PREGNANT AND TRAPPED WITH THE CEO

ChapterFour

Ava

“Who is that?"

"Do you know her? Is she your girlfriend ?” I asked him in a whisper, my questions almost running over each other, but I didn't wait for him to answer. How could you do this to me? I screamed at him. The confusion I'm feeling quickly turns into anger. Here I was building castles in my head about him and the bastard already had a girlfriend.

“She is not my girlfriend” he says calmly to me as he walks over to the door and opens it.

Various things hit me at once as I stare at the open door.

First, the angry strange woman shouting outside is not strange at all. She is supermodel Shantel Grande. She is one of the top models in the country and has been linked to Alex on multiple occasions. While they have never come out to explicitly state that they were dating, there has been a lot of speculation.

Second, she is even more stunning in person than she is on TV.

Lastly, she looks very angry and is walking towards me in a rage.

Before my brain can process anything further, there’s a loud noise coupled with pain in my left cheek. It takes me a moment to realize I've just been slapped. I hold my cheek in shock.

“How dare you?" She’s standing in front of me screaming at the top of her lungs. The media must have forgotten to mention she’s a raging lunatic.

“You w***e” she continues. “You slept with my boyfriend! I’m going to ruin you, destroy you! You have no idea what you’ve just gotten yourself into.”

I stay silent because I really do not blame her. I know what it feels like to have a cheating boyfriend and, while I would never act like this, I can understand her. I blame Alex, the bastard!

At that moment, Alex walks up to her. He might just be wearing shorts, but I understand then why people refer to him as cold-hearted. He looks very different from the Alex that gave me the best night of my life. He looks cold and ruthless.

He is facing Shantel, his voice hard and cold.

“How did you get in here?”

She holds out a key dangling in her palm. “I used my key. "Did you forget you gave me one?” she asks with a twisted smirk on her face.

“How dare you slap a guest in my house? "Leave !” he says, pointing at the open door. “Get out and never return.”

“But Alex–” Shantel begins but is interrupted by him.

“I said leave! Don’t make me repeat myself.”

Shantel gives me one last venomous look and mutters “you will pay for this” as she walks out angrily.

After she leaves, I exhale sharply, I realize I'm still holding my cheek and quickly put my hands down ! I'm shaking from anger and humiliation.

Alex turns to me. “Ava, I'm so sorry, I promise you she is not my girlfriend and I would never–”

I cut him off with a wave of my hand, my eyes shooting daggers at him.

“Save your explanation for some pathetic loser. What do you take me for? I have never been this embarrassed in my life before.” Tears have gathered in my eyes and I wipe them off angrily as I pick up my last piece of clothing from the floor.It's my black panties. In my haste I forgot to wear it. I shove it angrily into my back pocket and proceeded to leave but just as I took a step forward. Alex grabbed my elbow, not aggressively but hard enough to stop me from leaving.

“Baby, I promise you –”

“Babyyy? “ I scream sarcastically at him. Who told you, you could call me that you cheating scum? Leave me the hell alone this minute, or I will–”

I trail off because I don't even know what I will do. I'm so angry right now, the nerve of the man to humiliate me and still try to talk his way out of it like I'm some brain-dead bimbo.

I drag off my hands and leave and this time he doesn't try to stop me. I walk off and go home vowing to keep this to myself until the day I die because I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone. Ever.

Until today that is, who would’ve thought a night that started so well and ended so terribly could get me pregnant-

My thoughts are interrupted when the front door swings open. It's my roommate and best friend Vivian.

I don't bother to hide the pregnancy kit that's littered all over the floor. Instead I walk out to meet her. She’s on the bed where she's just landed with an excited thud. As soon as she sees me she starts speaking excitedly.

“Oh Ava, you’re never going to believe what Todd did today!” Todd is her boyfriend, they’ve been dating since highschool.

She doesn't wait for a reply from me before she continues.(good thing because she was never going to get one).

“I’m dating the best man in the world, can you believe it? You know I’ve been so worried that he forgot our anniversary. What I didn't know was that he was planning something big. I was the envy of all the girls at the firm today” she says, sighing dramatically as she continues talking but i have stopped listening.

Vivian works at a marketing agency. I used to work there too until I started dating my boss Damon Whitmore. He was everything I wanted: charming, ambitious and driven or so I thought– until I found out what a cheating lying scum he was.

My mind is whirling and i can’t stop myself from thinking back

Two years ago

I just graduated college. I was eager to prove myself. Damon was my boss, the young up and coming executive at Saddles' marketing firm. I had just landed my first job as his secretary. When I started there, nobody even spared me a glance. I was the new girl who nobody acknowledged. But there was one exception–Vivian Carter. She had already been working there for a year when I joined, as the firm’s receptionist. The first time I walked in looking a little lost she was the only one who paid me any mind.