Chapter 20

It was 12am, I was struggling to sleep and Maynard was in his study doing who knows what. I was sitting in his bedroom counting the lights on the chandelier because I was bored, super bored and what I hated about sitting here and not finding anything to keep me busy made me think about what had happened between Maynard and I today, I just couldn't get that expression that he had in his face when he wss ejaculating. It made me blush,I covered my face with my hands in embarrassment, I seriously couldn't understand how people would act normal after doing this things, I couldn't. It just keot playing in my head like a movie. I really wanted to stop thinking about it and act normal like nothing even happened just like other people but I just couldn't stop thinking about. I sighed in frustration wanting to beat my self up, seriously why can't I just stop thinking about it. Lying on the bed wasn't helping. I then remembered that Maynard promised me that we would take a walk together, maybe he had forgotten,maybe I should remind him because I'm seriously bored and I really wanted to stop thinking about that scene. I sat up from the bed putting on my slippers and then I walked out of the room.

After a few minutes I reached his study, I knocked lightly on the door and waited for a response and there was none. I opened the door and for the first time I saw his study. It had three huge bookshelves on the three walls, a black cabinet that had about six drawers, a brown chandelier, in in the middle there was a study brown table that has a few papers files scattered on it and his laptop was on. And in the middle I spotted Maynard, he was fast asleep his hair was messy. This poor man looked tired. I walked behind him and I shook him lightly and he groaned and then he slowly opened his eyes. He lifted his head rubbing his tired eyes. "Emma, what are you doing here?" He asked me in his sleepy voice, OMG his slippy voice sounded so... I can't even explain it. "I couldn't fall asleep and I was bored too so I wanted to ask if we are still going to go fir a walk like you said we would, I know it's late and if you are too tired then you can rest." I said. "No it's okay, I do need some fresh air anyway, come on let's go." He said getting up from the chair and stretching his arms. He was wearing a blue soft silk casual pyjamas. He actually looked good in anything that he wore, even a towel.

After twenty minutes of walking we found ourselves in a part of the garden that was surrounded by tall trees and different kinds of flowers in the middle there was a huge fish pond that was surrounded by huge rock that had a bit of grass on them. I could here the water that was falling into the pond, there seemed to be some kind of machine that was circulating the water. "Let's go and seat over there I'm a bit tired of walking now." Maynard said pointing at two seat bench that was near the fish pond. We walked to the bench and we both sat down catching our breaths, it felt like we were walking a long distance because we were walking so slow but we were only ten minutes away from the house. "It's beautiful isn't it?" He asked me. "Yeah." I said. I knew that he was talking about the fish pond because he had been staring at it. "My twin brother made it." He said. That was a new to me because I don't remember anyone mentioning anything about him having a twin or a sibling but I wasn't that suprised that I didn't know because I had only been here for a few days, maybe I was going to see the on our wedding day. "Does he live here?"I asked him."he used to." He said. "So he left?" I asked. "No... He died." He said. And I saw the look of sadness on his face, it was my first time seeing him like this. "OH sorry." I said. I really didn't know what to say right now. "There is no need to say sorry, it was my fault anyway." He said. "How was it your fault?" I asked him. "He died when I was supposed to be the one to die." He said. "What do you mean?" I asked him. "When I was twenty years old, I fell in love with someone I shouldn't have. She was a really great woman, she was always there for me in my saddest and happiest moments, my parents loved and adored her. She was the best thing that had ever happened to me. But I didn't know that she was using me to climb the ladder of fame and wealth. I found out after three years of being in a relationship with her well, a one sided relationship. I was so heartbroken when I confronted about it she confessed to everything and she said straight to my face that she didn't love me and that she was using me all along and that I was dumb and stupid that's why I couldn't see it. So I stopped partnering with her father's business and I took back everything that belonged to me and I humiliated her in front of so many people. She lost the reputation she worked so hard to build and the money and fame that her and her family got because of mine and dad's hard work. She got angry and her mind couldn't take it so she hired an assassin to assassinate me by putting a bomb on my car. My brother found out about their plan, and when the day came he borrowed my car I borrowed it to me because I was not aware about what was going to happen. After an hour I got a call saying that... That... "He stopped talking and then he sighed, I saw tears falling down his eyes I felt bad for him. I hugged him because that was the only thing that I could think of to help him calm down."It's okay Maynard, I'm here for you." I said in a soft and gentle voice. "He died because of the love that he had for me, he sacrificed himself so that I could live... After I found out that it was her that had caused all this, I had no choice but to kill her, I killed her, I killed that woman that took my twin brother away from me, I skinned her alive... I watched and listened to her when she begged me to spare her life or to give her an easy death... But I couldn't stop, I didn't want to stop I wanted her to due a horrible death for killing my twin brother the person that I loved dearly."He said. And I could feel fear overcoming my body. Did he really skin her alive? The only thing that was in my mind is that this guy was a monster, if he skinned the woman that he once loved alive, what could he do to a stranger like me if I were to make him angry or hurt him. That made me think about that room, I wondered what he would do to me if I were to enter it or try to enter it again, my little mind could not even process what he could do to me. I swallowed the lump on my throat, I could feel myself sweating and trembling with fear. "You know I killed her whole family too because they were her accomplices, do you know what I did to them? I put them in a gas chamber and I watched them scream and yell for mercy. I watched blood coming out of their ears and eyes, I watched them banging on the walls begging for mercy. But they deserved everything that I did to them."He said. My eyes widened in horror, was this man even a human being. How can he do such things and even talk about them. He broke away from the hug and he looked at me. His eyes that were filled with sadness a few moments ago were now filled with darkness. He looked scary. He held my hand and he placed it on his cheek. "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you as long as you don't do anything to make me hurt you, which includes entering that room without my permission." He said. Oh my gosh I was shaking in fear, the only thing left for me to do now, was to shit on myself. Because this guy looked scary now and his voice sounded scary now."Do I make myself clear Emma?" He asked me and I nervously nodded my head because I couldn't say anything. It felt like my tongue was stuck and my lips were sealed. Was I really going to spend ten years of my life with such a dangerous man. Someone please save me.