Chapter Twelve

Awkward silence filled the air as I sat across the table from Clayton as we ate dinner. I could feel his eyes on me as I ate the tacos that Clayton had made.

Clayton cleared his throat making me look up from my food and look at Clayton he was staring me down like I was the prey and he was the predator.

"How do you like the tacos I made for you?" He asked me nicely while smiling at me showing off his perfect white teeth.

"They're good. Thank you for making them for me." I responded.

"No problem Ev, I'd do anything for you." He softly spoke.

I nodded and looked away for him.

"I want you Evelyn. I want you so much." He whispered sending chills down my spine.

"Clayton-" I began.

He cut me off by leaning across the table and putting his hand over my mouth. "Shhh don't say it. Don't tell me you don't want me." He whispered looking at me.

I nodded my head at him.

He removed his hand from my mouth and stood up. "Are you done eating?" He said not looking at me.

"Yeah. I am."

Clayton nodded, grabbed my plate and his, then took them to the kitchen.

I stood up and walked into the living room and sat down on the couch. I sighed dramatically. Clayton walked into the living room and sat across the couch from me.

"Listen Evelyn I have to be gone for the night tonight. There's some pack business that needs to be taken care of." Clayton said not looking at me. "But before I leave I need to know that you'll be here when I get back. Please. I'll trust you to be home alone if you just promise me that you'll be here when I get back later tonight."

I looked at Clayton and nodded my head slowly "Yeah. I'll be here."

"Okay good. I promise you that I'll be home later tonight like around eleven."

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After Clayton finally left the house after giving me a twenty minute 'How to be home alone safely' speech. I decided to clean up Clayton's house because it looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in years.

After I had cleaned the kitchen, the living room, both bathrooms, and the bedroom. I sat on Clayton's bed after I finished I glanced at the cock it was already ten o'clock. And I still had one more room to clean, Clayton's office.

I had never actually gone into Clayton's office before because I had no reason to. But he never told me I wasn't allow to.

I got up from the bed and walked across the hallway Clayton's office was the only other room in the upstairs.

I walked over to his desk and sat in his chair. His office was very bland all that was in his office was his desk that was cluttered with papers and his laptop. I moved around his papers trying my best to organize the cluttered pile. I got all of the papers in two separate piles of papers. I began to sweep the floor and wipe off his desk when I heard the front door open.

"Evelyn!" I heard Clayton yell.

I grabbed my things and ran downstairs. I ran down the steps but I stopped in my tracks when I saw Clayton holding a bouquet of colorful daisies and a medium sized teddy bear.

"What's this Clayton?" I asked surprised.

"Well you know I just uh felt bad for everything and I just wanted to give you something to you know... say I'm sorry." Clayton mumbled.

I smiled at him and said "Thank you."

"I hope you like daisies I didn't know what kind of flowers you liked and I just got the ones that I thought were nice looking. It's alright of you dont like them though I could just go and get you a different kind of flower."

I shook my head "No Clayton these are perfect I love them."

Clayton handed me the stuff and smiled at me. "I'm gonna go to my office for a few minutes alright?"

I nodded my head in response

Once I had the flowers and the stuffed bear I went to go and find a vase to put the flowers in. After a few minutes of searching I finally found one I put the flowers in there.

I heard heavy footsteps upstairs and I heard Clayton swearing loudly. I heard him stomping downstairs.

"Why were you going through my things?!" He yelled at me while walking towards me.

"What are you talking about?"

"What did you see?!" He yelled.

"Clayton I don't know what you're talking about! I didn't 'see' anything!"

"Why were snooping through my office?!"

"I was just cleaning up your office! I wasn't 'snooping'!" I yelled back.

"What did you see?!" Clayton repeated.

"I didn't see anything. Why do you have something you don't want me to see?!"

"What?! No there's nothing. You can see whatever you want." He nervous muttered.

"Great I'll just go to your office then!" I yelled running to his office.

A few seconds later I heard Clayton running after me "Wait Evelyn!" He yelled.

After I made it up the stairs without him stopping.e I ran into his office.

"Evelyn stop!" Clayton yelled.

"Why?!"

"Please don't do this!"

"Too late."

I smiled and started to look through the papers on his desk but I didn't find anything. So i opened up drawers until I opened the second to last drawer and I stopped. I looked down at the desk in horror as I looked at the hundreds of pictures of me in the drawer. Pictures of me before the night that Clayton took me.

The only thing I could manage to say was "How long have you been watching me?"