The Affair
Summary: Sebastian and Kathryn have it out over his treachery
Chapter 9: The Games People Play
Sebastian's new motto seemed to be that when you feel yourself starting to grow a conscience, that's the best time to start to drink. It wasn't completely logical but hell at the time it seemed to be doing the trick.
Soon after he arrived home he found himself going straight for the alcohol sitting out invitingly at the bar. Without a second thought he poured himself a shot and tried to erase the image in his head of Kathryn standing alone on that balcony.
Yeah he had followed Christian just to make sure his plan was indeed successful. Standing across the street having a cigarette he waited for some sort of sign. He got it when a half hour after he arrived Christian came rushing out. Sebastian watched him speed off down the road in his stupid little sports car, nearly taking out a group of uniform clad society children in the process. He was about to turn and leave himself when he spotted Kathryn looking in the direction of the car. Her face held a look of sadness, pain and something much, much worse.
Pure Fury.
If there was one thing she was good at it was anger. At her parents, at her debutante rivals, ungrateful boyfriends, and most importantly him. The girl could hold a grudge like no one else and watching her Sebastian was filled not only of regret for what he had done but also fear of what she would do in retaliation. Oh yes someone was going to pay and he had a damn good idea who that someone would be.
"Sebastian!" Annette's voice suddenly awakened him from his thoughts. "Sebastian are you home?" She came into the room and when she spotted him she looked genuinely surprised "oh I guess you are. How come you didn't answer me?"
"Hi" he said smiling calmly as he discretely put the vodka back behind the bar. Annette wouldn't approve.
She greeted him wrapping her arms around his waist and planting a light kiss on his lips. "Hey is something wrong?"
"What could be wrong?" he asked happily not sure it was caused by his acting ability or the vodka.
"Good" pulling away from him she sat her school bag down on the couch "umm…there's something I need to ask you."
Immediately his body stiffened as he waited for the other shoe to drop. He waited for Annette to tell him that she knew the truth about Kathryn and him. It was over, all the games and manipulations were for nothing. Somehow amidst his paranoid delusions Sebastian managed to ask "about what?"
She turned back to face him a look of worry washed over it. "I got a phone call this morning from this woman…"
This morning, Sebastian thought breathing a sigh of relief. Then it wasn't Kathryn, she hadn't done anything. In the back of his head a voice chided "well of course she didn't. She wouldn't hurt you like that." Brushing it aside he inquired "what did she want?"
"Well it was strange. She told me she had some pictures to show me that I would find interesting. I asked her what pictures and she said you would know. Do you have any idea what she was talking about?"
Fucking Gwendolyn he screamed inwardly. Sebastian deduced that if she called this morning it was obviously suppose to be some sort of warning or reminder. Still he couldn't believe she would go so far as to talk to Annette. Then again she was a blackmailing psycho so it shouldn't come as to much of a surprise.
Staring Annette dead in the eye he told her "no I haven't a clue. It must have been some prank phone call."
She wasn't buying it "yeah but she knew your name and that you were my boyfriend."
"So they could have seen us in the papers. Honestly Annette I haven't a clue as to what she was talking about. I have no pictures to show you. Oh" he said touching his forehead as if suddenly remembering something "I do have those pictures from the engagement party. You think that's what she was talking about? Something incriminating on them besides my father hitting on under age girls?"
Annette smiled "ha ha. I'm not accusing you of anything Sebastian I just think it's strange that's all. Don't you?"
"Sure" he told her wrapping his arms around her while mentally making a note to have a chat with Gwendolyn about her phone habits. "But then again this is New York."
She looked up at him adoringly "true. I missed you today. What have you been up to?"
Fucking Kathryn and ruing her life just so we can live supposedly happily ever after Sebastian thought. However he only shrugged "nothing much."
"Well what are you doing now?"
He leaned in and kissed her mouth "well I think I'm taking you to bed."
"Good plan" as they kissed and made there way clumsily to the bedroom Sebastian's cell phone suddenly went off. "Oh don't answer it" Annette complained.
"Hey it might be your phone buddy" he said sarcastically. Pulling out his phone he didn't even glance at the number before answering "hello?"
"I need to see you" Kathryn said on the other end in a voice Sebastian couldn't quite place. It wasn't weepy or even particularly hard. It was however serious.
Pulling away from Annette's embrace he asked "umm…now?"
