ANDRES I was still lost in my thoughts so I did not notice that there was someone in front of me. I walked into her and we both fell to the ground. "Hey, can't you look where you are going?! I don't know what the heck is going on with this hotel! They keep letting whoever it is they want in here! Where is the class?? I can't believe this!" The woman I walled into started complaining. I looked at her face. She had a haughty look on her face as if she was looking down on everything and everyone here. There was something familiar about her face too. I wondered if I had met her before. It won't be a surprise for me if I had slept with her. Isabella says that I have a type and I only go for dumb women who are arrogant and stupid. I wanted to put her in her place since I am already feeling upset today, but I did wrong by walking into her, I decided to apologize first. "I am sorry. I didn't mean to walk into you" I said to her. "Just sorry is not going to fix this! Do you even k
She didn't even have the decency to look ashamed. She looked like she had given me a way out and I am the one who was too rude to take it. "And so what? There's no way that you'll be able to afford my dress anyway. Do you know what I went through to get this dress? The other two went to European princesses! You can't ever replace this dress! I was just giving you a way out! You look good and I won't mind having you accompanying me for the night! I made a good suggestion here! You are the one who just thinks that you're too proud to accept it!" She told me. I shook my head. "You and your brother are both completely crazy!" I said and walked past them. "Hey, you! Don't think that this is over! You are going to hear from my dad! He's going to teach you a lesson! You hit me yesterday and now you're bullying my sister?! Just wait for what he's going to do to you!" Clinton said to me. I fixed my eyes on him. I noticed that he could not even hold my gaze after the beating that I gave
DEREKTEN HOURS AGOI walked into the bar with a friend. His name was Carlos. "Your brother is finally settled down. Don't you want to think about getting married?" Carlos asked me. He had a teasing smile on his face. "Do you think that I will let myself get tied down by some woman?" I asked. He laughed out loud when I said this. Everyone who knows me, knows that I don't do the commitment bullshit. I have never been in a serious relationship. Not even when I was in high school. I have always been a casual sex kind of guy. I didn't want the bullshit that came with trying to navigate a serious relationship with someone else. I knew that I wasn't cut out for any of that and so I didn't even try. I didn't want to hurt someone who had high hopes for me. It's always better to lay down my intentions from the start. "I just thought that with your brother rushing off to get married, you'd want to get married too. It doesn't seem like such a bad idea now that your brother finally has a w
DEREK "I can tell what they are thinking just by looking at their body language. I am sure that if she wanted, she would have a man with her right now. If you know what's good for you, just leave her alone. I am sure that she doesn't want to be bothered" I said. Once again, I don't know what I am saying. "You are right Derek. Since you are such an expert on women, why don't you come with me and help me nail her?" He asked me. "What?" "Come with me and help me play wingman. I am sure that she'd be willing to chat with me if you are there with me. You know that you're a magnet when it comes to chicks right?" Carlos asked me. I was still having a hard time processing this. How did this go from me trying to convince Carlos not to go to the woman to him trying to get me to play Wingman for him? "I don't want to go! I still think that you should leave her alone!" I said. "Oh come on Derek. Just help me this once. See, if you help me nail her tonight, I'd give you that car you w
CHLOE Derek is the man that I think I am never going to be able to forget in my life. And that isn't because I still have some residual feelings for him. It isn't that sappy long-suffering love I read about in books. What I feel for Derek is very different from that. I will never be able to forget Derek in this life because he is the person that I hate the most in this world! I don't think that I will be able to hate someone else the way that I hate Derek! For as long as I knew him in high school, he was always the bane of my existence. And then somehow, for a few weeks, I fooled myself into thinking that he was boyfriend material. I told myself that I could make him change and that I could get him to be a proper human being but I soon found out how wrong I was. No one can make Derek into a proper human being. Because he doesn't have what it takes. He has asshole deep in his blood. I had no idea that he was Andres Blackwood's brother before this. I only found out at Carmen's wed
CHLOE I smiled at Derek. "You like to play Derek?" I asked as I dangled the handcuffs in front of him. He looked embarrassed that I found it. "What ...what are you doing with that?" He asked me. I threw it on the bed. "Oh, nothing serious. I just thought that I should look around and guess what I found. I never thought that you'd be someone who enjoys such kinds of plays. I mean, I know that you are wild but this?" I asked him. He wasn't like this in High school. Or maybe, I didn't get close enough to know this about him. Every single relationship that I thought we had was just in my head and he made that clear to me before he went on to shatter my poor heart. "Look, we don't have to do it if you don't want to. I understand that not everyone likes this. But can you please not tell anyone about this?" He asked me. "Why? Why can't I tell anyone? I mean, you already have a reputation for being a....bad boy. I am sure that it won't affect you one bit if people know that you lik
