YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM ME

EVERYONE IS AGAINST ME

Bella’s P.O.V.

If I were allowed a murder, I would surely kill my boss. He was so annoying, unbearable, arrogant and c**ky. Whenever we went out for a meeting, he always behaved like an over-possessive boyfriend. He always stuck with me like glue. I had complained about this so many times but he always shrugged me off by saying that I am overthinking or I am thinking so highly of myself. Okay… I got it… I didn’t have any confusion about my personality or my appearance. I am an average middle-class girl and I couldn’t be like those divas of high society.

Sometimes his words stung like a lobster bisque. I didn’t have a stronghold on my emotion before but now I had learnt to control my emotions. I never shed a tear in front of him didn’t matter how deeply I am hurt. I never gave him this satisfaction of hurting me by his words. I knew that I had a crush on him and it’s really hurting when the person whom you admired the most said bad words to you for no reason.

The Florida trip was like the other trips. I was stuck with him in the same suite but in a different room. He kept on checking me even during the night that was weird this time. He never came to check up on me before. The meeting was a success but he didn’t allow me to explore the city when I was free. I did everything on his behalf. Sometimes I felt that he violates every labour law implementing on me. He treated me like his slave. How I wanted to leave this job but I didn’t know why I am here with him.

“What are you thinking so hard?” I flinched at my spot and looked up from the top of my laptop. Thinks the devil and here the devil comes. I thought in my mind and stood up from my seat. I was in my room and he again barged in without knocking.

“I have so many things to think about. What about you, Sir? Why are you here?” I asked him in a very flat tone. I like the privacy of my room and he always intruded like he owns this place. Okay… he owns this room too but this is my space.

He frowned and then looked at the file on my table. “Have you mailed the new agreement to them?” he asked me while reading the name of the company on the file. I desperately wanted to roll my eyes on him but couldn’t because it infuriated him if anyone rolls eyes at him. I controlled myself and then nodded. “Yes Sir… all the formalities have already been done. I already told you last Friday before our Florida trip”, I told him everything in brief. “Then what are you doing in this file now?” he asked me while raising his brows and I huffed.

“Well… I am closing this file so that I could send this to our finance department”, I again used a flat tone that he didn’t like. We both looked at each other for a while as if there was a staring competition between us. The ping in my phone distracted me and I took my phone. A smile crept on my face when I read the message. Suddenly my phone was snatched from my hand.

“Hey… that’s my phone”, I yelled and looked at my boss in disbelief. He scowled while reading my message and then looked at me. “This is personal, you know this right?” I asked him in an accusing tone but his expressions didn’t change. There was something in his eyes that I couldn’t point. “You are going on a blind date again?” he asked me in an accusing tone that I really didn’t get.

“I am in a perfect age of marriage and I do need a man to whom I can marry”, I stated the obvious while trying to get my phone from his grip. He instantly raised his hand above his head making me fell down on him and I landed on his hard chest. He wrapped another hand around my waist maintaining my balance. Now… my hand was on his chest and his hand on my waist. I was looking towards my phone in his hand. We were so close so many times in the past and this was not a thing that could bother me.

He looked at my face and I blinked. He was really behaving weird since the Florida trip. I felt that his possessiveness is now showing clearly not only to me but to others also. “What wrong with you, Sir?” I asked him in a soft voice. He was neither willing to let me go nor he was giving me my phone. He didn’t say but his perfect chiselled jaw clenched hard. His grip on my waist tightened making me wince in pain.

He loses his grip on me a little but didn’t let me go. His eyes were still on me. “You are not going to meet him”, he said in a cold tone that passed a chill through my spine. He rarely used this tone on me. I looked up but my screen was blank. “Mom will be angry with me if I don’t go. I can’t bear her wrath”, I told him my condition. I didn’t understand a thing why he was so furious about my date.

“I will talk to your mother, then. You are not going and this is final”, before I could say he left me after throwing my phone on my table. “Hey”, I yelled but he stormed out of the room leaving me in a daze. I stared at the wide-open door for a while. “What’s wrong with him?” I murmured and then looked at my phone. I took my phone and opened it. I was startled to see a pic of a handsome hunk.

This was Ryan, the man whom I needed to meet tonight. I felt increased my heartbeat. He was really handsome if we talk about his photo. He must be of a good height with a perfect model body and face. I smiled while looking at his photo. He was not as handsome as Mr. Lockwood; still, he was handsome from my point of view.

I sat down on my seat again and continued what I was doing before. I had so many things to do now as I didn’t want to leave any bad impression on this man. It could be my chance this time to have a decent husband. I smiled at my own thought and finished my work. Ryan sent me the address of the restaurant where we were about to meet around 8 in the evening. I looked at the watch and it was 5. I still had time to get prepare for this date.

I was about to leave my room when my phone rang. I scowled when I saw Mr. Lockwood’s name. I knew it. I knew it… how could he let me go so easily? I didn’t understand why he always ruined my dates? I huffed and picked up the phone while locking the door of my room. “Yes, Sir”, I said while running towards the elevator.

“To my office, now”, he said and before I could say anything, he cut the call. I wanted to strangle him right now. I stomped my foot and then took a U-turn towards his room. He must be a better reason to call me this time.

I knocked at his door and he instructed to come in. I was fuming in anger but I controlled all my emotions. “Yes, Sir… you called me”, I said in a flat and professional tone while entering the room. He didn’t look at me. He was reading something on his screen. He didn’t say anything and that was my cue to go near him and read whatever he was reading now. It was always like this. Something between us where we didn’t need words to communicate.

I went near him and bent down a little to read. It was an email from the clients from Florida. My eyes narrowed on some points there. “We … we .. are not informed about this before”, I said while reading further. “They said that it was clearly mentioned in the agreement but the copy we have has nothing related to this. How it can be possible?” he asked me in a cold tone while reading with me.

“I clearly remembered each and every point written in the contract. There is nothing related to this and I am 200% sure that you didn’t sign for this. I am bringing the hard file”, I said and threw my purse on the couch while running towards the admin department. I already had submitted all the documents there for further processing.

I texted Ryan apologizing for cancelling today’s date. It was a crucial project for our company and there was no way that I am going to let this slip from our hands. We had worked for more than 7 months on this. Ryan texted me back and asked me when I would go back home. I sighed and looked up towards the roof of the elevator as if God was sitting there listening to me. I was dreaming about married life before we received that email as I saw the time. It was clearly God’s doing. I couldn’t understand why everyone including God was against the idea of me being married.