'Nicole! Nicole! Come on now, open the door. You knew I was kidding. I didn't mean any of it'
He knew how much I hated the name, and how I had reminded him several times, not to call me that.
'My friends would have made fun of it. It sounds pretty old. Come on now, babe, You know how I couldn't resist touching you today. You looked so sexy with that little belly of yours.'
They wouldn't have made fun of my name. It was a nice name and I liked it. It was the only thing that I knew about me. And he knew very well how I hated when he called me babe.
'Please babe, I am craving you right now. You were the only chubby cute girl there, and I watched how every guy wanted to have you for themselves'
My hand slowly moved down on my belly and I bit my lower lip hard. I never thought that I was chubby, but every time he would say that, I was reminded about the extra fat I had, just a little.
Thumb!
Thumb!
The persistent knock on the door had increased, I didn't wish to see him, I wished to be left alone, but he wasn't giving up. Like all night, after treating me like s**t, he would be nice to me, only for a while.
Taking a deep breath, I finally opened the door. His demeanor had changed, he was sulking. His dark cold eyes, with his flattened lips, were already giving me a silent treatment, which I knew would continue for a couple of days.
'Why you have to act like a b***h everytime I take you out? Or are you on your periods again?'
He shoved me to the side and I almost hit the side of the wall, but somehow controlled myself.
'I should stop taking you out once and for all, I don't think you have any manner as of now. First you should learn them and then wish to go out with me'
Had I gone out with him? I didn't feel like it. When we sat with his friends, He made no attempt to sit next to me, he didn't speak to me at all, his whole attention was on the other pretty girls in the group, the only time he talked to me was to call me Nicole and then ask for the dishes to be passed around.
He had made fun of my lack of cooking, which I couldn't do as I was working full time and teaching part time, and he was well aware of that.
I had bitten my lips then too and smiled as if it was just a joke, lightening the atmosphere around us.
Even when he noticed me looking at him, he didn't bother to take his eyes off other girls.
'I don't remember behaving inappropriately at all today' I replied back, knowing that conversation was the last thing he wished to do.
'You shouldn't have come at all, when you knew I was going to hang out with my friends and you wouldn't understand what we were talking about. You made me look like a fool, with that uninterested dumb look you had on your face'
I was able to understand what they were talking about, it was mostly about his past life and relationship and how he had tried to flirt with those girls present on our table.
'I could try harder if you take me out more'
He shook his head and folded his hands above his chest as he looked at me.
'Why don't you understand? I don't wish to add more things on my plate, I am already not respected much since we got engaged.'
My heart fell. This was one thing we decided never to talk about since we got together.
The pack that I belonged to had found out that I was wolf less on my 18th birthday. Since I had no family, and there was no one to look after me, they had decided to marry me off to a guy I had never met. They believed him to be a good guy, since he had agreed to marry me even when I had no wolf, not knowing that he had a poor reputation among his pack and no one wanted to give away their daughter to him.
'I thought that since you are wolfless, the pack would at least provide me with some of their golds to take the burden out of their hands, but they have batted an eye since they send you to me'
We weren't even married yet, so there was no reason for them to give away any money to them. I didn't know why he expected that.
'I am working and giving you whatever I could earn, isn't that enough?'
He got up and walked towards me, each step faster than the before and much louder. I had always been scared of loud noises. I didn't know why, but he was aware of it.
His figure towered over me, and his bloodshot eyes threatened me.
'What are you trying to say? That I am living off your money? I never told you to give me that, it should be your bloody pack that should have given us money, for you'
For me?
'I am not money hungry, but how could they be so idiotic that they would send their daughter off, with no money to live with me and expecting me to look after her, in this small house?'
The truth was that I had fought a lot with them, when they had told me that they would be giving him money, I had told them not to. I was just wolfless, it was not like I couldn't make money on my own. And giving him money to marry me meant that they were undermining my qualities and value as a person.
Even without family and my wolf, I had managed to be capable enough and earn a proper amount of money, to get food, clothes, health supplies and even save a bit.
'I could work more, if we are having'
He moved closer to me, making me stop mid-words, and look down, gulping on the saliva in my throat and waiting for the worst.
'Come on now, help me with my stress you gave today'
My hands tried to find something strong to hold on to, as he removed the mere distance between us.
'Take off your pants now, Nicole! I won't repeat myself'