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"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it."983Please respect copyright.PENANAYdBnFatvdv
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"I'm nervous, Scarlett."983Please respect copyright.PENANAC1ZlGU1iN5
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAQn3OhpsTs6
Very rare, indeed. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAFNiNUwq48S
"What if she doesn't like me?"983Please respect copyright.PENANAYYczcEg9Yy
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."983Please respect copyright.PENANA5UWr8jmIjs
Actually, his 'much' translates to "shaking hands with the urgent female pests and later sanitazing his whole bloodstream with the likes of Lifeboy. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAOpAfXJaWgZ
But I knew better than to peel his words, and throw the carbs back at him. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAgA7EW9tsX9
"I highly doubt Kiara isn't sensible enough to see what I see in you."983Please respect copyright.PENANAXCoNDFlOkh
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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAUQusZ2TNZQ
But as expected, he didn't believe a word of mine so I continued rummaging through his clothes. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAauutJrMbD7
"Kiara is someone I don't want to let go of, anytime soon."983Please respect copyright.PENANAo4iTBDgQVG
I didn't turn around. "I know."983Please respect copyright.PENANAKmoqGlWmmO
"If things turn out right, I'll propose her to be my wife."983Please respect copyright.PENANA0vEyXWPR8O
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAWaQInYBjX7
To be back on his feet again. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAl2dWAbuvpi
"I'm not experienced enough, Scarlett."983Please respect copyright.PENANAbWHc6dYSmu
Yes, wooing women had never been on the list of his achievements. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAnIx7PRrHf5
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But there is always a first time for everything. He needed to know that. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAx50q65bLcd
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He needed to know he didn't need my help anymore. I was just his employee.983Please respect copyright.PENANAC9VGk0T73v
His secretary. Assigned to help him in his work. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAovgEuDS3dp
Not his friend. Present here to give him love advise. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAzxbiEdxZ6S
Taking a deep breath, I bit my lip hard, finding it hard to ignore the anticipation of his next words. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAPsQnGfxML6
Sometimes, I wish I didn't know him that much. 983Please respect copyright.PENANATQw1JC8hr0
"Hazel."983Please respect copyright.PENANA5smsUltiKL
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.983Please respect copyright.PENANAWfQWspUBu2
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAf4BHyxdrs1
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAtT4k6GkHrv
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAjA2iWGHGsD
He would need some encouragement and a slight push, I thought.983Please respect copyright.PENANA1KU42SjgFZ
"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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAoLv2Emr7h9
He didn't look a bit convinced. It's okay, I didn't expect any better from him. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAxRQhbFqJV5
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAQcDCXA3NRU
The more he felt, the more he hid. 983Please respect copyright.PENANACFHcXz6DmD
Because he was scared of being betrayed and left behind. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAuH75MK9W5l
He had his pretty good damn reasons for thinking that, I decided after remembring everything he went through. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAZALuAX8Q9W
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAlpZsxT2jzf
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.983Please respect copyright.PENANAqHm52Gm4cr
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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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAUUDi43OvIn
No matter how much good or bad, it is. Nobody wants to go deep into their past. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAxX08RiqjPG
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAChwNuJcvof
"You don't have to worry over trifle things, I know you can do better than-"983Please respect copyright.PENANAjRL4YA0v9E
"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."983Please respect copyright.PENANApwkBoxicD0
My throat went dry, my mind blaring with his request, trying to find any suitable answers for him, but I found none. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAgbJwzd8VW3
Except for she likes every men, as long as they behave as one. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAf36jcADhhR
But knowing him, it was better to keep it to myself.983Please respect copyright.PENANAvrwctqFJxZ
"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." 983Please respect copyright.PENANA7sMkeZ5QoC
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Feeling his intense burning stare at my skin, I added in haste."As a friend, of course."983Please respect copyright.PENANAMNIZMlX9QG
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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAdXjZRk4n1V
I've been with you for seven years straight, I thought.983Please respect copyright.PENANAYjH8MGfGJU
"How about you tell me what does she like in men, romantically?"983Please respect copyright.PENANA6Xo87N80d8
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAPdfFdk2A7L
I sighed. This was going to be a long day to convince him of his doubts.983Please respect copyright.PENANAzHwXi0YeS1
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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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA9Ym6D7WH2g
"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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAaBIGiKfWhb
I grinned forcefully, trying to look as casual as possible, but that came out rather than a frown, I realised. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAu6APQCVVkJ
He frowned himself in response. "Proper? A kiss is a kiss, Scarlett. Whatever do you mean with a proper one?"983Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZlxNLnCLW
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-"983Please respect copyright.PENANA8GScZTFffw
