SWNOVELXO Chapter 12: HEARTLESS MAN
Adriana's POV
I shut my eyes in fear when Diego held my wrist and I was waiting for the worst to happen. He took my hand and placed it on his chest.
I waited a few seconds with my eyes still shut but there was no movement from him again so I opened my eyes to see that he had fallen back asleep.
"Phew!" I sighed quietly.
Slowly, I managed to remove my wrist from his grip and I lay his hands gently on the bed. I looked at the injury and found that Diego did not even bandage or clean it well.
I stood up to leave his room but my conscience did not let me leave him like that; maybe because he took the bullet and still saved my life.
I went back to his bed, removed the bandage covering his injury and searched the drawers for his first aid kit.
Oof! The injury was really deep and had not begun to heal at all.
I brought out the cotton wool, cleaned his wounds gently and then used bandages to cover the injury properly. I was covering his injury with the hand of his shirt and that was when I looked at his face.
His masculine features are really portrayed in his face. His sharp jawline, smooth lips, thick eyebrows and his Adam's apple showed really well.
It was a pity. "Handsome yet heartless," I said in a whisper. There was no way I could like someone as cruel as him. I got up and left his room quietly.
Diego's POV
"Chef!" I called as I came into the living room. I had woken up to see a rule being violated in my house.
"Chef!" I called again, this time more loudly when no one respythe first time.
"Yes sir," the chef finally responded as she entered the living room from the kitchen.
"Who brought food up to my room?" I questioned. She looked away from me and hesitated before replying me.
"I told Mrs Adriana to take it up to your room because you didn't come down to eat," she replied, anxiety written on her face. As she mentioned Adriana, I got more angrier at her.
"Why would you do that?" Don't you know that I never accept food being brought up to my room? Why would you even allow her to enter my room? I shouted.
More than anything, I hated some random stranger entering my room and Adriana was one of them.
The chef knelt down and held my leg knowing the consequences of what she had done. "I am sorry sir, I was just worried about you not having to eat anything yet, but I was wrong and I apologise," she apologised, filled with remorse.
I was about to shrug her off my feet when suddenly I heard a loud voice.
"It was not her fault, I told her I wanted to take the food up to your room myself," the voice explained.
I turned to see Adriana standing on the stairs and talking to me. My mood worsened and I felt disgusted at her sight.
"Don't tell me you are also heartless towards the elderly," she said to me sarcastically. "Like you seriously watched her go on her knees for you.
"What is your business with whatever I do or how I run things around here?" I questioned her. She was a pathetic girl and I saw her as nothing but a stranger.
"You should at least have some respect for the elderly," she told me.
I smirked.
Who did she think she was to advise me? She meant nothing to me and is the daughter of my rival.
"I have respect for whoever I want to," I said to her sternly. "And you are surely not the one to tell me what I should do and shouldn't."
"Heartless man," she said to me in a loud voice and I smirked.
The chef still held on to my leg and pleaded. "Please don't listen to her sir, she is unaware of what she is saying right now."
I removed my leg from her grip and began to walk in the direction of Adriana.
"You haven't witnessed my heartlessness yet baby girl," I said with a smirk. "But I will make sure you are a living example to what horrible things I can do."
She flinched.
As I kept approaching her further, she gradually moved backwards and then hastily went up the stairs.
At that point, I brought out my gun from inside my pants and pointed it to her.
"Remain where you are," I told her as she reached the topmost part of the stairs. I was ready to pull the trigger.