Chapter 47:

My heart picked up as I looked at the man standing before me. "What are you doing here?" I asked him, my hand tightening its grip on the doorknob.

"Well, I came to see you."

"No shit, why are you here?" I emphasized, with venom laced through my voice.

"May I come in?" Gesturing into my office, and not wanting people to grow suspicious, I allowed him in.

"I'm not going to ask you again." I crossed my arms across my chest, once shutting the door.

"I missed you." That caused both of my eyebrows to raise in uttermost disbelief I was baffled even.. he couldn't be serious.

"Are you drunk or high?" There had to be a reason for this nonsense.

"What is that?" He ignored my oblivious question, and I followed his eyes to see he was looking at my engagement ring.

"It's a ring dumb ass."

"You've gotten feisty I must say." He tsked, not liking my chose of words.

"You need to go." Opening the door for him to leave.

"Wouldn't you miss me?"

"Aiden I haven't seen you in 7 years, I don't think I missed you." Another jab.

"So who's the lucky man?"

"Not you obviously."

"Don't be like that." He tried to advance towards me but I didn't even let him get that far.

"Don't be like what?" I held up my hand to stop him from getting closer to me that wasn't welcomed. "What's wrong with you?"

"Don't act like you don't know what's going on." He grabbed ahold of my hand and I flinched away like he was infected.

"Don't touch me." I pointed my finger at him. "What did we have Aiden? Friendship?"

"It was more than that, and you know it." He watched my finger because he knew the next step was him getting hit, and I would be charged for assault.

"Why can't you just leave me alone like you did the last 7 years, I thought you were happy?"

Aiden and I were friends in high school- he was my only friend. But, I didn't know he had a crush on me until he told me, and I tried to see where things could take us, but it was awkward for me because I was forcing myself like him back so it wasn't serious for me-but to him it was. We only went on two dates and I called it quits.

He moved on, telling me not to worry about it, and him moving meant he forgot about me in the process so our friendship never mattered but here he is again. "Please tell me you aren't crazy now." I eyed him.

He thought what I said was humorous as he smirked and quite frankly I didn't miss it. "I think you should leave because he's-"

"Right here."

My eyes widened before I sharply turned to see Landon standing in all his glory with the look of disapproval.

"So you must be the lucky man." Aiden commented, breaking the millisecond silence.

"Who is this?" Landon addressed me only as if he wasn't in the room.

"Her Ex."

"Don't lie." I grounded out to him, turning to him. "You need to leave now."

"I'll keep in touch." He winked before walking out, but he stopped right next to Landon before looking him square up and down and he scoffed before walking out.

"Oh hell no." Landon followed him out, ignoring my protest.

"Landon stop!" I whispered yelled at him, following behind trying to grab ahold of his arm, but he snatched his hand away causing my skin to feel like it had been burned.

We both turned the corner to see the elevator door shutting with him in it along with my other coworkers.

Landon didn't stop there, he went straight to the reception, placing his palms on the counter top. "Who let him up here without my consent!" He demanded to know.

"H-he said he knew Miss Daniels, I-I didn't know sir, I thought she knew." She rushed to her conclusion.

"From now on everything goes through me." He turned to look at me his eyes furious. "My office now."

He didn't leave me any room to argue as he walked to his office and I groaned before following after him. "Who in the hell was that?" He demanded to know.

"Lets not do this right now." Turning my head to the door wondering if people could hear him.

"Why the fuck not, you can have anybody else in here but when I want to talk it's a later?" He questioned.

"Yes."

"That must have been a fucking joke, do you think I'm going to wait to talk about this?"

"I have to get back to work." Leaving the raging bull behind. I knew I was in serious trouble after this.

••

The car ride was silent. I tried to lighten the mood by playing music but he cut that off automatically and I'm left with looking out the window.

Not too soon we pulled up and I made beeline straight upstairs. "Embre." His voice held so much angry that I stopped, my foot not even reaching the first step.

