"I honestly don't know. I just guessed since you kept on mumbling in your sleep how you wished some Terrance's dick falls off or something."

I was feeling embarrassed, "oh god! I really said that?"

"Yes. Also you wished for some Riley to go bald."

"That's the girl I caught him with. I can't believe I was okay with them being roommates," I said trying to not think about the time I caught them together. It still hurts and not to mention I have this sudden urge to castrate Terrance. I have the urge to do awful things to Riley but she wasn't the one in a relationship, Terrance was. If it wasn't Riley it would have been some other girl.

"So do you wanna talk about it?"

"I paid a surprise visit to Terrance since we live very far and we rarely get to see each other in years. Turns out he had a female roommate that he never mentioned. I was cool with her after much convincing. One day I finished doing my laundry a little too early that's when I caught him with her."

"I am sorry. That must have been horrible," he said looking at me for a moment with pitiful eyes then his eyes went back on the road.

We were at Vincent's place in no time. He told me to freshen up and come for dinner later. I went inside my room a little to excited to open my shopping bags to see my underwear but I needed to pee badly. So I decided to finish my business and get into it. When I got out I heard a knock on my door, I opened the door to see Vincent holding a shopping bag.

"Our bags got exchanged mistakenly. I got yours and you got mine," he said looking down. Our shopping bags were similar colour, beige but with a different logo.

"I am sorry. I didn't notice-," fetching his bags from my bed and handing to him. "Its okay," he closed the door behind me. That was strange. I peaked into the bag to see my lacy underwear peaking out then I realized- shit he must have seen all these.

...........

I was a little awkward around him after the underwear incident. We barely talk so that wasn't a problem. I noticed something different at work in these few days, Vincent is barely around. In fact its past lunch break Vincent didn't get out of his room once today. I was getting a little worried but others around me barely noticed anything. I asked Blair if he was okay or not. "He was going through one of those days. It's okay. We got used to this."

"What do you mean?" I asked looking puzzled.

"After the whole girlfriend incident there are some days we barely see him. He likes to stay closed inside that room. We got him to get out- at least for lunch- but he gets pissed- like really pissed. I haven't seen him like that side of him and I have been working for him for a long time."

"Poor guy didn't get over his girlfriend I bet," Lisa chimed in after hearing our conversation. We were all sitting at our usual place behind the kitchen to have our lunch.

"How long has it been since that incident?"

"I would say quite a few months. But we are still suffering, he has been facing a huge loss from then."

"I think it came to a point that he needed to get rid of some staff but he didn't- cause he said we were like his family and he couldn't just let go of his family members," Lisa said looking touched.

Why do bad things happen to good people? He seems like a nice guy but of course his girlfriend took advantage of his niceness. I can relate to him. The heartbreak is the worst but on the other hand he was a victim of embezzlement too.

"I'll be back," I said to them getting up from my seat.

"Eleanor! You don't want to do this," Blair cried out.

I ignored their protests and went towards the serving table to grab a plate for Vincent. I took some generous portion of food and headed towards his room. I have a feeling it's the same room I slept after getting drunk. I knocked on the door, right then I heard collective gasps from the other employees. I am sure everyone knew what I was doing.

After a long pause, the door opened. "WHAT THE-," He paused mid sentence when he saw I was the one who was holding the plate. His expression softened,"Eleanor?"

"Aren't you gonna have lunch?"

"I am not hungry."

"Are you sure? You didn't have anything for breakfast either."

"Yes I am sure," he was about to close the door on me but I blocked it by my hand. I think I just heard another collective gasp behind me.

"What the hell, Eleanor?" He asked looking annoyed. Before he could slam the door on me I entered his room, closing the door behind me.

"Eat or else you will fall sick," I said putting the plate on the table.

He sighed taking a seat on the chair behind the table. As I guessed it was the exact same room but this time a bunch of files were lying in on the table. I guess he was just going through them. I took a seat opposite of him and looked at him.

"So you are gonna watch me eat?"

"As creepy as it sounds, yes I will. Or else you won't finish it. I know it," he took a bit of the salad.

"Did you eat?"

"Yes sorta but I didn't finish mine."

"Bring your plate here. In that way you can keep an eye on me while you eat."

I did what he said. We finished the lunch together while we made small talk. He told me about how he was facing a loss and he needed to accumulate papers to take out a loan from the bank or else he won't be able to pay back his staff.

"I am pretty sure you will get the loan."

"I hope so or else I will be in trouble," he looked at me briefly something catching his eye-"You have something over here," he reached out to wipe something on the corner of my lip. I swear I felt my heart beating faster just from a simple touch. His fingers lingered over my skin a little longer than needed but I wasn't complaining. 

His fingers traced my jawline pulling my chin closer to him, I felt him getting up from his chair and come closer to face me. I looked at his luscious full lips and imagined it over mine. God I wanted it so badly- but he stopped immediately sitting down on his seat. "Umm- it's gone now."

I looked between us trying to understand what happened. Was he about to kiss me? And why did I want it so badly to happen? For some weird reason a little part of me was disappointed.

......

Work has been hectic the past few days but I enjoy it. It's so much more better than being a princess. I don't have go around wearing a corset, study 50 languages at the same time nor do I have to meet ostentatious people over fancy dinner parties. But I missed my brother, Alex and grandpa. I am sure they were worried sick about me but unfortunately grandpa didn't leave me any choice.

I still get nightmares about getting dragged to Eswana, my grandpa getting me forcefully married to that monster. At night I have panic attacks which leads to me not sleeping at all. But I somehow keep myself awake at work as Blair is always there talking beside me. One night I woke with a sudden realization that I never told Vincent my name yet he seemed to know it. Also he practically let a stranger stay in his house. He didn't even know me- Although I will forever be grateful for his kindness but I just couldn't shake that thought off my mind. What if he worked for Marcus? And he was letting me stay until Marcus comes to take me away. My stomach churned just at that thought of it. Suddenly I didn't feel safe in this house anymore.

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