"Here you go," Theo handed me a glass of wine.

He sat down next to me on the comfortable couch in the lounge area of the suite, both of us having now changed into more comfortable clothes.

I was wearing my flannel pyjamas while he had on a tee shirt and his original team's dark sweatpants.

"Thank you for coming with me to dinner. I had a great time," he spoke, eyes focused on the glass of wine in his hand.

I had my knees raised up to my chest, impatiently waiting for him to get to the point. Before I had a chance to tell him to hurry up, he continued.

"Carmen has a video of her and me having sex," he cleared his throat and took out his phone.

My brows furrowed at what he'd said, "it's illegal to film something like that without your consent."

I watched as he unlocked his phone. I realised he had put the picture of me from the restaurant as his screensaver, but decided not to say anything in fear of a subject change.

"I've got my lawyer involved. I just wanted to take care of it discreetly so the public and you wouldn't know about it," he explained and then handed me his phone.

I realised that a short 30 second video was waiting to play from his gallery. I gulped quietly and looked over at Theo.

"She's been blackmailing me for money, threatening to show it to you," he explained slowly.

"Why would you let her do that? You need to contact the police," I shook my head.

"That would mean the public knowing I used to have sex with someone from a rather despised group of women. They're mostly thought of as fake and gold digging sluts," he shook his head at himself, "pardon my French."

"I don't understand your train of thought."

"My lawyer made up a contract for her to sign. I gave it to her before we left for dinner," he told me, "I've offered to pay her a certain amount if she has the video deleted completely."

"Why wouldn't you just tell the police, I don't understand? She could get jail time for that," my brows were still furrowed.

"It would create such a shitstorm with the press, nothing like that would stay hidden for long if I did go to the police. It would have damaged my reputation and career, as well as what I had going on with you."

"What? What you had going on with me? When... when did this happen?" I nodded down at the video, not wanting to press play.

"It was just after that video of me confirming that we were dating. Just dating, not yet together," he looked down at his glass of wine again, "I had sex with her that night. I-I don't have an explanation for myself."

I didn't say anything. Even if we hadn't been officially together and had just been dating, he was the one who seemed so much more intent on having more happen between us. He had been the one to initiate things going further with us, yet then he'd gone and slept with someone else.

Technically he hadn't cheated, but I still felt very let down and cheated on.

"Will you just watch the video, please?" Theo's voice was almost tired, clearly not wanting to be saying the words he now was.

"I don't want you to see it from Carmen or anyone else," he added.

"Who else would I possibly see it from? And distributing a video like this would be even more illegal, there's no way she'd do that... she has signed the contract and has deleted it, right?"

"She won't distribute it, there's no way she'll refuse the money. I just— I haven't taken care of Lucy..."

"What does Lucy have to do with this?" I asked, my voice very hesitant, "and I'm not watching this video, I feel sick just thinking about you—" having sex with someone else.

I cut myself off and handed his phone back to him. I brought my glass to my lips and took a long drink from it.

"Lucy is Carmen's younger sister. Her meeting Louis at rehab was all part of their little plot to get money. She's still a drug addict. I saw her giving some sort of pills to Louis at your father's, he's not clean either," his words made me want to cry.

"He told me he was clean..." I had been so happy up until now, thinking my brother was getting back on the right track.

I was so confused by everything. His choice not to go to the police and instead handle it through his lawyer seemed incredibly stupid to me, but then again I really had no way of putting myself in his shoes in the lifestyle he had.

"You're so stupid, Theo," I was too confused to say anything else.

He let out an almost sad chuckle while looking back over at me, "I know. Just... please, don't leave me."

"What about Lucy?" I had to ask.

"I've had a contract made for her as well. Once she signs it and deletes the video, she'll get the agreed amount and everything will be over."

"Have you had sex with anyone after we got together?"

"No, of course not, Scarlett," he shook his head, "it was a mistake even letting Carmen inside my home that night... I hate that I did what I did, but I hope we can move on now. We're okay now, right?"

