He is Jealous of me.

Aurora POV:

I stared at him, he looked like a wet puppy.

I felt sorry, I felt so sorry for him. I felt even worse for making him talk about it, I made him open a healing wound.

"Why did you allow her to get away with it?"

"I was scared" he replied.

"Scared? Scared of what?" I asked

"I didn't want the whole town to know I was a victim of paternity fraud, I didn't know how they would react to it. Would they pity me or would they make a mockery of me, the first was as bad as the other. I would never be gazed upon with respect again, instead, I would be seen as the man jilted by his lover"

"You were willing to lose your money"

"I wasn't thinking about the money that time, I just lost my whole world. She was the reason I was so hell-bent on making more money to make her happy."

The gaze in his eyes told me all I needed to know. He meant every word he said.

"Besides, since she left I've made more money than I could ever imagine"

"Did you hate her?" I asked curious

"I still loved her, I guess. I know you may think I was crazy for loving her despite how much she hurt me, but you wouldn't understand, you will never understand me."

I wanted to understand him.

"I'm so sorry Mr. Jordan"

"I'm fine Aurora, you didn't hurt me"

"I made you bring it up again"

"I think talking about it now made me realize I don't feel so much pain again, maybe I have healed over the years"

I looked into his eyes, there was still so much pain there. If he believed he had healed now, I couldn't bear to imagine the type of pain he was in when he hadn't.

"So where is she now?"

"I don't know, I presume she is in New York. That was the last place I heard she was. I got to know she is in to real estate business, which she started with my money of course. I discovered She started it way before we divorced. She started when she was pregnant, she had been sneaking my money into her business. She has grown to be a very powerful businesswoman, all of which she did with my money. I stopped prying into her life and moved on with mine too." He added wistfully

Now I understood why he doesn't keep women around him, he had his reason to loathe them. But I was still confused about one thing.

"Mr. Jordan" I called

"Yes Aurora"

"Why do you loathe Mr. Angelo, he may not be the greatest human being but surely you know he was just doing his job"

"That's where you are wrong Aurora, that greedy bastard knew about it, I could feel it in my guts, they were in cahoots together and planned everything together. There was a point where I thought he impregnated her and the son was his, but I found out it wasn't his. But I know they planned to destroy me together. I begged him not to do it, not to take her away from me, but he did. I can't hate her, but I can hate him and he would take twice the cup of haterade."

So that's why he hates him so much. I can't believe I was finally learning the truth and it was amusing to learn both have no reason to hate each other, they were just both victims of a manipulative woman. She successfully turned both of them against the other and made them both have their claws at the neck of the other.

"How do you know he was in it with her and wasn't successfully deceived by her too?

"Oh,' Aurora you are quick to believe and see the best side of someone. It's good to have an open heart, but it would also make you gullible and easily manipulated.

"He was in it with her, I know this and you should take it from me when I say it. Stay away from that bastard as much as possible, he is the devil reincarnated"

I sighed

Getting both of them to get along was the closest to impossible.

"I am not asking you to be best pals. What I am trying to point out is that you both hate each other for all the wrong reasons. He also thinks you physically abuse your wife and he hates you for it. You also hate him because you thought he was in with duping you"

"No Aurora, that's why I said earlier sweet and adorable but gullible, adorable but gullible Aurora."

It stung when he said it the first time and hurt twice as much when he emphasized it the second time.

"Why" I asked trying not to show I was hurt.

"I may be irked by Michael, but surely I know he is not an idiot. He will never be deceived by her ruse and would see right through it unless he doesn't want to. He was only concerned about his fair share of my money. And do you expect him to tell you the truth, you expect him to tell you how he plotted with my ex-wife to take my money? No, he has to make himself the hero, to feel good and justify what he did to his conscience"

"Then why would he hate you too?"

"He is jealous of me."

"Jealous?" I asked bemused "Why would he be jealous of you?"

"Aurora, he has every reason to be jealous of me. I am richer than he could ever dream of, I am better looking than he could ever dream of. I am in every way better than him"

I understand Mr. Angelo enough to know he may hate him because of a lot of things but jealousy was totally out of it.

"You should make sure you keep your distance away from the devil reincarnate, forget the fact he saved your life."

"Even the devil has his good days that doesn't change the fact he is still the evil bastard he has always been"

I wanted to tell him he wasn't the heartless man he thought he was, it wasn't for only because he saved my life. Watching him talk and act yesterday changed all my presumptions about him, watching him talk, and joke with his friend, he was humane after all. Talking about humane, I remember watching him growing hard and flushed red, my cheeks tingled with sensation.

"I understand sir, I will keep my distance away from him" I replied

I wasn't going to tell him, I would be going over to his next three days to watch his cats.

"That's good Miss Hardy, I'm glad you will," He said

"I will head back out, I will call the guy to come and check your computer now"

"Okay sir" I replied

I watched him disappear through the door and heaved a huge sigh of relief.

I allowed my mind to drift around, I allowed it to linger on how wrong I was about Mr. Jordan. He has been through so much and here I was judging, making him into a man he never was. I suddenly realized I was misunderstanding each of them because of the other.

Never Again!