Chapter 33

He is gone, the empty room tells that tale. Someone is at the door, I reach for the handle full of hope, and maybe he had gone for a walk. I am disappointed when it is revealed that it is just Andre. Last nights images flashback into my mind and I look away immediately. How do I get rid of that memory? Andre fidget, he leans on one side. I can tell he is embarrassed. "Where have you been?" he asks. I woke up very early to talk with Katherine, the death of her parents leaves a big mystery. Unfortunately, I can t tell Andre that, I am still not sure where his loyalty lies. "Went for a walk." I lie. "Have you seen Quinn?" I ask. "He left. His jet came for him." Andre confirms what I suspected. I turn to face the window. How can he leave without a goodbye? Or maybe something happened to Theo. No, I am sure he is okay. This is Quinn being Quinn. Acting like he supreme than all. I stare down at my phone, if only I had his number or mail, I would unleash all my anger on him. The brochures with all the fun activities we had planned for the day lay on the dresser. "My jet will be landing soon. Pack up your things we are leaving." He says. "Why the rush?" I ask. "There is nothing more to keep us here, Katherine refused to talk to us." "What about the car?" I enquire. "After what happened last night do you want us to be stuck in a more than eight-hour drive?" He asks and looks away when I turn to him. I don t know why eyes move to his crotch area. Andre clears his throat which distracts me and I turn red. I turn such that my back is facing him. "Who was that girl, anyway?" "Some hooker whom I picked up." He casually answers. "You do realize this region leads with the number of Hiv infection?" the people around the lake region are believed to be one of the laziest and poorest. Girls trade sex for fish. "I used protection." He says. Shit! Fuck! We didn t use any protection. This is the second time. We are getting too slippery. I look up when I hear the sound of a jet engine. "Meet me outside." He requests. As soon as he leaves I turn to the empty bed with sheets that are ruined. They tell an in-depth story of what transpired here. Last night was as Quinn described, his primal beast was brought to the surface and I submitted to it. It felt different from other times… I felt wanted, desired. I grab the sheets, without folding them I push them into my bag. I take out some notes from my purse and place them on the dresser before heading out. I find Andre already in the jet. I quickly get in before it takes off. **** The moment the jet lands at Wayne s technologies rooftop, I quick to dial for my uber. The atmosphere between me and Andre had grown tenser during the flight. In a single day, I had kissed him, realized he lied to me and also saw him naked. We scheduled a day I will visit his mother which happened to be next weekend. I find Kelly at my apartment. "You dirty dirty girl." Are the words that welcome me. "Good to see you to Kelly," I say sarcastically. "Have you checked the tabloids today?" "You know I never check those things." "You should." I get curious. I grab her phone. She was typing a message. She had managed to just write….we should tell her, w... She tenses before grabbing the phone back. I walk to my bedroom to put my bags and shoes away. "there." I didn t realize she had followed me. I turn to see what the fuss is all about. My eyes go wide. They are pictures of Quinn and I. the one that we were having dinner, on the paper, it appears like it was a romantic dinner which wasn t. "There is more." She scrolled down My heart races as I go through the photos, the first one we are kissing, it seems passionate but I remember it differently. I scroll further, they start too explicit though censored there isn t much left to the imagination. We are both naked luckily they didn t get the one we had sex in the water. We were too far away from the shore. "You need serious intervention." She says. I nod. I start to undress. I don t want to tell her how Quinn just left me with no explanation and all I feel is used and it bothers me. I grab my emergency pills that Quinn bought the last time he was here and start walking towards my bathroom. "I kissed Andre and saw him naked." I change the topic. "What kinky stuff were you guy experimenting? So there s more to these pictures. Did you have a threesome?" The question makes me stop on my tracks. "No. I would never." "Then explain cause that is the only way I can imagine what you said happening. Or did you sneak to do them both without each of them knowing?" "And you call me a dirty girl." I sigh before telling her how all of that came to happen. "You and Andre can make a cute couple. You have been friends for ages at one point either of you must have crushed the other." I think back to my childhood, teenage and now. Have I ever had a crush on him? At one point when I was thirteen, I put bubblegum on the hair of a girl he was dating. Not because I was jealous because she was manipulating him against me. He dumped her when the truth was revealed. "I have never had a crush on him, though I can t speak for him." "Andre comes with the tranquillity that I feel around you, my brother and my late parent. The bond we share can never be romanticized but it is greater than anything. I don t know a life without him." I say. "wow!" Kelly is mesmerized. "Good luck with the guy that will try to beat that." She adds. I think of Quinn, where is he now? Is he thinking of me? Kelly looks down at her phone when it beeps. I think of what I read earlier on her phone. Was it about me? "You are not going to like this." She states. She hands over her phone. It is Quinn and by his side is his wife, Courtney. He is giving out a press conference. He apologizes to his wife, kid and on behalf of his father and my fathers company for tarnishing their good reputation. He goes further to say that it was the devil that used him. Did he just describe me as the devil? I return the phone to Kelly, I swallow the pill. The last thing I need is to sire a kid with him. Damn him!