Chapter 13 : Cliff

Isabelle's POV

My heart hammered in my chest and I felt like my head getting dizzy. I tried to take a step back but it was all of my legs were frozen. I tried, I fucking tried to move away but I couldn't and after few failed attempts, I realised that he has held my arms which made it impossible for me to move.

Nervously, I looked at his face and found a smirk curving at the corner of his lips. His face made it clear to me exactly what he's up to.

My lips quivered in fear. "P..please Iskandar."

He whistled in a sinister way and forced me to take another step forward. "Your surprise, my wife."

I flinched when I looked back at the sight infront of me. I was standing on the edge of a cliff and all I can see below was the blue colour of water. The height made the fact worse that I'm hydrophobic. I've never in my life seen such a dreading view.

I shook my head in a firm no. "P- please, I promise I'll behave. I-I'll do anything that you say. Just please, don't do this to me."

My body started shivering in fear. I can't see the ocean anymore. My nerves are freezing in worry. What if I fall? Fuck, I'll die.

He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and let out his signature chuckle. "It seems as if you're hydrophobic."

I pushed saliva down my throat and nodded my head like a puppet. "Y-yes, I've acrophobia too."

"I know, Mrs. Remington." He added.

My mind paid no attention to him. It felt dizzy as if everything's spinning around me and any second the damn cliff will fall into the water and I'll drown to death.

My breath started getting heavier and without thinking twice I pressed my eyes shut. No, I can't look at it again.

Sweat beads appeared on my forehead and even though he's the reason behind this misery, his arms around my shoulders comforted me. I bite my lips for so hard that blood oozed out. Please, let all this be nothing but a nightmare. Please let me wake up from my sleep.

"What do you think I'm going to do, Mrs. Remington?" His thick voice entered inside my ear and I quickly thought of replying him. I just don't want to upset him.

"Force me to stand here and suffer seeing my worst nightmare." I blurted out the exact thing that came to my mind and without waiting for his response. I clutched the hem of his t-shirt.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Don't you think that I'd be too less fun?" He asked, his voice not giving hint of any humour.

I didn't feel the need to stress myself over his words after all what's the worse he can do to me here apart from forcing me to stand at the cliff? It ain't like he's going to kill me. If he wanted to kill me, he would've already.

"Let's take a step forward, shall we?" He said, forcing me to take another step closer to the edge of the cliff along with him.

I clenched my eyes in horror and tried to hold his hand but I couldn't because before that could happen I felt a strong push on my back and everything happened so fast that I-I..I fell into the water.

As soon as cold water touched my skin, I felt myself drowning. No. No. No. No. No. I don't know how to swim.

Anxiety hit me strong and I felt my body shivering in fear as I struggled to move my hands to somehow swim and keep my nose above the water so that I can breathe but I couldn't. I couldn't save myself.

Soon the water started entering my mouth after my failed attempts to hold my breath and everything turned blurry.

I wanted to close my eyes so badly and die all at once but every passing second felt like an eternity and the fear that I'm going to die made me anxious. I don't want to die. I don't. I still have to see my mother's, I still have to live. I still have to be happy. I still-

Everything still and I was about to give up and close my eyes when I felt someone pulling me up and when I breath a fresh air to my lungs, I saw him taking me to the shore.

With his help, I somehow managed to come out of the water and with my body shivering in fear I looked at him who just came out too.

He was shirtless, his face curling up in a smirk as he ran his fingers through his wet hair.

I blinked, realising exactly what he has done.

He pushed me from the cliff despite knowing that I have phobia and I can't swim? And then he mercilessly watched me drowning in water before he wasted his good time to remove his damn shirt to jump into the water to save me?

I could've died. I fucking could've died if he was any second late.

Tears streamed down my face in disbelief and all I wanted was to scream at him for doing this to me but my body doesn't had enough strength to ask so instead I whisper in a hoarse voice. "Why? What have I done to you?"

The smirk disappeared from his face and for a second something like pain flickered in his eyes before he masked it and for a passing seconds, all he did was to stare at my face.

I hiccuped in between crying and thought once again that what if I died today? I was so close to drowning.

"It would've been more fun if I told you beforehand that I'm going to push you off the cliff." He said and with that he laughed.

The sick sound of his laughter echoed in the surrounding and I couldn't help but feel anger vibrating in my nerves.

I clenched my teeth and without thinking anything twice, I slapped him hard.

"Is this fun for you? My life, is it fun for you?" I yelled, tears continuously rolling down my cheeks.

His laughter died down and he touched the corner of his cheek where I slapped his face turned hard. I blinked, realising my stupid move and automatically I took a step back from him.

He clenched his jaw and in a second I felt myself getting cornered to the nearest tree and he grabbed me by my jaw.

I held my breath in fear and tried to look everywhere but him. He forced me to look straight into his eyes and the moment I did so, a trembling sob escaped pass my lips.

"Yes. It is fun for. Your life has been at my mercy the second you said yes to this marriage. I can fuck your life anyhow I want." He growled, pushing me further to the tree.

I hissed in pain and tried to remove his hurting grip from my jaw but it was of no use.

His words made me sick to the stomach and the second he left my jaw, I ended up puking.

"I swear I fucking want to kill you but that'd be no justice to what you did to me." He said, throwing a string punch to the tree in frustration.

I flinched in fear.

What the hell have I done for him to despise me this much?