Chapter 89 - [Bonus ] Stolen Hearts

It all happened so fast that I wasn't prepared for a new relationship after I broke up, and the last thing I imagined was Cameron and me to end up so close.

I mustered a shy smile at the memory of the first days spent together when we only had a dominant attraction between us.

No feelings were involved nor rules nor jealousy, anything at all. I could feel there was something intense between us because our attraction was magnetic, pure, rare, and genuine. But I couldn't realize it then. Now I did, Now I knew that our souls were made of substance and spoke the same language.

"I am sure he will understand," Joanna said as she put some rice on her plate.

"I am just quite surprised that Carl didn't find out about you and Cameron. Do you think if he finds out he will get mad at you?" Joanna asked raising her eyebrows but I shrugged.

"It's not my problem, Jo. He didn't care about me getting mad when he broke my heart in front of all the guests." My voice spontaneously piqued rancorous and I felt that the anger I had in my ex's regards wouldn't eventually fade away with time.

Even the thought of what he did make anger push past my lust.

"You're right. And he can't even complain since Cameron is his boss." She laughed amused.

"Maybe Karma does exist." 

After eating Joanna called the guy she was seeing and video called with him as I washed the dishes. Then she turned around the phone and pointed it against me. 

"Say hi to Justin, Lily!" She screamed. 

I turned around and gazed at the phone, I waved at him, "Hii. How are you?"

He answered the phone, "I am fine I just finished eating."

They began talking and Joanna went to her room to probably have some privacy with him.

As I washed the dishes I imagined Cameron and Joanna meeting.

So caught up with the enthusiasm of the moment I decided to call Cameron as well.

When he answered his voice was hoarse and low, which shivered through me and made my heart bounce over.

"Were you sleeping?" I asked. I heard his breath hitch and then the noise of his sheets brushing.

"Yes, I didn't sleep much last night."

I wished I was there with him sleeping that early and hugging him when he couldn't sleep.

"Why didn't you sleep?" I asked curiously.

"I just have nightmares very often, so I end up not sleeping much and have to sleep in the evening or afternoon."

My heart retreated in sadness, that wasn't the first time I heard him talking about his nightmares. He must have a serious problem, I wondered what bothered him so much to make him skip sleep and have to sleep in the afternoon.

"Why are you calling me? Did something happen?" He asked as his voice grew more preoccupied and deep.

"No, I just wanted to hear your voice," I said but as soon as I heard the words that left my mouth, I mentally blamed myself for sounding so emotionally attached to him. I was, but I didn't have to make it that obvious.

A sweet chuckle echoed from the phone.

"That's sweet Lily. I will see you tomorrow then. Remember, our night."

How could I forget? I stop myself before I could say that.

"I remember it, sleep well, Cameron."

"Good night."

I hung off the phone smiling like a silly woman who got her heart stolen from a billionaire man.

Then Joanna walked back in and she was wearing the same smile, I couldn't refrain from the laugh.

We were in love, to the deepest point to appear as two perfect teenagers who were happy for the littlest thing.

"How was the call?" I asked, slipping my phone back in my pocket.

"Good..." her eyes sparkled and she sighed deeply as if her heart couldn't endure that joy anymore, "good." She said again with a spellbound tone of voice.

"We're lost in their spell huh?" I said as I rested my elbows on the table and covered my head with my hands and leaned on it.

It took her only a few seconds to understand what I meant which made her even more guilty than I thought she was.

She took a deep breath and lifted her hands in a sign of surrender, "we are. But I mean you're kinda justified you two had been seeing for a while even if you kept it from me. But for me and him? It's so little. And I am so scared."

I lifted my hand and pushed her closer to me, then I hugged her hips and looked up at her. 

She was taller than me, yet she looked like a teenager who grew up too fast whereas she was over 26 years old.

"It's normal to be scared, I am sure he's worth it and he's the right one, Jo." 

"I hope so, I do." She whispered back.

"It would be too good to be real wouldn't it be?" She asked, bending her eyes to look blankly at the ceiling. Then she massaged her forehead and drove her attention back to me. "Both of us, taken by two men? Too good to be real?"

"No, Jo. We deserve it, maybe life is finally giving us what we deserve." I commented, we both smiled, trusting the path faith marked for us.

Then we both walked into our rooms to wait for the next day.

For the first time in a long way, I couldn't wait to fall asleep because I knew that I would meet Cameron the next day and would finally spend the night with him.

I was more excited than I was when I was going on a school trip as a kid and I went to sleep with the clothes and my backpack on my bedside table.

Was that even normal to feel like that?

I smiled, "good night Cameron." I whispered in the middle of the darkness of the room.

"I look forward to seeing you tomorrow."