Ryan’s POV:
As soon as I reached home yesterday, I saw Celine pacing in the living room while talking on her phone. I walked towards her and as soon as she saw me, she hung up the call and came walking towards me with a worried look on her face.
“Where is Khloe?”, I asked her while pressing my temples. “She is in the room, Mr. Parker. She hasn’t eaten anything, not even her bowl of fruits which she doesn’t miss for the world. She even tried calling you but your phone was switched off”, she told me with a disappointed look on her face.
I nodded at Kyle once before making my way to my room. As soon as I opened the room, I couldn’t believe the sight in front of me.
The vase was broken into pieces and was lying on the floor. The TV was cracked open as if she had thrown something at it.
The curtain railings were down on the floor and I could see pieces of glass on the floor. I made my way towards the bed carefully where she was sleeping and shook her to wake her up.
As soon as she saw me, she got up almost in a panic and hugged me tightly while crying again. “Why the hell were you ignoring me? I called you a hundred times but your phone was switched off. Where the fuck have you been?”, she said while looking at me in the eyes.
I parted from her and said, “Oh stop this drama, Khloe. Were you really that naïve to think that I would fall for this?” She wiped her tears before getting up and said angrily, “What do you want me to do so that we can terminate this divorce?”
I laughed at her words and said, “See, I like it when you save yourself from the drama. This is what you wanted all along. Give me a legitimate reason as to why should I do that?” She flicked her curls backward and said while rolling her eyes at me, “Because we love each other. Isn’t that a reason to give us a second chance.”
“Don’t be stupid, Khloe. You already proved me a million times that you don’t love me anymore and I am not wasting even a second more trying to save a relationship that is already as wrecked as it could get. So you know what? Save your energy and just be ready for signing the divorce papers”, I said while getting up and moving towards the door to make my way out. She then said loudly causing me to turn back, “I will be appointing a lawyer then.”
I turned around to look at her while pushing my hands in my pockets and said, “You won’t really need a lawyer. Everything was already agreed to in the prenup that both of us had signed before the marriage. I am willing to give you everything that was mentioned in there. Still you can get one if it keeps you at peace. Sleep tight, Khloe.” I made my way upstairs to the guest room and changed into my sweatpants and a hoodie.
I laid on the bed trying to get some sleep before I start a new day but all I could think of was her, Amber. How she had smiled after I bit her lip!
I could see her face when I saw her sleeping peacefully on my bed. Was I starting to feel something for her?
You are stupid enough to accept it just now, my brain muttered. I rolled on my bed and hugged my pillow while a smile crept on my face.
Right now, I am in the middle of a meeting drinking my 5th cup of black coffee since morning to keep myself from drowsing off. I didn’t sleep last night due to the thoughts that kept surfacing in front of my eyes.
At 5 in the morning, I finally gave up on even trying to get some sleep and went for a run. I then came back home for taking a quick bath and later went to my office.
I was waiting for Samwell as I wanted to know if she said anything about me. As soon as I left the meeting room, Lara came running towards me and told me that Samwell wanted to see me.
I gave her a nod and went straight to my office. I was sitting on the sofa while reading a newspaper when Samwell came inside and sat in front of me.
He rested his hands on his knees and looked at me. “Did you drop her safely back home?”, I asked him while setting the newspaper back on the table.
He nodded at me and asked me, “Have you appointed another bodyguard for her?” “No. She doesn’t want anyone to protect her and don’t you remember how she ditched Samuel on her way to the supermarket?”, I said smiling, reminiscing the moment when she told me this.
He nodded at me and said, “But you know that you need to ensure her safety even when she doesn’t have any interest in it. Why don’t you tell Kyle to look after her? She knows him and you know that Kyle is perfect for the job. He has been in this job protecting you for years and he hasn’t ever failed in his job.” I rolled my tongue in my mouth while looking to the other side of my office and said, “No. I will ask Lara to ask the agency to send me their best bodyguard by tomorrow morning. I need Kyle with me here.”
Samwell just gave me a small smile and I looked at him with a confused look on his face. “How was her mood in the morning?”, I asked Samwell while taking a sip of my coffee, hiding my face behind it.
“Sour. She actually looked pissed. She didn’t even have breakfast”, Samwell said while taking a cookie from the dish. I looked at him with a frown on my face and told him immediately, “Okay. I will get back to my work now.”
Samwell took this as a clue to leave and I was left alone in the room with a million questions in my mind. Was she pissed because I kissed her?
Didn’t she like it? She might have thought of me as some creep who was just trying to get in her pants.
Oh my god! Should I call her?
Probably not. I should go and meet her today.
That would be a far better option than to have this conversation on call. I’ll tell her that I am sorry although I am not.
I wanted to kiss her yesterday since the time I laid my eyes on her.
Amber’s POV:
I asked Samwell to drop me at my dorm room as I wanted to take a bath before I make my way to Ethan’s. I took cheeseburgers and fries when I went to Ethan’s place.
As soon as I reached his place, he hugged me and looked at me as if checking to see if I was fine. “I brought this”, I said while giving the packet to him.
He peeped inside the bag and said while scrunching his eyebrows. “You are stressed. Come on, get it out”, he said while pulling me inside his bedroom.
“How do you know that?”, I asked him while laying my head on his shoulder while he got the burgers out on a plate. “Because you brought 5 cheeseburgers when there are just the two of us. And so you are definitely planning to over eat which you only do when you are too stressed. And to top it all you brought pork burgers which you don’t like and you eat them when you want to punish yourself. So this packet is a disaster that proves that you are not in your right mind”, he said while licking his thumb.
I hugged him while tears came down my cheeks and murmured, “I love you, Ethan. I don’t know what would I do without you.” He smiled at me and while kissing me on the cheek he said, “You don’t need to think about being without me because it is not happening. I am even following you to your grave. Now come on, get it out. I am excited.”
I took a mouthful of my cheeseburger and said him, “I kissed Ryan.” He looked at me with his eyes wide and his mouth open and licked his lips before saying, “Isn’t that a good thing? We should celebrate it with pizzas and cookies.”
I shook my head and said, “He wasn’t there when I woke up today. He might have panicked and left at night. So that means” “He regretted it”, Ethan said, completing my sentence and pulling me into another hug.
“I feel so bad for you, Amber. But there is a possibility that he might have some urgent work”, Ethan said while rubbing my back. “His driver told me the same thing when I got up in the morning. But what urgent work requires his attention that too in the middle of the night? He is even getting a divorce from that Barbie girl and so even the possibility of her calling him and telling him to get his ass back home, gets over”, I said while pouting.
Ethan held me by my shoulders and looked me at me with a confused look and asked, “Did you just say that he is getting a divorce? What the hell is happening? I can’t handle so many surprises in a single hour.” I kept my burger back in the plate and explained everything to him from the very scratch.
After that, he got up from the bed and placed both his hands behind his head and said surprisingly, “Oh my god! That guy is deep in shit, baby. Holy fuck! Just imagine when this news gets out and the amount of dirt the media is gonna dig out on Mr. Sexy pants and that Barbie girl. This is just gonna get dirty and I just fear that they don’t pull you in it. They already have your pictures now and it won’t take them even a second to add all the pieces and present it to the public as one hot story.” I just sat there thinking about everything that the future could hold for me, all the possibilities and all the allegations that I would be facing in the next few days.
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