36. Teaching Roxy

His insides burned with rage, so much so that he felt like going into the room, dragging her out and kicking her out of the house. With the thought in his head, he matched up the stairs, and reached the door, but the moment he opens the door and his eyes fell on her figure calmly asleep, it all went away.

Angrily, he stomps to his mini-bar, dumping the phone on the counter.

He grabs a bottle of whiskey, and a glass. Opens the freezer and pulls out the slate of little ice blocks, angrily dumping the lot on the counter. "Damn it White!" he yelled, and the phone rang again.

And now he wondered... "I'm perfect... What more does she want? I thought I've made myself the perfect man, but it seems I'm still lacking something!" he hissed.

His fingers ran through his dark hair as he paced back and forth. The whiskey didn't even seem enticing anymore.

Now his head was filled with thoughts of what exactly he was lacking and why she needed another man??

*Ring*Ring*

The phone rang again, and now he really wanted to know. Know who this person was, and why he deserved so many hearts? 

With a long look at the ringing phone, he bites down on his lower lip, and with no other reason not to... He picks the call.

"My goodness ERINA!! Where are you?? I've been calling you for hours!" Roxy's voice thundered from the other end of the phone. And now, realization dawned on Reuel... He was jealous of Roxy.

"This is past one in the night, I've called and called and called, where the hell are you? What is wrong with you?? Why didn't you call me since?" Roxy yells her lungs out.

And now if there was a word lower than childish, that was how Reuel felt. He couldn't believe that just some seconds ago, he was thinking the caller was some kind of rival.

"Huh!! Wait a minute, did that man do something to you?" Reuel twitched at Roxy's words. 

"Did he kidnap you??" And Reuel's eyes opened wide with disbelief... What in the world did this woman see him as??

"What has he done to you ERINA... Tell me where you are right now, I'm coming to you this minute. Erina, why are you not saying anything?? Are you in one of those situations where you can't talk?? If yes, tap the phone twice... Erina you..."

"Are asleep... She's asleep." Roxy's eyes widens as she realizes who was on the line. "And that man did not kidnap her, she went with him on her own accord," He adds.

And Roxy could feel that shivering chill crawl up her skin, but she wasn't going to let him intimidate her. This was a matter of her best friends safety.

"I don't believe you, Erina never sleeps out without calling me,"

"I don't care about what you believe." He simply says.

"How would I know you haven't done anything to her! Show her to me... Switch the call to video and show her to me!"

"Why would I do that for you?" His entire demeanor had changed from how it was some minutes ago. Now he was perfectly calm and the hate and jealousy he felt had also quickly disappeared.

"Because I will keep calling until you do." She threatens.

"Stupid!" He scoffs. "I could just turn off the phone." He shrugs, and he was right.

Roxy's eyes wandered, her brain trying to think of what to say next, he was smart and carefree. He wouldn't do anything just because she wants him to do so...

"I'll go to the police and tell them you kidnapped my friend." She says, and an outrageous laughter followed her words. The kind that sent more chills down her spine, and made her tremble with fear.

She just couldn't understand what her friend saw in this creepy man. Apart from his aesthetic features, Roxy couldn't find anything worth liking about the man. And she didn't even like it that he had such stunning aesthetic.

He creeps the hell out of the lady, but her friend was completely blind.

Reuel on the other hand couldn't believe the woman... Was she threatening him?? She calls that a threat? Now he felt this strong desire to teach her what the word Threat really entails.

"You are dumb," He scoffs again, and Roxy heaved, to reply back, but he doesn't let her... "It hasn't even been twelve hours since you've not seen her, so the police won't even hear you out." He states a fact, and Roxy's hand on the phone shook.

"But let's say they will. What do you think will happen after hearing your claim that I, Reuel Caddel, kidnapped a woman?" The question rang over and over in Roxy's ear, but before she could think of the answer, he continues...

"Let me tell you what will happen, first thing that would happen is that a call will instantly be placed to my secretary, and then secondly he will call me. Next thing that happens is that I tell them you're a crazy woman with mental issues, and have them hold you down."

"Wha_"

"Uh-huh, hush, I'm not done yet..." He hushes her. "Next thing that happens, my secretary makes some calls, and a room is prepared for you in the psychiatric ward, and then they'll come for you and you'll be dragged off screaming words that no one would listen to."

Roxanne's eyes dilated with terror, her whole body was covered with goosebumps, she had never felt this much fear for anything before.

"And in that cold, cold room, you'd scream and yell, and shout, and no one will listen. And days will turn into weeks, and weeks will roll into months, and months will become years, and you'll be in there for so long that you will begin to believe that you are really mentally ill."

How was he saying these things?? The thought of his words becoming reality made Roxy tremble even more.

"You'll be there for so long that your own words would sound like lies to you, until you no longer know what the world outside looks like. And in that cold, cold room, you'll slowly age and wither and eventually..." He stops. Leaving her to complete the rest...

That devilish smirk on his lips as he tossed back the strands of hair that fell to his face "So, Miss Johnson, you were saying???"

She wasn't wrong... The man has issues... Deep, deep, dark issues.