I was still on my rush from what transpired when I entered Raphael's office.'Are we giving interviews now?', Raphael asked with irritation.Just like that all my high is gone. 'I solved the crisis. I handled as best as I can without further damaging our sales. With the limited time that's all I could come up with', I responded sinking into the same mood he is in.'You could have just offered her the money she wants and done with it. Now the other channels are aligning for an interview. We are not running a talk show here', he gritted each word out.'But she asked half a million dollars', I gasped.He lifted his eyebrow implying, 'so?'The maddening quirk of his eyebrow. Oh, how I itched to pluck the stupid thing from his forehead. Seriously, if I saved half a million dollars of someone other than him, they would have been falling under my feet, ok at the least, grateful. But not Raphael Sinclair. He is irritated even for doing that. I wonde

I don't know what it feels like to be on the top of Mount Everest. I don't know the rush you feel when you do bungee jumping from the tallest point. You get the gist. I'm not a poet, not even close, but being with Rafa made me feel things that are very new to me. Euphoric. I'm not the first virgin to spout nonsense about a guy after losing virginity to him. But this is not about sex. It's the care with which he handled it. Other than Kade, Rafa is the first one to show care for me. Rafa is the one to NOTICE me. I may be good looking but no one cared enough to get past the skin deep. Before it was only Kade, and now Rafa. Both are attractive, but with Rafa, we have this weird connection full of sexual tension hanging between us, it's...explosive. It's like I can pinpoint his exact location in a crowd. THAT explosive.This was the nonsense dwelling in my mind when I opened my eyes to gaze into his eyes. We are both naked (obvious), tangled, each in their own thoughts.'I

What Kade doesn't say is that it also means my sister's Boyfriend is from the Sinclair family or at the very least, they know him.'I want to make sure that Jack is connected to this family', I said deep in my thoughts.'You mean, before targeting them?', he interpreted my statement.I shrugged nonchalantly. A million thoughts are circulating my mind.' how to make sure?', I projected my doubt. He was quiet for such a long time, I thought he didn't hear. I opened my mouth to repeat but he interrupted by saying,'We can't say. The only way I see right now is to dig the dirt on this family. To search the skeletons in their closet. And pray that one of these leads to Jack. And even then, if we catch him, it's not like he will be the murderer. We are doing guesswork here Erica. A hell of a lot of guesswork.'I started pacing, 'let me get this straight, A) we are not sure Jack is related to the Sinclair family. B) if he is related and we find out

'Not now', he cut me off.'No, seriously, what are you doing here?', I wheezed out, my adrenaline wearing off, as I started to register the pain.'Later', he looked pointedly at Kade and continued, ' first, let's have you checked'.My body was waiting for that to be mentioned I think, because as soon as he said checked, my mind went black, I slumped in a dead faint. Good, let's just solidify the fact that you are a damsel in distress was my last thought.When I regained my consciousness, I thought I would hear chatting (arguing), anything, but it's eerily silent. Have they killed each other already? A girl would know when two men interested in her would react if faced with each other. I haven't opened my eyes yet, and not about to anytime soon.No one poked me to open them and gave me an idea of how thick the tension is. Come on Erica, you could do it. Try to be casual. I took a deep breath and finally opened my eyes to-Thanks for making a

Thanks to Richard I got over feeling sorry for myself. But I can't let them watch over me all night. Time to break the staring match. Even gay couples won't communicate this much with their eyes. With that in mind, I went to Raphael.I tapped on his window. It's a waste of use asking what he is doing here! Instead, I said, ' Go. Take a rest. You are tired. You had a Super Long flight, on top of that you must fight today. You need to sleep. I'm going to Kade's home anyway', I said, the last part diverting my eyes. It will hurt him. Me going to Kade's home. But he never took me to his in the past 2 weeks. And I don't want to visit it for the first time, because he must take me there, not want to.'I wanted to rip them. Not have to fight', he replied, totally ignoring my other comment. Ookk.'Just take some rest and eat something while at it.'He just gave me a Long stare, reversed his car, and left. There would probably be more than one ticket he would be c