"Yes?" I answered back, turning towards him my shoulders sagging in defeat.

"Who was the man in my building?"

"Nobody."

"Are you sure? Because if my ears are fucking messing with me I heard him say your ex." The tone of voice was hard.

"He's not my ex." I answered his questions directly, but he didn't seem to like my answers.

"What was he then? A fling?"

"You know damn well you are the only one I've ever been with."

"Don't try to switch this on me, I asked you a question."

"And I gave you an answer." I tell him and he runs his hands through his hair in frustration, before turning back around to leave.

"And where are you going?" I followed after him, seeing him get in the car again.

"Out." He shut the car door not giving me any room to protest his outing. Watching the garage doors open, I quickly went to back of the car standing there.

"Landon stop this!" I yelled so he could hear me from outside of the car. This was getting ridiculous.

He opened the car door. "Either talk or I'm leaving. Pick one." He left me no room to argue with me on that. "I'm sick of this shit."

"Sick of what? What are you sick of."

"You. You don't want to communicate and you expect me to prance my ass back into the house and do what? Listen to your bullshit answers-"

"That was the truth." I interrupted. "Damn Landon, Aiden was the man in my office! Happy?" I moved so I was standing in front of him while he still sat in the car. "He wasn't a fling or anything, he was a friend a long time ago and we went on two dates and I called it quits."

"So you lied to me." He gently pushed me back to stand out of the car, towering over me. "You told me you haven't done anything. Hell, you put it as if you were a nun and here comes this bullshit." He slammed the car door, walking back into the house.

The sound of the garage doors chugged down, startling me, before I once again followed. "That's not fair."

"Oh that you've been on two dates with the man and he showed up to the office? Please humor me."

"It didn't matter to me and it still doesn't." I was trying my best to control my emotions but I failed. "You try having your love life non existent since the age of 16 and tell me you wouldn't feel a little desperate to know what's its like to be with someone."

He tried to speak over me but I wasn't done. "You want to talk? Fine." I threw my heels down. "Aiden was there as a friend but he grew a crush on me and guess what I felt? Happy that I could at least could someone's attention even if I didn't feel the same way. So I did it. And you know why it didn't matter? Because he never did, not like that anyway. It was forced. Imagine me telling you that?"

"It would have been the truth." Landon pressed.

"What? Oh hey I've been single since the ancient ages. Yeah that would have been a winner."

"So that's what he was to you? A friend?" He zoned out of the conversation I was having.

"Isn't that what I just said?"

"And surprisingly he's back." He hinted and my eyes widened at his assumption.

"You think I'm cheating on you?" My voice held so much hatred for that word.

"Are you? Is that why he's back? Am I not good enough for you anymore?"

"Landon, where the hell is this coming from-"

"Answer the question."

"I'm carrying your child and you're asking me if I'm cheating on you? I don't have feelings for anybody else but you! The answer is hell no, and I wouldn't do that ever." It grew deadly silent as my chest heaved up and down and I watched Landon's finger tick before he started to shrug out of his jacket.

"Are you going to say anything?" He began his adventure upstairs to our room but he stopped at my words, turning only his head a half degree.

"You said it all." His voice was detached from him. "I'm going to bed."

"How are you going to say talk when you're leaving me like this?"

"It takes one to know one." He made my breath get caught in my throat at his words.

"Are we good?" Shrugging his shoulders, he continued up the stairs and I stayed planted where I was hearing the sound of the door closing.

"I need some water." I mumbled to myself, clearly spent but my thoughts ran away from me, and the energy needed to catch up to them to seal them again had left my body. He thought I was cheating on him?

I didn't know what else to do. I hated arguing with him because it always ended like this, but we both needed each other in the end.

Grabbing my heels, I made my way to our room ignoring my racing heart. The room was dim and the only light there was, was the bathroom. Steam seeped through the door as I heard the shower running.

