King chuckled, wiped his thumb against his lower lips, and then settled in his chair comfortably.He thought he had had enough of his wife.No, he thought there was nothing she could do or say that would amuse him, but he was wrong.“You are insane, Payton!” He chuckled darkly.“I can say the same for you, King.”“What?” King snapped his brows together and sat upright.“Enough of your games. You should end your relationship with Sasha,” she repeated and he stood up.“Are you kidding?!” He widened his eyes.He was not surprised that she kept talking but that she had the guts to ask that of him.“You will…”“You are asking me to end my relationship with a woman I’ve been with for over two years.”“If I could end my relationship of over two years because of this goddamn marriage, then you should be ready to make sacrifices too!” She retorted angrily.King moved away from his seat and then walked gently to her.“And why should I care about that?”“It should be fair, should it not? You sho
“Mum! What are you saying?!” King hollered.“You heard me loud and clear. Get ready for a honeymoon. I’ll be sponsoring it. Come to think of it, I have never given you a proper gift.”King imagined the smile on his mother’s face and then shook his head.“We don’t…” they were both saying when the call ended and the room fell into a bit of silence.“It is your fault, you know that?!” Payton broke the silence.“What? Mine? How? Did you see me make a call to her to tell her that?”“Do you need to do that? She must have seen the article!” Payton sizzled and King pressed his lips together.What was his mother thinking?She was not the type to meddle in his business this way so what is with the sudden change?“You better find a way to tell her that…”“What? Are you not her favorite person? I remember her saying that you are a wonderful person and you are her favorite too. So? Can’t you talk to your favorite person in the world to change her mind?” King frowned.“I’ve never met anyone as pett
King and Payton got out of the car and then dashed to the big door of the house and when they got there, the door opened, and they adjusted their clothes before they entered.The laughter from Dariel and his mother threw them off guard and they both turned to look at each other to wonder what was funny.“Mum?” King called out as he walked slowly to where the two sat.His mum was on the couch while Dariel sat closely beside her as they both stared at his phone.“Ah! Thank God how two are here,” she finally raised her head to look at them.“Dariel was just telling me. You guys should have talked sooner if you wanted a honeymoon that much,” she said.“W… what?” King widened his eyes.“And, if you wanted a honeymoon, could you not have planned it? It’s not like it is too much or something,” she hissed as she returned her eyes to the screen.“What did Dariel tell you, Mum?” King asked.“What do you mean? I only told her how you told me that you would love to go on a honeymoon so bad with yo
“Drop me at your company. My car is there,” Payton exhaled as she got into the car beside King.“My driver will drop you at the gallery. I’ll send someone to bring your car,” he said.Payton did not say anything but only silently agreed with him and then opened her bag. She removed her phone, and then the car key.Handing the key over to him, she unlocked her phone and then went through the internet.She heaved a sigh of relief as she realized that the article was off the internet already and then looked out of the window.“It is taken down already.”As if he knew what was in her mind, he said.“I know,” she nodded her head, not turning to look at him.“I…did not mean for such pictures to be captured, which caused you to be dragged too,” he stuttered.“I’m glad you are agreeing that it is your fault,” Payton breathed out and shot him a glance.“Is there no way we can convince Mum? We do not need this honeymoon,” she asked:“There is no way, just drop it. The earlier you know that she
King turned to look at Payton who had a hard expression on her face and then glanced at her curled fist under the table.He twitched his lips upward and then breathed out.He hated so much that his wife seemed affected by the presence of her ex-boyfriend.But… What effrontery?They were openly announcing their relationship?Was that not like… not normal?That was her sister’s ex-boyfriend. No?“D… do you know what you are saying? The two of you are in a relationship?” Will asked and then breathed out.“Dad, just give us your blessing already,” Ava smacked her tongue.Will dropped her eyes on Payton, King, and then nodded his head.“Let’s have dinner.”When Payton did not loosen up still, King finally nudged her gently and she turned her head to look at him.“Let’s eat,” he mouthed and she nodded her head.Payton stared at Max who sat closely beside Ava and then breathed out.What was going on in those two’s minds?===“I hope you were not shaken by the recent scandal that my son cause
Payton led King to her room, the one she used before she moved out of the house in silence.When she entered, she blinked the tears that were threatening to fall as she saw that all of her loads had been packed away. There was nothing that reminded her of her room again, and it was painful to see that.In the room was just a big table and she immediately knew that it was her stepmother’s doing.She knew her dad. The last thing he would do was obliterate her trace in the house.She breathed out and nodded her head. Hating the silence in the room, she turned to look at King who walked to the window and looked out of it.She hated the silence. She wanted him to say the piece of his mind, but what could she do when he only looked around the empty room like he was on a tour?“You…” she started but he soon cut her off by asking.“Was this your room?”She nodded her head to answer and he sniffed.He guessed right. Even without being told anything, he could smell her scent which still lingers
