It was 9pm and Sia retired to her room after finishing up with everything and after a long dinner date planned by her family, she was bound to be exhausted and after playing a little with Diego she decided to do something because back when they were having dinner with her parents Emiliano and Seth couldn’t stop talking about business related matters which was expected because her dad never missed a chance to voice out his unbiased business opinions and couldn’t wait to flaunt his wealth and how much he had achieved over the years and since he found another him who listened to him and commented on his every word he was beyond happy and Emiliano seemed to be at ease. Their topic was boring to Sia but when Seth brought up Emiliano’s factory catching fire occasionally she saw the sudden change in him and knew he was worried about that.
“Could someone be doing it on purpose?” Sia asked herself as she sat on the bed and dragged the laptop closer and turned it on and picked up her phone considering calling an old friend for help but at the same time she didn’t know what to do. Sia looked at the time and knew the person she wanted to call could be busy, and hence she decided to send a text message instead (“Detective A, help… Call me”)she sent and set the phone down and focused on her laptop screen and suddenly the bathroom door opened and someone wearing a towel to his lower part walked in drying his hair and Sia looked up and quickly averted her eyes from him and awkwardly tried to find something to distract herself just as her phone vibrated and immediately picked it up only to see a text message and Sia nearly collapsed (“Call you tomorrow, I’m getting laid right now”) the person she texted replied and Sia rolled her eyes and put down the phone, she was going to wait for her crazy psycho of a friend to finish with her night session then she would ask for help meanwhile she wanted to ask Emiliano what he thought was going on with his factory. Sia sighed after some time and looked up only to meet with the man now wearing his sweatpants without a shirt, but that wasn’t what made her look at him without blinking but when she looked at him carefully his right hand was red more like he was hurt who got burned and when he turned around facing her she saw that part of his chest was red too down to his abs, her heart picked up a rapid beat as she felt like dying and without thinking jumped out of bed.
“What is this?”she went to him and asked as she ran her hand on his chest, but a dumbstruck Emiliano didn’t know why she was blubbering so much, and he flinched a little when she gripped his right arm so tightly.
“Umm… lady it’s nothing… move away”he said awkwardly because she was touching him in a different forbidden manner but Sia didn’t pay attention to him all she did was drag him to the bed and shoved him down to sit and rushed to the bathroom. Emiliano sat there with a confused expression not sure what was wrong with the lady and within seconds she ran out carrying a first aid box and sat beside him.
“Sit still”she whispered and opened the box and took out some cream tubes and set them aside including some bandages. Emiliano shifted his eyes from the items to Sia, but she had a serious expression on her face that said ‘distract me, and you die’.
“What are you doing?”this time he asked and moved back from her when she was about to apply ointment on him and when Sia looked up he couldn’t believe what he saw in her eyes.
“When did you burn yourself like this? how did it happen? why on earth didn’t you apply any healing cream?”she bombarded him with so many questions in one breath as her eyes almost watered as she with shaky hands smeared white cold cream on his chest and felt him flinch a little, Sia bit her tongue as she couldn’t take it anymore, just how much pain was he going through.
“A… are you worried?”she heard him ask in a hesitant tone and Sia didn’t think twice to answer him.
“Yes I’m worried, you burned yourself like this, and you expect me to be happy… in your rules you said I should act like your devoted wife, so that’s what I’m doing”she said as she shifted to tending to his right arm and Emiliano dropped his expression for a second he thought something else, but she was following the rules he wrote for her to follow.
“Was the shower too hot? how did it happen?”she asked again and looked up at Emiliano, but he wasn’t saying anything as he locked eyes with her and Sia waited for him to speak.
“The factory caught fire yesterday, that’s why”he simply said.
“Then?”
“A few employees were stuck in there, so I had to rush in and help out”he answered formula and Sia widened her eyes in shock because it seemed he was acting as the main shield while rescuing whoever was stuck in their.
“That’s a job for the rescue team, why would you risk your life huh… didn’t you think of yourself or Diego”she blurted out without thinking and when she realized that she opened her mouth to speak but closed it when no words formed in her head making the moment too awkward? Emiliano was surprised at her outburst most importantly her sudden concern.
“D… do you care?”he whispered the question and lowered his gaze to her and Sia finished up with dressing his wounds and bandaged him and shifted a little processing his question in her head.
“We are not enemies, a life is precious even if I hate you, I wouldn’t wish for something bad to happen to you”she murmured and Emiliano’s hand automatically went to her face and cupped her cheeks and Sia flinched in surprise as she lowered her lashes avoiding his soft gaze, but his touch was something she couldn’t avoid. The feeling and weather around was something Sia couldn’t understand as she tried to move, but Emiliano kept his hand there.
“Why type of lover do you wish for?”he whispered in a husky voice and with great awe Sia looked up at him and wonderee why he was asking her such pointless questions.
“Or let me guess, you want someone who is soft, brings you flowers every morning and has a clean past with no baggage to come in the way… someone like Logan”he went on and said as he looked at Sia waiting for her to nod in agreement but Sia shook her head in denial and parted her lips to speak.
“I want no ordinary lover, I want a fucking storm… I want sleepless nights and endless conversations at 4am… I want passion, I want madness… I want someone who’s able to make my whole body shiver from a distance and also pull me close to make sense of all my bones… I want everything”she said her thoughts to him but by now Emiliano’s brain had shut down as he stared at her without blinking, he has nothing to say or comment on her statement and after Sia spoke she removed his hand from her face and went on to gather the creams and bandages and put them back in the box closed it and got up from the bed and made her way to the bathroom and only when she slammed shut the door did Emiliano regain his senses as his eyes shifted to the bathroom door and his brows knitted together and the only thought that came to him was that he thought he knew her like the back of his hand but now he was wrong he felt like a stranger despite being her husband.
The awkward night as it felt between the two Sia decided to sleep on the couch and Emiliano took the bed but still both couldn’t seem to fall asleep as they thought about various things, Sia was thinking about how to fix the issue of Emiliano’s factory and Emiliano was still trapped thinking about what Sia told him.