112 Him- Part 2 (1/2)

When the door to the bathroom opened, Nicholas entered the room with nothing but a towel around his waist. His hair was wet and drops of water slid down his body to be soaked by the towel. Seeing her awake, he walked around the bed to come and sit next to her.

”Good morning. Slept well?” he asker her.

”Yes,” Heidi answered not able to look into his eyes. Nicholas who noticed it, said,

”There's nothing to be shy about. Especially the way you cried out my name so passionately,” he teased her to which Heidi reacted even more flustered.

”I am not. I am just not used to it,” she murmured before trailing up her eyes from his body to meet his eyes. His eyes were a darker shade of red as red as the blood she saw in the dungeon. He was the man who was unsuccessful in killing Nicholas. Nicholas hadn't killed him but had instead kept him alive to torture the man.

”How are you feeling?”

”A little tired and...sweaty,” she said feeling the unclean one as Nicholas smelt like soap, ”I should go take a bath.”

”If I knew you were going to wake up sooner, I would have waited for you,” blood rushed up her cheeks and she gave him an awkward smile to his teaseful one, ”The water is hot here and there's no rule that one cannot take a bath again,” and with that statement, he lifted her up in his arms and began walking towards the bathroom.

”I-I think I am fine! Don't you have work today?” Heidi hadn't prepared her mind and she needed time to digest his proposal.

”I pushed them for another day,” he said as he walked down a couple of stairs until they reached the pool of water.

The lord of Bonelake had a luxurious bathing room she had ever laid her eyes on. It was big. As big as one of the guest rooms with large glass made windows which was hazy so that one couldn't look from inside or outside. When he put her down on her feet, Heidi stood in awe looking at the expansive room in which the bath had been built at the center.

”Drop the covers, Heidi,” she had forgotten that she had brought the covers along when Nicholas had picked her up from the bed.