The joy that Ruby felt as she watched the faces of the kids from the children's ward as they were given their gifts was so immeasurable. She had never seen them this happy before.She watched how different Cameron was with the children, playing around with them seated on the floor in their midst. They were singing a song and clapping with smiles on their faces. Olivia was standing beside her, looking at Cameron as she was. She shook her head and turned to face Ruby. "I can't believe this is your boss in the midst of those kids, behaving like mortals like us.” Ruby nodded. She was really surprised by that too. He was acting like he wasn't her boss whom she knew for those few months they've known each other. It was good to see this side of him, more than the usual cold, and arrogant side that looked down at her from his nose like she was dirt on his shoes, or she was there to ruin his life. She could still remember the look he had given her that first day. It was really frustrating
“Dance with me?" Cameron said. They had gotten home after they left the hospital and he said he had told his secretary to cancel his plan for the day. He invited her to his office right after they both went to shower and then she came downstairs. When she walked into his office, she didn't expect him to ask her to dance with him or play slow music in his office. She didn't even know he had the music box in his office. She could tell that it was because he was in a good mood, and nothing special but this was a dangerous territory for her. He might only want her to dance with him because of the deal, or because he was just happy generally, but her idiotic brain was already reading too much into it. She wanted to shake her head and say no, but she also wanted to nod her head and say yes. The frustrating thoughts that kept roaming around her head were what she just couldn't understand or get rid of. She wanted to do both the words and opposite of things that came to mind with him, get
“As I said, I can't deny that, but whoever started that rumor obviously didn't see the beginning or the end. It wasn't me that kissed her, she kissed me, but it only lasted for a minute because of my surprise. I pushed her away, and that was the end.” He said. He was staring at her intensely now, bent on finding out what she was thinking, staring at the expression on her face, not wanting to miss a thing. She was better suited to hide behind a wall without being seen than to hide this from him. For so long, she had kept her thoughts and feeling to herself, but this glimpse he was able to see, he was going to hold onto use as much as he could until he was satisfied she couldn't hide any longer. “You’re not going to say anything to what I just said?” he asked when she kept quiet, not saying anything. He knew quite well that she was trying to get herself out of the situation, but by God, he wouldn't let her. He had hidden her feeling long enough. Cameron still wasn't entirely sure ab
Instead of pushing him back and getting away from him as her brain told her to, she moved even closer to him. She pressed her lips against his as softly, and sweetly as she saw fit. At the back of her mind, the warning bell kept ringing but she turned deaf ears to it.Damn it, Ruby! Her mind chastised. This was her boss, the man who had wanted nothing with her when she first arrived, but here she was kissing him as if her life depended on it. Maybe it does, who knows? This was the first time in a very long while that she had kissed a man, or in this case and any, allowed a man to kiss her. Although she expected it to feel odd, or foreign, but it was as natural as sleeping and waking up. It felt like it was something she had always done with him, yet, so new and refreshing. His lips shifted against hers and he deepened the kiss. When his mouth opened over hers, hers opened as well and his tongue slipped between her lips, licking the roof of her mouth and then sucking her bottom lip i
After the kiss episode, Ruby made sure to avoid Cameron completely, even though it was almost close to impossible to do. She would always wake up extra early to cook for the kids, went back into her room until she was sure it was time for him to get ready for work, and then she would go out to get the kids ready for school, pack their lunch and sometimes take them to school. She knew that once the kids were around, it would be easy to avoid him, because he couldn't do anything in their presence, and for those times she had to be with him when they were there, it was always super awkward. Making sure to avoid his eyes wasn't as easy as she thought it would be, but she didn't care about that. Thankfully, it was always only for a few minutes before he went to work for breakfast, or at dinnertime. If he missed dinner by coming home late, she would have put the kids to sleep and retire to her room.This was the exact thing she was trying to run from when she left him that night in his o
Ruby threw her head back to down the alcohol, then she replaced the small cup on the tray of the waiter that just brought the drink to her, and she allowed it take over her body as she swayed from right to right, to feel the rhythm and take in every beat. She looked behind her to see Olivia at the bar of the club with Liam beside her and one of his friends beside him as well. She shook her head at them as they watched her, wondering why they were not trying to have fun themselves. Shrugging her shoulder, she continue to dance, raising her hands in the air as she moved. She was so engrossed in the dance she didn't realize that Olivia was watching her anymore, she was now talking to someone. It wasn't until she looked back to her so that she could signal to her to get her a new drink did she see that and who she was now talking to. In front of them, Cameron stood there, glancing from Olivia to her. She wondered how he got to be there and if his presence there had anything to do with
How many times would this happen before he got the gist, that she wanted nothing to do with him? Or maybe it was her that needed to get that. Anyway, she knew he hated that she was the one rejecting him, and the one that was also looking at him with passion in her eyes. What the hell did she want? She needed to figure that out too, but first, she needed to find a way to get him to leave her the hell alone. She knew quite well it wasn’t coincident that he was here. He still stood behind her and didn't say anything, but maybe he just couldn't. He was probably scared of opening his mouth to say anything because that might make thing even worse than it already was. He allowed his hands to drop by his sides and stepped back, shaking his head. "Is this really want you want?” he asked. "You want me to leave you alone and leave? You don't want us to talk about it and then it gets awkward?” He grabbed her again, probably to try again, but she wrenched her arm away from him. No way! He did
That was all? She cared about him, which meant that there were no emotions there.That better be a joke, because even what she said and what she was doing to him doesn't align. If she cared about him at all, then why was she kissing him back every time, only to leave him high and dry and push him away? Why was she into him one minute and then do not care anymore in the next, abandoning him right before he could figure out what was happening?Probably, it was because she was drunk, and that was why she said what she did because no one should ever treat people they care about this way. Knowing that might be the reason didn't stop him from asking. "If you cared about me so much, why did you keep trying with my emotions and running away from me?”She opened her mouth to say something, but he raised his index finger up to stop her. "And don't you dare say it's about Summer and Spring. Don't you dare bring them into this, Ruby. I'm their father and you can not honestly think that you car