CHAPTER SEVEN

"And why do you think I am going to let you go back to that place, your life is in danger there."

Selena suddenly felt sad, he was right that the place she lived in was dangerous and those people are quite familiar with her now, there was no way this last attack would be her last, luckily she is still alive, all thanks to Howard. She admired him, even more, she wished to have a conversation with him concerning their breakup but she wasn't going to do that.

"You are right, I think I should just go back home." she dints know how but she knew she needed to.

The words broke his heart into pieces even though he had wished not to be around her.

"Why?"

She didn't want to be here explaining how miserable her life was to her ex.

"It's nothing, I just want to go back home ", she tried as much as she could to sound sad about her decision but Howard could tell she wanted the complete opposite of what she was saying. The truth was he didn't want her around either.

To his surprise, she started crying and requested he just opened the door. He didn't know what to do, he wasn't going to comfort her to give her the wrong signals not that they were wrong but he didn't want to give it out.

He comforts her and manages to get the words out, she told him everything that was making her feel down including the fact that she had recently lost her dad.

"Yo doesn't have to leave all because of that I can help you out."

Selena didn't know how to feel about him lending her a hand, she was excited that he was willing to help but she knew this wasn't right. She didn't know how it was going to happen but she felt like she was getting into bigger trouble even though it all seemed fine at the moment.

He ended everything with Evelyn which meant the apartment was free, that area was a pretty peaceful one without chaos and troubles which was why he had picked it for his pleasurable moments.

He felt horrible for doing this but knew they would have still ended up the same way at the end of the day, he proposes the contract to her, for her to be his sex partner, and explains every single rule to her, but she was still going to be his secretary.

She didn't know how to feel about this, even though she felt disrespected and horrible, it was no secret to both of them that as long as they spent that much time with each other they were going to end up in bed sooner or later, the love was still there. He pleads with her to understand from his point of view which she did. She felt the same but just that this wasn't the right time at all not now that she desperately needed help.

She angrily pushes him away without intending to hurt him but he fell and hurts his forehead.

"What have I done now? she quickly apologizes to him and helps him get up from the floor.

He couldn't blame her for the way she acted because he knew he was wrong for doing that, as she tried to help him with his injury he starts kissing which she responded to she had waited for this moment for five whole years and so did he, but she suddenly pulls away from him and this time demanded he opened the door.

"Alright then you don't have to sign the contract, you can go stay at the house."

There was no way he was going to let her go and get hurt again, what if she doesn't survive it this time, he thought?

*****

The house was t was a four-bedroom duplex, she wondered how Howard could get such an apartment for sex.

"Why didn't he just do that at his house, his house was big enough to contain

up to five different families yet he lived there all alone and yet, she was excited about this new place but she wasn't so excited when she saw a room filled with toys and different stuff for sex. She felt a piercing in her chest. This room was probably what he used with other girls, she never knew she could be so sad about Howard having sex with others as it never really came across her mind but now she felt hurt. She wished she was as successful as he was then she wouldn't have had to see all this and feel so much pain, Now she was going to be around him as a secretary.

Since Howard had given her the day off she had time to rest off all the stress from these few days, her life was like a movie now only that it was a bad one. She takes her bath and puts on a dress pink shorts she found in the closet.

Although it annoyed her that the person who had worn that dress previously had also been with Howard. It wasn't her fault anyways, it was Howard who gave her the right to his body but here she was with no right to even get jealous or be sad.