Adriana Jensen~•~The next time I woke up, it was almost noon. I never slept this late and I wondered if it was because of the emotional turmoil I’d been through in the last few hours. The first thing I did was to check my phone and I saw that I had a few missed calls. It made me frown. I was not a very deep sleeper and a call would wake me up. Just to be sure, I checked my settings and realized that my phone was on silent. I never put my phone on silent. Did Saint do that for me?Despite embarrassing myself in front of him, he was very nice and gentle to me.Pushing that to the back of my mind, I focused on returning my sister’s call.“I’ve been trying to reach you,” Carol said as soon as she answered the call.“I’m sorry. My phone was on silent. I couldn’t come because there were no available flights.”“I told you not to come back in the first place. Aside from wanting you to enjoy your holiday, the issue has been resolved so you can chill out now.”I didn’t understand what she wa
Adriana Jensen~•~I was on a path to becoming a new woman.It wasn’t anything too serious. I’d heard of the phrase ‘you have to get under someone to get over someone’. Saint was supposed to be the man I wanted to get under but since he blatantly rejected me last night, my pride took a hit, and rose to the challenge to have him no matter what.Now, this wasn’t just because of him. This was because I knew I was certain to forget Fabiola and Benjamin if I focused on something else; something better. I didn’t want them to win. I didn’t want them to see me down.After eating breakfast with Saint, well, I mostly ate while he was on his laptop the whole time, I told him I was going out. To make sure he wouldn’t lock me out of the room later and go back on his word, I requested a key card.He rolled his eyes as he handed it to me and told me not to stay out too late. We’d spend only one night in the same suite and he was already acting like a nagging father. That was probably because he was
Adriana Jensen~•~I didn’t know much about Saint but I never imagined he was the kind of man to attend a pool party. By the time I got to his location, it was late but the lights surrounding the pool lit everywhere up. My eyes traveled across the vast space at an incredibly fast pace, searching for Saint.I brought out my phone to check his location and I confirmed we were in the same place.I heard wolf whistles as I walked around the place, searching for one man. When I couldn’t find him, I gave up and dialed his number. He didn’t answer the first time so I called him again. That was when he picked up the call.“Any issues?” He asked in a bored tone.“Where are you?”“Out.”“I know. I can’t see you.”There was a pause on the other end before he spoke. “What do you mean?”“I can’t see you,” I repeated, still looking around.Without saying another word, he hung up, making me frown. I didn’t know what propelled me to attend this party when I was bad at swimming in the first place.“H
Adriana Jensen~•~“Are you trying to rebel or something?”I stopped in my tracks, wondering if it was just not my lucky day today. My tongue poked the inside of my cheek as I wondered whether to reply to her or not.I had a lot to say to her. I had a lot of questions to ask her, but I wondered if they were worth it. Realizing I didn’t have the mental energy to deal with the woman I used to call my best friend, I continued walking.It seemed like she wasn’t ready to let me go though. “Or are you hoping dressing like this will lure Benjamin back into your life?”My feet came to a halt and I turned around sharply. Her words stung. She was speaking like we were strangers; like we didn’t promise to be there for each other forever; like all we said were just words that didn’t hold any meaning. “Do you hate me or something?”“What?” Fab asked as though she wasn’t expecting that question.“I can’t seem to think of any reason why you’d do something so vile without shame and remorse. Did you ev
Adriana Jensen~•~I waited up for Saint.Well, I tried to.At first, I was going to wait in my outfit for him to come back because I felt like he didn’t have the time to properly look at me, but I quickly became uncomfortable in the wear and ended up changing to a regular T-shirt and shorts.I stayed in the living room and watched the TV while waiting and simultaneously ignoring the group texts. I didn’t know what was going to happen after I told them Benjamin cheated on me with Fabiola. Would they hate her? Or would they understand her and take her side?I was scared. I had lost Fab already. I didn’t want to lose any more of my friends.I didn’t know when I dozed off on the couch but when I woke up the next morning, I was on the bed and sheets were over me.When did Saint get back? Did he carry me inside?I felt bad that I was taking up his bed while he was struggling on the couch, but I knew if I offered to share the bed with me, he would shoot it down pretty fast. He was obsessed
Adriana Jensen~•~It was time to test my self-control, aka, how long I was going to last without snapping at Benjamin and Fabiola.The first item on Ben’s mom, Lucia’s, list was a Millionaire Row Bay Cruise. As I was getting ready, Saint casually mentioned that he booked the full cruise. While Lucia was in charge of planning, Saint was the one to fund everything. He liked his privacy and for the first time, I hated the fact that he was so extra and luxurious.How was he so damn rich anyway? The moment I complained about my father’s failing business, he helped immediately. He booked four suites in such an expensive hotel and he was basically paying for everything that was to happen during the trip.“Can’t you cancel and book what is necessary?” I questioned when we finished getting ready. Since it was summer, it was hot out so we were wearing minimal clothes. Saint was wearing a white tank top and a blue shirt over it with the buttons undone, paired with white shorts that went over h
Adriana Jensen~•~The boat ride was supposed to be amazing, but it was awkward as well. Wait, I couldn’t consider it a boat. It was a literal ship. I came from a rich family but this was next-level shit.We were allowed to go out in the water and swim for a while or surf so we all changed into our swimwear. However, I wasn’t interested in swimming.Ben’s mother and father were inside while the four of us were left outside, lying on those black chairs.Ben and Fab were busy talking animatedly about who knew what. I was tempted to push one of them in the water. They were so shameless.“Are you two together now?” Saint spoke, catching their attention.“What? No.” Ben was quick to deny it, missing the dissatisfied look on Fabiola’s face. That brought me satisfaction. Ben looked toward me as though he was asking me if his uncle knew. I didn’t bother to give him any indication that he knew.If Saint asked about his relationship with Fab, he should already know something was wrong. He could
Saint Giordano~•~Something was very wrong with me.I didn’t know what exactly possessed me to open my phone, tap on my camera icon, and take pictures of Adriana on my phone, thinking that I would delete them after sending them to her.I couldn’t be any more wrong.Just as I had told her, the pictures were beautiful. They weren’t just beautiful, they were hot, enticing, seductive, everything that would make a grown man sin.I’d repeatedly told myself that I wasn’t going to have anything to do with her because she was still an immature child but I couldn’t stop myself from scrolling through her pictures on my phone. It irritated me that she was posting those pictures online and when I’d logged into my anonymous account and saw the comments hungry boys left under it, I was agitated.Adriana just didn’t know the power she held over me.The first time I saw her was a party where her family and mine had been invited to. I wouldn’t call it an obsession but I was intrigued at first sight. H