ALIYA TORRES
We held hands as Ethan drove us back home. Well he was driving me back home as he got a call from work early this morning. A work related emergency, he had termed it.
He would drive me back home then go to work. I had insisted on us calling Jai to take me home but he didn't want that. Instead as he termed it once more, ‘he wanted to spend each and every single inch of his time with me' something that warmed my heart.
What warmed my heart more was the fact that he had finally told me he loved me the other day when we made love. I suppose I never doubted he did but it just felt different actually hearing him say that.
The last two days at his house by the sea was like a dream and even as we went home, I couldn't help but wonder if it would be the same. Would he want me just as much? Because our reality was much harder.
He had just come out of a relationship, wouldn't proclaiming me as his girlfriend be too early? What if Crystal suddenly showed up at the house demanding to see him and patch things up?
Not that I didn't trust Ethan..I trusted him with all my heart. It was the likes of Crystal I didn't trust.
We arrived at home almost eleven with Ethan turning to me and saying,
'If anything happens, call me. Anything at all. If you see anything suspicious scream so that the guards can hear you and do not go out of the house alone, do you hear me?" He commanded.
'Yes, Sir", I said humorously.
'I'm serious. Could you please take things seriously?"
'I am serious too, Ethan. Relax I've been okay for the last twenty one years without you"
'But you are with me now and I'll fight tooth and nail to keep you safe",he kissed me. A rough hungry kiss before he hopped off the car going around to open the car for me. I took my silver purse getting off the car as I stood aside watching him turn the car around and drive down the little path that led to the gate.
Before I could take another step, I noticed the shiny silver G-wagon parked right up ahead and I feared that it might have belonged to Crystal.
Suddenly the happiness that had built inside of me of being home dissipated in minutes as I gulped a huge breath preparing myself for what was to come.
It wouldn't end very well seeing as to how I was dressed in Ethan's clothes which swallowed me whole. Any person with a brain would have put two in two together and figured out that I had spent the night with Ethan.
I held onto the main door slowly pushing the door open as I braced myself.
The first sound to meet me was a light sob coming from the living room. I walked towards the living room the voices of the two people in there starting to becomes loud and clear.
One was Mila, trying to comfort… Ethan's mother? I glanced at the woman sobbing in her hands and when both women noticed my presence, they turned to me eyeing me weirdly.
Ethan's mother in particular, wiped the fresh tears on her cheeks, a hint of recognition running in his eyes before he stood up walking to me and at that moment, I sure wished it was Crystal in this very room rather than Ethan's mother.
She liked me the first time I started working here but that's because I was just a maid and not the girl Ethan was cheating on Crystal with.
I braced myself for a slap or a scolding or something worse but instead Mrs Lisa Carter lunged into my arms sobbing.
'You must help me. I-I can't lose him. He's my strength",she cried her tears falling on my shoulder in chunks.
I felt sorry for her even as I stared at Mila for answers.
'Mrs C-I mean Lisa, why don't we sit down first?" I asked hoping she would let go of me and she did.
She went back to the couch next to Mila and I sat on the next couch watching her wipe her tears with her handkerchief using it at the same time to take out the snort clogged in her nostrils.
'I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to ambush you like that",she said softly, wiping her neverending tears.
'It's okay. I'm more than happy to offer a shoulder to cry on", I said politely.
'I-I'm just desperate. He hasn't been picking my calls or texting me back. He hasn't come to see me since he found out about his father. Aliya, Mila told me that he talks to you. Has he said anything? About me? About his father?" She asked pleadingly.
'Ma'am, I'm sorry but I can't interfere in the matter. You have to resolve things by yourselves"
'Aliya am asking you as a mother who is afraid of losing her only son",she relented and I felt guilty.
'He said he'll talk to you once he's ready. He was hurt, ma'am. He was not hurt by the fact that he has a dad now or that the father he believed to be his was not his dad. Rather he was hurt by the fact that you lied to him", I explained feeling more guilty in interfering with the matter.
I felt like a snitch.
'Ooh. Is there a way you can convince him to forgive me? He loves you maybe he'll listen to you, please", she begged and I wondered what to say.
The fact that she acknowledged that his son loved me should have made me help her but I was scared too. Ethan wasn't particularly chatty when it came to the matter about his father. He seemed to be pissed everytime the matter was brought up and I hated being the one to remind him of his pain.
With one look at Lisa's pleading face, I croaked out,
'I'll try but I can't promise that he'll forgive you"
That seemed good enough for her since she smiled before standing up and hugging me for a second time.
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I waited and waited and waited. I was already starting to give up and hit the hay when I heard the main door open then close.
Mila had already gone to sleep, I was keeping myself up by watching a rather sour soap on Fox as I waited for Ethan.
'Why aren't you asleep yet?" He asked the minute he got to the living room.
'I couldn't sleep without you, baby", I joked.
He lay his jacket on the sofa carefully on the couch before coming to sit where I was.
'I'm here baby so maybe it's time we both went to bed",he kissed my cheek pulling my waist to him.
I stood up sitting on his lap as I felt his hands grope my butt.
'Not just yet", I stopped him.
'Mmh, do you have something funky in mind?" He asked cheekily and I nodded my head sideways.
'Not really, I want us to talk", I said watching him shift uncomfortably in the seat.
'About what? Did something happen?"
'No. No. I mean yes. Your mom came to visit today and I think it's high time you listen to what she has to say. Ethan she looked miserable", I tried to explain only for him to get me off of him while he stood up.
I also stood up watching his expression change.
'I don't want to talk to her",he said calmly.
I touched his shoulder trying to make him see reason,
'Then don't talk to her just listen to what she has to say. Ethan, she's already feeling terrible as it is couldn't you-'
'She's my mother!" He cut me off harshly taking me off guard.
'Sure, I never said that she-'
'Then why are you defending her? Why are you trying to meddle in things that don't concern you? Know your place", he boomed.
At that moment in time, the only wise thing to do was to walk away and pretend that the man who had told me he loved me few days go didn't just tell me to know where I stood in his life and in his hou
