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"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSCjKjimgn
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"I'm nervous, Scarlett."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCc1ZVnzsp
In the midst of choosing the attire for his special night, after probably scandalizing his whole closet and not getting the desired piece, I stopped my ministrations, only to turn around to look at his troubled expression. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi67J0avCBN
Very rare, indeed. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUmvwXIFzC
"What if she doesn't like me?"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyr50dnObHU
When I made no move to correct him, he gauged my incredulous expression, but continued nevertheless. "You know I don't have much experience with women."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUdSiDyLYR
Actually, his 'much' translates to "shaking hands with the urgent female pests and later sanitazing his whole bloodstream with the likes of Lifeboy. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlO5wIInnQc
But I knew better than to peel his words, and throw the carbs back at him. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPlXDvTBB1
"I highly doubt Kiara isn't sensible enough to see what I see in you."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6gFQLD9BL
Staring right through his hidden soul, I smiled genuinly. "That you're the most handsome piece of flesh and blood, highly advanced functioning robot with the special lie detector, having characterised devotion and pride to your work, and not necessarily to say, but much better person in real than what you let all those around you see."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNVO18FWcO
But as expected, he didn't believe a word of mine so I continued rummaging through his clothes. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTwHYpqXji
"Kiara is someone I don't want to let go of, anytime soon."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1AJWXHuSC
I didn't turn around. "I know."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIBgkpaahJ
"If things turn out right, I'll propose her to be my wife."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqMvXlaWUJ
I didn't respond, knowing its alreadly clear to both of us, that if things didn't turn out right in the end, he'll break from inside and I have to be beside him to help him, recover, revive. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfYEg77MZc
To be back on his feet again. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxN4ifiBEoZ
"I'm not experienced enough, Scarlett."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWxhUDmNKh
Yes, wooing women had never been on the list of his achievements. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmTz6jW8If
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But there is always a first time for everything. He needed to know that. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSO3Jv9oVpZ
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He needed to know he didn't need my help anymore. I was just his employee.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoevfSE7yG
His secretary. Assigned to help him in his work. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zYJ5uyw5h
Not his friend. Present here to give him love advise. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTzybJlTEw
Taking a deep breath, I bit my lip hard, finding it hard to ignore the anticipation of his next words. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyfAYTgnXl
Sometimes, I wish I didn't know him that much. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZY8vV8METJ
"Hazel."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWAlBFcZSp
Instantly, my body stiffened, hearing my first name roll out so beautifully, lovely, sensually, from his mouth, and I gripped his robes tightly around my fingers, clutching them for life, silently shooking my head, my heart not wanting to hear his next words.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS7LASZp3T
Grabbing all my wits, slowly I turned around, looking as casual as the moon hidden behind the clouds, tucking a lock of hair behind my ear. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnI2JZJ0JGs
Not wanting to make it awkward, I placed the selected pair of clothes on his bed, feeling his precise eyes gauging my every movement, making my skin tingling with nervousness. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcerDoDPjYM
But when he made no move to go and change whatsoever, I sighed to myself and walked to his side, placing both of my hands on his broad shoulders, making him look at me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLtxtzCt3O
He would need some encouragement and a slight push, I thought.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCVE7HgQjY
"I think you're thinking too much, Heath. Any women in their right mind would love to be with you and any women in their wrong mind would kill to be with you."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhYJQkAXq1
He didn't look a bit convinced. It's okay, I didn't expect any better from him. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCkR4uxnb4
He looked at me with blank eyes, his expression passionless, and I cursed myself for not realizing that he could be as silent as the dark, if he wanted. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KStki73lg
The more he felt, the more he hid. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzC3dnltNb
Because he was scared of being betrayed and left behind. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFceB2c449
He had his pretty good damn reasons for thinking that, I decided after remembring everything he went through. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfDr7U76Ty
