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"If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMdOX148qm
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"I'm nervous, Scarlett."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Bp8VX4sFB
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOeaBFMWCQ
Very rare, indeed. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23B6kefeUK
"What if she doesn't like me?"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOt4EPGKM2l
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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxo3BtkcKis
Actually, his 'much' translates to "shaking hands with the urgent female pests and later sanitazing his whole bloodstream with the likes of Lifeboy. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBjR7Ru6jT
But I knew better than to peel his words, and throw the carbs back at him. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDVCnNiiUE
"I highly doubt Kiara isn't sensible enough to see what I see in you."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJfnTB6UlF
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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMZ11amJZS
But as expected, he didn't believe a word of mine so I continued rummaging through his clothes. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQFdflbcOX
"Kiara is someone I don't want to let go of, anytime soon."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNXbg1D1Nv
I didn't turn around. "I know."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlr0rGIgBPU
"If things turn out right, I'll propose her to be my wife."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDLOwYNgkA
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8c62WCUe8S
To be back on his feet again. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZgRZuLnT3
"I'm not experienced enough, Scarlett."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDtRfoyWbo
Yes, wooing women had never been on the list of his achievements. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡar84q4iWEl
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But there is always a first time for everything. He needed to know that. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5QdH7AGfM
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He needed to know he didn't need my help anymore. I was just his employee.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNxIYF6fyu
His secretary. Assigned to help him in his work. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEMinpNNR8
Not his friend. Present here to give him love advise. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX326zIRXL0
Taking a deep breath, I bit my lip hard, finding it hard to ignore the anticipation of his next words. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1n99ZrcPlq
Sometimes, I wish I didn't know him that much. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jNHNCN7Dq
"Hazel."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMU0ZgsT1G
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.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJgPEqhDlV
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLvLbQoANc
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPI0v1RVMfm
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAx7XNxwVz
He would need some encouragement and a slight push, I thought.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhbPTCVd6c
"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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFBgTeZ2Pm
He didn't look a bit convinced. It's okay, I didn't expect any better from him. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3Giy1boHu
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRQ9BscrRk
The more he felt, the more he hid. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnDIJ5bGug
Because he was scared of being betrayed and left behind. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ827drSy5i6
He had his pretty good damn reasons for thinking that, I decided after remembring everything he went through. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqqhQ7egjg
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJNPWWeqiY
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.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5sWYD8i0ws
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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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjYLjHr57I
No matter how much good or bad, it is. Nobody wants to go deep into their past. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWO9t5OIHqY
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47GuPqIUOh
"You don't have to worry over trifle things, I know you can do better than-"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡry50d7vLO6
"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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3QqpzXA8t
My throat went dry, my mind blaring with his request, trying to find any suitable answers for him, but I found none. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5mswa87MO
Except for she likes every men, as long as they behave as one. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPf1PEK5O2
But knowing him, it was better to keep it to myself.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OgQP4HQUT
"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." 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJbMGLUU0P
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Feeling his intense burning stare at my skin, I added in haste."As a friend, of course."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TlXNP7LEV
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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnMtLUI9lO
I've been with you for seven years straight, I thought.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsrrnRu0q6
"How about you tell me what does she like in men, romantically?"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGQ5IYgO8D
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16Ps6QZdUR
I sighed. This was going to be a long day to convince him of his doubts.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyPzIkm6zu
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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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqCwpoCT2Z
"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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrcMowEOBS
I grinned forcefully, trying to look as casual as possible, but that came out rather than a frown, I realised. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuaokP8VPS
He frowned himself in response. "Proper? A kiss is a kiss, Scarlett. Whatever do you mean with a proper one?"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9v8SkRcLAm
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-"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoN36bsptQ
"Ugly smooches? You think I can't kiss her properly?" His eyes darkened in gloom, clutching my shoulders tightly around his long fingers. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVzghLgFhd
I raised my hands in defence. "No! I didnt mean it like that. You know it! You know me-"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeswCPpKikd
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxO26rhneC
"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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEZtEKs5bd
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxfiEaysGV
"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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6ZSgE6eUh
I stared at him blankly, as if he'd just asked me to show him how my sister wants him to kiss her. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiALIRatT1a
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.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB93ryu0OJH
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAmbLtRdrd
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But when he didn't, I grew nervous. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ScRrHMVxQ
"You're drunk." I said, as a matter of fact.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fXRusEXoN
"I can't be. Just four cans of beer isn't enough for me to get inebriated."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKGkVcUdyY
Four! He told me he just had two. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwj1lQXlfy
"You know you've a low tolerance for alcohol, Heath."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXQlynaISG
He narrowed his eyes, as if I had been indignant of his muscularity. "I know my limits, Scarlett."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SozSYg6cD
"That's not the point here-"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciEIsMjIje
"You've been getting increasingly and annoyingly accusing of my behaviours lately and you know-" He started. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAs7G14xgJ
"That's because you don't listen to a thing I say-"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlbJG77yAz
"Do you think you're under any position to order me around now?"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRstZKcm3Ns
I looked at him, feeling hurt by his words. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDROaKon9d
Moreover, I was angry at myself for ever letting myself carried away by his sweet words and nature sometimes. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcM9ZFhP5L
He can be arrogant, rude, narissatic, and egoistic. Any time. I knew it from the start. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50wPmpGThs
But then why it always catches me off guard when he changes his attitude so suddenly. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCUvqrDQ1a
Why it hurts right in my chest, when my words mean nothing to him just as my presence does, I wondered. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKa1xlKOOE
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70VbwMKYYl
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7WHg2Q5ne
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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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AWmH1udr4
Narrowing his eyes, he looked at me, slightly stained from his activity, and I clenched my teeth in frustration. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8rm0xr4E7
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1bxQo9BhU
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9e8TcyQgo
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"Stop fighting." He ordered. "And squirming." 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIASAeKf3L
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUVuQpZthd
"You're drunk." I repeated, once he settled in the crook of my neck, his breath ticking my senses. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcX8qWodsUj
"I know."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAe3TIRPPmd
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnG0D9SoVZf
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFG5lZAN0H
Daring to look back into his eyes, I glanced a look at him. "Heath."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqRtFRZELb
"Hazel."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdKSaksr1W
"I'm-"1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLH40AOO6O
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2D9gvQZydX
"It's okay. I don't mind much." I said, trying to sit back up but when he still didn't move, I sighed. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9GMV7Au8x
"Hazel."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkGHX1lsK3
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxle2N5NzX
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mXKW1aU9h
I was grateful the other day he told me why he hated having his sister around. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEoXaILj7W
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjUa3kulan
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81WEGaAl0O
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8ZcfB1zmt
As his secretary. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhyLt5PYLp
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SQV8YXH7y
To him. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbj52cUqEN
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiBPOmKuaI
He acknowledged my potential. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFc68WyYzga
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.1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXgFzSSiUn
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rBCa8qXfs
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESIqksK6OX
Outside company, I was his friend. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcf2O8Am3K
Inside it, I was his mere employee. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EW87XvM3l
I was torn between choosing what I actually want to mean to him. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZzPWCEwCA
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. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeGL16QhiD
Which, as expected, I was so not grateful for, when he told me he liked Kiara Scarlett, my sister. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WVfKaX327
Correction: My step-sister. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDU9RU9MmV
But he didn't have to know that. 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ124vbxfCci
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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4K3uaU41j
"I want Kiara, Hazel."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwfvNVBWbg
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."1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGueoxAIeNE
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-" 1338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTxiYPhybd
"I trust you enough to know what I want, Hazel. And I know you'll not deny me anything."
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