The Good Bad Girl

Chapter 55 I Love You

I wrap my arms around his neck as I kiss him. He responds by opening his mouth. Exploring me with newfound feelings. Both recognized, appreciated, and grateful for. 

Asher pulls me to him and cups my face to deeper the angle. 

"I love you," I stop to kiss him. I hold his cheek running my thumb over his manly yet soft features. "I love you so much that it hurts I have made you second guess your love,"

Asher touches our forehead and inhales, "What you did was wrong," he says and I shake my head. "So wrong that it'll take me some time to forgive you but I understand the pain you've been carrying for so long. It doesn't justify your actions but it opens my eyes to be better for you. For us, Mi Zorro."

I stroke his ear with my thumb having heard my nickname after a week. God, I missed it. "I know and I am sorry. If I could go back in time and change my actions I would. I never meant to hurt you or make you feel that you weren't enough for me to live. You're always enough. It's because of you I didn't flick the lighter, Asher. It's because of you,"

He closes his eyes while gripping my hair tightly. We're breathing in each other's space right now and this moment couldn't seem more intimate than it already is. "Let's never talk about it, please. I know we didn't have the easiest path in front of us. So many things interfered between us and still among those things I couldn't stop myself from falling for you. I love you, sweetheart,"

I kiss him, "God, I love you,"

"We'll make everything better, okay? The business, those foundations we're funding, our marriage, us,"

"Everything," I say and kiss him again. 

This time neither of us pulled away to talk. I don't think we can talk anymore since our desire for each other is overtaking all our needs right now. I kept kissing him, he kept pulling me closer leaving no space between us when we heard a cough from the side. 

Breathless and annoyed at getting interrupted, Asher and I pull away to see a blushing Klaus on the side with Mara, grinning like she won a bet or something. 

"Not even a few days have gone by and they're already eating each other's face," she says as red creeps my cheek. I hide my face in Asher's neck suddenly too shy to face my brother and my best friend. "You owe me fifty bucks mister," she turns to Klaus and opens her palm in front of him.

"For what?" Asher asks hugging me.

"We made a bet. I told him a month is enough of a break between you two and that by the end of the 30th day, you two would already be wanking each other," she says making me blush even harder. "And this guy here said that you'd take extra time to mend things between her. Six weeks, was it?"

Klaus rolls his eyes, "A four and a half. Stop adding numbers,"

"The only number I am counting are the bills that you owe me, babe. I told you I know my best friend better than your knowledge of your sister." 

Klaus reluctantly draws a crispy fifty-dollar bill from his wallet and hands it to Mara while Asher and I laugh at their childish banter. Both of us loving the sudden flow of normalcy in our lives. 

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Eight months later.

Olivia's Pov

Asher was asleep when I returned from the shower. These few months have been very busy for both of us. With me receiving therapy and Asher managing the business we never found enough time to relax.

We both have been working continuously to make things better and wipe out any tragedy Benedict has left behind. While Asher is successfully rebuilding all the Myer's business from scratch and re-employing new and old employees that were wrongly dismissed, I have completely thrown myself into getting better.