Episode 4

Sebastian

Tonight is poker night. I arrive at 5 PM, having already asked the employee who organizes the apartment to have everything ready by

7 PM... I'm going to take a shower and relax a bit before they arrive... I get

in the shower and remember what Katy told me

this morning, about us being together for 6 months already... For sure, the guys

will bring me the yacht key today, lol... Thinking about it now, this

bet was very ridiculous, and I shouldn't have made it, but that day at the

coffee shop, after getting, I think, the third brush-off from her, I ended up not resisting and

joining in on the joke... I've known Rico, Max, and Dimitre since Harvard, and

we started with these games of challenges and bets when we were in our 2nd year

of business administration... They were always lighthearted things, and nothing ever went beyond 6 months or messed with someone's life

like this...

However, with Katy, I couldn't resist; she is very beautiful and

naive, and I've never met a woman like her... I found out she was only 19

when we were on our fourth date, and we had already been going out for a month.

I tried to go slow in taking her to bed because I wanted her to feel

safe, and I needed our relationship to last 6 months for me to win

the bet... I went slow to win her over… I took her to expensive restaurants,

bought her flowers, and said beautiful things that women like to hear... and

when it was time to take her to bed, I realized she was already

in love... maybe because she had never been in any relationship, and when

I thought about it, it even crossed my mind to give up, because I'd never slept with

a virgin, and she definitely was... but the attraction I felt for her was

too strong, and I ended up not resisting...

Taking Katy's virginity was the most fascinating experience

of my life... I'd never been like that in bed with any woman... The chemistry

between us is very strong, and I believe that's why it lasted these

6 months... Not to mention she's different; she doesn't demand anything, doesn't call to check up,

doesn't ask for gifts. She acts as if I don't have all the money I have, and

that enchants me a lot, and I'm not ready to give her up yet... I

know I'll have to do it at some point, because she's not suitable for

the role of wife and mother of my heir. She won't be well-received or well-treated

in the society I live in; she's too pure and naive to live in my

circle… I turn off the shower, get dressed, and go down to the game room... I pour

a whiskey and wait for the guys to arrive...

At 7 PM, they start arriving one by one, and at 7:30 PM, we start

playing... The hand is good for me today, and I haven't lost once... They get a little annoyed and start provoking me to

make me lose focus... Dimitre throws a key on the table and says the bet

is paid... It's the yacht key... They start with the usual provocations,

telling me I can change the yacht's name and what I'm going to do with Katy now

that the bet is over and I've won... To annoy me, they say I'm

in love with her, that I'll soon want to get married… This irritates me, and

I start talking without thinking... I say she's unsuitable to be my wife and

what kind of child I would have with her... As soon as the words leave my mouth, I

regret them, but after all, there's some truth to it... I never intended to

marry her; this all started as fun, but once I had her, I couldn't stop anymore, bet or not, I'd still be with her, and I intend to stay

until I no longer feel this urge to be inside her all the time. This

whole craving I have for her will end up driving me crazy if I don't have all of her

until I get tired of her...

I clear my conscience, as it was just a joke between me and my friends; I would never say something like that to her... Katy is a girl

with a very good heart and never deserves to hear anything like that. It would destroy

her, and when the time comes to let her go, I'll think of something that won't hurt her

too much... The game continues amidst the little jokes and teasing... I've already

lost focus and started losing, and it was all downhill from there... I see it's

9:30 PM, I send a message to Katy asking what time she gets off today and what

she wants for dinner... minutes pass and she doesn't reply, it must be

busy there at this hour... We continue playing and the hours go by. When I

realize, it's already midnight. The guys say goodbye and leave, and still no sign of Katy

arriving or answering my message... I call her cell phone, and it's

off... I start to worry because she's not used to not

answering me or her battery dying... I wait until 1 AM and nothing.

Despair hits me. I call the cafe, and no one answers; it closed a long

time ago at this hour... Only the worst comes to my mind: accident, robbery, I don't know what to do...

I call Ana, and she tells me Katy left at 8 PM... So I go down to the

kitchen and see there's a bottle of wine and a cold cuts platter on the table... Relief washes over me. She must have gone up to shower and lay down to wait for me and fell asleep...

I run up the stairs and enter the bedroom. Everything is silent, no one in bed... no one in the bathroom... I go to the closet, and the

party dresses are all there... the shoes... the bags... I open the jewelry

box, and they're all there, except for the chain with a diamond angel-shaped

pendant that she loves and never takes off her neck; it's the simplest and cheapest one I gave

her, especially compared to the very expensive necklaces and earrings that are there in the

box... I open the underwear drawer, and it's empty. The clothes she brought

when she came are also gone, her purse with her documents is also not there...

She left... Why? What happened for her to leave like this, leaving everything I gave

her behind?... My chest tightens, and despair comes... She heard our

conversation during the game... that was it... My God, I need to find her, make her

listen to me... I can't lose her, I can't... I've never felt this pain that's

tearing my chest apart... I can't breathe... Where did my love

go?... That's it, I love her. It was obvious; how did I not realize it? I've never felt for anyone

what I feel for her... I need to find her...

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