"Yes"
"Is something wrong?" He asked her hoping to get a hint at her mood.
"I think you know there is."
"Ok I'll be there in a few minutes. I-
However before he could finish or try to make some sort of apology he was met with a dial tone. Sighing he tucked his phone away and faced Annette who was sitting on his bed expectedly. "Where are you going?" she asked in a little girl's voice.
"It's just a work thing. I have to go in and readjust some prints. It shouldn't take too long, hopefully" he said slipping on his jacket.
"Ok. I have some studying to do anyway."
Sebastian was genuinely surprised when he got out of the house without having to explain where he was going exactly. It wasn't that Annette nagged him; it just seemed that lately since Kathryn's return she seemed more interested in his whereabouts. Given what was going on behind her back he supposed it was somewhat justified.
As he had promised Sebastian arrived at Kathryn's penthouse ten minutes later. On the second knock one of her maids answered telling him in Spanish that Kathryn was in the living room. As he walked in he found her with her back to him, staring out at the dark New York skyline. As if sensing him she turned around and then slowly smiled "I knew you would come."
Her smile startled him to say the least. Where was the anger, the rage, the sharp objects being thrown his way? Who was this calm, pleasant girl in front of him? Sebastian was thrown but smart enough to go with the flow. Her walked up to her and whispered as he wrapped an arm around her waist "well of course. What was so urgent?"
Kathryn smiled as she stepped closer and whispered in his ear "I missed you." As she pulled away he looked at her stunned. What the hell was she up to? Her smile falling only a little she sighed "and I've had the most dreadful day."
"What happened?" he asked concerned but still weary.
"Christian and I…I don't want to talk about it" she muttered as her arms wrapped around his neck pulling him closer to her. "What I want is for you to take me to my room and make me forget all about it."
As she whispered her command in his ear her tricky hand made its way to his pants and then inside. Sebastian knew that as soon as she was touching him he became powerless. He knew she was up to something but at the moment his lust out weighed the functioning part of his brain that told him it was a trap. Without a word he picked her up while her slender legs wrapped around his body. His mouth found Kathryn's quickly as they stumbled into the room and tumbled to her bed.
Sebastian pulled away only momentarily to look around the dark room and notice it was completely tidy. He didn't have time to reflect on this however when Kathryn pulled his mouth back to hers. They kissed bruisingly hard while Kathryn yanked his shirt away in one motion. She started to straddle him but for some reason, possibly his brain was finally kicking in, that didn't seem like a good idea. He rolled her quickly onto her back but she didn't seem to be having any of that.
"I'm on top" she ordered while her hand caressed his groin.
Once again he couldn't argue so he let her climb on top. She smiled at him with a mischievous glint in her eyes. Without a word she slipped off her robe to reveal the see through camisole underneath. Her smile never wavered as she took his hand and led it up to her breast. He massaged it for a moment before she pulled it away along with the other one resting on her hip. Leaning forward she guided them to the back of his head and before he could ask her what she was doing she leaned forward and kissed him.
So lost in what she was doing to him he didn't even notice what she had hidden behind her back until he heard the click of metal locking under his wrist. Immediately he pulled away from her and looked at her questioningly before glancing up to see his hands cuffed to her bed courtesy of the handcuffs he had left out earlier. "What the fuck?"
"Relax Sebastian" she whispered as she nuzzled his neck "it's just a game."
"What game?"
"My game" she explained as she sat back up and began to grind herself against him. "You do trust me don't you?"
His eyes narrowed "you don't really expect me to answer that."
Kathryn only shook her head at him and told him "well I did trust you, or I was starting to anyway."
That feeling of dread once again surfaced in him "what do you mean?"
"I think you know" she told him cryptically as she reached over to the night side table and picked up one of the candles.
Sebastian tried to pull out of the cuffs but of course couldn't. Noticing that her face had lost its happy spark it occurred to him that he was indeed fucked. "What-what do you-
Before he could get his question out Kathryn let the hot wax from the candle drip onto his chest. "Ow!!" Sebastian screamed in pain "knock it off!"
"It's a game" she said matter of factly as she dropped some more next to the other drop that was already hardening. This one burned more than the last making him scream out. Kathryn only clucked her tongue at his pain and commented "oh it's not like you've never done this before."
