AUTHOR'S POV
Sara's eyes opened when she heard a lot of annoying loud noises around her. Groaning, she grabbed her hairs, feeling the strong hangover and then looked around with her eyes widening up.-
The flutters of a lot of cameras started causing her anxiety, when she looked beside her and noticed the man from previous night still sleeping.
“ Ms. Sara Lexington! Is this your boyfriend? ” A reporter shouted out his question, as the club's guards tried to push them out.
Sara's life flashed in front of her eyes, as she felt her senses numbing. Gradually, what happened last night started pouring back into her memory and she pulled the duvet closer to her naked body.
She could still hear the reporter's voices, but she couldn't understand what they were saying anymore. She was too shocked to accept that she, Sara Lexington, slept with a random man and then reporters took photos of the scene.
A scandal. A scandal which was going to turn her world upside down. Her body started trembling, thinking about the reactions of her Father, Her Uncles, Her Aunts, Her Grandmother and lastly Her Grandfather. With his face coming into her mind, she shivered and took in a shaky breath, refusing to look at the man, who was still sleeping like no one could ever wake him up from this beauty sleep.
“ We are sorry for this Ma'am. ” The guard apologized after pushing the reporters out of the small suffocating room, but what was his apology worth now, when those reporters were going to cause her a big reputation crisis. Her mind suddenly started working. She needed to stop them. She had to stop them.
“ Get out! ” She hissed at the guard and he hurried out of there, closing the door behind him.
Stealing a last glare at the sleeping man, she started finding her clothes and wore them back quickly. She had not bothered to fix her hairs or face before running out of the room and straight to her car, where she had dropped her phone last night in anger.
Regret was weighing her down and dread was making her want to jump off a bridge to die.
With her fingers trembling and tears blurring her vision, she dialed Secretary Liam's number. He picked up on the first ring and before she could say something, he started informing her about the situation worriedly.
Hearing what he said, she hanged up the call and threw the phone on the passenger seat.
' Ma'am Where are you? There are pictures of you naked with a man all over the media and your family is furious along with the Board members. They all need you to explain who that man was. This scandal is too far gone out of our hands. ' Secretary Liam's words echoed in her ears and she hit her hands against the steering wheel, shouting in frustration.
She kept hitting her hands against it, until they went numb with pain and she was sure, that the skin was ruptured internally.
Tears started pouring out of her eyes, but she sniffed, trying to dull down the ache.
Looking up at the roof of the car, she fanned her face with her hands and sniffed loudly, pushing all the overwhelming emotions back.
Shaking her head, she turned the engine on and pulled her car out of the parking lot, speeding towards her penthouse to change and head to the Lexington Villa to explain herself, as they had called it.
When she made her way inside her lavish penthouse, her knees gave up on her and she fell down, before pulling herself back up again.
All she had worked on for her whole life, was about to be blown up, just because she couldn't control her desire and lust. How could she do this?
She ended up trading all her life for a petty one night stand. To think about it, she gave up her virginity without even realizing what she was doing. She hit her head against the cold wall and tried to get herself back together.
She needed to find a way out of this. She couldn't just let all her life go down the drain, because of a drunken mistake.
Wiping the betraying tears away harshly, she headed to her room and rushed to change her clothes into more presentable one's.
When she stood in front of the mirror naked, her eyes trailed the purplish marks down her neck and all over her body heating up her cheeks with the memories of last night once again crashing over her.
Clenching her already hurting hands into tiny fists, she looked away and wore a black pant with a white button up shirt. She didn't forget to hide all the marks with the concealer. Even if she was miserable right now, she wouldn't let anyone know. She forced a smile on her lips and refused to turn on the TV to watch the news.
Walking out of the penthouse with the coat and giving herself a pep-talk to be neutral, she drove off to the Lexington Villa.
Her family was the 3rd richest in the whole country, that's why all eyes were fixed on them.
She gulped the lump in her throat down, when the castle like Lexington Villa came into her view. She refrained from staring at it for longer and slowed down her car, as the main gates were opened, letting her drive inside the Villa to park her car in the driveway.
She got out of the car with her hands still trembling and made her way inside the Villa, ignoring the respectful bows of the guards and maids. She knew all of them must be waiting for her in the family living room.
Just like she expected, they were all sitting in the living room and when she stepped forth, all eyes went to her, scaring her even more.
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