"What was that about?" Lawrence asks as soon as the call reconnects. "What was what about?" "You look and sound so mean right now, Stella.""Well, that's because it was none of your business", I say as I adjust my sitting position and try to shake off the uncomfortable feeling growing within me with regards to Carl and my bestfriend. Mean or not, there's a storm raging inside of me. Because I know that even though Tina is not the most innocent, her feelings for Carl are and as far as I know Carl, his speciality is taking advantage of others while appearing as their guardian angel. I've been there, so I can imagine. However he has proved sweet to her, something he didn't keep up with me which means they might really have something going on, so I forcefully dispel the feeling to focus on this call. "I guess that's my cue to get off the call", Lawrence says with a whistle and points his index finger forward as if to hang up. "Wait wait, not yet", I stop him. If there is anyone wh
Lawrence and I agreed to meet and pay Elijah a visit today."The plan is to interrogate him, and if he appears unrepentant, we fuck him up your way." "Sounds nice", I add a smile and drink the rest of my expresso. "Do you have his location?" "Yup, he's a fancy guy, look", I hand him my phone so he can scroll through his I*******m page. "This looks familiar." "Of course it does for you fancy people. That's the 2nd most expensive estate in this city." I grab my phone from his hold and continue scrolling. Tina never really showed me his pictures and only ever went on and on about how cool and handsome he is, but he's a whole lot more than just handsome. "Look, his bio says he's mixed, partly Irish." "I'm partly Italian too, look at me instead." "Come on, don't go sulking over that.""Fine, when you're done ogling at the handsome offender and mocking me, maybe we'll take our leave." "Tch", I grab my bag, "why make it sound like it's a bad thing?" "Never said that", he raises his
the gate to a woman's heart is her bellyI moan at the tantalizing smell of food that woke me up. With a groan, I get off bed and start to walk, blindly led by my nose following the oath of the interesting aroma. "Open your eyes, it'll be a pain in the ass if you bump into the wall or fall." "What's this delicious aroma?" I open my eyes and come to a stop just before I collide with the wall. "That was close, good thing you listened to me.""Whatever." "So", he drawls and claps his hands with a proud smile, " made a variety of dishes while you were sleeping and if you're willing, please let them feel your savory buds?" "Acting so kind like this, are you trying to win me over?""And here I thought I already had." "In your dreams, I'm not that easy you know?"After he suggested I take a nap to recover from all the sex, he disappeared and I fell asleep. "Tess ma'am." "Good, now lead the way." My strides are majestic as I follow behind him and like he'd mentioned, it's a feast, givi
I decide to take a warm shower so I don't have to wait much after but even though I'm done and wrapped in nothing but a gray towel and a knee length t-shirt, he's still yet to be back, at least, until I hear a knock on the door. I roll my eyes and start to walk down the spiral staircase covered with a pink and black protective rug with the silver hold. "There's no use being dramatic, how was your trip?" "What trip?" I almost trip from shock at the foot of the stairs when I hear the reply. "Uhn?" I turn to look at whoever owns the voice, because Lawrence definitely didn't sound like a female the last time we spoke and right in front of the door is a lady. A beautiful curvy lady, Lawrence' perfect type. "Who are you and what are you doing in my man's house?" Her voice is not welcoming in any sense. Every step she takes towards me frightens me because she looks like she might hit me. "Are you deaf or something?" "I'm not deaf or something, I'm Stella." I totally forgot I was aske
I step out from behind his protective shield to confirm my thoughts. His eyes are glassy. A frown immediately forms on my face as I turn to face Kenzie. "Whatever is going on here can be settled between you two later, right?" It's my turn to protect him now,but the bitch scoffs and flips her hair to the back. "It's needless to hurt each other emotionally", and this bitch rewards my courage with a ugly laughter. "What's funny?" "You. You are a clown, just like she was. Right, let me ask, did you get plastic surgery just to look like her?" She asks and this time I'm totally confused and done with being compared to someone I don't even know, but I'm not about to fuck anything up by asking questions."That's okay", the protectiveness appears in his voice again and again, I recognize the fact that it's not for me. I'm confused, but I'm also leaking. Lawrence takes a deep breath then turns to me, "I'm sorry this is happening, but she's very stubborn and might not leave immediately, h
With nothing but pain and hurt in my mind, I head upstairs to cuddle up on my bed. The house is empty and I couldn't be more grateful. It feels like pain from a breakup and I want to take it out on something. The camera Carl kept in my room perhaps, besides, he's the reason why all this is happening. If he hadn't been cunny in the first place, I wouldn't have gotten attached to the fakeness of his charms and I wouldn't have gone to the club that night. After stacking chairs upon chairs, I finally manage to retrieve it out of its place and without a second thought, I throw it to the ground and start to stomp on it. Letting a guy stalk you and touching yourself to please him is just crazy, but it all ends here. I'm going to go back to who I was before. The girl known and wanted by nobody. I take another long bath under the shower as I try to wash off any memories from the our meeting to our breakup, but it only brings pain to me and scrubbing my skin till it's red is obviously no
She's helpless. I'd thought her innocence would make her more conservative, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. I smirk and retreat to my room with the scene of what I had just witnessed etched in my memory. This made me understand why Gen Z is always in a hurry to bring out their phones when something is happening. If I had that much useful energy, that would have been my first course of action, but knowing I was also the only one who saw my daughter's supposed love and CEO kiss her best friend is almost enough. I ponder ways to punish him that won't hurt Tina because I know how manipulative the bastard can be. He won't take a minute before making Tina do something that would upset both her and myself. After thinking for a few minutes and coming up with nothing, I give it up and rest for a while before going to make something to eat in the kitchen. Happily, I make us some lunch and leave hers as she might be too upset to come down now. I should probably go check up on he
Stella's POVI've learnt to say no to an extent for the sake of my mental well-being.Trying to push our conversations away and even avoiding being in the same place with her alone... All my actions will eventually put a strain on our friendship, if that is not already happening, but I have to do it else I'll lose it. "I am really so excited to tell you all about our last date, though," Tina says excitedly as she experiments with her food. Breakfast and Carl suddenly decided this was his home. He insisted on making us something and there was no way the family could reject his offer, especially since his girlfriend was the only child here. Tina was so excited and chirpy about why he did the cooking and every one of my attempts to make her leave my room was a failure met with a story about how sweet he was and how he'd asked her to stay out of the kitchen.She was so proud to tell me about how he cared a lot for her and how she was leaning into the idea of marrying him. "Tina, why d