Chapter 164: Chapter 164

Ava held her bestie’s arms as they whispered and smiled to themselves as they walked to the children’s room.

"I miss them. It’s only been a couple of days since I saw them, but I surprisingly miss them,"

Shelby said as she quickened her pace.

Unknown to her, Ian had rounded one corner just as she disappeared down the bend of the opposite end.

Shelby knocked on Gabriel’s door and then entered.

She asked herself as she moved around the room slowly. Shelby knocked on the first connecting door and then tried to open it, only to find it locked.

Shelby was not surprised as that was Samantha’s room. She turned the opposite way and noticed that Ava had walked out of one of the patio doors. Shelby then knocked on the second door and opened it, only to find it empty.

Suzie stopped momentarily and mentally slapped herself. She had been so engrossed in her anger over Brianna’s actions that she had let her Miss come up to the kid’s room when she did not have to.

Suzie went on her knees instantly and twisted the hands together.

"Get up this instant, Suzie. What are you sorry about?"

"I should have told you that they were in school at this time..."

"School? Isn’t today Saturday?" Shelby asked, looking really confused.

"Yes, it is, but they still had to go."

"Oh!" Was all Shelby could muster, but her heart bled for them.

"Never mind, get up, please,"

Suzie scrambled up, knowing very well that Shelby did not like it when she did that.

"You’re not angry, Miss?"

"Why would I be?" Shelby asked and laughed.

Shelby looked straight at Suzie, who averted her eyes.

"Is it really okay to leave your friend in the room like that? She-"

Suzie could not bring herself to finish the statement of what she had seen back in the receiving room.

Shelby sighed, feeling a headache coming up. She really had no idea of how to handle her friend.

Shelby turned, and Ava was nowhere in sight.

"Let’s go, Suzie. Ava will come later as she knows her way around."

Ava had remained smiley and cheerful for Shelby’s sake, but at that time, all she wanted to do was smack some sense into their overly entitled friend, if she could still call her that. ’I would never let anyone near my man!’ She thought to herself as her memory drifted to a certain someone who had been on her mind a lot the past few days.

"What are you thinking of Ava?" She patted her cheeks to return her thoughts to reality.

"I mean, which friend would act like that? We girls have been friends for a long time, and I know that Brianna can be a handful at times, but her recent attitude makes it seem as if I do not know her! What has come over her?" Ava mumbled to herself, walking out of the patio. The back garden was so beautiful to watch that it calmed Ava up a bit with just a glance.

"Something to wash my eyes off that disgusting pussy I saw!" She walked along the garden, and soon, she saw a mounted sketch easel. Ava was so engrossed in looking at it that she had not realized where she had arrived until she heard:

"I am all ready for you. You know that I will come wi-"

She snapped her head up to look at Brianna’s gestures. However, Ava was more angry at Ian than at Brianna at that moment. If the man allowed such interactions, then even if Brianna were not there, another person would take her place. If that happened, then what was the use of attacking the girl?

Her eyes narrowed, and she glared at them. The screen door separating Shelby’s patio was slightly open, so she could see and hear them clearly. It was not like Brianna had tried to lower her voice. Ava felt like puking at how coquettish Brianna sounded. However, before she could decide what she wanted to do, she heard.

"Get those paws off of me before I tear them off that thing you call a body."

Ian did not shout. He said it so low, yet it sounded so intimidating! So much that Ava stumbled back as the implications of his words sank in, and she felt at that time that Ian meant every word.

Ian raised his eyes and met her wide ones across the room.

’Shelby needs a friend like you!’

Ava turned around quickly, looking for whoever had spoken. She had clearly heard the voice in her mind.

"That definitely sounded like Ian’s voice, but he did not speak. I mean I did not see him speak!" Ava said to herself, surprised.

’Am I imagining things?’

Ian smiled. Ava could not understand what it was, but at least her anger at Ian was gone.

’I have a bitch to deal with!’ Ava thought.

Ian chuckled, but then he noticed Ava looking behind him with a worried frown.

He could deduce what had happened without paying much attention to the brat in front of him.

