Giving in to Her Rebellious Streak

Chapter 9  The question took Yasmin aback. She looked at Giselle. “What?”  “You like Blake, right? I heard about it from some other people.” Giselle glanced at Blake, seemingly observing his reaction.  He ate calmly while Yasmin smiled self–deprecatingly. Yasmin said, “Nope.”  “No?” Giselle didn’t really believe her. Over the past few days, she’d heard many things about their relationship. She’d heard about how Yasmin had pursued Blake like mad in the past. She would go everywhere he went.  Blake’s friends had mockingly called her Blake’s little lapdog. It bothered Giselle.  “I was young back then and didn’t know any better. I was just messing around.” Yasmin smiled faintly.  It was as if she’d been under a spell at the time. She wasn’t satisfied with just being married to Blake on paper. She would deliberately wander around before calling Blake and telling him she was lost. She would ask him to take her home.  Sometimes, Blake would come in person. Sometimes, he wouldn’t. But if he didn’t come, he would send his assistant to pick her up. At the time, Yasmin had been hopeful. At least he was responding to her.  “Oh, I see.” Giselle smiled at Yasmin’s answer. She turned to Blake. “Yasmin was only joking with you in the past. You didn’t take her seriously, did you?”  Blake snorted. “I’m not that dumb.”  Yasmin was stunned. Then again, Blake had always thought she’d been lying to him. After Stuart had gone to jail, her uncle had taken over the company. He would always make her suck up to Blake, but it turned out to have the opposite effect.  It only made Blake think she’d seduced him for the sake of money. That was why he never believed anything she said.  Yasmin felt a little dejected. She put her utensils down and said, “I’m done. You guys go  ahead.”  She went upstairs to take her medication. Giselle followed her and watched her gently.  “Did you need something, Ms. O’Shea?” Yasmin kept a hand on the doorknob while looking  1/2  +15 BÔNUS  at her.  Giselle asked, “Is this the room for you and Blake?”  Yasmin frowned before regaining her composure and looking at Giselle’s belly. “Is Blake really the father of your child, Ms. O’Shea?”  A trace of diffidence flashed across Giselle’s face before she nodded. “Yes, he is.”  Yasmin’s eyes  dimmed. Now that the dust had settled, there was no point in her troubling herself over the matter. “I hope you two will have a happy life together. You make a great pair.”  “You and Blake-”  “There’s nothing between us. We’re probably getting divorced soon,” Yasmin interjected. Even if Blake refused to go through with it, she would insist. It wasn’t up to Blake to decide.  Giselle’s eyes lit up. “Really?”  “Yeah. You don’t have to mind me. I’m just an unimportant character in this debacle.” After all, Blake had already told her he would never fall in love with her. Her heart was a grave now.  Yasmin entered the bedroom and shut the door. She took her medication and then  […]

Chapter 8Yasmin felt that Giselle was only saying these things to Blake, so she didn’t respond. Sure enough, Blake said comfortingly, “It’s been hard on you over the years.”“It was nothing.” Giselle smiled and turned the turntable, bringing the salad bowl to a stop before her. She put some of it on Blake’s plate. “You

Chapter 7“Regretting it already? Is your love that cheap? Has it faded into nothingness after just two years?” Blake mocked. He stared at Yasmin.He had her pinned to the bed. Her pale face was devoid of emotion. “Yes, I’m regretting it. won’t love you anymore.”She wasn’t worthy of him, so she was giving up.Blake’s expression

Chapter 6 Yasmin was dead at heart, and her eyes were dull. “I’m not throwing a tantrum, Blake. I’m being serious. I’ve been stuck in a loveless marriage for two years, and I’ve had enough.”  Over more than 700 days, she’d gone from hopeful to despondent. She was tired of living like this.  “Have you

Chapter 5 Blake frowned and approached Yasmin. Her eyes were shut. There was a sort of childlike quality to her face as she slept, but it didn’t take away from her beauty. Her naturally pink and moist lips were puckered slightly. They were as tempting as water to a parched man in the desert.  Blake’s

Chapter 4 “Yaz, did you know about your precious Mr. B cheating on you?” The phone call was from Yasmin’s best friend, Eunice Salle. “I saw it all over the news first thing in the morning! He’s gotten together with a pianist named Giselle O’Shea, and it looks like she’s even pregnant.  “The paparazzi caught

Chapter 3 Yasmin suddenly recalled something a friend of Blake’s had once said. He’d told her, “There’s a woman who lives in Blake’s heart. They met in Merania, and he’s pined after her for years. You and her look pretty similar, actually.”  At the time, Yasmin had been indignant. She felt that the woman was

Chapter 2Yasmin felt a little bitter. She grabbed some dark clothes from the wardrobe and returned to the room. There, she heard Blake talking to someone on the phone.“Don’t be scared. Have Alicia keep an eye on you. I’ll be right there.” His voice was a brand of tenderness that Yasmin had never heard before.

Chapter 1 “Mrs. Ford, Mr. Ford’s back.”  “Really?” Yasmin Starr was busy with her drafts. When she heard that her husband was back, her eyes lit up. She drew the curtains before her to see a Rolls-Royce Cullinan driving along the path leading to the villa.  She saw a man in the car. His handsome