EMILYSarah’s flat was a regular one—a tiny space in a building with over 200 other flats. It was small but neat, and she had a cat.“Sorry about the size, I know you’re not used to staying somewhere so small.” She apologized.I saw in her eyes that she wished she had more to offer me, wished she could give me more. What she didn’t know was that she had given me more than enough. I went through today unscattered, thanks to her alone. I wondered how it would have gone if I had navigated the whole place myself.“What’s her name?” I asked, referring to the cat.“It’s male and his name is Emerald.” She replied behind me.I ran my hands through the sleeping cat’s fur and watched it wake up, “Oh, the eyes.” It had beautiful glassy eyes, blue and sparkly. Emerald. “It’s beautiful.”She smiled, proud of herself, “He’s just getting started, he’s going to be so big and magnificent, he;s a siberran breed.”“Ah,” I nodded, I had seen one before, they were indeed magnificent.“How do you feel?” Sh
EMILY“That was delicious. You’re going to teach me how to cook like you.” I said as I stuffed my mouth with food.A blush rose to Sarah’s cheek and I couldn’t help but wonder if she was really older than me. Her phone buzzed and she picked it up, “Oh, it’s my dad, he’s in town. Is it a vacation period? He’s at the resort too.” Then her eyes perked up, “Do you want to meet him?” She asked.I shrugged, I was jealous of her relationship with her dad but what could I do, “Sure.”“Okay, we’ll go there tomorrow.”Later, it was getting late and my eyes grew heavy, Sarah noticed, “I’ll take the couch and you’ll take the bed.” She said.I frowned. “Why can’t we share the bed?” I didn’t like her sleeping on the couch for me. I hated sleeping on the couch, it made my whole body hurt, a year of luxury had changed me in so many ways. Alexandro had seen to it that a mediocre life would never appeal to me again.“No, it’s too small for two people,” she said taking me to the room. I had nothing open
EMILYWe contacted Alexandro first thing in the morning, telling him I was fine and he shouldn’t try to find me. They wouldn’t even guess I was with Sarah so I knew they were on a long way in the opposite direction of finding me.Sarah and I agreed to go see her dad this morning and while she seemed excited about it, I was internally praying we didn’t bump into Amelia. I did not want to see her. I hoped I never did too.Sarah changed into three different dresses before she threw her hands in the air in defeat. “I don’t know what to wear.” She cried.“You’re good at choosing clothes. Just pick anything.” I shrugged.“The thing is, my dad, loves sexy dresses, heels, and those sorts, but they’re not my thing, and we're going to a beach, I fear I might embarrass myself. But there’s also a higher chance of him agreeing straight away if he loved my dress and-.”“Wait.” I just had to stop her, she just said something that was very much foreign to my ears. “You’re going there to ask for his p
EMILY“This is freaky!” Sarah exclaimed. Yeah, enough to freak her out. It was bad enough that we walked into people having sex but it was worse when one was a mother we shared while the second party was her father.“I need to delete the last two minutes from my memory,” I cried. “I think I saw your dad’s ass. And I didn’t even see his face.” I cried.“They are together?” Sarah’s face was still plain with shock as we sat on the balcony.“I doubt, I think he’s trying to win her back, he wouldn’t buy her diamonds if it were just to get an orgasm.” I shrugged.“You’re crude. I’m serious, this can’t be happening.” I shook her head but I doubt if her thought was about deleting the memory of the sight we just saw.I couldn’t feel whatever was going on in her head because our situation was different. Although we shared a mother, we had different fathers and for her, it was her mother and father involved.The sight of Amelia and Sarah’s dad's tangled limb was enough to snuff any goodwill I ha
EMILYI thought I’d be happy that Sarah had finally gotten her senses and would stop loving her father blindly, but as I saw the look on her face the moment the realization hit her, I felt like a bitch.I just broke a family and disbanded a team. Sarah had been on her father’s side all her life and now she was going to be alone. I wasn’t her teammate yet. Although we started on the right foot now no one knows tomorrow. We might never become very close.And now she was alone, all thanks to me. Would it have been better to let her be delusional? Delusion is the solution. No. delusion was delusion. It was only less painful.I was no different from Alexandro.“Let’s get out of here.” Sarah didn’t wait for me to answer before she stood up and walked away.“My diamonds.” Amelia cried but Sarah didn’t look back. I followed her out.Sarah took giant strides and I had to run to catch up with her. We met in the elevator. “Maybe you should talk it out with your dad. Don’t let Amelia influence yo
EMILY“Where have you been?” I murmured sweetly, sounding like I missed him when in truth it had been him searching for me.Alexandro slipped a possessive hand around my waist and faced Portia. “You should know not to cross your boundary.” And with that, we walked toward Nina.“Emily!” Nina shrieked as she sighted me, “Have I ever offended you? You just disappeared.” She scolded but her eyes were light. I wondered if it was real.Bella had made me skeptical about even people who acted nice.I played along, trying not to show my doubt and being as sincere as I could be. I kissed both of her cheeks and whispered into her ears, “Honeymoon phase.”Maybe because I was so close to her, she saw her eyes flicker, and her next words were carefully picked, “Should we expect a baby soon?” Nina asked sweetly.I didn’t know why I was so sure but I knew. She knew about my baby. I willed myself not to show my pain and moved back to stand beside Alexandro before I replied to her. I needed his support
EMILYSomeone pushed Portia off me with so much force that she screamed.I struggled to come pull my head out of the water, forcing the water I had swallowed out of my stomach and trying to clear my lungs.I looked up to see Amelia holding Portia down and pulling her out of the water. The woman was dumped. Wasn’t it me she should be helping?I walked offshore with unsteady legs. What just happened?Amelia held Portia down, her fingers tangled in Portia’s hair as she stared at me with disgust. “You’re pretty but too weak. This tiny thing would never have taken Sarah down so easily.”“And you have mood swings.” I retorted. She insulted Sarah yesterday, saying she wished Sarah was more like me and now she insulted me that Sarah was stronger. I didn’t take any offense in it though. While she was wrong about Sarah being unable to attract a man, she was right about the fact that I wasn’t as strong as Sarah.Portia groaned, trying to wringle out of Amelia’s hold but Amelia held fast. She did
ALEXANDRO“Emily! Emily!” I shook her but she didn’t wake up.She was fighting in her sleep, struggling and sweating but didn’t come awake. It seemed like shaking her forcefully wasn’t working so I cradled her into my arms, squeezed her into a hug, willing her to stop trembling. Thankfully it worked. She didn’t wake up but she slept more peacefully, I didn’t want to let go of her.Sarah sighed in relief as we both saw that Emily was calm. I wondered why Emily had chosen to ask for her help instead of listening to me. The girl lived in one of the numerous cramped apartments in Paris and from the background check I did on her, she was nobody.Sarah caressed Emily’s hair even while I held Emily and murmured, “I shouldn’t have taught her to swim. She got too comfortable in the water.”The action was too intimate, I didn’t like it. “Who are you? Why did Emily come to you?” I shot at her. I’d have slapped her hand away from Emily’s hair but the action seemed to soon Emily so I let her be. “