She was right of course he had done this a few years back with some former model whose name he couldn't recall. However at the time he was as high as a kite and wasn't feeling anything. All he remembered of that night was waking up the next morning covered in red dots. Kathryn had laughed her ass off at the sight of him warning him that he should stick to the twitty debutantes. Glaring up at her now he growled "that was different. Enough with the kinky shit untie me."
Kathryn sighed putting the candle down "all right have it your way." He waited patiently for her to uncuff him however she didn't and instead began kissing down his body. She stopped every so often to suck on his skin leaving a distinctive red mark in her wake. He knew she was leaving her mark but it felt too good to tell her to stop.
Finally she got to his boxers and she slid them off with ease. Her tongue danced along his throbbing erection before pulling away. Sebastian groaned at her absence as he wondered what she was doing. As Kathryn moved down further on her bed he suddenly felt her mouth on his thigh. He could feel her lightly kissing the inside and it felt strangely nice. However that pleasure was once again interrupted by a sharp pang of pain. "God dammitt!" he hollered looking down at her "you fucking bit me!"
"Did I?" she asked completely innocent.
"What is wrong with you?"
Kathryn sat up her face completely serious she asked "what do you think?"
Sebastian said nothing even though he knew what she wanted him to say. Looking into her eyes he saw it immediately, the pain. It hit him then what all of this was about. She wanted answers that he couldn't give her.
When he said nothing Kathryn reached for her cell phone resting by the candle. Without a word she began to dial. "Who are you calling?"
"Annette" she said simply as if it were fairly obvious.
"What!? Are you crazy?" at the mention of his fiancé's name Sebastian began to wriggle around and break free.
Kathryn paid little mind pulling the phone away from her ear for a second. "I think she has a right to know who she's getting involved with." In a mock serious tone she explained "I think it's my duty as a women to alert her that she's about to marry a cheating, liar."
"You fucking bitch uncuff me! Don't you dare call her!"
"Or what?" she demanded her eyes completely hard "you'll beat me up. Newsflash sweetheart you're not going anywhere."
Sebastian watched as she finished dialing and held the phone to her ear. He shook his head "don't do this Kathryn. Think about what you're doing" he said calmly while his heart threatened to beat out of his chest.
Smiling she told him "oh don't worry I have."
"You know what will happen if she finds out. She'll tell Christian."
Kathryn nodded "you're probably right."
"Kathryn please!" he begged helplessly.
She sighed and rolled her eyes as if he was annoying her "stop whining Valmont it's not very becoming. Now why isn't she picking up?"
"Please!" he begged ignoring her snarky comments "I'll do anything."
Finally either because Annette wasn't answering or because his pleas intrigued her, Kathryn hung up. "All right I want you to admit what you did."
Sebastian sighed "why?"
Letting her nails dig into his chest she whispered "you have one minute to admit what you did and why or I'm calling Christian."
"He'll kill me"
She shrugged "at the moment I
don't really care.
Sebastian smiled slightly "yes you do or you would have told him already.
She reached for her phone "ok have it your way."
"Fine" he eyed her a moment before saying "I set you up."
Kathryn pulled away a little "go on."
Looking her dead in the eye he explained "I came over, I got you in bed, I purposely left everything out and then I found Christian. I told him you were an untrustworthy slut who would use him and that you were screwing around on him. I did all those things but I can't tell you I regret it."
She stared at him in utter disgust and hissed "why? What did I ever do to you?"
"Well there's probably a list of things but none of them apply to this. I did it because…I couldn't stand the idea of you being with him for one more minute." As he said it Sebastian knew it was a lie but it wasn't. He couldn't very well tell her about Gwendolyn because if he did it was guaranteed Annette would find out soon after. Sure it wasn't the actual reason he had sabotaged her relationship but it was true. He hated the idea of Kathryn with Christian. Hell he hated the idea of her with anyone but him. "I knew you would end up marrying him and I couldn't let that happen. I had to ruin your relationship and the only way to do that was to ruin you in his eyes. So do you-
Sebastian was once again interrupted when Kathryn hit him hard across the face "you fucking liar!"
Recovering from the blow quickly he yelled back "it's the truth! Why the fuck else would I do it?"
"I don't know for fun, to get back at me for something that happened years ago, because you're an asshole the list goes on and on."
"How about the truth? He doesn't deserve you Kathryn he never did. You're just another trophy to him. Christian doesn't really care about you."
