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"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz25J1uHs0h
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"I'm nervous, Scarlett."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgVTI60ID8
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCZMvQIfgf
Very rare, indeed. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSey98QVSN
"What if she doesn't like me?"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbw5gUuH7X
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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4r3qo0dse
Actually, his 'much' translates to "shaking hands with the urgent female pests and later sanitazing his whole bloodstream with the likes of Lifeboy. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NJsLDJbA7
But I knew better than to peel his words, and throw the carbs back at him. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVO55Ye5KvJ
"I highly doubt Kiara isn't sensible enough to see what I see in you."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOYf4hbfko
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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8Rp1anMzm
But as expected, he didn't believe a word of mine so I continued rummaging through his clothes. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYENdxD5fA
"Kiara is someone I don't want to let go of, anytime soon."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4BPbMp1FG
I didn't turn around. "I know."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXdP2Bo7rp
"If things turn out right, I'll propose her to be my wife."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBk6G33zYg
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOW7IqgnST
To be back on his feet again. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GUZnGvHBj
"I'm not experienced enough, Scarlett."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2jsZ1iO4q
Yes, wooing women had never been on the list of his achievements. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSLX5rXayf
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But there is always a first time for everything. He needed to know that. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzHhHZaCjh
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He needed to know he didn't need my help anymore. I was just his employee.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJXIyAqBK9
His secretary. Assigned to help him in his work. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1feqLQCXc
Not his friend. Present here to give him love advise. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvxBt6iyjC
Taking a deep breath, I bit my lip hard, finding it hard to ignore the anticipation of his next words. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8C1WiOhBHx
Sometimes, I wish I didn't know him that much. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Tisepx0Bb
"Hazel."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclmsVkd3os
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.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0grLWIF9vu
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxh4wk90Ir
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrDkHNyrRZ
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMoju9H5be
He would need some encouragement and a slight push, I thought.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CWwtIQf31
"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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIsAa19kKs
He didn't look a bit convinced. It's okay, I didn't expect any better from him. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdTXMnkF93
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjI3Ez6PWB
The more he felt, the more he hid. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsau7V4Sn3g
Because he was scared of being betrayed and left behind. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHrU4y4piI
He had his pretty good damn reasons for thinking that, I decided after remembring everything he went through. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ811Om9ivGp
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzAavKDzDy
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.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19yQbNQ3oc
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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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Gci4Pb1eV
No matter how much good or bad, it is. Nobody wants to go deep into their past. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKo4HHRRk4M
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIApW8ZevE
"You don't have to worry over trifle things, I know you can do better than-"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLSvigtlnB
"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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpandn8O67A
My throat went dry, my mind blaring with his request, trying to find any suitable answers for him, but I found none. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbxKGoAyBS
Except for she likes every men, as long as they behave as one. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhMEGQG4OP
But knowing him, it was better to keep it to myself.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TmvfcsJsV
"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." 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTA3iZpLVT5
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Feeling his intense burning stare at my skin, I added in haste."As a friend, of course."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3Uu9MquQP
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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2ADYuW84e
I've been with you for seven years straight, I thought.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbnysZcroy
"How about you tell me what does she like in men, romantically?"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK06ox2FfAe
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZv9d8WJHM
I sighed. This was going to be a long day to convince him of his doubts.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTZOf9HtIQ
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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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNgXpD5cfJ
"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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIirhmdkBHY
I grinned forcefully, trying to look as casual as possible, but that came out rather than a frown, I realised. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKN0glVjQL
He frowned himself in response. "Proper? A kiss is a kiss, Scarlett. Whatever do you mean with a proper one?"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQ8TNcsEWB
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-"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PwFZfFoMD
"Ugly smooches? You think I can't kiss her properly?" His eyes darkened in gloom, clutching my shoulders tightly around his long fingers. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiIj3Mjv0X
I raised my hands in defence. "No! I didnt mean it like that. You know it! You know me-"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhUk2M4gNB
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DXerGCDal
"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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYD5HQakNLB
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQdb8mO0CR
"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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIe8ygaey9V
I stared at him blankly, as if he'd just asked me to show him how my sister wants him to kiss her. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynA2DAfffu
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.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDysV2LVe3
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1DQGLAlXm
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But when he didn't, I grew nervous. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoYj0EhyFB
"You're drunk." I said, as a matter of fact.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4hgZg1nfO
"I can't be. Just four cans of beer isn't enough for me to get inebriated."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBur3d0xkA
Four! He told me he just had two. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuoWUlBO80
"You know you've a low tolerance for alcohol, Heath."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8DqzM6Yyg
He narrowed his eyes, as if I had been indignant of his muscularity. "I know my limits, Scarlett."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEUsyOBPBO
"That's not the point here-"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqcYP81704Y
"You've been getting increasingly and annoyingly accusing of my behaviours lately and you know-" He started. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50IBTFWlD8
"That's because you don't listen to a thing I say-"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1CkVYlNuS
"Do you think you're under any position to order me around now?"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVD4JZzQKR
I looked at him, feeling hurt by his words. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFPghqyQyc
Moreover, I was angry at myself for ever letting myself carried away by his sweet words and nature sometimes. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpWrI5Onwq
He can be arrogant, rude, narissatic, and egoistic. Any time. I knew it from the start. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWS64UruGKv
But then why it always catches me off guard when he changes his attitude so suddenly. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEtwWULy1Q
Why it hurts right in my chest, when my words mean nothing to him just as my presence does, I wondered. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uDM6vBoCe
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkipVRNmDTw
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrc6K1JaNS
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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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gD4VkraVk
Narrowing his eyes, he looked at me, slightly stained from his activity, and I clenched my teeth in frustration. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieDzEIV5h6
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKH2GzF8xzY
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlX9PqxbNZ
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"Stop fighting." He ordered. "And squirming." 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapiAm7ie3R
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUFaUnDRaX
"You're drunk." I repeated, once he settled in the crook of my neck, his breath ticking my senses. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nNYj1v4jR
"I know."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoDzSoYBRg
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrn3C8hSA0
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKojyKss85
Daring to look back into his eyes, I glanced a look at him. "Heath."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDVhbgHA2i
"Hazel."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGszE14csZ
"I'm-"1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVscyqCUjX
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5anWtwfkCn
"It's okay. I don't mind much." I said, trying to sit back up but when he still didn't move, I sighed. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkDUAFHzVN
"Hazel."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLIVqooSrwV
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡng4sP6DdYq
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XD8tPtR5b
I was grateful the other day he told me why he hated having his sister around. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Gf9TApN6c
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnhTT8KnwH
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDBLI9DxfC
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6OsYm1hx7
As his secretary. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv45M65SCEZ
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwByqYym6ZA
To him. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfPO0GLyHx
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQZTlc4fzd
He acknowledged my potential. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPJA4ckGf8
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.1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gRYxINGho
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQuqZvA37v
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwCDshBTca
Outside company, I was his friend. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjUqiBRBn6
Inside it, I was his mere employee. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgOmBqj7fN
I was torn between choosing what I actually want to mean to him. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0l0JmmuWxr
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. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoF5V57SBZe
Which, as expected, I was so not grateful for, when he told me he liked Kiara Scarlett, my sister. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3axTiuMnoJ
Correction: My step-sister. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUajGrMdAR
But he didn't have to know that. 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuE4TrWE9P
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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBrfXah7qO
"I want Kiara, Hazel."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRm5qTgLYu
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."1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fIfdAgdus
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-" 1158Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAImgFmyjt3
"I trust you enough to know what I want, Hazel. And I know you'll not deny me anything."
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