J.WINTOUR || 박지민 || BangtanBoys || Royal Series || AU ⚜ [EDITING]

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I watched Lily sleep on my bed while I contemplated on a single couch across my spacy black pent house bedroom. I occasionally sipped some Italian 18th century wine from a vintage Gianni Versace goblet that was given to my mother as a gift, while I thought about that adopted young lady of mine who finally uttered the very words I feared most. I was frozen on the spot when I heard her teenish way of expressing such feeling and that shouldn't be a problem because I'm the older one here and that confession...not something that would bother me, as J.Wintour at all. It was easy to ignore...

Women always tell me they love me...before and after making love to them and that'll be the end of their short-lived fairytale.

But Martina, this child...

I couldn't shake the thought of her.

The smile...

And Lily, the only woman I thought about who I wasn't able to tame is also here, in need of what I can offer, my attention, my affection.

6:47 am

She opened her eyes and rose from the bed. In silence I watched her as she tilted her head and held her temple probably due to dizziness. She had too much alcohol and bottled up feelings probably made it worse. 

She instantly noted my presence  and reached out her hand to me, asking to be held. It took me a while before I rose from the couch and heaved an exasperated sigh as I walked towards the bed and took her hand. She looked up at me, still with that bone-tired look on her face and the miserable glint in her eyes. As I drew closer, she instantly snuggled and pressed her face on my chest.

"I never thought that I could run into you like this...I was so afraid that you'll push me away."

She began crying once again.

"I never thought you'd need me this way. You were always a tough cookie, Lily. You always have someone to save you whenever you want to. I'm just your playmate and not counted as one of your saviors. I'm actually surprised."

She gently pushed me and eyed me in such sadness. Her light blue eyes brimmed with tears and her bare face only enhanced the beauty she had always kept under her heavy make up.

"I've got no one...I always thought about...about running to you but I was afraid that like anyone else, you'd reject me. That guy who took care of me never hesitated to dump me because now, I'm only an Eccleston."

Without stripping my eyes off her, I questioned;

"Why didn't you demand marriage. You're young, beautiful...a potential trophy wife."

She shook her head;

"I'm a dead investment. I'm nothing...and he's tired of me. He wants another sugar baby. So he dumped me." 

"You said you're on your own now. You do have a sister as I recalled from the news...how is she?"

The question I gave her automatically changed her expression. In a very uneasy way, she shifted her weight and sighed. I'm not sure if she's aware that Martina is apparently under my wings but I'm  considering the idea that she probably heard it from somebody and now she's trying her luck to get a piece of me too.