Chapter 25
Nicholas
In the first few months of our relationship, Emily and I travel back and forth, seeing each other monthly, because of course I am not going to be making love over WhatsApp or however it is people with iPhones communicate.
Travelling is expensive, so her eleven-million-dollar-per annum-earning guardian, Lisa, commits to pay for our trips and we accept her offer, even though internally I oppose it.
Lisa’s offer did not come with conditions. But, once a month, I also meet up with her.
I wonder, daily, hourly, every minute, how I went from never wanting to fall in love again… and incapable of opening up to another woman… to this.
Lisa was supposed to be a fling, just like every other chick I got involved with after I lost Samantha.
No strings attached. The only exception being, she was at the summit of the bucket list of flings…
a beautiful CEO at one of the largest companies in the world.
The experience was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime affair. A fantasy.
Emily hit me differently from the start. Technically, while this was not love-at-first sight, as we were Instagram friends before meeting — those rom coms might be on to something — I had fallen hard for her from the moment I laid eyes on her. She was unlike any other girl I’d met since Samantha.
I was in a very weird space. It was maddening.