MY MAN.

　　"Sandra, I didn't know you had come here," Ethan says, as he starts eating his food. "I thought, you were still in the town. When did you arrive?"

　　Sandra gets this strong urge to disappear from the table at once. She has been trying to remain invisible since that's why she hasn't made any comment since she and Peter got to the dining hall.

　　Everyone turns to stare at her and she gulps down a glass of water, to calm herself.

　　"Ethan is speaking to you, woman!" Peter mouths poking her by her thigh.

　　"Huh?" She asks pretending like she hasn't been paying attention. "Yeah, I came yesterday."

　　Ethan leaves his food and stares at her. "Are you, okay?" He asks her. He has to ask, because she is looking all shades of uncomfortable and she has accepted to come to spend some time with Peter, just like that.

　　"I am fine. I am just not feeling too well," she says wiping her mouth with a napkin. She prolongs the action so people will just let her be.

　　What she says makes no sense and everyone on the table staring at her, wondering if she was doing alright. Sandra finishes cleaning her mouth and notices Camilla staring at her.

　　"What?" She snaps at her.

　　The sound of her voice makes Ethan's insides recoil in on themselves. No one spoke to his mate in that manner.

　　"Don't raise your voice at Camilla!" He growls and Jessie looks like she has seen a ghost in shock.

　　Even Camilla is shocked that he is defending her so much. At first, she had thought it was just because of her injury that he was being protective of her but she barely felt any real pain anymore, yet, he still pampered her and took her side even before his guests.

　　"Alpha, she isn't even your girlfriend," Sandra says under her breath.

　　"What did you say?" Ethan says dropping his fork. All he wants to do is get a nice quiet meal but Sandra won't even let him with her constant negative comments directed towards Camilla. "Peter control her!" he growls sending a vibration to the table.

　　Camilla notices the table shale but she blames it on the construction of the estate. She concentrates on her food not paying attention to either Sandra or Jessie who looked like they could eat her raw.

　　Ethan was the first to finish his food but he sat still watching the rest of them eat. when Jessie finished she got up from her seat

　　"Ethan, baby, can I talk to you for a few minutes?" She whines pouting her mouth. It kills her that Ethan is sitting so close to Camilla and to top it up he had been holding her hand throughout the meal.

　　She has always wanted this kind of affection from him, but he never gave it to him. She had promised herself that she is going to be his last and no one was going to stand in her way, not even the red-headed street Rat clinging unto him like some leach.

　　"Please?" She insisted, seeing that Ethan didn't make a move to even get up from his seat, not drop Camilla's hand

　　"I am sorry, but I have other business to attend to Jessie. Maybe later, before I return, " he tells her.

　　"You will return?" Jessie asks. "You just got back, why can't you rest for a while?"

　　Camilla can see the struggle in Jessie's features as she tries to sound sweet and nice to Ethan. And how all her effort collapsed to the floor because Ethan wasn't paying her any attention. Her intentions are very clear to Camilla. She wants to tell Ethan about her, but the heavens were on her side and Ethan refused all her proposals.

　　"I will return. The business isn't over yet." He told her.

　　"Okay, I will wait in your room then," Jessie says trying to test her limit.

　　"Stay in your room Jessie, I'll come to see you." He says to her.

　　Jessie's legs start feeling too heavy and she doesn't know how to lift herself from the hall anymore. Ethan has just embarrassed her so effortlessly in front of everyone like she is begging to be lived. Even if she is begging to be loved, she doesn't deserve to be treated like this.

　　Peter got up from his and Sandra followed closely behind him like a bodyguard.

　　"I'll be in my room Ethan, let me know if you need me," Peter says.

　　"If you are not too busy with Sandra, I need the both of you In my office in the next twenty minutes." He tells Peter who nods slightly before walking out of the dining hall.

　　Jessie notices that it is just Ethan and Camilla in the dining and refuses to leave. Knowing all her caprices, Ethan holds Camilla's hand tighter and gets up from the hall, and walks outside.

　　Jesse stays behind feeling like a bag of garbage.

　　Outside, Ethan walks Camilla to her room. When they get to the door, he stops right in front of it and Camilla stares into his face wondering what he wants to do.

　　"I have to talk to Peter about work... But I promise to be back and we can talk, okay?" He speaks so tenderly, Camilla feels her insides melt.

