...I don't know...I think it's because of you."

And that did it. She was once again covering things from him. Alexander clenched his jaws and turned towards the stairs. He did not want to hear another word from her. He will make sure that the little elevator meeting she had with Brian would spill out from her mouth.

"Wait for me in the piano room Rose. I'll be there in a few minutes." He said and climbed the stairs, leaving Rose confused, shocked and nervous of his behaviour and what would happen if he came to know the truth. No matter how tiered he was, he always made it a point to play the piano for her as she wished. He would remove the truth from her.

As he said, Rose waited for him in the piano room and like every other day he came and sat on the chair with her on his lap. Today, he played a small piece with only his right hand and kept his left hand on her left shoulder. As she drowned into the simple piece he played for her, Alexander slowly lifted the sleeves of her shirt higher, brushing his fingers slowly and sensually on her left arm.

He instantly stopped playing and that made Rose come out her daze once again.

"Why is your hand bruised?" he asked slowly, not raising his voice against her even though his mind and body were revolting with anger.

"Oh this..." she said and paused as she touched the red mark on her arm while she slightly bent her head to look at it.

"I just bumped into a glass door in the office yesterday..." she said with unsure voice and gulped the lump in her throat which did not go unnoticed by him.

He smiled at her. Appreciating the way she tried to lie to him on his face. But she did not know the consequences she had to face for all this lie that she was throwing at him. She lied to cover up for him, and this, made Alexander's blood boil with rage.

"Get up Rose." He said, massaging the bruise on her arm.

She slowly stood up and moved towards the side. He got up from the chair, pushed it inside and stood by her side.

"Dinner is ready." He said and kept his hand on the small of her back as he guided her towards the dining table.

The dinner was silent. No one spoke a word. Alexander continued to observe each and every move of Rose. And she, sat there, scared of his intense gaze on her. She knew that things wouldn't end well for both of them if he knew what happened in the elevator. She hid it from him to protect him. She did not want him to go after Brian to kill him because she was sure that somehow Brian would find a way to hurt Alexander. Brian's voice, his words, everything scared her to death.

"I want you to watch a presentation with me Rose." He said, out of the blue,with his eyes still fixed on her.

She just nodded her head in return not wanting to talk anything to him at present. Once they finished their dinner, Alexander took her to the hall and both of then sat on the couch, ready to watch the contents of the little pen drive that Alexander had inserted into that slot behind the television screen before joining her on the couch.

He pulled her closer to him and kept his hand on her waist as he pressed her further into him, like he did not want to let her go and wanted to keep her close to him. Rose started to relax in his arms and their attention was now completely on the screen.

The screen started displaying the contents of the pendrive and Alexander picked up the remote and clicked onto a particular icon. The screen was now filled with black and grey grains and all of a sudden, the inside of the elevator came into focus.Rose sucked in a slow breath and scrunched her eyebrows at the screen praying that it wasn't the footage of her and Brian. At that moment she could feel Alexander tighten his grip on her waist.
She saw herself enter the elevator and Rose gulped the terror that started to build within her.
This is it. She said herself. He knew. He knew this all long. This was the reason for his weird behaviour.
Her mind was blocked and her eyes were solely on the television screen looking at the scenes unfold in front of her once again. Rose gulped down, not being able to look at Alexander on her side, who had his eyes solely directed towards her face.

The video came to an end and Alexander switched off the screen after pressing a button on the remote and both of them sat silently without speaking a word to each other while Rose was still looking at the screen with fear, shock and pain written all over her face.

After a few minutes of silence, Alexander sighed and looked at her. He slowly pulled his hands away from her waist and got up from the couch. Rose looked at him with tears in her eyes and couldn't speak a word to him. Her head was blocked. Without uttering a single word, he turned back and made his way towards the stairs and started climbing it.
Rose sat on the couch as her eyes moved with him and watched him enter his room and close the door. As soon as she heard the door close, she got up from the couch and ran towards the stairs, wanting to go and hold on to him. She wanted him. She would beg him for forgiveness, she would take any punishment from him. But she could never handle this silent treatment.
Any punishment was better than Alexander not talking to her.

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