Chapter 12

Laura

I sat in the cafe with the milk tea and a cinnamon roll drenched in raspberry pudding on the table in front of me.

The cafe was busy just like my mind but I sat in a more cozy and quiet section with a view of the outside world.

I wrapped my lips around my paper straw and took a long sip of my drink before taking a bite of my cinnamon roll.

“My life can’t be real!” I said to myself after taking in a deep, frustrated breath.

I haven’t gotten a call from Adlan since last night and that alone was driving me nuts. Hiding behind my ego and sinking in my pride, I wasn’t willing to give a call to him either.

“It wasn’t my fault!”

Last night, we were so passion-driven with intense sensual feelings. He was aroused and his boner was piercing through my inner thighs, throbbing against my lower skin.

I was about to explode from the intense feeling of sexual emotions that drove me to stroke his cock.

He moaned in my ears and let out a soft smile.

He was ready to own me. Consume me. Make my legs tremble and yes, I was willing to take it all.

By now, we were butt naked and the action just needed to take place but for some reason, he wanted to take it slow with me. He wanted to spend more time foreplaying while my coochie pot was drenched in my juice.

As he kissed me, he whispered to my ears. “I want to feel you so bad but since you are brand new, I have to be gentle with you.”

I love me a gentleman.

He crashed his lips on mine and as he did so, I stroked his full-blown cock that had risen to its full length and as he moaned, he moves his hand slowly to my drenched coochie.

He played with my clit and my vulva, taking his time while he played with it. It made a squelching sound and that seemed to drive him more to the path of ecstasy.

“You are soaked, mama. I love it here,” he said.

He then slowly raised his body above me, locking eyes with me as he moved down to eat me up.

Then he paused, then jerked backwards.

My nostrils had somehow caught the obvious. That metallic, cold smell but I hoped and prayed it wasn’t but the look on Adlan’s face almost proved me right.

“I…I…” he swallowed hard. “I didn’t penetrate yet. Why…” he stared at his fingers and then back at my face. “Why is it red here?” his voice was quivering as though he had just witnessed a murder scene.

Oh shit!

I hurriedly sat up in bed, staining the sheet more. I moved back from him before staring down on the bed.

Shit!

I looked back up at his face with a sorry look before speaking. “My period came early.”

He blinked away after my words and got up from the bed before putting his clothes back on and then walking to the bathroom.

He got back out and walked up to me. I froze in my space, curled up like a canned fish. I had no idea what I expected from him but it definitely wasn’t what he did.

He kissed my forehead.

He kissed my forehead with a sense of ‘it’s all good but I can’t do this!’ before walking out of the room.

After all, I wasn’t drenched in my juice but my period. Talk about bad timing, talk about unexpected reactions.

Thinking about it all again now made me realise how bad the situation was. Maybe I wasn’t calling him due to how embarrassed I was and still am, not because I was egoistic.

I shook my head off and quickly wiped the tears off the corner of my eyes and took a bite of my snack.

I was munching my cinnamon roll passionately when a lady walked up to me with a bright, broad smile. I mean, with all thirty-twos out.

I looked behind me but no one was there. So, definitely, the smile was meant for me.

“Laura?” she said more like a question than a statement.

“Yes,” I answered uncertainly.

“We attended the same high school downtown in Ottawa.”

“I think you got the wrong person,” I said as nicely as I could and her smile subsided and her cheeks flushed.

“You left quite early to a different school but I’m most certain it's you,”

“We probably look alike but I didn't go to a school in Ottawa. As a matter of fact, I have never been to Canada.”

“Really?”

“Yes,” I replied.

“I apologize then. You two just seem to be so similar but thinking about it now, I think she has a different colour of hair,” she smiled again and I returned it just to make her more comfortable.

“What colour was her hair?”

“I think it was black but there was a rumour she went blonde before she left the school. I didn't get to see it though,”

“Funnily enough, I planned on going fully blonde,”

“That would have made you ‘her’” she laughed and I joined. “You look beautiful by the way. You’d fit in as a model.”

“That’s flattering. Thank you!”

“Here’s my card in case modelling is your calling,” she slid the card on the table and I smiled at her.

“Sure. Thank you!”

That has to be the longest conversation I have ever had with a person and in a way, I kind of appreciate it.

I stared at the card and thought hard for a minute, speaking out to myself. “I have never owned one. Never been in a position to,”

I facepalmed and thought about my life for a while and the reason I seem not to have achieved a lot. I had almost forgotten about my brother and the debt that I kept paying.

He is the only family I had and I just cannot afford to watch him waste away so I took it upon myself to pay his debt and somehow, take the fall for him.

Suddenly, a car’s screeching sound echoed outside the cafe with its brake noisily calling for attention and in no time, the scene was crowded up.

There had been an accident.

I wasn't going to get up to the scene but there was something within that pushed me.

As I managed to find my way through tons of people trying to call an ambulance, I saw a body lying on the ground. Lifeless.

The face looked familiar but as I moved closer to get a clearer view, my mind went blank and my world came crashing at my feet.

Everything went quiet and my knees weakened, causing me to fall to the ground.

It was my brother.

That’s not possible. Why was he here? Christian was in London for his master's degree! He couldn’t have possibly been lying lifeless in LA!

“Call the ambulance!!!” I yelled at the top of my voice.