Chapter 21

Fuck the boards, fuck them all... They made private auctions sound like a fashion runaway..

Well, they weren't completely wrong, it was more of auctioning of private collections of cloths...

I bid for one of the clothes not because I have someone to give it to, but because I needed to get one for company reputation ( I still don't understand why), and also because the model looked familiar and the gown looked like it was meant for her. It was a white mermaid gown, so I bid and won the gown and I sent it straight to her... I didn't bother to meet the model... I instead left the place and was back in NYC in no time..

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Christmas was fast approaching, I had no Idea how to spend the holiday, so I decided to do what I do best, WORK.

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"You are not going home?" Roy asked

"I haven't gone back home since I've arrived here, I don't think I want to." I said, dropping my spoon...

We were at Crown shy, eating.

I wasn't feeling the food.

I wasn't feeling much if anything.

"Okay then, You could join us for dinner on Christmas, Ava and I." He dropped his cutleries too

"Nah you guys are fine on your own, I'm travelling." I lied, I had no plans to travel, I didn't even plan to leave my apartment, I guess I am now.

"To where?" He asked again. Why was the fucker so inquisitive today? having a girlfriend must have turned his brain into mush.

"Chicago" I lied again, I wasn't used to lying this much, well but if I indeed travel there, it makes it the truth..

"Cool" He threw a glance to the waiter coolly, calling for him.

"Later man, see you when I see you" I stood up, I wasn't interested in paying the bill, hell he didn't even need me to pay it, The fucker rolled in money.

I walked out of the restaurant into my car, driving off.

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"Chifuckingcago here I fucking come." I said as I proceed to board the plane..

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Chicago isn't known for beaches, but when there's a beach, why shouldn't I go..

It was Christmas, I sent my mom a happy Christmas text even though I wasn't feeling it, she got into praying for me for hours. I said amen, cause I was just that respectful..

I hit the gym first, before taking a quick shower, preparing to head to 57th Street beach. Whoever named that was lazy.

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ALICE POV

I felt the wind in my hair, the sand underneath my feet.

This is the life.

I was already imagining the feeling of the salty water and just as I wanted to dive into the sea.

But then I saw a face, a face I couldn't forget.

Face impassive, eyes dead, but his lips, they were alive, pumping with blood. He was much bigger than I remembered, taller, bulkier.

He was in nothing but his shorts, sitting in one of the deck chairs. His Greek god body was in full display. The arrogant god, the vicious monster, Ares. The myth.

He is here, and in flesh.