A/n: We have always been walking on eggshells around Nick's and Cole's relationship with each other. I'm thoroughly exploring that. Nick's POV is new.

"...we are free to make choices

but we are not free from the consequences..."

I am not in the habit of stalking women. Keira seems to be making me into the very man I run away from. I want to tell myself it is not in my nature to be controlling but she is slowly peeling off my layers to reveal the real me and even I am scared of who that man is. I have never stalked a woman before. I have never been in my car at three in the morning outside a woman's house. She has sipped into my veins and she now controls me like a puppet. I can't go without seeing her and it has been weeks since Miami. I am not getting over her.

The strangest thing is that I know she is not at home. It's the same way I know she left with another man. Not Jason. Not me but another man.

I am paying a P.I to keep tabs on her. He informed me that she is in London but he hasn't revealed the man's identity. He claims he hasn't see the man clearly.

Kei hadn't verbally agreed to a relationship. She is playing coy. I'm getting impatient. It's one thing to share her with Jason but this bubble isn't big enough for a third man. It makes this a crowd. I don't play by anyone's rules but my own. My rule is that I don't share. When I got into this, I did so with the intention of removing Jason from the picture. I have to be the only man in the picture.

I have the strongest urge to call her and ask if she's home. I know she's not and I want to catch her in lie! I want her to lie so that I can have an excuse to lash out at her. I'm confrontational. I live for it! I can't pass off an opportunity to start and win a fight. If she lies to me, she will be sorry.

"What?" I asked Tony when I answered.

"Aren't we in a mood!"

"What do you want Tony?"

"I know you hired my P.I. He just called me. He says you're having Keira followed. Why?"

"She's cheating on me."

"Cheating on you? Mate,do you bloody hear yourself? How can she be cheating on you when she's cheating with you?"

"Jason is irrelevant. That makes the guy she's with now, the other man. She's cheating on me!"

Tony sighed. "You're delusional Nickolas. She is married. Being with you is cheating on her husband, not you. You two don't share a commitment that justifies the use of that word as an offense against you. I suggest -"

I hanged up.

He's getting on my nerves!

He called again. "That was bloody rude!"

"Don't bore me to death with words I don't care for."I told him as soon as I answered.

"My photographer found her. She is in London, in a townhouse. I have received photographs-"

"Why do you have the photographs?"

"Interrupt me again and I'll burn them. You'll never know anything of this." Tony threatened.

"Fine."

"We need to talk about where you're headed Nickolas. It's probably 3am in the morning and you're outside her house losing your bloody marbles."

"Send them to me."

"We need to talk first."

"Send them to me!" I shouted. He hanged up. Whenever I shout at him over the phone he hangs up. I called him back. "I'm sorry. I won't shout. She's my girl. She's mine. She can't be with anyone else! She cannot turn me down for anyone else! Please Tony, I'm losing my shit. Who is she with?"

"The photographer doesn't want to get dragged into this mess."

"What mess?" I questioned.

"I didn't want you to know who it is but you will find out. I'm sending them to you. Please keep it together until I arrive in Manhattan and we can settle it amicably. Promise that."

"I promise."

I hanged up and as promised I received five pictures. I downloaded them and it pained my heart to see Keira in another man's arms. I can't see him clearly in the four pictures but the last one is all the revelation I need. It feels like I have been stabbed. I cursed quietly. Of all the men she could have allowed herself to be in an intimate position with, it had to be Cole! My friend, Cole! I dialed her number immediately barely giving myself a chance to calm down.

"Hello."

"Where are you?" I asked not allowing her sweet voice to seduce me into calming down. Just a few days ago I parted with millions just to secure a place with her and yet she has the nerve to cuddle with Cole?

"At home."

Little liar!

"I miss you. Come out I want to see you." I looked at her front door.

"I can't."

Because you're with another man!

"Stand at a window then. Let me get a glimpse of you." I just wanted to know if she would lie.

"I am sorry but I can't." She hanged up.

I slammed my fist on the steering wheel. It took everything not to get on a plane and go to London. I have to believe it is not Cole's fault. He doesn't know she is mine. I have to excuse him but as for Kei, nothing is getting her out of this unscathed. Nothing.

