Chapter 5 Laila Pov

Walking upstairs to get a few things for my appointment, unusual sounds were coming from my room. I didn't think much of it until the door was open.

The first tear dropped from my eye before I could make sense of what was happening before me, his loud moan paused immediately his gaze fell on me, I searched for remorse in his eyes but I saw nothing, unable to hold back my tears I ran off, not caring to see who his companion was.

My heart was shattered into a thousand pieces.

It was true. My suspicions were accurate.

My husband has been cheating on me.

I believed he was many things, but a cheater was never one of them.

I ran outside. This was the last place I wanted to be right now.

I cried all through the drive to Elijah's place. The sight at the house painfully stuck in my head.

Anton was cheating on me!

It was hard for me to believe but I saw it. Uncontrollable tears rushed out of my eyes. Elijah stared trying to find out what the problem was but my mouth was heavy. Words failed me. "This is who I'm pregnant for", I thought to myself.

My thoughts the moment the doctor revealed the news to me at the hospital was to hide it from him as long as possible but changed my mind.

He needed to know about his child, I convinced myself after leaving the hospital, but this was the last thing I expected to see. Even if he was going to find out about the pregnancy now, it certainly won't be from me and I'll do whatever it takes to see that the marriage annulment goes through. I was so pissed that I didn't notice we'd gotten to Elijah's.

I wanted to be alone. This was a lot for me to process or even handle and Elijah might find out about the pregnancy if I stayed.

Trying to convince him to take me to a hotel so I could be alone was hard. He wasn't having any of it at first but later decided to indulge me. Staying at the hotel was a plan conjured in the last ten minutes.

I didn't want to give Anton any more reason to refuse the annulment.

Elijah had insisted I tell him something and that, that was the only way he would let me go to the hotel. So during the drive to the hotel, I told him I'd caught my husband in bed with a strange woman.

He sounded mad when he spoke, but it was probably because he knew and saw how hurt I was. He wasn't surprised that Anton was a cheater and I could see why.

Maybe the problem had been me all along. I'd been so blinded with seeing the good in him, that I didn't notice. Even when I got the pictures of him with another woman at the hospital, I was shocked but didn't believe it. The woman's face had been blurred, so it was hard to recognize who it was.

"How could I be so stupid?", I asked out loud, not minding that Elijah was there.

I asked Elijah to hang out with me, while at the hotel.

Honestly, being alone right now wasn't what I wanted, talking too. We stayed in silence for a moment and then a thought suddenly came to my mind.

"Does Anton cheating have something to do with the weird texts and the incident at the hotel? Or was that just a mere coincidence?". I hoped it was the latter because it would be utterly messed up if the former was the case.

Elijah tried making a conversation and it worked. We were talking and the next thing, We were all over each other.

We stood in the room, the light across the street illuminating us. I had dreamt of this moment since the encounter at the bar.

His beautiful gray eyes shone brightly in the light and my gaze burned with intense desire.

He moved closer, his large hands cupping my small face. My heart skipped a thousand beats a minute, as I felt his soft warm breath on my face. Bringing his face closer to mine, he parted my plump lips slightly. As our lips met, my insides burned with so much passion.

The kiss was intense.

His calloused fingers traced the curves of my delicate skin. My fingers ran through his thick black hair, and I let out a soft moan.

He laid me gently on the bed, his warm breath suffocating my face in the best way possible. Staring deeply in my eyes, "I want you Laila" he whispered, struggling to breathe.

"I want you too", I whispered back, my lips swollen from our kiss.

He seemed to be in no hurry. He parted my legs so that his knees were between them. Enjoying the intense sensation, I felt a gentle thrust. I let out a loud moan and called out to him. I began to move my waist in the same rhythm as his. He moved in and out of me slowly as we cried out in pure ecstasy.

He made me feel things I never felt before.

He stopped for a second and then started moving again, this time a little faster and I enjoyed every moment of it. He pressed deeper into me, letting out a groan from pure pleasure. We moved slowly together.

I reached my orgasm as he came into me. I moaned his name in softly as he brought his lips to mine again. We lay there for a while, breathing incessantly".

We decided to get something to eat after at the diner. We were so immersed in our conversation when I looked up suddenly.

There he was.

His confidence and poise exuded the dinner.

The food in my mouth suddenly became bland and bitter as I stared directly at him.

The part of the town was the last place I'd expected to see him because of how much he talked about hating the place.

My legs were jelly trying to stand up and I couldn't fathom if it was from what happened a few minutes ago or the fact that he was here.

What was he doing here and how did he find me?