Chasing My Forbidden Cowboy!!

UNDER THE SAME ROOF

(MARILYN’S POV)

I waited for a while after dinner was over. Even after everywhere was silent, I did not leave my room. And then when I was sure that I had not heard as much as a sound in an hour, I sneaked out of my room and to the kitchen like a thief.

When I got in to the kitchen, I let go off my breath which I was holding in caution but then after letting it go, it seemed to all get hooked in my chest again as I turned around to see Louis on a bar stool. His presence was alluring to me.

“Finally. I thought you were not coming.” He said in his grumpy voice.

“Are you sure that meeting here is a good idea?” I asked ignoring him as I looked around the kitchen with the hopes that our voices were not being heard.

Surprisingly, instead of answering my question, Liam stood up from where he was sitting and started walking towards me. I stayed frozen to the ground unable to stop my eyes from gracing his muscular and attractive form. His eyes were directly fixed on me and it took my breath away but then just as he got to standing a feet away from me, he put his arm out and shut the door closed behind me. With one last intense but quick gaze at me, he turned around and walked back to his seat on the stool.

“The kitchen has soundproof walls. No one will hear us in here.” He said to me continuing his deep and intense stares.

I cleared my throat and folded my arms trying to calm my racing heartbeat and push out the scenario that had just happened even though I could still perceive Louis’s scent when he had his body close to mine before he pushed the door.

“How could you do this?” I started to fill up in the awkward silence immediately. “You’re engaged? What the hell!”

He surprised me by grunting.

“Look it’s complicated.” He said to me.

There was nothing sorry about his voice. He sounded cold and grumpy. The usual, I guess.

“Oh well it was not complicated a night ago when we were making love.” I said to him. “Was it complicated then?”

I was disgusted by his act. What was an engaged man doing in such a scene? And still he was talking like he really did not give a damn.

“Well it’s none of your business.” He said to me in a stern tone as he stood up and looked even more sternly at me.

“It’s none of your business.” He said again .

I had recoiled because now looking at him, he looked angry and a little scary. But don’t get me wrong, i am not scared of him.

“Really? I wonder if you will still see things that way when everyone knows what happened.” I said to him taking a step foward to show I was not scared.

He raised an eyebrow at me as if in a way he was daring me to do so

“We’ll go on then. I am sure that it’s going to be a good story to tell your mum. Of course it will be ugly for me but it won’t be pretty for you either.” He said to me with an evil smirk. Then he added, “Do we also get to talk about the story of your virginity? You seemed to leave out that bit of information when we met, didn’t you?” He said to me his eyes now getting more stern as the smirk disappeared .

I felt my cheeks turn heated but I stood my ground .

“I have every right to tell you what I want to. And besides is that why you ran and left me by myself?” I spat at him. “A perfect gentleman.” I added icily.

“I left you a note.” He said with a finger directed at me. “And i should tell you that is good enough considering I just met a woman, twenty six years for God sake! So that makes her old enough to make damn decisions and to know the consequences of a one night stand!”

His fiery eyes burned in to mine and I calmed down as his words rang loud and clear in my head.

Yikes! I had forgotten all about that. The age thing. I lied to him and sooner or later he would find out about it? Or how do you lie about something like that to someone you live with? I am definitely not 26 years old and Louis would be even more angry when he finds out.

I slowed down my thoughts thinking of the lie I told of my age. Louis must have thought that his raised voice made me sad or something because he began to shift uncomfortably and then he said.

“I did not mean to upset you.” He said as he avoided my gaze.

“Too late for that.” I said to him in an icy tone. He just had too much of an ego for me and that was very annoying. He had not even apologized…for once about what happened. And that his poor fiancée! Ugh!

“Look. The night we had, it was not supposed to happen. But it did. That’s it. It’s nothing more than a mistake.” He said to me in a voice that sounded cold and emotionless.

Something about the way he said it caused some kind of pain in my chest. Maybe it was shame or a little bit of hurt at the realization that he was the one who I had given my virginity to.

But there was no way that I was going to let him know for one second that his words had a single effect on me.

“Well yes of course!” I said to him angrily. “You don’t have to tell me that because I regret all of it. It really is nothing but a mistake.”

He looked at me, his eyes dark and cold. But I could not read the emotions they were portraying….. they portrayed no emotions in fact. But then he nodded firmly at me.

“So which means we should not have a problem here.” He said to me. “We should just forget that any of this happened and we will be good.”

“Yeah. We should just stay out of each other’s ways and forget that anything like that ever happened.”

I said to him with my chin up.

There was something about it all that wanted to make me given in to hesitation but I would not be showing any sign of weakness to this proud and cold hearted man.

“Well then.” He said and he stood up to his full height heading towards me, his looming height before me. He now stood a few inches away from me and I could perceive the scent of his cologne.

I swallowed as my heart beat started racing without control. There was something about his presence that affected my stability, my thinking, my control,

“I guess we have an agreement. I’ll stay out of your way. Stay out of mine.” He said to me in a whisper.

“Whatever.” I said to him and with that I walked away.

He was such a rude man! Very rude indeed! But I also could not deny the fact that he was very attractive. He had the physique of the most perfect man on earth. Yet he had such a cold aura. Well that was not my business to think anymore. I am staying out of my way as he is staying out of mine.

I wonder how that will be..: especially with us under the same roof.