"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf" -Thomas Fuller- *** Phoebe's P.O.V "I love you, Phoebe Rousseau." Those are the craziest words I have ever heard from this man. I cannot believe my own ears and my own eyes. He just kissed me, and he just told me that he is in love with me. What kind of madness is this? What did I do wrong to deserve this kind of madness. He checked on my background and that highly upset me and now he is trying to tell me that he loves me? Edgar Romanov? The Russian Mad Mafia Boss? "No..." I whisper slowly. He raises his eyebrow in confusion, does he even deserve to be confused at this point? "No, you are crazy." I say as I struggle against him, I try to free my hands from his grasp. He seems to be slightly shocked, which is a response I never thought I would get from him. He slowly let go of my hand and I use this opportunity to escape from his office and I immediately close the door and run. I can hear a loud bang and a groan from his office, the sound of things being smashed to the ground can be heard as well, but at this point, I do not care, I think he has lost his mind. Tears begin to pour from my eyes for no apparent reason, I don't even know why I am crying, this sounds really pathetic, but based on the fact of what just happened, I cry because I just rejected the leader of one of the most well-known Russian Mafia leader, to make it complete. I try to run to my room when I see Nikolai walking on the same hallway as I do and he sees me crying and he chases after me before I can get to my room and suddenly I feel a hand grabbing my wrist and I turn around to see him catching me. "What do you want?" I tell him as I try to stop my crying. Nikolai is one of them, even though you could say he is one of the nicest one here, he is still one of Edgar's men, and thus, I do not trust him. "Why are you crying?" "None of your business." "Did Edgar do something to you?" His eyes look at me on all his seriousness and at this point, I am on the verge of breaking down. "He, confessed to me..." I say it in a low tone and it almost sounds like a whisper, and that moment, Nikolai's eyes widen and he releases me. "He, he, what?" Nikolai has a surprised look on his face as if he is just as shocked as I am. "He said that he loves me" I tell him again, this time in a better intonation. "No way, that must be a lie, no offense but I will trust it better if you tell me he was going to force you into having sex with him instead of this" He speaks so bluntly, it almost as if this man suddenly develops a trust issue on people. "Do you think I would lie about this?, Why would I lie about it, huh ? I have no reason to do so!" I say feeling slightly pissed off. See, the thing is, when you ask people something and they tell you about it, stop assuming that they are lying because it sounds so impossible, unless you have known that person for a long time and he or she is known for being a liar, besides, I gain no merits from lying about this. "I'm sorry." He sighs, before continuing his words. "And then, what did you do?" "I rejected him." Nikolai puts his hands on his face and slowly stare at me with an unbelievable expression. I do not understand why they sound so shocked about it, it is normal for me to be shocked because I am the one experiencing this, but for them to look at this matter as if it is an impossible thing is straight forwardly rude, because I am sure Edgar has slept with countless women before and he probably confessed to them too. "Do you realize what just happened?" Nikolai asks me with a dead serious expression. "No, why?" I can hear my voice trembling at his expression, I have a bad feeling about this. "It means that from now on, he will try to avoid you, and he will probably sleep with some other women to forget about this, but I know Edgar, I grew up with him and I know him very well. He has never confessed to someone before, heck, he doesn't even know what love even means since the incident, you are the first and the only one to ever experience this, and believe me when I say he won't be able to forget his feeling easily, especially since this is the first time, he doesn't realize that side exists in him yet, but something happened on his past which caused him to handle rejection terribly, but for someone with beast instinct like him, he will most likely try to have you no matter what, and I guess you should prepare yourself for it." Why do those words sound so scary and they sound very serious. "What should I do?" I ask Nikolai. "Do not tell anyone else, his pride is too high to let people know this side of him, at least for now, it's best if you do not see him for a while, at least until he approaches you himself, and do not run away no matter what, now that he has realized that he loves you, he wouldn't want to lose you even if he doesn't show it, and that will trigger his worst side, but we need to get him on a stable condition in order to defeat Pietro, his lifelong enemy, which is why, I ask of you, please just follow my suggestions." I am left speechless, I do not know what I should do and this sounds way more dangerous than before. "Please, I just need to take a break for now." I say as I open my room door and enter it. I begin to lock it hoping that no one with spare key will open it and i fall on my knees as I starts on contemplating my life, pretending that it will do something to cheer me up to the least. How did thing end up this way? *** It has been a few days since the incident day and I have been hiding on my room pretty much, Anna has been pretty worried about me since I haven't gone to help her in the kitchen and I feel bad for not doing it as well, it's just, as for now, I do not wish to see Edgar and Anna seems to understand what is going on, so instead she would often bring food to my room which I feel bad about. She always reminds me that she sees me as her own daughter which is such a huge compliment for me and it is also the reason why she wouldn't let even Edgar hurt me, and she does it in her own way. Sometimes I wonder, what is her position truly in this household because I have a feeling that she is more than just a head of the maids. It seems like she has more power than a head maid and judging by how the men treat her, it almost as if she acts as a mother to them. I guess, boys will always be boys. But today I feel a little bit better so I decide that maybe I should just go out and help making the dinner, I obviously wouldn't deliver it to them but I will help in the process. I get out from my room to head out to the kitchen area, and on the way, I see something that breaks a sense in me. I see Edgar holding a beautiful brunette woman with blue eyes, and they are kissing each other, right there, in the living room, and I can see them progressing into something more lustful, and somehow, it disgusts me. They don't even bother to get a room, do they? I try my best to ignore them when suddenly, I see a pair of eyes staring at me and I can hear his husky voice speaking. "Phoebe..."