LUCASI held another one of my campaigns in the city.The crowd that showed up was the most pathetic thing I had seen in a while."Drive me home. This is not worth it." I spoke to my driver, and my personal assistant turned to look at me with a stunned expression."S-Sir, I know this is not what we expected, but we still have to make these ones know that their presence is highly appreciated."He was right. But I was still pissed. I was the right candidate for this. Why did these citizens just enjoy shooting themselves in the leg with these wrong choices? The past positions I have held, I had done excellently well. I thought that they had already realized how much they could trust me by now. Turned out I had thought wrong.These people still went for candidates who promised them changes that were superficial and could not be accomplished. They still collected meagre dollar bills just to vote for someone who would later leave them in the middle of the desert when things got tough.It
CLARALucas sent me an email after that, confirming that my services were no longer needed.I sighed, dropping my phone back on the table. I had to find another way to get even more familiar with his house and how everything worked now. I had gotten knowledge if a few things but not really much. I still had a long way to go.Right now, I was with Fred, and he was suggesting something really absurd."Lucas must already know you have a hand in whatever is happening. His partners have refused to go back to him, just one has reconsidered since that time. He must know that someone said something or did something quite implicating to get his partners to leave like that. Who else could it be?"I raised a brow, "Yeah? And where are you going with this?""We could have an opportunity to put ourselves out there. Not much people know about you dating Lucas, but people can easily dig it up when they see us both together. We can spin a story and make Lucas look like an even worse person. This can
CLARAI resigned as soon as I got home… or at least, I tried to. Lucas contradicted it with our agreement before I started the lessons, reminding me of the time we had both agreed upon before any resignations and the consequences of resigning before time.He ignored all my messages trying to reason with him and I showed up at his house right after my dad's campaign, tired to the bones. "Do not stress me out today, Connie, I'm really so tired. Please, do your class work and stop acting like I'm not even here." I begged but Connie still sat there, playing with his pencil and totally ignoring me.I resorted to just teaching him about other things that would not require class work. At a point, he cut me off,"Are you pregnant? And without a husband?" The first question had already thrown me off… the second was the icing on the cake. I blinked, once and then a second time."What? And why exactly would you even ask that?" I questioned. He shrugged."You look fat. They say pregnant women g
LUCASMy hands wrapped around her throat, pulling her closer so our lips met, a growl forcing its way out of my chest at the same time.Clara melted into my arms, though not completely because I could still feel her resistance in the way she responded to the kiss. I took what I could get. In no time, I had lifted her legs off the ground and sat her ass on the table, deepening the kiss. My fingers crept to the waistband of her jeans and experimentally played with the buttons. Either she was too carried away with the kiss to notice, or she let me. Whatever it was, I did not wait for her to change her mind.I had opened the first three buttons before she grabbed my arm, biting my bottom lip hard to get me to stop. The metallic taste of blood exploded in my mouth at once. I snarled and grabbed her throat with my free hand, then bit back—just not as hard as she had bitten me. She winced, loosening her grip on my hand.My fingers made their way into her panties and on grazing her shaved f
CLARA"He seemed really upset." I broke the silence when we were finally alone in the hallway.The vein in Lucas's temple pulsed and he exhaled through his nose, slow and controlled. His lips were pressed into a hard, thin line and when he finally spoke, his voice was low, "The kid is getting out of hand. I am a busy man, he keeps demanding too much and throwing tantrums. I literally give him everything and yet…" He trailed off, then ran a hand through his hair, his eyes worn and sad. I did not know how I felt about the way he bared his emotions to me. And why was I so touched?I had a vendetta against Lucas and every single one of his family. I should not feel this way. "You… uh…" I started, but I could not get any encouraging words out. He sighed, then turned around and started walking ahead."You do not have to pretend like you care. I know if it's left to you, you would burn down this place with Connie and me in it." He spoke while I trudged behind him.I rolled my eyes, mutter
LUCAS "The doctor is inside already." Raymond told me when I walked inside. I only nodded to the information. Then asked, "And Clara? Did she leave yet?" I dreaded his answer being a yes, but thankfully he shook his head no. I hastened my steps towards Connie's room, faltering a bit when I met her outside the room. Clara's eyes lit up on seeing me and fuck, I wanted that more often.. for the right reasons. Her top was tight, way too tight for me to take my eyes off the upper part of her body in record time. She wore baggy pants with it, then wrapped a headband around her head to keep her hair off her face. She looked so young like that, had me giddy for some reason. I didn't notice her walk up to me, "He just… he just started burning up even if he looked a bit weak when I first entered, I did not think that it was anything that serious. You need to go in there and see him." She implored, her head tilted up so she could stare at my face. I sucked in a breath,
LUCASShe continued coming over to teach Connie, unlike what I thought would happen. It was surprising and weird at the same time, but somehow I was not scared about it.Clara would never hurt Connie.She might be a new woman now, a far cry from the one I was used to, but she was still the same Clara.The way I thought of her was increasing by the second, it was crazy. I was at work now, trying to go through our recent losses, but somehow, she was still somewhere at the back of my mind.I had a frown on my face as I asked, "This constant withdrawal from partners is becoming a staple. Why does it keep happening, and most importantly, why does it seem like neither of you are doing anything to stop it from happening?"The marketing team sat around me on the conference table, and their head was the one who spoke, "Okay Sir… Um, it's true that the withdrawals have happened a couple of times already, but we have been trying to ward it off—""Which goes to say that I'm telling a lie when I s
CLARAI had barely made it past the hallway before I heard heels clicking against the floor, towards me. I didn't need to turn back to know who it was.“Clara!” Ella yelled.I stopped, slowly turned, and then met her eyes. Her hair was a mess—like she'd been running—with her chest rising and falling. "What?"I asked, my voice flat.“You're such a fucking snake,” she spat. “You come back here pretending to be all composed and ‘changed,’ meanwhile you’re throwing yourself at Lucas like the desperate, washed-out slut you are.”I blinked. Once.Twice.Then I spun around again and continued to walk, already overstimulated with what had happened with Lucas in his room.Ella had the guts to drag me back to face her, "Don't walk away from me, you slut!""Get your hands off her." I heard Lucas's voice from behind her and for once, I was grateful for it. I had already pictured my hand smacking her across the face and leaving an everlasting mark on it. Good save."She's trying to manipulate you
LUCASIt took every single bone in me not to pounce on her. I stood rooted to the spot, watched an expression of regret take over her features, and then she folded her arms around her chest."And what do you intend to achieve with this?" I asked through clenched teeth."Just a pictorial representation of the fact that you can watch me or have dirty thoughts in your head about me all you want, but you will never be able to touch me like you would anymore." She responded, half-smiling like she knew that had hit me exactly where it would hurt the most.I nodded, then turned around and walked to my closet, taking out a shirt and throwing it at her."Cover up. I was not planning on touching that body anyways." I said, then went to sit on the couch in my room, taking up the bottle on the small table.She frowned, simply holding the clothes to her body. "And what's wrong with my body? You said that like I repulse you. I always did, right? This was part of your many lies. You always found me