Uncovered - Volume 1 Chapter 21

His eyes narrowed and his eyebrows knitted together as he took a pencil in his hand and shifted his weight on his right foot. He placed a hand on the canvas and looked over at me with dark emotionless eyes. He didn’t look like he had a half-n.a.k.e.d woman in front of him, he didn’t look the bit affected and that made me relax a bit. At least he was acting professionally.

“Lift your head a bit”, He instructed and I did it. He nodded and his eyes moved back on the empty canvas has he placed the tip of his pencil on it before letting it moved against the white surface. I continued looking at him, trying to keep my face the same and my body in place, even though my position wasn’t really comfortable, just like everything else.

Jace seemed fully concentrated on what he was doing and I could hear the sounds the pencil made as he drew the fast lines. His bottom lips were taken between his teeth. his nostrils were flaring, sweat was rolling down his forehead and his eyes were moving between me and the canvas as he tried to catch every detail. The passion he was showing took me by surprise. I never expected a man like him to be like this. He was getting lost into this… He loved what he was doing.

Without realizing it an hour passed and Jace put down his pencil, running a hair through his curly, messy hair and pushing it off his face.

He took a white cloth from the floor and covered the canvas again, without letting me see anything.

” You can get dress”, He said and turned around, lighting up the cigarette. I saw as the smoke slowly filled the air and stood up, walking towards the place where I had thrown my bra and picked it up. I did the same with my other clothes and when I finally stood fully dressed behind him, I cleared my throat to watch his attention. He glanced at me for a second and looked away again, taking a puff from his cigarette.

“You are free to go. In two days from now, I will be expecting you in this room again”, He informed me.

” Okay”.

“And let’s not repeat what happened this time again, because believe me next time you won’t like it”, I gulped and walked to the door without saying any other word to him. The only thing I wanted to do was go to my room and stay there for the rest of the day. Because I was embarrassed and ashamed. so I opened the door and shut it with a force behind me before away from that room.

I was sitting on the couch with the tv opened, watching a random film I had picked up. I was currently in the living room since Jace was kind enough to give me his permission Well he didn’t say it exactly to me, but he told Agnes I could and impossible for me not to take the offer. I was starting to get tired of my room, I needed to change the environment, even if it meant to just go downstairs. It was better than staying in there all alone.

I hadn’t seen Jace since yesterday and I don’t think I will be seeing him tonight too. From what Agnes told he left about three hours ago and still hadn’t come back, not that I cared. I was actually glad that he wasn’t here.

Most of the time he was never around the house, and when he was he preferred to stay isolated in his bedroom. I wondered why he needed such a big house when he had no one to share it with. He was a lonely person. No friends, no relatives… No one.

” I’m going, Teresa, do you want anything?” Sandra asked. She was the other maid of the house, the one who was totally scared of Jace. I had actually managed to talk to her today and learned a few things about her. I tried to ask her about Jace too, but she would change the subject easily avoiding my questions.

“No, I ‘m fine you can go”, I said smiling at her the same time that Agnes walked in. Sandra, unlike, Agnes didn’t stay here, she only came to work and then went to her house. Agnes was closer to Jace, from what I had learned, and he had provided her with a room here.

” Goodnight”, She said and walked away, disappearing from my sight. Agnes came and sat next to me with a frown on her face.

“What happened”, I asked her.

” A man called a few minutes ago, asking about you”, She informed me and I looked at her confused. Who could call me? No one knew to expect from…

“Did he say his name?”, I asked and she shook her head.

” I don’t remember him saying his name, but he called you Terri and said he could come tomorrow”, She said and I suddenly started feeling nervous, could it be Andrew? If it was him he couldn’t come here I am sure Jace didn’t know about this and I didn’t want Andrew to come and ruined my plan Who knows what he might say to him. I couldn’t let that happen. No, I won’t.

“Agnes, please don’t tell Jace about this”, I pled.

” I am afraid I can’t do that if—”

“Please, I will take care of it. Just don’t tell him that man called.”

“Why are you asking me that? Are you afraid of that man?” She asked.

“Let’s just say I am scared of what he can do?”, I told her, bringing my legs closer to my body. She hooked her head disapprovingly at me and rested her back on the couch.

” I won’t say a thing, but if he finds out it’s all your fault”, She said and I nodded. We stayed quiet for a while, enjoying the peaceful silence until I decided to speak again.

“Why is there a piano in here,” I asked her, seeing for the first time the old, but beautiful black piano on the corner. She smiled as she gazed at me.

“Jace plays the piano sometimes”, She told me.

I have to admit, I was surprised to hear that. He really is a very artistic man. That also explained some of the noises I could hear in the night but never did it cross my mind that it could be Jace producing those amazingly beautiful melodies.

Authors note:

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