Bound to Him [Dark Temptation Book One]

Chapter 2

Who was I?

Why I was here?

Where did I come from?

I didn’t remember anything about my life. I had nothing on my mind.

No memories.

No Identity.

Just nothing.

The man slowly let me go and returned to look at me. He smiled lightly and rubbed my cheek again. I liked his touches yet I felt foreign about him. “Are you okay, baby?” he asked like he just realized that I didn’t show any reaction. And I just realized. He called me baby.

“Why you call me baby?”

He lost his smile and I immediately felt guilty for asking him that. “Do you recognize me?” His tone was sad but I had to tell him the truth. I shook my head slowly and he was dumbly staring at me. Like he couldn’t believe my answer. Like he wasn’t expecting that kind of answer from me. “How about your name? Do you remember your own name?” Oh, God. I felt terribly bad. I shook my head again.

He pulled his hands from me as I instantly missing his touches. “f*****g hell,” he cursed softly under his breath.

“Did something happen to me?” I asked as he glanced his hazel eyes back to me again. Forcing a smile on his lips.

“I’ll explain everything but first, you need to eat. I’m sure after a long slumber you’re starving already.” My mind hit the word long slumber. Did I sleep for a long time?

The man put his hand on my back and led me out from the foyer, heading to the dining room. Again, the room managed to amaze me. A very luxurious dining room with a long and expensive-looking dining table with eight chairs around it. He led me to the middle chair while he sat beside me.

“Tyler,” he called someone named Tyler as the person suddenly entered the dining room. “Make some lunch for my lovely lady and make sure it’s healthy enough for her,” he ordered and I turned to where this Tyler person was and found a very tall man, probably around this man’s height and he had black hair. He was wearing a three-piece charcoal suit and he wasn’t smiling at all. Very stoic and intimidating as well.

Tyler slightly bowed his head and walked out of the room. I returned my attention to the man sitting next to me and found him smiling weakly at me. Maybe he wasn’t expecting that I would wake up without any memories about him, even myself.

“You deserve some explanation and first,” he suddenly said. “Since you don’t remember anything about me, I have to introduce myself.” He reached out his hand to me. I looked at it. His hand was big with some veins were poking on his skin. “My name is Micaiah Donovan, but people usually called me Micah, including you. And your name is Venus Skylar.” My eyes returned to him. Meeting his intense hazel green eyes.

Venus Skylar, that was my name.

I blinked and looked down at his hand again and grasped it. “It’s nice to meet you, Micah.”

And he chuckled. “It feels weird for you to say that but I can’t help it. For now.” Right. I felt the same too. I meant, if I knew him, we wouldn’t introducing ourselves like this. Feeling like a complete stranger.

I let go of his hand. “Can I ask what’s our relationship?”

“Well, we’re dating and you are my fiancé.” My mouth was slightly opened when he said that. Was it really? I couldn’t believe I got myself a handsome man like him. Just looked at him; like the reincarnation of the Greek God.  “I assume that you’re not expecting me to say that.”

I cleared out my throat. “I’m sorry, but yes.”

“That’s okay.”

“This is your house?”

“It is.”

“Are you that rich?” He laughed.

“I owned a business and thankfully enough, it earned me enough money to build this house. But it doesn’t matter as long as I owned you.” I could feel my cheeks warmed up slightly because of his words.

“What’s your occupation?”

“Businessman. I ran a business, more like a service business.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Well, you never like listening to my job. You said it’s too complicated for you to understand.”

“Was I working as well?”

“No. Not because you don’t want to, because I don’t like it. I’m happy to have you at home, waiting for me. Besides, I don’t share,” he said and when I was about to ask him even further, Tyler returned with the lunch.

He put down the plate in front of us. It smelled good and it was three pieces of lamb chops with some vegetables and…what was that? Some oval looking thing? “That’s fondant potatoes if you’re wondering,” Micah suddenly said as I turned to him and found him smiling. “Eat.” He started to grab his knife and for and cut his lamb. I followed as well and tasted the lamb inside my mouth.

Oh, God. This was so delicious.

“Do you like it?” I nodded my head while chewing the meat. “I’m glad.” And he took a bite from his lamb as well.

We had our lunch without any chats but sometimes I caught him looking at me and smiled.

Once we were done, Tyler grabbed the plates without any talk. This man was so quiet.

Micah led me out of the dining room with his hand on my back. I liked him doing this. It felt like he was protecting me. But there was something I needed to know. “Micah?”

“Yes, baby?”

“Can I know what happened to me?” And we stopped walking. I could feel his eyes on me.

“This way,” he said and led me to a room. A living room. Another amazing room. Just how rich Micah was exactly? I couldn’t describe it anymore. This place was too amazing for me and he sat me on the couch while he was sitting next to me.

He exhaled and finally looked into my eyes. “You were in an accident. A terrible one. You were always fond of a river behind this house. You always spend your time there. One day you decided to go alone without my watch or with my bodyguard around you. I wanted to go with you but I had some business I needed to take care of. I couldn’t leave it alone so you said you can go alone. You wondered too far, not at the usual spot we always spend our time and you…drowned. Being pulled by the water stream. It was fast and I was worried and looked for you for almost a day. I thought you were dead but then, a miracle happened, I found you. Quite far from the usual creek with your head bleed out. I took you to the hospital and the Doctor said you hit your head too hard and it was a miracle that you’re still alive. You were missing nearly twenty-four hours, girl. And you earned yourself thirteen stitches on your head.”

I automatically searched for my wound but Micah stopped me. “It’s starting to heal already since…” he paused and looked away from me. Like he was hesitating.

“It’s okay, go on.”

His eyes found me again. “The incident happened over six months ago, baby. You were sleeping for half a year.” My eyes slightly widened. Six months. I was sleeping for that long? “I don’t even know why it took so long for you to wake up. You made me worried every single day. You were breathing fine. Your vitals were all normal but you refused to wake up. There was even a time where I thought you…don’t want to see me again.”

“Why do you think so?” Micah was looking down at the carpet, looking ashamed, and guilty. “Micah?”

“We had a fight a day before the accident. A huge fight. You wanted to repair us but I was too stubborn. It’s true that I had a job to do but if I could choose, I would abandon my job and be with you, fixing our relationship. And I think…this is my punishment. You woke up without any memories of me and yours as well.” He looked like in pain. Each of his words represented his guilt. He was blaming himself for what happened to me, to us.

I didn’t want to see him that way. Yes, I had forgotten him. That won’t change. But if I could, I wanted to fix it.

I raised my hand and touched his cheek. He instantly turned his beautiful eyes back to me. “I’m sorry. For everything.”

Micah touched my hands and rubbed it gently. “You don’t need to apologize. I will help you regain your memory and even if you couldn’t get it back again, we could make new memories. Together.”

“I want to remember what we had before.”

And he smiled. Micah looked kinder when he smiled. “Then, I will gladly help you.”

And he sealed his promise with a kiss on my forehead.

My journey of finding my missing piece, together with Micah, had officially begun.