I wear my best comfortable clothes for today because I want to represent myself not only as Dmitri’s guest but a respected feature writer of Manhattan Heights. I wear red high-waist bell-bottom pants, and a sexy white bralette with a zigzag string pattern at the back, and I finish it up with a brown leather turtleneck cut-out long sleeve that only covers my neck, shoulder, and arms.Lastly, I use gladiator black sandal heels. Then I bring my best weapon in feature writing, a polaroid camera, and a brooch pen recorder. Dmitri arranges the schedule, and by ten in the morning, someone will pick me up from my room. Not even a second late, the doorbell rings at exactly ten in the morning. Jeff’s face is the first thing I see upon opening the door. His eyes lavish in my wardrobe and get stuck a little bit on my face. So I start with a jest, “Jeff, you may want to close your mouth, or else you can’t stop it from drooling.”The woman beside her laughs at my joke, while Jeff turns red. “W
“Ava, I like you a lot, and if only you aren’t my boss’s woman, I would have already kissed you. I’ve fallen for you the moment I saw you,” this statement put me on a pedestal of addicting happiness. Well, my love life isn’t something others would have wanted. My first and last relationship was more on talk and not show, while the current one, is not even a relationship and more on a sexual relationship. But this man, who is sitting in front of me is just the right taste for me, a man who isn’t all talk, and who isn’t afraid to say what he feels either. Now that he is holding my hand, I can feel his warmth, and the way he looks at me, I could melt away. So without any delay, I jump at the opportunity and blurts out, “I am nobody’s woman, well, for now,” I emphasize the words ‘nobody’ and ‘for now’. He couldn’t hide the exuberance he is feeling at the moment. His dopamine seems really active when he heard my last statement. “So, you aren’t Mr. Sullivan’s woman?” he clarifies with
While I am fixing my clothes, I saw Dee lurking around my pouch on the bedside table. “Hey, what are you looking for? You’ve been searching it in and out?” I question him while putting on my earrings. He ignores me and just continues with what he’s doing. Then he picks something up and then walks towards me. He hugs me from the back and shows me the picture, then he bites my ear and whispers, “You look stunning, and stunned in this picture.”I look at it and try to snatch it from him, but he hugs me tighter and starts kissing my neck. “Oh, Dee, we are both going to be late, we still need to travel, stop mooching and sizing my breast,” I casually call him out. “Tell me, Avery, are you really going out with other guys?” he turns me so I could face him. His eyes are quite serious, so I brush his nose with my fingers like he always does, “Are you going to fuck other girls?” I throw the questions back at him.“But, fucking and dating are different,” he insists. “On your terms, yes,
“Fuck off!” is what she says to me, while Nikolai quietly looks at me.K’s face tells me that she couldn’t believe what I just said. So she squeezes my hand and goes off blabbering something gibberish,“A, so after all that drama with Seid, and your break up and your fated encounter with Dmitri, and your full obsession of him just some days ago, now you are telling me that you are so over him?”Then she raises the picture in her hand while saying, “And now you are telling me, that you are in love with this guy in this picture?” her eyebrows raise.I know K, and I know how keen she is, and how stubborn she could be, “Yes, that’s what I’m telling you. So, you won’t be seeing him with me, anymore.”I take a sip of the refreshment drink in front of me. But K’s eyes are stuck on me, “Hmm, so where is he now? Why aren’t you with him? Or why isn’t he with you?”“Cause, this time I bet on fate. I need something more convincing than how I met Dee, so I can easily get over him,” my tongue slips
I finally arrive in front of K’s apartment. The taxi parks in front of the building, “Here, please take a ten-dollar tip,” I give my card and instruct the driver. “Thank you, madam, I hope you aren’t so famous,” he teases me, I get my card and winks at him. I walk to the entrance and ride the elevator as calmly as I am. Little did I know the disaster waving at me and my future. Once the elevator dings, I walk out and then go straight to K’s unit. I look for her unit number, and there it is. So I ring the doorbell, and then her voice, which sounds like a spy is heard through the intercom, “Who is it?” she whispers. So I whisper back, “It’s me, your bestfriend, Avery Anderson, over,” then I giggle. I hear the locks being opened. I am about to greet her but the moment the door opens narrowly, she pulls me without any finesse and then looks outside as if I’m being followed. Then she immediately shuts the door and then sighs deeply. She points at me with her finger looking extremely
I go straight to my parents’ mausoleum. It is the place where I go if I don’t want anyone to find me and if I want to cry my heart out. I don’t know what the hell happened, but all I know is I became an internet sensation overnight. My goodness, who would have thought that it will be the end of me, just because of my sexual desires.“Mom, Dad, what should I do? Am I wrong for wanting him? Did I do something wrong? It’s not as if he’s married, right? He’s single. But why is this happening to me? Why?”What should I do? Where should I go? What about my career? Will I still salvage it? What about my business? All these questions pop at the same time.I sit down in the middle of them and succumbs to loneliness. I bury my head on my arms that are placed on top of my parents.But because of too much paranoia, I could feel as if someone’s watching me here, “Don’t tell me the media and paparazzi are already here?” I thought. So I shout, “Respect my parents and leave me be, just wait until
No one talks until we get to his penthouse. We have competition now of who’s best fit for being mute. And despite my gloating right now, I don’t have much choice but to follow wherever he drags me to since I didn’t have my wallet nor my smartphone with me. Once we are inside, he confidently leaves me alone while he goes straight to the tub. He knows I can’t run since the elevator inside his room only recognizes his fingerprint. So I just go inside his study room. I cry and cry until there’s no more left to cry. I blame myself for being such a whore. I blame myself for everything. My throat hurts trying to suppress my weeping sound. I cover my mouth with my two hands and just lay down on the couch. After half an hour, I hear Dmitri comes out of the comfort room, but I have no strength to stand so I just stay there.When he realizes I am in the study room, he follows me. And there, sees the vulnerable side of me, lethargic, demotivated, wasted. He doesn’t say a word and we avoid e
After having breakfast, Dmitri and I really spend the day inside his penthouse. Like he said, he has no intention of going to work today. “Are you sure you are not going to work or what?” I ask him. “Yes, I want to be with you and I also need a break from all those paparazzi,” he explains with a smile on his face like it is nothing. “Okay, so let’s see,” I utter thinking of what to do next, “Aha, why don’t we watch some movies?” I search for the remote around the bedside table and Dmitri is saying something, “I think it is best not to open the televi-” he warns, but before he could finish the sentence, I already clicked the power button. The static sound starts and a woman’s voice reporting fades in until the television shows its true color and sound. “We are now outside the building where the penthouse of the renowned young billionaire Dmitri Sullivan is located. People have divided commentaries about the said bachelor. All the more, their company’s stock market price plummets