4. Plans

"Hey, please help me, I beg you, just play along and I will pay you, I promise, with anything that you would want from me! "

Krystie had approached the man, but she had made sure she was low enough to speak so that no one heard what she had spoken to him, she wanted to hurt Alex too, not because she wanted to get him back but because she wanted him to see that she was no longer the naive innocent sweet girl that he was used, she wanted him to have a taste of his own medicine.

The young man had initially looked at Krystie not quite comprehending what she was up to or what exactly she wanted from him, all his life Lucian had always felt disgusted with the ladies who were always making a move on him because he knew none of them liked him but they were just interested in his identity and wealth.

Initially, Lucian would have pushed the lady away but when he saw three pairs of eyes staring at him from behind her, two with shock while one with quite an unfathomable expression, it dawned on him what probably had happened, but he felt the one pair of eyes quite familiar, it looked it his sister's, and it was then it dawned on him that the guy was probably his nephew, Alex, after all it has been six years since they have been parted from each other and ten years without seeing each other, they both had grown up.

Lucian was still deep in his thoughts when he felt the small pairs of hands pull him from behind his neck as the girl tiptoed and kissed him, at first Lucian was so shocked that he didn't react for a second but when he felt the taste of those lips he felt like he wanted to kiss them so badly, and for that he had taken it from there and taken the lead, kissed the girl to his satisfaction, and it seemed like the girl too was in shock when he had kissed her that much.

Lucian had known at a glance that this girl was so inexperienced in kissing, and at a closer look, he had noted that she seemed so pure, like an innocent lamb yet to be tamed, standing before an angry lion, but isn't it shocking how the lamb had manager to tame the lion down.

[End of flashback.]

Alex was feeling so hurt as he saw Krystie approach another man in the hotel, he had been with her for almost eight years ever since they were in high school but there was never a time in his life that he had ever thought that he would see her do such a thing because after all she was so much in love with him that whenever they would be fighting she was always the first one to apologize to him and promising to be better even though at times she was not at fault.

One thing that had irked Alex up so far was there was never a day she had ever allowed him to be intimate with her because the farthest they had ever gone was kissing in all the eight years of being together, and that happened only once when he had proposed to her and the crowd had insisted that they kiss, otherwise, it was always hugging because she has always insisted to him that she was not ready yet to lose her virginity.

Alex didn't know why she had never allowed him to be intimate with her when they were so much in love with each other, it just showed him how much she didn't trust him, and this one thing had made him make a bold step, even gone against his parents not because he wanted to but just because he wanted to have her but still it was all in vain because even after proposing to her she had still rejected any form of intimacy between them other than hugging, and maybe kissing him on the cheeks.

Alex had judged his actions of sleeping with her friend that he was a man who had his own needs because the good thing is that her friend had approached him and availed herself to satisfy his manly needs, and it had never dawned on him that maybe he was wrong in the last one and half years that they have been sleeping together with her.

Alex had thought that maybe Krystie wanted to make him jealous when she had approached another man, but one thing he had not thought of was that she would go ahead and kiss the man, and based on how the man too had kissed her it was a clear evidence to him that that was not their first encounter because there is no way a man would just kiss a stranger lady if they were not any familiar with each other.

Just one thing ran in his mind, as he had thought he was the one at fault but in the real sense, she was the one who had been cheating on him all along.

Blinded by his jealousy, Alex had not taken a keen note of whoever the man she had kissed was, instead, he turned around and left dejectedly, and all this while, a certain girl who was sitting at the farthest corner of the room wearing a mask just smiled to herself, everything that was happening was going to her plan, she was being favored in all these situations because obviously Alex would feel disgusted with Krystie and would instead choose her, or so that is what she had thought.

The girl was none other than Cassandra. When she had heard that Krystie had gone to the bar and Alex too was there to make up with Krystie she had come up with her plans to make sure that the two of them would never be together, not in this lifetime when she had her plans to execute with Alex and with Krystie coming again in the picture that would only be a hindrance.

Two weeks ago Cassandra had just realized that she had messed up and no way she would want her mother to know it unless she had a backup plan to convince them otherwise.

Once Alex had left the room Cassandra took a sip from her glass as a mischievous smile appeared at the corners of her lips, she slowly followed Alex who by then was almost getting in his car, she blocked him and smiled at him sweetly, but when Alex had not reacted to her and had instead gave her a disgust look it only made her so much eager to have him trapped in the palm of her hands.

Cassandra had used her wits to convince Alex back into the bar, she had convinced him that she was going to help him get back at Krystie and have his way with her, Alex had blindly believed her more when he had seen the bottle content than she had shown him, it was aphrodisiac that she had promised to spike Krystie's drink with do that Alex would get to be intimate with her, Cassandra was sure that was the only thing that Alex has ever yearned for.

One thing Alex didn't know was that only that one move would make him regret and ruin his life, after all, he was so desperate that he hadn't thought Cassandra would only do that when she had something cooking up for him too.