2 Chapter 2: The Diagnose

Sean Copper's POV

I cleared my throat as I was listening to Lucia's declaration. It was something else. Something that was enticing me to go to her and give her what they wanted. I can always do that. We used to be lovers, for fuck sake. But why was I so afraid of her right now?

"Cat got your tongue pretty boy?" She asked me as I was looking at her. She was smirking at me with those perfectly lined teeth. I was doing everything that I could so that I will not fall under her spell.

Not anymore.

"You have seen better days. How are you feeling today, Ms. Ricci?" I asked her as I was trying to keep everything professional from now on. I cannot let her get under my guard and destroy my reputation forever.

No matter how good she would be under my arms. Fuck!

"Hmm, I have been receiving Christmas present early this year. I wonder if it was still good as new," she said as she was licking lower lips. My cock stirred at that sight before I cleared my throat again.

"Please, Ms. Ricci, restrain yourself from doing something obnoxious," I said as I was writing something in the notes. I might add that she was being bold today.

"And what is it that I do was obnoxious, doctor?" She asked. I know she was saying doctor but it felt like it was sarcasm, coming from her. I know her long enough that she was a doctor as well, a Ph.D. student that was having a breakthrough with her research before it went down the drain.

"So, are you going to write or gawk at me, doctor?" She asked me as I did not realize that I was not moving an inch. I was trying to be calm and professional but she was getting on my nerve.

"Ms. Ricci—"

"Lucy,"

"What?" I asked her as she smirked at me before her hair was giving away her face, even though they covered with dirt.

"Lucy and I wanted to call Sean. You know formality was never my forte," she said as she was looking at me. She tilted her head to the side as she was blinking at me with those caramel eyes.

"No, I will not tolerate that with you. Who might know what you had planned in that mind of yours?" I said before I put the notes down and I stood up from the chair. It was overwhelming as I cannot conduct those diagnose in this stinky hole!

"Well, you cannot concentrate and I cannot hold on to my wits. Why don't you work out something that we both could enjoy together, Sean?" She said as I turned to look at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you were a renowned scientist that tickles with the mind. Surely you can convince the community to let us stay at the place that was rather more…convenient?" She said as her wide eyes were looking at me. I gulped at that thought because one thing only came to my mind.

Her hands were on my body.

Her moans and pants against me.

I was between her legs.

I shook that thought away as I know it was not a good idea to do that with her. After what she had done in Europe and the States.

"So, do you think you can move me to a better place to have our chit chat?" She asked me again as she tried to get out of the shackles. I went to take my notes and looked at her with disgust.

"You of all people are where you should belong," I said as I stormed out of the room. I don't look back at her dire state because I know once I looked back, I will repeat the same mistake.

Lucia Ricci's POV

Well, that did not end well.

Surely Sean would love to spend some more time with me as he was interested in the study of the minds. He was my colleague back when I was not in this state. I was well-known and people loved me.

Loved.

What a weird thing that such a thing can be in the past. I sighed as I was trying to be better but I think my mind was messing with everything that I wanted to do with it.

After Sean left that night or was it morning, I was being sacked, again. Yeah, I know. It never ends. I kind of got tired of all that dramatic measure for them to make sure that I will not escape this place.

I have to tell you, I know exactly where I was. We were on an island that may be underpopulated. Not everyone here talked to each other as if they were merely acknowledged each other's presence.

I think I was getting the hang of this thing.

We were served dinner and lunch and breakfast. But lucky for me, since I was all shackled up, I have to be force-fed by a machine. Ugh! What a nightmare.

But right now, I can sense that my feet were stepping into the light and we were out of the dungeon. It was something that I liked to know when the sun was hitting my skin. I sighed in the content before I was being thrown inside a capsule as they shut the door.

I was not being shackled hence I can remove the sack from my head. It was nice, kind of minimalist as I looked around it. There was a twin bed, a night table, a desk and a chair with some pens and books. I think Sean knows that I loved to write my ideas down.

But I learned my lessons. I will only store it all up there.

I was walking around in my barefoot as I was dirty and parched and hungry. That machine missed most of my meals on the ground. When I got my hands on it, I will disentangle pieces by pieces.

"I see that you have found your new accommodation quite cozy, Ms. Ricci," Sean's voice was coming out of nowhere. No wonder he was not here. He has been looking at me from the camera all the time.

"You know, it's rude to spy on people," I said as I was running my hands along with the table as I was searching for those cameras. Micro cams or something.

"Well, you must know why I was doing this, yes?"

"That you're afraid of your patient?" I said as I was taunting him with my hands crossing over my chest. I smirked all over the room as the speaker boomed with his voice.

"I am not afraid of you, woman. I just wanted to give you some time for today before we start our treatment," he said as I was smirking even wider.

"Is that so? How charming of you to consider me like that. I thought I was nothing but a mere patient to you," I said as I was turning to found some clothing in the drawer. There was a door at the end of the room and when I turned it, it was unlocked.

"Well, it seems that you find the bathroom," he said.

"Will you be a peeping Tom, Sean?" I asked him as I was removing the buttons of my shirt.

"As if!" He said before the com was out and I smiled to myself as I know this round, he might be able to resist the temptation of coming into my bed but I think, later on, we might get what we wanted from both of us.

Patience, Lucy, you know he will always come to you. They always will.