LESLIE’S POVI wake up in the softest bed I’ve ever slept in in my entire life. For the first few seconds of coming to, I try to remember when I slept and how I ended up on the bed but my memory turns out to be nothing but a blank sheet. The day is slowly slipping into night and the plane is still
KIAN’S POVLeslie backed down easier than I expected but I am grateful she doesn’t argue or see through my lie. She’s suspicious but that feeling is outweighed by the excitement of meeting with Andre. So without any more complaint, she walks into our room with me. ‘Our’ room is hardly a room. It’s
I scoff, holding myself back from screaming in her face that Andre is a bigger bastard than she thinks he is and he is doing this on purpose. “You don’t get it, he is doing this to mess with me!” Something snaps inside of her. I don’t hear it but it’s there in her eyes, in the way her pupils enlar
LESLIE'S POVUneasiness and excitement prickles my insides at the same time. The uneasy feeling started the moment I stepped into the car and it drove away from the hotel. I suddenly didn’t feel as confident as I felt when I was telling Kian off, nor did I feel so sure I could handle a one-on-one m
“Andre Sanders,” he introduces.I turn fully to him, gathering myself together and pushing out my best smile as I take his warm outstretched hand. “Leslie Jackson.” I notice how his eyebrows hike up at my name but I don’t quite understand why he reacted to it like that. “It’s nice to finally meet
KIAN’S POVShe almost saw me. Heck, I was certain she did and was already shitting bricks thinking about how exactly to explain why and how I’m here. But Andre—the bastard—snagged her attention and I relaxed. Though, not quite fully. I relaxed because she didn’t see me but I’m still as tense as ev
LESLIE’S POVAndre makes it so easy to relax around him.My nerves have calmed and the uneasy feeling is long gone. The dance had helped but it was mostly the small talk we exchanged while we danced. It was almost like he could sense that this was my first real meeting as a designer and tried to ma
Kian said he was an old friend, surely he must have told him about our relationship while setting up this meeting. But with the way Andre peers at me with interest, I can’t tell if he knows or not so I just answer the best way I can. “We used to be close.” As in we used to be married until he cheat