“I’m sorry, Rufus. I won’t do it again. Can you please remove the shackles from my ankles?”
When I lifted my ankle, the golden shackles made a sound loud enough to tear my heart into pieces. It was like Rufus had bound both my body and soul in one place.
He calmly put his hands in his pockets and kept glaring at me. “No.”
I bit my lip and pretended to cry as I shouted, “You can’t do this, Rufus! I’m a living person, not your doll!”
“I’m sure you’ll come to terms with the feeling of being imprisoned. You’re eventually going to love it,” Rufus confidently said with an eerie smile that gave me goosebumps.
I angrily slammed my hand on the bed. “What the hell are you talking about? Why would any sane person love this feeling? Get these shackles off of me or I will never talk to you ever again!”
“That’s not up to you,” Rufus indifferently replied, his voice still cold and distant. It seemed like he was truly determined to lock me up this time.
I instantly felt depressed, and the wound on my chest began to hurt again. Tears streamed down my cheeks for real this time as I pleaded, “Rufus, you can’t do this. You’re restricting my freedom and violating my rights. This is illegal!”
My sobs grew louder as I looked at him from the corner of my eye. I didn’t expect that he was still standing at the head of the bed and leisurely looking at me as if I was a monkey at a zoo.
Aggrieved and infuriated, I grabbed his hand and bit it harder than I ever had before.
“Let go of me!” I exclaimed through gritted teeth. But instead of fighting back, he gently touched my head with his other hand and smoothed his fingers through my hair.
“Are you hungry? You must be tired after making such a scene. Why don’t you eat something before you go to bed?”
Realizing that my attempt at struggling didn’t work, I stopped biting his hand and covered myself with a blanket, making sure to cover my head as well. “You can leave now. I don’t want to eat anything.”
“You can eat later, then. Have a good rest. I’ll come back later,” Rufus said, extending his arms to reach out for my trousers.
I immediately grabbed his hand and glared at him. “What the hell are you doing? I’m not in the mood to joke with you!”
But before I could finish what I was about to say, he waved a phone in front of me, and I immediately recognized it. It was the burner phone Blair gave me.
I instantly became anxious and began hitting him. “You’re going too far!”
Rufus expressionlessly held my shoulders and continued searching me. Soon, he took out a small box from my pocket.
I instinctively grabbed it from his hand and sneered. “Don’t touch this!”
Sylvia’s POV
A frown formed on Rufus’ face. He glanced at what I was holding and asked me curtly, “What is that?”
I covered the box in a rush so he wouldn’t see it. “It’s just my mother’s belongings. I found it in her secret room.”
“Open it. I want to see.” Rufus grabbed my wrist, exuding a dominating aura.
“You don’t believe me?” I was so upset that I almost lost my cool. This guy was tough to deal with whenever he was mad. He was like a high-tech detector-no lie and secret could get past him.
Although he didn’t say a word, his silence was enough proof that he didn’t believe me.
“Open it, or I’ll do it myself.”
I held onto the box tightly and stared at him aggrievedly. “Answer my question first. Don’t you believe me?”
I wanted to stall for time. Rufus had so many other things to deal with, so he certainly didn’t have the time to argue with me. However, he lost his patience and reached out to grab the box.
“Okay, okay! I’ll show you!” I covered the box in a hurry to stop him from taking it away.
Rufus withdrew his hand and stared at me with a grim expression. “Open it.”
Pouting, I expressed, “Fine. What are you so fired up about?”
I opened the box and handed it to him. “Here.”
A small black stone was lying inside. It looked so ordinary, just like any small stone one would find by a river.
Rufus reached out to take it, but I closed the box and protected it as if it was a treasure. “Don’t touch it! I haven’t forgiven you yet. I won’t let you touch it unless you unlock the shackles!”
Rufus stared at me silently for a few seconds with a poker face. As my shoulders slumped, I started to wonder whether I should just give in and let him touch it, despite my nagging sense of guilt.
Just as I was about to say something, Rufus grabbed his jacket from the bed, turned around, and walked out. “I need to take care of some business. I’ll come back early tonight to keep you company.”
“Wait, unlock the chains first!”
Rufus didn’t take my words seriously.
“Then how about a kiss? It’s been days since we last kissed. Don’t you miss it?”
I deliberately seduced him in hopes of forcing him to get rid of the chains as soon as he got close to me.
But I didn’t expect him to walk out on me calmly without looking back.
Well, I guessed this hateful man didn’t love me anymore.
Infuriated, I feigned a stomachache. “Oh, shit! My belly! It hurts so much. My poor baby! Mommy’s heart hurts. Your Daddy is such a bad guy!”
As I shouted at the top of my lungs, I glanced at Rufus from the corner of my eyes. He finally stopped in his tracks and turned his head slightly to look at me.
Seeing this, I screamed harder, “Daddy doesn’t love Mommy anymore and it breaks Mommy’s heart. My dear baby, when you are born, you must avenge Mommy and beat up your stupid Daddy! Ouch, my belly hurts…”
I thought Rufus would come back to coax me, but to my surprise, he just maintained a straight face and instead said, “I’ll call the doctor in to check on you.”
Then he left and closed the door.
I flung a pillow at the door in frustration.
Damn it! Was my acting skill so terrible? Was it so bad that Rufus could tell at a glance that I was putting up an act?
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