Third person's pov
Sighing, Meera stretched her body but felt a hold on her waist and something warm and hard pressed on her back. Frowning, she opened her eyes, vision slightly blurry due to waking up. The dimly lit room, filled with sunlight coming through the draped curtains came into her sight. Blinking several times, she tried to clear the haze of sleep. And once it cleared, she slightly raised her upper body. Looking down at her lower body covered with a silk duvet which she removed, to see a muscular arm wrapped around her waist tightly. Startled, she sat straight and took in where she is. It's definitely not the theater room. Damn it! He brought me to the bedroom and slept cuddling the whole night. Glaring at the sleeping figure of the devil beside her who had content written on his face boiled her insides.
Untangling herself from him, harshly she threw his hand away from her body. Stirring, Elijah opened his eyes due to the sudden jerk he felt in his arm murmuring in his morning husky voice,
"What has gotten in your pants this early in the morning?"
sharply looking at him who was now awake, enraged she said,
"You are asking me that, you?!"
"Doe"
Elijah replied in warning, he was peacefully sleeping with his doe in his arms but no she has to break it which irritated him, and now her anger increasing it further. She narrowed her eyes pointing her index finger at him and saying,
"Don't doe me. How dare you bring me to the bedroom and on top of that cuddle me!"
pressing his eyes shut to calm himself he told her in an obvious tone,
"You are mine, I can sleep with you, cuddle you, or whatever I like to do if I want to, so what's the fuss?"
boiling like water, she turned towards him, eyes shooting daggers at him she told him,
"You ask what's the fuss! You know I refused to sleep or share a room with you!"
"Which I clearly don't remember agreeing"
he smoothly spoke. Gritting her teeth, she bobs her head up and down several times angrily scolding him,
"You can't just do as you please with me!"
"I surely can, doe, and you will sleep with me on the same bed in my arms every night"
he stated, forcing every word out with a deep low commanding voice. Losing control of her anger which pulses in her vein, she kicks him hard on his stomach making him fall off the bed. Taken off guard, he fell on the floor on his back. He groans in pain, feeling anger ignite in his blood. Meera felt satisfied, but the anger did not subside, smirking she says,
"Serves you right. Next time think twice before doing anything to me. I am warning you"
Clenching his jaw hard, his eyes in an angry slit, he turns his head towards her glaring fire on her skin. Looking at him like a mad angry monkey, her smirk fell and she frowns in worry. In a blur of seconds, he climbed the bed and pinned her down on it. A rumbling dark, heavy voice vibrates through his chest to out his throat, he grits out looking at the frightened face of his doe,
"Nobody has ever even dared to touch me and you kicked me"
gulping she spoke though he was angry but so she was, and although she was scared of him right now she can't help herself stating the truth,
"You deserved it"
"I deserve far worse for the things I do but that's impossible to happen cause the person doesn't live to do the same"
he tells her viciously. She trembles listening to his cruelty, wriggling her wrists to free them from his hold which tightens she snaps,
"You are cruel!"
"Yet you kicked me, now you will pay for the disrespect"
"No!"
Her eyes widen in fear of what he will do to her and she starts thrashing in his hold. Getting up, he stands straight and she drags herself back onto the bed away from his reach. But holding her ankle he roughly pulls her body to the edge, a shriek escapes her mouth in surprise mixed with fear. Tugging her body up in a sitting position, he throws her on his shoulder like a rag doll and trudges out of the room in strong, long strides with her thrashing and protesting in his hold.
"What are you doing!!! Put me down!!"
"Are you insane? Leave me, you monster! Leave me!!"
"Ughhhh!!"
she screams along with punching his bare back with her fists continuously but all in vain, he continues without a word to wherever he is going. Being upside down she can't figure out where he was taking her. Because of her temper, she missed noticing that he only wore sweat pants which means he cuddled her half-naked. That infuriated her more. Resulting in her punching him harder.
Finally, he stopped and she raised her head to see the other sitting area in front opposite the large swimming pool facing the ocean. Understanding his intentions, she shouted at him,
"Don't you even think about doing it. I will kill you!"
"This will teach you, the hard way of course. Simpler was ineffective, right doe?"
with that, he throws her in the swimming pool. Screaming, she flings her arms in the air and finds herself colliding with water, going inside the surface then deeper. Flailing she tries to come up to the surface, at the same time struggling to breathe. Her heart was beating in fear, scared to death. Coming out the surface, she screams,
"Help me, I can't swim, help!!!!!"
"I know you can't "
he says it like he didn't throw her to death if she drowns, hands inside pockets watching over her. He has known from her description file that she can't swim but he never intended to use it like this but she left him no choice, he was mad at her for disrespecting him again and again, and finally, he lost patience. Struggling to stay above the surface, she flails her body desperately, her nose and mouth filling with water, her heart sinking in dread along with her body, she shouts in despair,
"How could you!!!! Save me, devil spawn!!!"
"This will show you that I can't tolerate disrespect in any form. Seeing death in the eyes will make you learn the least to not infuriate me and give respect and when you get it in head I will take you out"
he declares seriously above her gasping, submerging, and drowning figure in the water. He stands there, expressionless watching with emotionless eyes showing how heartless and evil he is. Her eyes spill tears of disdain and utter fear of death, her heart nearly stopping, mouth huffing, gasping to breathe, lungs constricting for air. She feels herself losing energy and the battle against the looming death. From her blurry vision, she can see him looking at her with calmness and not at all worried. She cried for help but he didn't budge. So evil and cruel, a satan himself, how can he leave her to drown in water using her weakness, drawback for revenge? She couldn't imagine in her even wildest dream for him to stoop lowest to make her respect him. The hate for him inside her burned in high flames reaching unlimited heights.
Facing death head-on scared her to the bones, she didn't want to lose her life, she deserves to live, and her parents a healthy living daughter, not a corpse. Desperate for her life, she pleads to him in between gasping and huffing,
"I am sorry, forgive me, I will respect you, please save me"
Black dots fill her vision due to lack of oxygen, her body going weak, and slowly she goes beneath the surface of water, nostril, and windpipe filling with water. Her head flashes the images of her whole life before her drooping eyes and she prays last time to God to keep her parents happy, believing her end has come, and surrenders herself to darkness which engulfs her. Her body goes limp and lands at the bottom of the pool.