Binded by friendship - Episode 27

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Vivian's POV
When I tiptoed into the room from the bathroom, my Prince Charming was still fast asleep.

He seemed to have decided to give me a perfect view since he had turned to his other side, wrapping his n*ked body around the covers so  his n*ked arm, leg, amazing butt and back were exposed.

Seriously how can a sane woman see that and put her hands to herself???Not I..

I climbed back onto the bed and ran the palm of my hand from the heel of his foot, up over his toned calf and hamstrings, over his tight derrière and up his back...

I was certain I could hear him groan...

"Good morning Mandela!!!!" 

I nibbled his neck and across his shoulders when he slowly shifted away  and lied on his back...

"I told you never to call me that name!!!!"He thundered...

"But it's your name...." I chuckled...

"I hate it and you know it....It reminds me of the past, the horrible past I chose to forget..." He swung his legs off the bed and picked his shirt from the bed..

I knelt behind him and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, kissing him on the cheek softly...

"I am sorry about that my love...Anyway when can I see you???"

"I don't know Viv!!!!" He sounded irritated...

"But I wanna see you...."

"I will call you when free, is that okay????"

I was afraid that the moment he stepped out of that door I would never see him again. 

"I could go to your house and wait for you there this evening. I can even cook if you want..."

"Don't you dare!!" He threw my hands off him and put on his white button down shirt..

"But I want to...I want to prove to you that you made a mistake marrying Eve...." My eyes were filled to the brim with tears...

"Can we not talk about this right now????I have a meeting to get too...." He stood from the bed and began to put on the rest of his clothes...His Calvin Klein boxers and a pair of faded blue jeans...

"Why don't you want us to talk about it???I won't let you keep using me whenever you are sad and lonely...."

"You don't seem to mind Viv..Everytime I call you are always ready to come running...."

I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach

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. Can't he see that I still love him?? That after ten years he is still the man that has captured my heart...

"Because I love you Mandela...."

"Stop calling me that!!!!" He grabbed my arms and shook me so hard that I was afraid I would break..

"I am no longer Ian Mandela Viv, Ian Mandela was a hustler who barely could put food on the table but Nicholas Kame is a billionaire and can afford almost everything in life....."

"And Ian Mandela is also a cheat and a coward...He is very good at making promises but very horrible at fulfilling them...." 
The deep pain from within converted into tears that rained down my face at a lightning speed...

"I said am sorry Viv, didn't I???" His angered disappeared and I nodded.

"My sweet Viv, I couldn't have married you even if I wanted to.." He lifted his hands and cupped my cheeks,"You would have taken me back to the world that I didn't want to embrace as my own...That world was Ian Mandela's but not Nicholas Kame's..."

"But I was ready to change for you Nicholas...I went to university for you, I became a celebrity publicist for you because I wanted you to be proud of me...."

"And I am proud Viv, very proud but I fell in love with Eve Minnie Raine..." 

I studied him closely hoping he was lying but there wasn't any hint of it in his eyes and it angered me...

"I have given her many chances Nicholas but now it's time to take back what belongs to me..." I dropped his hands from my face and crawled off the bed...

"What's that's supposed to mean Viv???" Nicholas narrowed his eyes at me...

"I am getting you back....."

"Do you even hear yourself Viv???Why do you keep forgetting that I am married???" His eyes sent a stab of pain through me...

"Because I don't want to believe that you are hers...You were mine first and I am taking back what belongs to me...It's me you should have married...." I snapped, throwing my hands in the air with emphasis.

"I loved you Viv but that was before I met Eve...Even if it wasn't Eve, I would have still married a different girl...You remind me so much of the part of my life I hate so much..."

I couldn't imagine my life without him. I tried to understand why he married Eve, I tried to move on so that he could be happy but couldn't..

I distanced myself from him giving Eve the chance to make him happy but all she has done so far was hurt him...

All she has done is humiliate him and make him the mockery of this town...Anyone who makes my Mandela unhappy becomes my enemy...

"Don't say that!!!!" I walked to where he was standing and gripped his shirt..
"You don't mean that. You love me and I know you do...." I rested my head on his chest not caring if I soaked it with tears...

"Viv, don't make this more hard for yourself...."

"I just don't understand if you love Eve why am I the one who always comforts you...Everytime you two argue, you always ended up in my arms. When you lost the baby and even now, it's in me you find comfort..."

