Temptation

Chapter 11: Gavin

She ran in.
Might be afraid of the ghost lurking around in shadowiness.

And that's me.

As soon as I saw Serena leaving the show along side with her so called friend, Theodore, my blood boiled.
Undeniably, she never told me who he is. She tried her level best to act all mysterious and guide me in an unhealthy direction, where I thought him to be her new date.
She seriously know how to rile me up, don't she?

'Just wait for the perfect timing sweetness, I will make you bend over and spank these bundle of smartness out of you.'
In face of your punishment, a beautiful one.

But the question is, why so?
She wanted me to get all jealous and start burning, turn to ash and mix in dust? That form of mine she wanted to see?

Well darling, you almost got me there, but trust me, once I turn to that certain beast, you won't be able to handle my wrath, neither that friend of yours.

Anyways, my naïve psychiatrist was not able to dovetail the fact that when if I can own and organize a show, I can easily get handy with the guest list.
And I did.

Few planned calls here and others there, got me served the hot and scrumptious dish ready on my table in form of details of Theodore.
And if I were to put it precisely, details of their relationship.
Or shall I say their friendship. Which she presented to me as something else.

I was halfway from Serena's apartment, when I gained access to the knowledge of how they met when were in high school and immediately formed a bond.
Kind off sibling bond. Even when Serena moved here to Austin, soon enough Theodore followed her. Immediately they connected each other.
Serena has always been a single child, daughter of a man who can offer her every single thing she put a finger on except of his time, love and peace of her mind.
Same goes with Theodore of all being single child and devoid of love except of one thing, he and his mother was also devoid of the financial support from his father.
And his hunger caused him to become owner of well known pharmaceutical company after migration.

Well that's a totally different story, mainly their devoid of love and both being Asian kids of Chinese descended instantly became siblings.
A self formed relationship.

What pressurizing my zygomaticotemporal nerve and causing my head to burst split into two is, is she this desperate?
Desperate for me to think she is dating someone, for which she didn't even let go her own brother?

All brings me to a dead ended question.
Why?

Drawing in a long nicotinic breath from red beaded cigarette, I formed a puff of smoke in thin air surrounding me, while my eyes remained fixated to the window that was casting her shadow.

She was preparing herself for sleep, not aware of how her thin curtains and light behind her were providing me with the perfect show.
My muscular devil in deep sleep woke up with her acts, from the certainty that before this what all necessities she would have performed.
On the other side, my anger put my brain in the boiling pot to stir me further.
I left all my conglomerates, my important guests and every other fucking minister of this country thinking she might be going home with her new date. Only to get to the end of rope where he is nothing but a brother, a friend.
And to add further fuel, now she is chasing behind her peaceful sleep.

Soon treasure, you will regret this decision of yours. I will make you scream my name for the whole night and will snatch your sweet sweetest sleep.

Like some psycho jerk, I let out a dark chuckle, thinking about all sins I am going to perform with Miss Serena.
Roughly running my hand through my hairs I walked back in the car, not before crushing the remaining butt under my shoes.

Measuring the distance from Serena's home to mine penthouse in my car, my mind ran uncontrollably back to the time when I met her for the very first time.
Beautiful she.
A beautiful soul.

A person who saw beyond my silver thick skin.
Who saw beyond dollars weighing my pocket.

I made a quick call to John, who answered as if is buried under loads of boulders.
Okay, I understand, my sudden absence have caused surged attention thrown in direction of his'. But what else can I possibly do?
My mood was so rotten by the time I discovered their mistaken relationship, that I intended of not to feed my mind anymore to those hungry wolves. They chew on it continually and because of this bullshit relationship, I was already beyond my threshold.

With a heavy sigh John answered.

"Yes Sir?"

The sarcasm dripping from his voice was crystal clear to me. Moreover that wench didn't even tried to conceal it.
Silly him, as if any of it would matter to me. Yeah this is how I am.

"Take care of the conglomerates on my behalf."

Straight coming to the point, I was about to hang up the call. But John being John. Decided to make my remaining day a bit colourful.

"Of course Sir."

He shouted so loudly over call that my ear buzzed from one end to the other.
His annoyance is my agglomeration of joy.

"Are you mad at me?"

Toot..
Toot..
Toot..
Rather than answering me, he preferred to hang up the call.

Next working day was hell. Serena took am apartment on rent in my brain and kept reappearing throughout the previous night. There was not a single second where my thoughts were free from her.
I walked in my cabin with mind full of her thoughts and deprived of sleep.

I need to keep a safe distance from her for sometime, if I wish to keep her free from curse.
But my obsessive ass.
Like last night, I am damn sure I am going to run behind her once I get the slightest glimpse of her.

And my rotten luck brought me back to her, face to face.
Well, it is totally wrong to put all the blame over my luck, where I played my part perfectly.
I could have blamed my luck if I would have not ran behind her when saw her walking in mall.
If I would have not followed her like some shadow.
If I would have not entered the same shop she did, and acted as if I am here to buy myself self-care cosmetics and came face to face to her.
If would have not done these series of childish acts, I would have missed this beautiful small face, dark night long hairs, doe shaped round shiny black eyes, lush lips.
I would have missed mine Serene.

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