*Josh*

Telling Ella everything wasn't the plan. I never knew it would come to this, a fair play.

But after everything she's been through, I know that she's guarding herself.
Allowing me to touch her, in exchange of telling her my soul...that's a soul for a soul.

"Ella" I said as she stood in the middle of my penthouse, still in her oversized dirty top. "Go to bed"

"Okay" she whispered.

"I mean go get some rest, sleep"

"Sleep?"

"Sleep" I nodded.

"But-"

"I have spare shirts in the room on your left, change and get some sleep"

"Why?"

"You had a long...night" I smiled.

She nodded, leaving to the room.

I knew if I wanted to win, I needed to play in the way any other normal man would.
Lure her by sweet words, put her trust in me and carry her heart with a promise I wouldn't drop it.
As much as I wanted to fuck the living shit out of her, she deserved much more than that. Her body was golden treasure, not just gold plated.
I wanted to show her that just because I stole her innocence and hurt her, she was still beautiful and deserved nothing but a castle of maids.
Any man who couldn't see that, didn't deserve her.

But it won't change the fact that one thing about me is one night of fucking her.
Just let her rest.

If I was to be honest, I'd say that she deserves better than me, yet she deserves better then all these boys who just fuck.
But if I could bow at her feet and shower her with money, pleasure or whatever she asked for, then I would. It's the reason I stayed, fighting for her.

I was afraid I'd lose the part of me that I had left in her, I was afraid some man would hurt her more then I already had.

So I wanted to put her together again, then, if she decides to leave...she can. But she'll leave in one whole, in hopes the next man around that will possibly hurt her, will only break pieces from her whole.

But I've seen her eyes. In her eyes was the fight. Over the year, she's grown and shaped herself into a knight behind a mask.
She fixed herself a penthouse, works at one of the famous companies, bought the latest car to drop and seen parts of New York she never saw.
She even stabbed a man out of self defence.
A year ago, if you placed a man by her who attempted to rape her, she'd squat in the corner, scream and shove but he'd get his way.

Now, she was willing to have blood on her hands.

I was afraid that too much blood would put a black dot in her heart that I didn't want to witness. Mine was enough. But enough blood would tell the harmful that she was not to be played with and the innocent that she was not easy to get.

I wanted her.
This time the right way, but I know I can't control myself.

I leaned against the kitchen bench top and cleared my mind. As I was about to puff and whisper, finally she's mine, I know that was a lie. She wasn't mine, she was just here. Giving me herself in order to discover me.
It's a type of sacrifice nobody would make if they didn't love you.
She did love me, did she not?

A phone buzzed by the coffee table in the lounge room, attracting me, I walked over to it and grabbed it.
Jack.

Ella had left her phone on the table, a part of me wanted to answer and a part of me wanted to smash it against the wall.
But I answered, remaining silent from my end.

"Ella" Jack called, loud enough to be heard in such a silent context.

"She's sleeping"

I heard Jack sighed from his end, sleeping was the truth but in his mind, sex was playing.

He hang up and I put the phone down.

Alright, let's set things straight.
To work on me, to work on us. He has to go.

I grabbed my phone from my backside and dialled Nicolas, setting it on speaker as I poured myself a bottle of alcohol.

"Nico" Nicolas sarcastically said.

"Nicolas I need a favour"

"As soon as you get your ass home for dinner, you missed two nights and Lana is doing my head in"

"I need you to frame Jack"

"I keep telling her...wait what?" Nicolas was surprised.

"Jack, Jack the guy who hangs with Ella. I want you to frame him"

"Dude, frame him dead or frame him behind bars?"

"Anything, I want him gone"

"Why?"

"Because-"

"No" a weak voice came from behind.

I turned around, leaving Nicolas on the phone by the alcohol.
"Ella"

"No, you can't frame an innocent man!" Ella gasped "Are you out of your mind, why?!"

I sighed, rubbing my forehead.

"You told me you changed, this isn't changing" Ella frowned "This is far from change"

"I'm doing it for you"

"By taking away my friend?"

"I don't like him!" I groaned.

"Ella?" Nicolas called through the phone "Actually...I got to go, call me back later" the phone beeps.

"I don't care what you like!" she yelled back "You said you changed, I'm here trying to give you another chance but...I can't believe I trusted you" she added in my purple knee high shirt.
"Just how much did you change? throwing away the playroom is considered change?"

"Ella"

"No, you know what. If you dare to come near Jack" She took a few steps towards me "I promise you, you will never, hear from me again"

"I-"

She grabbed her phone and turned right around towards the door.

"Ella!"

She pulled open the door.

"ELLA" I yelled.

She stopped and turned around.
"Is this the part you tell me all over again that you changed?"

I power walked towards her, she let out an arm and stopped me from coming any closer.
"Don't touch me"

"Alright I won't frame him, I won't harm him!" I tried to control my anger.

"It's not that!" she sighed "The fact I believed you changed" she chuckled in pain "and within what, 30minutes you fuck it up" she whispered before leaving the penthouse.

"Ella!"

She made her way towards the elevator and rapidly pushed the button.

"When is it time to stop chasing you!" I yelled from my end of the hallway "When will you sit the fuck down and let me do me!"

She turned around "When will you leave me alone and let me do me!" she yelled back.

"People don't change over night" I sighed.

She entered the elevator "Then come find me, when you do change"

"Ella" I called once more before the doors closed.
"FUCK" I hissed before entering my penthouse and going on a rampage, breaking lamps to cups to anything.

I had to work on my anger, I had to work on me.

I walked over towards the balcony and looked down, watching Ella cross the busy roads and run barefoot with nothing but a shirt on.

I knew in order to keep her, I had to become the man she needed.

God do me this one favour and let me have this one girl before you send all your wicked plans my way.

Let me fix myself, for her.

I answer my phone as it rings and place it on speaker "Not now Suzi"

"When are you coming over for some fun?" I could imagine her pouting on the other side of the phone.

"I'm busy"

"Alright baby, see you soon...I hope" she blows a kiss.

I hang up.
I'm trying to get Ella, while I fuck around with other ladies in the meantime.
She doesn't have to know.

I need to clear my mind, so I text Suzi to meet me at the nightclub. I hope she bought the lingerie I liked.

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Okay I KNOW I UPDATED SUPER LATE!
But bcoz I'm on holiday now, I took me a solid week to settle in & get myself internet/wifi to update.
From now, there will be weekly updates or possibly twice a week or so on.
Ready for a sex scene next ?

Mia x