Chapter 36 The Pain Afterwards
The Pain Afterwards
Dylan’s POV
I sat her down on the edge of the bed.
Liam stayed by the window, giving us space but not leaving, which I understood and didn’t ask him to leave. We didn’t say anything for a while.
“Well, I’m sorry for barging in. The door was open, that’s…”
“If you knew it was wrong to barge into someone’s room, you shouldn’t have done it only to apologize.” Liam muttered.
“Excuse me?” He said while looking at Liam. Then he turned away and looked at me. “Can you tell me what’s going on between you two?”
“Liam and I are together. We were initially just teammates, we didn’t plan for it to happen. We just found ourselves falling for each other.” I said while looking at her to know how she would react to it.
She scoffed. “Are you telling me that you are gay? Or is he forcing you into it?”
“I guess I am.” I replied.
“Does your mom know about this?”
“No, she doesn’t.” I replied.
She looked at me in shock and chuckled while pulling her hair back, a habit she formed whenever she can’t wrap her head around something.
“If she finds out, she will kill you.” She held my hand. “Dylan, you are not like this. I suspected that something was going on between you two but I doubted myself, hoping it wasn’t true. Are you telling me I got rejected because of him?”
She shot a glare at Liam.
“We haven’t started anything back then, I’m sorry.” I said. “Even if I didn’t meet Liam, I wouldn’t have accepted your proposal. Vivian, you are like a sister to me.”
I saw anger flicker on her face but she masked it up immediately.
“Dylan, your career won’t survive this if it gets out, you need to stop this madness now.” She said.
“Vivian, I think we should stop here. It’s too early for this, and I’m an adult now, I can take care of myself.”
She didn’t say anything. She just sat with her hands folded in her lap, her eyes on the floor between us. Then she looked up and smiled, it wasn’t quite reaching her eyes.
“I should go back to sleep,” she said. “I didn’t get enough sleep because of the noise that’s coming from this room.”
She stood up, left the room and pulled the door behind her. Liam looked at me and didn’t say anything.
I looked at the time and it was 5:36am. I lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling.
Liam came and lay beside me and didn’t say anything, which was what I needed. I felt guilty even though I hadn’t done anything, but with the look on Vivian’s face, it felt like I hurt her.
“I kinda feel guilty, did I sound rude when I said that?” I asked.
“There is nothing to feel guilty about, you told her what you needed to. It’s good that you let her know exactly what’s going on between us. You didn’t lead her on, so it won’t take time for her to accept it.” Liam said while holding my hand.
His words helped relieve my stress but it still felt like something I would carry for a few days before it lightened.
The sun pierced through the window and I woke up, turned to hug Liam but he wasn’t on the bed. He was sitting up in the chair, his eyes on the door like he had been watching the door for several hours.
“Did you get any rest at all? Why are you looking at the door?” I asked.
“I couldn’t.”
I pushed myself up. “Liam, what’s the problem?”
“I saw someone roaming around, a shadow behind the window. If they can use your aunt’s face, they can use her as well.” He said it without apology. “After everything we’ve seen, I don’t trust her in this apartment while we sleep.”
I wanted to push back. I looked at him and tried to find the right words and found instead that I was tired of arguing against his instincts when his instincts had been right more often than not.
“If you say so,” I said.
“You can go back to sleep if you haven’t slept enough,” he said.
I moved out of the bed and headed to the bathroom but my butt was still hurting.
“Aishh!” I sighed as I lifted my leg.
Liam walked up to me and carried me inside the bathroom. He gently took off my pajamas and carried me inside the bath tub. He took off his clothes and grabbed my sponge.
“Are you going to bathe me now?” I asked.
He entered the bath tub and sat behind me. “You’re hurt. I can’t allow you to stress yourself.”
I smiled and he started scrubbing my body. His touch was doing something to my body, I couldn’t hold it in. Without turning around, I stretched my arm backward and grabbed his dick.