AS A SLEEPING FRIEND

9. Consider it Punishment

Almost 25 minutes passed, I finally heard someone knocking on my door. I hurriedly replied while wiping away the trail of dried tears on my cheek.

When I opened the door, I saw Sharen there.

"What's up, brother?"

"Aro ... um, I mean Mr. Aro called you."

"All right, I'll see him. I'll wash my face first, for a second."

Sharen nodded. His hands stretched out and patted my shoulders.

"You have to be strong, Elin. Sometimes there are things that inevitably you have to live even if it is contrary to your will." He looked at me with a smile and a strengthening sentence.

"Thank you, but I still want to oppose the opposite."

"I know you're not gonna give up. Work until you find a bright spot, but rest if you're tired."

I hugged Sharen's body for a moment, because I needed more strength before actually meeting Mr. Aro and then receiving my punishment.

When I went down to the 3rd floor, precisely to the special room belonging to Mr. Aro. I could only bow my head deeply as I stared at the unfriendly look in his eyes.

"You! Why are you working tonight?" ask the man after a moment of silence.

I was surprised to hear that question. "It's not that my cut doesn't apply, therefore I followed Brother Gwen who asked me to work on the 3rd floor" I said frankly.

"Gwen?" Mr. Aro's voice rang out loud, I could see his hands clenched there.

Mr. Aro snorted loudly, until he finally came back to let out his voice again.

"Pack up, Elin."

I raised my face and looked at the tall man after goal. "Am I expelled? Am I free from here?" I asked with a feeling of anger.

Mr. Aro lowered a slanted smile. "Yes, you're out of here but .. You got a new job because of your mistake tonight. Consider this a punishment for you," he said.

"W-what?" tanyaku. Will I be placed somewhere worse than Mr. Aro's gambling house? If yes, then I would rather end my life than accept the punishment that would make me an abominable girl for the rest of my life.

"Pack your things and there's someone waiting for you."

"I don't want to!" my sergeant.

Mr. Aro even laughed discordantly. "Do you think your opinion will count here? Don't protest too much, Elin! According to you, because I sold you for a lot of money! Leave my place immediately, because I'll give you only 20 minutes to pack."

How many times do I have to cry in a day? What was my mistake until this fatal? So that I'm back to be sold to someone else I don't know?

"I ... no .. would." I pressed the words but Mr. Aro actually snapped his fingers so that the two bodyguards who were always loyal to accompany him moved to get me out of the room.

"Come, Miss! You should leave immediately!" remove them compact.

I stared pushyly at Mr. Aro, hoping that he would be merciful to withdraw all of his words that had already voiced out about selling me to the other party.

I sobbed loudly, softly and stiflingly. I was really made into some sort of item that can be traded and moved there and here.

Thinking quickly, I again planned to run away when I came out of this building later. With that determination, I packed all my things. The stuff Liam brought me the first time he brought me here. I only realized it when I arrived at the room I was in and it was all put there.

"I will not be silent. I'll try to escape!"

...***...

As soon as I came out of the big door on the back side of the building, I was about to run as fast as I could to reach the gate there.

Unfortunately, again it wasn't as easy as I thought. Two men in black with a stern look were waiting for me near the gate. They're like adjutants. I think they're what Mr. Aro-those assigned are waiting for me.

"Miss Medeline? Come on, over here!" They surrounded me in a shiny black car parked.

Nervously nervous, I shook my head to reject their offer.

I return with my head. Although I actually knew my escape efforts would be in vain, considering that both of them and I were alone. Not to mention that it was already very late when this incident took place.

I want to trick them.

"I ... want to go to the toilet" I said. I know this reason is very cliche, but I don't have any other words that I can make as material to trick both of them.

"Well, we'll take it to the toilet outside the building" one of them said. The man was referring to the back of Mr. Aro's casino building, where there was indeed an inscription stating that there was a small toilet there.

I just nod. They followed me back into the building area and seemed to be waiting for me at the door.

"I'm worried if I'm waiting. You can wait in the car. Or in front of the gate. I can't run away" I said plainly.

They nodded. I didn't think it would be this easy to fool both of them. They were walking towards the car when I just entered the toilet. I can tell because I actually peeked a little behind the wall.

In the toilet, I thought again how I could escape their surveillance. But until a few minutes passed I didn't get the idea to be able to realize.

I came out of the toilet, and thankfully the two bodyguards were no longer there.

"They're really waiting for me at the gate?" I'm monologuing.

My heart is a little calm because of this. I'll run through the side door, I thought.

However, as soon as my movement was about to reach that goal, I suddenly felt my body lift up. I was carried like a sack of rice.

"Take me off! I'm going home!" I was angry and screaming. I beat up the back of the man carrying my body over his shoulder.

The man kept quiet, kept walking to take me. I can't see his face from my position right now but the aftershave scent he's wearing makes my eyes growl because it reminds me of someone.

"Please, don't force me!" beguile.

"You said you wanted to go home? Where are you going home? To the house of the brother who sold you?"

This hoarse voice .. so it is true if he is the person I remember when I accidentally inhaled the aroma earlier.

"T-Mr Gladwin?"

Along with when I said that, my body felt lowered from the sling. Then, I was a little pushed into a car.

Now, I've been sitting in the back cabin, right next to the guy I was guessing and I said his name.

"Master?" I glanced at him with a questionable look.

"From now on you will come with me" said Mr. Gladwin, as cold as ever.

I took a long breath. Then laugh. "So you bought me, sir?" many sarcasm.

Mr. Gladwin sniffed his shoulders indifferently.

"I didn't buy you, I redeemed you from Aro's casino."

I'm laughing more and more now. "It turns out I misjudged you, sir. I thought you were the only one who thought I was human, you were the same. Think of me as limited to items that can be auctioned also traded."

I couldn't contain my frustration any longer, until I exposed it to Mr. Gladwin who didn't respond to my accusations.

The man threw his gaze out the window of the car, then alerted one of the men sitting behind the wheel.

"Straight, Will!"

Yes, he ignored all the words that I said to him. I feel more and more unlucky. My mind is now everywhere.

What will Mr Gladwin do to me? Will he hire me too? In what kind of place? Surely he will put me in a place that can make his money quickly back. Didn't Mr Aro say I was sold for a lot of money? It turns out I was made into an item for their business.

My hands clenched firmly imagining what things I would go through in the future under the orders of the Lord Ruler that even Mr. Aro alone seemed to submit to him.

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