Accidentally In Love

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

It was one week later when I next saw Christian. I was lying in my bed at eleven o'clock in the morning, making it a lazy Sunday for me. The ring I had so adamantly yanked off my finger as soon as leaving his hotel room , now sat like a shining beckon on my bedside table that kept drawing my eye.

When I had made it back to my own hotel room, Sadie and Linley had practically bombarded me, they remembered bits and pieces from the night before to figure out what happened and where I had been. Fortunately, being the good friends that they are, sat with me while I cried about the situation, and then agreed not to tell anyone. It was easy with them, they didn't judge me though I had expected them to at least say something scathing considering everything they knew about Christian had come out of my mouth, so their opinions of him were undoubtedly negative. But they didn't, in fact Sadie even complimented me on having rather good drunk eyes because, in her words, "No other man in that bar looked as delicious as Christian", I had glared at her and given her the silent treatment like a moody teenager after that.

Monday had been different though, I was back in New York and having my first day as Junior executive at the company, I couldn't look my Dad in the eye, in fact I had avoided him as much as possible. He had invited me over for a celebratory dinner at the family house, Mother wanted to see me but of course I had to politely turn it down. How could I interact normally with my family when I knew they would hate me so much if they knew what I had done? Every second I was in contact with Dad at work, I was worried I would just blurt it out, I wanted to tell him, I did, I felt like I was betraying him, but I knew he would be angry, I knew how he would react, so I figured it would probably be best to see what my options were first.

God, it was such a mess.

Christian had told me that he would approach his lawyers about it, and I was oddly reassured by that. Out of everyone I could be in this situation with, I would never ever even think of him, but at least I knew he was the type of person who would take charge and get it sorted, unlike me who just seemed to shut down. I was actually feeling comforted by his take-charge attitude that I usually associated with him being bossy. It was a strange feeling, after all I couldn't approach my own lawyers about it; my Dad had them eating out of his hand so no doubt they would run to him immediately after I brought it up, client confidentially or not. I just hoped Christian's own lawyers weren't the same.

I got my answer when I heard the faint knock on my apartment door.

I got out of bed, not really bothering to get changed; after all, it was most likely just Sadie and/or Linley coming over to celebrate my one week anniversary, like they had threatened to do. The knock once again sounded, Jesus they were being impatient today.

"I'm coming" I called as I crossed the entrance way. I opened the door with a scowl on my face, clearly showing how I felt about being dragged out of bed on my lazy Sunday, but it instantly disappeared. "Christian? What the hell are you doing here?"

I grabbed his wrist and dragged him inside, quickly checking to see if anyone had seen him in the hallway. Paranoid much. I closed the door and turned to face him, arms crossed and expression angry.

I saw his eyes travel over me, before reaching my face once again. "Clearly being proactive rather than sitting around in my pyjamas." Was his sarcastic reply.

I let out an irritated growl, realising he was right and I was now revealing far more of myself to him that I ever wished, not that he hadn't seen me in less. I stormed passed him and into my bedroom, changing from my flimsy crop top and short tight little 'booty shorts' as Sadie called them, into something far more substantial.