A/N: Hi, guys! Sorry for the late update. I've been sick these past two weeks but i'm finally feeling better now. Anyway, thank you for all the 'get well soon' comments and messages that you sent me. I appreciate it so much! Anyway, i hope you like this chapter and please don't forget to comment what you think. I made this chapter extra longer than my usual update to make it up to you all:)

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JUNO's POV

No one between us talked while we were in the car, going somewhere. I didn't even know where Brey was taking us but I knew for sure that he was mad, ragingly mad. He was gritting his teeth the whole time and the way he was gripping the steering wheel was giving me goose bumps.

I could already see the fire that was about to explode in his eyes. He was driving past the speed limit and I should be telling him to slow down because I was getting nervous already but I chose to stay quiet and let him have his way.

I wanted for him to let his anger out.

I knew that he wanted to fly into a fit of rage right now and just a little thing that would annoy him would surely make him explode.

I wanted to say something, anything to make him feel better but I didn't know where to start. I bit my lower lip as I felt my eyes brim with tears. I really felt bad for him. Even I felt hurt because of the coldness that they showed to him at his father's house.

I didn't expect everything to turn out this way. Brey was undeniably excited about the dinner. He was probably beyond excited and happy because at last, his father would finally introduce him to his family but it looked like he was the only one who was excited about the whole situation because his sister and her mother wasn't pleased of his presence.

His father apologized to us but Brey ignored him and pulled me out of that house without saying anything.

I threw him a glance from the corner of my eyes and I saw the raw pain that was written all over his face. Aside from that, there was resentment also. I swallowed hard and was about to speak when he stopped the car in front of a club. The place was familiar. I looked at the name of the club. TBG's club.

My eyebrows creased.

"Why are we here?" I asked confusedly. He turned off the engine and then unbuckle his seat belt.

"Go home without me. Take the car." He said without answering my question.

"But what about you?"

"I'll spend the night here for sure. I'll just ask someone to drop me home by tomorrow." He answered and then got out of the car.

"Wait...Brey!" I called for him but he ignored me and then went inside the club without looking back. I heaved a sigh while looking at him entering the club. I bit my lower lip as I stared at the car key that was still in the car's ignition.

I heaved a sigh and then closed my eyes shut for a couple of seconds. I wanted to go home already and sleep all this off but I couldn't just leave him alone for some reason. I shook my head. I pulled the car's key from the ignition before I decided to step out of the car. I locked the vehicle and then went inside the club.

This was the second time that I would enter this club. This was the club where Maggie and Christine took me during my first night here in the USA. I drew a deep breath before I entered the club. Just like before, there was a guard that opened the door.

He asked for my ID. Thankfully, I carry one all the time because he would surely not let me in if I didn't have any ID with me.

Upon entering the club, the loud music inside met me along with the noisy people who were doing whatever business they were doing. I looked around, looking for Brey but I couldn't find him anywhere.

I decided to go to the bar counter to inform the bartender.

"Hi. I just want to ask if you know where Brey Amouretti is? Do you happen to know him?" I asked the bar tender with a loud voice so that he would hear me clearly. He looked at me with knitted eyebrows.

"He's surely at the VIP room." He answered while looking upstairs.

"Is there a VIP room upstairs? I thought the VIP area is there only?" I pointed at the place where I saw Brey before with his friends at the right corner of the club. It was the same VIP area where that unknown man forcefully dragged me to when I first set foot in this place.

"Yes, that's one of our VIPs here that customers could use but I doubt if Mr. Amouretti would go there now. He's surely at the TBG exclusive VIP room upstairs."

"Really? Thanks." I said and was about to turn my back when the bartender spoke.

"No one is allowed upstairs, Miss. If I were you, you shouldn't go. They will surely throw you out of the club before you even know it."

"It's okay. I know him. He's my boyfriend." That took him by surprise but then he smirked after.

"A lot of women already told us that." I rolled my eyes and decided to just go and ignore him. I didn't like the way he was staring at me as if I was one of Brey's bimbo or something.

I was about to begin ascending the upstairs when my eyes caught a familiar face at the corner of the club near the stairs. I was shock to actually see him there. He was sitting on a couch with a woman on his lap. They were making out. Pain instantly attack my chest. I wanted to cry because of so much anger but I tried my best not to. All I wanted was to fly into a fit of rage right at that moment.

The anger that I was feeling kept on escalating while watching them making out without a care in the world.

My fists tightened and before I could control myself, I strode my way towards them. My breathing was hard because I was trying my best to control my rage. They were so busy in what they were doing that they didn't even notice my presence in front of them.

"I thought you didn't want to be with me anymore because you already have a girlfriend?" I heard the woman asked Rocco with a sultry voice. I was near enough to them that even though the music was loud, I still clearly heard what she said.

Rocco tucked some stray hair to the back of the woman's ear as he smiled at her. I knew that woman. She's the leading lady of Rocco in his latest movie, Karen Stone.

