“How do you say it again?” Josh asks, squinting as he leans into me so he could hear me better over the loud music.
“Salud,” I repeat with a snicker, and he nods and holds his Margherita glass up.
“SALUD!” He hollers and the people around cheer and repeat it holding up their drinks. “Oh, my God. This place is just awesome. I can’t remember the last time I had such fun.” Josh laughs, clinking his glass with mine.
“Ah, all you really need for a good time, is some decent company. Surround yourself with people who are on the same wavelength as you and you’re good to go.” I say with a shrug and watch as Jo and Aimee dance with two guys they just met.
Josh leans forward and licks his lips. “You know I get it.” I look at him with a smile and shake my head confused.
“Get what?”
“Why Cole is having such a hard time letting you go.” I keep the s
Cole:‘Did you get home, okay?’Me:‘Yes, Cole, I’m a big girl. I can take of myself.’Cole:‘I know you can, but I still worry. What are you up to?’Me:‘Watching a movie with the girls and Josh.’While I wait for his reply, my phone starts ringing with his name on the screen. I excuse myself and walk to my bedroom to answer the phone. “Why are you calling me at this time?” I whisper as I close my bedroom door.“Why is Josh at yours?!” Cole barks and I close my eyes sighing.“I told you we’re watching a movie. What’s it got to do with you anyway?” I ask hotly trying to keep my voice down, and I can hear Cole pacing on his end.“Christ, Shayla, are you trying to make me crazy? Are you deliberately doing this to make me jealous to get a reaction out of me? because you’re fucking succeeding!&rdquo
“Where is he?” He growls, looking around while he steps in through the front door and I move in front of him, placing my hands on his chest. Cole’s angry green eyes meet mine, and we glare at one another.“He left, Cole,” I tell him angrily and push him back. “You can go too.” Cole shakes his head and retakes a step toward me. I crane my neck to look up at him as he towers over me.“What the hell was he doing here in the first place?” He demands, narrowing his eyes at me. I bite my bottom lip as I look up into his eyes.“We were fucking,” I whisper to him, and Cole’s eyes go dark, his jaw clenches tight. “Would you like a play by play?” I add tauntingly, and he bites his bottom lip hard as he glowers at me fiercely.“You better be fucking joking because if he’s laid a fucking finger on you I will destroy him.” He growls, and I smile at him maliciously.
“Uh, Christ, Cole. We have to stop.”I lift my eyes to look up at Shayla and suck her clit hard. “You sure baby?”She gasps, her legs quivering every time I swipe my tongue over her clit. Her fingers curl in my hair, and she rocks her hips up against my mouth. I resist the urge to smile, her mouth may be saying no, but her body is just begging for me. “Ohh fuck.” She moans breathily, biting her lip as I slowly bring her to orgasm. “Cole, oh fuck, I’m gonna…” She pants, biting her lip hard to keep from screaming while she fists the covers tight as she climaxes. I groan hungrily drinking up every little bit of her girl cream while she quivers and pulses against my tongue. “Oh my God..” She pants breathlessly as I kiss up her stomach, pushing her shirt up till I expose her natural c-cup breasts.“Shayla? You up?” We both jump when we hear Aimee call out her name. Shayla’s eye
I stand outside her apartment building and stare up at it. I’m so tired of this empty void deep inside of me. I can’t bear the thought of Shayla loving someone else. It’s selfish, I know, but I want her to love me and only me. My heart clenches when I see Shayla come out on her balcony. I look up watching her as she closes her eyes and wipes her face with her fingers. She’s crying again. When she looks down, she sees me standing by my car, looking up at her. I take my phone out and dial her number. She looks at her phone and answers it.“Cole, what are you doing?”“Let’s go somewhere.” I sigh.“What?”“Let’s just disappear, go somewhere far away from here where no one can find us. Just you and me.” I plead, and she closes her eyes sighing.“In an ideal world, I would have gone anywhere with you, but that's just not an option for us. We can’t do that, Col
He sighs and leans forward regarding me seriously. “You do the right thing and set her free because that’s what love really is. Sacrifice. Have you never heard the expression, set what you love free, and if it returns, it was always meant for you, and if it doesn’t, it was never meant to be?” He expresses, and I sigh.“It’s just easier said than done though, Isn’t it?”“Son, there are two types of love, there’s selfless and selfish love. Love is not only for the good times you share with someone but more so about the hardship you share and doing what’s best for the other person. Like your girl, for example, she loves you so much she walked away and let you be with the one you thought you wanted to be with. That’s selfless love and what you have is selfish love. You’re only thinking about what you want, your pain and you’re no sparing a thought to what she needs. What you’re feelin
I sigh, “I’m fine, Mum, I just wanted to clear my head for a few days.” I assure her, and she sighs in relief.“Where have you been son, your phones been off for days, no one has heard from you? We thought something terrible happened to you.” He says, pulling me in for a hug. “When Josh called me we thought..” I look over at Josh and see he’s on the phone to someone.“I’m fine guys; I’m sorry you all worried. I should have said something, but I just needed some time alone,” I say, and look at Sophie who shakes her head her eyes glimmering with tears. “I’m really sorry.” I apologise, and she gets up and runs over to me, wrapping her arms around my neck.“I was so worried, Tristan, why didn’t you say something to me. I woke up in the middle of the night, and you were gone.” She cries, and I sigh shrugging.“I had no right making you all worry, b
If someone asked me to describe the absolute worst moments of your life— I would have told them about the day I lost my Dad. It was a moment I never wanted to live ever again. That is, of course, until the man you’re in love with tells you he doesn’t want to live anymore in the middle of the night and races off in his sports car. The way my hands and legs shook as I watched him speed off madly down the road. I call him on his phone to tell him to come back, but he doesn’t answer. Instead, he ends my call and turns his phone off. I drop to my knees, screaming in the middle of my living room, my head in my hands.Aimee comes running out of her room when she’s heard me and kneels in front of me, followed by Jo. “Shayla! What happened?!”“What the hell is going on?” Jo asks Aimee who shrugs and shakes her head while she tries to calm me down. “Shay, shhh, shhh, what’s the matter, babe?”“C
“He will be, just please calm down.” He assures me, and I shake my head.“I can’t sit here anymore, Josh. I want to be out there looking for him.” I sniffle, and Josh shakes his head.“He hasn’t left the country, his jet, his yacht, his helicopter they’re all here, so it’s only a matter of time before someone sees him and reports it. Is there anywhere that you two went together that he might have gone? I checked that place by the river. He wasn’t there.”I shake my head, unable to think of a place we shared. “No, I don’t think so,” I confess, closing my eyes. “Josh I’m so scared,” I whisper, and he nods taking my hands into his squeezing them supportively.“He’ll be back, you’ll see.” He assures me, and I nod an endless stream of tears running down my face. “You should get some rest; you look exhausted.” I shake my head