Wife of fortune

Chapter 19

"So your grandfather made you get married?" Jena asks as she sits in the kitchen with me and Malika.

And I try to be nice, as she's staying here and she's a friend of Grayson but I can see how much Malika doesn't like her, the daggers she's been sending her way even scares me sometimes.

"Yes, something like that" I say and pour myself a coffee.

"It's funny in a way" she says and then Malika speaks up with a cold tone "what's funny about it?"

"I would just never expect grandpops do something like that" she says and I look at her confused.

"Graysons grandfather, I used to call him grandpops, he would always sit outside with me and talk while I was doing my high school work" she says and smiles "he was a nice man" she gets off from the chair and walks over to the sink and Malika gestures choking her behind her back and I force back a laugh.

"That's nice" I say lazily not paying much attention to what she continues on talking.

Cole walks inside but when he notices us three in here he immediately spins around and walks out and Malika rushes after him so it's just me and Jena now.

"So is it anything serious between you and Gray?" She says. She's the only other person from Cole and his family I've heard him called Gray.

"No, are you interested?" I ask and she laughs as she sits back down.

"No, I was just wondering, you just don't look like his type" she says and then almost chokes on her coffee "I don't mean it in a bad way, you're very beautiful" she smiles and then Grayson walks in.

He stops for a moment looks at us both. "Good morning" Jena chimes excitedly and I lean on the counter and sip my coffee.

"Good morning" he says and then looks at me and walks to get himself a coffee.

"Oh sit down, I'll get you a cup" Jena pulls him away and rushes to the coffee maker.

"You don't have to" he says but she smiles at him and rushes to get him a cup, he sits down and looks at me. I look at him up and down and I can tell he's about to say something but I stand up and walk outside of the kitchen.

Last night I tried to tell myself that it's alright, but now sitting there with them I couldn't look. And I don't want to admit but I do feel jealous. And I can't stop thinking about all the times we shared together, was it really all just to pass time. Did it mean nothing to him. Did he really not know that she was gonna be here.

I walk up to the room and slip out of my robe and put on some underwear and stand in my closet trying to decide what to wear.

I hear the door to my bedroom open and steps approaching the closet. And with the corner of my eye I see Grayson leaning on the doorframe looking at me but I don't look at him.

I pull out some black pants and and lay them down on the ottoman.

"Are you gonna ignore me?" He's asking.

I take a corset top and also put it down and see as he takes a few steps into the closet.

"Kate" he says and places his hand on my arm but I immediately pull it out.

"Are you mad?" He asks and I look at him but don't say anything.

I sit down and put on my pants and then as I stand up he forces me to look at him.

"What's going on with you?" He asks and I try to get out of his grip but he doesn't let me.

"What's this all about? You didn't sleep in my bedroom last night and now you're ignoring me" he says and I look at him.