“W… what’s wrong Sia? come on drink this”Tara said with desperation and handed a glass of water to Sia who was coughing violently.
“I’m… I’m fine, thank you”sia with shaky hands took the glass and drank the water to wash down the solid lump on her throat formed by both fear and anxiety, how on earth did the Casanova find her.
“Are you confident… you look pale?” Tara said in a worried tone and walked to Sia trying to calm her down,, but Sia’s breathing increased as she tried to glance down the first floor hoping Emiliano wouldn’t see her. If he saw her then it was game over on both sides because Tara would know about Diego and Emiliano would know that she was a tiny liar and a Navarro as well ‘think Sia think’ she thought with desperation as she adjusted her eyes to come up with an excuse to get rid of Tara.
“I think…” Tara started but just then her phone started ringing as she took it out and answered immediately.
“Yes, okay on my way”Tara said and cut the call, with a silent sigh of relief Sia thanked whoever called because they just saved her butt from getting exposed.
“Is… something wrong?” Sia asked with ease and Tara replied with a faint apologetic smile that had Sia nodding.
“Gotta go, dad needs me… but come I’ll drop you off”Tara said as she rose to her feet getting her phone and purse however Sia shook her head and blinked several times, this was an opportunity on a silver platter because if Tara went away, then it would be good that way she could deal with Emiliano who seemed to have calmed Diego down because he wasn’t crying anymore.
“No no its okay… a friend of mine is having lunch with her boyfriend and she asked me to wait for her”Sia said with pleading eyes and Tara knowing full well how her baby sister was decided to drop the idea and nodded.
“Take care sweetie”she pecked her cheek and left immediately, Sia sat for a while as she watched Tara walk down the case if stairs, every step making her nervous fearing Emiliano might find out Tara was her sister.
***
“Are you crazy, what did I tell you”Emiliano whispered to Angelo as they both walked out of the restaurant, it took time for him to get rid of Angelo and used all the eye contact tactics to tell Angelo to get lost only then did he give silly excuses to Jack and left.
“Bro… this baby is a savage”Angelo cried as he ran his hand in his hair, he looked like he was ran over by a bus repeatedly his shirt was wrinkled up which had Emiliano wondering what happened because he just left him with Diego for less than ten minutes.
“He’s just a baby, it wasn’t even ten minutes”he said with fury and took Diego from him and Angelo frowned, everything was fine when Emiliano left but as soon as the milk finished the little boy started crying uncontrollably to the point that even Nicholas couldn’t do anything to help him. He was helpless and had no choice than to follow Emiliano inside because he wasn’t picking up the call when he tried calling him.
“My meeting isn’t over, I need to get back in there… five minutes”Emiliano said, but Angelo took a step back shaking his head denying Emiliano in broad daylight not to involve him because the baby was hard work. He never worked so hard to woo women neither did he have to look for so many complicated strategies in court when dealing with cases like he did when trying to stop Diego from crying.
“No no just… just take him okay I…” Angelo started but stopped when someone accidentally bumped into him.
“Sorry, sorry”the woman said and walked away and for a while Angelo’s world seemed to have stopped as his eyes automatically shifted to the woman in question, her sweet voice sounded so familiar such that he had the urge to follow her and see if it was who he thought it might be.
“Focus Angelo”Emiliano said in irritation because he knew his friend wouldn’t let just any woman pass without taking a look.
“I’ll… see you”Angelo quickly said and ran to the direction where the woman had gone to, it would have been better if he could see her face, but she was wearing a mask and a cap covering half her face.
“Jerk, what now?” Emiliano muttered as he looked at Diego now sucking his little thumb, and he had the urge to laugh because the little guy looked too cute to stay mad at.
“Tell me what I should do now? I’m desperate damn it”he cursed silently and prepared to walk back in but saw jack coming out of the restaurant and with speed he hid at a corner and waited for him to disappear only then did Emiliano come into view and glanced at the sky which was now turning dark indicating it was late, he needed to get back and with a sigh, he made his way to the parking lot and decided to just go home and make sure Sia got into trouble for abandoning a small child with him.
“What?” Emiliano couldn’t believe it as he searched for where Nickolas had parked the car, but he wasn’t there neither the car forget that the entire parking area was empty with only one red car.
“Not to worry little one I’ll just call him, to get his a** back here”he mumbled with anger and held Diego carefully as he reached for his pockets to get his phone unfortunately he remembered he had put the phone back in the car to avoid being disturbed during his meeting, Emiliano had never felt so helpless in his life such that he wanted to murder Nickolas as well as Angelo for taking his car. He was stranded with a baby without a phone and of course it was getting dark, and they were far from the city walking home wasn’t an option.
“Damn it”he muttered and turned to leave however he bumped into someone unexpected.
“You!” Emiliano said with both anger and relief seeing Sia standing there wearing weird clothes she didn’t wear before.
“What are you doing here, huh?” Sia said with some anger to her tone as she took Diego from Emiliano, Emiliano arched his brow wondering why she sounded angry when it was him who was supposed to tear her into shreds for leaving the baby with him.
“You little fox got clever and ran away”he wasn’t happy and couldn’t wait to strangle her to death but Sia ignored his angry tantrums and looked around searching for his car.
“Where is your car?”she turned to him and asked suspiciously and with a sly smile of pure mockery, Emiliano bent down to her ear since she was way too short and whispered.
“I don’t have it my lady, we have to walk home”saying that he straightened up and laughed hysterically as his eyes shone with delight loving the priceless facial expression Sia had on such that if he had his phone, then he would have taken a picture to show her later just how stupid she looked at that moment
“What? What do you mean you don’t have it… did you walk on foot all the way here?”she asked with a death glare but Emiliano wasn’t bothered with her, he had no phone, no car.
“Okay, I’m sure you have money for a taxi right?”she asked and Emiliano widened his eyes in surprise then narrowed them in pure disdain.
“If I had cash or my wallet then I would have left ages go, but I have nothing, no phone… wait where is your phone?”Emiliano asked because he had noticed since he knew the little fox never went anywhere without her phone.
“I don’t have it either”sia replied in a low tone and Emiliano’s face turned pale white.
“What!?”he exclaimed because now they were stranded in the middle of nowhere with a baby and without money or phones just as the sky roared violently indicating heavy rain would fall.