"I feel like she doesn't even considers me as her boyfriend. I don't know but when I'm with her, I feel so small. She's too smart that it came to the point that our relationship is getting boring anymore. While with you, I feel like I'm the best version of myself. You make me feel like a real man. You're giving me what I need and you're making me happy. That's what Juno failed to do in our relationship. She's a failure as a girlfriend. She's too focused on saving their company that she already forgot about me. If I've known before that their company was on the brink of bankruptcy, I shouldn't've pursued on courting her." every word that Rocco was saying cuts like a knife, piercing my heart into pieces.

All the good things that I thought he possessed as a person disappeared right at that instant. All the respect and love that I felt for him turned into something that I couldn't even describe. I felt like I was staring at someone who's a total stranger to me all along.

I thought I've already known everything about him but I was wrong.

My eyes got a glimpse of the glass of champagne on their table. I quickly grabbed it and before I could even think rationally, I threw the content of the glass to them. The woman screamed as she got off of Rocco's lap, drenched with alcohol.

"What the---" Rocco's sentence cut off midsentence when he recognized me. His eyes widened as his lips fell open in shock.

"J-Juno..." his voice was trembling.

"You! How dare you pour that alcohol on me?!" Karen squealed in so much anger.

"Because you deserve it!" her eyes squinted in anger.

"You b*tch!" She raised her hand as If she wanted to slap me.

"You want to slap me? Fine, go on! Do it so that people will see what kind of a person you really are!" she looked around us and noticed that everyone was already pointing their cellphones to us. They were already recording everything that was happening and that added to the courage that I was feeling.

"Juno, let me explain. This is all just a misunderstanding" Rocco approached me and was about to hold my hand when I swatted his hand away. I felt like his hands were dirty. My vision darkened and before I could control my anger, my hand already flew to his face.

"Damn you, Rocco! You're nothing but a gold digger and a cheater! I've trusted and loved you! And I've even felt bad because I didn't even have enough time for you because I was busy doing everything I could to save the company. I thought you understood my situation but I was wrong. Even though we fight a lot, I trusted you because I thought you were a good person. I thought you loved me but I was wrong! While I was busy doing everything I could to save MMTC, here you are, busy cheating on me!

"So this is the reason why you've been so cold everytime I talked to you on the phone? You always tell me that you're busy. Now I finally understand that you're indeed busy, busy with this promiscuous woman here!" I tilted up my chin proudly and then stared at him in the eyes.

"If you're happy with her then be with her. You should've been honest with me from the beginning so that I could've given you the freedom and didn't waste anymore of our time. You just wasted my time loving you, Rocco! We're done! Thank God that I've discovered that you're actually a cheater and a gold-digger before I totally gave myself to you! You don't deserve me!" I turned my back on him and was about to walk away from there when I remembered something.

I quickly took off the bracelet that he gave to me before and then threw it to him.

"That's yours so take it back! I don't want to have anything that belongs to you!" Upon turning my back on them, my tears fell. I was fumingly mad and disappointed at myself because I couldn't believe that I've chosen to love the wrong person.

"Juno, wait!" I heard Rocco called but I ignored him. I've never thought that this thing would happen the moment we see each other again. I was thinking of calling him tomorrow to have dinner with him so that I could finally inform him about my arrangement with Brey but it looked like it was pointless for me to do so because our relationship ended the moment I saw him making-out with that woman.

I quickly wiped my tears while I continued walking. I didn't know why but instead of getting out of the club, I went upstairs. I couldn't understand why but Brey's face popped up on my mind but instead of going inside the room, I chose to sit down and tried to calm myself down.

I felt like my legs were about to give out because of the pain that I was feeling. Aside from the pain of Rocco's betrayal, I felt hurt too because I felt like all my efforts in our relationship were all useless. I thought everything that I've been doing was enough until now but I was wrong.

Now I realized that a relationship could get destroy too just because s*x wasn't given. Even though Rocco didn't directly admitted it, I knew that the 'happiness' that he was referring about a while ago that Karen was giving him was that thing which I failed to give.

Yes, I admit, maybe it was partly my fault but I couldn't just indulge into something that serious when I knew that I wasn't ready yet. S*x is not the foundation of a relationship because I believe that love is.

I didn't know how long I was sitting at the top landing of the stairs while crying. I didn't want to cry but I couldn't control my emotions. I am just a human.

"Hey, beautiful. Whoever made you cry doesn't deserve your tears." A baritone voice made me look up. He was smiling at me. He looked like he just came out of the sole door behind us.

"Leave me alone." Was all I could answer. He chuckled.

"You look familiar. If I'm not mistaken, you were with Brey here before." my eyebrows creased.

"Do you know him?"

"Of course. He's my friend. Don't tell me, you're the rumored girlfriend and he made you cry that's why you're in tears right now?" I didn't know how to answer that question. Yes, I've been pretending to be Brey's girlfriend but the one who hurt me wasn't him. My ex-boyfriend. But of course, I couldn't say that to anyone. Brey told me not to spill anything about our arrangement whatever the consequences were.

We agreed to pretend at all times including to our family and friends.

"Yes, I am his girlfriend." I answered with an almost inaudible voice. To my surprise, he laughed. I scowled at him.

"Now, I understand why he's in there, drowning himself with alcohol. He even pushed me out of the VIP room because I tried to stop him from destroying everything in there." he said.

