Chapter 68
Amelia's POV
It's been so many days now since I have been avoiding Alessandro after he confessed his feelings for me.
It...just felt too odd. Why would he ever love me? Was that just a bait to keep the truth from me?
Shit! Why did I keep acting like I have never wanted this in the first place?
I have always wanted him to tell me he loves me but this time I felt something was amiss.
The whole thing was confusing.
I was about pushing on Vesper's door when I heard some commotion from within.
"Anni, what are you saying? The child is yours. Why do you keep saying these words? It hurts me!" Vesper sobbed and I gasped.
She was pregnant for him and now he's rejecting it?
Was that why she looked sad that day when she came to meet me at the garden?
No this can't be.
I didn't want to barge in so I remained outside, listening to their conversation.
Yes, it was so wrong to do that but….I just had too.
Gianni shouldn't be doing this to her. Vesper has gone through a lot already in her life.
Why didn't they use protection in the first place?
Wait. I splayed my palm across my mouth when realisation dawned on me.
Was I pregnant too? Alessandro dumped loads of sperm in me most of the times and I don't use contraceptives either.
Fuck, I have to run a pregnancy test on myself too.
I was almost returning to my room when the door to Vesper's room opened and Gianni walked out.
A look of disbelief flashed through my face as I set my eyes on him.
Vesper shouldn't have trusted him enough. I knew there was something fishy about the whole thing when he suddenly began to love her.
After all, she was a gift to him from his boss. It wouldn't have hurt this much if he had kept the relationship neutral and no other fucking strings attached.
He rolled his eyes at me and hissed before walking away.
I went in immediately to see Vesper squatted on the floor in tears.
She tried to wipe her face and pretend to be okay but I knew better.
"I heard everything, Ves. He's just a scumbag. Don't cry." I pulled her into a hug, rubbing her back as I tried to console her.
She wouldn't stop crying and I swear I could feel her pains.
"I..I..thought he loved me, Amelia." She sniffed in. "He only lied to me and I stupidly believed him. What becomes of my child, our child? He doesn't even want it." She broke down in tears again.
Minutes after consoling Vesper, she fell asleep and I gently tucked her in bed before leaving and shutting the door.
It was 7pm and Vivianne would be searching for me by now. It was time for her dinner.
My mood was messed up and I knew my face would show I was worried too.
Vivianne would ask a lot of questions. How did I want to answer her?
I would just have to lie cause I can't tell her anything about Vesper's predicament. She might rant about how much of an asshole men were.
This would remind her of her mother's ex-husbands and it would just lit a wrong match.
"What are you doing here alone?" A cold voice asked from behind. A jacket got draped around my shoulder and inhaling the cologne, I needed noone to tell me it was Alessandro.
I turned around and that was when I realised I was at the edge of the swimming pool.
How did I get here? I must have been so lost in thought not to have realised earlier.
"N.. nothing." I replied with a nervous grin and pulled the jacket to fully cover my upper body. It was so cold out here.
"You look quite moody." Alessandro noted, knitting his eyebrows. "Are you angry at me?" He asked and I looked at him with a shocked expression washed over my face.
Angry?
He should be the one angry that I have been avoiding him. Maybe he has been too busy to notice.
"I had a lot of things to handle to handle recently and I've been damn busy. I promise to make up for all those times." He said and I gave him a small smile.
"Come with me." He was about grabbing my waist when I moved away from him.
This time of him seemed creepy. He was too soft for me or was I the one who didn't really know what I wanted?
"Um... Alessandro." I stuttered, rubbing the bridge of my nose. "I have to go see Vivianne now."
"That's fine but just not today. I'll tell someone else to look after her." He declined and my gave fell.
Shit.
I just wanted to run away from here. From him. Something about him screamed danger but a part of me wanted him close to me every second.
"B...but...she…."
A kiss from him shut me up and I gave in, reciprocating the kiss. My hands snaked around his chest and when he broke from the kiss, I had to ask,
"Alessandro, why are you acting all romantic? A….are you horny?"
A silent chuckle followed by laughter and next, I felt my palm on something…. big.
Ah. I gasped, looking down. I quickly withdrew my hand from there and slapped his arm.
"Why would you do that?"
He shrugged. "Just trying to let you know that I don't have a boner already. But you might make me do if you keep being stubborn. Come here." He scooped me in his arms and took me to his room.
"Don't go around wearing tank tops like that. Do you want others staring at those endowments?" He winked at me before pulling his jacket off my body.
"Why are you taking it off now?"
"Because it's only us, baby."
Baby?
"Don't tell me you…"
"Shush. No sex tonight, okay? And you have to stop avoiding me too. Am I scary?" He asked and for a minute, my eyes were glued to his emerald ones.
Why has his eyelashes suddenly grow longer and why was his lips always wet!
"N...no, you're not scary but I'm surprised that you're cool all of a sudden. And it's….strange."
He stood up and casually pulled off his clothes. He looked at me and I looked away.
There was no way I was going to keep my sanity if I look at his biceps and six packs.
Plus the V-shape below his groin. No shaman needed to tell me it was my weakest point.
I kept gulping down and even though I wasn't staring at him. I kept imagining his sexy body in my head.
"Stop being shy." His voice pulled me out of my thoughts the same way he pulled off his clothes without thinking that there was a lady here.
A lady who was always crazy over him and felt like eating the whole of him.
Rather wanted him to take and eat the whole of her.
Fine. I was just a stupid gawker. Dear mind, please warn me in advance.
"This isn't the first time you've seen me naked, is it?"
Could you just stop asking me those steamy questions, CAPO!
"Um... Alessandro I'm hungry. I need to step out to get some food downst...."
"Dinner is here, sir." A lady called from outside and Alessandro chuckled before going to take it from her.
Did he plan to keep me here all night?
"You always find a way to run away from me, isn't it?" He cagged me between his hands, staring right into my eyes.