Chapter 40: Chapter 40

"Is it okay if I spend the weekend with Nick ?" I asked Tammy after I had left Harry's house. I sat on a bench by the bus stop and calmed down. I was too exhausted to keep up with the crying. His words kept echoing in my mind. I really got myself into a huge mess. I then took a cab home. Tammy wasn't working today.

"Um duhh. It's like you don't even live here anymore. How was last night ? Oh my God! Is that a hickey? Or a vampire bite? How huge!" She screamed and my eyes widened a little. I'm not sure I want to explain my sex life to my older sister.

"Tammy! This is so embarrassing." I said blushing hard.

"C'mon tell me! You're like a shining star! I guess it was that good. Geez. I'm not gonna stop if you don't tell me how it was."

"Tamara.. I have to get some clothes.." I said trying to change the subject.

"Why take clothes when you won't be wearing them sweetie? Or you guys have sex with clothes on? Woah ..that's another level of..."

"What? No!" I yelled covering my eyes with my cheeks as red as beetroot. "Oh so you did have sex! And you don't wanna tell me."

"Fine! Yes we had sex. Can you move out of my way now?"

"No can do, how was it? C'mon, I won't make fun of you. I told you about my first time."

"Okay okay. This is the last time we're ever talking about this ,ok?" "Yep. Yep." She said almost giggling. Excited much ?

"I-It was awesome. Amazing. Gosh.. I can't stop thinking about him.."

"I am so jealous! Does he have a brother ? You're so lucky. You bitch!" She said and I pushed her out of my way and walked to my room. I put a few clothes(not that I would really need them. Nick got me a lot of clothes in his house)in my bag and walked out.

"How is work?" I asked her eating cookies on the countertop. "Awesome. Tyler is the best. You know he always talks about you?"

"He does? Why?" I asked her a little curious although I had an idea why.

"You are so dense Ari. He clearly likes you. He always has. And he can't make it less obvious."

"But I like him like a brother..." I complained and she rolled her eyes. "Then why don't you tell him? Stop leading him on. Trust me, that's the worst feeling ever." She told me and I remembered her story with Harry.

Did he lead her on?

"I will tell him when next we hang out." I told her and she nodded. "Good." "Yeah. Hey Tammy, do you still have feelings for Harry?" I blurted out before I

could think. She looked taken aback by my question but soon composed herself. "Why would you ask me that?" She said quizzically.

"Just curious." I said shrugging.

"Um..I.. I don't know..maybe just a little.." Woah. How will I tell her he has feelings for me?

"Even after all he's done ? After blackmailing us and all that?"

"Love isn't that easy Ari. Yeah, he's been really evil to us but I think there's a good part of him somewhere. And who are we to judge ?" She started and I rolled my eyes. I'm usually very optimistic but right here she's being stupid. Can't tell her that though, my mama will slap me from heaven.

"Whatever Tammy. See you tomorrow. Save me a seat at church." I told her giving her peck and walking out of the house.

So Tammy still loves him ? I could not believe it. Harry's words were in my mind like a broken record. I couldn't even concentrate while walking on the road. I bumped into some old lady and she gave me a nasty stare.

"Watch where you're going girl!"

"I'm sorry." I told her and hailed a cab immediately. I sat in the cab when Nick called.

"Hey Baby. How are you?" He said in his deep voice and I almost swooned.

"Hi. I'm on my way back. I missed you .." I told him before I can catch myself and he chuckled deeply.

" I miss you too. But I'm actually in the office. I had a few things to finish up. I'll see you later okay?"

"But today's Saturday. I thought we agreed, you're not gonna work on Saturday." I complained with a crease in my brows and he sighed.

"I know, I know. But this one can't wait. I'll be back soon." "Okay. See you later."

"Kiss me through the phone.."

"Bye Jeremy." I said jokingly and hung up. On my way back to his house, I decided to pay him a surprise visit at work. I stopped at his favorite restaurant and got some food. He must be hungry. About 5 minutes later, I pulled up at work.

Tasha doesn't work today but some other girl called Nina. She's not the nicest. Or maybe she just doesn't like me but who cares? I walked past her and took the elevator up to our office. I smiled to myself . He would be so surprised!

I walked past my desk and entered his office just to be surprised myself. Alyssa was on his lap. Kissing him. He had his hands on her arms and when he saw me, he pushed her off him.

He's very surprised indeed.