I wasn't okay with him right now. I needed to get away from him as soon as possible to be able to process everything and think over my priorities clearly.

I knew though, that if I told him that we weren't okay and that I needed space from him, it would affect the final of the World Cup, which was very important to him and a big deal around the world. As much as what he'd told me had hurt me, I didn't want to be a bitch and be the reason for him to play badly. The way he had reacted when he'd seen the conspiracy of Tim and me watching one of their matches together ended with a not so nice result, and I didn't want that repeating five times worse.

"Scarlett? Tell me we're okay?"

I guess the universe really hadn't intended on us being anything more than a one night stand.

"We're okay," I spoke, somehow managing to give him a tiny smile, "I just... I need to go to the bathroom..."

Without waiting for a reply, I got up and began making my way towards the en suite in the bedroom. Tears were brimming my eyes by the time I locked myself in there.

I paced around, basically tugging at my roots while I contemplated on what I would do in this situation.

I needed to meet with Louis as soon as possible. I needed him to go back into rehab.

I needed to distance myself from Theo and his idiotic ways of dealing with the matter at hand. There was a part of me that completely understood why he'd not contacted the police, but another part of me found it totally absurd.

He had slept with one of the women he had told me he found 'too much', when we were dating. There was nobody I wanted to blame more in this situation than him, even though people like Carmen and Lucy deserved to be judged in the eyes of the law for blackmailing with a video taken of Theo and Carmen having sex without his consent to be filmed.

I stood in front of the mirror, and a tear rolled down my cheek. How was I not supposed to overthink right now? My chest felt constricted and I felt myself panic a little. Everything had changed the more I gave myself to Theo, and now this? I felt as if everything was slowly crumbling.

"Scarlett?" There was a carefully knocking on the door of the en suite.

"Yes?" I cleared my throat and wiped away the lone tear.

"Will you come out?"

I sighed quietly and made sure I didn't look as if I'd just been crying. I ran my hand through my hair a couple of times and mentally composed myself, before walking over to the door to unlock it.

Theo was standing there, a gentle smile on his lips.

Before I had the chance to move or say anything, he closed up the space between us and kissed me. His hands finding their way onto my hips to hold me against his front.

"You have no idea how happy I am that you understand all this," he murmured against my lips, "I know this is a lot to take in, but it means a lot that you're willing to move on from this with me."

I kissed back for a moment, feeling bad that I couldn't bring myself to tell him the truth.

I cared for him too much, and it showed in the way I didn't want to hurt him even when everything he'd hidden, and now finally told me, had upset me.

"I'm in love with you, Scarlett," he pulled back a little for his dark and intense eyes to find mine.

My stomach twisted, feeling like I'd cry again. Instead, avoiding having to explain to him why I wasn't telling him I loved him too, I cupped his jaw and kissed him.

Another hot tear rolled down my cheek, but it went unnoticed by him.

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Feeling like a pathetic and weak mess of mentally torturous thoughts, I decided to grab my phone instead of let myself go crazy being spooned by a very nude Theo.

He had been asleep for an hour already after sex, but I hadn't been able to close my eyes.

I unlocked my phone and, instead of going with the private jet tomorrow evening - which would have enabled him to play the final match and have plenty of time to drive me to the airport, as well as would have been free for me - bought a ticket on a flight leaving right before the match would start.

He would play to his best abilities, hopefully win the World Cup with the team, and not even notice I'd left until he got back to the hotel.

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A/N: I feel like this chapter is just all around meh!! I might change it later, but the general idea of Lucy and Carmen blackmailing Theo for money and Louis still being a druggie will stay the same!

Please don't hate too much, try to understand both Scarlett and Theo from their point of views!!

((Even i admit this is sooo overdramatic lolol and such unnecessary drama, but this is my book and I wanted some crazy shit to go down, so now it's going down!))

Much much love and thank you for the lovely comments I've been receiving on this book, it truly means a lot<3