Will fondled King’s hand gently and then patted his shoulder before he let go of him.“After her mother died…” he started and moved to the window.“I did everything… I tried everything that I could to make her not feel the emptiness of her mother’s death,” he said as he stared at the blank space of the opened window.“Given the fact that she had witnessed the gruesome death of her mother, I thought that she needed to have a good life and then I supported every decision that she made. I really tried to be a better father for her,” he sniffed and nodded his head.“I don’t know if I am successful in that aspect. No, I know that I am not. I watched my daughter suffer and trapped in the past that she had created for herself,” he said.He was talking about the panic disorder that Payton suffers from.“I took her to many hospitals. I hired the best therapist that I could find but, it was hard to pull her out of the past, they said. Her will matters more.”“I thought marrying another woman wo
King held the car for Payton and waited till she entered before he joined her after throwing at Max another cold glance.He clasped his hands together as the car drove out of the compound and they sat side by side in silence.After a while of sitting in silence, King swallowed and turned to look at Payton who looked out of the window.“H… how is your dad? Is he okay?”Payton nodded her head and sighed. “Yes. It’s just a migraine.”Their eyes met and the memory of them kissing came crashing in which made Payton tear her eyes off him hurriedly.She breathed out in the silence that had fallen in the car and then dropped her index finger on her lips.What were they thinking by kissing each other?King nodded his head as he saw the discomfort on her face and reaction.He would accept other things, but not the awkwardness between them over a kiss.Their relationship was not good, so the least they needed was the awkwardness that was going to set in because of a kiss.“A… about earlier—”“It
“Fucking fuck!” Payton screamed as soon as she entered the room and locked it behind her.She stood transfixed in the middle of the room, covered her mouth with her palms, and then stared into a space.Hold on… did she really have sex with… KING?!No. No way that would happen.That would have never happened.But… How can she explain their naked body joined together on the couch in the morning?Did he really take advantage of her?There was no way she would let King have se—And the memories of the previous night came crashing into her head which made her widen her eyes and then scream."Don’t look so naive. Your dick is shaped like a banana, and I think I had imagined it getting into me once, right?"The words she had said hit her head and she widened her eyes again, this time like it was going to pop out of her head.“THE FUCK— I SAID THAT?!” She screamed at no one in particular and then shook her head.“No way I said that. Jesus! That is defamation!”“But… we truly had sex?” She sl
King couldn’t believe that he was doing this right now. It shouldn’t be right because Payton was so wasted, but he couldn’t bring himself to pull back either. The feeling of her lips on his was so intense, and he couldn’t stop himself from licking her lips like it was a cherry. He slowly pulled her by the waist, but she slipped once more into his arms. He laughed softly, unable to believe that Payton was actually in his arms. "Think about it, you wouldn’t be able to leave my hold if you keep doing this. So, you have all the time in the world to leave now," he said softly."You talk too much," she mumbled as she placed both hands on either side of his face.King growled as he looked into her drunken eyes. "I don’t want to talk too much anymore," he whined as he pulled her head down into a kiss.He could feel her hand all over his body, and he loved it. Their kisses turned sloppy, and Payton tried to slide his shirt off. She was literally wrestling with it at that point. King softly
“What if I told you that the feeling is mutual?” He asked amidst laughter, enjoying every bit of anger that was on her face.“I hate you so so much!” She shrieked and tried to slap his arm again, but he was quick to catch it.He dragged her down to his position, her face just a few inches away from his.“We…” King started, his breath fanning her cheek.“Are we ever going to stop fighting and probably get on the same page?” He asked, almost in a whisper.Payton stared at his pink lips and then breathed out heavily. “I doubt that, asshole.”She pushed him away and then stood upright. She adjusted her clothes and then walked away.King leaned in the chair comfortably, placed his index finger on his lips, and then smiled.“So cute.”He does not know exactly what was cute, but, ‘so cute.’===Payton exhaled as she stabbed the another piece of the stir-fried beef and put it in her mouth.It had been a week and a couple of days since she had that discussion with King and to her greatest surp
