Chapter 4: Facing her parents

"I'm her boyfriend and if you don't get out of here, I'll be the man who will be responsible for putting you six feet underground," Jayden responded, shocking Zendaya.

She immediately turned to look at him, but he wasn't looking at her, rather his attention was focused on Matthew who looked pale.

Before she could say anything, Matthew pushed her out of the way and moved to punch Jayden. However, the latter, who was already prepared for it, deflected it and landed his own punch.

“That's my fucking fiancée, you asshole!” Matthew growled in anger. There was no way he was going to allow Jayden to steal what he had worked so hard for, not when he was so close to victory.

“Not anymore,” it was Zendaya who spoke this time. “Get out of my house, Matthew, we’re done,” she growled in anger. She hadn’t intended for him to know that she knew about his infidelity, but since the cat was out of the bag, she could only plan her revenge plan from there.

Matthew immediately tried to move closer to her, but before he could do so, Jayden came in between them. “Will you leave willingly, or will you do so after the guards have dragged you out?” He asked, and Zendaya found herself thanking her stars that he was there, as there was no way she would have been able to handle Matthew alone. Getting the guards would have been embarrassing as they would have informed her father.

Matthew understood that there was no way he would be able to fight all the highly trained guards at once and so, he turned to leave. However, if Zendaya thought this was it, then she was highly mistaken.

As soon as Matthew was out of the mansion, Zendaya came to stand in front of Jayden, and she glared at him in annoyance. “What?!” He asked her nonchalantly.

“What did you mean when you said you were my boyfriend?” She immediately fired at him.

“What do you think I meant by that?” Jayden asked, and Zendaya hissed in annoyance over his habit of asking a question in response to her question.

“I don’t know, why don’t you tell me?” Zendaya retorted as she hit his chest in annoyance. He immediately caught both her arms and pulled her close to him, much to her displeasure.

“Why don’t I show you?” She heard him say, and in the next second, Jayden leaned in and covered her lips with his. When his lips touched hers, her body immediately came alive as she felt every nerve in her body starting to react to his simple touch.

Everything went down to her core as it began to throb once again, notwithstanding the fact that it was sore. Just how many times had he taken her the previous night for to feel so sore? She wondered.

Zendaya didn’t have any time to ponder on that thought as Jayden wrapped his hand around her waist and deepened the kiss.

All her sense of reasoning flew out of her head as all she could focus on was the kiss and what it was doing to her.

When he finally pulled back, she found it hard to think straight for the first few seconds and when her senses came back, she turned red with anger when she found Jayden staring at her with a triumphant grin on his face.

He had shown her nothing, and his action had only confused her the most. “You!” She flared up in anger.

“Have a nice day, Clownhead,” he told her as he turned to leave, and without giving her a chance to speak, he left the mansion.

Zendaya stood frozen as she was still trying to process what had just happened. There was no way Jayden kissed her and left like nothing happened, she muttered in denial.

Wanting to know if he had actually left, she rushed outside her house to see if he was still there, and he wasn't.

‘Asshole!’ Zendaya muttered under her breath. She snapped out of her thoughts when she saw one of the guards her father had assigned to watch over her walking toward where she stood.

“You have a call from your father,” the guard told her, and she remembered that her phone was dead.

She wasn't ready to talk to her father, but she couldn't ignore him, not when he had gone through the guard.

Zendaya already knew what he was calling for, and she didn't know how he would react about Matthew cheating, especially as he had warned her that he was up to no good.

She couldn't hide it from him and so, she reached out and took the phone from the guard, after which he stepped away to give the father and daughter some privacy.

“Hello, dad,” she greeted.

“Zendaya, what happened to your phone?” Lucas asked his daughter without beating around the bush.

“It's dead and I haven't charged it,” Zendaya responded.

“Where are you?” She heard him ask her.

“I'm at my house,” she told him, and the line immediately got disconnected. This made her frown, as the conversation hadn't gone the way she had expected. Was he really not going to ask her anything about the pictures that were circulating?

She didn't even know what commotion it was causing, as she hadn't gone online. Not wanting to wait, she used the guard's phone to check, and it was bigger than she had expected.

Everyone was labeling her a cheater and she gritted her teeth as she wasn't the one who cheated in their relationship, it was Matthew, but they didn't know that.

A chuckle escaped from her lips when she saw someone accuse her of being a gold digger and going after the Gerano’s money.

Were they foolish? She was from an equally rich family. Why would she need the Geranos money?

Those darn paparazzi who took the picture would get what was coming to them, she swore. It was one thing to take photos of her without her consent, it was another thing to make a malicious statement that she was cheating.

Zendaya looked up from the phone when she heard a car approaching her, and the colour drained from her face when she saw that it was her father and mother who were driving to her.

Now it made sense as to why her father didn't bother to ask her any more questions over the phone, he was coming to do it in person.

Shit! Zendaya cursed in her mind as she wondered if it would be okay to run inside her house and lock the door.

She however found herself unable to move, and she watched as her parents got out of the car and approached her.

Lucas Valencia, the name brought fear in the minds of those who heard it and while she used to wonder why, it made sense to her at that moment as she was scared.

Thankfully, her mother was there to salvage the situation. That was if Kiandra Valencia didn't scold her first.

“In the house!” Those were her father's first words to her as he and her mother began to head into the house.