"He's in there?" I asked him while pointing at the room behind us.

"Yes. He's in there, busy drinking alone." He answered amusedly.

"Anyway, I am Oeris. Your name is Juno Alexia Morgan, right?" my eyebrows creased.

"How did you know my name?"

"I just happened to hear it from Kyrus." He answered, still amused.

"Anyway, if you want to forget about the thing that made you cry, drink this. It will help you calm down for sure." I looked at the bottle of alcohol that he was holding.

"No thanks." I answered suspiciously. He laughed again and then took my hand and handed me the bottle.

"Don't worry. I am not a bad guy. I didn't put anything suspicious in there. It's up to you if you drink it or not. Just a friendly advice, don't go in there. Brey is seriously going insane right now because he's beyond mad. Just drink here and wait for him to get out." He tapped my shoulder before he descended on the stairs, leaving me alone.

I looked at the bottle of alcohol. It was partially opened but it was still full. I removed the cap and smelled its content. It smelled like strawberry.

Yes, I wanted to forget what happened and I needed something to do so. Before I could even think, I found myself tasting the alcohol. It tasted delicious!

"Damn you, Rocco! This will be my first and last time to cry and think about you! You don't deserve my tears!" I hissed and then chugged the alcohol down.

Later on, my tears stopped. I was even dancing along with the music while still sitting on the top landing of the stairs. About 45 minutes later and I finished drinking the alcohol. I couldn't believe that I could drink alcohol like that. I felt like I was just drinking a juice or something because it was delicious.

I looked at the time. It was almost 11 pm already. I decided to stand up and check on Brey. I took a step but quickly held onto the handrail of the stairs because I felt like the world spun around in a fast motion.

"Sh*t, I'm drunk." I mumbled like crazy and waited for my vision to clear out. When I finally felt steady, I slowly approached the door and knocked.

"Brey, a-are you in there?" I asked with a loud voice but no one answered.

"Brey!" it was the same. I groaned inwardly and decided to try opening it. To my surprise, it wasn't locked. I slowly stepped my way inside and then closed the door behind me. Then, I saw Brey, lying on the couch. There were bottles of alcohol on the coffee table in front of him.

There were even broken bottles on the floor as well. I gasped when I saw the broken TV and other broken furniture that were already on the floor.

"What happened here?" I asked to myself. I approached Brey and then shook his shoulder.

"Brey..." I called for him. He opened his eyes. I almost gasped when I saw the expression on his face. He looked dangerous.

"What are you doing in here? I already told you to go home." He said sternly and then sat up.

"I-I couldn't go and l-leave you here alone." I answered. I didn't know if I stuttered because I was drunk or because of Brey.

"Leave me alone. I don't want someone around me right now."

"But---"

"I said, leave me alone!" I barked thunderously which made me flinch. I gritted my teeth. I should feel scared but I strangely felt brave.

"No! I won't leave you here alone! Even if you won't admit it, I know you need someone by your side right now! I know you're hurting---"

"---so what if I'm hurting? Do you think you can do anything about it?" my eyes turned into slits.

"Yes! I can accompany you and make you feel better! I am your girlfriend---well, even though I'm just pretending to be your girlfriend, I can be here for you as a friend! You don't have to deal with the pain alone." I saw him grit his teeth.

To my surprise, he suddenly snatch me by the waist and made me sit on his lap. My eyes widened.

"You want to be with me? Fine, I'll let you be with me as my girlfriend but let me tell you this, Juno. I want something else right now to calm myself and if you can't give me that, get out of here while I still have my self-control." He warned as his amethyst eyes turned a shade darker.

Our eyes met for a couple of seconds. I swallowed hard. I was at lost for words but when his eyes stared down to my lips, I didn't expect the reaction of my body. I didn't know if it was the effect of the alcohol that I consumed but I suddenly felt hot all over.

My cheeks were burning and I felt like his touch were scorching. I felt like the temperature inside increased considerably.

I felt like I need something that only Brey could give me. His arm tightened around my waist as his other hand went to my nape and raked a handful of my hair, a little bit roughly, which made me tilt my head. Our lips were almost touching already and I almost stopped breathing.

I could feel the sudden strong sexual tension in the air. I bit my lower lip when I felt that hard thing poking on my butt. I groaned inwardly. I couldn't explain what I was feeling at that moment. I felt needy and hot all over.

"Kiss me." I heard him ordered huskily. I could see the desire in his eyes. I felt like I was under his spell because I found myself obliging.

The moment our lips touched, he instantly went wild and domineered me with a rough and passionate kiss. I got overwhelmed by his hot kisses but I kissed him back with equal fervor without any hesitation. I moaned in delight when I felt his hand cupped my breast and gently massaged them alternately.

I couldn't understand what was happening anymore. Just a while ago, I wanted to forget about Rocco but now, I'm giving the thing that I've been depriving him for so long without any reluctance.

I didn't know what was happening to me anymore. I was so lost of what we were doing. I felt like we were in our own world. I didn't know that we could be compatible like this. I felt like my body fit to his as if I belong to him.

I tried to rationally before it's too late but he made me forget everything by romancing me until I completely surrendered to him...

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