Chapter Seven: I Don’t Want You, You Traitor!
1482 Words
Tara Blakewood
“Kaiden, what are you doing??”
She asked as if our situation didn’t already say it all. I realized she must be his wife, Lara a thought that crawled across my skin, wetting my face and ruining my light makeup.
I couldn’t stop my gaze from flickering to the figure behind him. Her tears had silently escaped her eyes, ruining her overdone makeup.
And him? No reaction, not even a change in his posture. He remained where he was, only straightening his torso after bending slightly to match my height.
Those were my tears!!
I felt an enormous pang of guilt, even though it wasn’t my fault at all. He had approached me, and I still didn’t understand why.
He noticed my tears and gave me a look that seemed to say he shouldn’t have done that.
Nothing changed his expression remained as rigid as it had been when he first heard her call him upon entering.
I pressed my lips together to stop myself from making a sound.
I felt suffocated, and as always, I wanted to run away.
But I didn’t even take a single step before he pulled me toward him…
I tried to push him away, but he was immovable, like a mountain.
Hot breaths brushed against my hair, reaching my ear, sending shivers and waves of heat across my body.
His breaths now caressed my ear directly, trailing down the side of my neck.
Those sinful breaths had no right to touch me.
“Stop moving… I know what I’m doing.”
I had already stopped moving as his breaths mingled with the skin of my neck and ear. His mere gaze toward me raised my tension to its peak.
I lifted my head, meeting his eyes, brimming with tears that continued to roll down my cheeks.
He raised his hand, placing the palm on my cheek.
I had never felt so small. His hand covered my entire face.
He slid his thumb under my eye, precisely where my tears flowed. His thumb wiped away the remnants from my left eye and cheek, then the right, he didn’t spare either.
“Kaiden… what are you doing? Don’t ignore me… please, my love.”
I had completely forgotten about her.
“Lara, go to the bathroom.”
I heard the words of the husband holding another woman, wiping her tears even though she had every right to them.
I barely looked at her as he pressed his hand against the back of my head, pushing my face into his chest.
I watched her enter and close the door.
I stepped away quickly, nearly suffocating from being in the same room with him.
I was about to go to the door, but he grabbed my wrist again.
“Where…?”
I literally couldn’t understand. He had told his wife to go to the bathroom, where she would probably wait for him to justify himself. Yet he held my hand and asked where I was going, as if he were responsible for me.
“My fiancé… I have a meeting with him, and I’m already late.”
“I’ll go.”
I said, staring at the door. I didn’t want to look at him and risk losing my words.
Just as I finished speaking or rather, in the middle of my sentenc, I felt him press harder on my wrist. If I resisted, he would crush it; I was certain.
“Look at me when you speak.”
My body shivered from the harshness in his tone, which truly scared me.
Like a submissive cat, I turned my head toward him.
“And is your fiancé more important than me… or rather, more important than your trainer?”
I didn’t understand the meaning of his words. Part of my focus was on Lara, his wife in the bathroom, and another part was on Ethan I felt I was late.
What did he mean by “more important than me”? Should I say: Mind your business? Or What’s it to you?
I didn’t want to appear rude to a man I would deal with in the future.
“What do you mean, Mr. Kaiden?”
I answered in a low voice, as if being scolded, avoiding his gaze as much as possible.
“Your eyes are on me.”
He said it in that tone that made me nervous.
I forced my eyes onto his, just so he would leave me alone sooner.
“So your fiancé is more important than me…”
“My future with my fiancé too? Isn’t marriage and a man the future…”
“So you’re the type who thinks…”
His response… damn it, does he have an answer for everything? No, no what gave him the nerve to say that as if mocking me?
“What do you mean… I’m not like that.”
I heard the sound of glass breaking, very close, and I could tell the source it was the bathroom.
Suddenly, Lara returned to my mind.
This man in front of me makes me forget important matters.
I glanced at the door fearfully, then back at him, hands in his pockets, looking at me.
“Mr. Kaiden…”
He didn’t let me finish my words and interrupted:
“Tara, you may leave.”
He said it in a tone that filled my body with fear, then walked toward the bathroom door.
I didn’t linger; I left before he reached her in the bathroom. I didn’t want to hear anything that might trigger my embarrassment.
Sex, as far as I knew, was a way for married couples to reconcil but in cases of infidelity, I didn’t think…
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I entered the restaurant where a reservation was made under Ethan’s name. I was tired of restaurants, he never hesitated to take me out, but I liked variety.
I found the table and smiled as I saw him offer his square-shaped smile.
It was the most beautiful thing about him, and I meant it.
I pulled a chair for myself and sat. I don’t know why Kaiden came to mind as he stood to pull a chair for me. At least he behaved like a proper gentleman.
“Our wedding date… it’ll be in two months and three weeks instead of six months.”
“Why, Ethan… what difference does it make…?”
My brows furrowed; he hadn’t mentioned this before, and he had noticed.
He didn’t let me finish.
“Two months is too long for me, Tara. I appreciate everything you’ve been through, but I need you, my love. I can’t wait any longer to share everything with you.”
I looked at him in disbelief. Did he really mean that? I barely allow him to kiss me, and now he’s thinking about this.
He assumed everything would change once I became his wife and slept with him every night.
“Ethan, what are you saying?”
He chuckled lightly at my embarrassment as I turned my face aside.
“I’m saying what we will do.”
He didn’t change the topic. I was about to leave.
“Swear, okay? Don’t be shy. I won’t speak about it until we do it.”
I was about to grab the glass of water and throw it at him, but I stopped I was in a public place. Alone, I wouldn’t have hesitated.
“Did anything happen at Lawyer Kaiden’s house?”
How I hate it when he interrogates me like this, especially with that look directed at me.
Now he was using his doctor side damn it, why now? That was annoying, as if what happened at that damn house wasn’t enough.
I sighed before answering:
“No, Ethan, nothing happened. I handed him the papers.”
If Ethan only knew… His wife is probably screaming right now:
“Divorce me, Kaiden! Damn it… I don’t want you, you traitor!”
This was the best scenario my mind could imagine from a thousand possibilities: overdrama, coldness, anger…
“Lie to someone else, Tara.”
True, I was lying but how could I lie to him? I mean, how could I lie to his fiancé?
I gave him that stupid look I usually give only to my brother. No problem, I was in an unenviable position.
“Tell me, what happened?”
Why did he want to know? I thought it would be rude to say: “None of your business.” But I didn’t see him as anyone but my assistant-brother.
I spent the rest of the day with Ethan. Time with him was ordinary, nothing special.
But I noticed something very strange about him…
As usual, he took a shallow kiss from my lips without my desire, but I didn’t show it, trying to comply.
He kissed me two or three times, then left in his car.
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