DEREK I should have known! I should have known that she was trying to trap me! Everything that she did up until this point was just a way to get me into her trap! I should have seen it coming! But who exactly is she and why does she want to do this to me?! I know that I didn't sleep with her because I'd known if I had a hook-up like her. I won't ever forget it. Did someone send her to me? Maybe one of my brother's rivals? But she's Carmen's friend! Does Carmen know that her friend may be working for her husband's enemy? "What....who exactly are you?! Why are you doing this to me? This doesn't make sense at all! I thought that we were just going to hook up!" I yelled at her. She scoffed at my face. She was looking at me with intense hate. I have never seen so much hate in my life before. Just what exactly did I do to this woman to have her hate me so much? "Hook up?! I will have to be completely crazy for me to have a hook-up with you! Do you not remember me at all Dere
DEREK PRESENT Isabella looked at me with a sneer on her face. "So are you going to tell me why you are tied to your bed? And naked?" "Chloe! I am going to kill that woman!!!" I yelled. "Chloe? Isn't that Carmen's friend? How do you know her? And is she the reason you're like this? She tied you up?" Isabella asked me. I can see that she was laughing. She didn't even try to hide it! So much for having a sister! "She didn't do anything! Just....just let me out of here okay? The keys are in the drawer!" I said to Isabella. She immediately freed me. Immediately she did, I ran into the bathroom to take a bath. "Damn! I need to meet with Chloe and find out what happened! She was able to put Derek Blackwood in her place! I need to find that woman and give her a medal!" Isabella said. "If you do meet her, forget about being my sister!" I told her. .... ANDRES "So what the fuck is going on with Derek?" I asked Isabella. Tied to his bed? What is that idiot getting up to agai
CHLOE At most, I think that we would have passed each other on the street at some time and we won't even take a second look at each other. Stop thinking too much about this" she told me. "I just think that the both of you look so good with each other and ...." "We don't look good together! You more than anyone should know that all of this is just a pretense. We have to sell this to the public so that they buy that we are really crazy in love with each other" she told me. I nodded my head when she told me this because she was correct. It's just acting. I must have lost my mind asking her something like that. The both of them are from different worlds and it's never going to work out between the both of them. But why does she have that look in her face? "What are you thinking about Carmen?" I asked her. "What do you mean? I am not thinking anything at all" she told me. "Oh really but ...." "I seems that you are thinking too much. Let's talk about something else. You told m
CHLOE I walked aimlessly around. Now that I had calmed down and was no longer angry, the fact that I didn't have a job finally dawned on me. I was confused. What will I do now? I have had this job since I left college and I had worked my way to where I was slowly. Now because I refused to give sexual favours, I lost my job. I looked around the streets people were coming and going, but they all had a clear goal in their minds. They had destinations. I was the only one who doesn't even have anywhere to go now. I really missed Carmen right then. If Carmen was around, I'd call her and the both of us will drink our sorrows away. Then tommorow, we will think of what to do. But Carmen isn't in town and I was all alone..... I just hoped that Carmen is fine whenever she is and that she is having fun right now. I do hope that she's not having a huge pity party like me. Although her marriage is not real, at least she gets to go to the Maldives. She just hoped that Carmen will enjoy her
I sneered. I knew men like Mr. Green very well. They use that excuse to cheat young girls of thier feelings. Telling them that they plan to divorce thier wives when they obviously have no plans of doing that. "Are you sure that you'll dare to divorce your wife Mr. Green?" I asked him sarcastically. He will never divorce his wife. He doesn't have the guts to do it. The man's eyes narrowed dangerously. "What do you mean? "You know exactly what I mean. After you, you've gotten so far because of your wife. Are you sure that you'll really dare to get a divorce?" I asked. Just because I pretend as if I don't know anything, it doesn't mean that I dont know about the gossip going on in the office. Although no one talked about it, everyone in the company knew that Mr. Green only got in because his wife is a relative of the big boss. If he dares to bring up divorce, he will be left with nothing! Mr. Green frowned. I know that for a proud man like him, he must hate people bringing up t
CHLOE I wanted to call Carmen and ask about how she's doing but I was at work. I can't do that or else I will be getting reprimanded by my boss. And my boss..... "Chloe! What nonsense are you doing?!" Someone shouted out my name in my work place. The loud yell brought me back from my reverie. I immediately stood up. "Yes sir!" There was only one person who would call me like this here. My immediate boss and the Manager of the department that I worked in. The Manager, Mr. Green stood in front of his office as he yelled out to me whose table was just a few feet away. "What are you seriously doing Chloe? Where is your head? You've been making several mistakes lately! What are you trying to do?" Mr. Green yelled. "Is there a problem with the plan I submitted sir?" I resisted the urge to smack the man across the face and asked as politely as I could. "You're asking me if there's a problem? Forget it, come into my office" the man said. He turned and walked back into his office.
