Chapter Sixty eight
“I am sorry, okay? I just want to apologize. Please.” I sigh look at her and try to see if she is sincere or playing me so she can ask for another favor and perhaps run away this time.
I sit on the bed and let her talk. She comes closer to me and sits on the bed silently before she talks again
“You married for love, so you have no idea what I am going through. You don’t know the type of marriages most of the women I know are going through and I don’t want that to happen to me, I guess I will just have to face the music now.” She says looking outside at the end
“You know I don’t have any power to what happens to you and I have been in a similar situation like yours. You know I was promised to the Bratva before I married Cyrus so I get what you’re going through.”
“I heard you tried to kill yourself because of that.” She says looking back at me. I forgot about that there for a minute
“Trust me, that was a misunderstanding and I wouldn’t advise you to do such a ridiculous thing. Maybe you should just talk to your parents and ask them to at least hear your opinion on who you marry, I am sure everything is going to be okay.”
“I would hate to go back home without being okay with you. You know how hard it is to find someone you can trust and talk to with our status. I finally found a friend and I would hate to lose you as one. Would you please forgive me, please?”
“You brought a lot of tension and trouble last night. That whole encounter could have ended in a blood bath.”
“I didn’t realize that until it was too late but I learned my lesson and I will never be so stupid ever again.” She says and I think she actually regrets what happened
“You know what fine. I really liked you too and you really broke my heart but if you’re sincere I am willing to give it another go.” She immediately jumps on me, hugging me and shouting, screaming with joy and kissing me.
“Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much, fighting with you was the worst.” She says with a pout
“Oh please. You seemed to be a natural at it.”
“You forget I have a sister at home. We fight more than do anything else really and it was nice hanging out with you for a change.”
We soon get back to talking when lunch is announced and we go have it with my mother who exclaims how happy she is that we have sort out ourselves and are friends again. We go hang out by the pool while mother goes to one of her meetings
“So Cyrus was your first right?” Valentina asks me and I nearly choke on my drink. I cough it out while she laughs and hands me a napkin
“Please don’t tell me you’re a prude, it’s a normal question among friends.” I weigh my options; although it would be great to have someone to talk to I doubt it will be a good idea. And so, I decide to lie to her, what I have inside me is a bomb that could bring down the family and I don’t rust Valentina with it.
“Yes. You know that, everyone knows that” I answer back like I don’t understand because I actually don’t.
“I know he popped your cherry but was he like your very first sexual encounter? Did you try anything with him or anyone else before your wedding night?” she continues asking, I give it a thought first before answering her.
“Try something else like what?”
“Oh Bella, you’re so innocent that it breaks my heart. I mean have you tried oral sex before, you know kissing, having a man go down on you, and giving a blow job or getting fingered? That sort of thing?”
I go bit red and I don’t know how Valentina can say all of that with a straight face. I look around to make sure there is no one insight before I get back to her
“Of course not. Do I look like I want to get myself killed? And where would I even find the man or the time and place to do such anything? I have an image to uphold.”
“You care too much about your status as the princess. I never wanted to be one and I hate that I am one always acting like the perfect girl while I get fingered in the school stall and give my body guard enough head to shut it when I want to be wild”
“Oh my god! Who are you?”
“I am sorry boo but that’s the real me, I am not as perfect as you are but I trust you and now I can finally talk to someone without worrying they are going to use it against me.”
“I had a friend like that once, I mean an open friend who told me about her sexual encounters and such. Her name was Aria and I really liked her.” I say as I think back to my time hanging out with Aria
“Oh, where is she now, why haven’t I met her?”
“Turns out she hung around me for my status. It didn’t help that she slept with Cyrus either”
“Noo. he cheated on you?” she asks in surprise
“Not really, we were not together then but she knew that I had feelings for him and she still went and slept with him. Paid her good for that one too.”
“Girls like that are the worst. So how is Cyrus in the sack?” she asks with a mischievous smile
“What do you mean?”
“He looks like a predator and the way he watches you….I bet he likes it rough too.” She has no idea
“Oh my God stop! I am not talking to you about my husband, especially about something so intimate.”
“Come on give me something.”
“Fine. I will just say that he knows my body and the way to my climax.”
“Great. See, it wasn’t so bad was it? We will have you talking in profanities by the end of the year.” She says and we burst out laughing and clicking glasses.
By the time I am going back home I am half tipsy and Valentina keeps insisting I come say goodbye before she leaves tomorrow. I go to Cyrus’s empty apartment and have my lonely food before I go back to bed. I suddenly hear heavy footsteps coming up the stairs……..