Darren sat up from the cold hard floor, and stretched his hurting back. He yawned and looked out the window. The sun was out and he wondered how long he have been asleep. He sighed loudly, seeing how his life have change within a week. A researcher now locked up in a forest with no internet assess, phone or electricity, but with a strange woman in a castle filled with spiders, bugs, and broken window.
He fell back on the hard floor and cursed under his breath. The first day of their new deal is starting today but he has no idea of what to do to get the woman. The woman isn't going to be an easy target like the other women he has come across with, so it's going to be really hard to get her.
He moved his hand across his hair and looked towards the direction of where he had seen Isabel the first day he walked in. She was lying on the cold floor, dying slowly. The thought of it made him narrowed his brow and hardened his curvy jaw, thinking of ways to put the woman in her place. He isn't going to forgive her so easily and he promised in his heart to make her pay for it, but first, he has to get her to do what he wants and that is by getting her to his arms within fourteen days. He stood up and walked out of the empty room.
He walked out of the room and saw Ambrosia looking down at the forest, with her hands clasped behind her back. He wasn't expecting to see her by the rooftop but she just saved him the stress of going to meet her. She didn't look towards his direction and was still focus on whatever it was she was staring out without minding his presence which he was sure she was aware of. Well she is Ambrosia, the woman who can stand in a spot for more than a whole day and not move a bit or even blink her eyes. He was slowly getting used to it.
He clicked his tongue and shook his head at her normal behavior and walked slowly to her. "I wasn't expecting you to be the first one to appear before me this morning, I thought the other man would." he said and grinned widely, "Do you miss me so badly that you had to run to the rooftop this morning and wait for me?" he asked in his usual annoying tone, trying to get the woman pissed off.
Ambrosia wasn't ready for his drama and so said nothing or even move or blink her eyes away from the forest. She silently watched her prey, a leopard, moving about in the forest oblivious about the danger waiting for them.
"You know, as your new housemate, I should be given some new clothes or something. I can't keep staying naked like some jungle boy living in the forest." he said firmly, but Ambrosia wasn't ready to lose her focus and so remained silent and concentrated.
Darren looked at the direction of her eyes and squirted his eyes to see whatever her eyes were focused on but he saw nothing as the trees covered the area. He wondered if she was looking at the tree like she did the last morning or she was looking at something else.
"Do you love the trees this much that you always look at them in the morning?" he shook his head and sighed loudly, "You can look at the tree all you want. You stay in the forest where there are trees and even animals. You have the whole territory to yourself. Now answer me and go get me some clothes, the air is chilly. Didn't your mama teach you how to treat your forced housemate?" he asked pissed off at her focus on the thick forest, even though he wasn't seeing exactly what she was staring at. She remained silent much to his annoyance.
"Oh shit, I am locked up here with no clothes or shoes or even a phone. I am locked up in my hell on earth." he said in an undertone and looked at the woman again. He just have to get her attention any how even though she ends up hurting him, he still have to get her to get him some clothes. He smiled mischievously and rubbed his palms slowly, "Oh I get it, you love seeing me shirtless." he said and smirked.
Ambrosia narrowed her brows and turned sharply to look at him with her bright red eyes but he wasn't fazed. Seeing her with red eyes every day was something he considers normal and knew what to expect whenever her eyes changes it color. A good beating, or pinning to the wall or strangling him or even pushing him to the ground. He was so used to her tactics and wasn't scared or bothered by any of it as he was ready for it. He smiled and bit his lower lips not taking his eyes off her.
His loud talks and crazy words made her loss concentration on her prey much to her annoyance. Just when she thought she was going to have a good meal after a long time, a crazy man just had to disturb her and made her lose her meal.
Her nails grew longer as her threatening eyes remained fixed on him. Now that he made her lose her meal then he will have to replace it.
She raised her hand to his neck and just when she was about strangling him, Edwin limped to the rooftop and made her stopped her hand mid way.
"Ambrosia, we need to talk. Something came up." he said with urgency in his voice. The news he received that morning had made him rush over without waiting back for even a minute as it has to do with Ambrosia's and Amby's life which need to be dealt with immediately. He glanced at the man beside Ambrosia, waiting for him to leave but he remained standing and not moving.
Darren thought it was over for him when Ambrosia tried strangling him again but the man who came in the last night, saved him, and stopped the crazy woman from strangling him, much to his relief. Edwin knitted his brow in anger when he saw the human wasn't leaving.
"Don't give me that look man, I don't have anywhere to go to." Darren said staring back at the man who was angrily staring at him.
Edwin looked at Ambrosia but she was searching for something in the forest and wasn't bothered about the both of them, so he could only roll his eyes and looked at the human.
"This is something important and we don't need a third party." he said in a tight voice.
Darren seeing how serious he was, only nodded and decided to give them some space, and by that he meant going to the far end of the rooftop which wasn't enough for a private space.
He covered his ears and began to hum loudly to a song.
Ambrosia lost focus on her prey again due to his loud singing and growled. Edwin sighed in exasperation and closed his eye tight.
Where the heck did Ambrosia get the crazy man from?