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Chapter 10

Reunion

"Do you enjoy the dinner?" the silver-haired man asked the blonde sitting across him. Whole day long he craved to have free time to spend with her. When his secretary announced him about his sudden free afternoon, he wanted to give the woman a raise. Sesshomaru did not waste his time in calling his mistress, his now free time belonging solely to her.

"You know that I do." Her eyes were seducing him, making him wish to be alone in this room, he taking her right here and there on the table. The sound of his phone broke the magic between the two, Sesshomaru's lips twisting in disgust when the name of the caller flashed on the screen.

He tried to ignore her at first, he having no intention to ruin the mood answering the phone.

"It's your wife isn't it? You should answer her; she might become suspicious if you don't."

"Right, we don't want that."

The third time when the insisting wife called, he pressed the green button.

"Hello Rin! I am in an important meeting. I cannot talk on the phone." He wanted to get rid of her fast.

"Sorry for bothering you. I wanted to tell you that I will be out of town for two days. A problem arrived in Arita which needs my presence."

"Hope it's nothing serious."

"I love you!"

"I love you too." he whispered to his wife, he whoever leaning in to kiss the rouge lips of his mistress.

"What did she want?" she immediately asked when he hung up his cell phone.

"She's out town for the next two days. Two full days I can spend only with you; my schedule is clear."

"Oh, will you spoil me? Will you make my wishes coming true?"

"Anything."

The mistress leaned in, her big breasts almost spilling of her dress, catching the eyes of the man. He wanted his hands to cup her twins, squeezing them into his fists, and his mouth to suck on them.

"Then can I see where you live? I want to see the house you go after you every night leave from my side."

"Anything for you."

"It's a nice place, though I will redecorate it differently."

"My wife likes it like this."

The mistress's eyes scanned the penthouse, she checking every room, commenting on the plain taste of his wife. She stopped in her tracks when her eyes fell on the bigger bedroom, blue silk sheets covering the king size bed. She stepped inside the room, her form sitting on the soft mattress.

"I like this bed. I like the feeling of these silk bed sheets under my touch. It sent a wave of pleasure through my fingers, making me want for something more."

"And what would you wish?"

"I want to make love on this bed. I want it to be like it's our last time. Think at me as a lover you will never see again."

He chuckled, liking her idea. Piece by piece, Sesshomaru removed his clothes, standing in all his glory in front of her clothed form.

"As you wish. Tonight I will take you hard, you will scream my name, and beg me for more."

"Then make me beg; make me scream." He liked the challenge. He approached the vixen her, hovering over her, his hands ripping her dress off, revealing her luscious body to his hungry eyes. His mouth attacked her mounds, his hands ripping her tiny thong off of her.

In a flash, his hard member entered her, his thrusts fast and hard, bringing her at the edge of pleasure. She erupted in pleasure beneath him, she screaming his name louder and louder with each push.

He took her like it was no tomorrow.

The room, the bed, the sheets reeked with the scent of their lovemaking.

Nights like the one before he did not have for a long time. He felt…full. The hungry beast inside him finally sated. He was brewing the coffee when the ring of the phone woke him up from his not so innocent dreams.

"Yes. What do you want Inuyasha?"

"Morning to you bro. don't forget that today at 1 PM to come to Solace Estate Resort. we will celebrate Rin's birthday there. I know that last night you tired her too much, like other dates before, but don't forget to be on time."

He froze, there in the middle of the kitchen. He completely forgot about her.

"Rin had to go to Arita yesterday. She will be back in two days."

"What? Don't joke with me bro. No matter what problem would have arrived in Arita she wouldn't have left on her birthday. You two celebrate her birthday together, you being busy to suck the life out of her, and the next day we will gather together and celebrate her. You tired her too much that she can't even stand?"

"She really is in Arita."

"Did you two have a fight?"

Sesshomaru hung up the phone. Inuyasha was right, she wouldn't have left out town on her birthday. She had no relative left in Arita; no matter what emergency she had it could had wait. He lifted the lid of the trash bin, the food, the cake, ordered yesterday clearly being there.

She was waiting him; her phone call being a lie. She had no problem in Arita; she left because he forgot about her.

"What about another session honey?" the mistress, clad in only a towel stood in the doorway. Seeing her he should be aroused but he felt none; guilty being the feeling he only felt.

"Meiya, you need to leave."

"What? What about us having sex all day long? You said you will make my wish come true."

"Change of plan. You need to leave."

"Why? Your wife won't be home until tomorrow night. We have plenty of time."

"For the last time take your clothes and leave. I won't be able to see you off but I will pay for your cab."

He bringing her inside this house shouldn't have happened.

He having wild sex with her on that bed shouldn't have happened.

"This is my greatest sin."

"You're finally home!" Sesshomaru jumped off of the couch, his arms encircled around the form of his wife. "I called you since yesterday but you didn't answer." She was standing like a doll in his embrace, her arms not snaking around his waist like it used to.