He didn't talk much, he was not arrogant like all the rich funky rude bastards, he was not conceited, baring him of any drop of narsissance, but he can be all of those, if required and nobody knew it better than me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZX9Ve6m21
He was wounded, but he would rather die than let anyone see and take advantage of it, he was thirsty, of love, of his parents, of his grandfather, of his love, Kiara.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUozEkdTynA
My sister. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7v2ZlBNrS
But he found it easier to bury it deep inside his heart, than to let it all out. As usual, we run from the truth, only to collide with its cruelity, it's purity, one day, with such a force that it tackles us down to the past, the one place where nobody wants to wander again. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUCixhgDuT
No matter how much good or bad, it is. Nobody wants to go deep into their past. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6YPrpc7AC
And this time, he encountered the truth, with bravery, and embraced it in his heart, to move forward, with better promises, with his loved ones. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7the0ggYlp
"You don't have to worry over trifle things, I know you can do better than-"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEnSCv7FBW
"You're her sister, Scarlett. Nobody knows her better than you. Tell me what she likes..." He gazed at me with intensity tearing my insides. I could feel his breath honning my lips, making them part in desired anticipation. "In men."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdL6BbAirMS
My throat went dry, my mind blaring with his request, trying to find any suitable answers for him, but I found none. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCV1VW5mFwL
Except for she likes every men, as long as they behave as one. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrY8NSLz6r5
But knowing him, it was better to keep it to myself.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZxxwCIScE
"I... " Inching my face away from him, I tried to look at anywhere but him. "Kiara isn't picky type, you know. She likes almost everyone, instantly." 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNG2nLwEyzy
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Feeling his intense burning stare at my skin, I added in haste."As a friend, of course."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4G2mXE8OM
He hesitated. "But I don't want her to think of me as a friend anymore. We've had a fair three year long friendship already."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGwBlXk0Os
I've been with you for seven years straight, I thought.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHirzuVvTH
"How about you tell me what does she like in men, romantically?"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgj2ALaHWx
Immediately, my mind flashed back to all those times I found Kiara making out with some guy in her closer, her car, outside balcony, and sometimes, even in my own room. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbA0WIPRX5T
I sighed. This was going to be a long day to convince him of his doubts.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdXqJXKbFb
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Cautiously, I tried to pry his hand off my own shoulders, but when he didn't make any move to let go, I decided to just go ahead and get over with it. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQRzPxTVXW
"I think she likes to have.." Briefly, I glanced at his lips, gulped inwardly before moving up to look at him."a proper kiss on her first date."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugItlLpXfW
I grinned forcefully, trying to look as casual as possible, but that came out rather than a frown, I realised. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oUEe9Ywz6
He frowned himself in response. "Proper? A kiss is a kiss, Scarlett. Whatever do you mean with a proper one?"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDuCXX4Od6
Horrified at his interrogation, I tried to swallow my own tongue. "Its just a speculation, Heath. I suppose she would rather have an entertaining date with someone she likes, such as perhaps you, than have ugly smooches-"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGc8qzuVf97
"Ugly smooches? You think I can't kiss her properly?" His eyes darkened in gloom, clutching my shoulders tightly around his long fingers. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9pSCm9qzZ
I raised my hands in defence. "No! I didnt mean it like that. You know it! You know me-"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0GmiVfrA8
But then suddenly, he dropped my hands from my shoulders and inched away from me, looking guilty. Befuddled, I just looked at his enchanted form. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3QHUeGbV3
"I think you're right. How can I ever-" He stopped, took long strides, standing back in front of me, and cupped my chin with his both hands, making me look at him in more confusion. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBP2pa6Uioj
Heath Evercrest never touched women unless unfortunately, the said women was his mother, which he never did willingly of course, or the said women happened to be his weired sister, whom he had to touch in order to shove her out of his office, his house, his room, and sometimes, even his bathroom. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRTS5LMbVE
"Why didn't I think of it like that? Hell, yes right. Of course, Kiara would wish to have me kiss her, it's obvious, Scarlett. But how am I supposed to know if she would like it if I kiss her my way, or.." His eyes twinkled as he looked at me."If I kiss her the way she wants, which you'll show me."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXYUbsigIU
I stared at him blankly, as if he'd just asked me to show him how my sister wants him to kiss her. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnxRFTI4mk
Realising that's exactly what he said, I toppled over in my own steps, knocking him down gently with my own disbalance, both of us landing on his soft bed, him on top of me, breathing heavily.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8Spf91yZc
I tried to reason with him, our close proximity suddenly making me crazy. Nudging him gently on his shoulders, I tried to push him from above me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyc63mEvcN
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But when he didn't, I grew nervous. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmItCNuC1sg
"You're drunk." I said, as a matter of fact.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6tKbdlzHb
"I can't be. Just four cans of beer isn't enough for me to get inebriated."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQkZvje8Ss
Four! He told me he just had two. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwRmImj6jW
"You know you've a low tolerance for alcohol, Heath."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2eIyvAlOcu
He narrowed his eyes, as if I had been indignant of his muscularity. "I know my limits, Scarlett."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOZgLywmGF
"That's not the point here-"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiID6JMmbD
"You've been getting increasingly and annoyingly accusing of my behaviours lately and you know-" He started. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCpqN69jmg
"That's because you don't listen to a thing I say-"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkv2ZYTjBCK
"Do you think you're under any position to order me around now?"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1WlevMuTU
I looked at him, feeling hurt by his words. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjyU9Y87V5f
Moreover, I was angry at myself for ever letting myself carried away by his sweet words and nature sometimes. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAFGkfOOKp
He can be arrogant, rude, narissatic, and egoistic. Any time. I knew it from the start. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdqWiiGiDV
But then why it always catches me off guard when he changes his attitude so suddenly. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqbt0KBNxT
Why it hurts right in my chest, when my words mean nothing to him just as my presence does, I wondered. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Bp8gbYxxs
I said nothing, just glared at him back, my eyes now shining with the cresuclent pearls of emerging tears and I cursed myself for ever letting my guard down in front of him. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJe58pAWq8T
Suddenly deciding to have him out of my sight, I put my palm on his chest, pushing him aside roughly, only to have him catch my left hand and push it down to my side, over my head. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuMBi6wNzp
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I tried yet hard, raising my right hand at his shoulders now, and when this time he tried to catch it, I raised my left leg and the same time and tried to kick him but he was fast enough, pinning his left leg over my own, securing my right leg with his other one and now grabbing both of my wrists beside my head. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLW8uoldYX
Narrowing his eyes, he looked at me, slightly stained from his activity, and I clenched my teeth in frustration. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8wJowREMA
Looming over my body, he moved down, his face inches from my own, and I took a deep breath to calm my nerves befoee struggling against him, fighting his strength. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35VbgFoOqM
Managing to give him some scratches and pain, I was almost out of his grasp when he pushed all his weight on me, stumbling sllghtly on his left leg. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETpBXs4AyF
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"Stop fighting." He ordered. "And squirming." 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3lTRNFcZq
I nodded in silence, deciding to trust him, which I had been doing for past seven years now, my mind reeling with the fact that if he didn't do anything intimate with me past these years, he was most likely to not do anything now, considering he is in love with another woman. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlK55eoWZt
"You're drunk." I repeated, once he settled in the crook of my neck, his breath ticking my senses. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1wdWHjHoh
"I know."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVksyiW3dKX
We lay there in silence for I don't know how long, the only thing in my mind right now was how good he felt against me, or how his low heaving breath mingled with my own minty one, or how I bit my lips to refrain myself from sighing or moaning out loud enough for him to hear when his hard chest pressed against my cloth clad breasts, or how his fingers would sometimes graze at my thigh, in pure intentions of putting me in place, of course, or how his lips were mere inches apart from my pulsating throat, so if he would just lean a bit, I would die and go to heaven, or how his lips would actually brush featherlight against my neck, hot breath from his open mouth, making me close my eyes in anticipation, until he decided to break this unbearable silence by shifting some of his weight from me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SyD94zkSq
