Chapter 153 - Bonus 3

Nina and Ian's story

When Ted brought this small single bedroom house, he had given a spare key to Nina. She had never been intimate with Ted, so he never brought her to his house. She thought that it may be the reason they kept on fighting because they have never taken the next step. Maybe Ted was just frustrated, so since it was Valentine's day, she was going to give herself to him as his gift. She had bought some sexy lingerie just for the occasion. 

So she started decorating as soon as she got to his house, when she threw something in the waste bin she noticed a used pregnancy test kit. Nina frowned and wondered, she didn't remember Ted telling her of any siblings or cousins staying with him.

Suddenly she felt cold all over her body, she did not want to believe it, but she needed more proof. She went to his closet and found women's clothes hanging beside his clothes, underwear, and shirts neatly folded in the drawers. This was not a casual fling, he had been cheating on her for a while.

So she removed all the decorations and sat in her car to wait for them, still hoping that it was not true, this could not be happening to her. 

She wanted to cry, but no tears were coming out, she was numb and shocked, she kept on thinking that she would wake up in a few seconds and everything would just be a nightmare. But it was not, after some time Ted came home with a woman in his arms, they were laughing, "She's just a friend," she thought, still in denial. 

When he kissed her right outside his door, she felt that her world had collapsed. She did not know how she managed to get the strength to walk up to him, but as she stood in front of him, he pushed the other woman away from him, denying any relationship with her. He said the woman jumped on him. 

The woman got pissed off and screamed at him. She told him to tell her the truth as she let herself in the house. 

Nina was so heartbroken, and all she could ask him was, ����Why?"

He said that he always felt inferior to her, everyone made fun of him and told him that he was not worthy of her. And he said he did not care what they said, but he said he felt small whenever she bought him expensive gifts or when they went to expensive restaurants, and she always had to pay. 

They even told him that she would eventually cheat on him because he was not enough for her. 

Plus, he said, "I'm a man Nina, I have needs, and you never wanted to do anything with me. I felt emasculated all the time."

Nina said, "Well you never asked, and never went beyond kissing, so I thought we were waiting until we got married."

Ted replied arrogantly that it's the woman's job to offer herself to her partner, and since she never offered she probably didn't think he was worthy.

Nina got so mad that she slapped him and said, "It's a good thing I never offered myself to you because I just realized that you are really not worthy of me or my love."

She sat in her car crying for a while before she left. "Is this the person I loved? He has changed so much, or maybe she never knew who he really was," she thought sadly.

She headed to a bar to drown all her sorrows. While wallowing in her self-pity a handsome man approached her, and she thought maybe this guy can make her forget. So she started flirting with him, trying to boost her ego. At first, it was all very innocent, nothing too crass, but when she started getting bolder and propositioned him, he decided to shut it down.

When she felt that he was getting turned off, she started feeling sorry for herself again. "Go," she said, "I understand, nobody would want someone like me anyway. You probably think I'm ugly. Just like that idiot said, I'm not enough for him, I'm probably not enough for you too."

"It's not that," he said, "You're drunk, and you'll probably forget this happened."

She stood up, and he thought, "Great, she's leaving. It's not safe for her to be by herself." But instead, she wrapped her arms around his neck and started pulling him down for a kiss. He stiffened up, avoiding her kisses, and tried to unwrap her hands.

"Am I really that bad, that nobody wants me?" Nina sadly looked into his eyes. It tugged his heart that she would feel this way, she was so beautiful, and he wondered who had broken her confidence.

He gave in to that first kiss, and he stopped when he wanted to go for more. 

"Hmmm… I like how you kiss, I want more," she said. 

"I hope you don't regret this later," the man said.

"I won't...," Nina said, determined.

And that's all it took to convince the man to carry her in his arms and took her with him. He ravished her the whole night.

Nina tried to open her eyes, but her head was pounding, and her body was throbbing in places she can't figure out why. She can't remember what happened last night. 

She opened one eye, and she was facing a man's naked back. Then she remembered fighting with Ted, and as she looked down to check herself, she was shocked to see that she was naked.

"Agghhh… Why am I here?" she screamed as she tried to sit up and pull the sheet to cover herself, "Why are we naked?" 

The man turned around to the sound of her voice. "Nina, calm down, let me explain everything," the man said.

"Explain my foot Mr. Lange, how dare you take advantage of me!" Nina started to hit Ian with the pillows.

Yes, the man Nina slept with was none other than Ian Lange.

Ian held the hand that was hitting him with the pillow.

"Yesterday, you were so drunk and offered yourself to me," he said.

Nina remembered everything and felt that yesterday was the worst day of her life. First, she learned that her boyfriend had been cheating on her, and second, she lost her virginity to a business associate.

"But... you could have stopped me, you're definitely stronger than me," Nina said, irritated.

"I could not because I love you," Ian said, softly looking into her eyes.

"Bullshit! You don't need to lie to me just to justify what you did," Nina tried to push him. But Ian wrapped his arms around her and started to kiss her. 

For a few minutes, she remembered how good it felt to be in his arms, how his kisses made her forget herself, and she felt herself kissing him back.

Then she stiffened and twisted her head away from him, "No, no..stop." 

"I'm telling you the truth. Please say yes. I want you so much," Ian pleaded, releasing his tight hold on her.

Nina took that opportunity to get out from his grasp, "You say that now. What will you do if I do not give you what you want? Throw me away and find another woman who will satisfy you?"

Ian was stunned, he did not know how to convince her. He's never even tried to talking to a woman, so he did not know how to flatter or persuade her.

She hurriedly put her dress back on and ran out of the room.

To get closer to Nina, Ian scheduled a lot of meetings and appointments with her, inviting her out to lunch or dinner every time he saw her. But she always declined because she felt awkward with what happened and she couldn't face him.

She was getting frustrated, and when she got him alone in her office, "Listen, Ian let's forget what happened and just act like business associates," Nina pointedly said.

"No! I can't, I want you to be my wife," he said. He did not care about the dating process. For him, it was very simple. He loved someone, then he was going to marry her.

"Are you kidding me? I just came out of a bad relationship. I thought I knew him, and he cheated on me. I don't even know a thing about you. How can I marry you?" she looked at him questioningly, "You know what scratch that, I don't want to think about men right now," she snapped. "This is preposterous," she thought.

Ian's face darkened when he heard her mention her ex, he tightened his fists. "Nina, I promise you I will never betray you. I will give you time to think about u,s but I will never give up on you," he said sternly.

Nina believed Ted, and she knew him far more than Ian, yet he still managed to hurt her, she was not repeating the same mistake again.