chapter 4

1959, Florida

Sarah's pov

"Daniel its so nice to have you with us after such a long time", my mother smiled as he sat down on our white chair, of our house, not his

"Its nice to be here"he replied returning her smile, except his was real, unlike hers

"What brings you here", I asked, straight and direct, I wasn't going to beat around the bush for long

"Business with your father, nothing females should be involved in", he stated plainly still smiling

All i wanted at that moment was to kill him, he knew how annoyed i got anytime a person, most especially him said that ladies were practically useless trophies to the society

What if i poisoned his tea,i thought, then he'd finally shut up probably

"What does that mean?",i finally asked deciding i didn't want to stand again thereby sitting at the chair opposite him,at the far end of the room, yet that just wasn't far enough to me

"That you females just keep making our breakfast, and making our beds while we men work", he smirked knowing it hit me hard

I tried so hard to keep put without strangling him, though he deserved it

My mother walked out of the room, not wanting to get in the middle of our fight, and probably to get a servant to get my father from wherever he was

"Lowlife", I muttered

"Did you say something?", he asked laughing stupidly

"Who knows", I shrugged and stood up

"Sadly since I can't stand the sight of you I have to retreat to my garden to work on my less repulsive herbs"

"Still learning how to work those herbs right?, just use them to cook", he stated so simply

"I'll try to use the poisonous ones to cook for you, now please excuse me", with that I walked out of the room with his stares following my every move till they couldn't anymore

I followed the straight hallway down to the end, where the wooden door to my garden was

No servants were there thankfully and I sat down,enjoying the fragrance of the roses and other sweet scented flowers mixed together

I didn't feel like mixing herbs, Or checking them out today, to many things were on my mind and I didn't want to ruin my work with the plants

They took me years to prepare, garden, get their seeds and so on, there was even a limit to the servants that could be out here

Edward had gone to London or so he said, but that was to far away, probably a five day trip, or more if a storm came up

He would have to take trains to reach London at the right time, with his carriage he would take no less that two weeks

Anyways I would have his answer by then, I hope at least, but it wasn't like I had a choice, my destiny had been written already

And then Daniel, what was he doing here and why would my dear father do business with him, couldn't he pick someone less repulsive, or just another person

He still had that cocky look on his face, his brown eyes were still cold and even his smiles and laughter couldn't cover that fact, his hair was still rough but it had grown longer, way way longer

He now had a little mustache, probably thought it would make him look more macho, stupid human

He had grown in physical size and strength, I felt his large muscles when he hugged me at my gate, well that was before I slapped him and my mother came to intervene, he used to be so lanky and childish, seems moving for all those years had done him good

I stood up from the floor of the garden and went back into the hallway which was now a bit dark, time had gone

By the clock it was 4:00pm, what a waste of a good day and all thanks to Edward and Daniel

I moved to my room to be met with my maid at the door

"The Master said you should get dressed a bit more formally", she stated bowing her head and handing me a simple purple laced dress which would have been much more decent if not for the fact it was an off shoulder, the latest design in town

"Okay you may go, I'll dress for myself", I replied smiling and grabbing the dress

She nodded and walked back to somewhere

I decided to take a quick bath, letting the water I poured on myself linger on my skin for a bit before pouring some more, I needed the cold water to clear my head

When I was done I wore some underwear and the dress, which didn't look so bad to me anymore

I moved to the main room of the house, the living room where I saw Daniel sitting where he was spitting when I left him

I simply ignored his presence and sat opposite him again, where was my father?

"I see the dress fits you", he smiled

So he was the Master who said I should where this?, I would have asked Claudia who she was referring to

Nevertheless I ignored him, he was probably just bluffing or being a clown as usual, I hoped that was the case

I mistakenly looked at him, in his glorious black suit

He stood up from his chair and moved over to mine, keeping eye contact

He probably thought I would break it and blush, that Sarah was buried and gone, probably helping my herbs to grow

As he got to the front of my seat, he lowered his head, still trying to keep eye contact

And then he kissed me

I tried not to kiss back, holding to what heartbreak had done to me but I wanted him and he knew it, I gave up and kissed him back

And this was why I loathed him the most, because I also loved him the most