Chapter 514: Declared her feelings

Book:The Blind Wife Published:2024-6-3

When Ariana heard Macos’ question, her body stiffened and her expression was a little embarrassed.
She bit her lips, confronted his clear eyes, told him without hiding anything:
-My mother came looking for me, because her son has uremia and needs the kidney transplant operation. She wants me to go for a check-up to see if I am related to him.
Hearing her words, Macos’ eyes widened like saucers, a hint of fury rose in his eyes, he clenched his fists and said:
-How dare he ask you to do that!
He knew about Ariana’s life experience, and he also knew that she was raised by her grandmother. For so many years, her parents had never tried to fulfill their responsibility to raise her, they had put her aside without caring, and devoted their time and energy only to their new families.
Between the two, her mother was the worst, not only did she not take responsibility for raising her, but she stole the inheritance her grandmother had left her, even her tuition money.
Being such a heartless and cruel person to Ariana, how dare she ask her to donate her kidney to her son!
How ridiculous!
At one point, he was distraught and extremely angry, he paced around the door a few times before turning to Ariana and said:
-Don’t tell me you’re collecting money to help find a related kidney for her son!
She immediately shook her head and replied:
-Of course not. He is nothing to me, I will never worry about him, even if he dies in the hospital bed.
-Then what are you planning?
He didn’t understand her.
She found it very difficult to tell him, but being looked at by him, she began to speak.
He had had this idea buried in his heart for a long time, but since Albina was pregnant, he didn’t want to bother her with his own problem and didn’t want her to worry.
Now that Macos was asking her, for a certain reason a desire arose in him to tell her, so he said quietly:
-I have not spoken to them for many years, and in fact I thought we had severed our relationship. But now they came looking for me, and I don’t want them to keep using their identity as my mother to put pressure on me and make me do things I don’t want to do. So I am planning to save some money and then I will pay them to cut off this relationship completely.
In his mother’s heart, her son was very important, but money was also relatively important. As long as she could give him enough money, his mother would love to cut off this petty mother-daughter relationship.
-Do you think if you give him money, he won’t force you anymore? If you are willing to give her money to solve this problem, wouldn’t she think you are showing your weakness?
Ariana laughed wryly, and said:
-If it were before, she would think so. But after today, she will know what she should choose.
Today she had learned that her best friend, Albina, had Umberto protecting her. Her mother was very good at choosing what would benefit her the most. Ariana was very clear about what she would select.
After listening to her tell what had happened today, Macos was silent.
He always felt that such a mother did not deserve the money from the sales of Ariana’s paintings. These paintings were the fruits of her hard work. Ariana had devoted all her energy to them. If she had to sell them so urgently, it would hurt him.
As if she understood what he was thinking, Ariana smiled and said:
-It’s okay. I just want to solve this problem as soon as possible. You haven’t seen the madness it can cause. I just want peace of mind.
Looking at her gentle and beautiful smile, he felt sadder. Although so much had happened to her, she had even been forced by her mother, neither depression nor sadness could be seen in her eyes.
-Although I’m a little tired from the rush of painting more, as long as I think I’ll be completely free of the two of them, I feel happy.
He looked at her, was silent for a moment, then said suddenly:
-Ariana, you don’t need to be in a hurry to paint. I have money, I can give you whatever you need.
She was stunned for a few seconds, then waved her hands and said:
-No, that’s not what I mean.
She felt that Macos had misunderstood her words. She hadn’t the slightest intention of asking him for money.
He grabbed her wrist, took a step closer and looked at her with a burning gaze.
-It doesn’t matter, I want you to understand me…..
She was stunned. In front of her was the beautiful face of the man. Because they were so close, they could hear each other’s breathing.
Macos had always been a gentleman with her, however, at this moment, he became a bit of a domineering person, his gaze was so determining.
It seemed that this gaze carried a lot of emotions, which made her not dare to look at him directly.
