Bye, My Irresistible Love

Chapter 4: A Greedy Man 

Scarlett's POV: 

After I said goodbye to Charles and Rita at Rainbow Dream, Charles's mother, Alice, called me.

She told me that she and Christine--Charles' grandmother were coming to see us.

It had been a long time since I last saw them.

I was so excited by Alice's call that I practically screamed my agreement at her over the phone.

I could not wait to see them both, especially Grandma Christine.

I had missed her and her delicious apple pies.

They had always been very kind to me and made me feel like I was family.

If they found out that Charles and I were planning to get divorced, they would be heartbroken.

So Charles and I tried our best and acted like a normal loving married couple until Alice and Christine decided to go home.

It just was not the right time to tell them.

We had to be really careful as well because Christine was unusually perceptive.

She could sense lies and deception from a mile away like a shark smelling a drop of blood in the water.

I was not expecting Charles home, but as soon as I saw him, I acted like a caring wife to him.

I honestly thought I deserved an Oscar Award for my performance.

Thinking about how Grandma Christine scolded Charles earlier like he was a naughty, restless little boy, I had to bite down my laughter.

"What's so funny?"

"What? Nothing," I mumbled.

I needed to find a place in the house to be alone for a while.

Since Charles and I talked about the divorce, I had been finding it a little difficult to stay in the same room as he was.

"Where are you going?"

"The kitchen."

"Can you run me a bath, please?" Charles ordered with a cold face.

"Okay."

I turned on my heels and went upstairs to the bathroom.

I stared at the huge white porcelain double bathtub and realized that I had never used it.

Suddenly, I was imagining Charles taking a bath in it.

It took all of three heartbeats before my imagination blew the Charles-in-the-bathtub scene out of proportion and sent me reeling.

‘What the hell, Scarlett? Stop with the inappropriate thoughts about your husband already!"

I shook my head and turned on the tap.

After adjusting the water temperature, I waited for the bathtub to fill up.

I sat on the edge of the bathtub and thought about the dinner party tomorrow night.

Shall I go with Charles? If I were being honest, going with Charles to the party would make me a bit uncomfortable, but I had not seen or spoken to his family in a long time.

I would really love to see Alice and Grandma Christine again and also Lawrence.

I had known them since I was a little girl, and I truly think of them as my family.

While I was immersed in my reverie, the bathroom door suddenly swung open.

look, but I was not

thing I knew, I

bathtub

so big that I felt as if I had fallen

was going to down, I flailed around

remembered that I was in a bathtub

silent except for the sound of running

"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry,"

quickly got out of

water everywhere as

"Why are you apologizing?"

frowned and looked at

and all I could see was my bra peeking through my white shirt and

I was fully clothed, I felt like I was

wring some of the water out of my shirt, but I just felt like

the edge of the bathtub? I could have just stood there as I waited for it to fill

"I'll change the water."

quickly turned off the tap and opened the bathtub's

got

threw me his

and ran to my room to change into clean,

towel for Charles to

Charles standing there

only saw one side of his

muscled, but he was taut and

well-chiseled statue of a male Roman deity, and it made me catch my

leave, but my eyes seemed to have a

could not help staring

view allowed me a peek of half of his eight- pack abs and his Adonis belt that extended into

as my cheeks started to grow

pants, but suddenly, he stopped and turned to look at

me a full view of his

to the scar on

at it carefully.Since when did he have

have

how long

question, I would not have woken up from my fixation on

"Oh.Yes.I'm sorry," I muttered.

head and handed the towel to

rustling sound, the towel was replaced by a pair of trousers and

rushed out of the bathroom and tossed

again, and Rita's name

much that

really belonged to me.After a while, Charles walked out of the bathroom in a

his hair with a

he looked so

forced myself

just now,"

just nodded and quickly

at me and then went to the balcony to call

of their conversation from where I

call Jenny and ask her to come

insufferable even if it

not understand why she had to torment everyone in real life as

with Rita, Charles came back in, walked to the wardrobe, and changed into a charcoal

this moment, I was no longer in the mood to watch

the more heartache I had

wait up for me.Call

me as if he was reading off a

some

broke my heart to think that he was running off to Rita, I still

the driver

made

long after, a car arrived at the

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