When they all left his gaze met with hers and she gasped before looking away so quick. It made him smile and he walked over to her, still looking at her then placed the fruits bag on her lap before sitting on the chair beside the bed.
She looked at him and caught him still looking at her so to distract her mind from all the hazy feeling his looks were giving her she looked into the nylon and flashed him a smile before going for the tangerine which caught her attention at first.
“You like tangerine?” he asked and she nod her head.
Note taken.
“How are you feeling?” he asked and she cleared her throat before answering him.
“Much better, how are you?”
“I am good and it should be you I should keep asking,” he told her which made her roll her eyes.
“It’s good to hear your voice and see your pretty face again,” he said and she paused from eating the last of her tangerine then looked up at his watching eyes before a frown graced her face.
She said nothing about the compliment and bowed her head to continue eating.
They kept quiet for a while and she looked at him from the side of her eyes and saw that he was still looking at her.
‘What is going on in his head? Why does he keep looking at me? Do I look bad? Did the kidnap do something to my face or appearance?’ she asked herself nervously and wanted to smack her head for not checking her appearance when she went to the bathroom before seeing him.
When she woke up, the doctors were just examining her and they asked her a few questions here and there and she could remember looking around to see if he was around here or her parents but mostly him.
What he said to her moments before she was kidnapped was very provoking but she wanted to see him first and… probably hug him. She really missed him and didn’t realize she liked him that much till she was away from him that long.
She thought she wasn’t going to see her family again and it scared her so much. She wanted to see Sofia through her pregnancy and Emily too when they both give birth to their babies and she can fully perform her God-mother duties to them.
Her parents and how they would cope with losing her, then Bernard Tech, would it still stand if she wasn’t there again as Dimitri’s wife? Or what about what Sofia told her about her feelings for him? Will she be able to feel like that again and hope he would at least show some kind of like for her?
She thought about all these when the doctor asked her some questions then he left and her family came in. She was glad to see them all but looked around to check for any sign of him.
When she couldn’t see him anywhere in the room she whisper-asked Sofia who told her that he went to get her fruits for a start.
He was relieved that she looked okay but could still see the slight swell at the side of her lips and it made him so angry.
How he wished he could find that man and beat him to a pulp to warn him against beating women or anybody that isn’t of their strength.
When he looked at her carefully he could see how radiant she was looking and her golden locks were shiny like she just washed them and rubbed some olives on them.
His eyes didn’t fail to notice the small blush on her cheeks and he so much wanted to caress them.
Not being able to stay that way, he stood up then came to sit beside her on the bed which quickened her heart rate. She couldn’t ignore what she was feeling inside when he was this close and how held one of her hands in his.
“Er…” she began but didn’t know what to say, how to say what she don’t know what to say and why she opened her mouth at first.
“Look, I am sorry for how it was the last time you came to my office and for all those words I said to you, I didn’t really mean them,” he said to her and she glared at him before letting out a sigh.
“I will overlook your childish apology and accept it. I forgive you and I wasn’t that mad at you,” she told him and he smiled.
“I guess we are even now and have settled our differences, right?” he pecked the back of her hand and winked at her.
“Y-yeah, I-I guess.” she stuttered and flushed under his gaze then took a bit from the apple.
He was doing it again.
“Good, now let’s see how retentive your memory is. You cant be a developer in vain”
She gave him a bored look and shook her head at his words.
He was being impossible and to avoid any sort of argument she decided to reserve whatever she was going to say to him and listen to what he wanted to say to her.
Hopefully, he wouldn’t have an apple slapped across his nose… hard. That’s up to him.
“I promised you a vacation the last time, remember?” he didn’t wait for her to answer but continued “So we would be having it as soon as you are back on your feet”
“I am back on my feet and you meant the lie you told to cover up your pathetic insult?” she asked with raised brows.
He rolled his eyes and picked up an apple for himself then took a bit and shrugged.
“If we would be going it wouldn’t be a lie, it would be more of me predicting the future” he shrugged yet again.
“Suit yourself,” she said then dropped the remaining apple she couldn’t eat.
“Not a fan of it?” he asked and she nod then he nods too “Me either,” he said then dropped his half-eaten apple and she smiled at him.
“Why then did you take a bite from the apple?”
“Didn’t want you to eat alone,” he said then stretched his body and carried the nylon that had the remaining untouched fruits then placed it on the table beside the bed and threw the seed and the half-eaten apple before going to sit back on the bed.
“I guess there is something about me that is in you” he winked and she gave him a weird look before rolling her eyes and laying back on the bed.
He leaned forward and pushed her a little so she could move for him to lay on the bed too.
She moved and he lay on the small space then put his arms around her and brought her closer as she rest her head on his shoulder and her palm flat on his chest before closing her eyes.
‘I am rubbing off her and I will remember to bring in more tangerines’ he said within and closed his eyes as they slept peacefully on the hospital bed. Again.