MEETING THE EX

Two

Serena woke up with severe back pain, her muscles felt like water and her shoulders were so cramped up it hurt to move them.

She had fallen asleep on the couch because she did not want to sleep beside this strange man in case he decided to take their marital rites serious, she could not handle it if he decided to sleep with her against her will.

She looked around the room and noticed he was still sleeping, he looked very peaceful and so She tiptoed over to the bed to take a closer look at him.

“If you want to get into the bed with me, do so and stop watching me like a pervert.” His voice brought her out of her thoughts about how beautiful he looked.

“I was not looking at you.” She lied and shifted away from the bed

Damon’s hands snaked out and grabbed her by the waist pulling her on top of him, he flipped so she was beneath him and they were face to face

“What do you think you are doing? Get off me” She cried struggling

“Shut up” Damon bellowed and this outburst stopped her retort in her throat. She closed her eyes as soon as she saw his face come closer to hers

“What is your name?” Damon asked.

She opened her eyes and saw again that his lips were so close that if she moved her head a little, she could kiss him.

“Serena”

“That is not a bad name. If it was something displeasing I might have had to rename you because no representative of my home will have a displeasing name. Now get off this bed, go and get dressed, we are visiting my father today.”

She jumped off the bed and adjusted her gown, her cheeks hot from being too close to him. She could swear she had wanted to kiss him right now which was not good, the only thing she wanted right now was to get over this dreadful marriage.

“What are you thinking about?” Damon interrupted her thoughts

“Nothing.” She huffed and proceed to the bathroom only to stop halfway with a petrified look on her face

T“What is the matter with you?” Damon asked her seeing how she stopped

“There is no lock on the bathroom door”

“And so?” He asked looking at her shocked face

“Well, the door won’t be locked. What if you….” Her voice trailed off

“What if I what?” He asked

“Nothing, do not mind me.” She said and walked into the bathroom

He called to her when she was halfway into closing the door

“Do not flatter yourself Serena, your body is hardly what I want”

She did not reply but instead proceeded to closing the door.

Damon watched her outline from the transparent glass, she had a very beautiful shape and judging from her face, a beautiful skin also. Pity he wasn’t interested in her, he would have shown her how it felt to be his woman. Right now he had to call Judith who had been waiting for him all night to explain why he could not come to her.

He knew she was going to be every pissed at him but he could not as well leave the woman he had gotten married to on their wedding night to gallivant, he had to have that respect for her at least.

He knew he was being ignored when he rung her three times and she did not pick up, he tried ringing her up again but was cut short by the singing that was coming from none other place than the bathroom. He stopped to listen to it and recognized the tune she was humming from one his mother used to sing to them when she was still alive.

She had a beautiful voice, he thought as she sang and scrubbed. He was tempted to join her in the bath just for the sheer fun of it and see what exactly she looked like apart from having the most beautiful green eyes he had ever seen and red hair so fierce it was blinding to see, If it was in another lifetime he would have liked her.

Serena came out of the bathroom to see Damon reading a book, he looked scholarly at that moment and she wondered if there was any look he couldn’t pull off. She had her clothes on already as she did not want to dress in front of him, it would have been awkward and she could not bear his eyes on her body.

“You took so long” he noted, his eyes still on the book

“Sorry” she muttered

He raised his intense blue eyes and looked her making her squirm where she stood

“You are already dressed” he noted again

“Yes” she said

He closed the book and stood, Serena saw too late that he had gotten rid of his clothes and was standing before her gloriously naked.

“What are you doing?” She screamed and shielded her eyes

“We are married, you seeing me naked means nothing”

“Please go into the bathroom” she said her eyes still closed

He walked up to where she stood oblivious of him and looked at her, she was beautiful and she was flushed and very embarrassed.

“If I did not know better, I would say you want to have sex with me”

Serena’s eyes flew open in anger before she closed it back again

“Never” she ground out

“Better because I would hate to disappoint you. You are not my type.”

She stood there for quite a while till she heard the sound of running water before opening her eyes and looking around her, she let out a sigh and walked over to the bed to sit. This was not what she had envisioned as marriage and now she was into it for better for worse, she thought about her boyfriend who had dumped her and wondered how he was doing and if he even thought about her at all. She would have loved to call him to explain that this was arranged and she could never love her husband but what use will be that be, she could not be with him anymore because of this marriage and she had no idea where her sister was, the person who should have been in this position.

She picked up the book he was reading and saw it was Shakespeare, she was surprised as she imagined he would be someone whose eyes were only found between the thighs of beautiful models like the newspaper portrayed him.

He came out of the bathroom some minutes later and she saw he was still naked and closed her eyes immediately, she heard him laugh and felt his body near hers as he reached for his phone that was ringing. Her eyes remained closed even as he was speaking in soothing tones to a shouting woman, no doubt his mistress.

She neither commented on the call nor he as they got out of the hotel with various cameramen taking pictures of them, the presence of the guards did nothing to stop them from getting in her face. She observed as he held her hand tightly in his and tried to shield her from the glare of the public. They got into the car that was prepared for them and she heaved a sigh of relief

“That is what you are going to be facing everyday for the rest of your life so you should get used to it” he said to her.

“I understand” she replied her eyes downcast.

It was later Damon noticed that he was still holding her hand and immediately let go of it.

They got out of the car in front of his father’s mansion and a lady approached them, her blonde hair flying in the air. She stopped in front of Serena and raised her hand to strike her face, Serena ducked also raising her hands to protect her face but realized that Damon had stopped the girl’s hand midway.

“What the fuck do you think you are doing Cassandra?” He growled under his breath as the cameras clicked all around them.

“Who is she?” Serena asked in shock

“My ex” he said still glaring