"Katherine, did you see Mrs. Vasiliev? I haven't seen her since breakfast." Jennifer asks as she wipes the countertops.

Sebastian has filled Katherine in on the situation that had occurred a few hours ago, what a naive girl, she should have listened to Sebastian, Katherine thought to herself. He also informed her to not let anyone know of this.

"Um, I think she's in her room, she wasn't feeling well today after her friend left." Katherine makes up an excuse.

"Oh, I hope she gets well soon." Jennifer says.

"I hope so too." Katherine sighs.

Anastasia (A/N: she's Damian's sister, for those who don't remember) bursts through the kitchen door, with Sebastian a few steps behind her, "Have you seen Sahara?" She says in a troubled tone. Sebastian has a concerned-looking face as well.

Katherine and Jennifer both raise their eyebrows in confusion, "No, Ma'am, is she not in her room?" asks Jennifer.

"No! I've searched almost everywhere for her! Her cell phone is switched off as well. I've checked the security cameras and there's no sign of her leaving the house. Oh my God, I hope she's okay." Katherine begins to have a mental breakdown.

"Jennifer, Sebastian, and I will look through house to see if she's just accidentally gone to the wrong room." Katherine's says.

Ana nods in agreement, "Please, call me immediately if you find her."

All three nod at her, "We will."

"Damian, you bloody idiot, what did you do!" Anastasia says to herself.

• • •

"What do you mean she didn't come back? You didn't see her leave the house either?" Damian paces around the kitchen.

"N-no, Sir. We searched everywhere she might be but couldn't find her." Katherine says in a concerned manner.

He screams in frustration and smashes a vase against the wall, making Katherine, Jennifer, and Sebastian flinch.

"FIND HER! I NEED YOU TO FIND HER! Check security cameras, ask people on the street, just find her." He yells. But then he whispers something at the end that only Kat and Sebastian caught, "I need her, she can't leave me, please." Making Damian sound almost vulnerable.

"We will, Sir. We will make sure she comes back to you safe and sound." Sebastian reassures him.

• • •

Sebastian, Katherine, and Jennifer asked anyone they could. Sebastian even went as far as into the town, but there was no luck on his side. He comes back home and sees a nervous Katherine.

"Katherine? Are you okay?"

"Sebastian... I asked one of our neighbours... And they said– they..."

"Katherine! Say it!" Sebastian is beginning to lose his patience.

"They saw a girl with a scarf on her head run towards town with a luggage and everything."

Sebastian almost stopped breathing, "We have to let Sir know about this new piece of information."

"Oh my God, Sebastian, he'll release his anger on you. Be careful!" Katherine began worrying about Damian's anger.

• • •

Sebastian takes a deep breath and knocks on Damian's door, "Sir?" No answer. "I have potential, but not confirmed, information about Sahara."

Sebastian walks into the room to see broken glass scattered across the floor. Damian broke the coffee table, Oh.

"What did you find?" Damian asks in a concerned tone.

"The neighbours– they, uh, they said they have seen a girl with a headscarf– or something of that sorts, run towards town. And the girl had a luggage with her as well." Sebastian made sure he didn't go past the door so just in case Damian did throw something, Sebastian can grab the door and close it before anything hits him.

"SHE WHAT?" As Sebastian predicted, Damian grabs a vase and smashes it to the ground. "SHE FUCKING DID NOT JUST WALK OUT ON ME! ON DAMIAN ROMEO VASILIEV!"

"Sir, to her defence, she did see the west wing. Anyone unfamiliar with it, would have the rational reaction Madam did." Sebastian knew Damian would smash his face in, but he needed Damian to understand why Sahara would have left.

Damian was sitting on the bed, with both his hands on his face. He looks up at Sebastian with angry eyes that turned almost sad.

Then, in a soft and sensitive voice, Damian says, "I didn't bloody know, I didn't know I would care so much if she did leave, I didn't know I would care so much about what she fucking thought of me, I didn't know!"

The muscular, tattoo-covered, grown-man looked like an abandoned child at this point. Sebastian raised Damian since Damian was a child, seeing Damian like this made him happy. Why? Because Damian hadn't shown this much emotion since he had lost his will to love, to live. He lost his humane characteristics since early childhood, since he lost his parents.

"We will find her, Sir. We will." Sebastian reassures him.

• • •

Sahara has been crying in the room for who knows how long. Everything she has discovered today is overwhelming and overpowering for her to be able to handle this alone. What is the room for? What does Damian do in there? How many people did he hurt? Why did he hurt them? Is he going to end up killing me?

"Ahhhhh! Shut up! Just, shut up!" Sahara yells at herself as she covers both her ears to prevent her mind from thinking so much. She wipes her tears with her sleeves and gets up to fix her hijab (headscarf).

She opens the door and realizes she has no damn clue which part of the house she's in and how to get back. She looks at her phone but doesn't seem to have any service to be able to call anyone. She checks her phone again to see what time it is, it's already 7PM, jeez, I've been here for some time.

"Ya Allah (Oh God), I just want to go to bed after reading Nama'az (prayers). Please guide me to my room so I can sleep off my problems." Sahara rubs her temples in frustration and stress.

She decides to read her prayers in the room she's in and heads off to find her way back. It is not an over-exaggeration when Sahara says the house is big enough to get lost in. The hallway she's in, has about six doors alone. All she remembers is that she took an elevator upstairs when she left the room. She just has to open every door until one of the doors leads her to the elevator.

After 10 minutes, she finally found the elevator door, she gets in and clicks 'G' for ground floor. "I don't understand why rich men like to flaunt their wealth so much. Gosh darn, he's one man, for Goodness sake, why does he need a house with 30 rooms?!" She says as she rolls her eyes.