DEREKIsabella did not let me finish my story. "Derek! I always knew that you were a jerk in high school but this is a new low even for you! How and why did you think that doing this to someone was a good idea? Just because she's an outcast?! You deserve what she did to you and more! I am not going to help you with this. If you want to find her, then you can go and find her yourself!" Isabella told me. "Oh come on Isabella. Don't be like this. You are my sister. You need to stand on my side here. We are twins you know. Twins should always have each other's back don't you think?" I asked her. "I am ashamed that I have a twin like you! Seriously! It is so embarrassing! What did you....what were you thinking?! Hurting a young girl's feelings like that?" Isabella asked me. "Okay, I know that I was wrong. It's not as if I didn't know. But it's already been ten years! I can't believe that she's still mad over that! She should have gotten over it a long time ago!" I said. Isabella shook
DEREK I walked into Isabella's office angrily. "So? Tell me that you've found her. It's already been two weeks. You can't give me that crap that you still don't know where she is yet!" I said to Isabella. Isabella rolled her eyes as she ignored me. I saw that she was on the phone. I coughed and looked away. "Yes I will call you later. I have something to deal with right now" Isabella said and ended the call. "What the fuck is wrong with you?" She yelled at me. I raised my hand up in mock surrender. "How was I supposed to know that you are on the phone?" I asked and the last thing that I want is Isabella getting mad at me. I know that she won't help me out if I make her angry. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe if you had knocked and maybe if you hadn't started questioning me as soon as you walked in here! Seriously! What do you even need to find her for? It already happened about two weeks ago! There's nothing that you need to see her again for! Just forget about that incident!" She
CARMEN " She should not have said those things. But that doesn't mean that you can just slap her. It is not right. I think that she's right. I think that you are using your husband's power to pick on my daughter!" He said. I rolled my eyes at just how shameless these people can be. "Just how shameless can you be?! I am not surprised that you raised adults who have a twisted mindset on what the world is supposed to look like! Your son thinks that it's okay to harass women at bars and your daughter thinks that it's okay for her to try to seduce people's husband and when she gets rejected by the man in question, it's okay for her to blame the wife of the man. You are all a family of crazy people and I think that all of you should go get checked in a hospital because all of you are mad!" I yelled. "Mrs. Blackwood, I understand that you are mad but you don't get to say these things about me and my kids. I think that you are using abusing your power at this point." "And so? And so
ANDRES And who do you think you are?" "I am Andres Blackwood. That's who I am. Who are you?" I asked. I watched as thier father's expression changed. He looked as if he had just been told that he had a terminal illness. Obviously, he wasn't expecting this. "You....you mean, that you are Andres Blackwood? The CEO of the Blackwood enterprise? That Andres Blackwood? Why didn't you tell me about it before? I am really sorry for how my kids have talked to you. I can assure you that they are not usually like this. I apologize on behalf of them again. I promise this is not going to happen again. Please don't hold this against them" he told me. I raised an eyebrow. What is wrong with this man? He seems that he has finally realized who I am. This is getting interesting. "Dad! Why are you apologizing to him? Do you even know what he did? Didn't you not listen to the things that Clinton and I told you?! He hit Clinton at the club and then he refused to compensate me when he ruined my
ANDRE I am really screwed. I don't think that I will be able to resist this woman for long. I think that I am going to give in to my urges and do something that we are both going to regret soon. "I.....ah....I.....". I tried to say something, look for a compliment and tell her that she looked beautiful but I could not bring myself to say it. It was a if I had gone dumb. Carmen shifted uncomfortably where she stood. "Do you ...do you think that it's weird? I don't know what I was thinking when I put in on. I am going to go change! " She said. She doesn't think this is good enough? What the heck is wrong with her?! "No! You don't need to change at all! This is ....this is....." "I really don't want to embarrass you. You can just tell me if there's something wrong with it and I will change it immediately..I....". She thinks that she'd going to embarrass me? I laugh in my head. She's not going to embarrass me. In fact, I am very scared now. Scared that I am going to hurt someo