Chapter 19: Nineteen

Lexus didn't follow me. He let me roam around everywhere since he was so busy in a 'VERY' important meeting with his FRIEND.

I stood still by the side of the window in the corridor. I could see the busy streets and cars roaring on the road.

Why am I acting like this? Am I really that insecure? But why? I'm nothing more than a slave who has no idea what might happen to her in the future yet I acted like that.

...

I should go back to our room.

I made my way back to the room, closing the door behind me I noticed something.

The lights were on and Lexus was there half sitting on the desk with a very devilish smirk on his face.

"Seems like my 'baby' is finally back." He stood up and began walking towards me.

Shit.

"I-i'm sorry master. I behaved like a c-child."

He stopped right in front of me and lifted my chin up, "What was it that you called me there?" His gaze was burning me. "Hmm?"

"D-daddy...?"

His smirk grew wider. Why is he smiling? He's supposed to be an emotionless mannequin.

He held my waist and pulled me closer.

"How about a bath with daddy then baby?"

Bath? Together? I looked at him questioningly but he just dragged me to the bath with him.

***

The bathtub was big, filled with foam and a refreshing scent of mint. Lexus sat leaning against the tub and I sat between his legs facing the other side.

My brain wasn't processing properly. He was naked right behind me yet he was so relaxed. Why is he like that?

Suddenly a pair of wet arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me back. I crashed against his rock hard muscular body and I think I touched something else too. I'd like to not think about it.

"Rosalie." His voice was so heavy and deep it gave me chills.

"Y-yes master."

"Answer me honestly." He grabbed my waist and turned me slightly so that I could easily look at him, "Why did you misbehave in front of Diana?"

"I-I misbehaved?" What else can I do except act innocent? Even I don't know why I misbehaved. I avoided his gaze.

He grabbed my chin with his thumb and finger and made me look at him.

"Trying to act innocent now?" Damn it. Why is he so sharp? I couldn't even look away now and his icy gray eyes searched mine for answer.

"I'm sorry..."

"Do you think just apologizing is good enough after you left me an awkward situation I had to explain?"

I tried looking the most innocent I could, "No?"

He grinned.

Oh my god he grinned... What could this mean?

"No." He replied.

"T-t-then?" I had completely turned my direction to him by now without realizing it.

"If you can find a good way to apologize then I'll think about it otherwise you'll be getting punished."

"P-punished?" I frowned, "Wait. How much time?"

"Thirty minutes." He said and relaxed back against the tub again while I panicked. I immediately got up and left the bathroom. He didn't stop me.

With a bath robe around me I frantically racked my brain for an idea.

What do I do? What does he want?

I don't even know what he likes or hates! He's an unreadable man!

Maybe I should change first.

Oh my God...

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Lexus came out of the bathroom wearing his pajama bottom with no shirt, his hair still wet and he made no attempt to dry it.

He looked around and noticed the room empty. Completely empty.

After scanning the room his gaze paused at the empty bed and he sighed folding his arms over his chest.

He walked to the bed with an unamused expression and crouched down, grabbed my arm, he pulled me out from my hiding place.

"What did I expect from a child?" He sat down on the chair near the bed, "Seriously? Was hiding under the bed all you could think of?"

I was embarrassed because I really couldn't come up with an idea. I was fidgeting with my fingers when I heard him chuckle. "Come here." He patted his lap but I only stared at him, so he pulled me down making me sit on his lap while facing him, my legs on his and his thighs between mine. I was wearing a big pajama shirt, only with my panties. The shirt was big enough to cover my hips too, but that's not why I'm not wearing my tights with it. It just so happens that it seems I left it back at the penthouse...

Lexus wore a warmer expression. Less cold. More human-like.

I liked it and I blurted it out too.

"Master you laughed."

Only after I said it, he realized he did but this time his expressions didn't go back to point zero, Instead he wrapped his arms around my waist and asked me again.

Drops of water dripping down his hair made me grab the neatly folded towel on the table next to the chair, open it and place it on his head. Gently I rubbed his hair dry. The few seconds in which I did so, he just quietly let me while keeping his arms tied together around my hips for support.

When I stopped he looked up, letting the towel fall behind.

"Why did you act like that?" His tone was warmer, more gentle.

"Just..." I paused, then gulped, "Master I know I did wrong but I just felt so..."

"So?"

"Small..."

"Well you are tiny." He nodded in approval and I just stared at him in defeat then sighed.

"Yes... I don't belong in such nice places among people like you."

"What makes you think that?"

"Huh?" Why is he asking me that? Isn't it obvious? It's a place for people like him and her. I'm a character for the shadows. "I'm nothing more than a slave after all..." I whisper.

It was back, the cold icy gaze and voice.

"If you keep saying that, I might actually start using you like one." He squeezed my cheeks with his hand and pulled me closer to his face,

"Like nothing more than a slave."