Chapter 8 New sensation

It was just as if he had given her the courage, and now here she was in his suite, it felt as if he was protecting her from the crowd even if she knew he had just let her stay because he was probably feeling sorry for her,but regardless of why he chose to help her that one act suddenly brought a flood of warmth I to her heart and it began a race in her chest.

What was happening to her, he made her heart race again. Even if that night she had decided to give herself to John and attempt to seduce him in her own clumsy way, she had felt no physical anticipation at all, rather she'd felt a really strong sense of obligation, she had to forcefully convince herself that it was something she had to do, it wasn't a choice she had made of her own free will, it was a choice she felt she had to make, and at that time, she hadn't felt anything at all.

Yet here he was with a a man who was but a mere stranger to her and in the span of less than single evening he'd made not just her heart race but elicited a tingling feeling in her chest with just a single touch.

With a deep sigh she pulled all these thoughts out of her head, she strode towards the mirror welcomed by the reflection of her perfectly made up face staring back at her.

She remembered that being an actress had been her dream, it was something she had desired from the bottom of her heart, but after getting it, she had forgotten the simplest things that elicited her love for the profession in the first place and had been trapped in the had been trapped in the big mistakes that clouded her joy, and that mistake was no one else but John Adler.

What she needed freedom from was from the clutches of the lie he had made her into. She turned on the tap taking fistfuls of water and repeatedly spraying it on her face, looking up into the mirror that girl still hadn't disappeared, the girl who had been nothing but an idiot, the girl who had been entrapped in lies and had become someone else's pawn.

She splashed water on her face over and over again until she later slumped weakly to the floor in defeat. It all suddenly poured over her, the pain piercing deep into her heart, what pained her immensely was the tension her family would currently be going through because of her, will they be disappointed in her?

They loved her so much, cared deeply for her but this was what she repayed them with, pain, disappointment, and utter disgrace, what would people be saying about them, what would people be saying to them, she bet they must currently be ending the taunts from foul mouthed people about her actions.

Nadia could no longer stop the sobs rising up her throat, as if the dam broke, tears flooded her face as she sobbed sadly into her palms,

_You're so selfish, you're so selfish Dia, you're a coward!_

Evan sat by the bar swirling a half empty glass in his hands, a sound from the bathroom had him draw his brows together, he could have dismissed it for his imagination had he not heard it a second time, and this time, the sound didn't stop.

Something in him pulled him to go and check what was going on, but he reprimanded himself again, what was so special about this woman that had him caring about her emotions?

The tears in her eyes earlier had disturbed him, and he had looked displeased not because he was d at her but because he disliked the sting he felt in his chest when she teared up.

He couldn't understand why she was stirring all sorts of emotions in him that he couldn't comprehend, just like right now,even if he reprimanded himself to not bother about her he couldn't help but find himself standing by the door of the bathroom where he could loudly hear the sound from inside.

It sounded like muffled sobs and the next second, he was knocking at the door, "Hey, are you alright?" He called out.

The sobs didn't stop, nor did she answer, "Nadia?" He called out as he knocked once more but no reply came, after knocking a few more times he said, "Just wanna check if you're ok, so am coming in alright?" When he still got no reply he pushed open the door.

Nadia could vaguely hear the sound of a knock on the door but she wasn't in the right frame of mind to say anything, later as the door was pushed open that was when she could finally raise her tear stained face that was dripping with smudges of mascara from her palms and her eyes landed on him standing there.

Throughout her acting career not once had she let herself appear this disoriented and vulnerable before someone, she gazed up at him in a tearful daze, "It's over, there is no turning back now, it's all over, my life... My career... Gone, and... And my family..." She managed to mutter before breaking down in tears once again, her shoulders trembled as she sobbed painfully.

She was taken aback when a strong pair of hands came to hold her shoulders supporting her up on her feet, when she almost swayed he steadied her, he didn't utter a word but got a cloth wringing it out of warm water her gently wiped the trail of mascara running down Nadia's cheeks.

Her sobs had seized at some point and she could only stare at him dazedly as he wrung the cloth once more wiping a few more smudges of the makeup off her face. His hands would occasionally brush against her cheeks and she felt a hot tingling sensation wherever he touched.

She suddenly felt the inner turmoil drown away by the by a whole new sensation his slight touch brought to her body, these were feelings she had never felt before. His hand holding her chin in place while the other wiped the makeup, but just that one contact was sending a shocking sensation in her body.

She gazed into his eyes, his musky scent similar to the morning sees in a rain forest was all she could perceive, she barely pushed away the urge to move closer and deeply breathe in his intoxicating scent when her eyes fell on his lips, she was suddenly engulfed by a searing ache to know how it would feel like to be kissed by those lips. A hot tingling sensation flooded to her lower belly, and her pale cheeks were instantly dyed a bright crimson color.