Revenge of the Billionaire’s Ex-Lover

15. Overwhelming Feeling

AS SOON AS I OPEN my eyes once, the blinding rays of sunlight greeted me as if its main goal was to make me lose my vision right away. I think I forgot to close my curtains last night when I got home. Slowly, I opened my eyes to adjust with the brightness in front of me as a groan escaped my lips right away, feeling the pain in my head right away. The aftermath of alcohol will never be my favorite.

Slowly, I supported myself to raise myself up from a laying down position. However, as soon as I managed to sit up straight, the throbbing pain in my head and I could only groan in pain because of it. This is really the worst! Yet I can’t even stop myself because it is the only thing that distracts me from my worst nightmare—my reality.

As part of my routine, I extended my hand to reach for glasses which I always put on every morning… only to reach nothing but air! I immediately opened my eyes wider than it already is, realizing that the cream colored nightstand I have which is supposed to occupy a photo frame which has a photo of mine and my daily glasses became a black colored nightstand with only a white lamp above it and a bottle of water.

“What the f**k?!” I exclaimed right away.

I let my eyes wander around the room, finally noticing the difference. There is not much of a difference with the wall glass I have in my own unit since two of the four corners of my room are normally glass walls which give the sun easy access to enter my room while this one only has one on the right side. However, no matter how slightly similar that part is with my own unit, the whole design of this room is different from my own!

The curtains are in pure white colored automatic style curtains and the remaining walls are in shades of white and black. The floor is in marble tiles, which is different to mine since I had mine covered in mat. There are two single couches with a small stable in between which is occupied by a vase and some books in it on the left side of the room. There is even a huge painting behind it!

Just by seeing all of the furniture, it already screams luxurious! The huge queen size bed, the chandeliers, the high ceiling, the marble tiles, the foam style wall behind the headboard of the bed, the soft blanket and mattress, and even the aroma of the whole room. I could tell already that someone who lives with privileges stays here… but who? I’m pretty sure my friends houses doesn’t look like this?

“Where the hell am I?” I whispered to myself, trying to remember everything that happened last night as I stepped out of the bed and prepared myself to head out of the room.

The only thing I can remember is getting all drunk and seeing Don at the private room on the other side of the floor. Other than that, I can’t think of anything anymore! The fact that I am in a new silk pajama that fits me well and I don’t even have makeup on anymore, which I don’t remember taking off last night, makes me wonder who took in this mysterious home. I’m pretty sure I didn’t play with anyone last night as well since I don’t feel any pain in between my legs nor feel like I am shaking.

As soon as I step out of the room, I can only be amazed by the whole interior design of the unit. The whole place is massive! I can assume that this is probably a penthouse just by how everything outside the building looks small and as if I am close to the sky already. The ceiling is so tall it is the same height as my family house already with huge glass walls and a huge curtain to block the sunlight from time to time.

My attention went to the piano placed next to the spacious living room which has several couches that can accommodate several people. What draws my attention more is the L-style stairs with glass that serves as the railing. Other than that, there is easy access to the dining room and kitchen as well where a woman has her back facing me while keeping herself busy with her work.

“Excuse me?” I softly called, carefully approaching her in a friendly manner. As soon as she turned around, I noticed how she looked just a few years older than I am until I saw some wrinkles under her eyes. “May I ask… where am I?”

“Good morning, Ms. Moreno! I was about to go into your room and wake you up for breakfast, but you beat me to it.” She said in a friendly tone, looking excited as ever. She placed a plate of whole grain bread underneath the avocado slices and the sunny side up above it with some grapefruit on the side of it. “I was told to prepare some healthy food for you, but not to exaggerate it. I hope you will like this breakfast I prepared for you, ma’am.”

A sincere smile then formed my lips, seeing how cheerful and positive she is. I wish I could be like her too. “Thank you, miss. This is more than enough, actually! But I will surely enjoy it.” I exclaimed in a polite manner without forgetting to appreciate her effort.

“You were asking about where you are, right, ma’am?” She asked, placing a glass of water with a slice of lemon in it. For a moment, it made me stare. It is one of my must have drinks before eating my breakfast. “You are in the penthouse of Prism Residence, Miss Moreno.”

“Prism Residence?” I repeated as she nodded with a sweet smile. “Please just call me Kaylie. You don’t really need to be so polite to me. After all, I haven’t caught your name as well.”

“Oh right! How dumb of me to forget it.” She exclaimed with a small chuckle that almost sounds like music in my ears. “I’m Elina Guerra, Miss Kaylie. I have been the housekeeper of this penthouse for the last eight years now.”

Eight years is a long time. That means she is probably not close to my age anymore, especially if she is a housekeeper.

“If you don’t mind me asking, who is the owner of this penthouse?” I carefully asked.

