Chapter 1
The room spins around me as I down another glass. Every word slurs but I don’t miss my bestie egging me on as I approach. a table in the VIP lounge.
“F*****g go. Rory!” I giggle to myself and almost fall flat on my her, thankfully, someone is gentlemanly enough to hold me up or I held the man down for dear life. I’m not sure which I am definitely out of my depths this night..
That’s kind of what happens when the man you’re engaged to is taught pants down, d***k in some random chick I don’t bother to see her face.
David didn’t have the decency to cut off our engagement before deciding to betray me like that, my eyes water slightly and I blame it on the burn of the alcohol in my throat that I’d drunk more than 5 minutes ago.
“His ****g loss!” I say to myself as I slump down into the seat beside my next unsuspecting victim.
I am not the kind to sleep with just about anybody but honestly I don’t care any longer.
I kept myself for David and he promised me himself too. I guess I was too blinded by love to see him for what he is.
“Hey.” I slur as the man beside clutches his cigar and brings it to his lips. He turns to me and offers me his cigar. I smile to myself. Feeling bold. I grab the cigar from him and take a puff-not minding the fact that I’ve never smoked in my life
My God! I cough out my lungs as soon as the smoke touches my larynx.
Hicar a chuckle but my face mars with disgust.
“How the hell do people smoke this? It tastes like ** and death. My eyes finally clears from its watering and I see my victim is a beautiful man, or what looks like a beautiful man anyway, I am totally p****ed.
“The first time is always like that.” His eyes roam my body and I shiver, but not from the cold. The club is never cold.
“First, it hits you hard and you feel raw, exposed. A few more hits..” He pauses for effect and I find myself holding my breath for his next words. Somehow, I feel he’s not talking about cigars lick my lips as they suddenly feel dry.
“…and you’re begging for more.”
“I need to get out of here. I think to myself. A stranger shouldn’t sound that good, a stranger shouldn’t be making me feel this way. In fact, I shouldn’t be talking to strangers at the club.
Somehow, my self-preservation kicks in and I’m swinging up from my seat, I lurch forward because of the force but I don’t hit the floor.
Instead, I’m in his face, my stranger with no name.
“What do you want?” He whispers in my ear, like a fairy god-mother about to grant my wishes, I find myself trapped in a
trance.
There is no force to his words, his hands feel great on my body and he seems ready to give me something I’ve been looking for in a while, something I’ve been craving.
My lips part and I find my voice in a crowd full of ****py dancing and unnecessary noise.
“To forget”
Oh my God!
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1 spe my eyes clean of any debris that are making me see things I’m totally naked beneath the sheets and I have zem recollection of the night before
The sunlight arraking into the room tells me its probably almo noon
With a slawning realisation. I throw the covers Fork 1 scramble for my clothes strewn across the room and I dress a
quickly as I can I am supposed to be at work by 9 While I struggle to look as not wild night, sex-crazed as possible, I realise I am actually in a hotel room and I am the only one in
T
no
“What the f***k was 1 thinking’ Sleeping with someone I have pour about. If it hadn’t been for Daniel f******g Zayne. 1 wouldn’t be in this position.
I don’t miss the look, one of the receptionist gives me as I do the run of shame out of the hotel and down to work
I walk-run into the building and find my way to the third floor, where my office is but there is a meeting going on Everyone has their backs turned to me, everyone except Daniel
My eves meet his and a sharp headache squeezes my head as memories of the time I caught him cheating rushes through niy brain. I manage to keep my face as composed as possible but 1 must be failing because Daniel calls me in
“I don’t bebeve you called in sick today” A grimace forms on my face and I catch the faces of everyone, they’re probably thinking “Oh, she used to date the boss, that’s why she thinks she can come to work whenever
“I’m sorry. I woke up quite late” I cringe when I think of what happened the previous night and almost come up with nothing
That’s okay” My head snaps up and my brows arch in confusion
“What?” I’m actually dumbfounded. Daniel has been giving me the cold shoulder ever since two weeks ago when I caught him, not even once apologising about the incident.
“You can leave.” Now my brows were way past my hairline.
“Leave is the meeting over?” A smirk forms on his face and he shakes his head, almost disgracefully so
“No, but your work here is. You’re fired.” My head reels back in shock and I don’t believe what I’m hearing.
“Excuse me?” The torrent of emotions running through me as me stumbling back, as though to brace myself for thrown hands
ime to walk you out?”
“Do you need me
I lost my job, my rent, my fiance… I would have been out on the streets if not for her.
It’s already been 3 weeks, I have some money saved so I’m not completely broke but it doesn’t cover anything beyond part rent and groceries I pay with Mikayla, my bestfriend/roomie.
“I’m going to the hospital, I think I’ve caught a bug or something I h**se out to Mikayla as I stand from the bathroom floor where I’ve heaved out my stomach’s content.
I don’t hear a reply and I assume she’s left the house. I find my way to the hospital and bump into an old college mate of
“Aurora?” I smile as I recognise the face.
“Jules!” We barely have time to catch up but she hands me her phone number and tells me to call her.
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“Tell Mikayla I said hi and congrats on her engagement, I know you guys still stay in touch My stomach churns and my face
contoris in confusion.
“What
You remember Dave David Zayne! He p.”I lose my balance before I can hear her complete her sentence, my eyes ring with vertigo and my vision darkens.
1 stir awake and find myself staring at a white ceiling. I’m about to ask what happened when I feel my body being jerked by
someone
“Aurora, are you okay?” I groan and sit up, almost immediately, a doctor walks in.
“What happened?” I say, a little disoriented,
“You fainted…” I suddenly remember why and a stab of pain hits my chest. David wasn’t messing around with some stranger that night, it was Mikayla? I can barely form thoughts when the doctor enters my vision.
“How are you holding up?” He shines a torch in my face, opening each eyelid at a time, completely oblivious to my mood.
“You can go Jules, thank you. I’ll be fine on my own.” I try to keep the smile but fail woefully
“Isn’t she family? She’d want to hear the news.” Jules stops in her tracks and turns to us
“What news?” We say at the same time, mirroring the same