“Eww, I’d rather have sex with a pig. No offense Jen” Kylee said.
“The feeling is mutual, the first day I saw her she had snot running down her nose and she licked it” Christian said with a scowl that made him look cute.
“I did not eat my own snot, I was nine not three and I had a cold that day” Kylee defended.
“Anytime I look at her, I see snot running down her nose” Christian said with a face that made him look serious but I could hear the laughter in his voice.
“I don’t know what women see in him, but Christian’s first impression gave me a major turn off”
I smiled, j didn’t know how they met.
“Tell me” I said with a large smile. I felt like I was going to enjoy this.
“My mum was his after school teacher. She took his English, bookkeeping and economics subjects. One day, she was caught up with work and since she always goes to his house to teach from five pm to seven pm, she decided to pick me up from school and go straight to their mansion instead of dropping me at home first. The first time I saw Christian, I was nine and he would have been fifteen. He was clad in all black and he didn’t took my way until my mum went to get something”
With the way Christian slapped his hand on his face and the way Kylee’s eyes brightened, I knew it had to be atrocious.
“He told me that my mother had told him a secret ” Kylee said.
Christian groaned.
“What was it?” I asked.
“He told me that I was adopted ”
I turned to Christian, my mouth hung open in utter shock.
“You didn’t ” I said, I felt a build up of a hard laugh forging at the base of my chest, I couldn’t hold it back as soon as it erupted.
“He’s so mean. I cried and asked my mum about it..”
“I’m so sorry that had to happen” I told Kylee rubbing her shoulders as I still laughed.
She smirked.
“You don’t have to worry. Just make sure that your sprinkle your new born with holy water, maybe it would wash away his father’s genes”
I entered into another bout of laughter.
“I’m serious Jen, I’m not nearing that child until it turns let’s say twenty, I don’t want to be scared twice in a single lifetime”
“So, how did the both of you meet again?” I asked.
There was silence, Christian nodded his head at her, silently telling her she could talk about it.
“Actually, he found me in a strip club” she said, her face was pale and she looked down to the floor for help.
I was quietly waiting to see if she would continue speaking.
“You’re probably wondering how I went from teacher’s daughter to stripper. I was sixteen and I had ran away from home a year before. My mum died in a car crash and my father turned into an abusive drunk. I couldn’t stay a second in that house, if I had stayed I would have been dead… For six months I went from one place to the other than the rest of the six months I worked at a club where I got tips for showing my tits, and extra if I fucked them. I started from a small club but I moved upwards to bigger clubs, the ones where I met rich men, they weren’t any gentle from the poor men” she paused as is she remembered a memory and she surveyed the room, reminding herself where she really was. That she was safe and far away from that life.
“One day, I got to the private lounge to find Christian sitting on a table, not the chair, the table and he was holding a drink in his hand, I could recognize him, he had that face that no one would ever forget even after seeing it only once and I wanted to run when his head shot to my direction and I felt so small then. Thinking he was a jerk and asshole, I expected him to talk down on me but instead he…”
She turned to look at him, tears escaped her eyes and she shot him what I guessed would have been an appreciative nod.
“He paid for my university, telling me that once I was done, I would have to pay back by working for him” she laughed and shook her head.
“He paid for everything that I needed and after four years, I went straight to his company, broke my back for six months without a single pay and I thought he was serious and this was how I would continue for years because the university was very expensive. But after six months he showed up with a check of my six months payment and promoted me to be his personal assistant. I went from being personal assistant to chauffeur, to laundry maid, to garden trimmer at some point but we got really close and I got to know him and he became my best friend. Turns out he was an angel ”
“And she became my only family, that’s until you showed up” Christian said to me.
It took a while before I could think of something to say and when I opened my mouth to say it, I forgot what I wanted to say.
“Josef might already be out of the country ” Kylee said, her voice had gone from trembling to stable.
She was no longer sad, it was evident that Josef’s intentions had made her see the breakup in a new light.
A light I failed to see him in.
“Kylee, Christian.. I don’t think the both of you understand something. I don’t see why Josef would go through all these trouble for me… I don’t think he would risk his relationship with Kylee, the both of you looked happy and in love, he can’t just snap and say he’s not interested”
“He didn’t snap. Whatever Josef and I were supposed to have was purely sexual. When he asked for something deeper I was suspicious”
“Why?”
“Because he is also as busy as me and we can’t work out relationship”
“Then why did you agree?”
“Because of the holidays, I was feeling that by the time work resumes, we would be over with ”
My left foot was tapping the floor.
“So you think he asked for a relationship because of me?”
“I think he was asking for enough time to win you ever. He asked for a threesome the day we met, he was instantly attracted to you. He asked more questions about you as time went on, I didn’t know why he was asking. I thought it was just curiosity”
Christian spoke.
“What kind of questions did he ask”
“Her age, us she is single, her occupation, what she is like… If she’s really in love with you”
Christian turned to me.
“You never got any kind of signal from him, he didn’t try to get close?” He asked.
“He rarely spoke to me. It was just small talk, asking how I’m doing, if I’m going for checkups”
“Checkups?”
“Yes, the antenatal”
Christian’s head cocked to Kylee, asking her a silent question.
“I mentioned that she was pregnant with your child ” she said looking a little embarrassed.
“When would he talk to you?” Christian asked.
It was starting to feel like an interrogation.
“When we were all gathered in the living room. He would just talk to me”