Chapter 43 - Intoxicating Giggles (1/2)

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”I am not jealouuus,” Olivia dragged the last syllable in gritted teeth to make her point. Why was everyone saying that she's jealous when she already told them that she's not?

Her fingers that lay flat on her l.a.p curled into a white-knuckle fist as she evilly eyed Emily who looked unimpressed with her answer because of the smirk that was painted on Emily's face.

”Ok, girlfriend. Stop,” Emily held her hand up in a stop sign that made Olivia straighten her back and listen intently to what the former had to say.

”Jealousy is normal. You're attracted to Maxen and you witnessed him look like a horny highschool boy around a va-va-voom maiden. Now, if you insist that you're not jealous, then why are you so mad?” Emily c.o.c.ked an eyebrow to her in-denial friend.

”Because I gave him a chance and he blew it. He almost jacked off in the freaking elevator for Pete's sake,” Olivia said in her usual soft voice yet her face was red from anger. She bit her bottom lip and kept herself from flipping the table when she remembered that horrible elevator ride.

Suddenly, sweet peals of laughter filled the room, mollifying the furious Olivia who stifled her laugh too but had to chuckle when Emily's intoxicating giggles seeped through her veins.

”What's so funny, Emily? It's true. You should have seen the look on his face. It's disgusting,” Olivia covered her face with her hands to hide the smile that escaped her lips because she's supposed to be channeling her annoyed persona at the moment. However, Emily's smiling face was so infectious that she couldn't help but smile too.

”Sooorry for laughing, Livi darling, but you look like a tomaaato,”  Emily said, wiping the tears of joy on the corners of her eyes.

”Ay-ah! You have all the right to be mad right now, Livi darling. That must have been an excruciating riiide,” Emily said, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

”It was,” Olivia sighed to release her vexation. She cupped her face and looked at her reflection in the window. She pouted when she saw that true enough, her face flushed red.

”I really look like a tomato,” Olivia smiled at her reflection before she moved her gaze back to Emily and noted, ”I haven't looked this embarrassing for awhile.”

In a beat, Emily's smile turned into a sympathetic look when Olivia's words hit her. She wanted to comfort Olivia but she had to set the reality for her new gal pal so she said, ”Livi darling, by now you should know men just a tad bit from your experience with Lance. They would always get a boner when they see someone… eye-catching. That's a fact. The things you read in novels where men only get turned on by one person? Complete and total lie.”

Olivia crossed her arms over her c.h.e.s.t. She gave Emily a rueful smile and nodded in agreement.

”The question lies in whether or not Maxen acted on his impulses. Did he? Or did he not?”

”He didn't but who knows down the line he would,” Olivia huffed before taking a sharp breath and continued, ”Maybe I just need to scratch this itch and move on? Have a one night mind blowing s.e.x with Maxen and be done with it. No more chances, just business partners.”