Seduced by a SEAL

Chapter 2

Cassandra’s assistant did not mind when she called and told her that she was going to be apparently late that morning. She had been dreading to talk to anyone about the news that she most definitely had to share with everyone since this was THE NEWS which was the most important part of life. Talking to anyone was something else might be but what was she going to tell her father and how was he going to react that was something she did not want to swell upon presently. She should have spoken to Sergio when she had come to know that he was back from his shooting in Milan but then again she was in too much of a raw state, raw emotional state rather and she knew that the conversation was not going to fare well at all.

She could weep in front of her only brother. The one that had been the disgrace to the family and was the black sheep but was perfectly successful in his own right. And Cassandra loved him beyond the moon because he was the only one person who had always protected her from anything and everything including their father’s wrath and their mother’s excessive perfection.

But she did not want to break down in front of him. Cassie knew that nothing would or nothing about her could possibly embarrass Sergio but she did not want to embarrass herself. She was a doctor, and a psychologist, at that, if she could not counsel herself and make herself get over that dim-witted i***t then what chance did she possibly have at taking care of her own patients and also take a shot at the research that she had wanted to do since so long. And when the boss was going to be no one else other than her own senior at college it was going to be nothing else but a hoot.

So she had to let the days pass away trickle away in the sands of time without being able to confess to herself or anyone else that her engagement to her fiancé, Doris was no longer going to happen.  Her anxiety kept on increasing as each and every single day passed. She had rather hoped that no one would notice that she was not wearing her engagement ring but she knew it in her heart pretty well that it was not going to happen anytime soon. But Sergio would, and he would start asking her questions the moment they met. It scared her like hell but that did not mean that she could put off meeting her own brother.

Strange how they both had turned out to be despite their father wanting them to mold them into his own image. Cassandra smiled at the memory of her father choking on his food when Sergio told at dinner one night that he was gay and he was not going to go for military when he was going to finish his graduation. He had other plans for his life and he was going to make them successful. Cassandra was fifteen years old and still wore skirts and frocks like her father wanted her to be. She felt like that she was nothing more than a doll inside the perfect play house for a doll.

Their mother had been always the arbitrator in the family and Cassandra loved her for that but sometimes it became too much suffocating. So when she came back to California this time with the objective of starting her own practice and also be the communication specialist in the research facilities Cassandra had considered that she would be happily married and her life would be perfect but she should have known that in this life there was nothing such as perfect. How could she even think that she could have something of a happily ever after when she had always made the wrong choices.

Rear Admiral Night had warned his daughter about Doris the days she had brought him home. He is nothing more than a beady eyed rodent who is showing you exactly what you want to see at the moment, but the day you see his original face I hope that it was not too late. Strange, how parents did understand what was right and wrong for their children innately. And nothing could be closer to the truth, what her father had said to her.

“Yes Dad. You win, I lose. You get one point,” muttered Cassandra as she did not hear the front door opening as she was whisking the batter of the cake which was Sergio’s favourite. And with the sound of the mellow jazz music she had lost herself completely.

“If anyone wants to kidnap you young lady then I think it is not going to be very tough thing to do, that too from the security of your own apartment,” said a male gruff voice and the batter almost dropped from Cassie’s hands. And she whirled around to see Sergio standing there in her living room with a duffel bag and a trolley at his feet and grinning at her like the fool he was.

“One of these days you are going to get murdered by me,” said Cassandra as she kept the bowl on the counter and then ran into his arms. Sergio picked her up like the small lithe doll she was and twirled her about in his arms.

“Getting murdered by you is like the easiest pastime that I can be having these days. I cannot imagine what to say to you sis, that they made me burn out so bad this time I don’t think that I can ever go infront of the camera again in the next few years,” said Sergio as he batted his fake lashes and his kohl lined eyes at his sister.

“You say that every single time sweetheart and then you are on the cover of Calvin Klein next month,” said Cassie as she was genuinely happy to see her brother.

“You are happy, but you are not,” said Sergio as he looked carefully at her and then immediately his eyes went to her empty finger and he fgasped out loud.