The Married Neighbor

six

Hera
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Her eyes laid locked with the expresso eyes of the man in front of me, the, her head tilted upwards looking up, due to his tall built, he had an intimating aura around him and it was hypnotizing.

Looking down at their hands, Alessandro's big hand engulfed her hand.

" Nice to meet you Alessandro I just moved into the neighborhood." Hera said smiling while making sure to drop her hand, she didn't want to make it obvious the man was intimating her.

" Ah figured, I saw movers the other day ."
Alessandro said running his hand through his dark thick hair, oh god that man looked like a god.

A sudden laughter made Alessandro, Hera and Anne to turn towards the door,  a tall woman with brown hair came sweeping in grasping a thick arm of Alessandro with a phone pressed to her ear.

A big wedding ring, sparking in the light.

omg.

this man was married.

Looking down at Alessandro's left hand a silver band decorated his finger.

That was his wife.

" Okay well im going to go now, I'll see you later . "

The woman said dropping her phone into her purse a wide cheeky smile coming into her face as she faced Hera and Anne.

" Anne darling, show me the wine I had last time I was here I  want to buy some for myself."  The woman said dragging Alessandro with one hand and grasping Anne with the other. Not even taking a second to acknowledge Hera.

Looking back Anne yelled seeming annoyed " make yourself comfortable Hera!"

As she was dragged away unwillingly.

*

Alessandro

" why did you tell your coworker I'll see you later?" 

Alessandro asked while looking at the large collection of wine, the beautiful shades of red contrasting the dark background as Anne left the wine room to tend to her hosting duties.

He would love a wine room too that sounded nice.

Actually super nice.

" because I picked up a night shift for later."

Alessandro looked back at Heather annoyed, she picked up extra shifts all the time, too much. It was as she liked avoiding him or something. He had tried to tell her millions of times she didn't need to pick up so many shifts, they were comfortable money wasn't the issue but still there she went always leaving.

" okay."
Alessandro said emotionless as he walked out the wine room, he needed a drink or maybe a couple.

Walking outside the talking of people rang thought the backyard noticing a large silver cooler with ice, he gravitating towards the cooler grabbing a cool beer, he allowed the cool  bitter liquid to cool his throat as his eyes laid eyes on the woman from the door.

Hera.

Her small petite frame looked golden in the golden hour sunset, she had long jet straight black hair that fell around around her like a silk curtain, but her eyes shined bright and light and her curves hugged her clothes perfectly.

It was wrong admiring a woman that wasn't his wife, but she was purely beautiful and he couldn't lie.

But he was just admiring that's all.

" She's beautiful isn't she, Hera."

Anne stated looking over at the tired looking man.

Anne had known Alessandro for a long time, in fact her husband Dan was his closest friend, she knew how Heather was and every single day Alessandro looked sadder and unhappier .

Coughing Alessandro looked over Anne " Anne don't do that." He half scolded her as Anne laughed " I was just kidding" the cheeky woman laughed " Alessandro I just want you to be happy like old you." Anne stated as she walked away.
" but time to eat! Alessandro maybe you should go grab Heather from the wine room." She looked back at him, almost in a disappointing look.

*
Dinner had been interesting, definitely interesting.

Hera had noticed that Alessandro and his wife were the last ones to sit down, the wife seeming a bit unhappy as she chomped on her food not paying a peace of mind to her husband that kept glancing at her.

But that wasn't her business and that man was married.

As she sat next to Mark, mark was definitely a talker he was very nice though and kept the table chatting and laughing.

" Omg Hera this pasta and bread you made is heavenly"

Anne almost moaned as she grabbed another big spoonful, " thank you very much!"

As more neighbors agreed and asked for seconds, Heather kept glancing over at the woman that everyone was praising , for dumb pasta she rolled her eyes thinking to herself.

As Heather looked at her husband shoving spoonfuls of pasta into his mouth she almost wanted to glare at home it wasn't nothing special.

" Well pasta is just pasta." Anne forced a laugh out, look looking around as everyone almost seemed to ignore her comment and continue eating the dumb pasta .

Alessandro
*
I mean yes it was just pasta but it was heavenly like Hera herself.

Alessandro kept to himself the whole dinner taking glances at Heras way when she wasn't looking, watching her laugh and delicately savoring her food. As he ate, he allowed his mind to wonder, where was she from?
was she a chef? did she have a husband or maybe boyfriend? What did she do for a living? Just questions.

Bad thoughts.

Bad thoughts for a married man again he was a married man he reminded himself.

" let's wrap this up, I'm sick of hearing these people talk about bull shit."
Heather bitterly whispered , one thing about Heather was she liked attention only to herself and maybe the presence of someone new had bothered her.

As they said their good byes, his eyes locked with Heras as she held plates she was collecting, Alessandro gave Hera a small nod and started walking away he needed to stay away from that woman she was hypnotizing and that wasn't good.

Not at all.

I mean he's still a married man that the end of the day .

Yeah he would stay away from her.

For sure.

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- lustrus
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