As King entered the car and stared at Payton’s car that drove out of the compound, he exhaled and looked out the window. His personal assistant was in the car, at the front seat beside his driver and this was because of the meeting they were having together outside the company.The man had arrived at his house early.“When is the exhibition my wife is hosting starting?” He asked.“Eleven Am, sir.”“When is the meeting we’re having starting?”“Nine, sir.”“How many hours drive is it from the meeting point to the gallery?”“About an hour with no traffic, sir.”“And…” he continued and turned to look at his boss well.“You scheduled a meeting with the detective by eleven sir.”“Which detec… oh?”“Yes, sir. You had asked to move it to today by eleven two days ago.”“Woah… you’re so diligent with your work,” King let out a sarcastic sigh and rolled his eyes.“I am really glad to hear this from you! I have been working so hard for…”“Enough, can you try to fit in my meeting with the detecti
King kept staring at his wristwatch impatiently while he shook his legs in the car.“How long before we reach there?!” He snapped at the driver.“We are almost there, sir,” the man said.“Hurry up! Even a snail is faster than you, damn it,” he hissed and look out of the window.“And don’t drive me to my death too,” he snorted when the man suddenly increased the pace of the car.As soon as the car stopped in front of the art gallery, he did not even wait for the driver to pull properly before he jumped down and then hurried to the building. He moved over to the exhibition hall that was just behind the main gallery, and when he got to the entrance, he breathed out, maintained his composure, and then walked in.The hall was silent as everyone was engrossed by the paintings they were looking at but when some of them noticed him, they bowed and he reciprocated.He looked around for Payton for a while before his eyes settled on the woman who wore a white dress and then moved over to her wi
“You speak so well,” King said to Payton who walked towards him.“You look like you were having a lot of fun,” she rolled her eyes as she stopped beside him, sparing Ava a cold glance.King widened his arm in surprise and parted his lips. “What fun?” He asked.Payton rolled her eyes and folded her arms tightly across her chest while she watched ahead of her.King shook his head and stared at her for a while before he looked away from her.“Shall I just buy all the paintings and get this over with?” he leaned closer and whispered in her ear.“What?” Payton snapped her brows together and turned to look at him.“I can afford all of them.”“Don’t… you even dare to buy a piece of painting,” she frowned.“Why? I am a lover of art and I recognize one when I see it. When will the auction start? I’ll buy everything.”Payton drew her brows together as she stared at the man. He looked so serious that she wondered if he meant it.“Are you crazy?” She asked.“No, why?”“You are not going to try an
“I don’t understand what you are still doing here,” Payton shook her head as she entered her office.The event had ended, and everyone had left already, except her staff who were taking care of the hall they had used.While she had entered her office, King had followed, looking around like he had lost something.Kind did not answer, instead, he chuckled and said, “Your office looks just as I imagined it to be.”The several little paintings on the wall, the flowers in her office. The office, clean, and tidy.“Why have you not left yet?” She asked.King did not answer and stood in front of a painting. It was a withered flower that was drawn there. Even though it was withered, it looked so lonely that he wondered how she had drawn it.“T… this painting,” he twitched his mouth upward.Payton sighed and looked away. She began to arrange her table as she took glances at the man who seemed engrossed in the paintingsEarlier, before her mother-in-law had left, she had met with her father and
They stood in that position before Payton slowly finally pulled away from the man.Her head kept bowing, she pressed her lips together as the wave of embarrassment hit her.“Are you good?” She finally raised her head to look at the man who had nothing but concern on his face and then nodded her head.When her eyes fell on the wet part of his shirt, she pointed her index finger at it and then looked around.She grabbed the box of tissues and then began to clean his shirt in a hurry.“I’m sorry,” she murmured.“What are you doing?” King frowned as she held her hand, stopping her from wiping any further.“I… it is wet. My tears… I.”“Silly,” he collected the tissue from her and dropped her hand.“Will you pull it off? I’ll take care of it,”King pressed his lips together and stared at her keenly for a while before he tilted his head.“Do you want to see my nakedness that much?”“What?!” Payton screamed, flustered, and then pushed the man back.“Why would you request I pull my clothes of
King drove his car inside the compound with a frown on his face and as he pulled the car to the garage, he looked around for things to pick before he heard a knock on his window and he turned to look at the woman.She had a wide smile on her face, giggling like a high schooler before he exhaled and dropped his head on the headrest.He used to love this sight.He loved to come to this woman's house just to see the smile on her face.But… why does it already seem like it would bother him?Maybe he should have gone home and then ignored his wife just like he always had, instead of coming to Sasha’s place.He finally rolled the window down and then turned his head to look at her.“Sasha.”“Are you not coming down?” She asked, reaching her hand to touch the back of his head.“I’m coming,” he moved his head away and then opened the door, which made her move back.Two and half years ago, he had met Sasha when he had gone on a business trip to Bali, and there, he had found her attractive.He
“I will get your favorite drink and then check if there is anything you can have in the kitchen,” she clasped her hands and watched as he entered the bathroom.“Thank you,” he said, entered, and then closed the door.Entering the bathroom, King gave a quick sigh and then walked under the shower.There was no reason he should let Payton ruin his mood.It was his mistake giving attention to her which had unconsciously affected Sasha.He should not lose a good person like Sasha because of his rude, and weird wife.He was going to return to the life he was living before she entered his life, and he would live it as much as he could.Payton is not worth pitying or doing things for.Maybe it was finally time he put her in her place.= = =“Did I say too much?” Payton pressed her lips together as she looked down her window.It was past eight in the night and King was yet to return.Maybe he had chosen to not come home because of the argument they had in her office.
King stood in the bathroom for a while as he kept redialing Payton’s number but it kept directing him to voicemail.Was she declining his call on purpose?When he looked around the bathroom and his eyes fell on the mirror, he raised his brows as he stared at his figure, looking ridiculous with his already unhardened dick hanging down.He hissed, dropped his phone in the hand basin, and then moved under the shower.He stood under the running tap for a while before he got out.When he got out, his phone in his hand, he shook his head as he saw Sasha who was lying on the bed, satisfying herself.“K… king,” she moaned his name, hoping he would return to the bed to her, instead, he grabbed his shirt that was on the hanger and wore it.Without bottoming up, he wore his boxers and then trousers, grabbed his wristwatch and car key on the stand, and then walked to the door.“Where are you going?!” Sasha panted as she removed the vibrator and then hurried out of the bed.He did not answer; inst
“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