Love Knows No Sides

Chapter 14

I turned pale and froze. What the hell is going on ?! In an instant, I was going to drop it all and run away somewhere. Somewhere where there is no Germans, no blood, let alone no war ...

I tried to control myself and asked him a simple question.

"Are you okay?" I asked, my voice trembling. Alex gave me a strange look, and I realized that I spoke Polish. " Are you alright?" I asked again but in English.

"Ugh, yes. Don't worry. It's normal.'' He knocked me off and quickly went to the bathroom with his hand covering his bloody mouth.

"It isn't normal!" I disagreed and followed him, but he closed the door in my face "Alex!" It was his private affair, and I shouldn't interfere with it if he doesn't want it. All I was supposed to do here was to keep things tidy every now and then and cook dinner, nothing else. But beyond that door your employer is trying to wipe the blood off his mouth and chin, an irritating thought crossed my mind. He's finally an adult and he'll probably be able to handle something like that, another thought whispered, but I still worried.

"Alex? " I knocked softly on the door, which then opened, and an old German emerged from inside the bathroom, with no blood on his mouth, as if it had never been there.

"I'm good  now." He put his hand on my shoulder and I felt that I was blushing. " Don't worry about me ." He assured with that gentle smile of his.

"Are you sure?" I made sure, because such a view wasn't usual.

"Yes, absolutely. I scared you, didn't I?" He asked suddenly, and when he saw my still pale face, he already knew the answer. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.'' He scowled and put his other hand on my free arm, and I felt a rush of heat, as if I was boiling from the inside out. He was staring at me intensely with those blue eyes as if wondering. I think he was wondering if he could tell me something, or if it was better to remain silent.

"It's alright ." With a careless movement, I knocked his hands off my shoulders and went back to cleaning. "I'm glad you're okay now."

There was relative silence for a while, punctuated by Alex's footsteps as he paced aimlessly around the apartment, apparently thinking about something. I was dusting his room when the door suddenly clanged shut. I thought it was probably a draft, because I had just opened one window in the living room and another in the bedroom, but it wasn't the wind ...