Chapter 5
Nathan Oh hell no, not Leonardo!!! As soon as I spoke she turned stiff as rigid and turned to me with a forced smile and a nervous laugh Amanda:"Nathan, I didn't see you there" she says still feigning that fake smile Me:"Let me take you home" she stops smiling and clears her throat, I know an excuse is about to come up Amanda:"Actually my Dad-" I cut her off Me:"Come on, Amanda get in the car" she sighs and we both walk to the car in total silence Me:"Did you see Sabrina today?" I ask, a dumb question that is she shakes her head Amanda:"I saw her walking with Britney and her minions" she says sounding irritated Me:"Britney? When did that happen?" Amanda:"Beats me" she shrugs and I unlock the car letting her take the front seat and I get in the driver's seat and as soon as I bring the car to life I see Sabrina in a distance hugging Britney as they smiled to each other before she turned and walked towards the parking lot, when did this happen? When did Sabrina became friends with the mean girls? What's her goal? Is this about our fight? Our fight? About Amanda? I shake my head and chuckled reversing the car as she spots it, her eyes immediately go to the passenger side and her eyes widen, I look beside me at Amanda who is on her phone oblivious to what's happening Sabrina screams my name and I stop the car as I was about to drive off and I stop Sabrina:"This is exactly what we were fighting about and you behind my back and do this!!!" She screams pointing to The passenger seat making Amanda look up with confusion, I get out of the car in hopes to stop this Drama from going forward and to protect Amanda from this, she has nothing to do with this and everything to do me Me:"Sabrina, you're causing a scene" I say knowing this is what she wanted Sabrina:"No Nathan, today you have to chose me or her!" Me:"Sabrina,Amanda is your best friend, she is my best friend also... We were all friends before we started dating and now that me and you are dating we're supposed to ditch her?" I hear the door being closed and Amanda staring to walk away Sabrina:"Where are you going Amanda?" She asks in a taunting tone making Amanda freeze on her spot, there's a crowd now Amanda:"Home" her voice comes out soft making my heart flutter Sabrina:"You don't get to go home, not after the mess you created" she spat and Amanda ignores her and starts walking again which I guess fuelled Sabrina as she ran infront of her Sabrina:"You are not going anywhere Amanda until we solve this" she says and Amanda looks at her in the eye before turning back to me and starts speaking Amanda:"Okay, what seems to be the problem?" She finally asks Sabrina:"You!" She shouts Amanda:"How, what did I do?" Sabrina:"You still want Nathan, don't you? You still have a little crush on him don't you?" My eyes widen a bit and I hear gasps Amanda:"Sabrina don't " she whispers enough for me to hear Me:"Sabrina that's enough " she turns to look at me and smirks Sabrina:" and the the knight in shining armour intervenes" and she laughs a cruel laugh Sabrina:"I have tolerated this far beyond and it ends now!" Amanda:"Tell me Sabrina.... What is it that I did to you? Did I not give and Nathan space? Didn't I start riding with my Dad to give you guys couples space? I only came over to you if you called me and I don't remember calling you when you were with him neither I did with him with you and you seem to have a problem with me, when was the last time I talked about Nathan to you?" Sabrina opens her mouth to speak and closed it because she knows there is nothing to say Amanda laughs and shakes her head and started walking away again towards the gate where I see her Dad's car, her Dad walks out to her where she throws herself at him and I can see her body shaking meaning she's crying, he holds her and looks up at me giving me the murderous eye I've ever received and I turn away looking at Sabrina who now has her mouth shut, I shake my head and get in my car driving away I don't know how I got here, oh I know I decided to be a fool and accepted Sabrina's proposal to me knowing very well where my feelings are and I agreed like a fool I am and now would you look at that? My mind swirls back to that confession Sabrina made about Amanda... She has a crush on me or rather had? Good Lord why didn't I notice anything? I berate myself for that Getting home just know that this drained my energyCHAPTER 19Nathan didn’t sleep. He couldn’t.The walls of the penthouse closed in on him, tighter and tighter, as though the truth had taken shape and pressed against his chest like a vice. Sabrina was pregnant. And it might not even be his.He paced the living room with a whiskey glass in his hand, the amber liquid sloshing with every frustrated step. Outside, Milan was alive — cars moving, people dining, laughter echoing faintly through open windows. But inside him, everything was deathly quiet. The kind of silence that follows after a bomb.By midnight, Nathan had had enough.He needed air. Noise. Anything to shut off the storm in his head.He pulled on his jacket, left his phone on the counter, and walked into the night. He didn’t know where he was going until he got there — a sleek bar near the canal, dimly lit with a live saxophonist in the corner, the kind of place people went to forget. Perfect.He slid into a stool, ordered a scotch, and downed it like medicine.Then he saw h
