Fidelity

0.4 - 'Heal Me'

2 nights later

"Whose night is it tonight ?" my friend Amelia asked while applying blue mascara to her eyelashes. It popped against her pale skin and made her brown eyes stand out. "Yours," Karis replied blandly.

"Okay, meet me at your hotel in an hour tell Armani to come."

"Why my bar?"

"You have better drinks than I do," the half Italian goddess muttered arched thick eyebrows stretched in annoyance.

"No," She said again "You guys scare away customers"

"I promise we will behave and I'll leave a big tip"

"Fine" Karis caved in jumping into her soft top Porshe, "I'll be holding you accountable if anything goes wrong."

"You're a such a Debbie Downer,"

Ameilia swirled around the wind picked up and her skater skirt danced in the air like a carousel, as she strutted towards her Mercedes.

Karis drove off and called her brother N'Ryan, through her car system, "Hey"

"Well aren't I lucky"

"I'm so sorry, I just got so busy and I only got your text this morning. I'm on my way anyways."

"You were supposed to be here 20 minutes ago."

"Oh... I forgot I'm not far."

"Kari, come on you said you would be over for lunch" she could hear shuffling over the phone, "Daddy, I'm hungry"

"Ryan, you haven't fed your kid's its half twelve" Karis mumbled.

"They ate 20 minutes ago, this boy never stops eating."

"Aunty Kar," 

"Hey, Nolan."

A loud thud followed by the pattering of little feet.

"Ry, I'll make it up to you, I know Rowan must be upset with me."

"Of course she is, you invited her for cocktails at your gala and you never showed up" N'Ryan scoffed, his wife was livid, this was the second time Karis had bailed on the couple.

"I had a few things to handle, but It should all be sorted out soon."

"Karis when are you going to sort yourself out you're not getting any younger" he sighed, "I thought the hotel thing was it for you,"

"N'Ryan, I'm a big girl I can make my own decisions"

Karis waited at the gates of his gated community "Last time you said you were sorting things out I got an invitation to your Italian wedding through the post  and the time before that you blew money on a photo studio in London and bought a house in the hidden hills."

"I'm okay, N'Ryan"

He sighed "I'm just trying to look out for you, mom is worried about you."

"I'm fine, I'll be there shortly. I just pulled up at the gates"

She hung up and placed her head on the steering wheel, everything was going downhill and she needed to breathe.

She just needed a little time out to catch her breath, only one person provided that for her and she knew he didn't want to see her and that was for the best. The further away from her, he was the safer he is, she wouldn't be able to forgive herself if anything happened to him because of her. 

She'd rather him hate her for sleeping with Teddy, hate her for being a mess than he gets hurt because she couldn't control herself. Couldn't keep away from temptation.