Chapter 5

Vanessa’s POV.

As the car pulled into the driveway I knew that I was in for a lot of drama, I braced my self for what to come as I got down and walked in, immediately I entered ,I felt a sharp pain on my jaw and looked up to see my father’s angry face, he had slapped me. I knew no amount of explaining would do justice to my reasoning of things. 

“ You would go now and apologize to the Woods for disgracing them the way you did and I suggest you make your apology public just like the disgrace was” My father said seething 

 “Do you know how bad I feel right now dad? My fiance cheats on me even on the morning of our engagement and you’re worried about a business, really? I guess I was just an investment not a daughter “ I said then ran up to my room.

I needed to find a way around this, I knew how much influence the Woods held and how far they can go to make sure no one invest in the company, we have being surviving on the investments and making a name for ourselves with it without my father thinking it’s ideal to invest his personal funds and gains from the corporation so as to reduce the reliance on investments and now we are at the brink of bankruptcy and poverty with no savings that could save a huge corporation as ours. So all this isn’t even my fault because how could they use me as a collateral for more funds, how could they decide upon marriage to me just for investments and why did my father’s agree to that, is that how desperate he is.? I can’t keep thinking about this, I need to find a solution not as a Smith but as the vice president of the corporation because this would be a huge deal.

A bang on my door startled me and then just after unlocking the door my mother charged in taking my TV remote at the center table, she turned on the TV only for me to see that bastard on TV trying to save face and by saving face, he was doing he’s best to paint an awful picture of me claiming the most absurdly insane stuff ever, he claimed he never slept with my best friend and I was just overthinking and overwhelmed with everything that I mistook the situation and escalated it, he also said that my family would go bankrupt in the next  fourth eight hours unless I publicly beg him and apologize the same way I publicly shamed him, there was no way I was doing that, I would rather find other alternatives than to go back to a cheating ex who doesn’t and never had respected me even with all the power I yielded. I needed to get a huge investment in 24 hours and there was no joking about that. 

Patricia POV

I stood there for minutes without moving and was shocked that Alex had kissed her back, I understood that she kissed him first and was expecting Alex to disgrace her and make headlines that night but was in shock when he kissed her back and still dragged her out protecting her from the clicks of the cameras since the paparazzi found a way into the event somehow. I could feel the glances I was getting since I came in with Alex and now he was leaving with someone else who he just kissed right in front of me, he had shattered my pride and left me standing there, forgetting he came with me and even left me at the event for hours until I decided to order a ride home because it seemed my date for the evening wasn’t coming back to get me.

Getting into my apartment I smashed every single thing that could break and then sat in the mess I had made, Alex Russo had left me disgraced and ashamed in the midst of people who just kept staring at me with pity while some with disdain, I hate feeling pitied for and that was what I saw  tonight, I left the party embarrassed with my head in my hands and hopefully no shots of me was taken. I decided to call him only to see the headlines bustling again because apparently they were pictured leaving a restaurant together after they shared that kiss, my blood boiled because it took me years of persistence before he started taking me a long to few events but he took his greatest enemy to a diner on just one night and one kiss shared, I was fuming. Though I know we weren’t dating but just a sex contract I felt I deserved more for being here all this while, for handling him so well and for never leaving even on his hardest days, I felt pangs of jealousy and hatred for Vanessa Smith and made up my mind take over Alex’s heart. I picked up my phone and changed my wears and decided to pay him a visit, I’m sure he’ll realize I’m all he needs and nothing more after a night of wonders and amazing sex, I know how to handle him best tgat I’m sure of. 

Anita’s POV

The shock that spiraled out of my body was not from this world, pictures of me and Sebastian was being displayed across the room through a projector and I have never been so confused, embarrassed, disgraced and shocked in my life. Those pictures were obviously edited because I’ve never slept on the same bed with Sebastian not to talk of having an affair with him especially since I know fully that he’s my best friend’s fiance.

 I knew they would try to destroy me after I found out about his affair with the other woman but I never knew that he’d make it seem like I was the one he was having an affair with and now I’m being tagged a slut and an home wrecker. I didn’t know what else to do than to leave the event. 

With several cameras taking snapshots of me as I entered the car I knew things were going to be rocky for a while but first I have to prove my innocence, I wasn’t a home wrecker and Sebastian isn’t even home to begin with, his parents knew of the affair and helped him hide it all this while so as not to tarnish the family’s name. He knows how much Vanessa and I mean to each other so he targeted our bond and friendship and now I’ve lost my best friend.

 I’m very hurt especially since I saw the disgusted look on her face when she looked at me and I began to burn with rage because how dare she believe those pictures after knowing me for years, how dare she disgrace me without digging deeper and how dare she look at me with so much disgust, I was so angry and sad because she’s all I have ever had since middle school and now we are separating this way. Sebastian really did a number on me and there’s no way I’m letting such behaviors slide and for vannessa she has so much to apologize to me for.

I know we would get past this storm I just need to speak with my best friend first and besides she’s got some explanations to make and loads of gifts so this friendship isn’t ending soon. Thought on different ways and manner around the situation and couldn’t come up with anything at the moment so I just took a nap till the car pulled up at the driveway, my parents were waiting for me at the top of the stairs, knowing fully well that they must have seen the news I felt really bad because they didn’t deserve any of that, I ran into their arms while they just held me and tried to stop me sobbing , my mum was sobbing because I was sobbing while she was trying to make me stop sobbing so my father just held us both and walked us into the house. I need a bath because that was a very long day and an eventful one at that.