I also made my way to sit back up when I collided with his half bent arms and fell back onto the bed with the soft eep, only to see he hadn't fully gone from above me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Hb7aVZJ0p
Daring to look back into his eyes, I glanced a look at him. "Heath."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZWT3ykNsm
"Hazel."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mWXX5EJfA
"I'm-"1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZeH8c8qbj
Sorry, he meant to say but I knew better than to have his ego hurt by apologizing to me. He was far too better to hurt me anyway. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxf5onb7iY
"It's okay. I don't mind much." I said, trying to sit back up but when he still didn't move, I sighed. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcavGR1eH4
"Hazel."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAHNlpaQ24
I didn't want to look back at him. I knew I would give in to his absurd request. I knew what he wanted from me. It was clearly written on his face. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVX0jzraFG
Sometimes I was afraid and angry, why he ever chose me to confide his secrets to, I was grateful he chose me when one day he told me why he didn't go home, or lived with his parents. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPHBRshwPv
I was grateful the other day he told me why he hated having his sister around. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbGMEZfNa6
I was grateful the day he told me why he chose this company as his future, I was grateful when he told me why he didn't want to leave his office or why he was a workaholic. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekTIspiaYh
Hell, I was even grateful when he told me why he didn't want me to wear heels to the office since he didn't think they suit me, or perhaps, he didn't want me limping to his conference room, sighing in pain. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvOubmUMcA
I was most grateful, the day, almost eight years ago, when he found me on the bench, looking all miserable and desperate and offered me, out of nowhere, the most respected position in his company. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs32kqHxsDB
As his secretary. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM16yHqSmsE
And I embraced the job with the most grateful look on my face ever. I gave my evrything to my work, his company, his employees, his colleagues, his family. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUix75Zp5d
To him. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhRIZgeXN2
I was utterly grateful that he bought a apartment for me, out of the bonus of my hardwork, of course, 'cause nothing comes free in this world, but still, I was grateful that he did it for me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EsGLGaBav
He acknowledged my potential. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxKuCzTElL
I was grateful when he would call me late at night, not saying anything for hours straight, and I knew he came from the family dinner and didn't like to put down much by his father in front of his own capable sister, but his pride wouldn't let him say it in words to me and so I understood my need to remain silent on that meaningful call as well.1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16JwEeizc3
I was grateful he would accompany me to my home, though he did it out of guilt of working me over office hours, but still, he would be grateful enough to drop me across bus stop to take a bus safely home. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDIGTr21UH
I was grateful he would come to sleep at my apartment, thought he got maybe god knows how many of them, to escape from his indulging mother, knocking at his door for day, and one look at me would tell me to keep my mouth shut and let him have a spare room for himself for night. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfLIXF09fg
Outside company, I was his friend. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xr7Hlw9bw
Inside it, I was his mere employee. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYMYUvlY3L
I was torn between choosing what I actually want to mean to him. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ALgjnqG8o
But when I realized what I wanted from him, I knew it was impossible for me to say it aloud, much less than feel it, and so I forgot the dreadful feelings or atleast tried to the minute he opened his another secret to me. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSbFKSgwcv
Which, as expected, I was so not grateful for, when he told me he liked Kiara Scarlett, my sister. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5IcnNrKIP
Correction: My step-sister. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOPo3KrIyH
But he didn't have to know that. 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVyIa4kz5H
I felt his lips on my bare shoulder and stiffened at his touch. Opening my mouth to stop him, I found my tongue hinged. "You're drunk, Heath."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5f8ZKNs6qo
"I want Kiara, Hazel."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtMYRru7rq
I tried not to focus on the softness of his lips against my skin as he glided them up to the corner of my lips, goosebumps appearing on my now burning skin. "And I want you to help me doing that."1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCrXbWtdsW
Just as that, I found myself crushed beneath his weight, my head hitting the soft pillow of his bed as he empowered me yet again, and I swallowed a lump in my throat. "This isn't the right way to do it, Heath. Besides, you're drunk, you don't know what you're doing-" 1160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaCuXCndVP
"I trust you enough to know what I want, Hazel. And I know you'll not deny me anything."
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