My Paranoid Lover (Lance Mason) novel Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Bully

I had a nightmare during the night, in my nightmare there’s man, but I couldn’t make out his face clearly. He’s above me, like an animal trying to rip my shirt off. I’m terrified and kept screaming out for Leo to help me.

The man was heavy, I couldn’t even breath properly, my lips were bitten by him and he wouldn’t leave my lips alone. The dream is too real, I can really feel the sensation on my lips, and the man’s palm is massaging me.

When the man’s hand insert went under my night-gown, I realized this is too real to be a dream and woke up in the middle of the night. The moonlight shine through the window and I can see the man’s face. He looks a bit like Leo, maybe I just woke up so my thought aren’t clear enough, for a split second I thought it was Lance. I hugged the man’s neck and kissed him back, my lips mumbling: “Leo, is that you? I know it’s you, you can’t leave me, right? Leo I love you.”

Just when I was kissing him back passionately, second brother stopped kissing and pushed me away. My head banged against the bed and I heard the bedroom door bang shut.

I shouted for him, but Leo never came back in.

He kissed me just like that, out of nowhere and confused me even further.

The next day, mom woke me up for breakfast but I didn’t want to face Leo and Lance so I told her that i’m sick and that I need more sleep.

Mom said the same thing again, your uncle Mason will be upset.

To be honest, I really look down on women like my mom. For love, they can put down their pride and ego. But, am I different from my mom in front of Leo? 

Tomorrow is Leo’s wedding, Lance and Uncle Mason started to discuss about the wedding at the dining table. The Mason’s family is a rich and powerful family, of course they have to make sure the wedding goes accordingly and perfectly.

Lia laid on Leo’s shoulder, looking cute and innocent. She hurts my eyes.

“Jennie, did you not have a good night sleep last night? Why are your eyes swollen?” Lia asked, pretending to care.

I forced myself to smile and answer her: “I was drawing last night, I slept late.”

I was actually crying, I’m hurt that Leo gave up on me.

Mom knew my work is hard, I’m an interior designer, a lot of things are done by me, physically. Even during holiday I still need to draft out designs and designs.

“America is a good country and place to work in, I don’t understand why you would fly so far away to work and can’t even have proper 3 meals a day. Why not you stay in America to work? What do you think about this, Robert?” My mom asked Uncle Mason.

Timmediately understood my mom’s intention. Lance is managing the biggest property company in America, and he also owns a famous interior designing company. Mom wanted me to work under the Mason’s family so that I might have a chance to et upper-class people and marry someone powerful. She’s doing this for me, but her kind of love, is wrong.

Uncle Mason looked at Lance and said: “Lance, Jennie is one of the top achievers in this designing area, I think it’s a good idea to let her work in Elegance Interior Designing Enterprise.”

Lance hated me, he wouldn’t be willing to let me wrk in his own company, Uncle Mason knew this, but he talked to Lance about it out of formality.

I remained silent, because I knew Lànce will confirm reject me and might even try to embarrass me.

“Alright, since Elegance is also hiring new interior designers now, after holiday she can go for interview.”

I looked up at Lance, who was sitting opposite of me, with surprise. Since when did he become so kind?

Lance’s eyes met mine, his eyes were dark and cold.

“Jennie, what are you doing?! Your brother’s company is globally famous, isn’t that way better than your current little company?” 

“Mom, Uncle Mason is right, you should stop worrying about me too much, i’m an adult now.”