Camille's POV
It's been three weeks since that fateful night... The night I saw heaven for the first time and convulsed with pleasure at its gates. And as I stared at the test kit before me in the little space James and I have occupied for the past two months and two weeks, my heart pierced with the realization of what I have done. Shame and excitement threatened my sanity as i pondered on what the result meant for both of us – James and I. It could either be the beginning or the end of our wonderful union. All this years we spent working on each other and building the safest nest around ourselves even without children. Now a storm threatened the hold of this nest, and I wondered just how far our love for each other could hold us together. I wanted to scream with excitement at the prospect of finally holding my own baby, but at the same time I remember whose it is and my body quaked with shame. I AM PREGNANT! Pregnant for a stranger I do not know after just one night of mind blowing sex, one night I know I will never forget even in my dreams. Yes, I still dream of him, and I go home frequently now to pleasure myself at the very thought of him, at the thought of those dark eyes that held mine as he trashed into me with the zeal of someone paying homage to his god. I had not planned for that night to end the way it did, but being in the midst of all those strangers I know I will never meet again gave me a sense of mystery and a new identity. Isn't it said that whatever happens in Vegas, remains in Vegas? And so I drowned every shot of tequila that passed my way until I could feel my body light up with every ounce of confidence I have and that which I never even knew I had. Then I saw him. Irrespective of more than a hundred men in the club, it was he who I saw. He was sited at the bar with his eyes roaming the room and I waited a minute to see if he had come with someone. It took Helen nudging me forward when she noticed where my attention was to finally go make a move, I was surprised then when she came latter to try to convince me to go home. What was more shocking was the ease with which I flirted with him, and even more appealing was the discomfort in his pant which he tried to hide – it gave me more confidence. The last minute decision to return with him to his hotel room was made when I excused myself to use the restroom and he imagined that to be a sign for him to follow me, and after a quickie in the bathroom he whispered with a raspy pleading voice that made my muscles melt in his hold, 'what do you say we take this to my room?...please' he pleaded and the idea of someone begging to be with me sent hot flashes of liquid between my thighs. And here I am, not only basking in the memories of that night, but also in the present it left in me. I came back from Vegas with its secrets after all. After eleven years, I finally have a tiny thing growing in my belly, a part of me. I didn't want to worry myself yet with what James will think of me when he finally comes around – the fact that I left his side to go fuck a stranger just in two months of his absence. I didn't want to think of what his family will think of me as well. We will definitely get past that when the time comes. Maybe we will also talk about how it took a stranger just one night to get me pregnant, while I spent eleven years with my husband and never took in. I was so excited that I wanted to go to the hall and scream to everyone that I am pregnant, I wasn't the barren woman my in laws thought I was, but no one will understand, everyone will judge me for leaving my husband's side to go get fucked. It wasn't so hard to realize something was off when I missed my monthly flow by two weeks. I let the thought of that night wash through me again, the night that changed everything for me. The night I drank so much and let myself make all the mistakes I would only watch others make from afar, I could never get over the surprise on his face and the way his eyes darkened with pleasure as I grinned my waist on his, the way he held my ass like he will die if I ever stopped. That was all I needed to go harder, to let myself loose completely in his strong hold. Shame flooded me as I thought of James lying there, helpless in front of me and all I could do was think of the man I had cheated with. A man I secretly wished I would see again. My thoughts were interrupted when a nurse's head popped through the door to get my attention. 'Someone is here to see Mr. James.' she announced and I am sure she notices the surprise on my face because she went on to assure me it was James Parker. I told her to let the visitor in and while I was still wandering who the visitor could be, I noticed the nurse return with a figure following behind. The ripple mirrored door hid their face but I was sure the tall figure that followed her was that of a man. When they finally came in to the room and the nurse moved aside to reveal the visitor, my heart stopped dead in it's tracks. My mind raced with surprise and uncertainties as I stared at the man in front of me. I must be dreaming, no fucking way is this real. This can not be happening.SCOTTSeconds passed by, and to me it felt like hours, it felt like ages.'How can you even say something like that? She was the love of your life for how many-' 'And she went ahead and slept with my own little cousin just a week or two after I got hospitalized? Tell me Scott, how long did you both know each other, tell me how long you guys had been fooling me for''But you can't just take her life for that mistake, what if she is happy? What if-''I do not want to remind you again Scott, I still hold the gun' he wiggled the gun in front of me to proof his point and I raised my hands in surrender, and all the time I just tried to keep my anger at bay and not end up doing something we were all going to regret.But I had to do something either way. There were not more than seven steps between us at that moment, and if I took very slow steps towards him I was sure he was not going to notice.'I am sorry about your pa and your wife. Damn, I didn't know there was some level of hate moving
CAMILLEI didn't understand anything that was going on , but I was damn sure that whatever it was was taking a hard toll on Scott.I watched him recoil when the blindfold was taken out of his eyes, and no expression or reaction of his missed my notice.I just wished I could hold him, I could at least get close enough to him and feel what he was feeling then. But then I already had a lot to deal with to worry about what someone else felt.But still.I was trying to make sense of their discussion, of what Maya was trying to say to him, but it all seemed fucked up and each revelation only made him even more withdrawn and definitely furious.And then his father.Okay, well, technically not his father, but how could he do such a thing to a son he raised as his all these years.I was trying to figure out how all that had anything to do with me until she called the name “Lucille”. I knew I had heard that name, somewhere, probably from...Yes, from Scott.That asshole, that was the name he ke
