Determined to interrupt what was happening, Adrian cleared his throat loudly and then stepped into the room. Ethan and the maid he was with quickly moved away from each other. The maid pulled her dress down immediately, staring down at her feet to avoid eye contact with Adrian. She was scared that he would tell Vivian, and she would lose her job.
Ethan, on the other hand, did not show any sign of remorse, which Adrian expected as he knew him to be shameless already. In fear, the maid scrambled out of the room, leaving Ethan and Adrian alone. Ethan pulled his pants up and fumed at Adrian for interrupting his fun.
“Why did you even come in here? Couldn't you have just walked away?” He questioned. Adrian shook his head.
“Do you know that Scarlett could have been the one to find you? Is this what you would have said to her?”
“Oh please.” Ethan rolled his eyes heavily, wiping his forehead with the back of his palm as he had been sweating profusely.
“You’re always talking about how much you love Scarlett, but you keep proving what kind of asshole you really are! Is this the love you claim to have for her?” Adrian was disappointed. He thought Ethan would change, but it turns out that everyone in Scarlett's life is betraying her, including himself. He felt bad about what the poor girl had to deal with.
“You should learn how to stay out of other people's business Adrian, it would do you good.” Ethan walked up to him. They glared at each other for a couple of seconds before Ethan started to speak again.
“Scarlett better not hear about this or I'm going to tell Vivian that you were fucking her daughter.” He threatened, his lips stretching into a trickish grin. Adrian only let out a light chuckle.
He was trying his best to control his rage at that moment. Ethan was getting on his nerves with his threats. Instead of punching him and causing drama, Adrian decided to just walk away and pretend like he didn't see anything. He didn't want to compromise his mission.
As soon as he left the room, his phone started to vibrate in his pocket and he pulled it out. Joey was the one calling so he quickly answered it.
“Yes Joey?” He stood by the staircase railings, staring down at the empty living room as he answered the call.
“Adrian, congratulations on your engagement. I'm so sorry I couldn't attend.” Joey apologized, his voice clearly proved how upset he was.
Adrian couldn't be mad at him, Joey had to take his wife to the hospital. Left for him, he wouldn't even attend his own engagement.
“Don't be silly man, you know I'm not upset about that. How is she?”
“She's fine now. So I wanted to ask if it would be possible for you to come over to the gallery tomorrow morning.” Joey started, deciding to go straight to the point as he didn't want to stress Adrian even further.
“Is there a problem?”
“Oh no, no problem. It's just that some important clients are going to be here and you need to personally attend to them as the CEO.” Joey explained.
“That's alright, I will be there in the morning.” He hung up, tucked the phone back into his side pocket and walked into Vivian's room.
Vivian was already on the bed by the time he entered and he felt relieved. He really didn't want to talk to her or even be on the same bed with her but he had no choice and had to play along, at least for the night.
Immediately Adrian shut his eyes to sleep, he felt Vivian's hand slowly crawl up his body, from his torso to his arm and then to his chest, gently caressing him. She wasn't asleep after all, she had been waiting for him to come to bed.
“You're finally here.” She whispered to him, placing her leg on his.
“What are you doing?” He asked, sitting up on the bed and turning the lights back on. She squeezed her face into a frown, upset that he had ruined the beautiful moment she was about to create.
“What does it look like I'm doing? I want you to make love to me darling.” She quickly replaced her frown with a gorgeous, seductive smile.
“But you know I can't.” His response came and that quickly wiped the smile off her face.
“And why is that?”
“Erection problem? Have you forgotten so soon that I haven't gotten rid of it? My dick won't rise no matter what you do and a limp dick can't fuck.” He stated, making sure his facial expressions showed how disappointed he was when in reality, he wasn't disappointed at all.
“Fuck..” Vivian cursed under her breath, fuming. She was so turned on that night and needed a good dick. She would have gone out to get it elsewhere but it was her engagement night and she didn't want to ruin everything.
“It's fine then, but you'll have to do something to get it fixed because I will not be getting married to someone who can't fuck me. What's the use then?” She hissed and lay back down, facing the wall.
Adrian smiled to himself, turned off the lights and lay down to sleep too but he couldn't. Once again, his mind darted to Scarlett. She seemed to be all he could think about these days and it was beginning to drive him nuts. He recalled how she avoided him earlier and it broke his heart. Now she probably hates him and that alone was torture to him.
He shut his eyes, deciding to keep them closed until he could finally fall asleep.
Morning came quickly and by the time Vivian and Adrian came downstairs, Scarlett was already sitting there with her luggage, all dressed up and ready to leave. She was waiting for Ethan, that was the only way her mother was able to meet her before she left.
“Why are you leaving so early in the morning?” Vivian asked with concern written all over her face. She was still in her pajamas, a cup of coffee in her hand. Adrian was standing by the stairs, staring at Scarlett, taking in how beautiful she was, and how hurt she looked.
“What's the point of waiting? The engagement is over so I'm going back to school.” Scarlett replied coldly.
Vivian was confused and wondered what was wrong with her daughter. She was acting strange throughout the weekend and has refused to say anything to her.
“Darling, if there's a problem, you know you can share it with me, right?”
“I'm fine mom.”
Ethan finally came down with his luggage. He didn't say anything to both Vivian and Adrian, he simply took his luggage and Scarlett's luggage outside and loaded them in the trunk of the car. They both got in and drove off, without as little as a goodbye or a wave.
Vivian asked Adrian if he knew what Scarlett's problem was but he shook his head and went back upstairs.
Soon, after a long drive, Scarlett and Ethan arrived at the penthouse. Ethan was about to follow her in when she stopped him at the door.
“Can you please leave? I wanna be alone.”
“Oh.. okay.” He answered sadly, turned around and left.
Scarlett immediately got to work, unpacking her stuff and putting them back in their places. After she was done, she picked up one of her lecture notes, just to glance through it because their exams would be coming up again in a few weeks time. Also, she didn't want to get enveloped in Adrian's thoughts again.
She was busy reading when her phone beeped. She thought it was her mother just checking in on her so she ignored it. But when several more beeps came, she was forced to open the text. It was a picture message, some unknown number sent her photos.
“Huh? What's this?” She asked, tapping on it.