THE MAFIA BILLIONAIRES TEMPTATION

BLYTHE

“I wish you could also arrange your life beautifully the way you make your flower arrangements. Don't you get tired? Well, I do. How many more times do I have to come here and remind you how toxic your relationship is with your boyfriend? Wake up, Blythe.” 

If there was one person who was never a fan of my current relationship, that would be her—Cleo, my best friend. This scene had happened so many times already, it was a good thing that everytime I would need her, she would always show up. 

“Look, I asked you to come over so you can help me sort things out,” I told her while I was working with a flower arrangement that would be picked up in thirty minutes. 

“Oh yeah? Honestly, it didn't look like it!” The moment she reached where I was, she started scrutinizing each part of me as if she was looking for something. 

“He didn't hit me, okay? If that's what you're thinking,” I said to her, while she was pulling my sleeves up as if I was hiding something underneath them. 

“Maybe not yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if he will resort to hurting you soon,” she said with such a disapproving look. 

Cleo had been very protective of me, she was a year older and she was more like a big sister to me. She hated Finnian, she thought that my boyfriend could do me no good at all. 

“What do you want me to do now? Tell you that it's okay, that things will work out soon in your favor. Goddammit, Blythe, when will you ever realize that Finnian is nothing but an asshole?” 

She was right, Finnian could never be the man that I wanted him to be. The only thing that he was good at was hurting me, and I wanted to get rid of him already. Although, honestly, I had no idea how to do it because I was really head over heels with him. 

“Okay, I'm listening, tell me what happened?” She asked enthusiastically. 

“I was going to surprise him last night, so I went to his apartment. It was locked when I got there, so I called him up. He told me he was just somewhere getting some stuff. I was about to leave the building when I decided to check his car in the parking area, and it was there. So, I went up to his unit again and decided to stay outside. After two hours of waiting, my heart raced when the door opened and a woman came out.” 

Cleo stared at me with her usual sarcastic expression, “and then? When he found out that you were outside waiting, he told you that the woman was his sister?” 

“Will you let me finish?” I asked.

“Hey, do you think I'm interested to know what happens next? It's as if you don't know that he is cheating.” 

I knew Cleo was already fed up by all these cheating issues from my boyfriend, but she was more fed up with me still wanting to be with Finnian regardless of the number of times that I caught him. 

I was about to say something when the door of my flower shop opened, it was my client picking up the arrangement that I did. 

“Just like how I wanted, it's beautiful. Thank you, Blythe,” my customer told me, looking very satisfied with my work. 

“Thank you, Adam, I am sure your wife will love it,” I replied. 

The moment that my customer had gone out of the shop, Cleo called my assistant and instructed her to start with the closing chores. Even before I could say a thing, Cleo had already started fixing my table. She handed me my bag and she told me that we were going to a bar. 

“What?” I asked her while she was pushing me towards the door. 

“What do you expect? I will come over and listen to you the entire night? I heard that before, Blythe. Come on, let's just grab some drinks. Your dramas are already bored me, let's do something else!” Cleo signaled to my staff, Ellis, and the latter just nodded at her. 

She didn't agree when I told her that I would just use my car, but instead, she pushed me inside hers. It didn't take us long to reach Neon Nights Night Club that was located not too far from where I live. 

“Seriously?” I looked at her with disbelief. 

“Seriously!” She replied. “Now change your boring lipstick into this!” She took out lipstick from her purse, and it revealed a dark cherry color after she took the lid off.

“I don't wear red lipstick, you know that.”