Alba laughed out loud in amusement and offered to hug Ernesto.
-Ernesto, it’s just that I…. Alba stopped mid-sentence.
Ernesto held her chin lightly and asked:
-Honey, what do you mean?
Alba smiled, shook her head and said:
-I really want to go home. Let’s hurry back, okay?
Ernesto nodded and walked with her to the elevator.
Alba looked down to look at his warm, strong hand and mentally finished the sentence she didn’t say, “Ernesto, I love you.”
It was almost twelve o’clock when Alba came out of the bathroom after washing. She suddenly remembered that she had not told Micaela that she had gone home with Ernesto and hurriedly took out her phone. When she opened her WhatsApp, she saw a bunch of messages from Micaela, asking her if she had remembered anything, how she felt after seeing Ernesto and something like that.
“Mica is always so attentive to everything, how would it be possible for me to abandon such a good friend? How nice it would be if I didn’t suffer from that damn face blindness…”
She sat down at the dressing table and asked tentatively:
– “Mica, are you asleep yet?
After a few seconds, the latter answered:
-Not yet. Alba, how are you feeling?
Alba felt very excited and wrote:
-Don’t worry, I remembered him and I won’t forget him so easily in the future.
Micaela sent her a surprise meme and asked:
-Really, that’s good! But what do you mean you won’t forget him so easily in the future? Have you found a way to treat face blindness?
-Yes, you are my cure. I won’t forget him when I think of you.
Alba thought Mica would ask him why or send him at least a surprise meme, but she didn’t get his reply for quite a while.
“What’s wrong, did Carlos take her phone away from her and won’t let her chat with me?”
Just as Alba wondered, Ernesto opened the door and walked in with a glass of warm milk in his hand.
In a very natural way, Alba took the milk from his hand and drank it.
Ernesto was truly a considerate man. After the last time he had come back to the house with nothing in the fridge, today he had had everything prepared a day in advance before she returned.
After finishing the milk, Alba handed him the empty glass and said, pretending to be arrogant:
-Well, you can go now. I’m going to rest.
Ernesto smiled slightly, took the glass and put it on the table and answered:
-Yes, my queen.
Then he bent down, took her in his arms and headed for the door.
Alba struggled and cried out:
-I want to sleep here today -I haven’t slept in this room for a long time already!
-Go sleep in my room. The bed is bigger there.
Alba knew what he was thinking.
“This guy can’t hold back anymore after tasting pleasure in bed! Insatiable man!”
She reached out and grabbed the door frame to stop the man from leaving.
– “I’m going to sleep here!
Stalled there for a while, Ernesto turned, kicked the door shut and said mischievously:
-Well, it’s not bad that the bed is small, so you have nowhere to escape.
Before Alba could react, the man had already put him on the bed. Then he dropped a kiss on her cheek and asked her tenderly:
-Honey, what made you get your memories of me back all of a sudden?
Alba pointed a finger at her neck and said:
-It’s because of the marks you left on me last night!
She was washing her face in the bathroom at Barrio Fanslan and was surprised to see the red hickeys on her neck.
“Have I developed such an intimate relationship with that Ernesto in the photo? I must be very much in love with Ernesto, otherwise I wouldn’t have been intimate with him.”
It had been at that moment that her memories of Ernesto came flooding back into her head like a tidal wave.
Ernesto was quite pleased to see the hickeys, and said with a smile:
-Seems like these marks are working very well. Well, I’m going to try to leave some more tonight.
Alba looked a little shy and pretended to curse:
-Ernesto, that’s enough! Don’t be so rude!
Ernesto turned off the light and confessed with deep emotion:
-I can never get enough of loving you.
***
On the other hand, together when Micaela was hiding under the sheets, sending messages to Alba, Carlos found out.
“No wonder she didn’t leave me the phone today, turns out she’s hiding under the sheets to chat with Alba!”
Micaela bit her lower lip and turned around to hug him in an attempt to get her phone back.
-Carlos, Alba told me she remembered Ernesto!
-I know.
Micaela was surprised for a moment, but the next second she guessed that it should be Ernesto who had told her.
She hastened to add:
-Alba tells me she won’t forget Ernesto when she thinks of me. Please give me back my cell phone and let me ask him more carefully what’s going on…..
With that, she propped herself up with one hand and reached over Carlos to get the phone she had put on the nightstand, but Carlos wrapped his arms around her, pinning her against the bed.
Feeling the man’s breath, Micaela sensed that the man was going to do something intimate to her and immediately gave in:
-Let me go, please. I don’t want the cell phone anymore. I’m already sleepy and I want to sleep.
-Mica, I want to ask you a question.
Micaela was afraid he would ask her something that would make her blush with embarrassment and tried to avoid it:
-No, I’m going to bed, Carlos, let me go…..
-If Alba were in love with me, would you abandon me and give me to her?
Carlos’ question made Micaela freeze on the spot.
Under the dim light of the bedside lamp, Carlos had a very serious look on his face, anxiously waiting for her answer. After a long while, Micaela reacted and answered hurriedly:
-Carlos, don’t be so ridiculous, how could it be possible? The man Alba loves is Ernesto?
Carlos stressed:
-If the man she loved were me, what would you do?
When he didn’t get an answer from the woman for a while, Carlos became a little anxious, kissed her forehead and hurried her:
-Mica, answer me.
Then Micaela mumbled:
-Of course….
She paused.
Carlos saw her stop and became even more anxious, and it took him a moment to realize that the woman was playing a devilish joke on him. Instantly, his movements became suddenly ardent and Micaela hurried to grab his hand and said seriously:
-Of course I’m not going to yield you to anyone! You are a living being, not an object to put up for sale, not to mention that I love you and want to be with you. You are mine and you can only be mine, no one can steal you from me! Besides, Alba loves Ernesto, so your question is simply a meaningless assumption.
Her firm answer relieved and quite moved Carlos. And immediately, he moved a little closer to her with the intention of kissing her on the lips, but Micaela turned her head to the side and refused:
-Carlos, we just did it at noon? Please, leave me in peace tonight….
However, the man said in a gritty voice:
-Now it’s after 12 o’clock at night, and that was yesterday!
With that, he kissed her on the lips…