Just when she was about to answer, a voice interrupted her response, making me turn around only to see someone that I didn’t expect to be here. I immediately looked away and never even dared to look at his direction in embarrassment. Why is he even walking around the place topless?! I mean, I get that this is his place but he has someone in here!

“You were asking about the owner. But now that I am here, you won’t even look at me, Kaye.” Don exclaimed with mockery in his tone. I don’t even need to look at him just to know that he is probably smirking right now. “You can take a rest for today, Manang. I will handle Kaylie on my own today.”

After hearing that, I didn’t hesitate to look at him in disbelief. Having his housekeeper is the only way to keep me alive in this penthouse while he keeps walking around and standing there like a freaking Greek God with a perfect body in front of me. If his housekeeper leaves, I don’t even know how I can face him alone!

“Make her stay! She doesn’t need to leave since I won’t stay for long anyway.” I pointed out, gulping down while fighting the urge to look down to his naked chest. I shake the dirty thoughts away and look at his housekeeper, almost pleading through my eyes already. “I will leave after finishing your breakfast. You don’t need to leave, ma’am.”

“Says who?” Don interrupted, making me glare at him right away. He raised a brow at me, fighting back with an intense gaze. “You won’t leave this place until I say so. Besides, Manang is not even your housekeeper to tell her what she needs to do.”

This man has really become an asshole now!

Suddenly a mischievous smirk formed his lips. Without giving me any notice, he approached my side, making me step back until I ended up sitting on the high chair. He cage me with his two strong, naked arms with not even a single shame if his housekeeper is watching us. But, when I glance to the side, his housekeeper is not even there anymore.

“Unless you agree to becoming my wife then you can tell her off.” He exclaimed with a sneaky smile and a seductive tone. I gathered all of my courage and decided to push him away with all my might, making him chuckle softly. I turned the chair around and decided to just focus on the food in front of me. “I hope your taste remains the same. I wasn’t sure what to tell Manang when she asked what food you want to have for breakfast since we haven’t really seen each other for so long. So I have no choice but to resort to what I know.”

Upon hearing his explanation, I stopped and kept my eyes on the food prepared in front of me. So… it was really him who asked Elina to prepare all of these? For me? My taste didn’t change actually but… how can he even still remember it when he only made it for me once? No wonder even the lemon water that needs to exist during my breakfast before meals exist right now.

“Should I say thank you then? For suggesting a perfect breakfast?” I teased him, forming a small smile on my lips, looking at him.

However, compared to my cheerful look right now, he suddenly puts on a serious face and completely disregards the playful look he had earlier. He kept his silence and only stared at me like he was observing my face and trying to read my mind with just looking at my eyes directly. I blinked my eyes as discomfort slowly reached me as I looked away, feeling my ears turning red, which at the same time I heard him let out a sigh in relief.

“Seeing how you are capable of turning red with just one stare from me, it looks like you are better now then.” He pointed out, making me look at him once again in confusion. Without any hesitation, he occupied the chair next to me while making sure that he was facing my direction still. “Are you feeling better now?”

The smile I managed to put on earlier slowly disappeared as I listened to him asking me about my condition. There is not even a single hint of being playful in his face right now, and all I could only see is worry that he is obviously trying so hard to hide. While I, on the other hand, am not even sure what to answer him.

“I guess?” I simply answered, questioning my own answer, making him sigh. I lower my head down for a moment, thinking about what happened last night before looking at him again. “Seeing that I am here means you were the one I stayed with last before I black out, didn’t I? Did I do something stupid or anything weird?”

Unexpectedly, he gently shook his head as a sigh of relief escaped my lips. “More like you just finally let out all the emotions you have been keeping for days.” He exclaimed.

Did I?

“Just let it all out, Kaye. I will speak if you want me too, and listen if that is what you only want me to do.”

He continued his words in such a soft, gentle manner as if he is so afraid a single harsh word will escape his lips and that it could hurt me so deep that I already am. For some reason, I can’t even stop myself from crying in his arms like it is his comfort that I have been waiting for so long to have now just so I could let out my whole feelings. As he caressed my back gently with his hand, I could only break down in his warm hold.

“T-Tell me, Don. Was I really not enough? Was my hard work not really e-enough for him? Am I still n-not perfect enough?” I exclaimed in between my cries as I tried to make my words still clear enough for him to hear. “F-For so many years, I-I have been trying to impress him in so many ways. I have been trying so damn hard just so he could see my effort. But why can’t he even see that?!”

For the first time ever, the silence I have been receiving right now doesn’t feel so suffocating. It doesn’t make me feel like I was being hindered to talk more to express my pain, guilt, and my whole disappointment in life. For the first time, it felt like I could speak freely without the need to feel cautious and scared of what to say. I didn’t need to choose my words wisely, and didn’t need to be cautious around me. I… I can only be myself.