He let out a curse and then whipped around, only to hear the pitter-patter of faint feet.

Ava hurried through the doors into Shelby’s room, intentionally bumping into the dazed Brianna. The girl fell on her bum, her legs wide open as the pencil heels could not support her at that time, baring out that pussy she had prepared for Ian, but no one was there to admire the succulent pink flesh with the trimmed brown hairs.

Ava did not pause and run out the same door that Ian had hurried through.

Seeing Suzie standing in a daze there confirmed what Ava had thought she had seen.

"Miss went back that way," Suzie said worriedly.

Ava ran in the same direction as Suzie. At the bend in the corridor, she stopped short, and Suzie bumped into her unexpectedly.

Ava clamped her hand on Suzie’s mouth and dragged her back.

Shelby had never thought that she would ever see a scene like that in her own room. She had walked in on Brianna saying those disgusting words to her husband and did not know what came over her.

Watching the scene, she felt her heart clench.

It was more at the inaction of Ian than the words that Brianna was saying.

She only saw Ian stand still as he let Brianna approach him. With each step Brianna took, Shelby’s world shattered. However, instead of going in to confront her, Shelby took one step back and then another, feeling herself tremble.

She felt a wet patch trace its lines down her cheeks.

Shelby stopped and touched her cheek.

’Tears? Why am I crying?’ She asked herself. She could not bear to watch through and turned, running. As to where she was going, Shelby had no idea.

However, she had barely covered much distance when someone grabbed her hand.

She was swung back abruptly into that embrace she knew like the back of her hand. "Let me go!"

"G-o fini-sh what you were doing!" She snapped.

Ian held her firmly and used his thump to catch the tears, cursing himself.

He leaned close, and Shelby leaned back, but Ian just smiled. "Is that what you want me to do?"

Shelby nodded. She was not even sure why she had done that, but she just wanted him gone. If he wanted to be with Brianna, then she wanted nothing to do with him.

"Ok, you asked for it!" Shelby’s heart clenched even harder as she thought of him and Brianna together. However, his next actions took her by surprise.

His large hands caressed her hair, and then, without warning, he brought his lips to her eyes. It was initially a light, delicate peck. He kissed one eye and then the other, then went directly for her lips as if he were a hungry wolf.

He was in no rush, even though they were right in the middle of a corridor. Ian was bent over so that he could reach her. With her face upturned, Ian placed delicate pecks on her lips -like the brush of a feather against her soft lips. This incited more desire than she thought.

"Mmmmm" A delicate moan came out of her, and that was Ian’s cue. He carried her abruptly, letting her wrap her legs around his waist so that they were then at eye level. Shelby’s hands went around his neck automatically just as the feather-like kisses turned into a wild kiss, as if he had an insatiable desire or thirst that needed to be quenched at that time.

Shelby was taken by surprise at that and tried to pull back, but Ian had one hand at the base of her neck and did not allow her any room. He turned with her and started back to their room. They passed by a stunned Suzie and a happy Ava, but Shelby did not notice. She was not even aware of the sounds that she was making right out there in the open.

His hot tongue slipped into her lips just as she faintly heard a door close but Shelby did not notice. He slipped his tongue into the roof of her mouth, slightly around her teeth, digging in with unbridled desire.

The kiss was so intense that it left her dizzy when she came up for a breath.

Her mouth was swollen and tender.

Ian sat on the bed with her on his lap and studied her face intently. He wiped the remnants of the tears and went in for more but-

"Huh?" He asked as he peppered, kissed down her throat, and started kneading her bum.

"What is going on? I thought you were-"

"You think too much,"

He finished her sentence for her and resumed the process of wreaking havoc on her body. However, Shelby stilled his hands.

"I understand about Brianna, but w-hat of A-liya?"

That was enough to stop Ian’s actions, and Shelby felt her disappointment mount.

"I-" Ian dropped his arms and looked at her helplessly.

Shelby slid off his lap reluctantly and stood looking at him, struggling with himself. She walked towards the door with her shaky legs, half expecting him to stop her, but Ian did not.

Ian watched her go as the question played in his mind: ’What of Aliya?’

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