Wicked Lust

Chapter 30

"I really do love you Zayn." I smiled, tossing rose pedals off the bridge as they swifted in the wind, dancing and twirling before finally hitting the water and floating off.

"I really do love you too. Say..uh..should we get married in Vegas or something?"

I laughed, giving him a questioning look, "Why Vegas? London seems quite swell too."

"We're not having a big wedding. It'll just be me and you, so why not?"

"Well, maybe Ryan would like to come.." I whispered, plucking at the rose pedals with no eye contact at all with him.

"Your brother?" He chuckled coldly, "That son of a bitch wouldn't even let me look at you, not that I care what he thinks. You shouldn't tell him about us."

"Why not?"

"You hardly even know him for starters. He's got pretty good evidence to say he's your brother, but there's something not right about him. Plus, you said you wanted to start fresh, right?"

I nodded, finally looking up at him.

"Well, let go of the past like I'm trying to do. I'll tell Natalie to just go and move on with her life and you should do the same. Know why?"

I shook my head no.

"Because I'm in love with Serenity, my fiance, not Serenity, the stripper. The past doesn't exist anymore, okay?" He reassured, taking the last of the pedals and tossing them off the edge.

"I really do hope this works out because you seem serious about it and I want this to work out just as much. Promise me that you'll try through thick and thin to get us through anything? I'll try only if you do."

"Serenity, I'm gonna try. I know you're having your doubts and fine, but I'm trying to be less of what you don't want and more of what you do want." Zayn interrupted.

"Okay." I nodded, staying quiet.

"Come here." Zayn snuck up behind me and spinned me around.

"Zayn, stop it!" I laughed, holding his hands that were tightly firmed down on my waist.

"Get your filthy hands off him!" Somebody's voice screamed, pushing Zayn back as his grip loosened, letting me fall.

I fell flat on my butt, seeing Natalie with Nathan breathlessly catching up to her from behind. Her devil horns and evil red tail could easily be seen through her eyes with nothing but confidence glistening in her bright eyes. Something was odd about Natalie this time around. She seemed more forward and very much willing to take a chance in being risky, savage and getting her manicured nails dirty in this battle that was now confirmed as a war. 

"My love, are you alright!?" Nathan pleaded to know, helping me up.

"Don't you fucking touch her or call her that." Zayn pushed him back, causing me to fall on my own again.

I stumbled up, kicking my heels off and backing away from Natalie's ruthlessness. Zayn kept getting in Nathan's face, not backing down until some type of fear was shown to scare him off. She pulled me by my hair and I instantly winced, trying to push her off.

"Do you find it cute to steal boyfriends!?" She hissed, forcing our eyes to lock.

I shut them tightly and gritted my teeth, both full of fear and understandable anger. Finally, after several moments of struggling, I got her off me. Nathan and Zayn were too focused on each other to notice us ready to transform into untamed, wild jaguars about to maul each other to death until blood was drawn. Natalie wasn't a breath closer to backing down, but neither was I.

"Why can't you just accept the fact that he doesn't love you?" She asked, trying to control her breath from all the tension.

"He doesn't love me?" I asked, "It sure looked like it when he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It sure damn well looked like he loved me when he was in bed with me not too long ago."

The confidence inside of me wildly grew and in the moment, I swore I could hear a lion roar inside of me. Natalie stared, dumbfounded by the most obvious come back with no counter at all. I gave her an innocent face, mouthing the word 'oops' as I put a finger to my pouty lip.

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"I don't care who you are." Zayn interrupted Nathan in the middle of an argument, "If she loved you, she would've said no to me and went running into your arms, but did she? No."

"She do love me like I love her, but you are forcing her into this!"

"Forcing her? It didn't seem forced a little while ago when she had her legs open for me and spent two hours moaning my name." Zayn licked his lips and smirked, enjoying the frustration on Nathan's roster.

"My beautiful Serenity is no sex toy f-"

"I never said she was a sex toy and she's my beautiful Serenity."

"My beautiful Serenity."

"Say that one more fucking time and I'll bust your lip open and ruin you, got it Frenchy?"

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"You're really going to regret this and you'll be begging for mercy." Natalie fired back.

"Why don't you just get over it!? Zayn and I are obviously happy together as in without you. Maybe he would've stuck with you if you weren't such a stuck up little bitch."

"What the hell did you just call me?" She got closer, making me back up a bit.

"A stuck up little bitch, but believe me that's nothing compared to the thousands of things I'm thinking of right now."

Natalie closed her fists and sucked in her lips, before finally bumping forward into me with the gun being pointed to the left side of my waist. I gulped and stared down, not knowing how to react. 

"Scream and I'll pull this thing in a second. Zayn may hate me for the rest of his life, but he won't be with you." She snickered, "Now turn around and climb the fence over."

I looked over at Zayn, but he was too entertained with playing with Nathan's emotions. Nathan was bright red screaming, but Zayn was smiling and crossing his arms as if he was having a laugh with an old pal. Natalie jabbed the gun into my side, telling me to hurry. I climbed it slowly and rattled it a bit to get Zayn's attention. Zayn was about to turn around, but Nathan grabbed the collar of his white button down and threw a punch.

"Zayn!" I screamed, seeing him fall on the ground.

Natalie dropped the gun and looked at me through the holes of the fence, laughing and shaking her head.

"People do crazy things when they're in love."

"You're not in love, you're just crazy." I stated, shivering as I felt the breeze of the cold water.

Zayn sprinted up to his feet, shoving Nathan back and punching him straight in the nose without hesitation. He kicked him once in the stomach, but Nathan kicked him straight where it hurts the most for a man. Zayn groaned and fell down in a curled fetal position, trying to get up. Nathan saw the gun on the ground and crawled over, snatching it and getting up to his feet. Zayn was on his knees, bent forward in pain still. Nathan delightedly kept the gun pointed down at Zayn's head with a shaky finger on the trigger ready to set down.

"It was nice knowing you, but you overstayed your little welcome from Zayn. Bye bye." Natalie smiled and kicked the fence, making me lose my balance and fall off.

I screamed as I lost my balance, falling, but managing to hold on to a little part of the broken bridge. 

"Don't look down, don't you dare look down." I reminded myself, slipping off little by little.

Natalie wiped her hands on her dress and glanced over at Nathan and Zayn.

"Zayn!" She ran over just as a bullet was fired.