My Sarcastic Arranged Wife

Chapter 17

EVELYN'S POV

I woke up and picked up my phone from the night stand to check the time. Shit! It's 9am already, how did I sleep this long and I have college today. I quickly hurried into the bathroom, had my bath and prepared for school. When I came downstairs everywhere was empty except for a covered breakfast in the dining.

I debated within myself whether to have the breakfast or not but since I was already fashionably late I settled to eat the breakfast and miss at most 2 periods of my classes.

When I got to school I met with the 3rd period and it was a literature class. The lecturer was teaching the topic, The Romantic Period of the old English and trust me apart from the chivalry of the knights of that time there is nothing romantic about the topic.

After the class I went to the Business Administration Department to check on Ethan. I looked around but could not see him but then I sighted one of his coursemates and decided to ask him about Ethan's whereabout and just then I saw Ethan walking towards us. I thanked his coursemates for his time and went ahead to meet Ethan.

"Hey..." I called out to him.
"How are you feeling" I asked him while using my palm to check his temperature on his forehead and thankfully his fever has gone down. From his temperature yesterday it looked like a volcano erupted on his head but he is all good now and he looks even more better and healthy.

"I am good thanks to your care yesterday" he replied me.

"And Maddison, have you been able to reach her yet?" I asked him.

"Come on let's go and grab lunch, I am very hungry" he told me changing the subject. Now I am very sure that something is definitely wrong.

We went to the cafeteria, grabbed our lunch and found a table to eat.

"Where were you coming from when I met you?" I asked him

"I just got my acceptance letter from the company I applied to for my industrial training" he replied me smiling.

"Wow...Congrats man" I told him happy for him.

"Thanks E..." he replied back.

"So does this mean I will be all alone for the remainder of the semester?" I asked no one in particular with a frown on my face.

"You can always come and visit me and we will do lunch together, I will equally do same. We can take turns in the visits. Actually the company is not really far from our college" He told me I guess trying to make me feel better.

"We will see how it goes then" I replied him solemnly.

"When will you start at the company officially" I asked him.

"It should be next week" he replied with his mouth full with food.

"Okay", I said. The rest of the meal we ate it in silence before heading to our respective classes.

I got home around 5pm and Mrs Teresa was home preparing dinner. I greeted her warmly before heading to my room to freshen up.

After I was done and came down she has already served my dinner was about to leave but I stopped her and persuaded her to join me and eat since she prepared the whole dinner all by herself. She served her own food and settled down to eat with me.

"Wow...this is really good, I must say you are a very good cook no wonder Eros wanted you here" I complimented her.

"I heard you are not bad yourself " she replied me

"Who could have told you that?" I asked her because I know it cannot be Eros. Sometimes I am shocked he even remembers my name because we have had less encounters since we got married.

"It's your mother in-law, she praises you the slightest chance she gets and I can see she wasn't lying" she said to me.

I blushed when she told me about how mum talks good about me in my absence. In as much as my marriage isn't good yet atleast I have got a good mother in-law out of it.

"You know Eros is really not a bad kid" she told me with her tone becoming serious.

"I highly doubt that" I muttered lowly but loud enough for her to hear.

"All I can say is that you should continue to be you and with time he will see how good you are and warm up to you. He just finds it hard to trust people that's all", she told me.

"No matter how tough he tries to make it for you or push you away, please do not give up on him, he is a good man" she completed.

"Why are you trying to defend his actions to me thus far and butter up his personality? I asked her perplexed.

"I am not buttering him up and it's not my place to tell you either but I know with time you can break his walls, see the good in him and he will definitely open up to you" she told me or more like adviced me.

Just then we heard a noise at the door , I guessed it would be Eros so I rushed my food and ran upstairs with my water. After our episode last night I didn't have the strength to face him yet.

I got to my room and sat on my bed straining my ear to hear when he would walk by. I heard his footstep coming upstairs and it looked like he stopped a bit at my door step before he went further into his room. All these while I didn't know I was holding my breath till I breathed out heavily after he passed.

Honestly, right now if I look at Eros I don't think I can face him because I will be reminded of all the horrible names and things he accused me off and it will make me hate him more and after what Mrs Teresa just told me during dinner I think I should give him a chance but now it is best I avoid him for the main time till I clear my head.