“You know? When my father insulted you back then and I wasn’t able to protect you in front of him, I felt so guilty, you know? Just like my friends, you became one of the people who had to hear such insulting words from a man who didn’t know what kind of life you were going through. After that, I don’t even know how I can face you because I feel so ashamed for what he did, but you still showed me that you don’t mind it at all! You were so ready to turn a blind eye and pretend you can’t understand a f*****g word! Until…” I looked up to meet his eyes that remained stoic while mine turned more watery this time. “Until I became stupid enough and decided to hurt you as well.”

“Stop bringing up the past now, Kaylie.” He only exclaimed, maintaining his composure.

I shake my head in response, making him look at me in wonder. “I can never stop bringing that up until I finally paid for what I did before. Remember? You are taking your revenge on me. So, I will only wait until the day you think I already paid enough before I could stop bringing up that past.” I explained as sincere as possible as I could be.

“But you know? When you introduce yourself as the CEO and owner of DTC Group in front of many businessmen as well as the day you went to dinner with me and my family, I was so proud of you!” I placed a hand on his soft cheek, making him look at me in shock but he quickly recovered. “You used to tell me back then that you will make us pay for what we did by becoming more successful than we are, and look how far you have been! You have me as your toy to take revenge for and you are playing with my father’s desire which only makes me suffer more.”

With my free hand, I use it to pull his collar and clench on it in anger. “I know you want me to suffer, but do you really have to put more pain in my suffering?” I cried as I spoke those words. “Haven’t I suffered enough under my father’s hold for so many years now?

He looked at me with those timid eyes before a sigh escaped his lips. He holds my hand that is clenching his collar right now, removing my hold in it. I expected him to yank it away, but instead, he held it like it was so fragile, making the anger in me slowly soften.

“I think you still haven’t gotten the point that I wasn’t only here for revenge, Kaylie.” He exclaimed, using his free hand to tuck my excess hair as my eyes slowly closed up due to tiredness of crying. “As much as I love to see you suffer and to take revenge on you, I… I only want one thing from you.”

“And that is?” I whispered, fighting the urge to sleep and just black out.

“That I—”

However, before I could even hear his next words, everything went black already. I was put into dreamland after such a heavy feeling that only managed to lessen after Don insisted for me to take it all out. He managed to calm me down… still, just like back then.

“You must have thought that I was being like a little girl, whining, don’t you?” I exclaimed, looking at him straight in the eyes this time.

He formed a small smile as he shook his head a bit. “More like you only make me want to put my interest in you only.” He confessed without any hesitation, making me blink thrice.

Without giving him any response, I turn away and focus on the food place in front of me. If I am being honest, I still feel nervous about what can actually happen. I still feel nervous about his main purpose for me. I feel scared of his revenge and what he is capable of doing now. Yet, at the same time, I can feel the comfort in him.

“Wait! You took me home which means…” I look at my pajamas before looking at him with judgmental eyes. For a second, he let out a scoff in disbelief while looking at me like I am out of my mind. Then he let out a big laugh, making me feel embarrassed now. I hit his shoulder in return which made him laugh even more. “It’s not funny, Donovan!”

“Fine! Fine! I will stop laughing now.” He says in between laughter that I only rolled my eyes on. “Look, as much as I have seen everything you need to cover under that pajama, I still respect you, okay? I asked Manang to change your clothes for you. Damn! You don’t even know how hard it is to get you changed because you were moving so much.”

“It’s not funny, okay! I was really wondering who changed my clothes, especially when I didn’t even know where I was earlier.” I argued.

Our conversation goes on at that kind of pace. I was in pure comfort and happiness as I argued with him every single time he tried to tease me. For some reason, I think I really find it much better to have him around me than not even though I know his purpose. Even though I know that all of these could change so quickly for his revenge and that transition will only be left to hurt me so deeply.

After having breakfast, he had to prepare for a scheduled appointment with a business partner so he had no choice but to leave for a moment. I insisted on leaving since he won’t be here anyway, and I won’t have anyone to stay here with me since he insisted on having his housekeeper leave. However, he wanted me to stay and wait for him since he wants to drive home. I wanted to argue, but a part of me just let him do whatever he wants. So right now, all I could do was look around his office and he gave me access to enter in.

“They could really pass being identical twins.” I exclaimed while looking at the photo frame of Don with his sister, Yvette, during her graduation day.

Remembering how close we were back then, all I could do was smile as the memories appeared on my mind once again. She really was such a very bright and positive kid back then who is so clingy to her brother no matter how old she has gotten. If I am not wrong, I was her favorite person back then too… before everything became a mess.

As a sigh escaped my lips, I put down the photo frame and only gave it another short glance. I made my way out of his office with heavy feet and a deep sigh. Such great memories only fade in just a swift moment. How awful that could be.

“What are you doing here?!”