Managing Mr. White

Chapter 12 - Exposed

Ellie’s POV

Waking up on the right side of the bed definitely helped today since it was the first day back at school. I forgot to charge my phone last night after working on the assignment Mrs. Amato gave so I couldn’t text Theo this morning or let alone Klarissa. 

As I got out of the car I was quickly pulled aside by Klarissa with a very concerning look on her face. She’s the only one other than now grandpa, John and Theresa to know about Theo and my relationship. 

“Ellie you okay?” Klarissa asked full of concern which bothered me because she’s always cheerful and happy, why did she seem so stressed out?

 “Yeah, why?” I was puzzled and was answered by her pulling out her phone and scrolling to the hottest article of the day.

“You didn’t see this yet I’m guessing,” she said while holding the phone to my face, in which I now snatched to read the article: ‘IT CEO Theo White’s Steamy Affair with HR Manager After Launch Party’. As I was scrolling through the article about the two of them having a good time at the party my whole body started to shake in anger. There were photos of Theo looking devilishly handsome while posing next to this Emily Spring woman as she has her arms around his arm. There was even a photo of Theo holding her back while speaking to some of the other people at the event and finally I lost my mind coming across the last photo, it was a photo of Theo fixing his pants while exiting what seems to be her apartment. This man just told me he would never cheat on me then proceeds to make headlines for himself with photos of him being caught leaving this women’s house while fumbling with his pants? I didn’t know how to react and handed the phone back to Klarissa while walking away. 

“Ellie…” Klarissa called out behind me, I turned back gave her a weak smile and told her I needed some time to digest this and left to my safe place, the garden. 

I turned to look at my phone finally powering it back on after leaving it to charge with the portable battery bank I had and saw tons of messages from Klarissa, along with a few miss calls from grandpa and Theresa. What about messages from Theo? None. Well that speaks volumes. I tried to distract myself by not thinking about this issue anymore until my eyes landed on a new article: ‘Ms. Spring Confirms Relationship with Theo White”. I clicked into the article greeted with a video of petite women with tanned skin and round brown eyes, she had short brown hair that stopped just above her shoulders, small lips and a small button nose, I’d say she’s cute if it weren’t for the fact that she’s the who Theo cheated on me with. 

“I just wanted to make a statement about the photos that were released between Mr. White and I and our intimate acts, I ask for the public to please give us some privacy and some space. Mr. White and I are indeed intimate with one another as you can see.” She said smiling into the camera which made me throw my phone at the tree next to me. I couldn’t believe this, she just basically told the world oh yes Mr. White and I f**k so let us continue to f**k in peace please. Just as I was about to reach for my phone to call Robert to come pick me up, I didn’t want to be here and didn’t want to even see Theo, I heard footsteps approaching and out of the trees I saw the one man I didn’t want to see at all. Theo. White. 

“Ellie, I was looking for you.” He tried reaching for me but I quickly got up and stepped backwards keeping distance between us. 

“What do you want Mr. White” I scowled at him and crossed my arms over my chest. 

“So you saw?” He sounded upset and came closer but I continued to move backwards

“Oh you mean the photo of you and Ms. Spring? Yes Mr. White I saw it and I have to say, you two make a lovely couple,” every word I said was slowly breaking my heart. 

“Ellie” he called my name in the softest voice I’ve ever heard from him

“So did you sleep with her huh? Did you, Theo White?” he hesitated and I took that as affirmation without him needing to say anything else

“You’re a f*****g liar and a f*****g cheater. I’m done with you Theo White. I should have never given my virginity to you! You promised me!” I screamed at him while finding myself drowning in my own tears as these words came out from my mouth.

“Ellie,” he said, coming closer and as I tried to back up again I found myself against a tree with nowhere to go, trapped between a tree and Theo White. “I didn’t cheat on you” he said while grabbing his huge hands and cupping my face while using his thumbs to brush away my tears. 

“You hesitated when i asked you whether or not you slept together!” I managed to squeeze out while struggling to put some distance between the two of us. 

“In the past yes, yesterday no. I didn’t touch her at all.” He said while moving an arm around my waist while one hand still cupped my cheeks. “I didn’t know how to answer you because I did sleep with her but in the past, after we got together I never did anything that would hurt you. I swear Ellie.” Theo then planted a quick kiss on my forehead but I wasn’t about to just drop this. What about the photo and the fumbling of the pants?

“Then why did you leave her apartment while fixing your pants?” I glared at him angry at the fact that he could be lying to me. 

“Ellie, Emily grabbed me as I was trying to leave and tried to make me have s*x with her but I promise you I was only there to take her home because she was drunk and I owed her a favor because...I forced anal on her and I felt that it’s only fair for me to give her one favor in return and she asked to go to the party, but this was months ago, before us.” He now enveloped me in his warm embrace while resting his head on top of mine and speaking slowly, “I swear nothing happened that night. I didn't even know about the photos and one I found out, I drove to your mansions but you already left for school so I sped here, I probably got a few tickets on the way but I knew you would be crying all by yourself.” 

“Then why does she claim that you two are indeed in an intimate relationship?” I muffled into this hard muscular chest

“She what?” He questioned pulling away from me a bit and looking into my eyes. “She posted a response saying that you two are indeed intimate with one another and would like everyone to leave you guys alone so you can continue to screw around with one another” I pouted while looking away. 

“f*****g b***h” He mumbled under his breath and ran a hand through his hair. He looked disheveled today compared to his normal slick back hair and crispy button down shirt with pants, instead today he had a white t-shirt clearly the same one he slept with and a pair of denim with his hair naturally cascading on his face. I brushed my hand against his hair not feeling any product in it knowing that the first thing he did when he woke up and read the article was rushing to find me, which made me chuckle a little bit. 

“You came in a rush” I laughed while finding remnants of toothpaste on the corner of his v-neck shirt. 

“I needed to see you so I just washed my face and brushed my teeth, threw on some clothes and ran out” he said while cupping my tear stained face. 

“I love you Ellie” and the next thing I recall was me pushing my lips against his while he pulled me closer to deepen the kiss. Without moving away I snaked my arms around his neck as he took his left hand to hold my head close to his. Being a whole head shorter than Theo he lifted me up while pinning me to the tree to have better access at my mouth. As he continued to tangle with my tongue I felt him guide my legs to wrap around his waist as we continued our heated makeout session. He pulled away only for a second before I felt him trailing kisses down my neck and towards my breast while he unbuttoned my top as I continued to hold onto him against the tree feeling his hard on pressing against my now damped panties.