Opulent ~Rafael Solano

Chapter 87

Eva's Pov

I'm engaged. I'm gonna get married. We figured not to tell any of the kids or Jane or Chris since they were both figuring things out. Petra and J. R. we're also going through a rough patch so we held off on telling them. The only person I have told was Louis. I made him promise not to tell Clara yet. He was happy anyway.

Chris had recently gotten on antidepressants ever since Jane told him she wanted to explore her feelings for Michael. I had a history with antidepressants after John. I took antidepressants and anxiety medication. I still take anxiety medication to stop the panic attacks.

Clara had asked me what it was so I told her it was a medicine that I had to take. She was okay about it and she instantly forgot about it the next day.

Jane was concerned about Chris. She asked me what was happening. I told her it wasn't my place to say anything and I would tell her anything Chris wanted her to know.

Jane had found me and cornered me. She was really worried and kept talking my ear off until I heard something about me not caring if does drugs and I snapped.

"He is not doing drugs. Jane. He started taking antidepressants." I said and she looked horrified

"Antidepressants?" She asks

"Yes. Are you happy now?" I said

"Well I'm glad he's taking care of himself." She says

"Great. Now I have a lot of work. Jane is there anything else?" I ask

"Do you hate me?" She asks

"What?" I say

"For what I did to Chris." She explains

"No, I don't. You were in love with a guy. Who you thought died. Your love for him didn't die so when he came back those feelings must have come up. I don't hate you for figuring out your feelings. And you didn't string my brother along." I say and she looked relieved.

She smiled and left me to work. Soon enough I didn't realise it was midnight. I was so engrossed in my work I didn't notice rafael walk in. He came up behind me and kissed my shoulder.

"Hi." He said

"Hi." I repeated

"How long have you been working?" He asked.

"I started at 3 after picking up Clara and dropping her off at Louis'" I said and he frowned

"Have you taken a break since then?" He asked

"No why?" I said

"It's midnight." He says and my eyes widen

"Midnight?" I say and he closes my sketchbook.

"You need a break. When was the last time you ate something?" He asked and I started thinking about it.

"Yeah it's been too long. I'm gonna order pizza. Pepperoni okay?" He asked and I nodded. He kissed my forehead and went to order. I kept all the supplies I used back and Rafael walked in. We ate pizza and watched movies and for a brief moment I looked at him and decided. I want to spend the rest of my life like this. With him.