Chapter Two

One night stand >>>>>>>>>

I watched him under my eas he wrapped  the last bandage on the deep cut of my palm. He is sitting extremely close to me, snatching my breath with every passing minute. I can feel the heat emanating from him and all of a sudden, I just want his body wrapped around me. 

I swallowed hard, trying to catch my breath. Maybe it is because this is my first time being this close to a guy aside from my Fiancé, Nicholas Adams. Not to talk of a man so perfect looking like he has been carved by the gods in the sky. 

“ Do you feel alright now?” 

“ Yes! I do. Thank you.” I said, carefully avoiding having an eye contact with him. 

“ Do you want to talk?” He asked in a very calm voice. 

It just seemed like that question was all I needed to let out the tears I have been holding back for the past five hours. He wrapped his arms around me as I cried on his shoulder, with him patting my shoulders gently.

 I could smell the liquor on him mixed with his strong masculine scent. Maybe he is drunk as well; makes the two of us then. I listened as he whispered soft caring words in my ear and all of a sudden, I just felt I could trust him. I told him everything; from how I met Nicholas Adams, to my childhood bestfriend, and how they both stab me deeply in my heart. 

He sat back, cupping my face to look at him. 

“ You deserve better. Those two never deserved your love in the first place and I am sorry you had to find out that way.” He sighed deeply, reaching for my hands, “ Three years back, I found out on the altar that my wife had slept with her ex the night before our wedding. Not only did he come to interrupt my wedding, she chose him right there, leaving me disgraced on the altar.” 

I could see him trying to fight back his emotions, for me not to see that he was hurt by his ex fiancée actions. No one deserves to be hurt the way the people we love hurt us both. Our eyes met, trying to understand the depth of our individual pain and to console each other. 

As if guided by strange forces, I lean in claiming his lips. He grabs the back of my head, pulling me in for a deeper kiss in response. My hands slowly crawls up his neck as I fell down to the bed, with him falling on top of me. He let his hand dip low, cupping my breasts. He slowly lowers his lips down to my neck; sucking, teasing and kissing, setting my body on fire. His hand reached down tugging at my shirt, the buttons spilling open, revealing my breasts aching for his touch. 

“ Do you want this?” He asked in a very calm voice. 

I shut my eyes as I let him tease me with his tongues. If there is anything I once wanted badly, it was to be in Nicholas’ arms, to let him have all of me. But while he had sex starved me for months, blaming it all on my busy schedule, he was sleeping with bestfriend behind my back. But at this moment, I am not ready to follow what I want but whatever pleasure life throws at me. 

I pressed his head closer to feel his lips on me again. I let the tears I was trying to hold back flow down. 

 “ We barely know each other but we both want this. Maybe not from who we actually want it. Maybe we just need to heal from the heart aches we went through.” He said, slowly wiping the tears clouding my eyes. And with that said, he claimed my mouth again, this time more fiercely and passionately. 

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The next morning, I emerged from a haze of sleep, blinking away the remnants of the raucous night, greeted by a skull-splitting headache. I rub at my forehead, yawning loudly, trying to remember what exactly happened last night. I remember getting drunk and hurting my palm. 

I can still feel the piercing pain and the bandage wrapped around my palm. Where exactly am I? As I made to stand up from the fluffy bed, the duvet fell off my body and I was shocked to see that I was stark naked. My shirt, lying on the floor with some of its button missing, all lost in the heat of the moment. 

At this moment, I couldn’t even believe my eyes. Don’t tell me I had sex with a total stranger! I had been so hurt deeply by Nicholas and Lauryn’s betrayal that I did things I never believed I would ever do. 

Where is the young man I had a one night stand with? As I stood up to search the toilet, I saw a tiny piece of note. 

‘ Last night was fun with you, stranger . Get your heart healed’

“ Screw you!” I cursed silently under my breath. Who preys on a drunk lady? He must be some sort of guy from the street just trying to play rich so he can get sexual satisfaction from drunk women. 

I hurriedly wore my shirt and left the room heading straight for the bar stand to pay for the room. The lady behind the bar this morning is quite different from the one I saw last night. 

“ He already paid.” She said, pushing my credit card towards me. 

“ The one from last night?” I asked confused. 

“ Did you have any other one up in your room this morning?” She asked icily as she continued with the cleaning of the drinks on the shelf. It was obvious that this lady does not want to have an early morning conversation but I nddd to know who the young man is. 

“ Did he drop a name at least? Anything  I can use in identifying this young man?”  I asked. I knew she wanted to decline so I placed a few dollar bills on the counter. “ Just his name.” 

“ Good!” She snatches the money greedily. She placed the receipt in front of me and the last name I wanted to see was boldly written in front of me: Axel. I gasp in horror as my face immediately went pale white. 

I had a one night stand with the most dreaded Alpha! I am doomed! 

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