CHAPTER 18Sabrina stared at the pregnancy test in her trembling hands.Positive.Again.The third stick this week. All three glowed with the same verdict, mocking her.She sank onto the cold bathroom floor, her knees pulled to her chest, heart galloping in panic. The early symptoms made sense now — the dizziness, the nausea, the way her clothes clung tighter around her waist. She had brushed them off as stress. God knew there was plenty of that in her life.But this?This was something else.She didn’t cry. Not yet. Her brain was too loud, her thoughts tangled like a pile of barbed wire.She was pregnant.And she didn’t know who the father was.Nathan?David?Two men on opposite ends of a war — and she was the battle field.Her stomach twisted violently, and she lunged for the toilet.---Two days passed.Sabrina hadn’t told anyone. Not Nathan, not David. Not even herself, reallyb— not in the way that made it real.She wandered around the pent house like a ghost, the glossy tiles col
CHAPTER 17A month had passed.Nathan barely noticed the days anymore. Each morning bled into the next, each night collapsed into sleeplessness or the stench of whiskey he didn’t even enjoy. His world had shrunk down to contracts, board meetings, silence, and the four walls of a penthouse he no longer considered a home.And Sabrina.Always Sabrina.She still haunted the place like smoke—always present, always suffocating.He sat in his home office one Thursday night, fingers rubbing at his temples as his screen glowed back with pending emails. He hadn’t seen Amanda in a month. Not even a glimpse.He couldn’t.Not after the way he’d ended things with her. Cold. Cruel. Deliberate. Necessary.At least that’s what he told himself.He hadn’t expected the hollowness that followed. He thought he’d be able to breathe with the secret buried again. Instead, every breath now scraped his lungs.Sabrina walked past the door, humming. She wore red lingerie beneath one of his button-ups, the fabric
CHAPTER 16The sun dipped low over Milan, casting golden light through Amanda’s bedroom window, but warmth had long left her heart.She sat by the edge of her bed, her fingers curled tightly around her phone. Nathan’s message still sat unread on the screen, a ghost waiting to be acknowledged. The tension in her chest was unbearable, like a scream lodged in her throat. When the door bell rang, she leapt up, heart hammering.She opened the door to find Nathan standing there, hands in his coat pockets, eyes shadowed.“Nathan…” her voice cracked. “Come in.”He stepped inside without a word. Something in his expression— cold, guarded — immediately set her on edge. She tried to read his body language, but the man before her looked like a stranger.She led him into the living room. “You said you’d explain. What’s going on? Why have you been distant?”Nathan didn’t sit. He stayed standing, looming. “I came to tell you this in person because I owe you that.”Amanda felt her stomach twist.He l
CHAPTER 15The silence in the room was so thick it could’ve been cut with a knife.Nathan stood near the window of his hotel suite, one hand on the glass, his mind spinning. Amanda’s scent still lingered on his shirt from earlier in the week— a cruel reminder of what he had almost had. What he still wanted.But Sabrina’s words echoed louder than anything else.“If you leave me, Nathan, I’ll ruin you. I’ll tell them everything.”He clenched his jaw.Behind him, Sabrina poured herself a glass of wine, moving with calm arrogance. She was wearing a silk robe, loosely tied at the waist, the hint of her smile smug and victorious."You really thought you could walk away clean, huh?" she asked sweetly, sipping her drink. “After everything I’ve done for you. After everything we’ve been through.”Nathan turned around sharply, his voice low and dangerous. "That wasn’t love, Sabrina. That was control."She chuckled softly, not even blinking. "Call it whatever you like. But don’t pretend I didn’t
Chapter 15The air in Milan was deceptively calm, as if the city were unaware of the storm unraveling behind closed doors.Amanda sat in her room, the early afternoon sun filtering through gauzy curtains. She stared at her journal, pages filled with emotions she couldn’t say aloud. Scribbles, dates, words she had scratched out only to write again.Nathan.His name appeared more than once. Sometimes next to angry phrases. Sometimes tender ones.She had thought the worst was over when he walked out on Sabrina.But the worst, she was realizing, had only just begun.---Nathan’s POVThe knock on the door was sharp. Urgent.Nathan knew before he opened it that it was her.Sabrina.She stood there, poised, manicured, dressed in her usual designer threads — but her eyes were wild."You're not answering my messages," she said, stepping in uninvited."Because I have nothing more to say," Nathan replied, stepping aside.She turned to him as he shut the door. "We’re not done. You can’t just leav