If she'd just ask me, I'll give her the entire world, for her presence alone is my greatest desire. ~ A. Gupta.VIOLETI watched as Cole’s eyes took in the image opened on my phone screen. And then his lips parted as he slowly lifted his gaze to meet mine. My hand was still outstretched and he quietly placed the phone on it. We both stood there, still like a statue as we stared at each other. “Princess...” I swallowed as my throat felt too dry, my skin stretched taut with the tension surrounding us that pulsed through my veins and every nerve endings in my body came alive as I read the dark temptation in his eyes. “Don’t torture us, princess...”The already charged air crackled around us, our desire felt too potent to ignore anymore. We have been dancing around the inevitable for so long it felt like centuries had passed since we felt each other, even though we have been kissing like two teenagers who had just discovered what a delicious act it was, and I was not ashamed to confess

COLEFor an unfathomable reason, a fission of apprehension went through me as I quickly grabbed her clothes and stuffed them behind a huge cushion before I made my way to open the door. I checked myself one last time and raked my fingers through my hair as I opened the door to find Mr Carter and Alex standing there. Mr Carter looked at me with his green eyes, from the top of my head to my bare feet before he pushed past me and entered. With a frown etched on his face, he questioned, “What took you so long to open the door, Cole?”“Don’t tell him the truth.” A cold voice whispered in my ear as Alex breezed past me, momentarily taking his father’s intense stare off me. “I told you, Dad, nothing was wrong. See, he is fine.”Mr Carter didn’t acknowledge Alex’s words as he asked, “Where is Violet?”“She is somewhere.” Alex snickered at my fumble and Mr Carter arched a dark brow at me. “I mean she is in the bathroom.”“Which was probably why she didn’t pick up your calls, Dad. Right, Cole?

It's another kind of pain to be denied a dream that you desperately want by the one person you love and trust. ~ A. Gupta.COLETHE Way my phone was blowing up all the time I was away from her, I knew I’d have a very frantic princess in my hands, on the verge of breaking apart. But I think I knew how to handle that, and I also knew that I could no longer wait. Life was un-fucking-predictable which was why I was not going to wait for the right fûcking moment to make her mine. I stepped out of the car and almost stumbled. I hadn’t realized how weak I was until I stepped out of her cosy little apartment. With her in my arms, day in and out, sleeping and lounging in her bed, I had thought I was already better and ready to go on with my life putting the accident and its injuries in the past but apparently not. Just a trip in a car and getting worked up with adrenaline running through my veins, all I needed was my princess’ slender arms around me and my head on her chest, preferably pillo

I trusted him to not break his promise. But he did it once and now he was doing it again. ~ A. Gupta.COLE“You shouldn’t have come back.”“Don’t say that.” I never thought I will hear these words from her, and it fûcking pained me that she’d say such a thing to me. She crossed her arms across her chest as if trying to hold herself up. “Why not? You knew... you knew all along... And still you sat here night after night, spent your days with me, made my heart ache for you. And then you left me when I needed you.” She took a deep shuddering breath, her eyes filling with tears as if once again remembering all the pain that she had felt at my absence. “You know what, when you left it hurt. It hurt so terribly. I cried for days. But then, I started to hope that maybe I was pregnant. We never used any precautions. And I hoped, that even if you left, I will have something to love that you gave me. I hoped that I was pregnant. But then the next month came and went by, and I realised that I

Time doesn't heal, you just start to live with the pain and it becomes a part of you. ~ A. GuptaCOLE“What the hell are you doing here?” I asked as I stepped out of the bedroom and found Alex lounging in one of the sofas in the drawing room.“Is this how you tell me that you missed me?” He said, “Explains all this empty bottles.”I looked at the mentioned bottles. Since that night when everything went to shît, I had barely eaten but chose to drink my sorrows. It didn't help but at least it lessened the frequency of my nightmares. “What do you want, Alex? I thought you all didn't care anymore.”“Don’t be sad, Cole. We didn't abandon you but we couldn’t let Vi think that we were taking your side.” His dark brows lowered and he pointed at my hands that were bruised and swollen from the fight I got into last night. “You could've called me or better yet Maddox if you wanted to use your fists. He is the one who is too furious with you.”“Not you?” I asked.He shrugged one shoulder. “I don'