"It's not even like he has any friends to fill the rooms either. Or maybe the rooms are for his daily whores that he fuc–" Sahara quickly covers her mouth because she usually never says things like this, Damian is starting to really crawl under her skin. She silently curses Damian for buying a house that could be considered an actual maze.

She takes a few lefts and rights and finally finds herself in front of her room. She could hear some yelling in the room, she creaks open the door to able to see enough of the room.

"I DON'T CARE! I DON'T BLOODY CARE! USE EVERY RESOURCE POSSIBLE TO FIND HER! I NEED HER BACK!" Sahara sees him yell into his phone.

• • •

"Damian, calm down! You're making it sound like she left because of someone else. You created this mess!" Anastasia is not having any of his bullshit.

"Shut the fuck up, Ana. You're not bloody helping." Damian is pacing around back and forth.

"You're freaking out your staff." Ana points at the frightened Kat, Jen, and Sebastian standing in the corner of the room.

Damian runs his hand through his hair as he whispers to Ana, "I need her back, Anastasia. She can't leave me. She just can't."

Ana hasn't seen her brother so vulnerable in so long. It's such a pity to see him in this state but brings her hope that he might go back to being her loving brother because of the effect Sahara's having on him. Ana, herself, needs Sahara back because she's really done a number on her brother.

• • •

Sahara heard everything, her heart melted when she heard Damian say he needed her. Why is it so easy for him to take her heart every time? Why is it so easy for him to be able to take her breath away with such simple words? Sahara hates the effect Damian has on her but at the same time, it feels so damn good.

She pushes the door further, "Damian?"

Everyones head shots towards Sahara, the look on their faces were enough to make Sahara feel guilty for being gone for so long because they all looked really worried. But it also wasn't her fault, it was his and his poor choices in buying a house.

Damian's face is what made Sahara's heart skip a beat, his face went from shocked, to upset, to relieved, to absolutely ecstatic, all in 10 seconds.

Everyone gave her a hug as Damian watches everyone, waiting for them leave them alone. But he couldn't wait, he grabs Sahara's arm and pulls her into a firm hug. His arms wrapping around her whole body, holding her so close that Sahara could feel his, rather fast, heart beat against her. She wraps her arm around him, inhaling his oh-so-attractive cologne.

The four watching them are in awe as Ana gestures for them to leave the room. They nod and Ana closes the door behind her.

Sahara looks up to face him as she examines his facial expression with a smile on her face, "I'm going to take that you missed me?"

"Shut up." Damian says, then crashes his lips against hers. Her soft, familiar lips reacting just as fast. He starts tugging on her lips as they make their kiss deeper as if they haven't kissed in years.

He breaks apart the kiss, with his hands still around her waist, "Don't you ever try to leave me again. You scared the living shit out of me."

Sahara caresses his cheek as he leans against her palm. She starts giggling, confusing Damian, "I wasn't trying to leave, okay. This is embarrassing, but I actually just got lost."

"You what? You got lost? In the house?" Damian asks her even more confused.

"Yes, in the house. That's on you, though. I don't know why in the world you bought a house with a million floors and rooms when you're just one person." She crosses her arms across her chest.

She looks so cute when she's upset, Damian couldn't help but place a few extra kisses on her cheeks and forehead. She leans in onto his chest and she knew she was about to ruin the moment, "Damian?"

"Mhm?"

She takes a deep breath, "What were those rooms for?"

Damian stiffens, "Don't."

She takes his hands into hers, "I understand that it's your little secret but that's- it was a lot to take in."

Damian's jaw tightens and he clenches his hands into fists, "You shouldn't have gone in there."

"No, I shouldn't have. But I did, and it was freaky. I need an explanation, anything that makes this rational." Sahara says in the most calm voice she could possibly say it in.

She goes to touch his cheek but he backs away. "Don't fucking touch me, don't. Don't, for a bloody second, think I care for you enough to tell you these things.

Sahara is hurt by his comments, what does he mean he doesn't care enough? "Damian, I saw blood stains, they were freaking blood stains! For God's Sake, I saw a torture chamber! You expect me to sit here quietly like an obedient girl and pretend I never saw that?!"

"You know what? I shouldn't have married you in the first place, I should've married Elizabeth. You're always trying to fucking ruin everything. I should've divorced you the second I had the bloody chance." With that, Damian left the room, leaving behind an exhausted Sahara, who's tired of being hurt by Damian. His words hit her right on her chest, it was almost like he knocked the wind right out of her lungs with just a few words.

She whispered as she let her tears fall down her cheeks, "Maybe you should have, you should've left me when you had the chance. But it's too damn late now, Mr. Damian Romeo Vasiliev, I've already fallen too deep in to swim back out."

• • •

Sahara walks into their bathroom, where Damian is standing in front of the sink in his towel. He notices her from the reflection in the mirror.

"What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?" Damian says as he continues to apply products to his face.

"You. I want you, Mr. Damian Vasiliev." Sahara says in a breathy tone.

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A/N: LOOK AT ME!! I UPDATED ON BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY! ARE YOU GUYS PROUD? I'll try to keep it up! 😊

Their fights never last too long, do they? 😏😉 I think there might be a little visual that goes along with the bathroom scene, aka, I might *try to* photoshop something for the upcoming scene, stay tuned. 😯

Also, if you read the A/N until this far, a certain character is making a comeback soon, not sure how soon but soon... (Hint: it's a 'he' and his name starts with an 'I' 🧐)

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