"That's because you know me better than anyone Viv, you know my angry demons..."

"Then why can't you be with me???" I was sounding desperate but I didn't give a heck...

All I wanted was my Mandela back...I have pulled back so many times in the past but not now...

"Because I love Eve,Viv...." 

"All she does is hurt you,"I tightened the grip on his shirt and lifted my face to look at him,"Why can't you see that I love you so much?  That I would never hurt you...That I rather die first that see pain in your eyes...."

"Viv, I can't offer you more...."

"Do you hate the past so much that you would rather be miserable than with me????"

"Yes...." He replied in a rough unrecognized voice...

"What about all we have been through???Does that not mean nothing???The promises you made me before you left for London, were they just to make me feel better??"

"I am sorry Viv but what happens between us will always be fling and nothing more..."

My jaws tightened at his words and I could feel anger taking over every ounce of my being.

A fling!!!!

"I will assume I didn't hear that...I will assume that it's because you are hurting that those words slipped your mouth..." I said between closed teeth...

"They didn't slip Viv...Eve gives my life meaning...She is sweet, charming, kind and adorable..."

"And crazy!!!!" 

"She is not crazy!!!!" Nicholas' dark eyes stormed and he narrowed them dangerously," If you want me to forget you once meant the world to me, talk Ill about my Eve..." He pushed me back that I  fell on my ass...

"Your Eve!!!" I laughed sarcastically,"A girl who kisses her ex and moves in with her campus sweetheart...Are you on drugs???"

I was damn angry that he was defending her. I was damn angry that she still had such an effect on him even though she had hurt him a great deal. I was damn angry that he was in love with a sick girl and forgot about me...

Why her though? Why of all people the girl that became my friend in campus???

"She will get better and when she does I will be here waiting for her...."

"Not if she finds out you have been sleeping with me since the miscarriage...."I said a matter-of-factly.

"You wouldn't dare!!!" Warning rang in his voice...

"You know when I am mad I tend to do stupid things..." I gave him a small shrug only to have his hand on my throat...

"I won't let you ruin the life I have now..."

"But she left you, why can't you just move on???" I choked out...

"I would rather die than leave her...I will never set her free, she is only mine..." He tightened the grip on my neck, his eyes dark with rage...

"Don't do anything stupid Vivian or else you will also not like it when am mad...You might think you have leverage because I am fucking you but when it comes to my wife, she is all that matters..." 

He freed me from his grip and I sat on the floor gasping for air...

"You still haven't changed Mandela...You are still a very hot tempered man..."

He scooted Infront of me and held my chin in a painful way between his thumb and forefinger...

"Ian Mandela loved you so much that no second passed by without him thinking about you but If Nicholas Kame finds out you are a threat to his wife, he won't hesitate to ruin you...."

"I am not giving you up without a fight, you are mine...." I hoped I sounded more courageous than I felt..

"Good luck, you are going to need it..."He smiled dangerously...

Mandela had changed a lot...I knew he hated my brother but I didn't know to such an extent that he didn't care about what I felt for him....

"Do you still hate my brother so much that you rather be with someone else than your Viv???" Tears began to gather in my eyes again...

"Yes and if I had married you, you would have always reminded me of the him and the world I so much wanted to forget...And that would have been unfair to you...Anyway, I have to leave and don't do anything stupid..." He kissed me on the cheek and stood on his feet...

"To me you will always be the sweet Ian Mandela..."

"Don't," He clenched his fists and narrowed his eyes at me,"I won't even bother with you...See you when I call you..."

"Yes Master..."

After he had left, I sat there on the floor drowning with sadness as I always did everytime he left.
The pain was always unbearable when I thought of my future without him in it...

But this time, it was different...The sick girl was no longer in the picture and even if she was, she is so mentally unstable to make wise decisions.

I am glad she stopped taking her medicines. Little did she know,she was digging her own grave...

I have given you many chances Eve but you always seemed to cause my Mandela pain...
This time round nothing will stop me from taking him back even if it means killing you...

It's nothing personal dear girl, you just got married to the man who belongs to a mad black woman...

I have been on the sidelines for so long and now it's times to claim my throne...

Right now you are talking nonsense about not loving me but I know somewhere deep inside you where you have hidden Ian Mandela lies your love for me and I am gonna dig it out...

You have proven me right. That only I can make you happy....

A/N
So how was the chapter my people???How are you feeling about it???

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