I started to jump on one leg because of the pain and without any signal or alert my body decided to fall because of the imbalance. I was about to fall on the floor but someone caught me by my elbow pulling me into themselves, preventing me from kissing the floor.

I closed my eyes because of the fear of impact of falling on the floor but it never came. I opened my eyes to see a muscular hand holding my elbow, keeping me steady. As I trailed my eyes from the hand to the face of my savior, I came face to face with Ace whose perfect face had a scowl like always. And damn those eyes. Even though I hate to admit but his grey eyes were something I really admired. In this whole body system of his, his eyes were something which held so many things inside them that I sometimes thought that is it only me who can see them or the others can also see it? Those grey eyes had so many different things and different strokes of color which made them look more beautiful. There were yellow and blue stokes diverging from the center and making some kind of patterns. If I were to describe his eyes in one word it would surely be-WAIT WHAT?

Was I just checking him out?

Technically, his eyes.

I shook my head to clear my not-so-useful brain and steadied myself, pulling my hand out of his strong grip. I cleared my throat because I couldn't think of anything else. I thought it was best to go because I could Ace staring at me, most probably in anger. I didn't need to look up to see it because it was obvious, instead I started to walk away. But before I could do that Mr. Apathetic decided to put his mouth into use, which of course was going to be the death of me tonight.

"Can you not even walk a single step without tripping?" Ace asked growling.

"I -" I started but was cut off by him.

"If you can't then how the heck did you reach that club ? Were you sleep walking? Oh no no, you day-walking right?" Ace said harshly.

"What d-" I wanted to ask him what did he mean by day walking, but I was again stopped by him.

"What the hell is your problem? Can't you just stop being stupid for sometime?" Ace yelled at me.

"But I didn't w-" And yes I was yet again cut off my him. Now he was really testing my patience.

"Oh just shut up! Why did you want to run away? What do you want to prove to everyone, that I forcibly married you? But why? Aren't you getting enough money to keep your mouth closed and do as I say? Do you think it is less? And today when you went out for shopping why didn't you use my money? You wanted to show that I don't treat you right and I don't give you any money for spending, right?"

I was really angry at this point. I am not going to let him cut me off this time.

"What do you-" I started.

"Wha-" Ace started but I cut him off this time.

"Enough Mr. Parker! I think I have had enough of you. I am not like you whose world revolves only around money and reputation. People like you have arrogance because of their money but people like me have manners and respect for our friends & family. People like you have reputation which they have built because of money but people like me have self respect which is because of our personality. So Mr. Ace Parker I want to make one thing very clear - I am not a gold digger. I do not give a damn to what you think about me but honestly today you have reached a height. I am not going to tolerate you misbehaving with me." I told him fiercely. Ace's faced had nothing but a black face.

"Oh is that so? Then why did you run away?" Asked Ace with sarcasm.

"I did not run away. I am not like you who runs away from their responsibilities by going away for 2 weeks. And honestly, I don't even mind that. At least I was at peace in your absence." I snapped at him.

"I don't run away like you. And what did you say? You were at peace? So I must have disturbed your peace by getting you back from that club while you were busy maybe making plans for night with someone, right?" Ace asked growling at me.

"JUST SHUP UP MR. ACE PARKER. You are crossing your boundaries now. First you marry me and that too by blackmailing me. I don't say anything, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't affect me Mr. Ace Parker. And then on top of forcing me for this marriage, you don't even tell me why you married me because I know that a person like you can't do anything without any profit. And for your kind information, I didn't go to that club because I wanted to get laid for god's sake! " I said as tears were starting to form in my eyes. I don't cry in front of anyone. It's been years since I cried in front of anyone. I can't do that now. Not in front of this monster. I am not weak.

"Then why did you go there? I know girls like you very well. I understood it the first time only when I saw you. Tell me you ran away from your home, right?" Ace said and I looked up at him not believing that he went that far. He came towards me and held me by my shoulders, gripping me tightly.

"Tell me Eva, you ran away like a spoiled child, right?" Ace said pushing further and pressing his fingers more in anger, slightly hurting my shoulders. But that pain was nothing in front of what he said.

