Chapter 2. Emily

Justin watched as she resolutely left him not turning back even once and could almost hear the sound of his heart as it broke into smithereens, because how else could he explain this bone deep pain in his chest.

He screamed out loud and with frustration, swept off everything on the coffee table.

It wasn’t like he couldn’t force her to stay even if she felt unwilling, because he had the confidence to say he could achieve that.

He could threaten or coerce her into it with her best friend or with her family if she had any, unfortunately she didn’t.

Yes, she was an orphan.

But what after that?

What happens to their relationship after he does that? Without doubt, he knew if he ever did threaten her with her bestie, whatever love she had left for him would cease to exist and be replaced by hatred. And that was definitely what he never wanted to see.

He was a businessman and would usually do anything to achieve his goals, of course that was excluding murder, arson, d**** and the likes. However, Nina had always been an exception to those dirty schemes as he loathed using those methods on her. He loved her too dearly to even harbor the thought.

What he wanted had never been a canary, he wanted the stubborn and independent woman he had fallen in love with in the first place.

His love for her has always been his weakness but he couldn’t bear to part with this weakness.

Chaotic thoughts ran through his head making him more and more irritable but in the end, he finally managed to suppress those thoughts slightly. Subsequently, he calmed himself down and focused on trying to remember everything that happened that night.

Yet, he thought and thought of anything and everything but still remembered nothing. This realization only made him even more suspicious because he had always had a large capacity for drinking and no matter how much he drank, he could still remember what happened the next day even if those memories were a little fuzzy.

Despite that fact, he completely had no memory of what happened after drinking what? Only a few cups of alcohol which wasn’t enough to even make him tipsy normally?

This could only mean he had been d******!

A gloomy and foreboding aura instantly appeared on Justin’s being at that thought.

He had been careless!

But… He would make sure he finds out whatever had happened that night and make whoever dared set him up pay a bloody price!

Without pausing, inky darkness flashed past his eyes as he picked up his cell phone and dialed his personal assistant, Larry’s number.

As a qualified and capable assistant, Larry dared not allow his boss’s call to ring for not even a minute longer and instantly picked up seconds after Justin dialed his number.

“Sir?” He said respectfully as he waited for Justin’s instructions.

“I want you to bring that woman to the Night Kingdom in the next half-hour!”

At first, Larry felt puzzled as to the woman his boss meant but quickly understood when he heard his boss’s dark tone and also remembered the recent incident that happened to his boss.

After relaying his instructions, Justin expressionlessly hung up, then he proceeded to call his business partners who were present that night to also meet him at the Night Kingdom. Only then did he head out with the car keys.

***

Meanwhile, after Nina left Justin’s house, she drove aimlessly around the town trying the ignore the burning sensation in her eyes.

‘I won’t cry… I won’t cry…’ she kept repeating to herself as a mantra and at the same time tried to ignore the gnawing sensation coming from her heart.

“Damn it! I told myself I wouldn’t cry but what is this?”

Her hand moved to feel the wetness on her cheeks with the tears that kept dripping out of her eyes with no intention to stop after she screamed that out in a hoarse voice.

Moments later, she noticed her sight beginning to go blurry due the tears and hurriedly stopped the car at the side of the road after which she slammed her head heavily on the steering wheel.

Not long after, her heartbreaking sobs sounded continuously from the car making the hearts of the listeners feel somewhat stifled for some reason.

She cried for quite a while and only when an abrupt sound rang loudly in the confines of her car was she startled and at the same time stopped crying. Following that, a slightly sluggish look appeared on Nina’s face as she finally seemed to realize what she had been doing all along.

Was she, who had always been hailed as the ever cold and gorgeous supermodel, actually crying so pathetically over a man?

“Damn it… Nina, you are better than this. He isn’t worth it! He just isn’t worthy of your precious tears!” She shook her head in disbelief before saying with some degree of force.

Then, she hurriedly took a tissue from the car compartment and wiped her face dry and also touched up her makeup in the process regaining her composure in a flash. No one would have believed that she had been crying pathetically a few minutes ago if not for the reddish tint in the corner of her eyes.

After doing all that, she then remembered that it had been the sound of her phone ringing that had snapped her back to her senses.

‘I wonder who is calling?’ she wondered absentmindedly before picking up her phone to check the caller but the call happened to end as soon as she picked it up.

“It’s Lena!” she whispered excitedly when she saw the missed call.

“Is she back?” She was going to call her back when the caller whose ID was ‘My Lena’ happened to call back.

“Hellooo, Nina darling! I missed you so sooo much!” Selena, Nina’s best friend, exclaimed excitedly on the other side of the phone.

When Nina heard the voice of her bestie, an urge to cry overcame her again, because she knew that even if the whole world turned against her, Selena wouldn’t. It had always been the two of them against the world. Her backbone was back!

She asked in a hoarse voice, “Are you back in the country?”