A Contract With Mr Handsome: One Touch Is All It Took

CHAPTER SIX

KIMBERLY’S POV

I didn’t know what Nick was playing at by helping me settle Drayton’s debtors, and telling Drayton I was his Fiancée.

But I sure as hell wasn’t going to let him play me just like his nephew did.

I wasn’t going to be a fool to two men from the same family.

Therefore, I asked Drayton to go into the house because I knew that my mom would be worried.

After all, it was late already and we never came back home this late.

I needed to talk to Nick and tell him to stop whatever it was that he was playing at.

He was making me have mixed feelings about him and I hated it.

The fact that I found him highly attractive made matters worse, and it pained me to admit to myself that he was way more handsome than Dave.

The reason why I vehemently refused to be his fake girlfriend was that I wasn't over Dave yet.

I'd be lying if I said I was over Dave.

This is someone I have loved for eight years and getting into anything with Dave’s uncle would complicate things. Won't it?

I didn’t want that.

No, scratch that, I couldn't deal with having to see Dave with another girl more often than I should.

This was unfair. Why was I the one who had to be this heartbroken? Huh?

Because looking at Dave back at his family's residence, he looked happy with his girl.

What did I ever do to Dave to make him abandon me when I needed him the most?

The way he called me a good digger who was after his money just because of my mom’s surgery pissed me off.

I didn't even ask him to sort the bill. He was the one who promised to do it out of his own free will.

Now where was I going to get the sum of 1 million dollars for my mom’s surgery? Because I didn’t want my mom to die just yet.

She suffered a lot while raising Drayton and I, so I wanted her to live a good and comfortable life before she dies at old age.

Hearing Dave say those harsh words to me made me realize that Dave never loved me, and still knowing that I wasn't over him even after my realization frustrated me.

I needed a distraction and perhaps sourcing out money for my Mom’s surgery would suffice.

“Oh, wait up, Dray. I need to go up to introduce myself to my future mother-in-law,” I heard Nick say, which drew me back from my train of thought.

I knew that Dray would know this was all a facade because he knew about Dave and I.

But he never liked Dave. He always told me that Dave was playing me, but I never listened.

I was blinded by love.

“What the f**k Nick,” I exclaimed and glared at Nick, hoping that he would get the message that he was overstepping his boundaries, but instead he just smiled and shrugged.

I knew I wasn't supposed to call his name so casually, let alone his first name, because we weren't on a first-name basis, but I couldn't help it.

Surprisingly, he didn’t mind me calling him Nick.

He looked like he was having fun seeing our reaction.

At this point, Dray just stood looking at Nick and I with a smirk.

Just when I was about to tell Nick to stop whatever he thought he was doing, that was when a neighbor of ours who was walking past stopped when he saw Dray and I.

“What are you both still doing here,” Mrs Beckley asked, making all our attention go to her.

Dray and I looked at her confused as to what she meant by the question she asked, and her brows creased when she saw our confused looks.

“You mean you weren’t informed that, while doing a babysitting job, your mom collapsed and was rushed to the Greenwood hospital?” Mrs Beckley asked us.

Dray and I froze where we stood in fear, shock, and confusion.

My mom was doing her babysitting jobs even in her condition. And she never told us about it?

“But my mom stopped babysitting since she became… crippled,” Dray stuttered.

Even though Dray was a drug addict, he still cared a lot about us.

On many occasions, he would come to me in tears telling me he wanted to quit drugs, but he was finding it difficult to.

I just hadn’t gotten the money to send him to rehab yet and that was why he was still this way.

I could see Nick standing and watching everything happening with an expression on his face that I couldn't decipher.

In just a space of hours, he had found out more about me and my family than he should have, and I was embarrassed.

“Your mom felt that the load of footing all the bills was too much for just Kim, so she came to me to set her up for a couple of babysitting jobs in order to….” Mrs Beckley wanted to continue, but I cut her mid-sentence.

I had to.

It was embarrassing seeing that Nick was listening to everything.

“That’s alright, Mrs Beckley. Dray and I will head to the hospital now. Thanks,” I said, fighting back tears that were threatening to fall from my eyes.

Mrs Beckley walked away after pitifully looking at Dray and I .

Dray and I wanted to hail the next available taxi that we saw, but Nick held my hand trying to stop me, and I felt it again.

Tingles of pleasure spread throughout my body, and with his reaction, it seemed like he felt it too.

His harmless touch was electrifyingly good.

I felt it the first time I tried to return his ring, but dismissed the feeling, thinking it was just a coincidence.

I shoved his hands away from mine.

“You’ve done enough. I appreciate you helping my brother out, and I promise to pay back the ten grand, but for now please just leave us alone,” I said as the tears I had been holding back finally came streaming down my eyes.

He then backed away without saying anything to me and Dray hailed a taxi.

We got into it and the car zoomed off.

When we were in the taxi, I began to cry and wail. I couldn’t hold back my tears anymore.

All my pains, my mom’s health, and suffering since my mom became crippled and the heartbreak Dave had caused me, I poured them all out as tears.

My pent-up anger and frustration was so great that I couldn't hold them back any longer.

Dray sadly looked at me and began rubbing my back in a bid to comfort me.

The taxi driver was worried about seeing me cry that much and occasionally glanced in the rearview mirror, but I was grateful that he didn’t ask.

He just kept quiet and drove us to Greenwood Hospital.

I knew I was harsh to Nick, but who would blame me? I was trying hard not to go into a frenzy.

I decided to apologize to him whenever I had the 10 grand to pay him back.

Right now my life was a mess and I had to think of possible ways to raise the money for Mom's surgery.

Little did I know that Fate had other plans for me because a shocking event awaited me at the hospital.