CHAPTER 6
IRENE'S POVI WAS stupid enough to do any of this but certainly not this.The last time I had made a decision drunk was over four years ago and it had ended up with a scar deep in my heart nothing could get it offYet this man, something about him felt so alluring all I wanted that moment was to kiss him.It was a war between the right and wrong.A tug-of-war between temptation and common sense.I could feel all the will of common Sense slip slowly out of me in my drunken state and just when I thought I would bury my lips into his and kiss him amidst the heavy rock and roll music my phone rang.I stared down at my phone, then at the caller…rolling my eyes at both."Someone important?" He asked.I could see the impatience in his eyes as well, he wanted to get over the kiss and as much as I would have loved to kiss him back that moment I couldn't.In a way I felt James' eyes all over, he couldn't be here or he wouldn't be calling but still it felt kind of Weird."Yes." I answered his initial question. "My husband.""You are married?" His eyes dropped to hands.Seeing what he was trying to do, I slipped the ring out of my bags and wore it back.It sat there convincingly glittering under the blue, purple light of the room."I am…I am sorry didn't know you were married."He looked more shocked than worried,and I …drunk."You don't need to apologize." I said slurring my words. "I took it off in the first place."The phone soon started ringing again and this time I was angered at the fact that he was calling.The damned man was making the whole deal a living hell for me and at the same time he doesn't want to let me find peace outside our home.The whole feeling was complicated and in a way I was starting to wonder what I was getting out of the marriage.The first few weeks had been blissful, but everything after that had withered away into nothing.We had gone from being a bit cordial into wanting to stay away from each other's company.He could see the resentment I had in my eyes when I the call, even a coward would make the easy guess that things were not perfect at that moment.I wasn't the best at controlling my drink's as a matter of fact alcohol and liquors tends to push out a part of me that was recessive.It was obvious I would start speaking if I sat there still, so my first thought was on how to get home.I tried to stand up on my own but with my head spinning round, I sat back in the chair."I don't feel good." I admitted to him."Obviously." He noted with a smirk.His smirk was charming enough, so charming I would have loved to sit there all day and do nothing than just talk a bit in a way I knew I had to get back to my cheating husband."I need to get home." I said, pouting my lips." Are you here with your car?" He askedI looked around the room looking all confused and dazed.Even if I was with my car I wouldn't have let me self drive it."Let me help you up, I'd drive you."He got up with me with my hands around his shoulders and his around the small of my waist as we both wobbled to the door.******************************************The cold wind fell upon our faces as we made our way out of the pub.I wasn’t the smartest girl in the world while making decisions and I was showing the traits over again and again.Right here I was married and all, in another man's car— One part of me wanted to go home with this man instead of mine.Yet once again that felt like a very stupid idea.It wasn't my decision to make after mumbling what my idea was, I was at his mercy — I was at the mercy of this man that picked me up from the pub.I pulled it into a ponytail, as that was the only thing I could do to keep it away from my face.In a funny way, with my clouded feeling and emotion I still had feelings for one more emotion— Jealousy.I hadn’t felt it before , not since we got married but it was there. I only hoped the other woman wasn’t there to fill his bed for as long as I couldn't bear the thought of it.In a way I could tell she was different from me, perhaps that was what attracted her to him.As he set me into his car and went round to the other side all I that flickered in my mind was how carefree and uninhibited the woman had been— even while I was standing there . . . pale from seeing her.She had not even blinked an eye, I was concerned about having to compete with her even if that wouldn't look like us competing as I was totally out of the picture.I wondered why she wouldn't just ask me for sex and chose to find it in the hands of another.It occurred to me that they were not even having sex, but then what more would I have wanted to see.James taking her pants off?As all these thoughts filled my mind, Nathaniel didn't look away from the road even a bit.Quite a gentleman…I thought to myself.In a way I couldn't help but Imagine how things would have been different if Marcus had not come with that deal.I looked away as I saw his face turning toward where I was and looked out to the road instead.During the hour-long drive, I decided on what j was going to do when I got back to the house again.While I was certain that he would be either in his study or on the phone with a client, it was obvious we would bump into each other since we lived in the same