𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐚'𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐱

𝟏 | 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚

"So this is the gorgeous arab wife.
You got a type Xavier." Blair's eyes roam my figure disgust in her eyes.

She had thick dark hair and hazel eyes close to mine.

She stood tall in her black leather pants, long sleeved woolly jumper and shiny boots.
Her pale skin shone in the summer sun.
"What the fuck." Xavier says behind me.
Then I remember, isn't she supposed to be dead?

"Cariño, please let me explain. There is more that the eye can see."
What the heck is she talking about.
Xavier doesn't say anything. I look back at him and his jaw ticks.

Blair glances at his shirtless toned body a second to long.
I take a step forward making my appearance clear.
Sticking my hand out, I shoot her a very friendly smile.

"Octavia Lorenzo, you must be the really dead girlfriend right?"
No one told me I can't show jealously. My husband is my husband. Period.
Blair scoffs, ignoring my hand and looks up at Xavier.

"Can we talk?" Her voice was delicate and higher than before.

My eyes meet Xavier's unreadable ones.
He puts on a good pokerface, pretty hard to study.

He walks behind the door and I follow him.
"This must be hard, I woul-" Xavier cut me midway throwing a jumper over his head.
"I'll be home soon. Promise." He tells me then leaves. With Blair walking by his side.
I stand staring at the closed door stunned. Goosebumps grew on my bare legs from the sudden cold wind.

Twisting the ring on my finger, I walk upstairs to have a hot steaming shower forgetting that the dead girl who has always had a special place in my husbands heart is back.
Or well i try to forget.

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"She just waltz back into his life like he isn't married and moving on now. She was damn pretty too." I say taking a bite of my pizza.
The mushrooms were set in the corner of my plate. Usually Xavier would eat them.

"Sounds like a right old bitch if you ask me. I can't believe I haven't heard of her once."
Rosa exclaims. I crack up seeing her fuming.
"It must be hard for him. She lied about being dead. Who does that?"
I felt angry for Xavier.
He admitted to love her and suffered five whole years because of her and now she's back once he picked himself up and progressed.
"A bitch who only cares about herself? Come on girl, she didn't exactly come for a cup of tea."
She was right.

Blair had a reason to show up on our door today.
Rosa tilts her head as I lift mine.
"Hey, Xavier values the people close to him. He loves you and wouldn't do anything to jeopardise this marriage."
I put my pizza back on the plate. I wasn't hungry anymore, just blank. "He loved her too."
"You know..When my mum died a year before Xavier's mum did, he convinced his mum to take me in so I wouldn't live in a I quote shacked up house with some random wanker. He didn't want to see me suffer after we had grown up together. He too has a heart Octavia. And his heart beats for you not her." She goes on about Xavier becoming that 15 year old boy again once he had fell in love with me.

"You bring the real Xavier out when she couldn't. So what if she was his first love, you got him back to life after his mum died."
My eyes lift, he was lost when his mother died and it was me who found him.

"I shouldn't be concerned, he said he'll be back soon and Xavier doesn't lie." I try to tell myself.
He was a committed honest man which was the reason I loved him.
Rosa kisses my forehead and helps me clean up.
After I finished washing the plates, Rosa wraps her coat around her body and walks to the door.
"I'll call you tomorrow, for now try get some sleep." She waves goodbye then gets in her car.
I missed having her in the house but she wanted to learn some independence.