21

                                    

                                          
Ciara Mendes 
                          
                    I enter my room and took my phone up that was laying on the bed. After unlocking the phone my mood immediately change to a gruesome one. 
                          
Unknown: I miss you Ciara and I'm sorry for what I did. Fisher. 
                          
Evei: How is everything going love. Did you jump his bones yet ;)
                          
Evei: You're not answering my calls are texts, assuming you're having a grand time.  
                          
Evei: ???  
                          
Evei: Don't have anything doing right now, come on babe, let me in on this. At least send me a picture for me to see if he's hot. 
                          
Unknown: I just stop by sweet tooth. Thought I'd pick up one of those bread cake you like so much but you're not at your place, where are you?
                          
I throw myself on the bed and call Evei. It did not take long for her to answer the call and before I could say a word her voice came through the speakers of the phone. 
                          
"Finally! You're busy fornicating with Mr.Rich hottie that you can't even call your best friend. Come on babe I thought it was bros before hoes."
                          
"Ciara are you there? Are you alright?" She asks when I didn't say anything. 
My mind was just too occupied with all these thoughts which made me feel somewhat disoriented. 
                          
"Listen I know I can be a bit over exaggerating sometimes but I was just making a banter okay?"
                          
"Stop Eve it's nothing that you said and Mr Rich Hottie as you put it didn't do anything either."
                          
I wipe away a stray tear. I thought I was finish crying over this guy weeks ago. "Then what's the matter honey?"
                          
"It's Fisher." I say his name as if it taste bitter in my mouth. "He called last night." 
                          
      I explained to her everything he said last night when I had mistakenly answered his call and the messages I received from him not too long ago. 
                          
"That son of a bitch. After everything that he did, Listen to me sweetie you need to block his number— better yet get a new SIM card and enjoy your one week vacation. He is a nuisance who doesn't deserve anything from you."
                          
She let's out a frustrating sigh. "This is why I don't do relationships. It's too complicated and overrated."
                          
"I can't understand why men always want to crawl back into a woman life as soon as she tries to move on. I swear they have little detectors that tell them when the woman they've betrayed is starting to be happy again so that they can just move back in like the deceitful insects they are and ruin everything again."
                          
Evei little rant lighten my mood once again. She could always do that, she was like a firefly on the darkest of nights. The person that will motivate you when you have fallen flat on your face and everyone else is laughing at you. 
                          
"Thanks Evei I needed that."
                          
"It's no problem honey just listen to me and you'll be fine. Enough talking of your tragic past tell me how are things going with your soon to be boyfriend?" 
                          
I recall that little thing I did not too long ago. I didn't even realize what I was doing until I lick the sweetness from my finger. I can't believe I did that, it is not something I'd normally do and just the thought make me embarrass to some extent. 
                          
"He is not my soon to be anything and if you must know his business meeting was delayed until twelve so he ask me to go and explore with him. I should be getting ready now."
                          
I got up from the bed and walk over to the dresser. I did not plan on wearing jeans in this heat so I switch the pants  for a pair of shorts. 
                          
"Business trip huh?" Evei says knowingly. 
                          
I pull the button on my jeans before pulling it down, "Yes business trip, what's that suppose to mean?"
                          
"Don't be naive babe. The man ask you out twice, is it? Anyway you turned him down then he got the best opportunity when your boss ask you to do an interview with him. He acts as if he doesn't want to then suddenly you are on a private plane with him to a surprise place which turns out to be Fiji and then his business meetings just happen to be cancelling." 
                          
Eve says sounding like a detective, "I have to give him credit Ciara, he is one smart man."
                          
I laugh at her little scenario, "Come on Eve you know I don't like when you play that Nancy Drew crap; it is just a coincidence besides I said it was delayed not cancelled."
                          
"Yeah right. I won't let you keep him waiting I have a beauty sleep calling my name. Love you."
                          
"Love you too." I couldn't help smiling at her craziness, why would a man go through so much to get a woman to go out with him when they're plenty other woman out there?
                          
Giovanni Haynes 
                          
               "I'm giving you thirty five percent of Anton Industry." 
                          
I was trying to be discreet while having a conversation on the balcony with Mateo. The last thing I want to happen is Ciara finding out about our infantile bet especially when she seems to be finally warming up to me. 
                          
Mateo laughter was deafening on the other line. "Thirty five percent? That's a lot more than I asked for. Tell me cousin is it so hard to get that angel to fall for a wild man like yourself or did you fall in love with her instead?"
                          
I open my mouth to speak but stop when I thought about his words. 
                          
"I take it you're falling for her." He says mischievously. 
                          
"Of course not Mateo, don't be ridiculous I don't love her—"
                          
"Then what is it cousin, did you suddenly develop a conscience?" He interject which irritates me. 
                          
"Would you just shut up man?" I run my fingers through my hair feeling relief that Ciara was taking her precious time in getting ready. "Do you want what I'm offering or not?"
                          
Mateo chuckles deeply, "You know I do. It's just that Bentley and I were betting on you. I of course bet that you would fall for her and settle down while Bentley thought that you wouldn't."
                          
"Unbelievable." I mumble into the phone. I should have known this was his plan from the start. 
                          
"I'm still hoping you fall for her man. Bent promised to buy me a mansion in LA if you do and you know I can buy my own but I'd be crazy if I didn't accept his proposal. You know that brother of yours is a meanie when it comes to me."
                          
"You know what Mat, I can't deal with you right now I'll talk to you later."
                          
"Are maybe you're just rushing to get back to Ciara, is that not the case?" I heard him say before I could end the call. 
                          
I thought about what he said while I stare out at the magnificent view. Infatuation maybe but definitely not love. How does one even know when he's in love? How does love differ from lust—how can you tell them apart? I thought I loved Jasmine... 
                          
I decided not to ponder on this.  Giovanni Anton Haynes did not do love, he just screw women and leave it at that. That was that, and the women who I associate myself with knows that it's either they accept it are leave. 
                          
But does Ciara deserve that? After everything you found out would you just fuck her mercilessly then leave with no remorse? 
                          
"Are you alright?" A small voice ask. 
                          
I turn around astonish to see that Ciara had been standing by the door now dressed in short shorts. I wipe the frown off my face as my eyes travel from her long expose legs to the confuse expression she wears. 
                          
She was more beautiful than the view I had been admiring. I close my eyes and pinch the bridge of my nose as I try to get rid of the image of her pinned beneath me naked as the day she was born. I'd have to pray to the gods to keep me sane for the rest of our stay. 
                          
"I'm fine." I say walking towards her. "Let's go."
                          
She seemed to be considering whether are not to believe me but later followed with a small, "Okay."