Trusting people didn’t come so easily to her, yet she had so easily given her trust to him. If she hadn’t allowed Sonia to convince her that it was all coincidence, maybe her guards would have been up, and she would have easily spotted the similarities between Benne and the supposed CEO to know that they were the same person. Okay, this wasn’t a time for maybes.
“I trusted you, but not even once did you trust me. Leave, Benne… Or should I call you Mr. Delgado? Please leave, I want nothing to do with you anymore,” she said, walking to her door and opening it for him to leave.
“Celsie just give me a…”
“I have nothing to give to you. And even if I did, I’m not giving you anything! You know what? You really do deserve someone like Anita. I want you to leave now,” Celsie said as she turned her gaze away from him. She was feeling pained and betrayed.
Benne felt slightly hurt as he looked at Celsie who had her hands on the doorknob and was looking outside as she waited for him to exit her apartment. Although he could understand how she felt he also expected her to understand him better.
He walked towards her and once he got to the door he stopped, “All I wanted was to know you without my social status getting in the way. And all those times I appeared before you as Benedict Delgado, were times when I missed you so much and could only spend time with you as the CEO and not your driver. Ask yourself if you would have ever given me a chance to know you had I told you from the first time we met that I was Benedict Delgado,” Benne said, and then walked away without waiting to hear if she had anything else to say.
Once he left, Celsie shut the door and collapsed on the ground. She felt cold and hot at the same time. Watching him walk away left a sort of void in her heart. Although she was mad at him, she felt like she had just lost a friend. She had gone from a cloud nine to zero. Now she felt empty.
His last words to her kept resounding in her head, but Celsie shut her ears to block them off. No matter what his reasons were, his deceit was inexcusable. She had trusted him, and he had deceived her. That wasn’t something she could easily forgive.
She cringed in embarrassment when she remembered all the times she had told him about the CEO in confidence not knowing he was the one. Her blood boiled in anger when she recalled how he had asked her what she thought about the CEO, and how he had asked her to show him the CEO’s picture when she eventually sees his face.
She sat up when it suddenly dawned on her that if Benne was the CEO, that meant Bryan Delgado was his brother! Was Bryan in on his brother’s deception? Was Sonia aware? Did she possibly know that the same driver she had been telling her about this whole time was none other than her fiance’s older brother? She stood up and walked over to the table to pick up her phone. She needed to speak with Sonia.
Once Benne got outside, he let out a sigh and turned to look at Celsie’s apartment. How could he make her feel better? He didn’t exactly regret his actions, as he knew would do exactly the same thing all over again as long as it helped him get closer to her. He only wished she would understand that he hadn’t done any of it merely for the sake of having fun. He had done this just so that he could know her and she would know him too. Was he supposed to give her space now to sort out her feelings, or was he to keep showing up around her until she had no other choice than to forgive him?
He probably should have talked things through with his siblings before telling Celsie the truth. They would have come up with a better approach rather than the one he had just taken.. Perhaps this was the right time to speak with them, Benne reasoned as he took out his phone to dial his brother’s line.
As Sonia was unable to reach Celsie earlier, she had decided to use the bathroom and then wipe off what little make-up that was on her face before she returned to where Bryan was still seated on the couch. The only difference between the time she left him and now was that his head was resting against the headrest and his eyes were closed as if he had dozed off.
She leaned forward and pressed her lips against his, making his lips curve in a smile as his hands automatically went around her waist to hold her in place, “Am I to assume you have a thing for my lips, or you just love stealing kisses?” He whispered against her lips, as he opened his pair of amused blue eyes to gaze into her green eyes.
Sonia grinned as she tried to pull away from him, “I wasn’t stealing a kiss. I was only paying off my debt,” Sonia said reminding him of the kiss she had promised to give him earlier after Mia interrupted their moment together in his bedroom.
“That is really a lousy way to pay a debt. Never mind, I will just collect it myself,” Bryan said as he placed a hand on the back of her head to hold her in place as he deepened the kiss, making her blood pound.
He pulled Sonia to himself so that she straddled his thighs, and his hands ran down her back, grabbing her ass and squeezing it softly. Sonia’s heart thudded against his chest, in sync with his heartbeat, and she let out a soft moan as she kissed him back, burying the fingers of her left hand in his hair while her right hand moved between them to caress his broad muscled chest.
Bryan kissed around the edges of her lips and then opened his eyes as he kissed his way down to her chin, and then slowly found his way to her neck, dropping light kisses as he moved, while his hands snaked around her waist until they found their way under her gown.
Sonia closed her eyes and threw her head back as she gave him more access to her neck while moaning softly. Her heartbeat increased following the movement of his hands, and her breath came in shallow gasps as his breath fanned her neck. She gave a throaty moan when he let his teeth graze her jaw, and her hand moved to stroke his back.
Just when she reached to take off his polo shirt, Bryan grabbed her hand, and she opened her eyes to give him a questioning look.
“I intend to frustrate you, Sonia Smith,” Bryan said with a wicked glint in his eyes, reminding her of what she had done to him the last time she seduced him on his bed.
Although Sonia was burning with a need for him, she threw back her head to laugh, “Nice one, Bryan. Very nice,” she said with a nod of approval as she got off his thighs.
“I know, right?” Bryan said with a grin, even though the bulge in his trousers was visible to them both. He wanted to do so much with her, but not just yet. Perhaps if it was another lady, he would have gone all-in and had sex with her, but seeing just how enthusiastic Sonia was about having sex with him, he wasn’t in a hurry.
Sonia smiled at him as she just sat back and looked into his eyes, “Why do you look so fine? Or is it just my eyes?” Sonia asked, making Bryan chuckle.
“Perhaps it’s just your eyes. Your feelings are making you blind,” Bryan said before remembering to ask, “I thought you wanted to talk to Celsie? Have you done that yet?” He asked curiously.
“Yeah, she busied my call, so I’m waiting for her to call back… Oh! She’s calling now,” Sonia announced when her phone started ringing and she picked it up.
“Hey, baby!” She greeted as she sat up and turned away from Bryan.
“Are you alone? Is Bryan there with you?” Celsie asked in an urgent tone which caused Sonia’s brows to pull together as she turned to look at Bryan while wondering what was going on with Celsie. She didn’t sound like she was fine.
“Uhm, sort of. Why?”
“Could you go somewhere else? Somewhere we could talk in private?” Celsie asked, and Sonia stood up at once, but not without mouthing to Bryan to excuse her.
Bryan gave her a sad pout like he was sad to watch her leave, and slapped her ass playfully, making Sonia glare at him playfully too as she hurried away. Before she completely disappeared out of his sight, his phone started ringing and he quickly picked it up when he realized that it was a call from Benne. It was only just then that he realized that he hadn’t talked to Benne in a while.
“What’s going on, Celsie? Are you okay?” Sonia asked as she walked into the guestroom she had been using and shut the door before going into the bathroom.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.