"My battery died and didn't have my charger with me either."

"You should have called me. I was worried."

"I didn't want to talk with you either. You know why."

"About your birthday I am sorry. I was so busy with work that I completely forgot. The merging took my minds away."

"It doesn't change that my husband didn't wish me 'Happy Birthday' on my birthday. I am still mad on you. Please do not talk with me; right now I have no mood to."

That day was his greatest sin. They celebrated many birthdays together, his mind now void of them. He wanted to remember what they did on those happy days but nothing came into his mind. He could remember only her last birthday.

That was not a birthday, it was a funeral; the funeral of his marriage. His kind wife would have forgiven him anything but not that. Sesshomaru didn't kill only his marriage in that day but Rin too. Day after day, he stabbed her into her body, in that day he giving her the fatal wound.

What was he thinking in that day? He should have known that something is happening since out the blue his secretary cleared his schedule. He should have known something is happening since none of his business partners wanted appointments with him for two days straights.

They knew what day it was; they knew where he normally should have been. They all knew, only he didn't.

Stupid.

What was he thinking when he called his mistress inviting her to the dinner.

Stupid.

What was he thinking when he said yes to her request to visit his home and Rin's.

Stupid.

What was he thinking when he said yes to her when she asked him to take her in that bed.

He shouldn't have forget about Rin; he shouldn't have called that woman; he shouldn't have given up to her requests.

He was the stupid man alive. Men who cheat shouldn't have acted like he did.

Stupid is what he was.

And for whom he trashed his wife? He trashed her for a woman he realized he had no love feelings at all. The feelings once he confused them as love was just lust.

Sesshomaru didn't have a chance to make up for his sins. His wife asked for divorce in that day. Two years ago she asked for her freedom. Two years ago he signed the divorce papers.

He was free to search for happiness; he was free to go back to his mistress. She set him free. How ironic – these happened when more than anything he wanted her on his side; when he wanted to bound her to him more. It was a punishment coming from Heaven.

Men like him should never gain happiness.

Two years passed since he had seen Rin for the last time; two years since a flick of the pen separated them. The wedding band from his ring finger he never removed it. She may not belong to him anymore but he was hers forever.

After the divorce many women threw themselves at his feet, trying to entice him with their bodies; he felt nothing from them. They were so many different from his Rin: the voice, the hair color, the soft skin; nothing compared with Rin. The traits of Rin he found them in no woman.

When the mistress came to beg him to be a couple again, Sesshomaru spare her no glance. His soul, his heart wanted just one woman.

A woman he cannot have.

Stupid.

He embraced happiness alongside Rin. Like the stupid man he was he let it escape from his grasp.

He missed her. He wanted to see her, wanted to hear her voice again. She was not in his reach anymore. Many times he was driven by the urge to drive till Arita to see her. She didn't have to know. He was happy only to watch her from distance.

Lie.

The strength to watch her from afar he didn't have it. He knew the moment his eyes will fall on her, he will want her to have her closer, his arms to wrap around her body, his lips whispering love words to her.

She didn't want to see him. He did not want to feel the pain of being rejected again.

"From that table." A male voice made him lift his gaze from his half empty whiskey glass. "From that woman." The male pointed to the red-haired woman. She was trying to hit on him.

"Tell her that I refuse."

Sesshomaru had to mood for them; he had no mood to make another woman unhappy. He stood up from the bar stool, heading to the elevator and from there to his hotel room. He came here in Osaka with business, he having to intention to conquer any woman. He did not come here, nor want to indulge in carnal pleasure. A man like him should be alone forever.

Once in the elevator, he supported himself on the wall, the alcohol starting to take a hold on him. He only felt another presence entering the elevator, he freezing when his eyes fell on her.

Her hair color, the lips color and shape, even the skin was the same. She was strikingly alike with his Rin. The woman in the elevator with him had her hair a little longer than his Rin, her big brown eyes shining with happiness.

The woman with him in the elevator couldn't be his Rin. The shine she once had he made sure to remove it. These two women were so different.

"Sesshomaru, I want to divorce." Her words strike him; she forcing him to look at her.

"No; I don't want. If we will try harder we can make it through. I will be a better husband."

"Stop lying to yourself Sesshomaru. This marriage ended when you brought that woman in our home. If you wouldn't have done that I know that I would have forgiven you. I stayed silent about your affair because I did not want us to end our marriage. I knew we can overcome that bad episode. I don't have in me the will to continue this marriage anymore."

"I regret what I did. I know I shouldn't have done that. I regret that day. But please do not say you want us to divorce. What I will do without you? I cannot live without you!"

"It's only about you. What about me? Did your selfish mind thought at me at least for a second? Do you even have idea how much you ruined me that day? I was watching you dining with her, feeling disgust when I called you. You whispered 'I love you' to me but your lips took hers into kiss. And after it, I had to see her clothes all over our house; I had to hear her screaming your name in pleasure."

