She saw the hurt in his eyes at her words and gulped looking away, not knowing how to deal with this vulnerable pained part of Xavier. Angry she could understand, annoying she could battle with but this defeat, she couldn't take it. "Maybe I'm just the problem okay?" She hurriedly stood up, "I want way too much because I know half of New York's population which are women and gay men would give both arms and legs to be offered this but__"
"It is just not enough for you." He finished.
"I do want you and if I'm being honest, my body's reaction to yours is out of this world," she came close to him holding his hand, he leaned in. She shook her head.
"I believe I deserve a man who can't imagine his life without me and is mad about me. I need true love__"
He looked away, suddenly feeling inadequate, "I can't give you that Maya, not because you don't deserve it all but I__"
"You did try
Maya glanced at the wall clock opposite her which was among the few items she had managed to put up and that was because it wasn't in a box. She had bought it on her way home from work. Home, she stared at the very empty space with cream walls. There were no furnitures in the sitting room except three cane chairs she had gotten from a nearby shop while wondering where her guests would seat. She was hoping to hire Ashley to design the house and maybe that might give the space, a little homely feeling. She sighed, knowing that this was the most bizarre decision she have ever taken and that was something because she had taken a lot of crazy decisions and done even more bizarre things recently but the thought of if she had what it takes to live alone scared the hell out of her. She stared at the clock again, it was 6:59, Melissa, Jessica, and Jasmine were supposed to be here 59 minutes ago and though the girl's tardiness was not a surprise, she wa
"Maya," Tyler tapped her impatiently. Her spacing out has gotten more often over the past few days and although he wanted to ignore her at first, he couldn't help anymore but be concerned. Melissa had informed him that IMaya had left the house and although that was something he had rejoiced over with a bottle of vodka, he could tell she wasn't telling him something, there was more and he suspected that more had everything to do with how strangely she had been acting especially since the big noticeable rock on her finger which she claims to have misplaced was gone. Like how exactly do you misplace a rare blue 8.5-carat diamond ring? The goal was to break them apart yet it had happened so first. Just one picture and his ring were gone from her finger. Something just didn't feel right, at all. He had his plans all stacked to perfection. He was supposed to sow the discord, allow it to brew then make them enemies. But he wasn't
She was right the very first day she had met Xavier. No, there was absolutely nothing wrong with her discernment, but instead of the warning bells to make her turn the other corner and run back to her perfectly boring life where she had friends who would fight the world for her. She like every other stupid girl had been enthralled by darkness, like a moth to engulfing fire, she had plunged deeper and deeper into the roller coaster that was Xavier until he had drained her completely and burnt her marking her with his darkness and stripping her of things she didn't even know she had. She has never felt as alone as she had felt during these few days even when she was the new kid in twelve schools for years shuffling around one foster home to another, not having enough time to make friends, to have a bond with anyone or have anyone to confide in. Things were much more complex now, difficult. She was not the new Kid but an ad
Maya waggled her brow at Jared as he stepped out of the dressing room, looking like a stereotyped bad boy and ticking off all the boxes with his denim jacket which was opened showing off chiseled muscleks and surprisingly a tattoo, though it was an inscription that puzzled her: I want to be your everything except but one thing, Your past. It was very poetic and in all the tats did do Justice to the whole bad boy imagery that was being projected. "Howdy," she taunted, adding a wave and stifling giggle for good measures. He groaned and she chuckled. "I hate Tyler." He adjusted the baseball hat on his head and Maya noticed that the whole rugged bad boy look was not so far-fetched from his daily outfit. Just that this was bolder and in your face, but he did rock the look and she desperately hoped that they both would rock the act too. "We are recording in 1, 2, and 3" Maya already had a dazzling smile on her face
"So when am I setting up the interior designing for Maya's place?" Ashley nipped at her straw absentmindedly while sending an attached file of a design idea to a client oblivious to the quiet look exchanged between both friends as they wondered what to reply. It has been exactly one week since they had found out about Maya's lie and had instantly flipped. Now, they thought of it they couldn't help but feel that maybe they had acted a bit rashly by ignoring all her texts and calls especially since she wasn't doing that anymore, but they had been too hurt to know what was right anymore. She was a part of their bond, a connection. This was someone they spilled everything that happened to them, the second they met her, and yet it hurts to know, she had kept such a huge lie from them both. "Maya has been too busy recently but we would surely relay your message," Jasmine lied even as Jessica raised a brow at her and she shrugg
She hit the table with more force than intended when Jared in character had asked her if they should end it in his home or hers. Jared looked at her startled then burst into a fit of laughter while she collapsed too on her seat knowing she had flipped a little bit more than intended. Fifteen minutes later, Jared asked her why she wears such hideous baggy clothes that even his granny won't be caught in and she sarcastically retorted, calling him a perfect gentleman for pointing that out while she wondered what she had been thinking humoring her 10 years old son and going out with a crack nut. Jared as a character, is elated secretly thrilled that the woman in front of him was more interested in handling stacks of bills; he had sure done a little background check on her to avoid the risk of going out with a mental health patient or stalker and knew that she was grappling with a loss of debts hence her lack of opportunity to c
"Of course not," Xavier disagreed snorting, "You know I don't believe in that nonsense called love." "Then you need to get rid of this gloom all over you because it is getting confusing." "I just like her, I guess and a part of me feels bad that she looks unaffected by everything and__" "You'll be fine. You are always going to be fine." He nodded. She gave him a sly grin, while he raised his brow, "Now that we have just established that you won't be getting married anytime soon, this would be a good time for you to hand over the engagement ring to your darling sister so she could pawn it and go on a massive shopping spree and baby girl spa treatments," He shook his head at her amused, not at all surprised that regardless of just how much Melissa had in her account or millions of untouched clothes she had not worn she would always remain his baby sister who could ne
Jared scanned the headline nonchalantly "Engaged Casanova?" Warning alarms went off in his head as he thought of the one person that was engaged, that could get this rise from Tyler because of the dirt on his name. And just as he feared, his eyes took in the almost blurred picture of Xavier entering a hotel with two scantily dressed women. There was no mistaking that, that was Xavier despite the poor quality of the image and that disturbed him as his eyes were now fixated on Tyler who was still looking smug. Maya, he thought standing up quickly as he prayed that she hadn't seen this because the last thing he wanted was for her to have a mental breakdown because of her foolish insensitive fiance. "Where are you going to?" Tyler eyed him. "I need to make sure that Maya doesn't see this." "Too late. That must have been the first headline that she saw immediately