Chapter 35-Sierra

Sierra Eleanor Clifford.
The girl standing few feet from Wren.
Gradually, Wren took in her features.
She was an epitome of beauty. Having long voluminous and curly brown hair that cascaded perfectly over her shoulders. Her heart like and pink plumps luscious lips held a small laughter that didn’t reach her eyes. She has freckles scattered all around her perfect Grecian nose.
Her eyebrows are the perfect shape and colour, although currently raised expressing the look of confusion on her face, they worked in a synchronization and beautifying her face. Although, Wren was a little confused.
She had never laid eyes on a brunette with sky blue eyes like this lady, which brought her to the conclusion that she wasn’t truly a brunette, or she probably had contacts on.
All in all, she was beautiful. Her beauty wasn’t one of those that needed a lot of make-up before being recognized. It was simple and quite eye-catching.
She was beautiful. Enough to be on the cover of Forbes under the category of natural beauty.
But regardless, those details didn’t confused Wren Austin more than the fact that the lady standing before her was wearing Giovanni’s cologne.
Why had she worn it? That was what bothered the blonde.
“Hi! I’m Sierra, how are you?” Sierra flashed an eye blinding smile to Wren.
‘wow, she could easily be used for a Colgate advert’ the blonde thought to herself.
“Hi” Wren replied with a pang of jealousy in her voice.
Wren Austin could sense the woman’s stare on her. Why? That was another question she didn’t have an answer to.
“Hey, Wren who’s your friend?” Gwendolyn appeared out of the blue, placing another bottle of drink before Wren.
“Uh-“
“Hi, I’m Sierra” the brunette cut of Wren’s sentence and introduce herself, before turning to Wren with a questioning look on her face.
“Did you say your name is Wren” she asked, earning a bigger frown from the blonde.
“Uh, Yeah” she answered suspiciously.
“Oh. Did you by any chance pass by the Watford mansion Saturday night?” she added, taking the bottle of beer that was being handed to her.
“Uh” Wren didn’t know what to say. Why was she asking? She had just appeared out of the blue and was asking her questions that didn’t make any sense to Wren.
But more importantly, now that she mentioned the Watford mansion, Wren couldn’t help but wonder who she was and what business she had with the O’Connells.
“I’m sorry. You’re probably wondering who this crazy girl is and why she’s asking you all these questions” she asked, and Wren wasn’t sure if she was expected to answer or not since it sounded to her like a rhetorical question.
“Its just, since I heard her call you Wren, I thought it was you who showed up at the Watford mansion and left running” she added.
‘That was her alright’ Wren thought to herself.
“You looked hurt, and hearing my fiancée call after you, I thought maybe you were related to them or something” the girl added with concerned laced in her voice.
Wren Austin’s heart dropped to her chest.
Music faded. Everyone around them slowly disappeared as she focused on what the brunette had just said about Giovanni O'Connell
My fiancee. .
My fiancee.
It was a simple word, but it caused Wren’s heart to go numb.
He had a girlfriend. No, scratch that. He had a fucking fiancée.
He was fucking engaged.
Not only did he fuck her good and rocked her world, he made her feel things that were dormant for years.
He did all that to her whilst being engaged to someone else. Then he had the fucking nerves to request of her to quit her job, and not only that, he wanted to know if the night they shared made them an item.
Wren Austin couldn’t believe her ears. It wasn’t enough that he stood her up and humiliated her, he had also made her feel like she was a home wrecker.
“Say what now?” Gwen had overheard what Sierra was saying and she too couldn’t believe her ears. Her gaze shifted to her friend who looked like she was suffering from a severe episode of struck.
At once, Wren Austin burst into a fit of laughter, earning a frown from Sierra and a pitiful look from Gwendolyn who understood what the blonde was going through.
“Wren” she called.
“No. this is pure gold” Wren said in between laughter. It was so loud that she had now managed to get the attention of everyone in the pub.
The brunette looked at her surroundings, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She wondered what could have stirred that reaction from the blonde who currently laughing uncontrollably.
“He has a fiancée?” she added, holding to her sides as they now hurt from laughing too hard.
“Wren, I need you to relax” Gwendolyn Jefferson whispered yelled as she too became uncomfortable with the stares they were receiving.
“I’m sorry, did I say something wrong?” Sierra questioned with a frown on her face.
Gwendolyn smiled slyly at the girl. “No, you didn’t don’t worry about it. Drink up, I’ll handle her” Gwendolyn replied to Sierra’s question as she walked from behind the counter and now stood next to Wren.
“Wren, get up” Gwendolyn said with both of her hands on either side of Wren’s shoulders.
As she helped her friend who still laughed uncontrollably at what the brunette had said, Gwendolyn couldn’t help but take pity on her friend. This time, the stares and whispers as they walked out of the pub didn’t affect Gwen.
By the time they made it out of the pub, Wren was still laughing, but now it was gradually being replaced with tears.
“That bloody bastard” Wren Austin spat out.
“Wren” Gwendolyn tried to calm but the latter snap at her.
“Don’t bloody touch me. He’s an asshole and I swear to God Gwen, if he so much as comes anywhere close to me, I will decapitate every inch of his body and feed it to the dogs” Wren was furious.
“Wren, I need you to calm down. You can't utter threats like this” the dark haired warned.
“You think I am worried about some godforsaken threats? Hell, I could care less about that” Wren stated.
Her breathing was frantic and rapid as she paced back and forth.
Out of everything she expected, that last thing she expected to hear was that Giovanni was engaged.
“I don’t know how you’ll do this. But let this get to him. If I see him, I’ll kill him” and with that, Wren was gone.
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