Chapter 69
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ALIYA TORRES
I knew things were off but I didn't want to push it because Ethan was a man who kept to himself. As we lay on his bed watching TV, I wondered what was going on in his head.
Was he still worried about me? Did things not go well with the police or was this about Crystal?
I couldn't help it but a lot of questions ran in my mind as to why he was acting strange. Or was I the problem? Did I maybe rush us? But what was there to rush seeing that I didn't know what we were.
We weren't a couple because he hadn't asked me to be his girlfriend but we were still something right? I loved him, he knew that and he cared for me so that counted as something.
'How did it go with Crystal?" I asked feeling his chest heave suddenly with tension.
'She didn't want to believe I saw her cheating but at the end of the day, I couldn't be with her and I made that clear",he muttered pulling me closer to his body.
I suppose that made me calm for a while but I could still feel him being distant.
'Is something wrong?"
'Not really, why?"
Why? Because you haven't looked me in the eye since I got to your room. Why? Because you are acting strange? Why? Because you haven't said a word to me.
I felt like I could just burst out and tell him but I chose silence.
'Nothing", I muttered.
He switched off the TV, lifting my chin with his finger so much that my eyes were at a level with his.
'You are right. Something is wrong",he started and my heart palpitated,"I have been trying to keep it a secret but it's hard"
I pulled away from his chest staring at him with a concerned look, 'What secret?"
'You caught me…I've been planning our very first date and it was meant to be a surprise but I don't think you are ready to be moving about. The doctor said-'
'Yes", I cheered.
'What?"
'Yes, Ethan Carter. I would love to go on a date with you. Forget what the doctor said, I'm fine. I feel fine. I look fine", I said relentlessly watching him eye me with a questioning brow.
'Really?"
'Yes", I said going back to lay his chest while I inhaled his scent. I would stay all day with him in bed and talk about anything because that's how much I wanted to be with him.
And to think about my date? He was trying to hide the fact that he had arranged a date? That was so sweet and I had to go ahead and ruin the surprise.
I was even happier to think that when he said he was keeping something from me, the first thing I thought was that maybe he wasn't sure about us but now? I trusted him. I trusted him enough if he wanted to take me on a date to court me the right way.
What would I even wear? I don't think I had the dress for a date and I certainly wouldn't go dressed in jeans.
'You'll look good in anything",Ethan muttered and I smiled at the thought that he knew what I was thinking.
'You would say anything just to make me feel good", I poked his chest.
'But really I don't understand why women stress over what to wear when their faces are all we need to look at to be content"
'Hey! So you like someone based on how pretty she is. I'll have you know that makeup covers a lot", I argued.
'I never said that. I mean for me there's a lot I look at in a woman. Something that you taught me. Her personality, her will, her strengths and weaknesses"
'Weaknesses? I don't have a weakness"
'Says the woman who can't swim",he jeered chuckling and I also chuckled over nothing in particular.
I wasn't the only woman who didn't know how to swim, I bet a lot of women didn't know how to swim and neither did they care to know how to.
'I bet Mila doesn't know how to swim either", I said to which he replied with,
'She's the one who taught me how to swim"
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'You look beautiful",Paris, the woman who was in charge of my makeup said while her assistants straightened the truffles on my dress.
It was fitted through the bodice and hips and gradually flared to the hem forming an ‘A' shape. It had a rather reddish purple color and I couldn't help but gasp at how beautiful it was.
All this was like a dream come true. Mila came running with a pair of stilettos and I sat down putting them on. Once the lipstick was applied to my lips and the silver purse handed to me, I slowly made my way out the house with Jai ushering me into the awaiting car.
I wondered what Ethan had in sort of me. A date by the beach? Goodness no, after I had worn a beautiful dress as such I hoped that we weren't going to the beach because it would be such a waste.
'You look beautiful, Ali",Jai commented and I smiled modestly.
'Thanks but all the credit goes to my makeup artists"
'They sure knew what they were doing",he continued and I smiled harder.
The dress didn't hide my shoulder and jus above my left breast, my wound could be seen. It was already starting to heal leaving a mark of the outline of the knife. I didn't want to overthink about it.
Sure the scar would remain engraved there but it didn't ruin anything. It didn't make me less beautiful or ugly and it certainly didn't define me.
'So where to, my good man?" I asked.
'It's a secret. I'm not at liberty to discuss it",Jai humored.
'I won't tell if you won't. You really won't tell me where we are going? I thought we were friends Jai"
'My boss comes first",he said in a fake hurt tone before his eyes went back to the road.
I huffed in my seat watching the cars out the window speed ahead.
What really do you have planned, Ethan?