Novel Square
Chapter 21
I sat at the dinning table with Matriarch Sheila. It was quarter past ten pm and the Monasto family had gone. Dinah and my parents had gone to bed too but I couldn’t, because I had to settle the lingering Jason issue with Matriarch Sheila.
“I played my part” I said to her “please release Jason now”
Her eyes were shut and she didn’t reply me for a while, then she said.
“I’ll fix an engagement date with Jake, concerning your relationship with Sara. After then, I’ll release your perverted lover”
“No, grandma!” I protested. “Jason has spent three fucking days in a cell where he doesn’t belong in. I can’t let him stay for long”
“You’re wrong, Harley” she said, coldly. “That opportunistic freak belongs in a jail cell”
“Why’s that?”
She momentarily shut her eyes again and some part of me kept on wishing that she’d shut them forever.
“He must have felt that he’d hit the jackpot after making you feel infatuated towards him. After all, you are a renowned billionaire heir. But the tables turned, didn’t it?” Her cynical voice rang through
“Jason is not like that…”
“Really?”
“I’m the one who looked for him. It’s my fault!”
“That doesn’t count”
“It does, grandma. Release Jason now or I’ll let the whole city know that I’m into men” I threatened
“You won’t” she smirked evilly. “I’ll have that wretch locked up forever if you do”
“I know that. But guess what, Sheila? You’ll suffer it more. My gay scandal will take a huge blow to the company and you know what comes next”
She kept silent for a moment. She knew I was right.
“Fine” she said. “I’ll have him released by morning. Mind you Harley, I won’t tolerate it if you go against me again. Your gay lover will suffer it” she threatened
“I have decided that you will get engaged to Sara by tomorrow and you will sever all ties with that lover of yours. Your gay secret remains between the both of us” she said
I knew what she’d do to Jason if I refused so that wasn’t an option.
“Agreed” I simply said
“Good night” she said and stood up and left.
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Running away wasn’t what I normally did. I had come to terms with the fact that my secret would remain hidden and it made me more of a coward, that I accepted.
But I couldn’t allow my actions to cause Jason more pain.
I immediately went to see Jason after he was released from jail. Luckily for me, he didn’t resent me just yet. He followed me to a hotel. Different from the one we got caught in the last time.
I hugged him tightly when after I locked the door to the hotel room.
“Are you okay? Are you hurt?” I surveyed his body for any injuries
He smiled, a crooked smile that made me heart skip. How shameless of me.
“I’m glad you didn’t leave me” he said
“I’m so sorry, Jason. This shouldn’t have happened to you. It’s all my fault”
“No–no it’s not” he said, grabbing hold of my face
“I’ll accept whatever punishment you give me” I said, abashed. “in fact, you shouldn’t be with me again, after all I did…”
“Stop, Harley”
“We can’t be together. My family…”
“Let’s run away” he said
I stared at him without replying. It’s true that love made people foolish. Not only did it make me foolish, it also made me selfish because I fucked Jason, despite knowing the consequences
My grandma was on my neck now. Running away with Jason wasn’t an option and marrying a woman I didn’t love wasn’t an option either.
I decided to run away. After all, I did it best. I was going to run away, but not with Jason.
My engagement to Sara was going to hold this night and I wasn’t going to let Matriarch Sheila find me with Jason again.
I planned to be smarter than I was before.
“Why are you silent?” Jason asked. “We can run away and start a new –”
I claimed his lips with a hungry growl of resolve. The hot, hard insistence of my mouth on his was shockingly demanding. He gave me no opportunity to deny me and the erotic plunge of my tongue into the tender interior of his. My heartbeat was racing. Every sense I possessed was reeling from the impact. The taste of him was addictive. My hands rose to his broad shoulders initially to steady myself and then to feverishly close there. His fingers dug into the expensive cloth of my jacket as though he needed that support to stay upright in the dizzy world of seductive sensation that enthralled him. Every kiss made me long with frantic impatience for the next.
In minutes, we were ripping off our clothes.
I entered him hard and fast
I was frozen with frustration and a hunger that made me tremble because the lush, tight fit of his huge body round me was extraordinarily pleasurable.
“Don’t stop!” he breathed, helpless in the grip of the erotic heat and intensity still roaring through him.
Expelling my breath in a hiss of relief, I began to move again while exerting every atom of control that I could muster. My fluid increase in tempo sent excitement flashing through Jason faster than an express train and fuelled my need. He bucked under me and groaned with startled pleasure when I employed slow subtle movements that tormented him with sensation. I couldn’t control anything that I was feeling and what I was feeling was incredibly powerful. The hunger stoked by his passion reached a frantic height when every part of me was pitched to an unbearable degree of longing and then in a breathless heartbeat we reached an ecstatic climax. As he writhed under him in frenzied abandonment, wave after wave of pleasure convulsing his huge body, I enjoyed the longest and most stupendous release of my life. My superb body shuddering over him, we tasted the ecstasy.
We held eachother till we fell asleep or should I say, till Jason fell asleep.
When I was sure that he was asleep, I quietly got up from the bed, wore my clothes and was about to leave.
I felt sorry that I was leaving Jason again. He deserved someone better. He wouldn’t see me when he woke up because I’d probably be out of the city.
I decided to write him a letter and it said:
‘Once again, I’m sorry Jason for leaving you. I know it’ll be foolish of me to tell you to move on but that’s exactly my wish for you. Don’t look for me because I’d be long gone by the time you wake up. Thanks for loving me despite all my complications. Goodbye Jason. I love you.’
I folded the letter and dropped it on the bedside table as tears ran down my face. I had to leave now.
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I quickly packed my things into my suitcase. I had just three hours left for my engagement to Sara. I had to hurry.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
Luckily for me, I got to my car with my suitcase safely.
I was going to ditch it all. The money, fame and family.
The only person I regretted ditching was Jason.
I was going to another country to start a new life, far away from all the secrets and heartbreak.
My car engine roared to life and I sped far away from everything.
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AN INTERLUDE
Eight years later Harley McGuire is well off, he now goes by a new identity which is Harley Dogman. Matriarch Sheila is dead which leaves only Harley’s parents and sister, Dinah.
I am comfortable and am now an inventor.
Will I reunite with Jason?