Chapter No.4

Juliet Diaz:-

“Yes, my place.” He answered, “I figured that you won’t be going back to live with your boyfriend at his place now that he has cheated on you, and since Zacharias is not here to look after you, you have only got me because I am not leaving you on your own when clearly you need someone to look after you.”

“And, you think you could be that person, huh?” I snapped “You do know that just like Gabriel, you are the second last person I want to see, right, although I owe you for saving my life.”

“And, she’s back.” I heard him mutter, earning a death glare from me, and watched him gulp.

“What did you just say?” I asked with gritted teeth while he stood up from his chair and threw his hand in the air to surrender.

“You want to talk about that night, don’t you?” he asked, pacing around in the room, running his fingers in his perfect dark hair, looking sexy as sin making my heart skip a beat.

The truth is that the only person I have loved and crushed over unconditionally since childhood is my brother’s best friend Nicholas who is totally off-limits I know, but my heart doesn’t want to believe it which is why I like to avoid him at every cost by maintaining my distance because I am afraid that I might end up throwing myself on him only to wake up the next morning to hear the words from his mouth that he regretted our night.

“No, I don’t because you clearly stated the morning after, that you regretted sleeping with me. That sleeping with me was a mistake because I was the last woman you wanted to sleep with and the list goes on. I remember every single word that you spoke that morning but again I don’t want to waste my leftover energy on you.” I snapped “You should be glad that I didn’t tell Zach about us or you wouldn’t have been here today but six feet under the ground. Best friend or not, he would have killed you and you know it.”

“Only because I would have let him.” Nicholas spoke with a chuckle “ I won’t apologize for what I spoke to you the other day because it was all true.”

“You are an asshole. You know that?” I asked and he grinned.

“I have been called worse, sweetheart, so this is nothing new to me.” He said in a straight tone “You will be staying in the hospital for a few days until you are discharged. And, then you will be coming to stay with me since I promised your brother to look after you when he is away.”

“But, you said that you didn’t get in contact with him,” I spoke with a frown.

“We talked before you were brought here by paramedics. I was already on my way to your place when I saw you getting wheeled on the stretcher.” He informs “Now excuse me. I just got paged so I need to go. I will send the nurse to look after you.”

“But, I don’t want to come and live with you.” I refused but he didn’t listen and walked out of the room after giving me a sexy wink while I groaned and cursed before the sleep overtook me and I passed out.

The next time I woke up, Nicholas was sitting on the chair with a file in his hand, I guess some patient's record, so lost in reading it until he felt me wake up and looked up at me from the file.

"Hey, you are awake." he said placing the file on the desk instantly "How are you feeling now?" he asked.

"Like shit but better than before." I answered honestly "What are you still doing here? It's after midnight. Shouldn't you be at your home, resting?"

"I finally got in contact with Zacharias and as much as I didn't want to, I had to tell him. He is my friend and I can't hide anything from him. Especially regarding his baby sister."

"Yeah, except from having one night stand with her." I said rolling my eyes "Just so you know, it wasn't just you who regretted that night, I did too because you are not my type." I lied, refusing to meet his eyes when he laughs, as I saw him leaning closer to me. He placed his indes finger below my chin and raised my head so I was looking at him.

"Now, you and I, both know that it is a pure lie." he murmurs in a low and husky tone. His lips were mere-inches apart from mine while my breathing was shallow. All I wanted was to kiss him and forget about everything that I was going through.

 "Whether you like it or not, sweetheart, you are coming with me to stay at my place. I have the direct orders from your brother who clearly stated that if I have to take you to my place by force, I should so now it's upto you if you want to go to my place the easier way or the hard way?"

"I...I can't. Please try to understand that I can't come to live with you." I spoke in barely an audible voice bringing my lips closer to his for the kiss when he cleared his throat and pulled away to speak.

"Too bad, you have no choice." he said picking up the sealed food from the table "You must be hungry. Let me feed you."

"I don't need your help. Just get out and I will eat it myself." I said rolling my eyes "It's a good thing you pulled away from the kiss before it even happened because who knows you would have regretted it too." I remarked.

"Can you please don't act tough right now and listen to me for once?" he asked with a groan "By doing this you are not just giving me a hard time only, but you are giving to yourself too."

"No, I am not." I refused to believe him knowing very well that he was right. It was just me and my ego towards him that refuses to agree with him.

"Yes, you are." he snaps, clearly annoyed "Now, let me feed you because I don't think your broken arm can help you while your other is attached to IV."

"Fine," I said with a groan "Feed me." He gave em a sexy smile before feeding me with his own hands and once I was full, he brought his thumb to clean the corner of my lip with his thumb, only to find him leaning closer to me for a kiss.

I wanted to move back but I couldn't. It was like my face was paralyzed that it couldn't be moved. I prepared myself to feel his lips against mine once again after three long years, but before that can happen a tall, beautiful blonde woman, dressed up in designer dress entered the hospital room in anger and yelled out while glaring dagger at me.

"You bitch! How many times do I have to ask you to stay away from my fiance?!" the woman yelled, reaching towards me, ready to hit as she and I can't stand to see one another forever a single minute "He's mine! He is going to marry me! Me!"

"Anica! What are you doing over here?" Nicholas asked, shocked to see his finace present in the hospital room.

"Were you really going to kiss this bitch when you are soon to get married to me, Nicholas?" Anica demanded "Answer me, dammit!"