Chapter 26 Christmas Decorations
“Master loves you. He yelled at you because he is worried about you and he wants you to take care of yourself but you’re so careless. It’s natural that when we love someone, we care about that person a lot, and we can’t see that person in any kind of problem. He never wants to yell at you, and he also gets sad when he yells at you, or whenever something happens to you.” Bella explained to her.
“I understand. I am careless about myself.” She bit her lower lip. Bella was about to say something when they heard a knock on the door. They looked at the door, only to find Eden standing with a cup in his hand. He entered the room.
Bella left them alone, closing the door behind. He sat beside her, placing the cup on the side table of her bed.
He picked her cap from the bed, put it on her head, went inside the closet, and came out holding a pair of socks. He made her wear the socks, covered her with the blanket, and gave her the cup, picking it from the side table.
“Drink it.”
“What’s this?” She asked while looking at the cup.
“Green Tea. It’s good for your cold.” He sat beside her, covering himself with the duvet. She took one sip of the tea and felt the bittersweet taste in her mouth with a taste of strong ginger.
“I can’t drink this.”
“You’ve to drink this.” He took the cup from her and started making her drink the tea. When she finished it, The bittersweet taste and taste of ginger was left in her mouth, and she made a face.
Eden wanted to laugh, looking at her expression but controlled himself. “Will you be careless from now on?”
“Never. I don’t want to drink this again in my life.” She said, pouting. He laughed, kissing her on the cheek. “I am sorry for yelling at you.”
“It’s okay. It was my mistake. I don’t take care of myself and I am sorry, I lied to you.” She said, playing with the blanket.
He furrowed his eyebrows. “What do you mean?”
“Last night, I wasn’t feeling sleepy so I went to the the garden to walk. Cold breeze was running, and I caught cold because of it.” She told him everything innocently.
“You should’ve come to my room.”
“I didn’t want to disturb your sleep. You wake up early to go to work.” She said, looking at him and he smiled. “Taking care of my sleep like a wife. I love it, but remember this thing from now on that you can never disturb me. I will be by your side whenever you need me. Even if you need me at night.”
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There were only a few days left for Christmas. Eden ordered Bella and the other servants to decorate the mansion. Lavanya was at home today. After studying for a while, she started getting bored. She came downstairs and saw everyone busy with the decorations. Some servants were outside, decorating the garden. She smiled as she remembered the moment she used to help her mother and everyone in her house with the decorations for festivals. She went to Bella excitedly. “I also want to help you with the decorations.”
“No, Master will scold us if he finds out that you also did the decorations and you should rest. You are not well.” Bella said.
Lavanya didn’t know what to say to convince her. She thought for a moment and suddenly remembered her planned strategy to make everyone agree with her wishes.
“Please, Aunt Bella. Let me do it. I promise Eden will not get to know about this. Please.” She said with a cute face.
Bella laughed at her childish behavior. “Okay, but make sure that you don’t harm yourself.”
She quickly nodded with a smile. She climbed on the ladder with a ribbon in her hand and started decorating the wall with it, making a beautiful design with the ribbon. Other servants were also busy decorating the mansion with lights and flowers. Bella was busy instructing everyone, standing inside the living room, totally forgetting about Lavanya.
The ladder Lavanya was standing on was shaking in-between, but she was trying her best in maintaining her balance. Eden came home and saw her standing on the ladder, carefully decorating the wall. He smiled, but the next moment, his smile disappeared when he saw the ladder shaking.
This time, she was about to climb down the ladder to get one more ribbon but she lost her balance and was about to fall, but Eden saved her before she could fall down.
“What are you doing?” He asked in anger, leaving her on the floor. The ladder she was standing on, fell down on the floor. She was about to say something, when she saw Bella running in her direction, who came there after she heard the sound of the ladder falling down. She sighed when she saw Lavanya safe before it, but got scared when she saw Eden standing beside her.
“Why was she helping you with decorations?” He asked her in anger.
“Master, I tried to stop her, but she insisted on doing it.” He was about to scold Bella, but Lavanya stopped him and said, “It’s my fault. I insisted. I am sorry.” She held her ears like an innocent child. “Sorry, Aunt Bella.”
Eden forgot his anger when he saw her standing like an innocent child. He wanted to laugh. He held her hands. “Baby, You should’ve injured yourself.”
“Why were you helping with decorations?” He asked, tucking her hair behind her ears.
“In India, I always helped mom and everyone with the decorations at the festivals. I always enjoyed decorating my home. That’s why I wanted to help Aunt Bella and others.” She explained her reasons.
“Okay, I have something for you. If you want, you can decorate it with me.” He held her hand.
She got excited. “Really, What is it?”
He took her out of the mansion. Her eyes widened, looking at the thing in front of her.