I swallowed hard and sat up.I've waited for him to say that to me for months, but yet I can't smile about it because we just can't be together."We can't be together, you know that too well even more than I do"."Yes I know that, trust me I've thought about it for weeks, I do. But I don't want to die today or tomorrow or whenever I live a long life knowing that I for the first time knew I wanted someone so badly and because of I was afraid and a coward .Asher I'm not gonna forgive myself if I let you slip away, I won't. You've made me see myself lot different, made me realize my life is a lot more different than it truly is.".He held my two hands, "I know this is gonna be hard, really really hard, but I want to give this a chance, I really do".I swallowed hard, I was so anxious."This is the same thing that happened with Veronica and I", I said.He started shaking his head."No it's different, listen Veronica is a terrible person, she is and you know it and let's be honest with ou
SEBASTIAN * * * I wished I could stay a week longer at the beach house but unfortunately I had a company anniversary to plan and a father to impress. Asher is... I can't even use words to describe him. Sometimes I think he's so unreal, sometimes I think it's just fate playing some dirty trick on me. We spent the remaining days in each other's arms never wanting to let go. But unfortunately I had to go back, especially when Timothy said that Rebecca wanted to meet my family with her family. Which seemed like progress to me. It was hard pretending like Asher and I didn't make out in every corner of that house. We didn't have sex though, Asher said he wanted me to really figure out if this was what I wanted or it was just the sex. It was going to be a Family dinner at my place. My father and mother were already seated, having small talks with Anthony. Rebecca's family came in and trust me, I didn't know I was in for the most shocking night of my life. They started interacting
I put my fork on the table and let out the breath I was holding, I feel like I should just leave the room at this point."If you don't want to marry Mr Sebastian you can just say it than all these lies you've come up with", her father said."Why do you think I'm lying? what you don't your sweet innocent daughter can be a Lesbian? well let me just say it now. I'm sorry Mr and Mrs Greenwood, I really am I do apologize for leading your son on up till this moment, the only reason I faked this love was because I thought that if I hide my true self and be who people want me to be it will be better, but the truth is I am in love with Beatrice, she is the woman I want to spend my life with -""Enough!", her father yelled."Over my dead body will I sit and watch you spew such disgusting horror from your mouth, where did this come from? who is deceiving you? is it that your wayward cousin Stephanie? you leave London for a few months and you've already let these terrible people influence you? wh
SEBASTIAN **Later past midnight, when everything was over and I was tired as fuck, I went to Asher's room.I knocked, the door was opened so I opened it, he was on his laptop.He smiled."Hey", he said, "How did the whole thing go? you don't look so good"."Terrible", I said taking off my shoes.He closed the laptop and bided me to come. I did, I crashed on him. I suddenly felt like all the pressure on me was taken away. I felt so good."Well Rebecca brought Beatrice around", I said."Her girlfriend? oh shit".I nodded, "Yeah terrible shit, Halfway through everything they started asking Beatrice about stuffs with her and she mentioned she owned a Queen Strip club, Club Eden"."Oh yeah I know that place, it's at Malcom street"."Wanna go there sometime? Beatrice said everything should be fixed by the end of the month", I asked.He smiled, "Definitely ", he said.Then I continued, "Of course Rebecca's father was not going with the whole idea, asked her why she'd be having someone lik
SEBASTIAN **The thing about this company is how news spread like wild fire. Like how the fuck do these people know things so fast? yes my Fiancee turned out to be a Lesbian, everyone is talking about it. And the last person in the world I needed to see was just sitting there in my office."I heard about your fiancee", she said."Veronica why are you in my office? do you know that's against the rules and I can fire you", I stated."You will definitely want to, but then have you checked the company's record over the last 6 weeks? especially from the Italian?"."She's right", Timothy said coming behind me, "Your Dad's idea was genius, we've gotten over 70 individuals that have purchased the vehicles in her name and there are about 10 to 15 companies that will like to work with us", he said dropping his laptop in front of me.I sighed."You see, you need me"."That doesn't mean I can't fire you, now off my chair ", I said.She did reluctantly."I came here again to offer my help"."Wha
ASHER***I went to meet Timothy later after work, Sebastian said he wanted to have a long nap and so Timothy and I went to his parents house, Sebastian already told him about it and he was fine with helping out."So what do you think you're gonna do if you find your brother?", he asked as we got out of his car."Honestly I don't know I just.. at least let me know I've still got someone", I said.He nodded, "I feel you, I'm my parents only child, my mother couldn't have another child after she had me, I know what it feels like", he said.We were ushered in by the guards.That's the thing about rich people, everyone around them has to be rich."Is my mother home?", Timothy asked one of the maids."She went to the gardens, I'll inform her you're here", she said and we went to his mother's office to wait for her.I took my tie off and dropped it on the table.I saw a Paper on the table."Belinda M Johnson"."Her name is Belinda?", I asked."Yes", he said and almost immediately, she wal
