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My phone rings and I pick it up, “Wén.” I answer.
“Um, have you seen the news?! You seriously need a new publicist. I’m going to send you the article now.” Foster’s worried voice shouts.
CEO of Young Ensemble, Ru Wén’s, gallery opening delay due to investors pulling out?
It goes on, but I stop reading this tabloid bullshit. “Did you call me over a tabloid, they print bullshit all the time. Goodbye.”
“Wait, when you get back you better introduce me to your girl.”
“Negative” and I hang up.
None of the investors have pulled out. I dismiss the tabloid from my mind and focus on my plans for tomorrow. That is all I should be worried about.
I finish in the gym and drive back to the house. When I reach our guest room, I can hear the sound of Taurus’s nebulizer. She is sitting on the bed wearing the maskthat ispushing out the vapor from her asthma medicine. Fuck, I should have known this would happen. It’s a new place in a different country. Of course, her asthma would be triggered. I was not thinking.
“I’m sorry,” I say sitting next to her.
She lays her head on my shoulder and rubs my fingers to calm me. She continues to breathe in the vapor calmly and I stay with her until it finishes.
When she finishes the treatment she has a small wheeze, but she’s fine. “Let’s go to bed. I’ll rub your back for you.”
She smiles, “Thank you.” She snuggles up to me when the vapor vanishes, and the treatment is complete.
I play with a piece of her curly hair. “How are you feeling?”
“Better.”
“That’s good. I’m sorry I should’ve stayed with you.”
Taurus snuggles into me even more, “I’m fine. I know how to take care of myself. “
“I know you do, but if I can make your life even a little bit easier, I want to try. “
She sits up a bit and pulls me into a warm kiss. I kiss her back, slowly, wanting, and warmly.
She pulls away from our kiss and smirks, “So, what was the fight that made everybody’s day horrible? The physical fight you had back when you were younger? “
Yes, that day is not a good one to remember. “As you know, Greyson’s mother and I weren’t together, but we were sleeping around with each other in high school. At the time I didn’t realize that she was also still semi-dating her ex. When she got pregnant, he started to terrorize her and got other people to do the same thing. One day we were sitting in class, and there was a paper being passed around about how she couldn’t keep her legs closed, that she was a whore, and the one who started it was her ex. When the paper got to me and I read it, I looked back at her, and I could see that she was crying. So, I decided to beat that idiot half to death in front of the entire classroom.”
“Seriously? Good on you. That asshole deserved it.” She compliments.
“Yes, but I should have known better than to let him get the best of me. Other people should never be able to control your emotions, although I am having a challenging time with you.”
“Me?” She looks at me dumbfounded.
I slip my thumb over her lips, “I have never felt more out of control of my emotions than when I’m with you.”
“Is that a terrible thing?”
“No, it feels freeing, butthatmight be dangerous.”
Her head rests on my shoulder. “Sounds fun.”
Tamsin
Weeks Ago
I came all this way to give her money and she flat-out refuses it. Then Greyson’s father comes out and tells her to go inside.