King stared at Payton whose legs staggered and then settled on the floor gently.Was she being sentimental because of what he had said?If he knew that he would be getting this reaction from her, he might have told her since.In fact, he would have told her that the moment he found out.“No one believed me,” she started as she picked on her fingers.“Only Savanah did, though.”“Ah… Savannah is my friend, but she has traveled out of the country again,” she said as if he had asked her who Savannah was.“Even my father didn’t believe me. No one did. In fact, it got to a point that I started to believe that maybe, I had done it on purpose. Maybe I had gone to your room that night by myself… or maybe I had set you up like you had claimed…” she inhaled and shook her head.“The truth is not always what we see, right?” She chuckled.“Even Ava did not believe me and that was painful because she knew so well that I would not have done that.”‘But she set you up, dummy.’King thought inwardly.W
When King had arrived home and had not met Payton, he, at first thought she was somewhere around their perimeter but when he walked around and didn’t find her, he proceeded out of their property.Finding Payton with another man was the least of what he was expecting. She didn’t know anyone here, so he did not expect that he would find her with someone. A man especially.They were standing so close to each other that he wondered what they were talking about.Not thinking twice, King rushed over to her, and then wrapped his arm around her waist, like he was marking his territory.“What are you do… doing here?” she struggled to ask the man who refused to let go of her even for a second.“I have been looking for you,” he repeated, still staring at the man.“Ah… he is your…”“I am her husband,” he said as he finally released his grip on Payton.“Why are you here?” Payton grabbed the tip of his clothing.She knew this look in his eyes.He looked like he was ready to pounce on Ramon and then
“I… I did not know you could cook though,” King said after he finally finished eating in silence.“I guess I should have walked around with vegetables hanging around my neck,” she said casually, and he shook his head.“You could have just accepted that compliment without being insultive,” he hissed.“How is that a compliment? You think I could not cook. Is that a compliment?”“Is it not? Women like you don’t know how to cook,” King said as he worked on his juice and he was still drinking it before he realized that he might have said something to annoy the woman.“Now, that is an insult. You cannot tell me otherwise,” Payton seethed and he shook his head.“You think that is an insult?!” He widened his eyes.“Women like me… It sounds like you are being prejudiced.”“Or it is you giving it too much meaning,” he shrugged his shoulders off.“I guess I should not have gone through the hassle of cooking for you.”“It is a hassle?”“You are ungrateful,” Payton smacked her tongue and stood up.
The previous night had to be the most hectic night that Payton had ever had.Did she even close her eyes at all? She doubted it.The evident eye bags were proof on their own.When she and King had retired to the room after a very silent and awkward dinner, she divided the bed with the side pillows on the bed and warned the man sternly to not cross the line.King only watched while she performed what he had called stupidity.It was not like they were little kids that something would happen even if their bodies just touched a little.After the woman finished dividing the bed, he lay on the side of the bed, and he did not know why he had slept off almost immediately.Only when he woke up at midnight did he see that the woman was sleeping, while sitting and her back resting on the wall.He shook his head, and then returned to sleep, comfortably of course.When they woke up, he could hear the woman cussing and mumbling that she had a worse night, but still, he said nothing and had his busi
When the chauffeur dropped them off late at night at the house that their mother had arranged for them, Payton breathed out in relief as she entered the beautiful house that was literally built with glass.While she was outside, she could see the inside clearly and even though she could, she could not wait to enter the house.It was a beautiful glass house that was located by the island, and this was the kind of sight that she had always longed for.Maybe it was nice that she was on this honey— no, vacation.She had not had the chance to travel out for vacation before. It was all for work, and strictly work.It was not that she could not afford to, but she spent all of her time working, and coming up with new ideas.The pressure of running her mother’s art gallery was a bit heavy and she had never admitted it to anyone before.She wanted to do well.She wanted to work so well that no one would blame her mother for leaving her with something like that.And she knew she was trying. She
Payton and King sat in silence in front of each other in the plane as it forced its move forward to the air.Payton leaned her head comfortably in her seat and shook her head.Before they had entered the plane, King and her had tried to persuade their mother but Amerie remained adamant and then went ahead to tell them that if they kept pestering her, she would extend it by two months.The plane was silent. It was just them and the flight attendants in the awkwardly comfortable plane.She had never been on a plane alone before. Not even when she had business outside the country. Why would she anyway?The space they were in was so huge and comfortable that it could pass for a room. The seats were facing each other and without saying much, they settled in front of each other even though there were many seats in the plane.As she remembered again that she would be stuck with King in an unknown place for the next four weeks, she breathed out in frustration and shook her head.King raised