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A noise woke me up from a restless sleep and I turned to face the clock beside the bed, a sigh escaping my lips. It read ten-thirty.
“Sorry Rose, I tried not to wake you,” Nathan whispered as he walked into the bathroom. I heard the shower turn on, Nathan’s clothes hit the floor and the shower door open and close. Fifteen minutes passed and Nathan came and got into bed beside me, smelling delicious and clean. He snuggled up to me and within minutes he was sound asleep.
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WHEN I WOKE THE NEXT morning, I noticed I was alone in bed. I sat up and I could see Nathan sitting on the balcony eating breakfast.
“Good morning, Rose. Sleep well?” Nathan asked as I sat down beside him.
“Alright, I guess,” I said as I reached for a small bowl to put in some of the fruit salad that Jane had prepared for breakfast.
“Did you keep yourself occupied yesterday?” Nathan put down his iPad to give me his full attention.
“Just. I’m not the sort of person who can just sit around all day. Let me go to work, Nathan,” I pleaded. “Please?”
“No, and I’m not going to have this argument every morning. You agreed to be here, you play by my rules. I don’t want to share you with anyone and I don’t want you out there helping your brother.”
“Well, can I at least go to the beach or the shops? Somewhere?”
“No. I’ll take you on the weekend,” he said calmly.
I hated the way he spoke to me like a child. I sighed and started to eat my breakfast. I really didn’t know how long I could put up with this. It had only been a day and I was ready to snap, my patience wearing thin.
Nathan stood up and dropped a light kiss on my forehead. He said a quick goodbye and left for work, leaving me alone once again. He hadn’t even stayed until I’d finished my breakfast.
I tried to fill the morning by swimming and reading. I was becoming so bored I could barely stand another moment. I couldn’t even clean to pass away time, because Jane did all the cleaning. I couldn’t even cook to pass time because the chef went crazy every time I stepped into his kitchen.
I wandered around the outside of the house and came across Sam washing the cars.
“Hey Sam,” I said, sitting down on the front step to watch him.
“Hello Miss Sommers.”
“Where’s Neil?”
“He took Jane to do the shopping and to run some errands.”
“Yeah?” I said wishfully. “I wish I could have gone shopping as well.” Even grocery shopping appealed to me at the moment.
Sam smiled, but continued to wash the SVU. I sat and watched him, just enjoying being in someone else’s company. Truthfully, I was feeling a little lonely.
“Does Nathan always get home so late, Sam?” I asked as he finished washing and started to polish.
“Most of the time. Running a company the size of his is not an easy job, I imagine.”
I nodded. I knew that Nathan was a busy man. He was involved in a lot of things around Australia, television, hotels, finance, and construction. His work and success were always in the business pages of the newspapers.
“What do you do all day?”
“I mainly drive. Nathan uses this for business as well. I pick people up from the airport and take them to see Nathan, or he gets me to drive his parents around when they’re in town, that sort of thing,” he shrugged.
“And Neil?”
“He has more to do with security. Here and at the office.”
I sat in the sun for a bit, then I said goodbye to Sam and went back inside to watch some more mind-numbing television.
Nathan returned home from work late again, like the previous night, at ten-thirty. This time however, I was awake. Again, he had a shower and got straight into bed, the exhaustion clear on his face.
