Chapter 22 *** Sinful Thoughts ***

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Love Lies By Khalid, Normani ||

[ BLAKE'S POV ]

My lawyer friend Herman Livingston called me when I came to coax the little frightened girl. For the first time, I was convinced to believe that there might be other underlined stories behind Victoria's missing case.

The woman who went in mute mood for witnessing a spot dead couldn't be the reason behind such dangerous crime but I always believed in proofs.

I gave my friend brief reply and watched over her from the corner of my eyes. She was finally drinking the milk with her heart content. Though I wasn't willing to accompany him at this night, Herman refused to hear any of my excuses and forced me to appear in his sight right away.

I ended the call with a helpless sigh and heard her asking in a drained voice,
" Where are you going at this hour?"

I replied her with a half smile,
" Herman, my friend. He works here and asked me to meet him now. Will you be okay by yourself? Should I call Aunty to accompany you?"

She shook her head lightly and passed me a faint smile,
" No, I am good now. Remember to come back before 12. This nation is new for you and dangers are lurking everywhere."

Her voice..she sounded so caring! Oh god!.

I wished to kiss her those damn lips!

I jerked off from my sinful thoughts weirdly when she called my name for fifth time,
" Blake.."

"Mmm! " I responded shortly after and gave her an assuring smile,
" I will keep it in my mind, Veronica. Take a good rest. Jesus, you looked so deadly pale."

I gave her one deep glance before making my way outside. I needed to stop this emotions or else I would mess up everything. Herman was right! I needed something to lift up my mood at least for Victoria.
...... ...... .........

I parked my car in front of the Citylight bar according to his location. Loud noise of music reached in my ears when I stoop down and locked my car doors habitually.

My face scrunched a little in annoyance. I avoided going into the bars for years and probably it was the first time that I was heading for the bar after three to four years. Doing party wasn't my cup of tea. I had an entire impire to run and having fun on bars was a wasted time for me.

I passed the moving figures with a poker face and excused myself every now and then. Finally entering into the bar, my eyes started to wander around to track my stubborn friend. I heard a yelling voice coming out from the barstool,
" Here..Here...Blake.."

My eyes followed the source of his voice and I quickly began to walk away. Few couples got bumped against my feet as I passed through them and finally spotted my half drunk friend.

He pulled me into a tight hug before gesturing at the other tool for me to sit down. I growled at him irritatedly,
" Herman! You haven't changed a bit, seriously. I told you that I had other things to do."
He scoffed back, signalling the waiter to serve me another drink,
" You always say the same dude. I heard everything about your wife. I can feel that you have doomed yourself inside the house. Here you.. go.."

I grabbed the drink and gave him a genuine smile hence he cared for me,
" Thanks buddy! Honestly saying, I didn't do anything this days except finding her."

He turned his face to stare at me and replied with a sigh,
" Well, I can see that on your face but Blake life goes on."

I understood his concern as a friend. He wanted to see me living well but Victoria was a part of my life. Before went missing, she was pregnant with mt child.

How could I let her go missing without doing anything?

Possibly Herman noticed the change in my expression. He clasped my palm in his hand and pressed on it with an assuring smile,
" Don't worry! She will be found."

I hoped the same enterally and went to sip from my drink!

My eyes went towards clock that showed ten. To give Herman an advance reminder, I spoke gulping down the liquor in my half empty stomach,
" I have to return before 12. So don't nag me after that."

Herman furrowed sending me a confused look and scoffed rolling his eyes,
" Why so rush, man? Now you don't have your wife by your side."

I gave him an honest answer,
" Veronica asked me to return home soon. She is very afraid of this situation."

Herman grinned meaningfully at my response and asked getting closer,
" It must be feeling so good after having such hot sister-in-law in your house?"

I felt a slight ache at the word of sister-in-law. Though he was saying the truth, somewhere it discomforted me. I smacked on his shoulders, stopped him from doing another wild imagination,
" Stop it, Herman! She is so younger than me."

Herman laughed hard at my words and luckily changed the uneasy topic. Before he could speak anymore, a hot blondie girl silded between us. The girl spoke shooting me a flirtatious smile,
" Hello handsome! "

I looked back at Herman who passed me grin. Now I was damn sure that he arranged this girl for me. He encouraged raising his glass in the air,
" Enjoy Blake! You need refreshments! I am going to dance with some hot chicks."

He winked at me before standing up and went inside the crowd dancing.

Oh fuck! One night stand! I had left this habit after marriage!

The girl kept clinging onto me for no reason. She bent over few times and teased further to kiss me but never did. A strong rose scent came out from her mouth and I bet that it wasn't natural like Veronica. She might have used artificial scent to smell like this.

Herman kept peering at us from the crowd. I was unresponsive against her actions and let her do whatever she wanted to do with my body. I wasn't aroused at all and somewhere her presence was getting on my nerves.

I was surprised to notice that how easily I was hardened when I stood behind Veronica in the evening.

I swallowed my discomfort nervously! Was I falling for her? No way! She...she was wife's sister not even cousin but biological sister.

To avoid such feelings, I decided to respond back to this woman who kept clinging onto me. Pulling her closer by waist, I tried hard to arouse myself but nothing worked on.

Why did my body was unwilling?

The woman was much more impatient than me. She couldn't wait to get on my pants and asked fluttering her fake eyelashes,
" Darling..Can we get a room now? It's so inconvenient in front of so many people. I can tell you in advance that I can do the best blow job among all the girls in our bar. Can we start now?"