4 The Sleeping Beauty
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Maia stirred a little from the tug on her shoulders. Her vision was blurry and her eyelids were not cooperating fully thanks to her meetings here and there, she's spent.
Though she was half asleep, she noticed that she was being carried. Her head is leaning on someone's strong wide chest. She inhaled some of the cologne the man was wearing and she felt comfortable with the pine and snow smell he was emitting. She had never experienced this kind of closeness from a man so she snuggled more liking the feeling. 'Liking the feeling... ' she bolted up as she realized what she was feeling.
"No-ah...sheuebdhwh!" without thinking so much, she blurted unintelligible words as she almost fell from the ground due to her sudden squirming. She heard that familiar chuckle from the chest she was leaning on.
"Stop moving or I might drop you." Direct, hostile, but there is a sense of gentleness in his tone.
She hooked her arms around his neck afraid of falling from his grasp as he continually carried her to the stairs inside the house.
"Wait- how did you know where I live?" she looked up at the man, puzzled.
"I asked earlier."
"Huh? I couldn't remember... " Really, she couldn't. There was a foggy image of her entering his car, he asked a few questions. Then she yawned. She couldn't remember anything beyond that point.
"Uhm, dinner? "
"hmmm.. mhmm"
"Wha-"
"I'll bring it to you. Just rest first. You are dead tired as you said."
She shut her mouth. Still not thinking straight enough.
'I could get used to this,' she thought.
When they arrived at the end of the staircase he asked where her room was.
"At the end of the hallway," Before he could take another step, one of the rooms opened and Mrs. Stone came out of it. Daemon's eyes darkened a little as he saw Maia's boss.
"Good evening Madame. She fell asleep in my car. I didn't expect you are living with her."
"H-hello Daemon. It was nice of you to bring her home though it's late. Take care now. I-I was about to go get something to drink."
Mrs. Stone quickly went past them and went straight to the kitchen.
He didn't follow her direction and just walked right before Maia's door.
"You can put me down now Daemon." She stared at him for a moment waiting for something. But he only looked at the door as if he was deeply thinking. After a few seconds, he put her down.
"Go get changed. I'll be right back."
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Maia looked around as Daemon's shadow disappeared at the end of the stairs. She slowly opened her door and went inside. She didn't expect that Mrs. Stone would be in her villa tonight, add the fact that she appeared in her pink nightgown.
She sighed as she walked into her closet and changed into a white shirt and some pajamas.
She patted her bed and sat waiting for Daemon to come back with her food. Maybe he was going to talk with her about something that's why he hasn't left yet. After a while, she hugged her pillow and lied down.
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The door slowly opened. His three knocks were not answered so he pushed himself to just enter the unlocked room. And there he saw a defenseless-looking young woman. Her long black hair was spread on the mattress and her milky white arms hugging the pillow as she presses her eyelids tight as if dreaming about something bad. He placed down the tray of food he was carrying at the bedside table as he gazed at her troubled face. He couldn't help but tuck the few strands of hair from her face. After staring at her longer, he strokes her hair and her face relaxed... she even smiled. He chuckled as he kissed her forehead and whispered. "I found you now...my beautiful Mrs. Stone"
