No strings attached

43.

I walked in my apartment with a pit in my stomach. I didn't know if Kara was mad, happy, confused. I didn't know how she was feeling lately at all.

She was laying on the couch with her phone in her hand. She looked up at me as I walked in.
She looked tired, she was tired.
"Are you back from your honeymoon?" She asked sarcastically. Okay she was definitely annoyed and how could I blame her?
"I am sorry Kara" It's all I could say, but what else was there to say?
I walked to the couch and sat down next to her. She looked at me for a few seconds before she shook her head and laughed. "How was it in Landoland?" She asked as she put her phone away and sat up. "There's definitely a lot of sun and it's so hot" I chuckled. "And is it big?" She raised her eyebrow but couldn't contain her laugh.
"I can't complain" I shrugged my shoulders. She held her hands up as she laid back down on the couch.

"How's Charlesland?" I shot her the same question but she didn't expect it, or she didn't want to talk about it, maybe both.
"It's not what you think" she mumbled. I raised my eyebrow at her. "He posted a picture of you two. Lando and I aren't even in that stage yet"
I could hear her sigh as she put her fingers on her temples.
"Because you guys are dating for real" she said with a sigh. It took me a couple of seconds to understand what she's been saying.
So that meant they aren't dating? But why would he post a picture of them two with a heart?
"I'm lost" and I truly was lost. I knew my situation with Lando used to be complicated as well, but this was on another level.
"We are not dating at all, he just wanted to make his ex jealous and some PR that wasn't about his situation at Ferrari" she explained but she wasn't looking at me anymore.
She was looking everywhere but avoiding eye contact with me.
"And what do you get out of this?" Besides an obvious headache.
She put her index finger against her thumb and rubbed them together.
Money.

I decided not to ask any other questions, not today. I noticed that she wasn't in the mood for that.
I grabbed the remote and put it on the Canadian qualifying.
Kara chuckled a little as she looked at the tv but still turned her face to watch it.
They showed Lando, he was standing next to his engineer as they were looking at some screen, they were probably going over the data and strategy.
"Isn't he cute?" I said as I looked at him. My heart skipped a beat every time they showed or talked about him.
"That guy in the back is pretty cute yeah" she pointed at the screen behind Lando.
It was Jon, his trainer. Was she serious or just joking around?
I bet she wanted to take the attention of Charles and her, because I knew for a fact that she liked Charles more than she wanted to admit.
But who was I to judge? I did the same thing with Lando for months.

My phone buzzed a couple of times, which made me raise my eyebrow.
It couldn't be Lando because I was watching him live and he wasn't holding his phone.
He was putting his helmet on and jumping in the car.
I grabbed my phone who was laying on the couch between us.

Liam 🙅🏽‍♀️ :

It was good seeing you that night.
I miss you
I didn't mean all that
I regret everything
Please text me.

I sighed as I locked my phone and put it back on the couch.
"Who was it?" Kara asked. She didn't care most of the times but I guess my sigh made her wonder.
"Liam" I replied. She rolled her eyes as she heard his name.
Safe to say that she wasn't a big fan of him. She wasn't a fan of most of my exes, but I knew she liked Lando, that meant something coming from her.

I never used Liam, even if he thinks I did. He gave me a lot of gifts, that was true but I never asked for them.
Now I know why he did that, he wanted to apologize every time he cheated on me.
So I received a lot of gifts, for every girl another gift.