CHAPTER SEVEN
1489 Words
URIEL’s POV.
I had dinner and took a shower, that was when I found my way into Damon’s study after Grace showed me the way. I still haven’t wrapped my head around what he said earlier. Asking me to marry him. Was he joking? How could he ask me something like that when Felix was his f*****g best friend? The more I thought about it, the more confused I was. I understood the fact that I was going through a heartbreak but it didn’t mean I was desperate. Well, I was seeing that I was in the house of someone I claimed I hated but I didn’t have a child at that time. I left the pack house with nothing but the clothes on my body and the shoes on my legs, everything else including my credit card was in the house, a house which I no longer want to go back to. Just the mere thought of it sent shivers down my spine.
I gently knocked on the door and his deep voice ushered me in. I pushed open the door and stepped into the room. He was seated behind his laptop with a pair of glasses beautifully perched on his nose. I didn’t know he wore glasses, it looked good on him.
I cleared my throat and stepped deeper into the room, this was when he finally looked up from his laptop and leaned back, his shirt hugging his physique in a beautiful yet sinful manner.
“Have you had your dinner?” This was the first thing he asked me and I nodded.
“Yes” I responded, “I did”
“That’s good. What do you want? Do you need me for something?”
This was one of the reasons why I didn’t like him, he was too prideful and I hated him for that. He had everything, including the biggest technology company in the country, he also owned Avalon, one of the biggest museums in the country. He had everything money could buy but he was a f*****g rouge. He didn’t seem to care and it was annoying, he was too ruthless to even call humans.
“I came to talk to you” I finally told him and he nodded.
“I’m all ears. Tell me, what do you want?”
“What was the meaning of what you said earlier?” I asked, “about me getting married to you. What does that even mean, why did you say that?”
“I meant exactly what I said, Uriel,” Damon responded, leaning forward. His eyes never left me, instead they were scrutinizing me like he was looking for a secret inside of me, a secret I didn’t have.
“What does that even mean, Damon? How could you say something like that to me? I am your best friend’s wife and you…
“Ex wife” he interrupted, “technically
“What?”
“Look here, Uriel” he cut me off again, “I don’t want to beat around the bush so I will be as clear as possible. I don’t like you and you don’t like me either. We both hate each other. I need someone to introduce as my wife for the next couple of months and you need a place to stay because of your divorce. You can call this killing two birds with one stone”
“And you think I am the best person for this job?”
“Are you refusing?”
I clenched my jaw together without saying anything, I hated the fact that he made me look like I didn’t have a choice. Why would I be married to him? Why would I even agree to marry him? Who the hell does he even think he is?
“I am sorry but I won’t accept your offer” I finally told him, “first thing in the morning, I am leaving”
“Where would you go?” His voice is laced with enough sarcasm and it made me hate him even more.
“What do you mean?”
Damon finally stood up from his chair and started to advance towards me, each step calculated and precise like a panther about to pounce on his prey.
“You don’t have anywhere to go, Uriel” he answered, “your modeling career is not set yet, you are pregnant and the Uriel I know would never take that alimony from Felix or did I judge you wrongly?”
Gosh!! I want to wring his head from his neck .
“I can take care of myself, Damon”
“But you need someone who will help you”
“Meaning?”
“Felix and your step mother” he blurted, “don’t you feel upset when you see them together? Don’t you want to make them pay?”
“He is supposed to be your best friend!”
He didn’t say anything, he just kept looking at me like I was some kind of snack he wanted to devour. Gosh!! I have never been this close to him, I didn’t know he was this intimidating and…
“Think about it, Uriel” his voice interrupted me again, “marrying me will do you a lot of good, don’t you understand that?”
“I don’t” I snapped, taking a step away from him, I felt disgusted and upset with him. He knew what I was going through and yet he chose to play such a trick with me. What the hell was going on with him?
“I am not going to marry you so get that out of your head. By tomorrow, I will be out of your house”
“Felix won’t take you back” he told me, “but I am ready to give you a week to think about my offer. After one week, we will be done”
Before I could say anything, he turned around and walked back to his table before picking something up. It was my phone, I recognized it. How did he get it?.
“Luckily the phone wasn’t broken when you smashed it. It’s a good model, I tell you” was he trying to make a joke? It sounded more like a bad one if you asked me but that’s none of my business at this point, I just wanted to be away from this man.
“Your agency has been calling,” Damon announced, “I told them you lost your dad and were busy with the funeral. You should call them back and also, tomorrow I will take you for some shopping. With that being said, I think it’s a good night right?”
I snatched my phone from him and turned around to leave but halted again, my back still to him.
“I don’t know what you are thinking but it’s not going to work, Damon. I will pretend we never had this conversation and that was how I disappeared out of his study without looking back. I may be in a bad place now but I was not desperate and especially not for someone like Damon who I could call the devil in human form.
As soon as I entered my room, I slammed the door shut and slumped on the floor beside it…tears welled up in my eyes. I was hurting, I was hurting so much but no one seemed to understand it. I lost my dad and my husband all in one day, I felt like I wanted to die, I badly wanted this to be a dream but sadly it was my f*****g reality and I was in my enemy’s house. I closed my eyes and cupped my stomach. I had my child growing inside of me, I needed to be strong but at what cost. What would I say when he or she was born? Would I tell him or her that Felix left and didn’t care?
I had a lot going on in my head as I continued to sit there, waiting for some sort of miracle to happen.
I could no longer cry, my tear glands were empty now, I just sat there staring into nothingness as everything continued to replay in my head.
At that moment, my phone buzzed and my step mother’s name popped up. I didn’t want to answer but part of me wanted to hear what she had to say, I wanted to hear if she was sorry for what she did but when I clicked on the receive button, my heart sank as the moans and grunts of two people filtered into my ear..they were both having s*x, not caring about the pain they had both put me through.
“Screw the two of you!” I yelled into my phone before ending the call and letting myself go..I f*****g let myself go.
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