　　Afraid her voice will come out as a squeak, she God's her head and Ethan pulls her in for a quick hug. As their bodies connect, Camilla feels the butterflies in her belly flip in excitement. Ethan is driving her crazy and she doesn't even know where he is taking her with the game he is playing. Ethan then turns quickly around, walking to his office.

　　A large smile is dancing on Camilla's face as she tries to open her bedroom door. But her smile doesn't last for long ad Jessie soon comes after her.

　　"You sneaking bitch! What was that display in front of everyone about?" Jessie yelled like a lunatic housewife who has caught her husband with another woman. "Why we're you clutching his hand like that? The fact that he held you doesn't mean he loves you! It is me he wants!"

　　Camilla looks at herself from head to toe wondering if something is wrong with her. And then she sees the problem, standing in front of her Jessie. Something was wrong for Jessie to have such effrontery of talking to her like that.

　　"You think I wouldn't figure out your silly plans? You want to snatch my husband right in my face! Are you mad? Do you think this is the streets where you play stupid games and get away with it? My father is very rich, Ethan is very rich. We complement each other perfectly. I have worked so hard to keep my husband to myself, don't try and get between us. Because a lot came and tried their best but in the end, he still chose me!" Jessie snaps and Camilla can't help but smile at her foolishness. Does she think she can scare Camilla with talks about her dad's money? Camilla doesn't care about all of that.

　　"As far as I know, Ethan isn't married yet. Or did you two hold a secret wedding? " Camilla asks, facing an innocent smile on her face.

　　"Wait, did you go with him on the business trip and he got married to you?" Camilla says, tapping her chin dramatically.

　　"He called me practically every day, yet I never heard wedding bells," she continues knowing fully well, Ethan didn't call Jessie for all the time he spent in the small town.

　　Jessie felt like she would die right there. Ethan that she had been trying to reach so many times that didn't pick up her calls or even return them, he is the same person, who kept talking to Camilla.

　　No, the street rat is lying. Ethan can never do a thing like that he asked her out. He said with his mouth that he wanted her. They might be falling apart based on one or two things but the words he said to her were real. How can he leave her someone like Camilla? Who is nothing but a con artist?

　　Jessie is breathing so fast her chest may give up on her. "Camilla, stay away from Ethan. He is mine! You came here for help, or pretending to lose your memory and all of that! I don't even care! Just stay away from Ethan because he is mine!" She yells.

　　Camilla finally opens her door and is about to enter but she stops, turning to Jessie.

　　"Ethan is yours the moment he tells me with his mouth that you are his or that he is yours," she says folding her arms across her chest.

　　"Just take your noise to him and not me. There is nothing this pretty girl can do for you!" With that, she enters her room and closes the door.  Jessie is stamping her foot on the floor angrily and Camilla can't help but laugh at the girl. She is so clueless.

　　Camilla walks deeper into her room and all thoughts of Jessie and her problems fade away it is replaced with the original plan she has for the day, which is to go see her father but how will she be able to pull off the plan,  if Ethan is back so soon. And with the look of things he isn't leaving the house anytime soon.

　　She collapses on the bed, not knowing what to do

　　Should we just tell Ethan that she has gotten a part of her memory and that she needs to visit someone?

　　No, that will sound wrong.

　　What if he gets tired of her! That is the nightmare Camilla never wished for.

　　As much as Camilla wants money, she wants to have a good reputation with Ethan even if in the end he will know she was the one that stole all the small goods from here. At least she will leave with her head still held high.

　　Her ringing tone fills the air and she quickly picks it, hoping no one heard it ring.

　　"Lisa?" Camilla whispers. Lisa is practically the only one who calls her constantly aside from Ethan.

　　"Hey Cam, how are you?" Lisa's voice comes through the phone.

　　"I am not fine Lisa..." Camilla trails rolling herself on her bed. "Ethan is back, today of all days!"

　　"Oh," Lisa exclaims understanding the gravity of the matter. "That's quite tricky. What are you going to do now?"

　　"I told you because I always tell myself that my best friend is the smartest woman ever. Come on think of something... " she whines.

　　Lisa laughs out loud dramatically "I am the one you considered smart?" She squeaks laughing.

　　"Lisa please, I am serious here," Camilla pleads with her.

　　"Okay, you have to run again."