Chapter 145

Chapter 14

Love is like a fart.

Because if you have to force it,

it's probably shit!

"What do you think, you are doing?" The question was an embarrassed squeak more than anything and her face grew ever the redder as she watched the man behind the counter, put those condoms in a packet and Oliver paid for them.

And if Mia had thought that he would be even slightly embarrassed at the question. She was dead wrong.

"Preparing for our wedding night!" He replied with no scruples whatsoever, grinning like a cheshire cat, as he pocketed the packets of condoms.

And Mia's cheeks grew even redder and she looked like a hibiscus with ears, although it was hard to know if the colour was due to embarrassment or anger.

Because right now, she felt quite capable of murdering Oliver Ryan in cold blood. 'This incorrigible, womanizing bastard! What does he thinks, she is? His next conquest in bed? Another notch on his bed post?'

'Either way, the man had some nerve in trying to seduce her after all that had transpired between them!' She thought viciously. 'And she will make him pay for that!'

"You know, although I do want to have children in the near future, I don't think a pregnancy during our honeymoon would be a good idea." He stated, as if they were discussing what to make for dinner and Mia had this mad idea, of bashing his head - into the nearest wall.

While on the other hand, the store manager looked more amused at their exchange than anything else.

"SHUT UP!" Mia said those words so aggressively, that both men jumped in alarm, but she had had enough of this - insensitive, selfish jerk, who could see nothing but what he wants, who could understand no one but himself and his own selfish desires!'

So, after giving her husband one last burning glare, full of hatred - She strode away, leaving the store behind as she reached the road.

The cool air once again, ruffled her hair and passed through her hot skin but instead of cooling - her anger, it somehow fuelled it further.

She never-never wanted to see this man again!

And she started walking faster.

But just within a few more moments, Oliver caught up with her. "I don't understand what's your problem. You are attracted to me...I know you are! And we are married, for God's sake! But you are acting as if I had just made some kind of lewd pass at you."

Mia stopped dead in her tracks and whirled around to face him. "Because you HAD JUST MADE A LEWD PASS at me!" She hissed, from between her teeth. "I am not your wife, not in the real sense anyway and no matter how hard you try to seduce me, into your bed - I. am. not. falling. into. it. willingly.

Since, I have no wish to become another notch up your golden bed post!"

She watched, how her words impacted the man standing in front of her.

His cheeks reddening under the dim street lights, as if someone had just slapped him.

Mia felt a bit of, vicious satisfaction at having drawn that reaction out of him - as she turned back around and started walking away, once again.

But this time, instead of following her, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards himself. "WHAT the hell do you mean by that?" And it took Mia, very little time to realize that she had somehow hurt his humongous male ego.

"What I don't understand Oliver, is - why are you doing this? Has your long standing mistress Chloe Wilson, suddenly refused to sleep with you? Or is it an ego thing - where you have to sleep with me - just because I have fallen into your trap and became your wife?"

If Oliver had seemed to be angry before, now he seemed absolutely furious. His eyes burned like the embers of fire that could turn her into a pot of ash within moments.

"What do you know about Chloe?" He asked in a controlled voice and something within Mia snapped. It was most probably her sanity because suddenly, she wanted to scratch his eyes out after he had taken his mistress’s name, right in front of her!

"Oh! Not much, just the little snippets the whole world knows - like she had been your on and off lover from last many years, and that last year you had spent a long holiday with her - surfing in the Caribbean.

And oh! Yes- how can I forget - that yesterday just before our wedding , you were with her in Mauritius."

If she had thought that the snipe would help her feel better - she was dead wrong because unconsciously, she had just exposed her deepest vulnerability in front of him, the same asshole who had been sunbathing and having hot sex with his mistress on the beaches of Mauritius, just a day before their wedding.

Tears of weakness, gathered at the back of her eyes, but she forcefully blinked them away. 'No! She wouldn't let him hurt her! Never again!'

"What happened? Cat got your tongue, Romeo?" She sniped at him again, now hell bent on - drawing blood out of him and hurt him just as much as she had been hurt.

"How did you know that I was with Chloe, in Mauritius? It wasn't in the news, I made sure of that!" Mia noticed, how his face had suddenly gone pale and his eyes had lost that spurt of anger that - he had been kindling against her. But instead - now he looked like a man who had been kicked in the stomach and was now sporting a ruptured spleen. An expression of pain mingled with fear remained on his face.

"Look Mia, I can explain. Yes, I was with Chloe this weekend but it wasn't in the way you think. I-"

"Shut up! For the sake of God please shut up! And get this straightened out in your head - that I have absolutely no interest in either your or that actress's life. In fact, I don't care what either of you do, but please keep me out of it because I don't fancy, being a third wheel anywhere."

They started walking again and this time no one said anything, as they left the market place behind and were once again walking on the empty footpath leading back to the residential area.

All his life Oliver had lived, breathed and played with numbers but this time, it seemed the numbers had failed him. Life and it's characters did not simply fell into their places just because the equation said so.

Mia had taught him that!

And for the first time, he felt fear creeping upon his spine like a silent enemy. 'What if it never falls into place? What if she forever hates him? What then? It was the biggest battle of his life, and he had wagered his everything to have her! And now he was failing.......