Chapter 19

Lydia

Labels. One silly mistake and the world had labelled me like another slut out to please men for money.

Tears blurred my eyes as I drove to Power Inc. There had to be some sort of explanation from him. He had to really explain it to me why a picture of us so intimate in bed, was topping the daily newspaper. Why the picture itself seemed to have been taken at the right angle at the right moment and time. Somehow a part of me knew the answer. A part of me knew he had staged everything up to humiliate me because deep down he still hated me.

The other part of me believed in him. Believed that the sweet guy that had made me dinner, opened up about his mother and stood with me at my lowest was a great guy. That this was some sort of mistake.

My heart thumped, my shoulders shook as I finally parked my car in Power Inc's parking lot.

Karma was a bitch huh? Few months ago, I was the same woman who got riled up when another one of Cornelius Powers'