Lust for Love

Chapter 33

As soon as I walked into the house I was met with Gray's version of Mrs. Weasely spitting fire, "VIVY! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"

Oof! I'm so tired.

That is what I wanted to say but I shouldn't.

"Sorry," I clasped my hand together, "I got really invested in the meeting and didn't get the chance to check my phone and by the time I did I was already on the way back home." I lied through my teeth as I tried to feed him excuses and just hoped he'd believe them and let it go.

"Hah!" he sighed loudly.

"Seriously," I bet he was worried in his own way.

"Next time at least message me if you think you might be busy." he folded his hands.

"Yeah, I will." I amicably agreed as I tried to walk past him when he suddenly caught me by surprise although his expression seemed soaked with fear and anger as he stared at my ... neck?

"What's this?" Gray pulled my collar and touched my neck with his cold fingers taking me by surprise, "Ah!" I stepped back.

"What're you doing Gray?" I rubbed my neck.

"Why do you have a hickey on your neck?"

I froze.

JACOB!

I panicked.

No just calm down.

"What do you mean by hickey?" I got my phone out to check it out in the camera, acting as if I wasn't aware of it.

Well that's true.

"What's this?" I rubbed it lightly as I tried to look as confused as I could which I was in a sense as I tried to check if there were any other spots but luckily that was the only one.

* INTERNAL SIGH *

"What do you mean? How'd you get it?" Gray pushed my face sideways to take a better look at it. Luckily the mark looked more like a scratch but still it was alarmingly red.

I quickly tried to brush it off to avoid any further questions, "Hmmm, maybe I scratched myself too hard earlier. My skin felt really itchy and dry. Is it because I forgot to apply lotion today?"

I tried to act clueless and then quickly changed the topic, "Oh! Btw how'd it go? You mentioned something in the text you guys were meeting with someone?"

I gently pushed his hand away.

"Hmm, yeah we met with her. It seemed a little far fetched but it was true when we confirmed the facts with Juvi ...," Gray narrated the episode which aligned with what John said although I am interested in what they decided.

"We decided not to pursue the matter anymore when she begged us to not file a complaint against him and also assured us he won't trouble us. It seems that guy was even more of trash, after seeing what he put his sister through," Gray grumbled but his eyebrows frowned even more.

"But what's even more outrageous is how could you give my number to her!"

Gray complained as he pointed his forefinger straight at Juvi who just walked out of his room.

Geez, that's your biggest concern.

"Ah! Stop. I've had enough of your whining." Juvi covered her ears as she walked into the kitchen.

"No, why would you give her my number?" Gray was utterly shocked Juvi would just give away his number to just any girl and they started bickering as usual.