Ch. 16：Hit the intruder. Sorry?

Sitting in front of the person that I found in my house, I waited for him to wake up so that I can ask him questions. He was not unconscious when I had found him. It was precisely me who has hit him into the unconscious state with my brilliant skills. But can someone really blame me? I am a girl who lives alone. What is one supposed to do when you find someone in your house sneaking into the kitchen without your permission? I mean, he didn’t even have the keys to my house, which clearly meant that he had trespassed into my territory.
‘Looks who’s talking about trespassing.’ Ariana said, making me roll my eyes at her.
‘That thing is clearly different than this one, okay? I have bever barged into anyone’s home.’ I retorted and was about to say more when my phone started to ring.
Seeing Mark’s call, I picked up the call in an instant, wanting to tell him about the intrusion in my house. However, before I could do that, he started speaking first.
“Have you seen my surprise?” Were his first words.
“Surprise? Which surprise are you talking about?” I asked, feeling confused now.
“Aren’t you home already? I had prepared a surprise for you.” He said, making me more confused.
“Honestly, Mark. I am in no mood for surprises anymore. I entered my house today, and I saw this guy-” I started but was cut-off by Mark interrupting in between
“Did he clean the house well,” Mark said.
“What do you mean, did he clean well?” I asked.
“Don’t tell me he didn’t do his job properly. I had told him to do it properly, or I won’t share my Xbox collection with you. Connect me with him. Let me talk some sense into my brother.” He said, and though I was getting a hold of the situation, I was still hoping that I was wrong.
“Mark, you are going a bit too fast. Can you please explain properly? Starting with what was this guy doing in my house?” I said, hoping that it wasn’t what it looked like.
“Come on, Alexis. Don’t tell me your studies are making you dumber now. When you told me that you will be shifting back into your forest house for some time again, knowing that your house must be looking crap, with all the dirt lingering on things, I had asked my cousin brother, who was near that area, to go and clean the stuff. I had told him to use the spare keys that you always keep hidden in the grass porch. And in return, I will let him play with my Xbox collection for a because I am going on a business trump to another country, and it might take me a month to come back.” Mark said, and as much as I hated to admit it, I had committed a terrible mistake here.
‘I was telling you beforehand, wasn’t I?’ Ariana smirked.
‘You never mentioned anything about something like this, okay?’ I retorted before looking at the guy in front of me who was tied to the chair like a prisoner.
“Hello, Alexis? What is happening there? Why aren’t you speaking? Connect me to him, and I will give him a piece of my mind.” Mark said.
Now, how am I supposed to connect an unconscious man over the phone?
“I can’t connect him to the phone, Mark. I… umm… the conditions are not favorable for that.” I said, trying to sound as reasonable as I could.
“What do you mean the conditions are not favorable? Is he threatening you or something? Don’t be afraid of him, okay? I will kick his ass if he tries as much as to lay a finger on you. I will-”
“He can’t lay a finger on me. He is incapable of that. He is currently lying unconscious in front of me, tied to a chair with ropes like a prisoner.” I said, coming straight to the point. There was no point hiding it anyways. He will come to know about it sooner or later.
There was a long moment of silence from the other side of the phone. I don’t know what was going through his head now.
Will he blame me for what I did to this guy? I mean, he had asked him to clean the house for me, and rather than being grateful, I hit him with a baseball bat. Moreover, this guy was his cousin's brother.
“Mark, are you there?” I finally asked when he didn’t reply for more than a minute.
“You mean, you have hit my brother and now he is unconscious?” He asked, making me mumble an embarrassed yes.
He will surely scold me now. Or that was what I had thought, but what happened next was something I hadn’t expected at all. Mark started laughing hysterically as if he won the biggest prize in the world, making me look at the phone to see he was Mark only.
“The jerk deserved that. Now tell me what happened. This information is too precious to be not listened in details.” He asked, and I went into the flashback, telling him everything about what happened.
Twenty minutes ago~~~
‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ It was the first thought that crossed my mind when I entered my forest house and saw the state of my house.
To say I was surprised would be an understatement because I was feeling something above that.
I was shocked, looking at the state of my house, not because it was very dirty or full of bugs or full of animal litter. No. I was shocked because my house was clean.
And by clean, I don’t mean just the absence of the above-mentioned things, but everything. There wasn’t even a spec of dust on the table. It looked like someone had cleaned it recently, like today itself.
But how can that happen? The keys to this house are either with Mark or with me.
What if there is some intruder inside the house? What if someone is intending to kill me and has gotten inside the house allegedly to kill me, harass me, or worse, hand me over to an alpha? I thought before picking the baseball bat that I keep near the gate.
‘Yeah, like a killer or harasser would come to your house and be like, Ewww, this girl’s house is so dirty. Let me clean it up before I kill her or harass her. Right?’ My conscience said, making me roll my eyes at her.
What does she know? She is nothing but just a conscience.
‘For the umpteenth time, I am your wolf, woman.’ Ariana shouted.
‘If you are my wolf, then show yourself to me. Come on, turn me into a wolf? Can you do that?’ I shouted back in my mind, only for her to become quiet again.
Well, that’s what I had thought! I scoffed before looking outside the window. It was already starting to get dark. I need to change into my clothes to go and party before going shopping too.
But before all of this, I need to see how did someone enter my house.
Smash!!! Crunch!!
I heard a weird breaking sound coming from my kitchen, making me turn my head in that direction. Gripping the baseball bat tightly and taking the position, I started tipping my toes towards the entrance of my kitchen, and it wasn’t before I saw a head popping out from my cabinets.
“Hey, girl. You must be-” He started when he sensed me, but I didn’t let him go any further.
‘There’s indeed an intruder!!’ It was the only thing that crossed my mind before I swung back my bat and hit the person directly in the head.
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Ending the description about what happened twenty minutes ago, I looked up to only get shocked when my eyes met with a pair of dark brown eyes.
“Hahaha… you won’t take this thing to heart, right?” That was the first thing that I said, and I don’t if I should be happy that the guy smiled at my words or should I be concerned because his smile looked kind of creepy.