"Ugly smooches? You think I can't kiss her properly?" His eyes darkened in gloom, clutching my shoulders tightly around his long fingers. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAmvVi3Inpqs
I raised my hands in defence. "No! I didnt mean it like that. You know it! You know me-"983Please respect copyright.PENANAmzjmSPMjnH
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAq8MOzSU5RL
"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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAYcV1lH1luR
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAF9qdLQzG3B
"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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAhflvpxVLAs
I stared at him blankly, as if he'd just asked me to show him how my sister wants him to kiss her. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAi9F1O2sOIJ
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.983Please respect copyright.PENANAHWy6HpNyCS
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAvIK7y3HVOO
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But when he didn't, I grew nervous. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAYdDc235oR0
"You're drunk." I said, as a matter of fact.983Please respect copyright.PENANAv3xtC8fBhi
"I can't be. Just four cans of beer isn't enough for me to get inebriated."983Please respect copyright.PENANAeBlIqQnugZ
Four! He told me he just had two. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA2QtUMFnmAn
"You know you've a low tolerance for alcohol, Heath."983Please respect copyright.PENANAAHaKXOyu1e
He narrowed his eyes, as if I had been indignant of his muscularity. "I know my limits, Scarlett."983Please respect copyright.PENANAMoa0t31zUS
"That's not the point here-"983Please respect copyright.PENANAMuvhXsrUb6
"You've been getting increasingly and annoyingly accusing of my behaviours lately and you know-" He started. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAQmP1MjkiLo
"That's because you don't listen to a thing I say-"983Please respect copyright.PENANAoLhPsNkswK
"Do you think you're under any position to order me around now?"983Please respect copyright.PENANA7blZcLL7iG
I looked at him, feeling hurt by his words. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAHQzIIjfq8e
Moreover, I was angry at myself for ever letting myself carried away by his sweet words and nature sometimes. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA9WDkHUiHXt
He can be arrogant, rude, narissatic, and egoistic. Any time. I knew it from the start. 983Please respect copyright.PENANALUnHQw7fEr
But then why it always catches me off guard when he changes his attitude so suddenly. 983Please respect copyright.PENANABhD6L2mluz
Why it hurts right in my chest, when my words mean nothing to him just as my presence does, I wondered. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAUG3EteOgyK
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAGXe3yGoDZx
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAVb3f9j4ZUF
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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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAX0NdrgD7Wt
Narrowing his eyes, he looked at me, slightly stained from his activity, and I clenched my teeth in frustration. 983Please respect copyright.PENANApOl5Aqvd1R
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAvZuqpirte1
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAplX5960CNZ
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"Stop fighting." He ordered. "And squirming." 983Please respect copyright.PENANAhC24PbPRGw
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAquXzaKvWKW
"You're drunk." I repeated, once he settled in the crook of my neck, his breath ticking my senses. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAZwcNAwt4jR
"I know."983Please respect copyright.PENANA2qgCSv53c1
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAYWTmWx62ye
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANASjZB0qVtFX
Daring to look back into his eyes, I glanced a look at him. "Heath."983Please respect copyright.PENANAq3TMmLeWSh
"Hazel."983Please respect copyright.PENANAMrT027S7ih
"I'm-"983Please respect copyright.PENANAyvg1sdts9O
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAEmQqyJ0szO
"It's okay. I don't mind much." I said, trying to sit back up but when he still didn't move, I sighed. 983Please respect copyright.PENANATKy6qAdZED
"Hazel."983Please respect copyright.PENANA1Hg5uwFa3a
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA2XqkewwGlV
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAbu6cvu6ZtA
I was grateful the other day he told me why he hated having his sister around. 983Please respect copyright.PENANATex5DGatrE
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAPBaf3Dyg5b
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA58FSGyoXAd
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAdfeFIPEhgu
As his secretary. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAc9j0EAZf35
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAsFqYmf2ATs
To him. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAMnwYQZejBN
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAL1M7jW3gP2
He acknowledged my potential. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAtOiWhPqUhA
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.983Please respect copyright.PENANAfV85wBShZw
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAaCK723CRgy
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAyFwWfxx37w
Outside company, I was his friend. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAyPqM7cIFxW
Inside it, I was his mere employee. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA1ysgWHHEOB
I was torn between choosing what I actually want to mean to him. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAsZfgkXJOsx
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. 983Please respect copyright.PENANAGuPJV5mH9h
Which, as expected, I was so not grateful for, when he told me he liked Kiara Scarlett, my sister. 983Please respect copyright.PENANARVZJDJhxvO
Correction: My step-sister. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA0cDQwLNYFm
But he didn't have to know that. 983Please respect copyright.PENANA10qFreZ8YG
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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAc8i5xNgE0Z
"I want Kiara, Hazel."983Please respect copyright.PENANA9qBowwzujP
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."983Please respect copyright.PENANAFIX1oL5Ijc
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-" 983Please respect copyright.PENANAgBYt9Q13L8
"I trust you enough to know what I want, Hazel. And I know you'll not deny me anything."
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