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"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJH8cMAHj0G
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"I'm nervous, Scarlett."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHFhAqwvTm
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡty8KVl6hZc
Very rare, indeed. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlfxOhoID1
"What if she doesn't like me?"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrp5KfOnBM
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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUyQaLcM66
Actually, his 'much' translates to "shaking hands with the urgent female pests and later sanitazing his whole bloodstream with the likes of Lifeboy. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ugP1QUUMN
But I knew better than to peel his words, and throw the carbs back at him. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhXQ0HpRHs
"I highly doubt Kiara isn't sensible enough to see what I see in you."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZnUfywXWi
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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJutZqaOUx
But as expected, he didn't believe a word of mine so I continued rummaging through his clothes. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCJrGYKO5b
"Kiara is someone I don't want to let go of, anytime soon."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYnYHh4iHz
I didn't turn around. "I know."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukegBJDL9L
"If things turn out right, I'll propose her to be my wife."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSxqs2l2QY
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW885gn63aD
To be back on his feet again. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPVPRcOyn3
"I'm not experienced enough, Scarlett."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlIs3wSlVI
Yes, wooing women had never been on the list of his achievements. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO99cSTRL7N
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But there is always a first time for everything. He needed to know that. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEiNCXzEVU
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He needed to know he didn't need my help anymore. I was just his employee.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0i7gManoZ
His secretary. Assigned to help him in his work. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5r7LNTO48
Not his friend. Present here to give him love advise. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZSPnAdefz
Taking a deep breath, I bit my lip hard, finding it hard to ignore the anticipation of his next words. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCq1iSNaRz
Sometimes, I wish I didn't know him that much. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbn04FOCBf
"Hazel."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSeRa3oY5WT
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.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoojv9SJYz
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz20pu5H0Bl
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS0bpOv8Sd
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUnkQuxIVO
He would need some encouragement and a slight push, I thought.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUPswjH1lT
"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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83BgXo2wwp
He didn't look a bit convinced. It's okay, I didn't expect any better from him. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iIbYt8872
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIgx9W0hsw
The more he felt, the more he hid. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgKov0XNta
Because he was scared of being betrayed and left behind. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptNW8VU8c9
He had his pretty good damn reasons for thinking that, I decided after remembring everything he went through. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99kcMCNxJw
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF41Ec5s1k4
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.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn0Ja5DVvy
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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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8QqLvPGqr
No matter how much good or bad, it is. Nobody wants to go deep into their past. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrf6lAThPez
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELfIfHuVbw
"You don't have to worry over trifle things, I know you can do better than-"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49bYUp1PIA
"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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhbdrrd4Hj
My throat went dry, my mind blaring with his request, trying to find any suitable answers for him, but I found none. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsu4mGzjM4b
Except for she likes every men, as long as they behave as one. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VmqylwCPI
But knowing him, it was better to keep it to myself.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡekuqNLe9zx
"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." 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapNtWybVog
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Feeling his intense burning stare at my skin, I added in haste."As a friend, of course."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdXvYhLCQK
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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NmGsgimeM
I've been with you for seven years straight, I thought.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMugbWp6C41
"How about you tell me what does she like in men, romantically?"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBh35QyZ5F
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7Q2asbIGB
I sighed. This was going to be a long day to convince him of his doubts.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyG9MiWUhMa
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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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHNRWQ207q
"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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC637oJ1rCG
I grinned forcefully, trying to look as casual as possible, but that came out rather than a frown, I realised. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3Jq10Ftcd
He frowned himself in response. "Proper? A kiss is a kiss, Scarlett. Whatever do you mean with a proper one?"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAlOj2UBWf
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-"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBdt1Wes7v
"Ugly smooches? You think I can't kiss her properly?" His eyes darkened in gloom, clutching my shoulders tightly around his long fingers. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZvZa0q0In
I raised my hands in defence. "No! I didnt mean it like that. You know it! You know me-"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7PAgca7H6
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Y3JhQTozc
"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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQs8GLUq3hc
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9GMKBuIXW
"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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7E74KEIQ8
I stared at him blankly, as if he'd just asked me to show him how my sister wants him to kiss her. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFjTPHduvK
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.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RmCT3LEFI
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqZYio8AdS
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But when he didn't, I grew nervous. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iHX4xlW1s
"You're drunk." I said, as a matter of fact.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyH8eTBP3l
"I can't be. Just four cans of beer isn't enough for me to get inebriated."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0Uks9prGo
Four! He told me he just had two. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8eqXZW9Pi
"You know you've a low tolerance for alcohol, Heath."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNf7LZvKnh
He narrowed his eyes, as if I had been indignant of his muscularity. "I know my limits, Scarlett."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiB2fxYFtHP
"That's not the point here-"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC3RqlRVPJ
"You've been getting increasingly and annoyingly accusing of my behaviours lately and you know-" He started. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObmgzrfki9
"That's because you don't listen to a thing I say-"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXxLlhQZVm
"Do you think you're under any position to order me around now?"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveKTMGjMmA
I looked at him, feeling hurt by his words. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhvy5jTvic
Moreover, I was angry at myself for ever letting myself carried away by his sweet words and nature sometimes. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaIWeLfkD2
He can be arrogant, rude, narissatic, and egoistic. Any time. I knew it from the start. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKjX6dcYzF
But then why it always catches me off guard when he changes his attitude so suddenly. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiwmoo3h2n
Why it hurts right in my chest, when my words mean nothing to him just as my presence does, I wondered. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyqySG263D
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbMSwxnesG
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEe7DGs0r42
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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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNPW5AUTBW
Narrowing his eyes, he looked at me, slightly stained from his activity, and I clenched my teeth in frustration. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNlVxOIphW
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRW0ygHdbuk
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrl4x9T3rK
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"Stop fighting." He ordered. "And squirming." 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEbbfuYZGg
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudazISBNz5
"You're drunk." I repeated, once he settled in the crook of my neck, his breath ticking my senses. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW98nQa9OBp
"I know."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7NJe3UYlP
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXLTJXxk6O
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDr4crcJqVQ
Daring to look back into his eyes, I glanced a look at him. "Heath."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hU8i8rGRT
"Hazel."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFtDfngKNi
"I'm-"1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKa2xNBU0p
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8DNAvPcQ1
"It's okay. I don't mind much." I said, trying to sit back up but when he still didn't move, I sighed. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlL8nGUbaan
"Hazel."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ457q8CfDRo
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYFdRKgy9K
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡga76tAazlc
I was grateful the other day he told me why he hated having his sister around. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rwyqGkiVC
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh0S5smdxs
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvd0IZWu2r
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ycsna2xLr
As his secretary. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cTU3DxUhb
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaGHblPnBB
To him. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxjkfHYbbU
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE97HWTE70V
He acknowledged my potential. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhE0PDaQ13o
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.1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27rqHRNEck
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sbpt5iB8k
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9n3SxjyMZH
Outside company, I was his friend. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWYq0hjirq
Inside it, I was his mere employee. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWKEeJD8DA
I was torn between choosing what I actually want to mean to him. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqm73FEAPR
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. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43auCUJtkm
Which, as expected, I was so not grateful for, when he told me he liked Kiara Scarlett, my sister. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhoKGpivtn
Correction: My step-sister. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7rcTVfTPr
But he didn't have to know that. 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGA3zPqeR3
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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYcOR0rLQz
"I want Kiara, Hazel."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYfwgVc5ap
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."1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtkWFfQ3wg
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-" 1251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVkLNmw9BR
"I trust you enough to know what I want, Hazel. And I know you'll not deny me anything."
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