Meanwhile, Cosimo, who was resting on the car, glanced at his watch for the tenth time and felt he should not have made a concession at all and should have followed her. He suddenly felt the time was moving slowly. As soon as the fifteen minutes were up, he went directly into the building, only to meet Sofia on the way.
After packing up, I went to drop the keys at the landlady's house. She was one of the people who had been truly kind to me, so I smiled and told her, "I will be staying with my boyfriend now."
"Ohh, I hope he is a good one, kiddo," she asked with a concerned look on her face.
I responded with a nod.
"Okay then, remember to take care of yourself," the older woman reminded me, after which I turned back to go meet Cosimo, whom I met on the way.
Cosimo glanced at the small bags I was holding and asked, "Is this all?"
And I said, "Yes," when I felt the weight I was carrying suddenly disappear. It turned out Cosimo had collected them for me.
After entering the car, it moved away. I glanced back at the building, which was gradually getting smaller until it disappeared.
As the car sped off, I started feeling sleepy, and I soon fell asleep. Cosimo turned to her to say something when he noticed she had slept off, so he parked the car. Then he adjusted the seat, after which he covered her with his jacket as he noticed the goosebumps on her skin.
After settling her well, he began driving again, but if one were to be in the car, one could see that it was moving a little slower than before.
"Sofia! Sofia."
I was woken up by a male voice. I opened my eyes for a beautiful ceiling to come into view, and my mind quickly registered that this definitely did not belong to me.
So I quickly stood up. Only then did I see Cosimo, whose presence reminded me that now I had a boyfriend. This thought finally made me calm down.
"Baby, did I startle you?" Cosimo asked, as if he noticed my initial unease.
So I just nodded, not yet registering the change of address.
Before I could think, I was pulled into a warm embrace. Then I heard a "sorry" from Cosimo, who sniffed my neck again.
I did not say anything. "Yelp!" I was suddenly carried from the bed, and I quickly used my hands to support myself by wrapping them around his neck.
Then slowly, he took me out of the room, which I was finally able to view before we left for the dining table. The scent of food reminded me that I had only eaten earlier in school.
Then Cosimo sat down while I sat on his lap. The closer my nose was to the food, the more my stomach growled. "Growls."
"Chuckles." A low chuckle rumbled from his large chest, making it vibrate against my skin.
Then Cosimo took the spoon and began to feed me slowly. After a while, when the food was brought to my mouth, I shook my head. "I don't want, I'm full."
"But you have just taken a few bites. Eat a little bit more," Cosimo said
After a few more bites, I stopped and even collected the spoon and began to feed him. After eating and some playing around, I yawned tiredly and headed to the room for a quick shower, then slept off after my head hit the pillow.
Cosimo glanced at his sleeping wife—yes, wife. He had wanted to ask her to be his wife, but in order not to scare her, he asked her to be his girlfriend. After tucking her in, he went to a wall opposite the bed and tapped it twice. It opened, revealing another room which had a bed the same size as the one in the room, but this one had specialized chains at its tip.
He had prepared this ever since he came of age. He remembered as a child how his father locked his mother up, and whenever he asked why, he would be told by his father that this was love.
As he grew up hearing this, he immediately prepared this room since he would eventually have a wife. After a while, he went downstairs, where the butler, an elderly man, was already waiting.
"Is the installation of the camera complete?"
"Yes, master," the butler replied and handed him a tablet which was showing all angles of the house and the compound.
"You can go," Cosimo said, dismissing the butler.
As the butler left, he sighed, thinking about why he thought the young master would be different. After all, this madness had been inherited for generations, and with the previous master teaching the current master, why did he hope for a different result?
He just hoped this time around this union would not have a bad ending, and the mistress would not be scared off by the master and try to escape like the master's mother did.
Cosimo watched Sofia, who had been sleeping for more than an hour, before returning back to his room, where he continued watching her until he unknowingly slept off.
I woke up the next morning feeling uncomfortable, as if a dog was sniffing my neck, so I just pushed it away. Then I opened my eyes only to see the "dog" was aggrieved.
So I just smiled and pulled him into a hug.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in a cute pink room with themes showing it belonged to a young lady, the girl on the bed slowly opened her eyes.
Her eyes were a little unfocused as she glanced around the room. Then she suddenly sat up and muttered in a very hoarse voice, "I am back...." After saying this, she glanced at the calendar at the side of her bed, then she smiled. She was back to the time before her misery began.