She could guess what he was going to say, but the nervousness and panic in her heart would not allow her to face him.
She lowered her head to avoid his gaze, and with a little force, she freed herself from his hand, and said to him:
-I’m sorry, I’m a little drunk and my head hurts a lot, I have to go home to rest.
After speaking, without waiting for him to answer, she took out her key and opened the door and escaped to her house.
Macos stood in front of the door, staring deeply at the closed door.
He gathered a lot of courage to declare his feeling for her, but Ariana escaped.
He frowned.
Was his confession of love a failure? It shouldn’t be, because he hadn’t even had a chance to say the words to confess that he loved her.
He had not yet told her that he loved her and that he wanted to take care of her for the rest of his life with much love.
He hadn’t had the chance, and he was rejected. Besides, the other had run away.
He roared in his heart, but showed a pained expression as he looked at the door as if it were an abandoned dog.
Ariana lay on the door panel to look through the peephole.
She saw that he had not left, she also noticed the sad expression he had.
That expression made her feel sorry for him.
She couldn’t take it anymore, she turned around and leaned against the door. She slowly slid down and squatted down.
She wrapped her arms around her knees, her expression was lost.
“What does what you just told me mean, is it what I think it is, does Macos like me?”
As soon as this idea came up, everything that had happened between the two of them suddenly became clear bit by bit.
Because it was followed by Lila, she moved into Albina’s house, and Macos moved in there too. When Lila tried to pour sulfuric acid on her, he protected her regardless of the danger.
The attitude he showed her was very warm and intimate. He bought an apartment across the street from hers, cooked for her and cared about all her affairs no matter what they were.
Before, she thought he was working with her as a friend.
Maybe Macos was afraid that she would find out about his feeling, and always used perfect excuses to explain his actions, so she hadn’t noticed.
However, she had been looked at by him like that. Besides, she was not an insensitive person, after realizing the man’s love, she remembered the past, and suddenly discovered that their past was full of ambiguities and that he treated her far beyond the limit of friends.
He liked her!
After confirming this, she bit her finger in panic.
“How could I possibly like him?”
From the previous failed relationship with Santiago, she learned that she didn’t have the capacity to be in a relationship and didn’t have the desire to get into a new relationship again.
How would she treat Macos’ love?
Would she reject him?
But, in fact he hadn’t told her anything at all!
Wouldn’t she reject him?
But knowing the true feeling he had, she could no longer treat him as her friend. In the end, perhaps she would not be able to be his friend.
She felt a little lost, she had already considered Macos as a friend, but after what had happened, they could no longer be normal friends.
Her thoughts were in turmoil, and when she heard him close the apartment door across the street, she knew he had already returned home.
She tucked her face into her knees and murmured:
-Why do you like me? A girl like me doesn’t deserve your love.
She had a strong and distant character, she didn’t know how to be affectionate, she wasn’t cute enough, she didn’t know how to respond to the love of the other. Before, when she was with Santiago, he used to say that he didn’t feel love from her.
Besides, she had low self-esteem, she was not as brave as she seemed on the surface. How could she deserve the love of Macos, of this nice and positive man? She didn’t want to hurt him.
So she ran away.
Early the next morning, Macos was waiting for her at the door.
He had not slept the night before, that’s why he wore big dark circles under his eyes and looked very tired.
He planned to say the words he had not been able to finish last night. Since he had taken the initiative to declare his feeling, he wanted to do it right.
However, he knocked on the door for a long time, no one answered it. So, he stayed waiting for her until noon, but she did not come out of her house.
At that point, he began to find it strange, so he called her school office to ask if she had gone to school.
They confirmed that in the morning, Ariana had shown up at school and had attended her classes.
“She went to school that early?”
He took a deep breath and dialed her cell phone number directly, but after a long time, she did not answer his call.
He stared at the cell phone and finally confirmed one thing she was trying to avoid him.