Chapter 48
Zendaya’s POV
The thought of having to say that I would be romantically involved with ashes had me retching as I did not want that to be possible.
He irritated me and even when he had caught me off guard with his confession earlier today I was still irritated by everything. I wanted to be done with this and be on my way to the other part of my plan.
That was what I wanted. Having to deal with that man and listen to him beg for me to stay with him irritated me.
I looked at Travis who laughed and slapped his thigh as he watched me wallow in disgust at my plan. If only there was a way he could help me, I would really appreciate it. The problem was that he could not do anything to Asher.
I was the one who would have to destroy him since I knew some of his weaknesses from the past.
It did not even need to matter if the weakness then was still around now, I was still going to use them against him.
“I’m so sorry about that,” Travis said to me. “I wish I could help you but this is something you have to do on your own. The sacrifice is for the greater good.”
“I hate it,”I sighed looking at my phone to see all the messages he was sending. “I shouldn’t have given him my number.”
“Hey,” he said, drawing me closer to him. “You shouldn’t cry over this. I love what you’re doing to him. You’re drawing him in and I want you to make him beg for you.”
I smiled at this as I understood that he only wanted to make Asher jealous.
We hugged before going to the kitchen to make dinner.
While we cooked, my phone buzzed which irritated me to no end. I picked it up a couple of times to respond to the message with an ‘I am busy’ text.
I had dinner with my family and ignored his messages and calls. I was not going to let him disturb my peace.
The next day, I went about my day without a care in the world about his calls as I did not want anything to do with him.
His calls and his messages went unnoticed as I muted his number so I would not see anything from him.
The day after the promised lunch day, I walked towards a mall to get groceries as a man in a suit blocked my path.
I tried to go around him but he blocked it again as I looked at the man.
“What do you want?” I asked with a deep voice as someone called me from behind. It was a voice I did not want to hear.
“Damn it,” I muttered under my breath before turning to see who it was.
Asher sat by his car with a smile on his face. He came to me with his guard leaving us alone.
“Hey,” he smiled. “I’m sorry, my guard told me where you were…”
“Were you spying on me?!” I asked in anger as I was ready to punch him if it ever came down to it.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
I was so angry at him for putting people on my tail.
“I’m so sorry,” he sighed. “I had no way of reaching out to you since you would not pick up my calls or answer my messages and besides, you promised to go with me yesterday for lunch, instead you bailed.”
“I was busy, just as I am busy now.”
“Come on. Just go to lunch with me.”
“No,” was my flat answer.
“You have no chance in resisting me,” he said as I scoffed. He tried his charm towards me which did nothing but irritate me even more. He leaned in to seduce me as I laughed internally.
What did he think he was doing? Did he even know he was being stupid right now? I thought to myself.
I knew if I kept pushing him away I could lose my target as I decided to accept his advances.
“Fine,” I sighed. This was for my personal goal of getting close to him and having my revenge plan.
We went to a meat restaurant as we sat in a booth and waited for our order to show up.
I decided that I was going to play like I was interested in him only to be shocked that he was really an interesting person.
He had changed. When we were married he would be closer and he would refuse to say anything to me but while we talked he opened up a lot to me.
He told me stories of somethings that I didn’t know he would do and I laughed at the comedy.
“That’s what I said to the guy,” he laughed as I slapped my hand on the table while he told me his political story. “There was also this one time…”
The food came as he took it and shared for us both before commencing his story.
“So there was this one time I met the secretary of defense and he…” I lost track of what he was saying as I wondered why he was being nice now and not then.
He hated me while we were married but now he wanted my company and wanted to talk to me. I felt like something was wrong somewhere. Plus the fact that he was suddenly funny made me hate the chemistry we were having.
“We’ve spent more than three hours here,” he said as I gasped at the time. I had spent three hours with him, eating meat and talking about politics that I had not seen the time.
I found him to be considerate and cool for reminding me of the time as I had no idea I would be having this much fun with him.
“I’ve got to go,” I said to my feet, grabbing my things as he held my hand.