A/N: chapter 7: Rin starts to have conflicting feelings about Sesshomaru. She also finds out that he wants to please her in every way. She wants to go visit her home by herself.
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Chapter 8: Rin's Resolve
From the chrysanthemum field, through cool clouds and gentle wind brushing upon her face, Rin flew back in Sesshomaru's arms.
After breakfast, Sesshomaru showed Rin how to book a trip.
By afternoon, she had finished arranging for her trip and scheduled it for the very next day.
It was that immediate, that soon.
The longer she stayed, the more convinced she would be by his "As you wish" obedience. She would then fall back into his arms and be "punished" by him again, and would like it.
After lunch, Sesshomaru told Rin he had to go somewhere and if she wished to accompany him, it would be his pleasure but it might be boring for her. Rin chose to stay home.
It was boring without him, so she explored the mansion. Breadcrumbs would be helpful to navigate the intricate hallways of his place.
There were countless rooms enclosed by formidable metal doors with guards standing in front of all of them, most of which she not allowed to enter per the guards, per their Lord - Sesshomaru.
For a single guy, it was incomprehensible why he would he need such a place, with the myriad of rooms that even the mother of his child was not allowed to go in.
By evening, she learned the labyrinth of his mansion well enough to not get herself lost.
When she sat down for dinner, Sesshomaru stood by her side.
She fiddled with her food and grimaced, her curiosity about the restricted rooms teasing in the front of her mind.
Sesshomaru put his hands on her shoulders and leaned down to kiss her hair. "Are you not pleased with your food, Rin?"
She perked her face up and sideways with a smile. "It would be so good if you personally cook for me."
"Yes, Rin. If you will pardon me for a moment." He took the plate from the table and walked out the dining room.
Hah?! Really?! He would personally cook for me?
It was a joke. It was a girly way to test the level of indulgence bestowed upon her by a significant other. But he took it seriously, so she let it be. It was interesting to see how his cooking was anyway.
After some short time, Sesshomaru came back with a plate of different vegetables and fruits neatly arranged in complementary colors. There was not a trace of any animal products.
He set it down in front of her.
He brushed her hair and moved it from the front of her shoulder toward her back. "If you are not pleased, I can make another dish."
"This is fantastic. It's beautiful, Sesshomaru-sama. How do you know these are what I like."
He smirked with no answer.
He, in turn, did not eat dinner, nor did he eat breakfast or lunch with her. All those times, she was eating by herself, and he stood by like a servant.
At midnight.
Rin was lying on Sesshomaru's arm on her side facing him. She traced around the defined edge of his chest muscle and along the prominence of his collar bones.
He was majestic.
She inched closer to kiss the stripes on his face.
She couldn't sleep.
In the morning, she would leave for home. The diamond ring should be enough for her debt and some extra. And the child would stay with her and should not be around a father who was a cold blooded killer.
She closed her eyes.
The life she came into had been a paradise. The man she ran into was magnetic and stimulating. He seemed to have selected her, only her, to display his sweetest sentiments and adamantly protective of his selection.
For the rest of the world, he didn't seem to care much; he didn't even say hello to any of the people who worked for him in that mansion.
He treated Rin as if she was his owner, and he was her dog wanting to please her every whim - except for giving her cocaine.
Though, he might be sweet because of the child in her womb. Before he realized she was with child, he did pin her to the wall by his whip, punishing her with jealousy. Though, if that was a punishment, she would gladly be a bad girl every day.
But even if he was genuine, it could not negate the terrible treatments he dealt the others. A murderous person wasn't exactly who she had in mind to spend her whole life with.
All Sesshomaru's money and prowess couldn't buy her mind.
As for love, that was a unreasonable feeling from her blind heart which she couldn't control, but she could control her reaction to it.
The man was a beast, and he would continue to kill, even worse, kill for her cause.
Unable to turn him in to the authorities because of her stupid heart for falling in that thing called love, she couldn't be an accomplice.
She would miss him.
