Chasing

Chapter 0011

It’s nothing. Work has just been stressful lately and being alone in silence helps me relax and think.” I reply. I feel her warm hands grab my shoulder as she massages it slowly. Back when Beverly was my girlfriend, every single touch from her excited me but now, I feel nothing.

“You are all tensed up, Kian. I can feel the tension in your muscles. Let me help you.” She says, her voice dropping low as she goes to stand behind me and starts to massage my shoulders to ease this tension she speaks of but I feel no change.

Beverly continues to massage my shoulders and for the first few seconds, she keeps her hands on the same spot until they suddenly begin to navigate other parts of my body. Her hands slip into my shirt to rub my chest seductively and she slowly continues down my chest, over the tight muscles of my stomach and edging dangerously close to my lower body. Just before she reaches into my pants, I grip her wrist to stop her.

“Beverly, no.”

“C’mon, Kian, I just want to help you relax.” She whispers hotly into my ears, her voice dripping with raw . seduction that normally would have gotten me all excited.

“Not like this.” I say to her again, freeing her hand and hoping she gets the memo. She surprises me by coming around to sit on my lap biting her lips with eyes full of lustful intentions.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to help?” She says again, adding another layer to her attempt at seducing me when all I want is just to get her off me in the most painless way possible. She leans down, aiming for my lips but the irritation coupled with the underlying annoyance from the past three days makes me push her off me somewhat roughly.

Her reaction is a gasp of shock as she stands. She looks back at me fiercely.

“What the hell is wrong with you? I was only trying to help.”

I

“And I already made it clear that I do not need your help, at least not in the way you are trying to do so.” I retort and she scoffs.

“I can’t believe you are treating me this way knowing I am carrying our child. Your child!”

The reminder has me wincing. It is clear that she thinks carrying my child means more than the responsibility it is.

“Listen, Beverly. I am not disputing the fact that I am the father of the child you are carrying but that is just all there is to it. Your pregnancy changes absolutely nothing between us other than the fact that I have a responsibility to protect you and the child, nothing more. Things can’t go back to the way they used to be between us.” I say in the calmest way possible but even that approach still infuriates her as she turns red with anger.

“I can’t believe you just sat there and told me that I mean nothing to you! That I mean nothing more than a woman who is carrying your child! How could you say that to me, Kian?” She fumes.

My phone rings just in time to save me and I pick up immediately I see my assistant’s name on the

screen.

“I have news.” He says.

Chapter 0011

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“I swear to God, if you tell me one more time that you haven’t been able to find-”

“I found her sir,” He cuts me off, “At least the footage where she was last seen.

Something similar to relief washes over me as he says that. He ends the call after telling me he has sent the footage to my phone. I open his message in the next second and press play on the footage immediately. It is short and only starts from the moment she collapses to the ground to the final part where a stranger rushed over to save her.

A man. One who looks way too familiar but that I can’t fully tell because his back is turned against the camera. I zoom in over and over again but I still can’t tell who it is that saved her but I have one of the answers I’ve been looking for.

She is with the stranger and the thought of it has me clenching my fists as my eyes remain fixated on my

screen.