Ava barely managed to make it through the night by staying awake for most parts of it, her mind was constantly plagued with several questions all centered around Sebastian and what his true intentions were about her. She started by regretting ever making her true intentions clear to him. She should’ve been satisfied with the bumps in their relationship but she wanted to have more but her desire for more had come at what cost?Ava rolled over to the edge of her bed and glanced at the digital clock, it read 04:50 AM. She would have to be up and running in a little over an hour. She didn’t know what to do with herself and her emotions were flying all over the place. In times like these, she wanted Kim here. She was her life support and one of her best friends as well, she would know the right words to say. Her relationship with Sebastian had started in a rather unusual way. At first, she loathed the sight of him and everything he stood for, he was snub and downright self-centered. She
You did what?” Damian tried to maintain his composure but he was finding it difficult to do so. Even worse, the idea that Sebastian had gone through all those troubles for Ava only to end up being conflicted about how he particularly felt about her was something he wasn’t expecting to hear, at least not right now. Not when he defended her every action yesterday and his fear of not losing her to the mysterious Jake. “I froze, man,” Sebastian sighed, rubbing his eyes. He hadn’t gotten much sleep last night either. Ava had been on his mind the entire night. “You left one of the most important meetings you would ever have as soon as you heard Ava was off partying in the middle of the day with Jake. You went into the nightclub and hauled her ass out in broad daylight without caring about the field day the paparazzi were going to have.”“They’re different scenarios, Damian.” Sebastian frowned. “I had a lot to lose if I didn’t step in at that moment. What would the investors say when the
Sebastian checked his watch as he waited impatiently for Ava to arrive. He had managed to convince her to have lunch with him despite her obvious lack of interest at first. But he figured she eventually caved in given the fact that they had a lot of things to talk about and staying apart for longer than required might come back to haunt them given that they were currently in the public’s eye after the clubbing incident that still made the headlines now and then. He took a sip from the glass of water and right on cue, Ava stepped into the restaurant. She looked frazzled and angry. He was hoping he wasn’t going to be the recipient of her backlash but everything including the timing indicated otherwise. He signaled her over and she made her way towards the table as soon as she got sight of him. “Thank you for coming.” Sebastian began as she settled down into her seat before he could help pull out the chair for her. He understood her hurt, last night hadn’t gone as she had hoped it w
Ava assessed her options. She wanted to completely believe all he had said but a small part of her still held doubts about him. If she did this, we would be walking into this blindfolded and not knowing what would happen next month or the month after that. If there was anything she believed in, it was that his feelings for her were real. She didn’t doubt any of it for one second but she wanted more, she wanted him to be hers completely without the interference of Natasha or any other woman from his past life.If she wanted this to work, she had to give him the benefit of the doubt at the very least.“Okay,” Ava whispered. “I’ll come back home and give you the time you need to decide what you want to do about us because I’m tired of living on the edge when it comes to you.”Sebastian heaved a huge sigh of relief. The worst was behind them now, she was going to come back home, and the sensations he felt as soon as he heard the acceptance in her voice were indescribable. “I was worrie
It’s been two weeks since Ava returned to the penthouse and she couldn’t have been any more confused than she already was. The first few days of her return were some of the days she had ever spent with Sebastian. The excitement was alluring and she was happier than she had ever been in a long time. Sebastian had decided they both needed a vacation to make up for lost time and she had all been too eager to go on one. Sebastian had managed to pull some strings and she was given a week’s worth of vacation from work much to her delight as they flew over to Santorini for the first part of their journey. They had a routine on how to spend their mornings and after a good night’s sleep, they would lie on the recliners on the side of the house that overlooked the lake below them, while their entourage of servants would serve them breakfast on the private balcony. It was luxurious and comfortable, Ava basked in the attention she was showered with and she wouldn’t mind retiring here when her
Sebastian slammed his fist into the desk in front of him as he glared at Natasha. He’s had a rough week by any stretch of the imagination and he wasn’t ready to deal with any more added problems to the ones he was already battling with. He couldn’t believe that he hadn’t changed the locks to his office ever since he broke up with Natasha. He had moved on but at the same time, it seemed like he hadn’t because she could still get through to him so easily like she always had in the past. He could finally realize Ava’s hurt, Natasha was always going to be a presence in their lives if he didn’t take care of her properly, and from the looks of things, if this talk broke down, there was only one option left to take. “What the hell are you doing here?” Sebastian glared at her.“We have to talk.” Natasha began a small frown on her face. She had never seen him lose his temper before but she was seeing it now, Sebastian had changed a lot from the man she once knew and she was undecided about
Ava checked the clock on the wall as she sat impatiently on the couch, waiting for Sebastian to return home. It was nearly midnight and she hadn’t heard from him all day, his phone was unreachable as well. She had tried calling Damian, they were always everywhere together but she had been led straight to voicemail when she called him. Calling his office was out of the equation as well, there was only so much humiliation she could suffer in a day. So she had decided to stay up and wait for him to return, she had to speak with him before she lost her mind and she was on the verge of doing so. She sipped the wine from her glass cup as the content swirled around it. She was a little bit tipsy having consumed over half of the bottle of red wine on the counter but she couldn’t bring herself to retire to bed. She heard the front door ping open, Sebastian was back. She quickly downed the remaining content of her glass cup and smoothened her hair while waiting for him to make his way into
The next morning, Ava woke up to a space next to her. She figured that Sebastian had failed to keep to his words from last night, not willing to let the hurt she felt eat her deeply, she threw off the covers of her bed and made her way downstairs for a cup of coffee. As soon got downstairs, she heard the coffee machine brewing much to her surprise. She hurriedly made her way into the kitchen where she saw Sebastian sitting on the dining table with a cup of coffee in his hands while he scrolled through his phone on the other. “Good morning,” Sebastian said without looking at her. He decided against leaving for work without seeing her like he had promised last night. “Good morning, I thought you left,” Ava replied as she made her way towards the table to pour herself a cup of coffee.“I promised you I would stay, didn’t I?” “I know but given how terrible we’ve been over the past week and a half, I was prepared for anything.” “We’ll talk about this but not right now,” Sebastian drop