"I am so sorry! Please forgive me!

"When I returned home I burn the sheets you two used. But while watching the fires burning the fluids of your passion away I thought that maybe I should burn all the sheets and buy another ones instead. What if you brought her in our home in other days too and I don't know?"

"I didn't. That was the only time."

"And you brought her in the worst day possible. Do you know that after that I never slept beside you in that bed? Do you even have idea how I spent my nights after that day? Every night I stood on the vanity chair and watched you. You looked so peaceful, like you never cheated on me. It angered me. While watching you I wondered if I should kill you or not. And if I should decide in doing it I wondered what method to use. Should I have kill you bare handed, my hands forming a strong grip around your neck, strangling you? Or should I have charge the gun and pull the trigger?"

"Rin, you – "

"And I wondered if I would gain some sort of satisfaction seeing you laying lifeless in our bed, or if I would see your blood splash all over the bed would give me more excitement. Around morning, I decided that I shall not kill you. I went to the kitchen and prepared a breakfast you had no time to eat. And after you would have left to work I would sleep on the couch. Around 5PM I would leave the house, following your mistress going to date you. Then I wondered if I should kill her. Should I have run with the car over her or should I shoot her. But if I would have killed her would you have taken my side? Would you have left me in jail or would do have done everything to release me?"

"Rin, what have you became?"

"You made me like this. You crafted me; I am your product. Months you molded me like a piece of clay, bringing me into this defect condition. You made me like this. These thoughts never crossed my mind before. Because of you I ended up being a person not even I recognize. Every day I watch myself in the mirror and wonder who that person is. My hands cannot create things anymore but destroy them. The man I once loved I wished for his death. I am not like this. You turned me into a monster."

He destroyed her more than he ever thought. He turned her into a different person; her eyes not having the same shine anymore.

"I want to be myself once more. I cannot do it while on your side. When you touch me my mind is filled only with thoughts about you and her; if you touched her the same as you do to me. I want to search for my old self; I cannot do it if I am not free from you. I want to be alone and overcome the monster within me by myself. I want to be what I was before meeting you."

"Rin please! We can become what we were before. I am sure of it; we can put all these behind and start anew. I cannot let you go away from me!"

"Sesshomaru, I won't change my mind; I want to divorce. I want to set myself free; I want to be away from you. I will take the car. I will call Jaken and asked him to come picking you up. By the time you will be back in Tokyo I would have already packed my stuff and left."

"No. Please!"

"Goodbye Sesshomaru!"

"You need to sign the divorce papers." The one speaking to him was Rin's lawyer. Rin left him a week ago, he never once seeing her.

"Before I sign them I want to talk with my wife. Why isn't she here?"

"Rin doesn't want to see you. You two can separate amiable, or can chose the rough path. Either way you won't see her; her presence in the court is not necessary.

"She doesn't want alimony from me. Shouldn't I give her some money?"

"She has no need of your money. She wants to break any bound she has with you, even your money. Sesshomaru, if once you loved her then sign the papers, give her the freedom she seeks for."

A flick of his pen sealed the end of his marriage.

The black-haired woman, dressed in only a night gown was moistening her face, when her eyes fell on the form of her husband. He was looking intensely at her, being irritated.

"What? For how long do you intend to look at me like that Inuyasha."

"You shouldn't have done what you did. You overstepped your boundaries. What if they will meet?"

"That means my plan worked. I placed them in the same hotel for them to meet."

"And what about after? Have you thought about it? Since he divorced, Sesshomaru is a mess. It's been two years since then, and he didn't move on yet. What about the psychological damage he will have after they will meet? I know he's guilty for everything but he's my brother. I am worried for him. The wedding band is still on his finger; he says is to chase women away but I know better."

"I know all these but it's better for them to see each other. He wanted to see her so many times, she wanted to see him as well. But they're two cowards who won't move an inch. They needed a push; I gladly gave it to them."

"And Rin? What about her?"

"She will do well. Compared with two years ago, she's much better. Two years ago she was a wreck, the divorce affecting more than she ever thought."

"Rin?" Kagome entered in her hotel room. She found the woman sitting on the couch staring at a piece of paper on the coffee table.

"It ended." Rin's voice was low, shaky. "What kept us together was a piece of paper." The tears she tried so much to hold them down flooded over her cheeks. Her breath became labored, the air apparently stopping to fill her lungs.

Kagome rushed on her side, trying to help her breath again.

"Calm down Rin. Please try to breath."

"He's gone. I will never see him again. A piece of paper took him away from me. He's gone."

"Everything is okay. You can see him anytime you want." Kagome's arms wrapped around Rin's frame, trying to calm the crying woman down. "When you will feel better, and found what you once lost you can return and see him again. He will be waiting you."

Author note: yep, I separated them. that was the plan all along - from the first chapter. Maybe they got a divorce but the story does not end here; their story will go on.

Chapter 11 - Lingering feelings