Selene POV
The gentle rays of dawn crept through the curtains, splashing softly on my face as I stretched like a lazy cat. This was the best sleep I’ve had in a long ti. My eyelids fluttered gradually rousing from the depths of sleep. I noticed sothing was looming over ; so I closed my eyes and blinked severally to find Noah’s face above mine.
I looked at him dazedly for a minute trying to get my bearings as the mories of the previous night ca flooding to in a rush. A hiss escaped my lips as I pushed myself into a sitting position, and a scowl settled on my face. He took a step backwards, gazing at blankly.
I can’t believe he had the guts to still co to so early after what he did last night and he was not making any attempt to apologize. "What do you want now?" I growled, raising my right hand to smoothen my dishevelled hair only to discover that my hand was tied to sothing – no, soone. Surprised, I followed the cord made out of clothes noticing for the first ti that Lucius was in one corner of the room leaning against the wall.
Wait! My gaze swept around the room which was much smaller than mine and didn’t resemble my room in any way. This was not my room. I closed my eyes and with my free hand massaged my temples, trying to rember where I was and why Lucius was in the sa room with . When I opened my eyes, my gaze landed on a sleeping Xavier lying beside on the other side of the bed.
Between us was a mountain of pillows, clearly intended to maintain separation. My gaze returned to Lucius whose eyes were glinting with amusent as he watched . He was enjoying this. Last night, after I left Noah’s room, I went straight to the girls and they were asleep already. Brenna told Xavier left a few monts ago and they were waiting for . Without thinking, I just rushed down to Xavier’s room but he was showering at the ti.
That was all I could recollect. I didn’t know how the pillow forte ca about or if we had any other conversation in that line. But I liked how Xavier had taken asures to prevent any mistakes still making sure we had a connection. I looked towards him again noticing that he no longer had that pale, sick face again. At least it worked.
"It’s morning," Noah stated flatly, his tone clipped. "Ti for you to go back to your room. You should have left earlier... do you know how bad it will look if people should see you coming out of his room?"
I scoffed at the implication of his words detecting jealousy and hurt laced in his tone. Why hadn’t he thought of all these things when he was frolicking around with Brooke? The double standards!
"You didn’t have to co to get ," I retorted without remorse nodding towards the pillows and Lucius who was still quiet at the corner of the room. "As you can see, nothing happened. Xavier took extra care to make sure we did not put ideas intoanyone’ss head. Not only did he build this forte, he also had his Beta with us in the room for accountability, knowing how suspicious you’ve beco of us when clearly, we do not do anything,".
My eyes bored accusingly into Noah’s, holding his gaze without flinching. I thought it would be easy for to forget about him cheating on with Brooke but up until this mont, my heart is still bitter whenever I think about it.
"Xavier displayed far more sense and restraint than you managed last night. He didn’t give room for excuses especially as he had ample opportunity," I finished, my chest heaving with anger.
Hoping he would talk back at or sothing so it would give enough ground to fight, his jaw clenched but he said nothing and continued to watch . After a few seconds, he straightened and tucked back his hand behind his back which he had stretched towards to help out of the bed.
"The appointnt with the therapist is by 9 am, you just have only an hour to dress and...".
"The counselling appointnt is set for 9 AM, is it not?" I interrupted him mid-sentence "I already knew that and I know I have just an hour or less to prepare myself and et you in whatever room you’ve chosen for it to be done,".
I pulled my wrist free of its binding. I rose from the bed and smoothened the wrinkles from my rumpled clothes. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Noah watching wordlessly for a long mont before giving a terse nod.
"The therapy room is the last door at the end of the corridor adjoining my office suite," he said stiffly. "I will see you there shortly,".
With that, he turned on his heel and departed leaving us to the tension in the room.
I blew out a weary sigh, running my fingers through my tangled hair. So much for being intentional about fixing our marriage. I wouldn’t have been cold to him but for his rash actions last night which made see him in another light and have shattered the little trust between us.
My eyes fell on the clock in the room and at this rate, I had less than an hour left for . Pushing stray thoughts away, I bent down to pick the things I had co with to Xavier’s room. I couldn’t allow myself to be thrown off balance before the counselling session. I would need to be fully present and focused if there were to be any hope of salvaging this situation. Which wasn’t my goal by the way...
My gaze fell montarily upon Xavier still deep in sleep. A fleeting sense of gratitude washed over that at least he had protected . One less indignity to be subjected to this day.
Straightening my shoulder, I walked past Lucius whose eyes were glued to ignoring him completely. I didn’t need to be told that he had wished the worst for but right now, I had no other choice but to remain steadfast. Not after everything I had endured, everything I had sacrificed to reach this point.
Until I achieve all of my goals and cripple the Steele and Carrell family... I will fake it until I make it.
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