Passion

Serpent Came as Serpent Does

"She went back with him. Her ex!" Racheal exclaimed, Scarlett took the letter with how Natalia explained she felt she didn't give Patrick the chance to talk it out and decided to go back with him.

"Oh I think the hell not! What the hell does this mean?!"

Racheal already pulled out her phone, "Oh hell no! I can't, I can't do this!"

"Who are you calling?"

"Lilith! Who else?! I can't do this! You can't do this! I want my girl back!" After several moments, Lilith finally answered and Racheal couldn't compose herself enough, "Lilith please back home I can't do this! I'm filled with emotions and I can't!"

Scarlett grabbed the phone and explained it calmly as she could, her body was running on motion, head drowning with anxiety and goosebumps covering her whole body, Lilith understood and would be home on the next available flight.

Immediately began calling Natalia, however it didn't go through, no matter how many attempts, so Racheal called and texted Natalia yet nothing, no response.

"This can't be happening, damn it! Not another thing on my mind, where's our girl?!"

"I don't know, Rae! I think she blocked me, kept trying her, no way she would just up and leave without us knowing, you haven't noticed her moving things out?"

"No I haven't because I've been busy keeping the club alive and dealing with other shit, I didn't sense anything wrong with her. I always invited her over so we could bitch and gossip and hang out. She's a realtor, so of course she'll be stressed and need time to decompress. But I get it when she mentioned she wanted to be alone since work has been stressing her out and needed time alone, introverted, cool, yeah. But I didn't think this would happen!" Continuing to call her back nonstop, pacing back and forth, Scarlett frustrately groaned and texted both Rio and Lilith to reach Natalia, hoping they would get a hold of her.

She reached for her keys again on the counter, grabbed her jacket from the coat hanger, "Where are you going? Don't leave me alone!"

"I'm heading over to her."

"Where?"

"Patrick's place, she's there and since she left, I'm heading over there to speak to her and see what's going on." Yet Scarlett couldn't move, "No, no I can't do that. I'm not sure if it would cause an issue further if I head over there."

"Seriously? Natalia can't stay with that asshole, he cheated, he hurt her and you're not going to go over there? Well I am because that's our girl and no way she's staying and marrying him!"

"No you're not going and remember, we don't know the reason or the story as to why she went back, even if we do, we can't risk making it worse for her so Patrick can dig his claws in on her. What we need to do is to wait for Lilith and hopefully she finds the next plane back to New York from Japan and she'll think of something, there's no way she would agree to just leave!"

"Well she did and damn it! She's not answering and this is bullshit! Oh I'm crashing out, I'm crashing the fuck out!" Scarlett jumped by the frustrated scream Rachael released, letting out everything she held inside of her for weeks. Scarlett took a moment and did the same, unsure why yet it felt it was something she needed for this situation due to everything that's been happening with them for months.

They didn't sleep at all that night, just waiting for the call from Lilith to let them know she and Rio landed yet knew it would take another few hours, even then, more hours to wait to head over to the airport and pick them up and head back to the penthouse to come up with a solution.

Scarlett kept her best to keep sending messages, hoping Natalia would unblock her, Rachael left voicemails, messages, anything to get a hold of her.

Even forbid her from reaching out to her work place, knowing firsthand what it's like dealing with such a possessive and toxic relationship calling up your work place and embarrassing you, so that was out of the question.