Doted On By The Mafia Boss novel Chapter 26

Ryan stopped on his tracks as her words fell; he stood there watching the girl picking up the paper planes and retreating to her bed. Sitting on it she took the comic book which was left open and started reading it, totally disregarding Ryan and his presence. A bad feeling stirred within him as he asked, "Aren't you sick?" The girl nodded a no and immersed herself deeper into the book.

The man stood goofily on his spot watching her behave stranger than usual, didn't she say she would be happy if he came back earlier then why was her reaction totally different to the one he had imagined. Ryan was sure that something was quite not right but how was he supposed to find out. He asked, "Is something wrong?"

Bee didn't bother to look up at him, she was feeling empty and wanted to send somewhere empty. She still needed time to repair herself and was not at all willing to have any kind of interaction with him in the meanwhile. She kept the book aside and fell back on bed, pulling the blanket to her head she said, "I am sleepy. You should leave."

Anger started to bubble up inside the man but he balled his fist to push down his urge to strangle her. Just why can't she say what was up with her, he was no mind reader to stop it out all by himself. He asked, "Are you not happy that I am back?"

His question was like a stone thrown away in ocean with no reaction coming back from the other side; she was asleep already. The man could feel himself slowly loosing his patience and this was even visible in his tone which was getting a bit irritated with the passing questions, "Bee, I am telling you... Don't show your attitude to me."

Bee, "..."

"Are you testing my patience?"

"..."

"What the f*ck is wrong with you?"

Hearing him cursing Bee threw a judging glance him through the blanket. Ryan was at the verge of exploding at this point, he yelled, "What? What are you looking at?" Bee couldn't help but get her eyes welled up; she lips started to tremble as she sank deeper into her blanket. Even though she managed to hide under the blanket her movements were still picked up by Ryan's watchful eyes. Her timid actions were like a harsh slap which pulled him back to reality. He immediately forgot to be angry and regretted yelling at her, "I am sorry... I am really sorry! Don't cry..." He tried to calm her down, little did he know that the girl was not crying because he yelled at her but because of the pain which was welling up in her heart.

If it was yesterday she would have felt happy seeing that he cared but now, when she knows that he was in love with someone else and was really only treating her nice because she saved his life she felt awful.