Chapter 2



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Chapter 2

For a second Anna said nothing. She couldn’t, not with the boulder that suddenly seemed to be chocking her inside- out, squeezing the life out of her shocked-body that suddenly felt numb.

She didn’t notice anything around her, but the sharp green eyes of the man standing in front of  her, looking at her with the eyes of a lover and yet his hard mouth tightened like that of a cold predator’s.

 “Kardoula mou...my sweet one, I see that you are not happy to see me.” He challenged her, with those words and that smile that seemed to burn a big wide hole through Anna’s already broken heart. ‘Oh! Why the hell does he do this to me?’ She cried inside.

“What did you expect Mr. Kozakis? That – after....after....” He words faltered for a second. “what you did to me, I will open my arms to welcome you?” She completed in a tight voice, trying and failing to keep her tumultuous voice under control.

“I am seeing my wife after almost a year, is a hug and a kiss too much to ask for?” Again he was goading her and she knew it, but the surge of anger came over her anyway!

“I am not your wife anymore, Mr. Kozakis, so please refrain yourself from making such personal comments!” She spoke sharply, totally unaware of the fact that she was making a scene right in the middle of her office building’s lounge.

All eyes in the vicinity, including that of the receptionist was now glued to the ongoing drama, their ears straining to listen to every little whisper and sound.

“I see...even after a year apart, your ice barricades hadn’t melted yet Kardoula mou....” He was looking at her with a faint hint of aversion.

It was like waving a red cloth in front of an angry bull. She felt mad. ‘How arrogant can a man be? A year ago, she had barely escaped the cell, where he had locked her up - in his ancestral castle in Greece ......after marrying her, and then throwing her away like a used toy that no longer interested him.

And if that hadn’t been enough.....he had then done the most despicable thing ever, by taking another lover to his bed and keeping that woman as  his mistress in his city apartment.

Spending night after night with that woman, while SHE – his wife remained in his home, waiting for him in the empty castle, like a lost soul!

“I don’t ever-” But she was cut mid-way, as Eros Kozakis tusked in a very patronizing way. “Do you really wish to air our dirty laundry in the middle of the street, Gynaika mou?”

“Stop calling me that!” She fired, but was now painfully aware that they were indeed standing in a very public place, that also happens to be her work place and all these people glancing at them with weird expressions on their faces were also her colleagues.

“I don’t know why you are here, but I don’t ever want to see you again, understand that Mr. Kozakis and please get out!"  She snapped in a tight controlled voice, that didn’t show even half of the boiling hatred and bitterness flowing in her veins for him.

She was ready to turn around and run. Run like her life depended on it, because she could not imagine him, coming here, wasting his time only to see her.

He was here on an agenda! She was sure of that, just as much as she was sure that – it isn’t going to bode well for her.

She had barely turned around, when the door of the elevator had opened once again, and Nancy along with the coordinators and a few other people who were present during the rehearsals were coming out of it.

‘This was it!’ Anna thought. ‘Her best chance to get away from this man!’

“Anna!” For the first time in all this while, he called her by her name, instead of those empty Greek endearments he uses. Words of affection, that once used to melt her heart and now only rubbed raw against her skin. Because she knew they were all lies!

“Take another step forward and I will make sure that you will never see your little brother again!”

She shivered, a sense of foreboding settled in the pit of her stomach like a coiled cobra, with it’s fangs turned up, ready to strike.

As much as she wanted to ignore those horrible words, she knew without a doubt that Eros Kozakis didn’t make empty threats. He was capable of everything! And if he was threating her with her life brother’s life, certainly – he knew something! Something, that he could hold over his little brother, Daniel!

“What are you talking about?” She had wanted to say it with an air of indifference, showing him for once and for all that she didn’t care one way or the other. But failed spectacularly in her attempt, since her voice came out in a little squeak, that spoke of uncertainty and fear.

And like a man-eating shark smells blood, Eros Kozakis had smelled that fear too, coming out of her in spades. She was afraid for her brother, but didn’t realize the fact that she should be more afraid for herself than that little jerk.

Because this time, he was going to get Anna Miller for himself.

And then he will whisk her back into his bed where she belonged, her lithe body thrumming with uncontrollable passion underneath him, as he surged inside her over and over again, to satiate the unquenchable fire that burns between them.

 He will keep her barefoot and pregnant for the next few years, until she gives him a few children and until the idea of ever leaving him is completely and utterly eroded out of her mind!

She was now looking at him, with those dark pool like eyes, wide like a deer’s- under headlights and he felt the familiar stirring loins and the instant hardening between his legs that made him want to drag her away into his hotel room, downtown and quench this thirst that she had denied him from last twelve months.

‘But this was not the time!’ He told himself.  ‘He will have to wait a few hours more, before making love to his wife. Plus, patience in such circumstances only makes the end result all the more satisfactory, in bed.’

“Come now my sweet...” he murmured with a smile. “We need to talk....”

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