The Billionaire's Promise
Chapter 227: Why Can’t He Forget Her?

Chapter 227: Why Can’t He Forget Her?

Jax dialed a number on his cellphone.

"Check what Erik is doing in China and let me know immediately." He paused while listening to the man on the other line before hanging up.

In the evening, he went to a bar to meet up with Cassie. Cassie has pestered him several times. He got tired of her calls and he decided to finally meet her.

Cassie was already in the private room when he arrived.

"How have you been Cassie?" he asked casually. He picked up a wine glass and poured over the wine. He secretly studied Cassie while twirling the wine in his glass.

Cassie was wearing a green pencil skirt and a matching light green sleeveless top with a V-neckline. Her blazer was draped over the back of her chair. Probably she felt hot, that’s why she took it off.

Cassie was beautiful and she still has the body of a model. She has average-sized breasts. It was not too small not it was too big.

"Aren’t you meeting the wrong person, Cassie? Shouldn’t you meet with Marlon Franco or Alex? I am not particularly close to Erik." He said in a mocking voice.

"But I felt connected with you. We planned Aryana’s kidnapping after all. Because Erik was held up at the Lee Mansion at that time, Aryana went on that cruise without him which made it easy for her to be taken away." Cassie was casual in her conversation.

Jax’s eyes turned icy cold but Cassie did not notice it because she was mesmerized by the color of the wine in her glass.

"Don’t ever mention that again, Cassie." Jax’s voice sounded menacing. Cassie was surprised. She lifted her head but she felt scared when she saw the danger in Jax’s eyes.

"That is something that I regretted the most. Maybe if she had not been taken from that luxury ship, she would still be alive at this time. We did not gain anything from what we did. In fact, we all lose." Jax’s voice sounded forlorn.

Cassie snorted.

"Regretting it? But it is too late. She is gone now. She died! But how come Erik could not forget her? How come he still cannot look at me? Am I not pretty? He used to love and dote on me so much." Cassie lamented. She drank an entire glass of wine in one go.

Jax poured her another glass. She really looked pitiful. Jax could tell that Erik has no feelings left for Cassie, not even friendship. It died on the night she framed him, which was the eve of Aryana’s death.

Erik was no longer the man he used to be. It seemed that his soul had left him and what was left was an empty shell.

Of course, Jax was happy because he finally had the chance to become better than Erik. He could not believe that a woman would be the cause of his downfall. Unfortunately, the woman was Aryana. Because of his selfishness, he was instrumental in killing her... the woman that he loved and coveted.

Jax downed glass after glass of wine just like Cassie.

"Jax, am I not pretty? Why does Erik not want me anymore? Why can’t he forget her?"

Cassie was drunk. She kept on mumbling the same words over and over again. She stood from her chair and swayed toward Jax. She was muddle-headed and had lost her sense.

She took Jax’s hand and placed it on her chest. "Isn’t it because her chest is bigger than mine? But mine is not that small." She guided the man’s hand to the curve at her waist. "Isn’t my waist slimmer than hers?"

Jax was turned on by Cassie’s provocative actions. He was a man after all and he was no saint. He was a known playboy and he wouldn’t say no to a woman who was throwing herself to him.

"If he wanted her badly, then I can be ’her’. I can change myself to look like her and be her. Just love me, Erik. I can be Aryana. Just think of me as Aryana." She whispered in Jax’s ear.

The two people who were drunk have given in to their carnal desires. Cassie sat on Jax’s lap as she desperately sought his lips. In her muddled state, she was seeing Erik and not Jax.

Jax reached out and locked the door. Then he removed Cassie’s blouse in one fluid motion exposing her fair skin. Her breasts looked bigger. Did she have a bust lift? Was she serious when she said that she could be Aryana?

He unstrapped her bra and played with her breasts. Cassie moaned in pleasure. It had been a long time since she was pleasured like this.

"Erik!" she whispered hoarsely.

Jax momentarily stopped. He did not like to be called another man’s name.

"Call me Jax," he said in annoyance.

"Jax," Cassie said obediently. She did not want him to stop.

Jax smiled and his hands became busy. Cassie unbuttoned his polo shirt. Jax became impatient and he helped her out.

Cassie started pressing her wet lips on the sensitive parts of his chest. Jax closed his eyes and moaned. He imagined that it was Arayana who was doing that to him. But suddenly he realized his perverted thoughts.

’Damn! What am I thinking? The woman is already dead.’

He removed the remaining cloth barrier from Cassie’s body, then he let her straddle him. Cassie was so passionate that he enjoyed their intimate moments.

After she was done, she let her rest for a few moments and then he took her again until he was totally spent.

Jax was asleep on the couch when Cassie sobered up. She was horrified when she saw the half-naked Jax on the couch and she herself was fully naked beside him.

Cassie hurriedly stood up and was about to gather her scattered clothes on the floor when a strong hand grasped her wrist.

"Trying to escape my dear? You provoked me first so you have to finish what you started. We were both drunk earlier so the memory of what we did is quite hazy. Now that we both sober up, let’s do it one more time."

Before Cassie could say anything, Jax captured her mouth with his. His kiss was domineering and it demanded full surrender. Jax did not spend much time doing the foreplay. He took her again and this time he was rough.

Cassie bit her lips to drown the moans forming in her throat. She did not want to give Jax the impression that she was enjoying what he was doing. In the end, she could not help herself but let out shameless moans of pleasure as Jax led her into the path to ecstasy.

"Get change as it is already getting late. You have your driver to pick you up right?" Jax buttoned up his shirt and he tried to smoothen the creases on his sleeves with his hand.

Cassie hurriedly put on her clothes. She was sore all over and she felt sticky and uncomfortable.

"Yeah, my driver is waiting." She spoke to him in her usual tone. With the way they exchange words, no one would think that they had just done the most intimate thing that a man and a woman could do.

"You are mature enough. I did not use any protection. I am pretty sure you know what to do Cassie. I am not Erik."

Of course, Cassie knew what Jax was hinting at her.

"Who wants to have a child with you?" She retorted in anger.

Jax lighted a cigarette and blew a ring of smoke at her.

"Yes, who wants to have a child with you? You are not Aryana."

Cassie didn’t know why, but she was angry at him. She clenched her fist, took her purse, and slammed the door when she got out.

Jax chuckled as his gaze followed the back of the woman who left angrily. Truth be told, he wanted to do it again with her. He decided that he would create opportunities for that to happen.

At the car, Cassie was fuming. How dare he? Who wants to have his child? He was not Erik after all.

Then she remembered the things that they had done earlier. She was ashamed and a little scared. But If she was honest with herself, she enjoyed every moment of it.

"Damn! Have I become a pervert?" she muttered under her breath.

If only Erik would look at her and care for her like he used to, then she wouldn’t be tempted right?

"Erik, why are you so stubborn? Why do you look at me with coldness and hatred in your eyes?" she said to herself. Her heart hurt every time she visited Erik in the company and he would drive her away without giving her face at all.

Erik said that he would never forgive her because of the night when he framed him. If not for that situation, then he could have accompanied Aryana and Aryana did not feel bad because she thought that Erik betrayed her.

"Hmmp! I am happy. She died believing that Erik betrayed her."