Chapter 46

46 His Dislike of Women

EROS looked directly at me, but his golden eyes were blank like he didn’t understand or didn’t give a damn about what I was saying.

“I have a problem, you see. I don’t like women and I don’t want to have anything to do with them. Except for sex that is. I love sex with women, that’s all,” he stated bluntly.

“Aha...” I murmured, not quite sure how to react to his honest and straight forward confession.

“But you’re different...” he said, and his eyes zoomed in on me.

Is this the part where I’m supposed to turn and make a run for it?

“...how so?” I asked, fully composed.

“You smell...very nice...” EROS replied after some thought.

“Umm...” I made a thoughtful sound because I wasn’t sure how to react to that.

“Shall we give it a try?” EROS asked casually.

.....

“Give what a try?” I asked, although I started to have a pretty good idea of what he was referring to.

“Sex...” he replied without hesitation.

I was beginning to understand why his agency had major concerns on how he develops relationship with women. The real issue was that he wasn’t interested in developing any relationship with them. All he wanted from them was sex.

I sighed loudly and he immediately gave me a confused look.

“You see, asking straight up for sex isn’t how you build a relationship with a girl,” I said dryly.

“Is that a, no?” EROS asked, sounding more confused than disappointed.

“Of course, it’s a no!” I cried out loudly.

“That’s strange. Are you ill today? Or is it that time of the month so you don’t want to do it?” EROS asked as his eyes widened innocently.

I furrowed my eyebrows and I felt like I was about to get a massive headache. This guy, he just doesn’t get it at all. No wonder he can’t act out any boyfriend roles in any movies. It’s like he lacks common sense on this topic, and I was having a hard time imagining how he grew up to have this type of attitude.

“No. I don’t want to have sex with you. Do you understand?” I repeated.

“No, I don’t. Girls are always over me. I get it. I mean, with this face and this body plus the fact that I’m EROS. Everyone wants to sleep with me,” EROS said like that was a problem for him too.

“I don’t...” I confirmed my preference again.

“That’s what I thought. You’re different...and I want to know why...” he said as his eyes narrowed at me.

He’s so close...

Well, we could start with this.

“What’s your real name? It’s not EROS, is it?” I asked.

His eyes widened in slight surprise before he narrowed them and watched me closely.

“I’m Sean,” he replied.

How he spoke just now seemed quite different from how he spoke before. That was when it occurred to me that my guess was probably spot on. EROS and Sean are not exactly the same person. EROS was strictly his public persona and Sean was probably his true self. Now, the question was, who am I supposed to be dating?

“I’m Elena,” I replied without breaking eye contact.

“Elena, don’t you want to know if two people who don’t believe in love like us can come to understand it?” Sean asked.

“I don’t think I can fall in love and I’m that’s not what I’m looking for. Unfortunately, because I don’t know anything about love, there is nothing that I can teach you,” I said decisively.

“You were married right? It said so in your profile,” Sean said as rolled his eyes up as if recalling something.

“Yes,” I replied plainly.

“Did you love him? Your ex-husband, I mean...” Sean asked sounding extremely interested.

Well, if he really wanted to know then...

“No, I didn’t love him,” I replied smoothly.

“Did you have sex with him?” he probed further.

“Of course, I did,” I replied truthfully.

I slept with him until he didn’t want to anymore.

“Great. So, you can sleep with guys you don’t have any feelings for,” Sean said excitedly.

“Huh?” I said in confusion.

“That’s great. You and me, we’re the same,” Sean continued as his eyes lit up.

“What are you saying?” I asked suspiciously.

“If you’re waiting for me to beg you to date me because I’m looking for romance, you’re about to be sorely disappointed. I don’t give two fucks about that crap. But you see, I have my own reasons for making it big in the entertainment industry and if I have to be able to act as some romantic love-striken bloke on screen to get there, then I’ll do whatever it takes to make it,” Sean said and everything about him seemed to darken.

“I see. So, I guess this is Sean...” I said with a nod of my head.

“That’s right. This is Sean. I have my own reasons and you have yours. It’s money that you want, right? Name the price and my agency will pay it. It’s not every day that I find a girl who’s pretty to look at that doesn’t want me to screw her on the spot. Yet you can sleep around with guys that you have no feelings for. We’re so alike that it’s funny. Faking a relationship with you would be perfect for me,” Sean said before he smiled a little at me.

I arched a brow at him, unable to process what I was hearing. By some twisted logic, he now views me as the perfect candidate to be his fake girlfriend. I glanced down as I thought about what he had just said. Partly, I had to admit that he was right. We both had our reasons and our own objectives and if our needs just happen to match then what’s the harm of entering into a contract with each other?

“My 15 minutes is almost up. What will you decide, Elena?” Sean asked softly.

...shit.

“One question. Why do you dislike women so much?” I asked just out of pure personal curiosity.

He smiled a little at me, but his smile did not reach his eyes. If anything, he seemed slightly angry.

“They’re all troublemakers...that’s all,” Sean replied, and the smile did not disappear from his lips.

–To be continued...