Semua Bab A Waltz With Wolves (Sequel to The Publicist's Plight): Bab 31 - Bab 40

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CHAPTER 30

** "Benvenidad a ele paisia bella,Venetia. Welcome to the beautiful land of Venetia." I've been cramming as much Venetian as I can since I got onto the 15-hour flight here. Luckily, Venetian is a Romanic language like Spanish and Italian (one of these languages I happen to be fluent in) so it hasn't been a lethal task. Still, it's a bit hard to keep up. I clutch my Guide to the Beautiful Venetian Language pocketbook close to me as I try to navigate my way through the airport. The intercom above broadcasts important information to the many tourists scrambling around in the airport, but unlike the first welcome message transmitted in Venetian and English, the speaker over the intercom decides to talk only in Venetian; the only takeaways I get are the we
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CHAPTER 31

** For a moment, I feel like my entire world has completely stopped spinning. It's been almost two weeks since I haven't heard Alejandro's voice, and suddenly now, with a burner phone supplied to me by my royal grandmother in Venetia, he's speaking. To me. "Alejandro?" I mutter into the phone. I can hear him suck in a sharp breath at the sound of my voice. "Leslie?" he says. "Leslie is this...this is you? Jesus Christ." I want to say so much, but so little is coming out of my mouth. "Leslie, I'm sorry," Alejandro says. "I'm so, so sorry. I'm sorry for leaving you. Believe me, I know I fucked up and I'm sorry." "Why did you
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CHAPTER 32

** I'm tired of fighting. My father would be ashamed of me if he heard these words coming out of my mouth. "Leslie," I can imagine him scolding me. "Don't you ever quit fighting. My girls are fighters; they never quit." I suppose if my dear father understood the circumstances that currently plague me, he would have a change of heart. I should have talked to him before going to Venetia; he probably knew the extent of Ramona's 'fury.' Now that I think about it, talking to him should have been the priority. I could have asked him about what happened between him and Genina and about Ramona - my grandmother. But I didn't. I was too eager to meet her, and now I'm left not empty handed, but with a threat in my palm. Ramona had apparently guided my life this entire time, and I didn't ev
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CHAPTER 33

** As if my life couldn't get any more complicated. Sebastian and Claude's rental car is unsalvageable. The boys walked outside and tried to see if there was any way they could save the car, but it was completely ruined - as was my hope of getting back to Glasgow. Now, I'm at the dinner table, picking at my plate with Sebastian Harrison sitting across from me. The entire table is quiet, most likely because a tree just crashed on Sebastian's car outside. It's awkward, to say the least. I can't even manage to look Sebastian in the eye. I don't know if it's because my guilt is eating me apart or because I'm embarrassed that he's actually staying at my grandmother's house in Scotland. Yes, he and Claude are staying here until we c
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CHAPTER 34

** After breakfast, everyone retires to the living room, the kids having gone outside to play in the rain puddles. I'm in the kitchen by myself since it's empty in here. I think Sebastian knows that I'm trying to avoid him. It isn't the smartest plan, but the only one that I can think of doing. I get up and decide to take another nap in my room, but right when I do, Sebastian comes into the kitchen. He pauses when he sees me, then smiles weakly. I do the same, but somehow goose bumps accompany my grin. "Why are you hiding out in here?" he asks me. By his mood, he seems unfazed by what we spoke about outside earlier this morning. "I'm just thinking," I reply. "I hope my family isn't giving you a hard time."
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CHAPTER 35

**Throughout my life, three men have told me that they loved me.Beyond maternal love or "friendly" love; innocent love. These declarations of love were ones that I categorized from the heart or soul, whichever place you find more sentimental.Hudson was first. We were at dinner in New York with a few of his friends from his firm. On the taxi ride back to the hotel, he told me he loved me. I knew he didn't mean it, but I replied anyway to ensure the simplest of car rides was not over complicated: "I love you, too."Alejandro was second. In Venetia, is where he told me. Not in person, no. Over the phone - the burner phone that was supplied to me from my estranged grandmother. In Colombia, thousands of miles away, he told m
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CHAPTER 36

  ** SEBASTIAN Being back home is a feeling almost unfamiliar to me. Everything is pretty much the same - the Board up my ass, Claire's pestering me to no fucking end and the everyday struggles I'm used to facing with carrying a name like mine. Nothing has changed. But still, something is off. Different. Leslie is still in Scotland. At least I think she's still in Scotland; I left before I could even ask her if she was planning on leaving back to the states that morning or staying with her family. The morning after Leslie and I had sex, Claude woke me up when the sun was barely rising above the horizon.
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CHAPTER 37

**I never thought I would entertain the thought of watching someone get shot to death, but as  Claude aims his gun at Alejandro, I can't help but picture the scenario in my mind.It's been a solid minute since Claude turned the safety on his gun off. My heart wants Alejandro dead for what he's done, but my brain is begging me to indulge in my logic and sense. Killing Alejandro wouldn't be smart - it would be deadly on our end, both metaphorically and literally. Still, I don't have the courage to tell Claude to put the gun down; it could be any second from now that Claude shoots Alejandro dead, and I'm just laying silently, watching Alejandro during this waiting game."If you would just let me explain," Alejandro says. Claude becomes more aggravated at the
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CHAPTER 38

** It isn't a good feeling to wake up and find the man you slept with the night before nowhere to be found, especially when you're thousands of miles away from your home country. I'm sure the entire table at my grandmother's house feels bad for me; they suspected that something was up between Sebastian and me, and the look on my face after being told by my grandmother that both Sebastian and Claude are gone has only solidified their suspicions. "Oh," is all I reply, forks and spoons clanking against everyone's plates and bowls awkwardly. I retire back to my room and immediately start packing all of my belongings into my suitcases. My hands move faster than the thoughts in my head, which is a good thing because I would have somehow convinced myself to stay; the
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CHAPTER 39

** NOVEMBER Three months. What can I tell you about the last three months? Well, it's been a long three months filled with press conferences, appearances, and interviews. Birthdays, too - Sebastian's birthday and my birthday. Of course, we didn't celebrate either of them together since that would be in violation of our "no friendly contact rule" Sarah put in place for us. Ever since the photo of Sebastian and I at Claire's party leaked to the press, Sarah and I came to the consensus that it would make more sense for Sebastian and me to steer clear of each other outside of work until the mess died down. This decision was a lot harder to make after finding out about him and Cla
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