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Chapter 3

Freshia Ava’s POV

I woke up from my sleep and found myself in my room. A split second later I felt a sudden dizziness attack. It felt like a big rock had fallen on my head, making me wince in pain and try to scream for help. Then not long after, a man who looked the same age as Eros came into the room. With a worried look on his face, he asked what I was feeling right now.

"Dizzy. My head feels like a ton of rocks hit me!” I said while squeezing the base of my hair tightly with both hands as if hoping the dizziness would subside if I did.

"Freshia, let me inject you with medicine to help reduce your headaches, okay?" Said the man I didn't know and after that I felt him grab my right arm and a needle was stuck in my wrist area.


I woke up again and felt the dizziness in my head had subsided. I found myself still in the room, but I felt something strange on my left wrist. I got an IV needle stuck in there.

"What happened to me?" I thought. I tried to get out of bed and leaned against the back of the bed.

After that, I immediately remembered the incident where a man I didn't know came into my room and injected something and then I lost consciousness and didn't know what happened after that.

"Who's he? Then, where is Eros?” My mind is back. When I thought about Eros, my mind suddenly remembered the last time I had dinner with him and we had a fight, then he dragged me and tied me in the room.

I immediately checked both of my arms and found bruises on both of my wrists. That means it's true that I was tied up that night. But I don't remember what happened after that, and when I tried to remember what happened that night, I felt dizzy in my head. Although the dizziness I now feel is not as severe as before.

Suddenly there was a knock on my bedroom door and the figure of the man who had previously treated me appeared from behind the door.

"May I come in? I want to check your condition again.” He said and I only answered with a nod of the head.

After that, he immediately walked towards me. "How are you now?"

Instead of answering his question, I asked him back. "Actually, who are you?"

“Oh yes, sorry I haven't had time to introduce myself. I am George, Eros's friend and personal doctor. Yesterday Eros called me and asked me to treat you.”

"Then do you know me?"

I could see George looking thoughtful for a moment before finally saying again, "Your name is Freshia. You're Eros's girlfriend, aren't you?"

Hearing the answer just now made me laugh spontaneously. Then without further ado, I asked him, "If I tell you who I really am, will you help me?"

But before George answered my question, the door to my room opened and showed Eros there. "He helped you enough when you fainted yesterday."

Then he walked closer to me and George. "Just say thank you to him and don't need to say anything else."

He said back to me when he was standing next to George. After that, he turned to George and patted him on the shoulder.

"Let me check on him, George." which George immediately answered with a nod of his head. Not long after that, George said goodbye and left Eros and me.

Eros then sat on the edge of the bed and looked at me with sad eyes. He grabbed my left hand which contained an IV needle to hold. I still didn't want to let him freely touch me and wanted to pull my hand away from his grasp, but my body still felt weak. Therefore, I left him alone at that time.

"You shouldn't have to get sick like this if you always fulfill my wishes, Freshia," Eros said breaking the silence between the two of us.

“Actually, what happened to me yesterday? Why can't I remember last night's events after you tied me up? So, why do I have to be given an IV drip like this now?"

“You passed out. Maybe because when you were in confinement for the past week, you didn't eat anything."

"Eros, I just want to go home," I said pleadingly to Eros. Hope it can melt his heart. But all I got was a strong grip on my hand which was still in his grasp. His gaze on me changed.

“Apparently, I still haven't succeeded in subduing you, Freshia.” His words were accompanied by a grin on his face, making my body shiver instantly. "We'll see what I will do to succeed in subduing you." He said again and then left, leaving me feeling afraid and anxious again.


It's been almost a week since I just lay in bed because my body was weak. During that time, I always thought about how I could successfully escape from this house. After my last fight with Eros, my room was always locked from the outside. Only he, George and a servant who was in charge of delivering food to me could go in and out of this room.

Like the previous days, that evening a waiter came to deliver dinner for me. I was sitting against the headboard of the bed when he placed a tray of food on the small cupboard right next to my bed. I turned to him and secretly read the nameplate on the top right of his uniform.

“Nina,” I said.

The maid looked surprised when she heard me call her, and then she immediately said, “Yes, Miss. Is there anything I can help?"

I smiled too. "Could you please prepare warm water in the bathtub for me to shower after this? Because I want to soak.”

“Yes, Miss. I'll prepare it right away." After that, she immediately walked to the bathroom in my room to carry out my orders.

This is my chance. Just when the maid had entered the bathroom, I immediately got out of bed and ran towards the bedroom door which had been left slightly open. It seemed the maid forgot to lock the door. Before leaving the room, I had time to check the situation outside and didn't find a single person in sight, so I decided to immediately walk out of the room while sneaking around.

The situation in the house at that time could be said to be quite quiet because I didn't find Eros's men who usually stood guard in almost every corner of the house.

“Why is the house so quiet?” I asked myself. But I didn't care about that and immediately rushed to the stairs because my room was on the second floor. However, at the same time, I heard a scream coming from my room.

“Someone help me! Miss Freshia ran away!”

It seemed the maid had noticed that I wasn't in the room. I, who had stopped my footsteps because of the shout, rushed to run before being chased again by Eros's men. As I was about to go down the stairs, I saw the figure I least wanted to meet coming out of one of the rooms close to the stairs. Our eyes met and he looked surprised to find me on the stairs. Then I ran down the stairs and Eros immediately chased me.

There were four more steps left until I managed to reach the first floor of the house. But I felt a strong pull coming from behind my clothes, making me lose my balance and fall all the way down. I grimaced because I felt pain all over my body and saw Eros who was getting closer to me. I panicked and immediately screamed while inching backward to reduce my distance from him.

"Do not come close!" I said. But Eros didn't pay attention to me. He immediately knelt down when he got near me and immediately grabbed my body to calm me down.

"Calm dear. I won't hurt you again. So please don't be afraid of me." His soft words made me quite surprised by the sudden change in his behavior because I thought he would be rude to me as usual and lock me up again.

Even so, it wasn't enough to calm me down. I kept struggling, hitting his body to free myself from his embrace, but what I felt was that the embrace was getting tighter.

When my blows started to weaken, Eros released his embrace on me and carried me. He put one arm behind his neck, then one arm around my back, and the other arm he put behind my knees. "Stay in this position, because if not we will fall." He said before he climbed the stairs one by one. I no longer fought because I felt my body go limp again.

Eros put me down when we reached the second-floor balcony. Still, with a gentle attitude, he grabbed my face with his palms, which at that time felt warm.

“I want to repair our relationship, Freshia. I promise I won't hurt you again. Therefore, I beg you not to try to escape from this house again. If the time is right, I will definitely take you out of here. Believe me, only I can protect you." I looked into those two dark blue eyes and strangely, I didn't see a single lie there. After finishing his words, his hands came down to grip my upper arms tightly, and then a split second later I felt warmth on my forehead. Eros kissed me.

Not long after that, we found it snowing. Then I heard him say again, “Do you remember the first time we met, Freshia? That day also coincided with the first snowfall, like tonight.”

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