Sail Away With Me (Rory McCann)

Women Like You

"Everything alright?" Rory asked as he approached Tori who stood by the bar with the handsome stranger.

Tori was stood with her mouth slightly ajar as she continued to stare at the other man in front of her. After a few moments in awkward silence, she finally seemed to register what Rory had said and quickly snapped around to face with him a slight smile. "Of course... this is..."

"Miguel" he smiled charmingly and went to introduce himself as Rory didn't take his eyes from Tori.

Suddenly the reality of her situation seemed to fully kick in and she quickly flicked her head between the two men. Miguel was seeming to find the entire situation amusing, but the look on Rory's face was slightly more annoyed.

"I'll leave you to it, darling. Perhaps we can have dinner one night. Catch up properly, no?" Miguel winked.

"No" Tori snapped and quickly grabbed onto Rory's arm to pull him as far away as possible from Miguel and the other watching eyes around them. He didn't protest, nor did he say a word until they were back in the privacy of their own hotel room.

When they were finally alone, Rory went to take a seat on the end of the bed and watched silently as she began to pace back and forth in front of him. "So, you'll be wanting an explanation" she mumbled.

"That guy's your ex" he shrugged and rolled his shoulders back.

"Yeah".

"Your married ex".

Suddenly, she stopped in her pacing and turned to look at him straight on. "Who told you that?"

"Does it matter" he grumbled and stood from the bed to head for the bathroom.

Tori quickly lurched across the room to grab his arm again. "It matters because I care about you and I don't want anything to fuck it up. Miguel is my ex and yes is married to another woman. When I first met him I was in a really bad way, addicted to pain killers, but he helped me and paid for my rehab, got me a job at one of his hotels in Paris where I trained to become a baker. I was in love with him, head over heels and in his debt for everything he had done for me. I couldn't leave him, even though I knew it was so wrong".

"But you did, and then you bump into Toby who just offers you a job with no experience or interview" he snapped and pulled his arm from her grip.

"Excuse me?" she scoffed with shock and took a step away from him.

"You leave one older man who gave you whatever you needed, for another guy who gives you another job where you met me, another older guy. What is in for you this time? Because I'm on TV I can give you whatever it is your after now? I knew there was a reason a woman like you would be interested in me".

Tori could not believe the words which had come out of his mouth. She was just staring at him in complete blank shock. In just ten minutes, this man she had fallen in love with had hurt and broke her heart. There was no way she was going to wait around for any more accusations or misunderstood assumptions.

"You're a fool Rory McCann, a damn fool".

Grabbing her bag from the end of the bed, she quickly shoved her clothes and belongings into it and quickly stormed out of the room. Rory never spoke a word or tried to stop her and when she had finally left, he picked up a glass from the side and hurled it at the door.

Back in the hotel bar, Tori was storming towards Clarissa who was laughing with a few of the other girls. "I know it was you. I don't know how you got Miguel here, but I know it was you" she hissed.

"You're fucking deluded" she laughed with the other girls.

"Well, you win. I'm done. I'm done with you, with Rory and this entire fucking game. There's a special place in hell for women that don't support other women, I'm sure you'll enjoy it there".

The other women only smirked at her again, and rather than stay and potentially hit them, Tori grabbed Clarissa's drink from the bar, downed it and then stormed outside to the front of the hotel. Shuffling through her bag, she grabbed her phone and hit dial.

"Toby... I quit".

A.N - I'm so so so sorry for the late update, things have been a bit mental recently. I've been growing through a bit of a rough patch recently and been struggling to find the want to write. I still really love this and my other stories though and am going to start pushing myself to update more frequently again. This is only a short chapter but build up for loads of drama to come. Hope you enjoy it! x