*

Tony has arrived and I can't believe it but he has brought Cole with him. What is he trying to do? Incite me into violence?

"Ah! Lovely! We are all together. Let's sit down." I don't know why Cole is looking at me this way but the feeling is mutual. We both sat down across from each other. "So, gentlemen, an issue has come up. But it can be resolved mutually."

"Is that why you called Bruce?" I asked him when my best friend Bruce made his way towards us. "And you set this up in a restaurant? Do you hope to contain me?"

"What are you talking about Nick? Do we have a problem?"

I got the printed photographs from my jacket. I printed them as physical proof of Cole's bull shit! I threw them at him.

Ferrer is here too.

Cole picked them one after another. His blue eyes settled on me. "So it's you..." He noted with a frown. "You're the other man."

"No buddy. You're the other man. What the fuck are you doing?"

"Me? What are you doing?" He questioned me.

Cole is passive aggressive. That is the nature he identifies with. I'm not sure where this confidence is coming from.

"Sorry to interrupt but what is going on?" Bruce asked.

Ferrer is looking at the pictures. "Mierda! This is Lorraine's friend! The one who is getting..." He paused to look at Cole. "If you have any concern for this woman, end this."

"Why aren't you telling him the same thing?" Cole questioned.

Ferrer looked at me.

"She's with both of you?" He asked.

"She's mine. You need to step back Cole Michael!"

"Maybe this time I won't. This time, you step back Nickolas."

I got up instantly ready to get physical. Bruce got up too. "Buddy, easy. Easy now."

"I beat you to it. Piss off. What happened to your moral standards you hypocritical fuck!"

He stood up too. "Is that what you are bringing to the table? Petulant aggression? Is that what she needs right now?"

"At least I know I'm bringing exactly what I am! What are you if not a weak man without any balls?"

He climbed over the table and I admit it excited me! Tony and Ferrer pulled him back and Bruce tried to lead me away but it doesn't end unless I say it's over.

"Nickolas, enough. Sit down and let's talk about this!"

"What are we talking about?" Bruce asked. "Did I miss something?"

"They are probably banging the same woman." Ferrer answered him.

With all honesty, Cole has made more progress with Kei and that pissed me off! She has a wall with me and she's throwing herself at Cole. It is unacceptable!

"I haven't banged her. She's a decent woman who needs more than a hot tempered idiot like you."

They couldn't restrain me when I pounced on Cole and started punching the shit out of his stupid face. He hit back and it only motivated me to greater rage. Bruce and Tony pried me off and became a barrier between us. Cole spat out a mouthful of blood and I wiped the blood from my nose. "I will kill you if you pursue her. She's mine. Stay on your lane."

I walked away and noticed how many people are staring. The tabloids will go crazy with this.

Keira is making me very unstable.

"Extra extra! Read all about it! Billionaire row over something in an alfresco restaurant." Lorraine dropped some tabloids on the kitchen table.

I invited her for breakfast to tell her what happened in London.

Nickolas and Cole got into a fight yesterday.

"No." I whispered.

"I thought it would be a threesome like Jason,Nick and Cole going at each other? But turns out the husband is not even in the picture." She narrowed her eyes at me. She picked up one tabloid. "This particular tabloid says: "The oil baron and the hotelier were fighting over a woman. The hotelier, Cole Michael Harrington accused Nickolas Bale of having petulant aggression and Nickolas Bale accused Cole Michael of being a hypocritical fuck. Sources close to the arguement disclose that the woman in question wasn't recognizable from the pictures Nickolas Bale threw at Cole Michael but the scenes looked steamy."

"This is bad." I whispered.

"No shit!" She smiled at me. "What were you thinking? Did you think it will end with the three of you together in a happy relationship? Did I not tell you this will happen? Why don't you listen to me? Was the steamy London session worth it?"

"I know it wasn't right. Okay?"

"Do you? Because you should really worry about two men. Jason and Nick. Cole is passive. He will probably sweep this under the rug and forget it happened. But Jason and Nick won't. You are at a point in your life where you need to pick a man. Is it the abusive husband? Is it the aggressive billionaire? Is it Mr perfect? Pick one before this turns into a shit storm."