I had had enough. He went too far. He shouldn't have said that. He resurfaced the things I never wanted to think about.

A tear rolled out of my eye and I don't whether It was the tear that blurred my vision or what but I saw Ace trailing his eyes on the tear that fell from my eyes.

I pushed away his hands from my shoulders which were gripping me and looked dead into his grey eyes which had turned dark in anger.

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I told him with so much hatred, hurt and anger that I never had for anyone. And with that I turned away and dashed to my room upstairs, closing my door with all my force in anger.

Without even looking anywhere I straight away went to my bed and fell on it, burying my face in the pillow. I couldn't control the tears that left my eyes or the sobs that were now muffled because of the pillow. I have never felt so much hatred towards anyone. I hate that man with all my soul and mind. He crossed his limits today. I always knew he was an arrogant man who had an ego bigger than the Mount Everest but today he stooped too low. I don't think I would ever be able to forgive him.

Heck he won't even apologize.

Nobody knows about my past so nobody should have the right to comment on it. But that Mr. Apathetic, he thinks that money and power gives him all the rights on everything. He can't control me. He is not my owner and I am not his property or anything. Just because I am married to him for one year doesn't mean that I am bound to follow his orders.

Heck I don't even want to see his face or talk to him.

I don't know when I stopped thinking about all these things and sleep engulfed me into its darkness.

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I woke up the next morning with my eyes swollen and the pillow wet from all my crying. It was around 10 am when I woke up and thank god today is a Sunday so I have an off today else I would have missed my work today also. It was then only when all the events of yesterday night came flooding into my mind. My stomach rumbled because of anger and that is when I remembered that I didn't even had my dinner yesterday night in anger.

"Mr. Apathetic would be in the office now, so no one would be at home. I should get freshened up and go down to eat something." I said to myself and went into the bathroom to bath and do my daily business.

I wore my oversized white shirt and denim shorts beneath it. The shirt reached my mid thigh and the denim shorts were only visible by 1 inch. I and Jess used to wear this on Sundays and chill back then so I decided to do that only except that Jess wasn't with me today. I huffed and pulled my long hair in a messy bun.

"I really should eat something before my system decides to shut down." I said to myself.

So with this thought I opened my door and peeped out to see if Ace was anywhere to be seen. Earlier I avoided Ace because I didn't want to mess with him unnecessarily not that i was fearful of him or anything. But now I don't want to see him because I have so much hatred for him that I don't even wanna see his face.

When I saw that the corridor was empty I cheered in my mind and went downstairs.

"Thank god he is not at home. Now I can peace fully do whatever I want to." I said to myself.

As I went into the kitchen and was about to think what should I eat when a plate on the kitchen counter caught my eye. When I went closer I saw that the plate had some delicious looking spaghetti which was having an irresistible aroma.

I quickly took the plate with fork and sitting on the kitchen counter only, started eating it enjoying it's taste.

"Mmm... this is so delicious. It tastes like heaven!" I said moaning.

It was so tasty that I didn't even realize when I finished. I washed everything and then thought of going to the pool side. The pool was in the backside of the house. It was the best place for getting fresh air. The pool was surrounded by trees and plants which sort of served as a shade under which two lounge chairs were placed. If I knew how to swim then I would have surely come here everyday but sadly my small list of things I can do doesn't have this feature.

So instead of swimming I had to satisfy myself by putting my legs in the cool water. So I sat on the edge of the pool and put my legs hanging, into the water. It felt really relaxing to do that.

"But I should do something. It's going to get boring if I just sit here, I should go get my phone and headphone to listen music. " I said to myself.

I took my legs out of the water and stood up, careful not to slip because of the wet surface. But as I had said earlier also, I am a type of girl who doesn't need heels to trip as I have the talent of tripping even when wearing converse. So being my true self, my uncoordinated body made me slip and I closed my eyes when I was inches away from falling in the pool. But before that could happen something or rather someone caught me by holding my left hand.

I looked up to see who was the great person who saved me. He was wearing his formal clothes which was an expensive looking three piece suit.

"You?!" I shouted in shock at the person in front of me not minding the fact that I was still half leaning and could fall in pool the very second he leaves me.

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