32| A thing of choice

He was shaving his beards in the bathroom when he literally remember that he forgot to take something along with him. With his face staring at his image in the mirror, he called out someone….

"Priyanka, can you please help me with my towel?" He waited for an answer but silent greeted him. "Priyanka, help me with..." He paused for a moment, observing his brain if he has gone mad.

It's officially six months now and he still haven't gotten her out of his head. What the hell is wrong with him? If he keep on thinking about her, he'll lose his senses and end up in the psychiatric hospital. He has to let some things go and she is one of the things he's been trying to put aside since six months but it's not easy for him to let go.

He keeps deceiving himself that he no longer has feelings for her but his heart craves the truth and the truth is that he still loves her. Four weeks after they parted ways, a mermaid with a rainbow tail appeared to him in the office while he was going through some stuffs on his desk.

He wasn't afraid to question her because he had already seen a type like her before. Though, he first thought that this is another section B of his ex coming to fool him again, but when he looked at it intently, he noticed that the mermaid wasn't his type. She was a bit older and finer but his ex was more beautiful than her.

She told him so many things. Why his ex did what she did and all of that. The mermaid explained everything from start to him. He was short of words, he didn't know what to say. He never knew she cheated on him to save his life.

The following day after that day, he volunteered to fly back to LA to see her. When he got there, he noticed that the house was sealed up. Grasses has overtaken the surroundings, it looked like a planet where no living habitats lived. He kept on trying and trying – asking his father to set the Abhishek free from prison but his father being his father, stood on his word.

There was nothing he could do to save them from prison since it was an order from his father. He had to let everything be. And when he heard that their tenure in prison was over and they were set free, he was happy and gladly went back to LA to apologize for everything. But when he got there again, he saw new faces and they told him the place was sold out to new occupant.

Inside the same issue, the nurse he slept with couple of times hooked him up with pregnancy. She said she was pregnant and she's not gonna abort the baby. Who knows if it's true? He cheated on his ex and pretended to be submissive to her at the same time. He watched her get arrested when he knew he also had cobwebs in his cupboard.

Maybe he decide to put it in a way like – some things are made to be unsaid.

When his parents came to find out that a woman was carrying his child, they forced him to marry her even though he disagree. His father, specifically fixed the wedding and all of that. For him, someone is carrying his grandchild, he can't let it go. His son has to marry that woman and it happened.

Although, the couples are not living a healthy relationship. They don't sleep in same room and they barely talk to each other. He still blames her for making him lose the woman he loved. And she blamed him for touching her without protection.

Fights everyday. Some days they don't fight, they only had sex.

He had no choice but to embrace whatever had happened in his past to be his past. He will never see his first love again and that's it. He was told she had gone back to India with her family and he was also told that…..she lost her father.

He hated himself times without number because he felt that he was the main reason why she lost her father, but nevertheless. He hopes she finds someone that will love her and cherish her as she begins a new life. Since he couldn't fulfill  all of his promises for her. He felt like a lying bastard, a cheater and a mother fucking rich bad boy who only cares so much for himself and not for other people.

Now he understood why she usually calls him an asshole and a maniac. He only loved her for her beauty and wanted her to be with him like a sorcerer. He was such a selfish lying jerk that pretended to keep his body till their wedding night. He is supposed to be spending his life with her now but he's spending it without another person.

The wrong person.

This wrong woman only wanted his body and money. She lied about needing his body only. Everyday, he always spends on her. Shopping, shopping, shopping. He thought his sister might like her too but…no. She only agreed with her parents because the woman said she was carrying the future grandheir of the family.

So, so, so! Back to reality now.

As for now, he has to get ready for his flight to Washington. He has an important lunch meeting with his cousin, Maxwell.

"So, when are we launching the new project?"

"Claudia is pregnant."

Justin spat out the wine in his mouth and frowned at him, "Is this the main reason why I flew an hour and forty-one minutes? To hear about your relationship shit?"

Will this guy bring it down? First he doesn't look happy coming here in the first place and second, he is so concerned about business than their friendship these days.

"Dude, chill a bit." Max whined, his eyes looking round at the people seated nearby. "Stop acting like we're not on the same category right now."

"No, Max. There's a big difference. I am married and you're not." Justin corrected, wiping his mouth with a napkin.

"And that is the first thing that interested me to you." Max almost said in a whisper. "Few weeks ago was the first time we had sex without rubbers – I ran out of them and she said she was good that she just finished having her period and –"

"Okay, what kinda lecture do you need from me right now?" Justin leaned back on his chair, his arms crossed.

"Bingo! I just need you to tell me how to go about this issue. Sienna is pregnant too. You already understood the system of fatherhood."

"Max," Justin rubbed his forehead, "Am not a father yet. You could have asked uncle Rojas or maybe my father, how to process the whole thing. Even me, am still trying to find out the specific requirements of being a father."

Ugh. Why does he always bring in their family members into their discussion? "Dad is seriously not the best guy right now but I don't know about uncle Ben. But you see dad….he is a long talker."

"The guy with long lectures, huh?" Justin chuckled and lifted his glass to toast that speech.

Dropping his glass on the table, Max sigh, " I seriously don't know what to do. I need help like badly."

He needs help? This guy is an LOL. Justin leaned his arms on the table and smiled. "If you need help then what do I need? You seriously think life is easy for me right now, don't you? Am passing through the hardest times of my life."

"How do you mean?"

"Max….." He sipped his wine. "Things have not been going well with Sienna and I since we tied the knot. We're just pretending to be happy because of the baby."

"But you said –"

"Bro, I've been deceiving myself all along." He spread his arms like he owns nothing. "I didn't want people to talk, I didn't want to spoil my father's history as the president of the country, I don't want to create a bad name for myself as the guy who only fucks women and never love them."

Of course that's what you truly are. A beast!

"Then....you should have let it slide. You could have made it clean like an agreement in the beginning."

Justin let out a deep sigh. "I was infatuated and obsessed, okay? I was in lust and not in love with her. I made it clear to her that there's absolutely nothing I feel for her if not for the baby and she understood. Apart from the fact that mom and dad forced us to marriage, we're only together because of the baby."

Sorrows. Sorrows. Just let them pass, okay? Max felt for him even though he still has his own massive problem waiting for him. "Look, man. I don't really know if my condition tally's with yours but…..am not ready to start a life with Claudia yet and not also ready to be a father."

Huh? What is this one talking? "Are you out of your mind? What are you going to do? Dump her in the middle of frustration?"

"Dude, the seed is still growing in there and still fresh to take off. I told her to terminate the pregnancy, period!"

"What a shame." Justin mumbled, sipping his wine in disgust.

"Marriage is a thing of choice, something that comes from the heart when you truly love the other person. I can't settle down with Claudia when I know I only enjoy every bit of her body only."

"I strictly warned you to let her be when you chased after her like a fool, now you've gotten her pregnant and you want her to suffer alone. It's not fair, Max. If someone did this to Francesca, I'll skim him alive."

"Fuck me." Max murmured, digging into his pasta.

"I have issues with my bank accounts. So you have to reschedule our meetings for tomorrow because I'll be going to New York to solve my bank issues." Justin informed him.