Chapter Twenty Two
“Nicey please listen to me. I can explain everything that you heard my sister say last night on television,” Spencer begged.
“She didn’t know what she was talking about.
I wasn’t using you to get back at her. I had made a flippant comment to her in my car before I saw you and she took it seriously.
Beautiful, I love you. You have to listen to me.
” He could tell that he was going to have an uphill battle.
Nicey was acting like her usually loving self.
It was almost like he was talking to a stranger.
“Mr. Davis…sorry Mr. Carlton, all I have to do is fulfill my contract and get you a soul mate,” Nicey answered moving away from him to the other side of her office. “If you still have those profiles I gave you weeks ago you can give one of them a call.”
“I don’t give a damn about those other women. I found my soul mate in you,” Spencer insisted moving towards Nicey again only to have her stop him with a shake of her head.
“No, I don’t think so. You aren’t the man I thought you were and I’m not going down that road with you.”
“I’m the same man you made love to in front of the fireplace inside his living room. I’m the same man you almost made love to in his office and you know that I am.” Spencer wasn’t about to leave until he had Nicey back. Cindy’s temper tantrum wasn’t going to ruin this for him.
A disinterested look crossed Nicey’s face as she watched him. “I don’t want to hear this because it doesn’t mean anything to me,” she sighed. “You’re wasting your breath. Why can’t you just leave it alone and let us both move on?”
Spencer shuddered inwardly at the thought of Nicey being out of his life forever. A raw grief took over him and as much as he tried to push it away it wasn’t going anywhere. His misery was like a steel weight on his shoulders.
“Tell me what you want to hear and I’ll say it. You’re my world and I can’t lose you.” Spencer pleaded dying to make Nicey understand his side.
“Please let me back into your life.”
Nicey fell down on the white couch inside her office and glared across the room at him with dead eyes. “You aren’t listening to what I’m telling you.”
Spencer slowly inched his away across the room and took seat close to Nicey but not close enough to make her uncomfortable. He couldn’t let her think she was being rushed by him and after what he did to her. He betrayed her trust and it was going to take a lot to win it back. “I’m listening now.”
“When I saw you on television last night I was shaken and hurt. I was shocked that the man I was in love with lied to me about his relationship to his sister. But what wounded me the most were all the lies. You lied to me about your name and the real reason that you asked me out at first, but after I finished crying last night I got all of that out of my system. But one thing stayed with me.”
“Beautiful, what stayed with you and I promise I’ll make it go away,” Spencer swore.
He was thankful that she hadn’t tossed him out of her office by now. He should have been more worried about this lie coming out then he had been. His high expectations of winning Nicey over might have cost him.
“You didn’t think enough of me to be honest in the first place.
How do you know that I wouldn’t have fallen in love with Spencer Davis Carlton?
” She drilled. “You never gave me that chance. I worked hard my whole life to stand out and be my own person, but you lumped me into the same category as those gold digging women from your past. That’s the reason I broke up with you. ”
Spencer didn’t know what to say. Nicey was right. He never gave her a chance to know who he was. He was the one that kept placing himself in the shadow of his sister. Nicey made him his own man and he loved her for that and now it was up to him to prove it.
“Let me take you out to lunch,” he suggested. “We can talk about all of this over a hot meal?”
“No, that wouldn’t be a good idea.”
Spencer was starting to realize that Nicey wasn’t going to give him the time of day now, but he still wasn’t about to give up. She was well-worth fighting for with her warm and nurturing personality.
“Okay, how about dinner? I can go and grab something. We can have another picnic by the fireplace. I’ll get anything that you want.”
“Mr. Carlton, I’m sorry but I don’t have time for you today or any other day.
This conversation is over. I’ve work to do.
Do you mind showing yourself out?” Getting up from the couch Nicey walked over to the door and opened it wide.
“Please leave and don’t come back. We really don’t have anything else to discuss with each other. ”
He tried his best not to feel that his world was falling down around his feet. Standing up he shuffled his way over to Nicey, it broke his heart to see the shattered look plastered across her beautiful face.
For years, he impressed the opposite sex with his charisma, success, sexiness and strength, but none of that was working on Nicey. She wanted nothing to do with him and right at the moment he was clueless how to change her mind.
“I’ll go,” he muttered getting up from his seat moving to the door. “However, I’m not giving up on you. I’m the perfect man for you and you’re my perfect man too.” He bent his head to kiss Nicey, but she turned her head away from him. The pain he felt was instantaneous.
“Spencer, don’t,” Nicey muttered stepping back from him. “We don’t have that kind of relationship anymore.”
“You’re saying that now, but you’ll change your mind in a couple of days,” he swore.
“No, I don’t think I will,” Nicey denied shaking her head.
He was certain that she wasn’t going to stay made at him. He still saw the love she had for him in her eyes. “Baby, Valentine’s Day is in a couple of days and I still want to spend it with you. If you any feeling for me at all you’ll think about spending it with me.”
Spencer was trying his best not to beg, but he would if it would get Nicey back into his life. “I’m going to send a car to your house around eight o’clock on Valentine’s Day, please get inside and come to meet me.” He left the room with a confused Nicey staring after him.