Capítulo 25: What happens next?

Lucas walked in to see Dionne arranging her clothes in the wardrobe. According to Lucas, they were staying a week so she brought a few clothes.

Dionne noticed when Lucas walked in but she didn't acknowledge his presence. She just kept on doing what she was doing.

Lucas removed his suit and kept it in a chair that was situated in the middle of the room. The room was a very large suite, so there was enough distance between both of them.

"What do you think you're doing?" Lucas asked in a demeaning tone.

"I'm just fixing my things," Dionne replied in the same rude tone. Lucas's gaze turned dark instantly. He clicked his tongue and took slow previse strides towards her. Dionne was confused as to what he was doing but because she didn't want to show that she was scared, she didn't move a muscle. Her breath hitched the moment Lucas stood in front of her.

The height difference made it all the worse as she had to strain her neck to be able to stare back at him in the eyes.

"What's with that tone you just used?" Lucas asked and Dionne kept mute.

"It seems you have forgotten the rules already so soon. I am your master and you are my slave. My word is law and it is for you to comply. On no account should you rebel like that again, else..." Lucas paused. His voice was cold and his face, impassive.

"I understand," Dionne dropped her head and took a step back. She didn't want to hear the rest of what he wanted to say. It was enough that she accepted such a ridiculous offer in the first place, but Lucas referring to her as a slave every opportunity he gets it's like a stomp on her pride. Not to talk about Olivia...

"With that being settled, take your clothes out from the wardrobe" Dionne raised her head and gawked at him dementedly. Where was she supposed to keep her clothes if not the wardrobe?

"You don't expect a master to share his wardrobe with his..."

"I understand" Dionne cut him off immediately before he would complete his sentence.

Lucas chuckled lowly and watched as Dionne dragged her feet to go pack all her clothes from the wardrobe into her back into her bag.

She then carried Lucas's suitcase and started unpacking it for him. By the time she was done sorting everything out, it was already 7 pm. She hadn't showered nor had she gotten the sleep she planned for. Lucas went to Ben's room so they could work on some projects, leaving the room to Dionne all by herself.

Dionne lay tiredly on the bed unable to move a muscle. Finally, she got one of the two things she had planned for when they walked into this hotel. She didn't shower yet, but she is getting the much need sleep.

...

"Why are you in my room when you blatantly refused to share a room with me?" Ben sat on his bed as he played some video games on his phone. Lucas on the other hand was working on some files in the mini sitting room in the suite.

"I'm the one who paid for the room right?" Lucas sneered.

"Is that how we're playing now huh? Fine, I'll send you the amount used in paying for this room. Now can you please get out, I need my privacy" Ben said jokingly. Before being an assistant to Lucas, he was his best friend. This was their normal interaction whenever they disagree about a certain issue.

"I need to give her space," Lucas let out a frustrated sigh and dropped the files he was working on.

"You can treat her better, you know" Ben stated the obvious.

"She'll only think I'm interested in her again,"

"Aren't you?" Ben shook his head.

"I need to break her to have her."

"That's some messed up shit." Ben sighed loudly, "don't you think you're pushing her away by being too harsh with her? She might spite you instead,"

"You don't know Dionne. This is the only way I can make her come to me. I need to humble her, to have her"

"Hasn't it ever occurred to you that you've done so enough already? You hired Christopher and made him leave her in shambles on the altar, Do you think she'll come to you after you've done all that?" Ben dropped his phone and said seriously.

"She's never going to know. Besides, she's done much worse to me already,"

"There you have it. You can't forgive her, yet you want her. Choose one Lucas. Do you want Dionne or revenge?"

Silence. Everywhere went placid for a while. Lucas placed his elbow on the chair armrest and placed his hands under his chin caressing the little stubble that was there as a result of not shaving recently.

"Both," He suddenly said, "I'll have both,"

"Suit yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you when this comes to bite you back. If you still love her, which I know you do, swallow your pride and ask her out once more. Forget the past and forgive her wholeheartedly. Think about it bro," Ben did the only thing he could do. He advised his friend even when he knew he knew it was all in vain. Lucas will do what Lucas wants to do.

Lucas tilted his head slightly and gazed skeptically at Ben. "Is there something you're not telling me?"

Ben was startled. Was it that obvious? "S-something like what?" He stuttered.

"I wouldn't be asking if I knew."

"I have nothing to hide. If it's about what we just talked about, forget it. Just do what you want." Ben picked up his phone casually signaling that he was of this case. Lucas didn't push further as well but he had his thoughts.

What did he want? He knows he wants Dionne, he yearns for her, he goes to bed thinking of her, but at the same time, he's angry at her, he wants to break her the same way she did him, he didn't want to give her the satisfaction of knowing he can't get over her even after all these years. He didn't want her to know that while she was changing boyfriends every two weeks, he was at a bar drinking his heartbreak away. He didn't want to be that pathetic loser who was still hung up on his ex after she had treated him badly and dumped him in the worst way possible.

Seeing her every day reminds him of the last words she told him before they parted ways,

"I never loved you. You were just a pastime just like the others and I'm beginning to get bored."

How could she treat him like that when his entire world revolved around her? It still did.

There was a limit to which he can keep her by his side as a slave. One year. He has to humble her within this one year.

After that, what happens next?