24. Compulsive

"Shit!" that blue eyed man ran faster to reach her hand before she reached the lift to run away from him.

"Sorry!!" she reached the lift before him, closed the door quickly, and turned away due to her absolute anger. Her eyes were full of hatred.

But before the door was tightly closed, that CEO managed to open it with all his strength. His face was red and his breath was uneven. He glared to her. His eyes were furious. Everyone in that lift was shocked. He did not care. He pulled her hand out of the lift.

"I'm sorry" he apologized to the people in the lift and then with one snatch, he swung her body over his shoulder and walked away. Aruna struggled to release herself from his hold but it was useless. He was too strong for her.

"Hendra, get me down!" she screamed and punched him with her free hands on his back. She was dropped from his shoulder when they reached the private lift of CEO of Wenceslas Group.

"Look at me!" Hendra lowered his voice down to control himself before he spoke to her. She refused to look at him, not even his reflection in the mirror walls of the lift. She used to like seeing him through the mirror secretly.

"Honey…please… don't look away from me" he touched her chin and pushed her to turn to him.

"Go away! I hate you!" she pushed him hard. He

"Common…don't be angry to me over Tania" He moved closer to her again.

"Stay away from me!"

"Aruna, I…." she ran to the door and tried to open the door lift with the open button several times. But those big hands held it closed.

"How dare you to run away from me!" suddenly he felt the urge to taste her lips. The lips were trembling due to fury and frustration. She looked even so desirable in her anger.

He glanced the red button, the floor where he lived was about to come. He snatched her body again and threw it softly over his shoulder. The door opened to the VVIP room of his and he walked in that luxurious room. He put her down when they were in the middle of the room, which was more like an apartment due to its huge size.

"Wow" was her first word came after she could get herself completely.

"You like it?" he smiled at her. She looked funny in her bewilderment.

"It is dominated with black, grey, dark." she glanced sideways and walked toward the huge curtain in front of the glass wall facing the city view. He pulled a rope and that huge gray curtain slowly slided sideways.

"Oh…" she closed her open mouth which was gaping to the amazing view presented there. The sunset view was amazing. The sky was mixed with orange, purple, and some grey clouds. City lights were sparkling. Buildings, hotels, malls and houses were lit up the twilight .Such stunning views she never witness before in her life. Amazingly beautiful. She was silent.

"I took the top floor for you. You can come here anytime and you have to come since you have left traces here." He walked to her, touched her arm lightly, and traced her back.

"Please do come here or I have to move again" his voice was soft and seducing. He wanted to hold her from behind.

"Don't touch me. I'm still angry at you." She avoided him. Her brown eyes widened exploring the whole room.

"What are these all for?" a set of gym equipment stood on the other corner.

"this is all I can do when I can't sleep at night" he went to touch his gym tools.

"I often get insomnia but it got worse since you left me. The night were filled with you but suddenly you left me alone. I can't sleep without you. Calling you is not enough to make me sleep." He shook his head in the last words.

"You haven't taken your sleeping pills?"

"No. you haven't allowed me to take it"

She kept walking to another corner. "Do you paint?"

"I didn't know where I got the skill of painting. But I got some appreciations for it and I do it in between my busy activities. He turned around a canvas he finished the latest.

"When you were with me, I had no time to do this because I could hold you every night. But now I feel I have too much time and I want to hold you in a different way."

"Wow…that is me?"

"Who else?" he pulled her hand to the canvas painted with her face.

"It's all about you and you and you" He hugged her from behind, sniffed her ear.

She was drowned in her awe seeing herself as objects of Hendra's paintings. There was one most impressive painting, the back of a lady who was painting a graffiti of his name "That is me, too?"

"That is my first painting. The girl I love was showing her feeling to me through drawing so I remembered my talent not many people knew. I started painting to fill up my loneliness." He pulled her hair to the side to reveal her back neck, started sniffing it.

She avoided his kissing.

"Do you want to eat? I can fix it for you."

"You cook in a five-star hotel?" it was so weird to do that while he could just press the button for such services.

"Heheheh…sometimes I want it"

"Where do you sleep?" from all she could see, she could not spot the bed.

"You want to see it? It's on the second floor. Come, I'll show you." He grabbed her hand and pulled softly. They walked along spiral stairs quietly. Aruna saw the stairs but she had no idea if there was another floor up there.

"Oh my goodness!" As they came to another floor, she could not believe her eyes. There were seven big pictures of her in beautiful frame on all sides of the walls.

"You? You are very impulsive!"

"Compulsive you mean, hehehehe?" he chuckled. He knew for sure that the girl in front of him had awaken his compulsiveness. Compulsive behavior is an action done repeatedly and persistently without actual reward or pleasure.

Obsessive compulsive disorder is defined as illogic thought and fear over something which lead to compulsive behavior.

"Anytime I wake up, I need to see your face." He giggled as he explained why he put up her pictures everywhere.

She saw herself in Lovina beach, running on white sand, surfing on the water, and all the moments they had when they had their honeymoon in Bali. But the pictures were presented in monochrome theme, Hendra' favorite.

Hendra sat down on the bed. He smiled looking at his beloved was looking at her own pictures one by one.

"How can I fill myself with another woman while it is only you occupy my heart and soul. Come. Sit with me here."

She looked at him, found him smiling at her.

"The bed is white?"

" Yes. You might be wondering why it is not black nor grey" he touched the bed.

"For me, nothing looks more perfect than the color of white lily for our bed cover. The same color we have in the main house."

"Come here honey. Come and sit down here" He tapped the softness of the bed to invite her. She sensed her own courage to sit there. She knew he wanted to kiss her.

"Wait a second! Tania has ever been here?"

"Only on the down floor. Even so, it did not take long time." She get up again and walked away.

"Hey, calm down!"

"You asked me to calm down? She ever slept with you, right? You both even kissing in front of me. And I think she replaces me here while I'm not around." She walked downstairs fast after glancing at him.

"After you saw all of this, you still think there is another woman in my mind?" he got up and ran after her.

She reached the door, but it was locked.

"You've locked it?? Give me the key! I want to go home!"

"NO! and none of your accusation is true!"

"then, who was busy filling up your mobile phone? She called you so many times! Even…. Cut it out, Hemdra. I'm tired!"

"What did you just say??? You are tired??? Who is more tired than you??" he raised his voice in the last words.

"That means you are also tired?? Fine!! I will ask my father send you a proposal of divorce!"

"Take back your words!" his blue eyes were cold. His fury was menacing and threatening.

"What do you want, Hendra?"

"I never slept with her. I kissed her while I was under alcohol. I was so much mad because my own wife refused me so many times. And that woman, Tania, she lost herself. After so long she has gone, she has changed a lot. Tania is under the influenced of someone else. That's what I want to find out."

"Can I trust you?"