Free Obsessed with Me - When she rejected him, he set out to destroy her - book 1 by Eve Rabi

because I usually do.
    I have to wonder if there is anything going on between the blondes and Tarago. What about the nights he doesn’t visit me? Does he visit them? Take turns?
    When I look up, I look into Tarago’s blue questioning eyes.
    Quickly, I look away.
    Enough of this crap. I stand up.
    “Where you going to, vyf?” Tarago asks.
    I look at him.
    He flicks his fingers, motioning me to sit.
    Bastard.
    Slowly, with my lips a thin line, I sit down. “Can you guys not call me vyf, please?” I hiss.
    “You guys heard what vyf said?” Tarago asks. “From now on, don’t call vyf vyf.”
    A burst of laughter again.
    I get so mad, I get up and storm off. He can throw me in the pool, I no longer care.
     
    ****
     
    As I lie on my bed, my mind drifts to Ashwin and the last time we spoke.
    Before I could tell him about Tarago, my stint in jail and the ridiculous proposal I had received, Ashwin had exciting news of his own.
    “Guess what? Got offered a job in London!”
    “London?”
    “Plus twice the amount I’m being offered here. Double pay.”
     “Wow! That is fantastic, Ashwin. Double pay, wow! From …by whom?”
    “Tarago Jakobus – he made me an offer. Isn’t that something?”
    I felt like I was jabbed with a cattle prod. “Tarag …”
    “And …I get two plane tickets every month to fly anyone over to London. I can’t leave so they will have to come over to me!”
    “Tarago?! Him?”
    “He’s is like cool.”
    “Just how do you know Tarago, Ashwin?”
    “Ran into him a couple times when I was waiting to pick you up from work. We talked and he made me the offer.”
    “Ran into him? That was no coinci…”
    “How’s the perks, huh? Flights every month? And my flight is tomorrow.” He picked me up and spun around with me.
    “Stop! Stop!” I cried. “Ashwin, what about us?”
    “It’s just for a year, Tanin. You can visit me every month, so …?”
    “Wait, wait, wait! Just back up a bit, Ashwin, Tarago Jakobus is just doing this so that he can get you out of the way so he can get to me. Can’t you see it?”
    He stiffened. “You’re saying that I have no merit whatsoever and that it’s all about you? Not because he saw my potential? Not because of my …hey just when did you develop such a giant- size ego?”
    I sighed. Nobody believed me when I told them about Tarago Jakobus and his vendetta against me.
    “No, no, no. It’s just that …look Tarago Jakobus offered me a job – twenty grand a month.”
    “Twenty grand?” His lips curled in an admixture of disgust and envy. “I don’t believe you.”
    “It’s true. As a PA.”
    He laughed. “A PA? Twenty grand? That’s can’t be true, Tanin. C’mon.”
    Slowly, I rubbed my eyes. I felt like I was losing Ashwin. I’d lost so much recently that I no longer knew which way was up. Obviously Tarago targeted Ashwin.
    I put my hand on my boyfriend’s cheek. “Don’t take this job, Ashwin, please.”
    With an annoyed look on his face, he moved back and out of reach.
    My heart felt heavy. “If I take the job, I cannot be in contact with you for …for …six months.” Lying was easier. Two years – I couldn’t bring myself to tell the truth.
    “What? Why?”
    “Security reasons.” I gave a couple of small shrugs.
    “Tanin, your behavior is attention-seeking and frankly, I’m fed-up with you. You really expect me to believe that Tarago Jakobus won’t allow us to talk for six months?” His look was sneering.
    He was so thrilled with his job offer that he saw nothing else, not even that something was drastically wrong with me.
    I shook my head, then wiped away my tears with the back of my hands. He didn’t believe anything I said, so why bother?
    “Tanin,” Ashwin said, his voice softening at the sight of my tears, “six months will fly. After a year, I will have saved enough money to buy a house and we’ll be really comfortable. I have such an opportunity right now and …like, I have to stay focused. Do what he