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Nate's clothes were discarded with my assistance quickly. This time sex wasn't slow and too careful. This time, when Nate took the lead, he went all in. From the holding of hands over my head to taking charge in the positions. I discovered another side of this whole ordeal, and to be honest I was starting to like it a lot.
It was pretty late by the time we stopped, and my body was exhausted. Nate was sleepy, but he kept his arms around me, not wanting me to go anywhere as we laid in bed, blankets tangled up around our bodies.
"Why didn't you call me a year ago, Scar..." Nate said randomly, and I frowned and looked up at him. His green eyes were so bright, and he seemed to be in a daze.
"What do you mean?" I asked quietly, and he looked down.
"Nothing. I'm just thinking" he said, and I pressed my lips into a thin line. I knew what he meant. He was asking why didn't I call him when my parents decided to marry me off to save the company that had kept us afloat for many years. But I didn't want to talk about this anymore. I had my mistakes, but so had he and it had started the day he kept his huge secret from me. I could cope with it, but there was so much remorse I had within me, and so much anger towards the stupid forces of destiny that I could choke if I spoke about it. So, I decided to switch the topic
"So, it's Monday, according to my phone. We have a whole week here to ourselves. What do you wanna do later?" I asked him quietly, kissing his chest. He smiled down at me.
"I figured we could go for brunch first, to kill that hunger of yours" he said, and I grinned.
"And then?" I asked. Nate stared at me with a small smile on his lips.
"I was thinking we could go down to the beach" he said, and I bit my lip.
"Oh Nate that would be wonderful" I said and he nodded.
"It's a date then" he said and kissed my cheek.
"But I'm tired now" I couldn't help the big yawn I let out and I almost felt embarrassed.
"Sleep. I'll wake you up later" he said and pulled me in closer. So with that said I closed my eyes and fell asleep instantly.
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When I woke up I was alone in bed. I frowned instantly when I realized Nate was nowhere to be found. What the heck happened with him waking me up?
I looked at my phone and saw a missed call from Andrew, but I just deleted the notification. There were also three missed calls from a random number but no voicemail. I frowned but this wouldn't b e the first time I get random numbers, so I decided to ignore it and unlock my phone. It was barely seven in the morning, but the sun was out and there it was, the beautiful blue ocean smiling at me. I got out of bed and I was glad we were in a villa rather than a hotel cause walking around in the room naked with multiple windows around me would not work in this situation. I was brave, but not that brave. I walked towards the balcony and looked towards the village.
It was the most beautiful view, so many houses and villas close to each other, most of them white and blue and I could see the people down at the beach already setting their spot. I couldn't help but smile to myself. I was in a paradise, and I realize how silly I'd been in staying in New York, when there was a whole world to discover. Nobody could see me up here, so as nerve wracking as this was, I just stood in front of the double doors naked, feeling the cool hair hit my body and a small sense of thrill engulfed me.
Nate was most likely around somewhere, I knew he wouldn't leave me. So in the meantime, I'd do whatever I pleased.
I looked towards my right and stared at the deep white pool. It looked like an oversized jacuzzi and with the cool weather that's all I wanted. I've never gone skinny dipping, but I was feeling brave today. Plus I was on vacation, why not?
I got inside the warm pool, the water welcomed me, and I felt like I was floating over the ocean. The fact that the pool was so close to the edge of the balcony, it gave the thrilling feeling like I was floating. I couldn't get enough of it.
"Hey beautiful"
I turned my face around and found Nate standing by the double doors, leaning against the door frame, hands behind his back in a stance, wearing low sweatpants and no shirt.
Well hello there, hot stuff.
"Where were you?" I asked, trying to sound normal with the fact that I was in the pool, naked and Nate looked like he wanted to jump my bones.
"Making a call and bringing you these" he said and pulled a white bouquet of some white flowers I have never seen in my life wrapped in white tissue paper and a blue bow. I bit my lip, but I couldn't contain the grin.
"Those are beautiful" I said, admiring the exotic-looking bunch.
"I was walking down the village and there was a stand, early in the morning, ready to go" he said, looking at the flowers himself
"What are they?" I asked as I swam to the edge of the pool.
"You're going to laugh with this one because I did when he told me the name" he said, already chuckling
"What is it?"
"It's called an anemone, and I instantly thought of Nemo" he said and when I resgistered what he said I couldn't help but snort, earning a funny look from Nate.
"What? I cant believe youre twenty six and still thinking of Nemo" I said smiling and Nate put the flowers in a glass vase near the nightstand
"No one is ever too old to watch Nemo" he said smiling and without any announcement he slipped his sweatpants off and a stood completely naked before me.
I've seen him naked many times now, but he didn't cease to impress me every time he just gets naked randomly, but this time I laughed more than I should've.
"What?" he asked amused, marching to the pool to join me.
"I swear, I think you like being naked more than clothed most of the time" I said smiling. Nate smirked at me.
"You have that effect on me, baby" he said, and I rolled my eyes. When Nate was finally in the water I swam his way and wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. I felt his buddy wake up and him groan in frustration.
"Oh yeah?" he smiled before pressing his lips to mine and in seconds I was in cloud nine. How could he have such effect on me, I had no idea. But the slightest of touches could turn a fire within me I couldn't explain. His hands had started to wander down and the next thing I knew he had pressed me against the edge of pool, and his lips had pressed against my neck and the fire spread.
I had no shame, no care in the world, and I wanted him. I craved him more than anything else in the whole world. My relationship with Nate was slowly pushing me to make crazy decisions, like filing a divorce. I never thought I'd have the courage to do something like that, considering I always thought of myself as a lost cause. But not anymore. Not if I had him
We were both so distracted with each other that neither one of us heard the front door to the room open.
