Chapter 56

Kara’s POV

“Okay, let me get this straight.” Adrian eyed me with large eyes.

I nodded.

“You demanded breakup from your boyfriend, all because of fuckin Gonzalo— the same one that put him in psychiatric hospital for months?”

Jeez. She made me sound so horrible all of a sudden. I nodded and bit my lower lip. “Yes but-”

“You broke up with Stephano Alfonsi, the love of your life and the only one that ever puts up with your dumbness without making a single objection?”

“Don’t put it that way and I’m not dumb.” I snapped.

“Oh please shut it Kara. All he has ever done was in your own interest. Gosh, I feel like smacking your head upside-down right now. Can you just stop being so stupid already? It’s getting on my last fucking nerves here.”

My throat went tight. “Will you stop it with the verbal assaults?”

“No. Fuck, no I won’t.”

I huffed and got off the bed, quickly dashing for our kitchen. There was nothing for me to do here, so I merely stared into nothingness as I thought about my life. Adrian stomped into the kitchen, dropping my phone on the counter I was resting on.

“You better call him and apologize. Better still, go get some garters to seduce the hell out of him when you visit his office then after a mind blowing blowjob, you’ll swear an oath on your life to talk with your right senses for the rest of your fucking life.”

My eyes watered at her words. Truly, I’d not even thought about last night and my actions but with her calling me out this way, it sounded really bad. Okay, I shouldn’t have told Stephano I was breaking up with him but was it that bad?

“I’m waiting. Pick up the damn phone.” Adrian was tapping her foot impatiently, her eyes narrowed into slits at me.

“Geez chill the heck out.”

She hissed and grabbed the phone before I could. Dialing his number, she put it on speaker. He picked after the second ring. “Yes?”

My heart sank. No ‘yes love’ or ‘yes babe’. “Hey.”

“You called.”

A disgruntled sound escaped my throat. “Y-yes. I wanted to apologize.”

I looked up at Adrian but she had her hands crossed over her chest and was still tapping her foot impatiently.

“For what?” Stephano asked and my breath hitched.

“What do you mean by for wha-” I controlled myself so I wouldn’t say anything impulsive again. “I mean, I’m sorry for my behavior last night. It was totally out of line.”

“Yes it was. You ended things.”

“I know. I didn’t thin-”

“I’m busy now Kara, I’m at work.” Then the beeping sound floated through my ears. I stared at my phone in shock, Stephano actually hung up on me.

The silence that ensued couldn’t be pierced with the sharpest of knives. “Satisfied?”

“Adri-”

“Kara. I should talk to you as your best friend. Things are not this complicated as you always make it seem. Mr. Alfonsi is a man, men like to dominate; it comes with this ego stuff about them. But he’s only trying to watch out for you.” She held my hand with a pitiful expression and I swallowed hard, feeling my eyes begin to gather water.

Was this what my life had reduced to?

“He didn’t want me to go on vacation.” The excuse sounded pretty dumb to my own ears now.

“Then you could have convinced him. You know his weakness, you know what you’ll do that’ll drive him crazy. You can’t always match fire with fire. You’ll only get burnt. Also, relationship involves both party so when one is burning, you should try to rub ice on the issue.”

I heaved a shaky breath. Stephano was still at work, this was a good sign. Maybe I could convince him to come back to me...

“Also, you can’t just keep pushing him away. I’ve seen how he looks at you Kara. Fuck, if any guy was looking at me that way, I’d never let him out of my sight.”

“I know. I know.” I pathetically murmured.

“Now that the media knows he’s single, girls will be lining up just to have him by their sides, especially those model blondes with beautiful blue eyes and killer figures-” I coughed to drown her words, throwing her a glare which she blatantly ignored.

A disturbing image suddenly surfaced in my mind— Image of Stephano telling a girl to bend over his desk as he shows his manliness and she screams for him to dominate her; then another one of a girl telling Stephano she would never break up with him like I did and yet another one of a girl hungrily trying to pull at his pants and have little Stephano in her mouth. The worst part of it all is that Stephano looked nothing but content in all of these images.

I released a gasp, clutching at my chest at the pain that seared through it. My breathing became ragged as I looked at Adrian, she was looking so serious.

No. Stephano was mine, would always be. I might have pushed him away but that was a stupid decision on my part and I needed to make things right as soon as possible.

I tried his number consecutively as Adrian watched my every move. My shoulders slumped when the call dropped the seventh time. Stephano was ignoring me.

Blinking back the tears, I knew I had to resort to the only option I had. I dashed into my room and stripped, taking my bath and changing clothes within minutes. I applied red lipstick like he always loved and left my hair down, patting my waist as I gave myself a once over in the shirt red dress I was wearing.

I needed to talk to him. I desperately needed to apologize and make things right.

“I’m going over to his office!” I called over my shoulder at Adrian who was firing questions upon questions.

“I’m coming with you!”

I didn’t need to know she was coming because of Diego, who was also working at Stephano’s company.

Thank goodness students weren’t much around the school vicinity to spot me. I was sure they would have seen the infamous Kara Wilson running from her boyfriend in TV but this was exam period and so many students were probably just getting out of their beds after reading all night. And maybe that was just my own nerdy thought.

Nervousness was eating at my insides as I drove towards the Alfonsi Company. Even Adrian didn’t try to make any conversation. The receptionist’s eyes went wide as she caught sight of me practically running towards her counter at the lobby.

“Hi Tiffany. I’d like to see Stephano.” I rasped breathlessly.

“Miss Kara, what a pleasant surprise. Mr. Alfonsi isn’t-”

“I’m going in.” I started making my way towards the elevator leading to Stephano’s floor.

“No Kara, he’s not in.”

What? I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around. “What do you mean he’s not in?”

“He just left for Hawaii. He’ll be back next week....I think.”

“You think?” I bit out harshly, pinning her down with a frosty glare. Hawaii was the same place Stephano had mentioned that Danielle would be.

What if they rekindled their old love? What if Stephano really took my words seriously and made some rash decisions? What if he met women that would try to seduce him by making him drunk enough to do the dirty deed with them?

My mind was going haywire with several ideas as my breathing got heavier.

Tiffany's eyes went wide, probably not believing I could take the anger out on her. I didn’t believe it myself. I was just bitter that I had what was good and probably ruined it.

“Let’s go home Kara.” Adrian approached me, a smiling Diego just coming from another passage also now approaching us.

“What did you mean by you think, Tiffany?”

“He said he might be back next week or...he might take longer. He’s not sure how long he’ll be staying.” All fight left me as I processed her words. It didn’t even sound like he went there for business, if he didn’t have a formal time for the date of his return.

“Thank you Tiffany and forgive me for lashing out. Finals has been quite stressful.”

She smiled politely and nodded. "I understand."

With the little dignity I had in me, I walked ahead of Adrian and Diego as I heard them speak in hushed tones. I already knew they were talking about how childish I acted last night.

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