ENGAGED TO MY EX'S BROTHER

CHAPTER 2

EMILY
I don't know for how long I've been sleeping here but I'm sure it has been long.
Sitting up on my bed, I look around and I realise that it's already dark.

I fumble with the bed switch and lights fill the hotel room. Tonight, I might have been somewhere away from home, enjoying my first night with Charlie as a married woman. Who knows, we might have probably made that baby he has been craving for ever since we got engaged. You see, I've never cohabited with Charlie. The only time came close to having sex was that day he took me out for dinner three weeks ago but I resisted the temptations.

Many are the times he had convinced me into sleeping with him but I always found a way to avert him. I always wanted to be married as a virgin and give my virginity to my husband but it seems that didn't work out.

Natalie too kept on educating me on the essence of breaking my virginity on my wedding night and she played a great role in staying pure. I didn't know I was keeping myself pure for someone who was busy bagging my best friend...I now know why Natalie ensured I didn't sleep with him. She wanted her alone to be the only one sleeping with him.

They can now go ahead and get married. They deserve each other!

Now here I am, in this hotel room, broken and horny...only wishing that a mistake like Charlie never happened in my life.
How did they succeed in fooling me? So whenever I couldn't satisfy his sexual desires, he'd run to his mistress to get the extras without even bothering to use protection! Oh God!

The funny thing is, I haven't even cried...not even a little bit. Why should I cry anyway? I'm glad I never gave my body to that fucktard!

When I arrived in this hotel room a few hours ago, I was relieved when I found my phone at the reception. The cleaner had found it in the trashcan and took it to the receptionist since she saw my picture on the lock screen and remembered I spend my night there with the bridesmaids awaiting my wedding today. I'm sure that bitch Natalie threw it on there!

I thanked them then requested them for a favour.
I wanted a room and I instructed them not to reveal that I'm in there to anybody, not even to my parents!

I just wanted sometime alone and think but I ended up sleeping like a baby...like I've no worries in the whole world.

I pick my phone which is on the small table beside me and I switch it on. I had to switch it off because people were blowing it off with calls and texts.

I switch it on, wishing that they're already tired and they've stopped bothering me. It's already ten o'clock at night and I it seems I'll be spending the night here as I contemplate on what to do or where to go next.

There are several voice calls from my parents, Charlie, Natalie, my brides maids and even the priest but I don't bother listening to them. I only drop a message to my mother informing her that I'm okay and I'll be going home tomorrow.

However, curiosity catches up with me and I'm tempted to listen to Natalie's voice message. I don't know why I still worry myself about her given that she betrayed me big time! Hey! Sleeping with your best friend's fiancee and husband to-be behind her back ain't cool at all. Not at all!

I tap at it and her voice fills my ears. I can tell she's remorseful but no longer give a damn about her! I mean, she deserves no pity from me! She's the reason I'm in this hotel room all alone instead of a cosy VIP cabin with Charlie, eating life with a big spoon on our wedding night. Who knows? My virginity would have gone by now and I'd have been a woman already. Agrrr! Either way, I need to satisfy my curiosity.

*Kindly read my messages. It's important.*

I shrug and scroll down to her text message. I just want to read it, block her ass and get done with her for good.

*I'm sorry for everything that ever happened Emily. Charlie and I were together long before we met and became the best of friends. I met him in the other town where I was staying but we lost contact when I moved here. When you introduced him as your fiancee to me that day at your cousin's wedding, I was jealous. He was avoiding me and I decided that I had to have him back no matter what. After a few days of pursuing him, he fell into my trap and we started sleeping together. On the other hand, I kept on urging you to never give him your virginity, that way, he'd stick with me because I knew how much he loved sex. I got pregnant intentionally so as to find a reason to be with him forever. My friend, Charlie wasn't yours and he never will be yours! One day one time, you were bound to know about our affair. Before I forget, I'm the one who put laxatives in your tea this morning so that you may have a running stomach...a bunch of them! Trust me, I tried everything possible to ensure you don't attend that wedding but your stubbornness made you witness something you shouldn't have. Do you remember that solution you were about to drink but your mother stopped you? It was another solution of crushed laxatives. I wanted you to diarrhoea and diarrhoea till you get admitted so that I can convince Charlie to elope with me. Anyway, I'm not feeling any guilt since I've told you everything that you had to know. All the best in life Emmy. Hope you get a guy who deserves you!* Natty.

“What the fucking hell?” I gasp. She did all these for what? A man? Oh my! Women are truly their own worst enemies!

My heart breaks again for the umpteenth time today. My best friend has betrayed me and right now, I don't think I'll ever get over it. I just wish Charlie decided to cheat with someone else, not my best friend!

Sighing, I decide to sleep because it's already late, besides, I don't feel like eating anything. But before I sleep, I make sure I block Natalie, her parents who have eventually became my parents' friends, Charlie, his sister Edith Naomi and his parents. I just want nothing to do with them...absolutely nothing!

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