Only the crash of glass on the floor caught our attention.
Nate and I sprung apart and my eyes connected with the eyes of the last person I thought would see here.
Alex
At seeing his sister standing at the double doors, next to Oliver, both with wide eyes, Nate turned and covered my body with his, cursing under his breath.
"Are fucking kidding?" was what Alex said and I couldn't even look at her in the eye.
"Alex what the hell are you doing here?" Nate asked harshly
"I didn't wanna believe it, but he was right" she kept saying but wouldn't move. Nate's muscles strained. I couldn't keep up with the exchange but this was getting uglier by the seconds.
"Alex please, let us get out-"
"And you, Scarlett?" her eyes met mine, ignoring her brother.
"You've been rolling around in bed with my brother! I can't fucking believe you!" she yelled angrily.
"Alex, don't talk to her like that" Nate growled, and Alex gave him the finger
"You don't get to tell me what to do" Alex responded, and my eyes went wide
"Alex, get out of here" Nate said angrily,
"No, Nate. I don't know how, but I just saw this crap coming. You knew, and you just went right in-"
"Alex shut up!" Nate turned and pointed a finger at her and when she opened her mouth to say something else Nate cut her off again
"No! Get out of here so we can get out of the goddamn pool!" Nate shouted, and Alex frowned. Nate has never talked to his sister that way, much less shout at her. I saw her swallow hard and in an instant, she was turning around and stomping out of the villa.
"I'm sorry mate, but I didn't know that-" Oliver said but Nate dismissed him and told him to follow his sister, to what Oliver complied and ran out behind Alex.
We stood there in silence, neither one of us talking. My heart was running so fast I felt it beat against my chest loud and hectic.
"Holy shit, Nate"
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"Tell her to get her ass back to the villa before I drag her back myself" Nate said to Oliver on the phone. He had been trying to get Alex back to the villa for the past thirty minutes, but she had just walked out and wouldn't pick up the phone. Oliver was with her, trying to coax her into coming back to talk to us.
"I don't care. It's not like she should've been here anyways. If she wants to get involved in grownup's business, then she needs to stop acting like a fifteen-year-old" Nate said and hung up the phone.
"Nate, please" I mumbled, putting my hair up in a wet bun.
"No, Scar. She shouldn't be here. She can't" he said. I could sense he was completely irritated more at the fact his sister was here than the fact his sister had caught us with the hand in the cookie jar. I was too shocked to react, and this was not the way I thought I would come clean to Alex once this whole business with Andrew got settled down.
"She hates me" I mumbled, and Nate looked at me sideways.
"Don't say that. She's just surprised" Nate responded, sitting on the bed.
"No, that was definitely not a surprised Alex, that was a pissed off Alex" I said quietly, and Nate pulled me to him, his arms wrapping around me.
"It's okay, I will handle this. I promise you that this will get straightened out very soon. Just, please, have patience" he said, and I frowned.
"I don't know how this can get fixed. She just found out I've been having an affair with you, her brother" I said and he sighed.
"Listen, Scar. Alex finding out about us should be the least of your worries right now. She'll get over it. We have more pending things to handle than this" he said, and I don't know if it was the way he said it, than I couldn't help but have a terrible feeling
"What do you mean?" I asked quietly, and Nate looked up at me.
"Remember I said we had business to take care of?" he asked and I nodded and motioned for him to continue.
"Please don't kill me for this, but we're actually meeting a lawyer. Your lawyer" he said and my stomach churned.
"What?" I said quietly
"Hey, look at me. It's gonna be okay. There's a reason why we're meeting the lawyer here. We're gonna take care of this, but you can't tell anybody we're meeting an investigator tomorrow" he said and I frowned deeper
"You just said it was a lawyer"
"He is. He's a divorce lawyer, but he goes a bit...well beyond that. He'll explain tomorrow, okay?" he said completely dismissing anything I had to said. I got sick to my stomach for a second just even thinking about this.
"Okay fine" I murmured and before he stood up he kissed my hand quickly before walking out of the room and towards the street, saying he was gonna meet up with Oliver, try to convince Alex to calm down.
Well, the show is about to start when this whole divorce thing starts moving.
Oh my God this is really happening.
I wasn't even done processing the thought when my phone started ringing again. I snatched it from the bed and saw it was the random number again. I clicked accept
"Hello?"
Silence
"Hello"
"Scarlett? Scarlett Knightwell?" it was a female's voice. I frowned
"Who is it?" I asked quietly.
"We need to talk" the woman said
"About what? Who are you?" I asked, walking around the room.
"Kate. We met" the woman said and realization hit me like a slap in the face. I could talk for a second. Why was she calling me? How did she get my number?
"I don't think we have anything to talk about, so If you'll excuse me-" I was ready to end the call
"This is about Nate. I have to talk to you about him" she said and I put the phone back to my ear.
"Whatever it is you wanna say, I don't care-"
"Actually, you will. You'll be glad I told you before you did anything stupid" she said and I frowned, walking to the bathroom and locking the door behind me
"What in the heaven's mercy are you talking about?" I asked exasperated. As annoying as this was, I did wanna know why she would go out of her way to call me like this
"If you wanna find out the real reason Nate came back to the states, you'll meet me" she said and I straightened my back, staying silent for a moment. Then I turned around and turned faucet on
"What do you mean? Whatever it is just spit it out" I said quickly, trying to be quiet.
"I won't say anything over the phone. Just know that I have nothing to win here, the wedding's off, so I'm obviously not lying here. For your sake I hope you come meet me" she said and I sighed.
"When?" I asked
"BlueHar. Monday, seven thirty. Be there" she said and the call got disconnected.
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