I put my legs up, tucking them under my knees as I leaned back in my chair.

I clutched my abdomen, the pain was unbearable.

I hardly have menstrual cramps but this one was as if it was taking a revenge on me. I felt as if someone was stabbing me with a knife because of which I can't even focus on my work.

I shouldn't have come to office today but it was Monday, I had to come.

Resting my head on the back of my chair, a lone tear escaped my eyes. The pain was becoming unbearable every minute. I sent Josh to buy the medicine and I have no idea when he will come back.

I heard the door open, the connecting door as my back was towards it.

I could tell it was Isaac because of his cologne.

"What happened to you?", he asked upon seeing me.

"Cra-mps", I managed to say. Even speaking something was making it hurt more.

In a swift stride, Isaac was infront of me watching me with a frown on his face.

He bent down-- since he is so tall --so that he matches my height.

"You want to go home?"

"It... won't hel-p. I can't move...even."

"Do you have some medicine?"

"I sent Josh to buy them, he...must be coming..."

He hummed in response and the next thing I know is that he lifted me in his arms (bridal style).

"What are you doing?!", I somehow managed to shout at him cause I was stunned by his actions.

He didn't speak anything and instead he took me to his office and gently laid me down on the couch there.

I watched him in confusion as he went over to his desk and rummaged through a drawer before he pulled out a heating belt.

He plugged it near the couch then placed the belt on my abdomen.

His actions melted my heart. Maybe he might not say anything or act like he is very cold but deep down...he cares...maybe.

"It will help ease the pain", he finally spoke while standing near the couch, staring down at me while towering me.

"How do you know that it helps in easing the pain?" It was a valid question.

His lips curled up in a small smile, a smile that wasn't portraying that it was a happy smile.

"You are not the only women I have ever been with."

Just then we heard Josh's voice coming from my office, "Thera?"

Isaac went through that door and a few seconds later they both came inside.

Josh poured me a glass of water and took out a tablet and helped me get up a bit before I swallowed that medicine.

Isaac stood there scrutinizing everything with his hands inside his pocket.

After Josh made me eat that medicine and helped me lay down again, he was about to leave the room when Isaac said to him, "Joshia, you may call me Isaac from now."

Josh looked at him then at me and I gave him a light shrug.

He spoke softly, "O-kay", before he left the room.

"What was that?", I asked Isaac once Josh left the room.

He walked over to his desk and leaned against it, facing me.

"He is your best friend and I am your husband which makes him my friend too and friends don't address each other so formally", he explained.

"I thought you don't like making lots of friends."

"It depends", he shrugged before he sat on his chair and engrossed himself in the work.

"What am I supposed to do now? Just lay here?"

He raised a brow, "Am I suppose to entertain you?"

I pouted my lips, folding my arms, "You should be nice to me, I am on my periods! And if I lose my temper you have no idea what I will do cause my mood swings are worst."

There was amusement in his eyes which vanished quickly, "I am working. Entertain yourself."

I grumbled to myself when I saw him burying himself in a file.

I watched him read that file, then he picked up a paper started writing something.

He had already removed his coat so, he was wearing a plain white shirt, with his sleeves rolled up and when he wrote, the muscles bulged out of it. I couldn't help but stare at him. The way he furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and the way his expression becomes relax again cause he finally understands what is written there.

His perfect jawline on which I wanted to run my fingers so badly and being on periods wasn't helping all these desires at all.

"When I said entertain yourself, I didn't ask you to drool at me", he said all of a sudden, his eyes focused on the laptop screen.

My face turned red, he caught me drooling at him.

"I wasn't drooling", I snapped.

"Of course you will say that. But I know that I am very handsome", he gave me a cocky reply.

Can I punch him?

I scoffed, "You know what, I am beautiful too and I can make you drool at me too."

Was it too arrogant of me to call myself beautiful?

He cocked his head at me, "Are you challenging me?"

I thought for a moment, what could be more dangerous than challenging Isaac Grayson?

"Maybe."

He resumed typing on his laptop, "Let's see...who's gonna win."

"I thought you won't waste your so called precious time on some stupid challenge."

"A challenge is a challenge. And I like challenges cause I love to win."

Why don't someone punch some humbleness into him? Oh, right, they wouldn't like to die.

"One day Isaac Grayson", I said in a challenging tone, "I will make you drool at me and you will admit it yourself."

With his eyes still on the laptop, his lips curved into a smirk and he stated, "I am looking forward to that day."

And then there was silence except for the sound the keyboard was making while he typed and I stared at the ceiling.

I laid there silently as my pain seemed to reduce gradually, at least it was bearable now.

After a few minutes of me silently staring at the ceiling, I turned my attention back to Isaac.

He had a sexy frown on his face and he scrunched his nose as he stared at the screen and then he folded his arms over his chest causing his muscles to bulge out more. Okay...I know have been using that word 'bulge' a lot but what can I do when I have a Greek God sitting in front of me with such good muscles and God knows how many packs he has.

He rotated his head lightly as if trying to ease the pain in his neck probably. And then he stretched his arms over his head and slowly started to bring them down.

"Stop flexing", I snapped all of a sudden making his hands to stop mid-air.

"Is it bothering you?", he asked bringing his hands down.

Yes.

"No."

"Then?"

"I don't...like it."

He stretched his arms again and placed them at the back of his head and my eyes followed his every movement.

"I have a solution for it", he said leaning back, keeping his eyes on me, "Stop staring. Simple."

Again. Yet again I have managed to get myself embarrassed by him so easily.

Well done, Thera. Well done.

A blush crept up my neck and soon my face and ear was red, again.

"If you really have been with someone before and you know what will help a girl who is having cramps then that girl must have also taught you how to talk to a girl who is on her periods."

To be honest, he didn't say anything that was offensive and that was really lame of me to say but my mood swings...I can't do anything.

Something seemed to have snapped in him cause that playful look from his face was long gone as he narrowed his eyes at me. He kept staring at me for a moment and then he looked away, closed his eyes for a moment and I saw him gulp as his Adam's apple moved up and down and then he resumed working.

What the hell did just happen?!

Did I say something offensive? I don't think so.

"Isaac?"

"I am busy", came the short, cold reply.

He wasn't busy two minutes ago.

When he said about that woman, did he mean Serah? Is that the reason he suddenly changed?

What the hell did I do, I mentally face palmed myself.

Whoever she was, she was important to him and he lost her and I just reminded him of her.

A minute later, he got up, took out a cigarette and a lighter and quietly left the room.

I don't know about anything else because I fell asleep.

When I woke up, a blanket was draped over me and I was curled up in a ball.

Stretching my body, I slowly sat up, my cramps were long gone. Sitting up, I saw Isaac already packing up.

"We are leaving. Joshia already packed your things and they are in the car", he said on seeing me awake.

I nodded slowly in response.

He picked up his laptop and walked past me but as he reached the door, his back was turned towards me, I saw him sighing deeply.

He turned around and came back to where I was sitting.

"You ok now?"

"Yes, thank you."

He stretched his hand towards me to take and I looked up at him and then at his hand before finally placing my hand in his, and I got up.

As I soon as I stood up, he left my hand and went towards the door with me following behind him.