CHANCE

Chapter 8: Sort things out...

Jamie POV

We already arrived at the Presidential Suite of the hotel when I get a chance to talk about our conversation on the elevator a while ago.

“I’m sorry about that… I shouldn’t be the one to open about that. “ He look at me and I was so conscious the way he stares at me, as if he was about to swallow the whole out of me. I really freak out…

“What the hell! Stop that will you…. Stop staring…” I told him, his stares, the way he looked at me was the way he uses to make a silent conversation on me… And it really touches my heart, some say eyes are the window of our soul and I believe in that sayings… It feels like our heart communicates when he do that, and I find it amusing… He was never a nagging guy just like Damien. Is it because of the age gap between the two gentlemen. Or either he was more matured and his understanding are more broaden than Damien. But he has a dominating and possessive side but its tolerable.

He gives the feeling of security. I turn around and went to the window and I love the scenery from the outside, I saw the whole resort and maybe this hotel is the most luxurious.. Its high enough to prove the status of the owner and it was none other than the man beside me. We are at the top most floor of the hotel, a floor where the owner stays. He comes near me and hug me from behind and as he always do, he sniff my scent. I look at him and say “ why you always do that?”

“Do what?” He ask innocently…

“Sniffing my scent…”

“Your scent makes me relax… I like it when I do that.. It’s a proof your not a dream.” He added…

“ Do you say that because I was the one with you at the moment?” I said teasing…

“Love, do you still have doubts on me?” he said as if he’s been hurt..

“I was just guarding myself to any upcoming heartache that you will cause.”

“Wow! What is that love premonition? That will never happen, not until I’m around… Not until I’m dead, I will never get tired of loving you. “ he told me..

“You can’t blame me to think like that.. Because you never give me assurance about us, so I assume this was all temporary or lust…”

“Never think like that…” He turn me around to face him, I cant stand his gaze, so I bend down to hide my face from him. He make me look at him…

“Would you believe if I tell you that you are the first girl I exert a lot of effort just to have you around…”

I didn’t expect he will do that for me. But truly I was kinda happy to hear that coming from him because I know that all women are drooling when he comes around. And I was the luckiest women to have this man around. He really knows how to melt my heart.. And I can say that this man I am with right now is far from the cold, distant and arrogant man I met at the company back home…

“How many girls you are seriously dated?” I ask him..

“Honestly… Only you and Kiara… then the others are only a flings nothing serious…” he told me, well I ask for it. I told myself and honestly now I’m jealous. This man really taught me a lot of emotions lately… Since our first encounter…

“Who is Kiara?”

“He is the woman I married” he replied

“You are married?” I was so shock at his revelations.

“Why didn’t you tell me from the very beginning!” I ask, that I’m really going to burst from frustrations… I was about to walk away from him but he pulled me near him..

“ Listen to me first, Love! Its not what you think it is!”

“Then what it is! Explain coz I’m starting to regret what had happen to us… What about you and Kiara?!” I ask with a lot of different emotions clouded my face…

“Were divorced… Separated legally!” He said “ Its been 5 years Jam” And that gave me a relief… I don’t want to be a home wrecker or mistress..

“ What happened?” I ask him. He went to the living room and sit on the sofa, I followed him and sit next to him…

“ When the company is at chaos and starting point I was so busy, I was a newly appointed CEO at that time. I didn’t want to take over the company but it leave me no choice because my father who is the real CEO was at the hospital and dying because of a rare deceased. From then on I was always at the office and I neglect my duty to my wife as his husband. We’ve been married for three years and of course I was head over heels in love with her. I gave her everything, back then… I’m that devoted to our marriage…” He paused and realized that I already open his wound from the past… I hold his hand to comfort him.

“ She became distant to me not knowing she is having an affair with Liam. Until I saw them with my eyes. I saw how they betrayed me, how they stab me at my back. Liam is the bodyguard I hired to protect my family… We are blessed with two daughters, Claire and Frianna… My eldest is 18 years old and Frianna is 14. I let you meet them if you want..”

I was just listening…

“ I was so depressed at that time I spend my days drinking liquor every time…Until my mom wake me up from my sleep and I saw her crying… I can’t stand the pain of seeing her crying for my mistakes… And from the on I spend my healing process at work… I just can’t stop just because of my wife… I realized she is not a world for me… And because of hard work, I established an empire… I was hardened by experience Love” he told me, I saw the sincerity in his eyes…

Now I understand why he became distant, cold and arrogant… He saw me crying and he pulled a handkerchief on his packet and wipe my tears.

“I’m sorry for bringing up the past… I didn’t know you’ve suffered a lot…”

“I’m also a human, love…And just like you, I’ve been hurt but it didn’t destroy me completely…” I was enlighten by his confessions, I hug him to tell him that he wont be alone anymore… I was about to detach away from him and he started to kiss me I controlled my self not to kiss him back because if I so that we can’t meet Diane and others on time.

“Not now, you promise Diane were meeting them at the lobby and were going to the seaside to swim…”

“ Can you call them to cancel it?” he ask and I get the hint…

“No! I went here to take a vacation and not to spoil it, and besides Diane will kill me when she knows that my Vcard has been given to you.”

“She can’t do that..” he said with assurance…

“She will treat me as her friend… Because right now love she is starting to get bothered..” I look at him frowning…

“What do you mean?” I ask him…

“Your so naïve, do you know that?”

I Was “………”

“ Your friend is in love with my bestfriend… Nate…”

“ That can’t be… You know that she is with John right, and they are about to get married…” I told him..

“ Well! I will bet love.. She will not going to marry that man… I’m 100% sure..” he said with finality. Am I the only one not knowing about my friend whereabouts…

“I really need to be observant…”

I said as I take my things to go to the bathroom to take a bath as he went to the balcony of our suite…