house.The car had an aura about it, it did seem Nate was the tyoe if person that preferred concentrating on one thing at a time or perhaps the radio was too loud for conversation.It was hardly more romantic in the car than the energy I had been filled at the pub, it was excusable anyways as I was more sober as the minutes ticked by.Regardless, there was something comfortable about him, a type of comfort I find it hard to have with James Fraser.Cars sparkled beneath the moonlight as people milled up and down the side of the road, The day that was prior heated up was dying slowly in the moonlight.As most people made their way home, more of them half drunk as I was.It was not a very exciting day to start with, the only entertainment had been the time I spent with Nathaniel but as the time had gone by slowly our thoughts had become private.Nate's attention found me, burning my skin with a distinct gaze."What?" I shrugged."You seem better than when we left the pub. " He looked into my eyes as if trying to convey a message.I wondered if he was as attentive with all hiswomen this way.The way I had studied him to be, it did look like he was good at just one thing at a time and I wondered if that applied to his women as well.I recuse myself for thinking that way, I might not be enjoying a blissful marriage but at the same time I was still tied down to a contract regardless.A tenacious part of me wanted to know what he would have done if I was not married, he looked to have totally changed since I mentioned it.I always was a bit too curious.I bit my lips as he was busy saying a few words to one of the cars’ owners, I slippedaway in my mind pretending to be busy with something else.His voice was gravel, silk. "What part do you stay in?"It took a long time to realize it but we were already in the estate."Just drive forward and take the right turn.""Just that?" He asked.I nodded, my heart fluttering like wings. “It is easy to find, mind is at the end."He didn't say anything as he drove in , the close timbre of his words touched my neck as a light summer breeze played on my skin as we pulled up in front of my apartment."Guess someone is out waiting." Nathan said with a smile.He was right, James looked to be walking toward his convertible just as the security let us in.I got out of the car and walked toward him trying to stay as cool as I could approaching where he was."Hey, you forgot your bag." Nate said, walking out with my bag.He stopped right in front of James, the two men staring into each other's eyes.CHAPTER 7JAMES POVI wasn't sure of how to deal with everything as it looked new to me —This whole marriage situation.An intuition played in the back of my mind, sending a wave of uncertainty through me. I thought of possible ways everything could go bad and it numbered too much.Kathy had left soon after Irene stomped off, at first I had been shocked seeing her standing there before it registered in my mind that at the end we were actually married.I had called her name after a few while but that was it—I returned soon enough to Katherine who was adjusting her dress with a smirk on her face.It looked like she got what she wanted already, and I stupidly fell for her the snare she laid.In a way I had done what I felt was unthinkable—I had paraded my mistress right before my wife—contract or none.It left in me a feeling demanding to be made fact.What if she decides to pull out of all this…I couldn't help thinking to myself.At the end it turned out to look like I'd be the one t
CHAPTER 8.IRENE'S POV.I COULDN'T deal with everything, right before were two men that were trying to play masculine supremacy.I saw a flash of red, as I stared at them—From Nathaniel bleeding face to James angry one.The two men were agitated…For a minute I thought Nathan would come right at him, but he didn't. He just backed away from him.Looking back I saw two of the guards walking out, perhaps that was why Nathan had walked away.Watching as the car drove out of the park, I saw it turn round the bend and I was left with my husband.“Get her to the room.” He said as his guards approached us."What-" Before the words could leave my lips, I was lifted and dragged across the room.I banged my fist against the man but there was nothing I could do about all of this, at least more than give pretty screams.The guard dropped me in the room and shut the door, locking me in.All I wanted was to clear my head, after everything that had happened— it looked to me that he should be the o
CHAPTER 9IRENE'S POVHe would have asked for anything at that moment and in a way I would have done everything, done everything and the truth was I don't know why?Perhaps, it had to do with the life I was born into, in a way it was dark, so dark but at the same time it was transparent.I knew his world was darkness, I had seen it underneath his eyes as soon as I had signed the contract.In a way he made me aware of the fact that even something so good has its shadows.It took just a few seconds between drowning in his words and floating again and this time as I did I found myself walking…just waking like someone hypnotized.His words were compelling, and without even wanting to or even knowing it, I found myself walking toward him slowly.I should hate this man, I really should…in a way, I felt the need to stay detached from this man, as indifferent as I possibly could, but as the words got to me, I couldn't do anything to stop myself.In a way I could not even recognize the pers