SCOTTI just sat there on the floor and watched her pace the room with the gun in one hand and a baseball bat in the other. She looked just like I always knew her to be – the real thug.'You know you all kept tossing me around and making me look like a messed up shit''That's because you are Maya, you are a crazy woman''No I am not Scott. You are the one who is crazy, you are the one who keeps thinking I am the evil one who killed my own sister and who still tried to come for your family. I am not crazy, but trust me you are such a foolish asshole,' she screamed and I couldn't help but laugh at her craziness.'I have known you well and I know you love to manipulate people into falling into your plans. Is that what you did to my dad too? Is that how you got him to get you pregnant and put it on me?''Well I am glad he is here and you will find out everything Scott''And you think I will be too foolish as to believe whatever you are going to say now when you have got us all under ropes
CAMILLEI had never experienced a lot of things in my life, and one of them was having a gun being pointed at me.And not just from anyone, but from a woman who looked like a mess.‘Of course I knew he would be here with your sorry ass' I heard her say, above the thumping in my ears. I could not think of anything else but the kids just in the next room.What if they got tired and just decided to come out?Oh God, I just wish they didn't. I can be the reason they have to deal with another trauma.'Hey, hello, h-h-how are you doing?' I stammered as I took several steps backwards until I hit the kitchen sofa.'How am I doing? Bitch I should be asking you that. Because you don't seem to be holding your shit together''Maya, just let her go, she has nothing to do with this' I heard Scott struggle to say while trying to get up from the floor. There was blood on his face, and it wasn't just blood from wherever he had gotten it from before.He was hurt, and it scared the shit out of me.She
CAMILLE'What the hell are you doing here? I thought we were done for good?' I stared at him with all the hate in my chest, one that melted as quickly as it tried to surface. There was no way I could ever be that mad at him, but I wish I could, at least this one time.I was really surprised to see him at my doorstep, especially since he was supposed to be enjoying his honeymoon with his new bride in London or wherever.He looked really bad with the blood on his hands and the bruises on his face and I was worried that the cobs might trace him down to my house and get me in the open as well.'Please can I come in at least?''The hell no, as a matter of fact I need you to leave' I said but I knew if he turned his back at that moment I would be on my knees begging him to come back.I didn't know how I got there but I knew for sure that was so so fucking in love with that guy. I couldn't stand him walking away yet again, and he didn't look like he was trying to either.'Please Camille, jus
SCOTTI sat back in the car for more than an hour, just watching her front lawn and wondering if I should go in – but then I had James to worry about.Everything looked as peaceful as it always used to be when James was in the hospital. I just wish he was never in the picture in the first place, then I would not have made a wrong choice in the woman I walked down the aisle with.I was just about to step out of the car when two men walked out of the house and they both left in a car. One of them was James and the other looked familiar, like I had seen him somewhere.Well, I didn't have enough time to think about that, I had to seize the opportunity and talk to Camille before James returned.I hurried over to the door and rang the doorbell, but no one opened up even after the third ring, and I was getting a little bit tensed up.What if she was out as well? What if she didn't even come back home with James after the wedding?How will you even think that James? She loves that man and tha
SCOTT'It's a surprise to see you here today Mr Scott' I heard Mrs Judith say and I wanted to tell her the real reason I was in her office after canceling our appointments more than a hundred times, but my lips were sealed shut in shock – just as they had been since after walking in on my so-called-wife riding my dad like a wild beast.'So, to what do I owe this visit today?' she asked again while pouring me a glass of hot drink – just as I always liked it before a therapy session. It always got me loose and helped me say things the way I felt them, but not that day.She didn't look the least bit frustrated with my silence or nonchalance, doing really well at maintaining her professional protocol.She finally set a glass of brandy in front of me and sat on the manager's chair opposite me.'I found out about your wedding to Miss Thompson to the press Mr Scott, and although I didn't have the perfect opportunity to, I still wish you a happy married life' That did it. that unsealed my lip
CAMILLEA month passed, and yet I still felt the sting from the stiffing blow James descended on me once we were behind doors at George's party.I didn't expect any less from him. From the moment he found out the identity of my child's baby I had only come to realize that the man I knew all my life was only a mask of who he truly was – a masked lion.I had returned to New York that same evening even against his own wish, and I surprised myself too with the courage I showcased. I wanted to apologize to Katherine for how everything had turned out, for not confiding in her, but who was I fooling?It would have been different if I had confided in her first, if I had trusted her enough to tell her the whole truth before publicly exposing her husband and rubbing the shame on her face in the presence of all the guests there who also respected her so much.But the next action she took was one I had never expected and the only reason why I deeply regretted my actions at that moment.It came as
SCOTTA month had passed since our wedding, and Maya was crazy about consummating it.I keep wondering if she really thought that getting married to me meant that everything between us will be put in the past like it never happened.I always made it clear to her how much of a mistake she was making, and the last thing she would expect from me again is the sex.She had even gone ahead to tell dad about the situation. Didn't she even feel the least bit awkward saying something like that to him in the first place?When I didn't listen to dad either, her best resolve was to delay the signing of any contract or business information that she had to sign since she was still the head of her family's company until the paperwork was done and I became a sole partner and a joint one too, the company's assets.I had tried to convince her about how unnecessary all that was since I knew with certainty that she was only doing that to get my attention even more attracted to her, but she stood firm on