Celestine's POV Lorenzo stretches out his hand, assisting me in getting out of the car. I get out of the car and walk beside him as he hands over the car key to the valet outside the door."Fancy," I murmur, out of ear reach of the young gentleman."Anything for milady." His accent is exaggeratingly deep as he says the last word and I find myself laughing softly. Lorenzo joins in.We are then led by the receptionist to a table for two placed at the window. A band at the corner of the room plays a slow rhythm and a few couples are twirling around the makeshift dance floor. It's everything I imagined.Lorenzo pulls out my chair for me and pushes me in once I've had my seat. Then he walks over to the other end of the table and has his seat."That dress looks gorgeous on you," Lorenzo says.I look down at myself. The dress I'm wearing is a red silky dress which has a deep V-line neck and is cut at the knee. It hugs my body tightly and I have to admit that I do look good. "You don't lo
Lorenzo's POVI can't do this.My throat is closed up and breathing has become the hardest thing to do. I want more time. Everything is going by so fast and I have no idea on how to press pause so I can savor these last few moments. God, the feeling I had the first time we separated is nothing compared to what I'm feeling right now. And we haven't even separated yet. This might just be what kills me."We're here." The smile on my face as I look at Celestine is faux. It's only there so just she doesn't see the big crack in my facade. "Let's go in." She hops down the car and waits for me to exit the car. I sigh, turning the ignition off and getting out of the car.As soon as we get passed the door, Celestine slams my back against the closed door. Where she got the strength from, I have no idea.Her lips latch onto mine next and thoughts fly out of my head. The only thing left in my mind right now is how to make her mine and how to engrave myself so deep in her soul that even after we'v
Celestine's POV I push on Lorenzo's shoulders to get him to lie down on his back.He begrudgingly does so and once he's laying beneath me, I lift myself by my arms above him and drop a kiss on his forehead. Then I go lower, kissing him on the bridge of his nose and then his jaw.My kisses trail down to his chest and I take a nipple between my teeth, dragging on his nipple ring. Lorenzo's breath hitches and his fingers curl into my hair, fisting it as I trail down lower. I pepper kisses over his stomach, running my tongue on the ridges in it until I finally get to the top of his brief. With a finger, I drop it down and Lorenzo lifts his hip for me to get it off. I drop it onto the floor once it's off his body and head back up to his cock. I lick my lips then dive in, wrapping my mouth around the head of his cock and sucking on it.I wrap my fingers around the part I can't fit in my mouth, fisting it and moving my hand up and down as I sucked on his cock."That's enough." Lorenzo gri
Lorenzo's POV The sun streaming through the opened window is what wakes me up. The empty space beside me is what makes me bolt upright on the bed. Celestine isn't here.The shower in the bathroom isn't running and there's no sound coming from the kitchen. Did she go out?I get out of bed and roam around the house, looking for her. All to no avail. Giving up, I go back to the bathroom to get my phone and call her. That's when I see it. The ring. The ring I gave to her last night is on the bedside table.Not wanting to jump to conclusions, I pick up my phone and dial her number. It goes straight to voicemail. I try it again and get the same results.My head is screaming at me that it's obvious what happened but my heart stays in denial. No. Celestine wouldn't do that to me. There's only one way to find out if what I'm thinking about is true.Slowly, I walk over to the wardrobe, scared of what I might find. Breathing in deeply, I swing open the door and inside it is...nothing. There's
Lorenzo's POV "Really? Same with Celestine." Her head tilts to the side like she's trying to figure something out. Controlling my breathing so as not to come off insane, I ask, "Celestine is here?" My heart is beating a mile a minute as a tiny thread of hope forms in my chest. It's like I never learn my lesson. "No. She was here," Lora walks over to the fridge and takes out a juice can. "but she just left. I dropped her off at the airport. She said she needed to go back to school right away. Something about a problem that she had to take care of." I'm the problem that she had to take care of. "Is that so?" Funnily enough, my heart still has that shred of hope. It hasn't withered away. "Which airport did you drop her off at." "Which airport?" She cocks her head and stares at me like she's wondering why on earth I would want to know that. Fuck! I retract my steps. "It's just that it took you a while to get back to the house and I know the nearest airport is a fifteen minutes dri
One week later.Celestine's POVI hate myself.I'm spiraling down a cliff but I can't seem to pull myself back up. I have been a shell of myself for the past week and I don't know how to stop."Celestine." Eve's voice comes from the other side of my closed door. "Please open the door.""Please, go away. I want to be alone." I wrap the blanket around me tighter."You weren't in class today and I brought over some notes and also bought some mint chocolate ice cream. So, please let me in."I'm only doing this for the ice cream.Sighing, I drag myself off the bed and walked zombie-style to the door. I open it to find Eve with a hand full of books and a mint chocolate chip in the other hand.I snatch the ice cream, leaving her with the books. Climbing into my bed again, I dig into the ice cream and moan around a spoonful of it.Eve drops the book in her hand on the dresser and moves over to the window covered with thick black curtains."Done open those," I yell out. I don't need light. The
One month later.Lorenzo's POV "I hate Mr. Norton," Luke grumbles as we wait in line at the Morning Slup, one of the cafes close to the gym. "Why do I need to know how to find the equation of a tangent line to a graph at a particular point? It's not like I'm going to use it in the future. It's completely useless."I bite my tongue to stop myself from telling Luke that he's going to be using it in the future if he plans to be an engineering. Instead, like a good friend, I pat his back. "I'm sure you'll figure it out."The person in front of us moved off to the side, and Luke stepped up to the counter.“Hi, what are you getting?” the barista asked, flashing him a million-watt smile.“Can I get an iced white chocolate mocha and a plain black coffee? Both large.” He leans against the counter as the lady makes our orders."Here you go." She places the drinks on the counter in front of Luke. "Would you like to take along some cupcakes? They're fresh. I baked them this morning." She blushed
One week later.Lorenzo's POV Today's the day. Today is the D-day.It's my father's wedding to Lora. Luke and I had flown in this morning and we are now seated in the huge church. My father is at the altar with the minister by his side. I can't believe I'm watching him get remarried. That trust fund money better be worth this."What in the world are those?" Luke says in a very disgusted voice.I look to the side and see what exactly had put that tone into Luke's voice. It's the bridesmaids. In very hideous dresses. The kind that looks like a rainbow threw up on it and then ran over it with a car before dumping it in the sewers. Dear God. What did Lora do to these poor ladies?I'm still distracted by the horrendous gowns when Celestine walks in but my breathing stops and my heart starts beating faster. Damn it. What is wrong with me? I'm not supposed to be feeling this way. I'm meant to be boiling with blind rage at seeing her face not wondering if I'm going to have a heart attack.An