Chapter Sux

" what do you want from me? I asked nonchalantly. I was starting to get irritated by everything. I find it offensive for him to just appear from nowhere and ruin my plans for the day just so I could follow him around. He was trying to rub off his attainments in my face.

" You should take a chill pill, Gab. I have not kidnapped you." He muttered throwing on another shirt while peeking at me. I rolled my eyes at him and went to sit on the couch in the corner of the room.

He walked over to me and sat beside me. K could feel the fervor exuding from his body. " would you like anything to drink?"

" No. I replied blatantly and folded my arms under my breasts. Please can you go ahead and tell me whatever reason you have brought me here, I still have things to do."

He shrugged and tugged closer to me. " you mean shopping right? You don't have to worry about it, I will have that taken care of."

" I don't need your help." I countered.

" Urgh! Why do you have to be so difficult?" Did he whine?

" Because I'm Gabrielle Foster."

He went mute for a second." That's fair enough." He mutters in between his breath.

Silence engulfed the entire room. I checked the time on my phone and it said 6:50 pm. Great now my shopping has been canceled until tomorrow and all because of him. Way to ruin my plans, Cole.

" There is no need to beat around the bush, I will go ahead and say that I have an outstanding strategy that would benefit both of us ."

I raised my head to have a good look at him. Our eyes met inciting some sort of spark inside my head. Darn it!

" what do you mean?"

He sat up and faced me appropriately. " well... I am aware of your wedding opprobrium. I understand how that feels because I just went through a painful separation myself, I know how pained you must be at the moment. I lost half of my property, but most importantly I lost my wife and daughter too. My family thought it was a better idea to leave her with the mom at the moment since she is still so young. I had pleaded with her to not go away but she decided to cut me off. He sighed and gazed at me with a smirk.

I smirked in disbelief. " How can you lose everything, when you are De Cole Manchester."

He smiled again. " I know even you won't believe me, but it's fine. I am a human as well and also have problems in my life just like you do. Being 'De Cole Manchester' has taken so much from me more than I gained but who cares?"

I felt pity for him, for once the rage in my heart melted away seeing how miserable he looked while telling his story. I could understand his pain, who knows better than me what it feels like to be abandoned by your loved one, first my dad and recently Connor? Still, I shrugged off the emotions and acted apathetically. " And what does that have to do with me?"

" Well... I thought since obviously, we seem to be in the same boat that we could figure out a way to get our loved ones back. You get your fiancee and I get my family back."

" But how do we do that? "

" By coming together, we feign to the world a fake relationship between us. Nothing makes partners understand what they had lost than seeing the ones they left leading a happy life with another person."

" That's absurd. What made you think such an idea makes any sense and could work on our cases? What you need is to fight and get your family back, not some plan to make your wife jealous. "

" you are right but if I may be honest with you, I want to help you heal. Forget about my marital problem, if there's one thing I hate it's a man who doesn't respect a woman's feelings. "

" Thank you but no. I don't want to be part of your ridiculous agenda, please."

" Think about this Gab, don't you want to know why your ex-finance abandoned you at the alter without any explanation? Why did he choose another woman over you?"

His words got me thinking, that perhaps he is right. I would want to know why he left me all alone to be humiliated like this. did  Why he forget everything we shared in a split of seconds and chose another woman over me." I wipe the tears in my eyes once I noticed something dripping. " But why did you choose to help me, they are lots of girls out there. I mean I am five years older than you are which means you could easily get any girl your age that you want and pose with her. Why me?"

He gleamed as though he had something else in mind. " I believe we see the same goal. And perhaps this is a way fate chose to bring two strangers together." He muttered.

" Okay."

" is that a yes?"

" yeah."

" Alright, so we have a deal?"

" yes. Deal."

It was all fake, so I was in for it. No feelings attached, just two broken hearts going through some shitty stuff and are about to do something crazy just to achieve their goals in life. Perhaps we might be able to find peace in the end.

Cole's POV

I must do this if it's the only way that I finally got distracted from my dilemmas. I need her as a distraction for me, she is the perfect beguilement that I need in my life. Rachel had left me after all we shared, she didn't look back or wonder how I will be to survive without her. Even though it's just a few months that I have left, at least I will be able to do something with my life.

It feels like it's merely yesterday when I met her in Europe on my vacation, she allured me with her beauty and have me falling head over heels for her.

Oh dear Rachel, if I was told by anyone that you would walk away just when I needed you the most in my life, I don't think I would have let that person walk the face of the earth without his or her tongue ripped off their body.