DAMIAN’S POV “Fucking 500 million dollars, that’s the amount I lost today!” I roared, as I slammed my fist aggressively on the dashboard. My eyes had been glued to Aiden’s tablet, as I monitored my company stats obsessively, and just today alone, look how much I lost My hand clenched into a tight fist, I was fighting so much anger, that my knuckles turned white from the force, my breaths came in heavy and ragged bursts. “Damian, I need you to please calm down…” Aiden begged, as he kept his eyes on the road. This would be the first time in a while that I had let anyone else drive me apart from myself, I didn’t trust anyone else to drive me. The thought of it terrified me, it was one of my major fears that no one knew the reason why… But I trusted Aiden, I didn’t have that level of trust for anyone except him…. I didn’t take Aiden as my half-brother, instead I saw and treated him like we came from the same womb, my mother’s. I turned to the window, as I tried to calm the
DAMIAN’S POV “Victoria, fucking Victoria!” I sent my liquor glass crashing on the wall, and it shattered into a million pieces. It had been two days since the shocking revelation. My so-called fiancée, Victoria, was the mastermind behind my near downfall. Unbelievable! I still couldn’t wrap my head around it—Victoria? The CEO of Meridian High Tech Industries? The woman who had been so close to me, who had stolen kisses from my lips, who had claimed to love me, who was starting to get irritated by her jealousy over Lexie? How could I have been so blind? She had been working to bring me down all along, and I had been a fool to fall for it. Why? Was it the stupid title of fiancée that she attached to me? or the fact that we knew each other when we were younger. Apparently all that didn’t matter to her; she was using it to mask her true intentions. I mean, if I were being brutally honest, the whole fiancée thing was her idea; she proposed to me. So why the hell did I keep
LEXIE’S POV I groaned at the multiple ads that kept playing over and over on this website I stumbled on… “Are you having bad breath? Do you need a quick solution…” the voice over said God know, and of course I don’t a need new freaking toothpaste. What was it with website and ads? First they tell you accept all cookies, which I did because I had no idea what they were talking about, but if they could literally shove their ads into your throat then they would. I had been up all night, as I scrolled mindlessly through the job listings on my phone. It wasn’t like I couldn’t get a laptop now that I had little money, but use it for what? The past few days had left me reeling, and I needed to find a way out-away from Damian, away from Victoria, away from all the drama and just back to the normal life I knew before. But if I was going to leave, I had to secure a job first. How else would I take care of my mother? Or get a roofs over our heads? Jenny wouldn’t mind housing my m
LEXIE’S POV “It fucking hurts, a whole lot. That’s the reason I don’t need anyone’s help, including yours. His words pierced through me; I could see the pain in his eyes and how he wrestled with his own emotions, ones he understood and ones he didn't. “Is that it? Is that what you want to hear?” He snapped, and then he let out a long exhale; The smoke from the cigarette escaped from his mouth. “Then talk to me; don’t just push me away. Everyone can’t be the same; just this one time, try me and see. I won’t betray you; I won’t hurt you.” My chest rose and fell at my desperate attempt to get him to see that he deserved better. “And why should I tell you anything? What do you know about pain?” He scoffed. I paused my persuasion for a bit as I allowed his words to sink in. What did I know about pain? He couldn’t imagine it if I told him. Was it the countless times that my mother and I slept without food? Or the numerous times we both worked at restaurants just becaus
CONTD: HI GUYS! QUICK NOTE: FROM THIS CHAPTER WOULD BE LEXIE’S LIFE WITHOUT DAMIAN. BUT I WOULD BE SURE TO ADD GLIMPSES FROM DAMIAN’S PERSPECTIVE TOO. ENJOY! I boarded the bus to Jenny’s place; I found a seat by the window. As the bus rumbled down the street, I leaned my head against the cold glass. My heart was heavy with the weight of the decision I made. I didn’t want to leave, but Damian didn’t care about me. He never showed me respect, but rather just saw me as a means to fulfil his needs. Why was I even complaining? It was clearly stated in the contract that I would satisfy him sexually, and it wasn’t like I signed it with a gun to my head anyways, and I enjoyed it too. Despite my intentions to be more than just a contract wife, he wanted nothing to do with me. I had made him so irritated that he tore up our contract; never in my life had I imagined that this would happen. Damian would let me go? I would have laughed in the face of anyone who told me that. I ex
*************** The next day, I hurried out of my room as I tried to pack my hair into a messy but not so messy bun, while I paced around in circles in the living room, looking for things. I was totally disorganised because I had forgotten that I had to show up somewhere today. Well, it wasn’t my fault, since my presence was almost never requested anywhere in my life; I had never even been invited to something so little as a birthday party. I also hadn’t even searched the location of where I was heading; life without a phone could be pretty hard; I didn’t think that through. I could have sold the phone he bought me and gotten something else. Dumb Lexie! “Jenny, can I use your phone, please?” I asked Jenny, who was looking all crusty and rough as she had just woken up. Her hair was dishevelled, the baggy shirt she wore wasn’t even sitting on her properly, and the minute she stretched, I could see that she had no underwear on. Typical Jenny “Erm. Sure,” she answ
DAMIAN’S POV I stood in the middle of the room, a glass of cognac in my hand. This was where she used to sleep, where I could hear her giggling at God knows what, how I’d peep in to check on her when she was fast asleep, the usual way she wraps herself in the blanket and curl almost into a ball like a baby. Lexie, I tried to inhale her scent one last time, because I didn’t think I was going to go look for her; it wasn’t my thing. I don’t run to women; they run to me. at least, she used to. I could clearly see the admiration in her eyes anytime she looked at me, with those pretty eyes and small smile that seemed wide enough to make everything feel better. But what could I have done then? Having noticed those things. Her scent was gone; the daily cleaners had come through, scrubbing away every trace of her presence, which was actually on my orders. Now, the room smelt of expensive soap wash and air freshener, a constant and sterile reminder of her absence. I squeezed m
LEXIE’S POV I don’t know if y’all remember when I asked that I didn’t know what to do—was I to take the job, or maybe I should have just taken a run for it and left New York? But here I was, finally resuming work after so much contemplation. And I needed this for my mom, but it was mostly an achievement on my part. I moved from one night stripping to working in a top publishing house without qualifications. Maybe God was finally seeing that I didn’t choose this life and I could at least be allowed to live in it fairly. Plus, if Damian should finally come, then I could just hide or walk past him. There wasn’t anything going on between us anymore; he made that clear. So why should I be bothered? And I forced Jenny to take that pregnancy test, but it came out negative. She just had stomach flu. I inhaled deeply as I walked into the building, my head held high as I moved directly towards my desk. “Morning, Gracie” I greeted the secretary, “Lovely to see you, Ms. Sinclai