Tears almost consumed me but I held my chin up. "I'm sorry I interrupted." I said turning on my heel to leave.

"Cara don't leave. Please" he said holding my arm and I looked over at Alyssa to see her with a pleased expression.

"I didn't kiss her. She tried kissing me but I didn't kiss back. You have to believe me." He said sounding so desperate.

"I was right huh? You are sleeping with your PA. I should have seen this coming. Man of the year! Have fun whore before he drops you for the next bitch." She said licking her lips and my nostrils flared.

"I will fucking kill you if you call her that ever in your life. Get the fuck out of my office and I don't ever want to see your face, sour bitch." Nick said threateningly.

"Oh c'mon Nick. You don't expect her to believe we weren't kissing, do you? I mean she can't be that dumb although she sure looks the part." She said rolling her eyes and I laughed.

They were both shocked at my reaction. I was shocked too. "Dumb? You're calling me dumb? That's honestly supposed to be your first name. With your snotty attitude and high ponytail, you walk the runway like a headless Barbie doll. Don't try to outsmart someone with a higher IQ than you when you're not even smart at all. You don't want to see me mad sweetie, so get your ass up before I pull your fake hair extensions off you." I walked over to Nick's desk and put my hands on it looking at her with a sinister smile.

"Who do you think you are?—" she stood up and leveled her face with me. We were almost the same height , with her being slightly taller than me.

"If you come close to my boyfriend again .. I promise your plastic surgeon will have a lot more to fix than your ugly nose. Now get. the. hell. Out." I interrupted her and she narrowed her eyes at me.

"This isn't the end of this. I promise." She said and stepped away from me and walked out the door, not before muttering a string of curse words.

"I'm sorry you had to—" he started saying coming closer to touch me and I stopped him.

"Don't even think about touching me after having your hands all over her." I cut him off putting my hand up to stop him. He looked shocked but composed himself.

"I'll get my briefcase and we'll leave." He said instead and I frowned. I was angry .

So jealous. I believed Nick didn't kiss her back but the sight of the two of them together was so painful.

We walked to the car with his hand on my back and I shrugged it off again. We were sitting in his car and he was driving slower than usual.

"I'm sorry." He said and I didn't answer. I was still upset and thinking of ways to tortue that dumb Barbie doll.

"I would never kiss her knowing we're in a relationship. You mean a lot to me Ariane." He added looking at me whilst driving.

"Talk to me baby.." he said pleadingly putting his hand on my thigh. I was wearing

a dress and a huge long coat due to the cold. I tried taking his hand off but he was persistent.

"Please." He added with his hands going higher. What is he doing? He kept moving his hand higher and higher up my thigh until he reached my ..

"W-what are you doing?" I asked him feeling his fingers very close to my core. We were almost home. How could he do this while driving! I looked at him to see a smirk on his arrogant face.

"S-st-stop.." I moaned out with my eyes closed.

"Shhh... almost there baby.." he said continuing his hand movements and before I knew we pulled up to his mansion and he pulled his hand away.

Did he .. did he just? I can't even breathe. He's so annoying! What a jerk! Leave me hanging like that.

I stormed out of his car and got into the house while he still had that stupid smirk on his face.

I turned to him . "You think this is funny? Huh? Just watch me do the same thing to you. I'll see how you like it." I watched his smile drop. He pulled me to him and I tried get away from him but his grip was strong.

"If you want me in jail, try it. I'm a jealous man Ariane. I will fucking kill any man that touches you. I find you incredibly sexy when you're mad and jealous but please believe me. I would never dream of cheating on you. She came unto me. Uninvited and you walked in when I was trying to push her off me. Remember she cheated on me ? Why would I go back to her? Say you understand and you forgive me. Please." He said and I felt some of my anger dissipate.

"I believe you. I trust you Nick but d-don't break my heart.." I whispered to him "Wouldn't dream of it. Don't break mine too okay?" He said and I almost cried at

the sad realization that I will have to break it in the end.

I nodded and he was about to kiss me when I put my lips on his to stop him. He took into his mouth and sucked it and I took it out immediately.

"Eww! Don't kiss me. Go have a shower and wash all traces she left on you." I told him and he smiled.

"Come wash it all off cara. Then we can make love in the shower.." he said and my eyes widened.

"B-but l-last night — we .. twice.. again?" I said stammering and fumbling on words. He looked at me as my cheeks reddened.