"Oh but you do? I'm just a good fuck remember."
"You know that's not true" he told her sincerely.
"Please I was as much your toy as Christian's. The only difference is that he loved me."
"I love you" the statement slipped out before he could fully think it over. However he knew he meant it and he did not regret it.
Kathryn on the other hand did not look happy or delighted. She stared at him coldly for a moment before leaning over and uncuffing him. In a voice of ice she ordered "get out." Before he could respond she slipped her robe back on and walked out of the bedroom.
Sebastian quickly got up and dressed trying to think of something to say to fix this. He walked out and found Kathryn once again looking out the large window. He came up behind her and whispered "I meant it."
She quickly pushed him off "I told you to get out."
He spun her around to face him "don't you believe me?"
Kathryn laughed harshly "what the fuck does it matter what I believe? You're getting married in a few weeks. Just go home to goldilocks and leave me alone."
She started to walk away again but this time Sebastian stopped her and pulled her into a kiss. She tried to pull away but ended up giving in momentarily as they fell against the wall. Kathryn's nails were digging into his neck nearly drawing blood but it did nothing but make him kiss her harder.
Finally out of sheer will she pulled away from him. He watched her slightly breathlessly waiting for her to respond. His heart fell slightly when she told him once again "get out." He moved closer pressing his forehead against hers but it only caused her to push him harder "get out. Just get out."
Sebastian looked into her face and saw complete ice. There was no budging her this time he had gone too far. Slowly he nodded and whispered "all right." He started for the door but stopped before leaving. Kathryn wouldn't look at him she just crossed her arms and glared at the floor. Finally he reluctantly left.
Kathryn waited until she heard the door close before looking up. She didn't want to have to see him because if she did she would change her mind. She would decide to forgive him and let him take her to bed. However she couldn't do that this time. She had to be strong and stay the hell away from him. It was the only way to get what she wanted.
Slowly she walked over to the phone and dialed. She waited for him to answer as she knew he would "hello?"
"Christian I need to see you. There's something I have to tell you."
* * * * * *
Sebastian somberly rode the elevator to the ground floor. As he waited for the doors to open he wondered when exactly his life had turned to shit. I shouldn't have told her, he thought I knew she would handle it like that. Walking towards the lobby he tried to convince himself that what he did was for the best. Now he could be with Annette and not worry about anything tearing them apart. He could be happy whatever that was.
"My you look sad for a guy who just got everything he wanted" a familiar English accent purred.
Stopping dead in his tracks Sebastian waited a moment before turning around. Gwendolyn sat in one of the plush maroon lobby chairs staring at him with a mischievous smile. Tired from the excruciatingly long day he sighed "what do you want now Gwen?"
"Relax darling" she told him getting up "I come barring gifts." Gwendolyn picked up a vanilla envelop and a videocassette sitting on the table. "A deal's a deal and I have to say you accomplished your part quite nicely."
Looking over the pictures briefly he asked "is this all of them?"
"Of course. Don't you trust me?"
"You'll forgive me if I say no. Especially after that little phone call you made to Annette."
She shrugged "I had to keep you on your toes. You understand that don't you?"
He glared at her "so I take it you got what you wanted?"
Gwendolyn smiled "yes I just came back from Christian's. After he discovered his beloved was a cheating slut he needed a shoulder to cry on and luckily I have two of the best."
Sebastian didn't bother to hide his disgust "that's nice. Are we done here?"
She gave him an odd smile "yes I suppose we are. I still don't understand why you're not more pleased. Not only is your sweet little fiancé still in the dark but now you have Kathryn all to yourself."
"Not quite" he muttered.
"Well then which girl will it be? The slut or the virgin?"
Sebastian said nothing at first he just glared at her before saying simply "Annette's waiting for me."
"I guess I got my answer then."
Rolling his eyes at her he turned around and said "see you around Gwennie. Preferably in hell."
Watching him leave she smiled "oh darling I'd say you're already there." Taking a seat back in her comfortable chair Gwendolyn pulled out her cell phone. Watching Sebastian through the large glass window she smiled to herself. It was amazing what love could to a guy. Especially a guy like Sebastian.
When a familiar voice picked up she smiled her eyes still locked on Sebastian "it's done. Now I would say there's nothing stopping you from getting what you want."
- to be continued (Please Review)