Love In Between
Chapter 17

4 days later: 13 September

**I had been avoiding hearing from him for a few days. I even tried not to open any social networks to avoid coming across a picture of him, but fate kept playing its tricks. What I didn’t know was what kind of a*****e I had fallen in love with. That night he showed up at my house, I felt a part of me break.

Great, as soon as I turn on the TV, he’s there… Coincidence? Fate? Is it a joke? Anyway, I put the remote control on the side and took the bowl of strawberry ice cream in my hands. Spoon by spoon I finish it while I listen to him talk about the new products his company is launching and how they will revolutionise the market. He’s an expert at what he does and that’s not to mention how bloody sexy his laugh is. I’d like to be a bit braver and ask him not to marry her, but, I guess, I can’t do that; maybe she really loves him and wants to spend the rest of her days by his side. The fault has been entirely mine for falling into my own game, how could I have thought that I could get involved with him without falling in love? I really am stupid…

I leave the empty bowl on the small table in the middle of the living room and lie down on the couch, covering myself with the light yellow opaque blanket that matches perfectly with my light grey leather armchair, and continue watching the television.

I don’t even know what time it is, I only know that there’s a programme on TV that I don’t know and that someone is knocking on my door too loudly. A bit disoriented, I get up from the sofa and go to the door to open it.

-You? What are you doing here? – I ask confused when I see Gael in my doorway.

He doesn’t say anything. His gaze just sweeps over me and well… it’s not my fault I’m alone in a tiny black silk nightgown… I wasn’t expecting anyone.

-Are you alone,” he asks without answering and I just nod.

I didn’t expect him to ask me for permission to enter, but I didn’t expect him to come in as if he was the owner of the place.

What are you doing here at this hour? – I ask, looking at the clock hanging in the living room, which reads two in the morning.

-I was in a club and remembered your house was nearby. – He explains.

-And you decided to stop by and say hello. – I comment sarcastically.

He walks from one side of the room to the other and I don’t understand what’s happening to him… I can’t take it anymore Serena,” he says desperately as he brings his hands to his hair and tangles his fingers in it.

-I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I say and I’m really very confused.

He stops dead in his tracks and stares at me. It’s as if he’s trying to put the words together in his head, but it’s clear he’s not succeeding. I open my eyes as if to ask him what’s wrong, but it’s too late. He walks towards me firmly and holds my waist with one of his arms while his other hand holds my face. Just like that without saying anything to me he makes my back hit the wall and starts kissing me as if his life depended on it.

I’m not sure if I’m dreaming that Gael has come out of the screen to k**s me, or if this is really happening. All I know is that his tongue explores the corners of my mouth causing all my skin to flutter at the sensation. The hand he had on my back slides down the silk fabric to my a*s and continues down to my thigh causing him to lift my leg and wrap it around him.

“F**k, it’s so sensual.”

Instinctively, I bring my arms around his neck and end up wrapping my legs around his waist while still kissing. It kills me the way he starts to touch my body over the fabric.

He walks over to the couch without releasing me and makes us fall onto the couch, more precisely, I fall onto the couch and he positions himself on top of me. No words are needed at this moment. I can only remove his clothes as quickly as I can, and he practically rips off my nightgown and then gets rid of my tiny panties. His expert hands touch me with desire… with rage, with desperation.

Our mouths give each other no respite, and I’m not looking for him to do it either – I can’t take it anymore – that’s all I hear him say over my lips, and then he continues his desperate kissing.

His hands push my legs apart and that’s how I feel his body enter mine desperately. I don’t know if he’s making love to me, if we’re just having s*x, or if he’s getting even. All I know is that he’s driving me crazy with his every thrust.

I hear his panting in my ear and I get more and more excited, as if that were possible, he thrusts harder and harder and I feel my body start to tremble.

-Still no,” he says in my ear, and my m***s are the only response he gets. -Wait a little longer,” he asks, and I can only let him make of me what he wants.

I’ve never felt something so wrong, but so right at the same time, it’s a totally strange feeling, but very pleasurable.

-Now,” he speaks when I can feel his body trembling and almost as if his words are the key to my body; we both reach the peak of pleasure together, shaken, and sweaty.

I want to hug him, to k**s him, but he just pulls out of me and stands up. -Will you explain to me what the hell that was all about,” I ask as he starts to pick up his clothes from the floor and get dressed.

He buttons his trousers while looking at me and smiles sarcastically. -A settling of scores for what you did to me the other day, did you think you could play with me and not have any consequences? – He asks me viciously and in these moments I feel an infinite rage towards him.

Without thinking twice, I grab his shoes and his T-shirt from the floor and throw them at him with all this rage I feel right now -F**k you, Marti! -Get the f**k out of my house and forget the way here,” I shout louder as I push him out of my house.

He says absolutely nothing, he just looks at me with a triumphant f*****g smile and I can only close the door to avoid crying in front of him.

-I can’t have fallen in love with someone like that…” I say to myself as I drop to the floor.

How can I forget about him? What he’s done to me has gone way beyond what I could take. Maybe it’s a little bit my fault too? Maybe not…