Chapter 53
After getting the triplets to bed, I started for my room.
I got in to see my phone buzzing. Picking it up, I found dozens of texts from Asher.
I responded in kind to him. I would do anything to keep him in the loop since I wanted him close for the plan to work.
If I kept pushing him away I could end up losing him which I did not want to do. I had to make sure he understood that I still cared for him even when I did not, that way he would be in my grasp. I had to make my leash on him shorter and shorter to not let him go away.
‘Please go out with me again. Let’s have dinner tomorrow night.’
On a normal day I would have rejected it and blocked his number but I had other plans. Instead I accepted.
‘Sure.’Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.
I was going to out my all into seducing him and making him fall deeper in love with me. He had no idea who he was dealing with.
I would take him to the top of the mountain of love and push him off. He was going to fall to the bottom in the most terrible way.
Dropping my phone aside, I turned off the lights and laid in bed to sleep.
***
Travis’s POV
I was in a club with my best friend who had come from the United Kingdom to visit. His name was Rowan and we went way back.
We talked for a bit with the man flirting with the girls around. I also tried flirting too but I wasn’t really putting my heart into it seeing as I had someone on my mind already.
“Hey,” Rowan said to me. “I think that chick is into you.”
He pointed to a beautiful blonde woman in a corner smiling at us.
“No,” I shook my head. “She’s look in our direction which means she must be trying to get jiggy with you. You should walk to her and say hi. You already know I’ve got someone at home waiting for me.”
This had him pissed as he downed his drink in a rushed way before pointing at me.
“I am disappointed in you man,” he sighed. “You already know she has children with another man. How can you be with someone like her? Open your eyes.”
“Look, I love Zendaya,” I said, mad at him for bringing this up. “How can you speak of her in such manner?”
“I just want you to know that it won’t really end well for you. You’re taking care of someone else’s kids, man. Imagine that every single time you look at those children, you’ll see the face of the man who banged her senseless and had those kids with her.”
“I am not having this conversation with you,” I said already mad at him.
“Are you ready to be a father?”
“What?” I didn’t understand where he was going with this.
“I mean, are you ready to be a father?”
“Yeah. I mean, I guess so. The children come with her as a full package so I’ve got no choice but to be with all of them.”
“And what if he comes back?”
“Who?”
“You know… the father of her kids. What if he decides to show up and claim his children? What if she decides to go back to him?”
I laughed at this. I knew Zendaya and that was not going to be possible for so many reasons.
“Look, as much as I’d like to be afraid that you could be right, you can never be more wrong than you are now,” I shook my head. “She’s never going back to her children’s biological father.”
I started to feel that since she hated Asher so much, there was no need to go back to him.
“Why? Is he dead? Deformed? Did she get the kids from a sperm bank? If not then what makes you think that she wouldn’t just stand up and leave you here.”
“Because I know so,” I sighed taking up my drink.
The man laughed in a loud way signaling to a waiter to refill his glass.
“If she could easily have children with the man, then I don’t see why she can’t just go back to him. That’s my take on the matter. You’ve got to be wise about these kinds of things.
“Women would leave you even if you have the money. Now imagine if he was someone even more influential than you, like a president. But just imagine that. You’ve got to be careful out there.
“And this is why I live my single life and I am not engaged to anyone, single or married. I just have sex and disappear. Of course I make sure there is always a condom in my grasp.”
I immediately thought of everything Rowan had said. He could be right.
The revenge plan she had been hatching for some time got to me as I wondered if she was actually going out with Asher because she hated him or because she secretly loved him.
I could not tell which it was. She was spending more and more time with the man, going on dates and park walks and spending less time with me and the children.
If Rowan knew about all of this, he would be convinced that I was in the losing batch and not the winning one.
I decided to dismiss the thoughts because I knew it would not happen.
Zendaya hated the man so much I could not see a possibility of them ending up together.
The waiter arrived with the drinks as he poured some into my cup which had Rowan taking the bottle from his hand.
“You’ll get yourself drunk and you’ll start doing stupid things,” I noted.
“Relax,” he laughed. “I just got into the country. At least let me have my fun. Jeez.”
I raised my hands in surrender before he was swarmed by different women.