#Chapter 49- Rejected Yet Again


    Third Person


    ra opens her eyes as soon as she hears the door of her hotel room click shut. The fork automatically slides into ce and she sits up in bed with an exaggerated yawnY.


    Adrian moves inside the room, worry etched all over his far. As soon as he notices that ra is awake, he lunges towards the bed. He takes her hands into his, immediately checking her body for any new bruises that may have formed over her body.


    "What happened?" ra feigns a raspy voice, het n of pretending to pass out clearly hacking worked to get Adrian toe to her side.


    "You fainted, ra," Adrian sighs, frustrated. "You had me so worried....


    "It will be okay, my love," ra coos, pathetically coughing


    Adrian stands and rushes to the refrigerator inside the modest well, as modest as ra can be resort hotel room. A smirk forms on ra''s face when Adrian''s back is to her, the smirk disappearing as soon as he turns back around.


    Adrian sits on the edge of the bed, opening up the cap of the water bottle, and gently guides it towards her lips. ra sighs and leans forward, gulping down half of the water bottle''s contents.


    "How are you feeling?" Adrian asks with concern filled inside his voice. He inches closer to ra, cing his hand on top of her thigh.


    "I am okay," ra sighs, "I just feel a little bit weak, that''s all."


    "That ispletely normal. I''ll order room service for you, okay? You have to remain strong and keep your body nourished," Adrian stands from the bed. He heads towards the side table where the room''s phone is.


    ra sighs and watches Adrian with a smile. She rxes into the bed, her head falling deeper inside the plush pillow.


    A phone''s ringtone begins to cry out. ra raises an eyebrow, looking over at Adrian. He sighs and plucks his phone from his pocket. He declines the call and goes to pick up the rooms phone when his cell phone begins to ring again.


    Disappointed yet ready to seize the opportunity to have some alone time and find a back up n, ra sits up in bed. She coughs again, gaining Adrian''s attention, and bats her eyshes at him.


    "Is that work?" she sweetly asks.


    "It is, yes," Adrian groans. He looks back at his phone. "One of the board members came to us with a concern that, well, will either make or break mypany."


    "Go, Adrian," ra coos. "You should take it. It sounds very important. They need you...their heroic leader."


    Adrian rolls his eyes at herpliment and turns his attention back to his phone. It dings from the constant flooding of text messages that he receives. Ites in like an avnche.


    "Are you sure?" he asks, ncing in her direction.


    "Of course! I need to rest anyways," ra smiles. She bats her eyshes at him again and watches as he gathers his belongings and heads towards the door.


    "I''lle by and check in on


    outer, okay? After my dinner with my mother," Adrian calls out from over his


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    shoulder. ra nods and watches him leave.


    As soon as the door clicks shut, the woman hops out of bed and makes her way


    to her closet. She opens it up and reveals an obscene amount of clothes. She taps her chin while stuffing through the items.


    "Now what will Ste''s boy toy find appealing?" ra asks aloud to the room. Her eyesnd on a ck dress, a smirk spreading across her face. "This will do."


    About an hourter, when ra is sure that Adrian is in his room getting ready for dinner with his mother and, ugh, Ste, she makes her way downstairs.


    The resort''s bar is beside the in house restaurant. She looks around the room, noticing an influx of men and women who mingle togetherpared to the previous night''s pickings.


    ra enters inside the bar, putting her best smirk on, and steps towards the bar. She knows that Sebastian, a man who is much wealthier and much more influential than Adrian will ever be, is sure to be at the bar drinking away his


    sorrows.


    After all, the man is in love with a woman who is still married to another man who can give her the same exact things in life but just...less. Perhaps ra can sway his gaze her way and show him, like she did with Adrian within a few minutes of being awake, that Ste is aplete nobody and is a total loserpared to her.


    ra tosses her hair over her shoulder and her eyes ze over the crowd. Men approach her but she signals them away with an eye roll and a scoff. Her eyesnd on Sebastian''s familiar head of hair.


    She licks her lips, eyes moving up and down his body. He is rxed into his seat leg extended out as he sips on whiskey. His booth is in the corner and is shadowed from the rest of the room, adding to the mystery that surrounds his persona.


    ra takes a quick look of her appearance, making sure everything is perfect and is in ce, before she makes her way over to the man''s table.


    “Hi,” ra giggles as soon as she steps up to his table. Sebastian''s eyes don''t meet hers. "Can I sit here?"


    “No,” the man grumbles, taking another sip of the whiskey. There are a few ice cubes inside his ss, cooling the whiskey down just the way he likes it.


    Stunned by his quick answer, ra looks down at him. She ces a hand on her hip, unable to give up just yet. The blonde shrugs and takes her spot in the seat across from him.


    She ces her bag next to her and moves her hair out of her face. Her blue eyes train on Sebastian, who still does not give her the time of day. She rolls her eyes and clears her throat, sitting up in her seat. Sebastian looks over at her with a perked up eyebrow.


    "I''ve seen you before," ra begins, pointing at him. "You''re a friend of Ste''s, right? I''m her-"


    "Sister. I know," Sebastian pulls his gaze away from her. Frustrated, ra lets out a breathyugh and rolls her


    eyes.


    "Yep! That''s me," she assumes a ditzy persona with ease. It only irritates Sebastian some more. "I''m so d that we can have some... alone time together." ra reaches out and ces her hand on top of his. Sebastian immediately retracts his hand, standing from the table. ra blinks at him, unsure as to what it is she has done wrong.


    "Did I say something?"


    "I know what you''re doing. I''m not interested in you. I would never be with a woman of your..." Sebastian''s eyes move up and down her body, making Clára feel insecure, "stature."


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    Sebastian slides his wallet out from his pocket, flipping through a couple hundred dor bills and ces it on the table. He leaves without saying anther word.


    ra scoffs, picking up the bills from the table.


    Who in the hell does he think he is? What did Ste say to him that made him automatically hate her? She''s done nothing wrong!


    ra''s face scrunches up. She res at the back of Sebastian''s head, her teeth grinding inside her mouth. This is it. The root of all her problems. It all leads back to one person: Ste.


    Ste has turned everyone in ra''s life against her. She''s taken away Adrian, she has taken her parents'' attention, and she has ruined any other prospects for her future marriage!


    Ste will pay for this, ra thinks to herself, and I will stop at nothing to ruin her for what she h