ASHER**I sat at the poolside lost in so much thought. What does Timothy's mother know? and how do I get her to talk? she's clearly push me out already, coming back will just make me look like a nuisance.My phone rang dragging me out of my thoughts, it was Sebastian, I picked it up."Hey", I said."What are you doing all alone there?", he asked.I looked up and saw him at his window looking at me.I smiled."Just tryna process things", I said."Come here", he said in the exact calm soothing voice I needed to hear.I cut the call and stood up and went Into the house and to his room.My face broke into a smile the very moment I saw him, that's how he makes me feel. He was shirtless, he just had a grey sweat pant on and some socks.He bided me to come into his arms. I did."What's wrong?", he asked stroking my hair."I think Timothy's mother knows what happened to my brother", I said."How? Timothy didn't say anything about it"."We asked her about it and she started fidgeting and avo
SEBASTIAN * * I had a habit of coming for events and meeting few minutes to closing, today I tried to be different by coming early and regretted it. Cuz tell me why a 3 hours meeting because 6 hours! These people are so Immature, they kept arguing back and forth about who was getting the bigger share and who wasn't. Well me? I just sat there staring at Asher all through it. He was standing at the door the entire time, for 6 hours straight. I signalled him many times to leave and rest but he refused, so I decided to help myself enjoying his view. Everytime our eyes met he'd look away and try to bury the smile that crawled on his lips. Asher was a very Handsome man, I've never seen a blonde this attractive. He's just too attractive. "Mr Greenwood what do you suggest?", someone asked dragging me out of my day dream. "Hhm?", I asked so lost. "Concerning what we've been talking about, what do you suggest?", I looked at the time, it was 27 minutes past 6pm . "I suggest we all
ASHER * * Whenever I go through a bad break-up, there's usually three things that comes in mind to do. 1) Crash out. Just cry and listen to Olivia Rodrigo and ghost everyone for weeks 2) Drink till stupor. 3) Fuck I took the third option. Now there's something called Sober sex, you fuck the closest person around when you're sad, depressed or angry. I don't want to crash out, and I don't want to drink... sex is the only option left. And I chose someone I think I should have fucked a long time ago, probably to get it out of my system. I knocked on his door. He looked surprised to see me. "Hey, what's up?". "Do you want to fuck me?", I asked. He seemed taken aback. "Huh?" "Do you want to have sex with me?". "I...I don't know, why are you even asking that.. is this like a test or?". "Yes or no before I change my mind!". "Uhm, sure", he said. I pushed him inside his house and smashed my lips on his. Emotionlessly. This has to be the most emotionlessly kiss I've had
ASHER**I was first awoken with a splitting headache, and then the sudden realization of everything that happened last night.Fuck!What have I done?I pulled myself up from the ground. I passed out in the kitchen after ordering a crate if beer and finishing it.I stood up, my sight still wavy. I went into the bathroom and stripped and then sat directly under the shower for straight 30 minutes, trying to organize my thoughts.Did Sebastian break up with me? He didn't say we were over, I don't remember him saying we were doneThis is a break right? we're just on break, we're going to be fine... right?I can't Believe I told him to leave last night!I can't loose him, fuck I'm so scared, I'm literally shaking.What is my life going to be like without him? I've subconsciously built my entire day with him in it! physically or over the phone, he's literally the only thing that makes sense right now!How stupid could I be?I can't loose him, no no I can't, I can't do that!I immediately
"Asher look, Timothy is... stressed, pissed and confused okay? how are you gonna react if see some evidences that point out that your mother killed your father? someone you trust so much with your entire life, and then watch her crash out for accusing her of something like that?"."Accused? of course I'll break a bottle over someone's head. See clear evidences and still live in denial? no I won't".I sighed and ran my hands through my head."Okay I'm sorry okay, but I don't know what to say or do right now, because everyone is messy right now, and I don't know okay? who do you want me to believe? I don't know who to believe"."Do you believe me?"."Of course I do, I was with you all through last week, plus why would you even do any of that"."What if I wasn't with you? what if I was here in New York, will you still Believe them?"."Where is any of this driving at Asher?"."Your entire family hates me! they think I'm trying to sabotage whatever shit they've been hiding for years, they