It's worth a try.

Dropping my heels, I began to peel away my clothing walking into the bathroom. His head was dipped under the water while both his hands were placed on either side of the wall and he stood in all his glory, I watched his muscles flex as the warm water tried to succumb him.

Taking a deep breath, I peeled the glass door open. Either he didn't hear me or he didn't care but when he turned his head a bit, he knew I was here.

Standing behind him, I watched him cautiously not trying to do anything that would piss him off and to my surprise.. he stayed.

Lathering up the rag with his cologne scented soap, I stepped forward with my hand stretching out to place it on his lower back and he flinched from my touch. "Embre don't." He turned around to grab my hand in his.

"Let me." My other hand came to his chest. "Please." His hand came up to grasp my hand and I held his in a firm grip so he knew I wasn't going anywhere. "Please."

Sighing, he stepped out of the water closing to me so I could bathe him, and that's what I did. Scrubbing away the dirt from today, I didn't miss his member becoming erect and it made me grin before continuing to wash him.

I expected his eyes to be closed but when I looked up his eyes were glued set on what I was doing and it made me pause. He raked over my body like it was still his first time seeing me and it made me fidget under his intriguing gaze. My hand was placed right over his heart and I trailed it down before removing my hand completely. I watched him back. Neither one of us moving just yet.

His hand snaked out, his finger braiding into my hair before he brought my lips right over his. "I'm sorry." I uttered, holding onto his shoulder for support.

"I know." He sealed our lips together and he kissed me brutally like I needed to be tamed. His hands tightened in my hair and it made me wince at his grip but it only fueled him more. Hunching me up, I had no other choice but to wrap myself around him. Slamming me against the wall hard, his hand came up to grip my jaw and it made me moan at his aggressiveness.

He was mad still, he definitely was angry.

He moved my body up the wall as he tended to my swollen breast but it wasn't gentle kisses. He was biting, sucking at them and my legs tightened feeling him punishing me. "You belong to me." He brought me back down my high. "Do you understand?"

"Yes." I murmured back, my lips hovering over his. "It's only been you, I promise." His erection bumped against my navel and I looked down between us and gasped. His hand travelled down and cupped the most intimate part of me and my breathing intensified.

"I know." Two simple words that sealed the deal. "Did he touch you?"

"Not like this." I rested my head back, my body wasn't my own as I rubbed against him. I felt his grin on my neck and I buried my hands in his hair. "Landon."

"What?"

"Please." I don't know if it was my hormones talking or what but I needed him, now.

Sliding me up the wall a little so he could adjust himself to my opening, he slid me down back onto him in one brutal thrust that made me tighten my hands around him. "Oh."

"This." He slid me back up, painfully slow. "Is what you do to me, and I plan to take it out on you." I braced myself for this, but I was still left surprised.

Ramming inside me he stilled to make me feel all of him, and he felt me clutch around him. He left me a moaning mess as I tried to take it and I couldn't deny and say that I didn't want this more often, he took control of my body like no one else could-can. And I knew if I had the option to have sex with another man, I was ruined. He was my first stop and my last.

I tried to find my release but every time he felt my need to, he slowed his pace down and my hands pulled at his hair, my eyes pleading with him. "D-Don't." He captured my lips and it intoxicated me more, he released me with a pop before we were soon on the floor and the water drenched us but we just couldn't care.

He pushed me off of him and brought me back down and I surged forward before resting my head on his collarbone. "Ah.." I was definitely going to be sore but it would be worth it. "I need to.." It was building again..

"Chase it then." He had his hands on my waist, and I looked down to see red marks from his fingertips there and I watched us move together perfectly.

And I came undone, placing my hands on the glass I did it actually want he said. I chased it and he followed after me shortly.

The only sound that could be heard was our heavy breathing and the water running. "Come on." He slurred out. "Let's get you clean."

But we didn't move from that spot for another five minutes and I felt myself slip under, my night ending.