Chapter 4-Not my baby

Chapter 4

Not my baby

If there was one thing that Cassie didn't like doing it was driving in the rain. She hated driving in the rain. She hated it so much that she made it a point to always check the weather for any signs of stormy weather or wet roads. She had left her father's company without letting anybody know where she was going but she told everyone that she had a meeting, if her father asked anyone where she was; she told her assistant to tell him that she was busy with wedding planning.

The last thing she wanted was to be confused about how she felt about the person she was going to spend the rest of her life with if she was sure until this afternoon happened and everything transpired the way it did. It was true that she was in love with Jake, and they were both planning their wedding together. Well, sort of because she wanted to do everything by herself ,and prove that she could do everything by herself from start to finish and she was the bride-to-be after all.

After leaving the restaurant she ran as quickly to her car in the heels she was wearing. She remembered that she always kept an overnight bag with comfortable clothing in case she decided to spend the night at Jake's apartment; Jake wasn't at his apartment; he was at her house making her dinner ,and no doubt cooking up a feast. She opened the boot of her car and yanked the bag out. She found her white leather thick sole sneakers. She was just about done changing when she heard something vibrating. When she looked across she saw that Greyson had forgotten his phone. She started processing what had happened and she started hyperventilating, but she quickly pulled herself towards herself and started breathing in and out deeply. She was just about to calm down when she heard someone knocking on her car window.

" Cassie let me in. I'm getting drenched. "

" Go away! "

" I can't do that because my phone is in your car and I'm not getting driven home by Gina. My agreement was with you so either you let me in to come and get my phone or you can leave me stranded! "

" Fine I will do that and you know what I will call your sister and tell your sister that; I will not only deal with you anymore, you are the most stuck-up person I've ever come across. I cannot believe that I was deciding to give you a chance to be who you really are but yet again and you prove me right you can be such a ******! "

" I don't want to catch a cold. Please don't make me beg. "

Against her better judgment, she opened the car and he jumped in. She was so mad that when he closed the door she switched on the air-conditioning and instead of switching it on warm She switched it on cold.

" Fine ."

" Cassie, are you serious? I didn't mean anything I said ,what you heard was just me trying to protect how I feel about you. I do like you,and I don't care if you're not my type or not my kind, can you stop being mean and stop being an ice queen and just put the damn air con to the warmer temperature I'm freezing? "

He started to shiver and he started getting the shakes because he was starting to flashback to the night of the accident and he didn't want to. Cassie was the first woman he was comfortable being around, in a perfect world he would ask her to be hers ,but that was just wishful thinking because he was in a relationship and he needed to honor the relationship or break up the person that he was in a relationship with to just make things happen. Then there was the other factor that Cassandra Hunter was engaged to Jake, and he didn't know what his surname was and he was secretly praying that he would mess up so that they could end up together.

Greyson was shivering cold and he was trying to keep himself warm but the only way he could do it was if he took off the dress shirt he was wearing and pants. Cassie didn't want to make the situation she was in any more awkward ,until Greyson decided to take off his shirt. She didn't see it before but he was well-toned As if this man couldn't be any perfect he had Scars too. Cassie loved imperfectly perfect men. The funny thing was that she was engaged to a guy who was perfect for her according to her father. If temptation was a day it would be today a Thursday evening…The perfect storm, an imperfect stranger who made her feel calm in a strange way, and a man she wished she could have met before she said yes to marrying Jake .

Jake had always given her butterflies and she went with that feeling, so she associated butterflies worth falling in love, and she had just recently read that ;when you feel butterflies and you think that the person you're with is the one, they are in actual fact not the one because butterflies and feeling all giddy and your heart doing somersaults is your body's way of warning you that you're walking into danger you don't know it emotionally because you are high on dopamine , but when the masks come off you realise that you don't actually love the person that you're with, you loved the idea of the person that you're with ,and then you have to decide whether or not you have to tell this person the truth that you don't think that he's the right person for you ,or tell him that the both of you need to work on your communication skills because there's something that is just lacking because you're not high on dopamine anymore.

The high that you were on has come to an optimum level where you are thinking rationally ,and everything you think was perfect in your head turns out to be a whole list of pros and cons ,and then you end up finding out that there are more cons than pros in that whole list that you've drawn up because you gave into the feelings you had at that moment . It's like making important decisions when you're happy. You end up regretting them if they end up hurting you.

Casssie felt like she was being unreasonable , so she reacted the way she would react with a friend.

" I just happen to have extra gym clothes in my bag so you can go to the back seat and change.I swear I won't peek and I won't look and see how sexy you are. "

Cassie had changed the temperature to warm and she could swear she saw a smile dance across Grey's face.

"Cassie, you've already seen me without my shirt on, and don't make things any more awkward. "

"My fiance's sweatpants and hoodie are in the bag so you can borrow them, clean them when you're done and you can bring them back ."

Greyson moved to the back of the car and started changing while Cassie tried to Jack up her phone. When her phone switched on, she had messages flooding in and her phone wouldn't stop vibrating.

Greyson was just about done changing into the black sweats and hoodie. He was folding his work clothes into a neat pile and placing them in the backseat. He moved to the front of the car and looked at Cassie.

" Thank you. "

" Are you done using me ?"

"To be honest not in the way I want to and it's not my style to use people. I want to show you my version of the World and treat you the way you deserve to be treated. "

" I'm fine ."

" You're not. You know how thankful I am that you walked into my life today ?

I thought that my life had no purpose and now I feel as if I've known you my whole life and yet you are the kind of girl I've prayed for but can't get. "

" I've been thinking about something similar. It's been a while since I can just talk to someone or just figure out who someone is off the bat and I don't know why your sister didn't introduce us but I understand why… even though you pretend not to like me you do care. "

" Don't blow my cover. I'm finding it hard to hide the fact that I'm a nice person. I only just pretend to be mean to hide the fact that I'm a softie "

" Noted. As much as I want to continue this conversation I have to go home. Jake is making me dinner. "

" Ok, and I wish it was me making dinner for you After everything you've been through today. The last thing you need is to go home to someone that you pretend to love right?"

She started the car and drove

" Why do you think I'm pretending? Is it an observation that you've made, have you seen the person that I'm with somewhere?"

" I signed an NDA with Jake. I can tell the story because I need to heal. "

"I understood the first time you told me."

" If I thought this was the fastest way to get home then I was wrong because look how slow the traffic is moving and it's almost like 8:30."

" I can drive. "

" No, not my baby."

She didn't think that there would be traffic bad as predicted as soon as they went onto the main road there was a lot of traffic.

The main road was the quickest way to get home and now it had become the longest way to get home because cars were moving at a snail's pace. The traffic wasn't gridlocked but it was moving slowly. Cassie's phone rang and she answered it. Before she could speak, the person on the other end spoke.

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