SEBASTIAN **If you think the night was over? you're wrong because it only just started."What are we gonna do?", Timothy asked."Do you believe them?", I asked."They're lying about something obviously, but the thing is, what?"."You think we should do a DNA test?", I asked."I know it's already going to come out positive, I don't think they're lying about that one... I just don't want Sebastian, I'm scared, I'm confused I'm... we should have just moved on from the whole thing, I'm a mess right now and I just need to go home", he said grabbing his jacket."I have to go and talk to Asher"."Why is he getting upset?"."Because your mom was making everything look like it was his fault, like he's some crazy mastermind behind the whole thing"."What if -", he immediately retrieved his words."What if what? Timothy are you serious right now? Asher didn't even want to get involved, don't you remember we begged him to help us out? you begged him?", I asked getting pissed."I'm sorry but I
There was silence in the room for like 20 seconds."The other day when I came to your house, Nona told me to stop whatever it was that I came there to do and go. I asked her what she meant and she said she knew why I was there, and it was going to get me killed.She knew, I asked her to tell me everything she knew and she said she took a blood oath, she's religious I see, and she couldn't tell me anything. she said if she ever told anyone about anything she would die.I believe this recording was from her, and since she told us about it, she died", Asher said calmly."Well the recording is fake!"."So you mean to tell me Belinda, that all this just Happens to be a coincidence? So Apparently Sebastian was a miracle baby, a cryptic pregnancy, you had no evidence that you were carrying Timothy in your womb, the birth certificate in Graceville hospital was faked because you had to lie that he was your second child to save yourself. The picture that was dated on Sebastian's day of birth on
I went to where we kept the other copy and gave it to her. She opened the book"1996, that's when you were born right? here see this is me and him in the picture, at Sixties Club, you can see it's past midnight, everywhere is dark and you can see how drunk your father is. I was there with him the whole night ".I sat back on my chair."Who sent you this is what I'm interested in, because if we know who? we can know who killed him! the person probably did a good job changing our voices "."I don't still believe you ", Asher said."The distance from my house, to that lake where his body was found will take you over an hour, and this is what? 15 minutes drive? that's impossible!"."She's right, that lake is at the other side of town, which is why it's confusing why he used that road to the hospital, we thought maybe they decided to hide his body far away ", Timothy mumbled."So wait let me get this straight, because it's not sounding funny anymore. So you think that I , not only kidnappe
"You all of the sudden have no proof whatsoever that you were carrying a baby all the while?", Asher asked."I don't know, it's been years really, never really thought about keeping pictures and all you know, but probably there is somewhere", Belinda said."So why is this birth certificate of Sebastian dated on the day he was born, in Graceville hospital?", Asher asked."And you mentioned that Belinda was in Germany the day I was born, how come she's here? in this picture, on the day I was born?", Sebastian asked."This isn't on the day you were born, this was 5 days after, I remember, it was My husband that took the picture, Greenwood was no where to be found, we have more of those at home, the dating was probably wrong, but I remember when we took that photo", Belinda said."Then why are you in your nursing uniform? all dressed up like you came out of the operation room?", Asher asked."I'm a nurse, duhh. I came from work to the hospital you were born that morning, my husband came i
Sebastian **The table held so much unseen tension, both my mother and that of Timothy talked and laughed happily, talking about their old days and their friendship. They brought us Into their conversation once or twice but we replied coldly.There was just too much tension."Are you boys okay? you've been very dull today", my mother asked politely."It's.. it's work, been really stressful recently on us", I said."I understand, it's a pity", she said."Indeed, the company is a lot, I'm really proud of both of you for doing so well, even better than that old hag", Belinda said."Grateful to God he's gone and we can see our sons real potentials, can you imagine he was going to give it to that outcast Landon?", My mother said."I know you disliked him but I didn't think I'd see you so happy that he's dead", Belinda said."I'm more than happy, you have no idea, Widowhood has never felt so good", she said."I wish I was this less of pain when I lost my husband", Belinda said faking sadn
SEBASTIAN **"What?", Asher asked in shock "That was... that was my Dad.. my Dad... they were the one that threw him into that lake, they lied... they lied he died on his way to come see me... but they were the one who threw his body there", Timothy was shaking when he was explaining it, I could see him fighting tears."They killed his", he finally said."Who sent you this?", I asked.He shrugged, "I don't know"."I think it's Nona, because she was there, you heard them call her, what if she was recording it, and she had it with her for years", I said."But why is she only bringing it out today? after so many years why now?", Asher asked."We should ask her"."She still won't say anything, blood covenant remember?."I don't believe in that shit", Timothy said."Well she does, you know all these religious people, the things they believe works for them and if she took a blood oath she actually can't tell us", Asher said."So what do we do?", Timothy asked after we went silent."We co