Chapter 5

Sidney’s Pov

Father finally granted me some freedom, just for a week, though I was allowed to go on a short vacation, to clear my head and consider his decision to sell me off to Lance.

I shrugged as the name echoed in my mind and brushed the thought of it.

It was evening when I got to the vacation spot, and when I got to my hotel room, I decided to take a quick shower and head down to the bar. I hadn’t had alcohol before, but I think I could use it right now. I got to the bar and stood there, confused about what to order.

“This is your first time at a bar, huh?” A voice startles me out of my pondering.

I turned to see an unbelievably handsome, tall, bearded man. He looked at me like he was staring at food, which made me slightly uncomfortable.

“You look confused,” he continued. I was embarrassed by how direct his tone and voice were. I could have sworn I recognized his voice from somewhere.

“Good day to you, too,” I answered slyly.

He stopped for a moment and walked forward, keeping eye contact as he sat beside me.

“Good day, missus, I apologize, but you do seem lost.”

“I’m not lost.”

“Oh… so you aren’t 18 yet then.”

“What!”

“Sorry, sorry, relax,” he laughed, throwing his head back.

“I was relaxing until you showed up.”

“Alright, let me make it better,” he said soberly, still looking directly into my eyes like he owned them.

He ordered us two martinis, and the bartender served them almost immediately.

He looked like he walked out of a Disney cartoon movie. I couldn’t help but be attracted to this familiar stranger. We talked through the evening into the night, and by then I had drunk up three glasses of the stuff he ordered for us, I felt like I was floating on air, so this is what it feels like to be drunk.

I didn’t bother asking his name an h didn’t ask mine either, but I felt like I knew him and had already met him. He requested that we go back to respective our rooms and I nodded in agreement, but when I got to my door, he just wouldn’t leave, and for the first time that night I was aware of the tension between us, I stepped back trying to ge away from the intensity of the atmosphere, but he followed me in and picked me up, I didn’t know what I was doing and let him. We ended up having the most intense night together. He was so gentle and loving, we couldn’t keep our hands off each other all night, but by the next morning, he was gone, and he left his card by the bedside table.

I gazed at it with fear in my eyes, …Damian Blackwood…  Blackwood corporations.

I gasped with realization, “Father would kill me.”

I hurriedly had a shower and decided to return home, so much for a vacation… How could I have made such a stupid mistake? I looked at the card again, and fear filled my heart as I gathered my belongings.

Father must never learn of this.

EVER.

Damian’s Pov

I was invited to a business conference on an island, which was a popular vacation spot. I normally wouldn’t attend as I didn’t like events that turned simple things into unattainable, lavish ones, but I had to; I needed space to strategize on my next move on Gregory Vale, and Diane had been giving me the cold shoulder since our last conversation.

  I had arrived and attended the conference, but by evening time I decided to stay for a while, it was a beautiful location anyway. I got to the bar and saw her from afar. I recognized her instantly.

Sidney Vale...

Who could forget that, grace, elegance, youth, and poise? I had my doubts at first, but I decided to talk to her, to hear that voice that left its mark on my memory, she spoke and I heard it. It was her, Sidney Vale. I started up a conversation and ordered us drinks, but I didn’t mean to get too drunk; I did, and I found myself flirting, and for some reason, I refused to leave her alone.

We ended up having sex all night long. She was so passionate, so alive, I had felt that in years. I woke up at the first light of dawn. She was still sleeping. I looked at the way her dark hair covered her face, her plump lips slightly parted. I wanted more, but I knew I had to leave. Just then, her phone beeped with a message, which I opened. It was from her father, it read, “Make sure you remember that you are to be married to Lance in a few months, conduct yourself properly”.

Wow, Gregory was going to marry her off to his middle-aged friend, a strange thought crossed my mind, but Ignored it and then I realized, what have I done? I just slept with the daughter of the man who killed my father. I angrily put on my clothes and left, but not without leaving her my card; yes, she had to know that she, too, had slept with the enemy.

This wasn’t the plan at all, I thought as I prepared to leave the hotel. I only hope it doesn’t get worse.

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Sidney’s Pov

Getting back home, I was greeted with scared faces and searching eyes, which didn’t help the crushing guilt in my heart. A maid descended the stairs, wearing a frightened look on her face, “Your father has been waiting for you.”

“Why, I’m not due to be back till next week,” I asked, confused.

“Go quick”

I bounded up the stairs and reached his room. I saw my father standing by the window, with a stick in his hand. I looked in the corner and found my Mom sobbing, her mouth was swollen, and the side of her face was slightly cut open.

 “What have you done to Mom? What are you doing?” I rushed in while screaming.

“I should be asking you what you have done, Sidney,” He said and flung an envelope towards me. I caught it and opened it frantically, trying to make sense of whatever was happening.

I gasped as I saw pictures of myself and Damian at the bar; there were compromising shots of us, all the way to the room where we spent the night.

“Did you follow me, Father?”

“It’s from the media, you foolish girl,” he screamed and turned around, hurling the stick in his hand at me. It hit me on my belly, and I screamed in pain. He made me come after me, but I ran out of the room, up to mine, and locked myself in.

“How dare you disgrace me, Damian Blackwood… of all people.” He screamed after me. I heard a loud crash followed by my mother’s scream, I knew he was taking out his anger on her, but I didn’t go to stop him, instead I hid in my room trembling, I humiliated my father, he wouldn’t take it lightly, I thought about the night we spent together, I had heard of women who had same experiences and ended up pregnant.

God, I hope I’m not pregnant with Damian Blackwood's child.