CHAPTER 10IRENE'S POVFear. Panic. Anxiety.Name it.I felt all at once, in one giant rush down my nerves.His warm hands around my neck made me…Absolutely inexpressive of my emotions.I didn't know how to react to any of the emotion's budding up in me like a flame, blooming into something passionate.The good thing about all of this was that something deep down in a part of me was screaming in whispers that I shouldn't react to him this way, but the crazy side of it all was that I wanted to think with this side— I wasn't thinking with my brains at this moment but another organ entirely.I was thinking about an organ with a pulse.Maybe I shouldn't have it with him?Yet I knew this was going to happen anyways…“No one-” The rest of his words came in rasps.Rasps breathed again my neck, down the nape.I looked into his eyes, fully aware that he could easily be as dangerous as he looked.He watched me with that same darkened look as he leaned against me, pulling me closer by my ne
CHAPTER 11.JAMES POVLooking at her, all I could think about was how I was going to deal with the whole situation of having he there right where I wanted.She was the most crude of all I had met and in a way, I felt the need to refine her.The hatred in her eyes was glaring, I had seen the intensity in them even before she caught me earlier in the day with Kathy.Deep down, I felt a kind of remorse that she might be feeling the pain — probably jealousy from seeing me with another woman, I wouldn't ignore the fact that she actually slapped me.It had come to me when I least expected it, and roused not only the demon from my past, but every dark emotion I had in myself at the moment.Her eyes widened as she saw the strap in my hands, the grin upon my face anticipating what was to come.In a way, I felt the need to devour her, there was a need to take her in many ways and any way I wanted.I was going to make love to his woman if she consented or not.She tried wriggling free as I reach
CHAPTER 12IRENE'S POVIt was pretty fastThe manner by which the change in attitude came, One moment he was all cool and well collected and the next he was like a demon ripping every layer out of me shred by shred, regardless I felt the need to stay away from him as much as I could.I could as well tell Marcus everything but reverted to doing that as I wanted to deal with him totally on my own.It was kind of comical the way he switched emotions pretty fast.One moment he didn't want to have anything to do with me as I was forced to another bedroom on his request,seconds later he is all jealous and tries to take advantage of me.At moments like this, I wondered to myself if I was dealing with the same person as it turned out to be, he was certainly someone with a dual personality.I thought back to that blissful night that came before the contract was signed— it was certainly the first time I had seen him smile or ever acted all kindly— Was that all a facade?Was this a fate I had s
CHAPTER 13IRENE'S POVI FELT dirty after everything, the fact that I climaxed to the memories of a man I claimed to hate was itself very complicated…I dragged myself out of bed and walked to the bathroom brushing and flossing quickly before heading under the faucet for a warm bath.Deep down in my soul I wished the warm water cold wash away his touch from my nerves and soul.I ran the comb through my hair as I rang the phone downstairs telling the maid what I wanted for breakfast.My plan for the day was easy—I was going to avoid anything to do with James.Soon, I heard on my my door and opened to find there-It was Seven o’clock in the morning as I sat on the couch in my room with only an oversized one as I ate a bowl of cereal while scrolling through my phone.My phone buzzed in my hands as a message popped in. I choked on my food …Apparently James must have been intending to send it to someone else because it was deleted not even ten seconds after I had seen it.My eyes widened
CHAPTER 14JAMES POV.She in her ways and any more ways I couldn't quite figure out never ceased to amuse me.Irene—The thought of that name alone leaves me guessing.There was something about her I couldn't quite get out of my mind despite my general rule when it came to women and I couldn't quite figure it out, the truth was dealing with her was freakishly overwhelming.It was like she had a hold over me, almost as if I was right there in her book.To make matters more complicated for myself, I couldn't quite stay away.Perhaps, this whole thing was a bad idea after all I couldn't help thinking.It was two ways when it came down to my mindset about her:In the instance, we were two people forced together by fate having conflict within ourselves and in the other instance, we were not trying to stay away from each other.Yet, there were these unexplainable situations that kept bringing us together just like this.I was right here standing in her room, looking so tenderly into her eye