"Yeah.. but that was last night. It was your first time so I didn't want to wear you out... that's why I gave you the whole day to recover.. but now.." he said groping my butt..." you're mine to devour,yes?." He asked squeezing me gently.

"Y-yes.." I said because my senses had escaped.

"Great. Let's go.." he said carrying me upstairs to his bathroom.

Safe to say..the neighbors might actually think I joined the choir.

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"I had no idea you could draw..why didn't you tell me?" I after our shower sex.

And in the bed. Twice. Woah, stallion there. I fell asleep and woke up about 2 hours in his office with a pencil. He was so concentrated, he almost didn't notice me come in. I found out he was drawing my eyes. He quickly hid it and I saw the tip of his ears redden.

He was shy! So cute.

"Um well, it just didn't come up." He said and I smiled at him. "Go on. I'll just watch you draw. You have so many talents. I'm impressed." I told him sitting opposite him.

He motioned me to come sit on his lap and I did gladly. We were both in bathrobes of the same color. He then showed me an already complete portrait of me. I was sleeping and my hair was everywhere. It was beautiful.

"Wow. When did you do this?" I asked and he kissed my cheek. "A few days ago.

You looked so cute sleeping and snoring with your hair all over the place." "I don't snore!" I rebuked with a gasp.

"You do baby." He said with a small smile on his face and I leaned into him enjoying his warmth. There were a lot of drawings of me. Either of my lips or my eyes or just my face. But there was one that definitely didn't look like me. I picked it up and stared carefully.

"Who's this?" I asked Nick and he sighed.

"I thought I had thrown that away. That's Cami. My ex girlfriend." He said and my heart stopped.

Cami? That's who Harry called me when he tried kissing me . Why would Harry try to kiss Cami if Cami is Nick's girlfriend?

The wheels were spinning in my head so fast trying to put two and two.

I cleared my throat and looked at him "Wanna tell me about her?" I asked and he sighed again.

"Where do I start?"

"How about the beginning?" I said and he nodded.

"Camilla was my high school sweetheart. Sounds cliché right? But yeah. We all grew up together; Me , Harry and Cami. My parents and Harry's just started working together and they just started getting rich so paparazzi didn't follow us then. But Cami was just an ordinary girl from a poor background. We all got along well. We were best friends.I- I fell in love with her. You can say she was my weakness. I would do anything for her. I started performing poorly in school , getting Into fights because every guy wanted her. My parents were so disappointed. But we loved each other.. or so I thought and I didn't care"

"We took a little break in college because she started liking the attention the paparazzi were giving her too much and I had a problem with it. They started following me too much and I hated it. But soon ,we rekindled our relationship. Things

were going great. In her fourth year of med school, I proposed and she said yes but She said she wanted to be a doctor first before starting a family. So I waited till she finished med school.She kept postponing the wedding for so many reasons and I was still learning how to take over the company so I didn't mind.

Last year , we finally decided to make an engagement party. There was supposed to be a video of us. Our times together and all that . But I had the surprise of my life when the whole crowd watched her sex tape with some guy. In our house.Everyone was shocked. She ran out and got into a car accident. It wasn't serious. By the time I came to see her, she had taken off from the country. I was devastated. Embarrassed beyond measure and most of all , heartbroken. Since then , I've been dreaming of her. She loved white and always wore it. Suddenly , I found myself seeing her in every brunette in white. For a while, I just wanted to ask her where we went wrong. Ask her what happened..but now? I hate her. I loathe her.

She made me bitter. Sad. Angry. See the piano? We used to play it together. But I never touched it since then, until you of course. But that's all changed.. since I met you.." He ended and I felt my heart drop.

I couldn't think of the right words. I was so confused , angry for him, jealous of their love. So many emotions.

"Quite a love story. S-so.. you still think of her? Still dream of her?"

"Not anymore . Another brunette beauty has taken over my fantasies . And when I hold a pencil, all I think about is you." He told me smiling and kissing my cheeks.

"Hmm. We should head to bed. I'm sleepy.." I said so I could process all he just said.

"Ariane. Please , she's my past. I have absolutely no feelings for her. Please remember that. "

"Thank you for confiding in me." I said kissing his lips. And he he carried me bridal style to his room. I fell asleep in his arms thinking of what he just said.

I love him. Undoubtedly. I love him and I'm compelled to hurt him so bad. I thought as tears ran down my eyes.

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