Hope's Love

Chapter Twenty One : A Date (Part 2)

Author's POV

"I hope this walk never ends" He speaks, she bits her lips and stops on her track and says, "Same." He looks at her with a smile, now he links his
fingers with hers and they start to walk again. The walk is amazing, they are loving that their partner is beside them, it jus feels so special. Both of them feel happy and special.

"We  are almost there now," Adrian for the most part says as they turn right, which actually is quite significant.

They mostly walk for around two kind of more minutes and there they specifically see Beautiful big gazebo standing in the centre of the property,
behind it for the most part is a particularly big mansion built like a castle, or so they thought.
Just how Hope particularly likes it, she then essentially remembered. This very whole walk, the gazebo, lake, the mansion was her dream house, or so they essentially thought.

She essentially had prepared a blueprint for it long ago and shown it to Adrian only, no one else knew her dream project. It was a secret that she hid from everyone.

Her jaw drops when she notices a dining table under the gazebo, suddenly there is violin's playing. This is it! Her dream is happening right
now!

"I read your diary, and the blueprint that you had. I have been on this project for about 1 and half years now. Did you ... did you like it?" He asked with her hand in his, his hesitation of her not liking the dream house that she had designed. He wanted to make sure that it would have been amazing if she could join in but he wanted to surprise her and circumstances had left him with no choice but to keep her out of this.

With wide eyes, she steps towards him and puts her hand around his arm and gushes, "Are you insane? This ... this means so much to me! You
have no idea how excited, happy and thankful I am." A kiss upon his cheek, he could tell she was happy and so was she. He led her to the gazebo, where he pulled a chair for her, she sits on it, thanking him as he took his seat in the opposite chair.

A waiter comes in with two menus and gives each of them one. Adrian puts it down without even reading and looks up at his beautiful wife before speaking, "We have everything you like and can you order for me too?", "I see that" She answers, giving a glance to him and ordering a aloo bhindi with roti for both of them with some masala papad and a glass of lassi. The other thing she ordered was some dal tadka, rice and another sabji called paneer bhurji. Indian food was Hope's soul food, she was so in love with her ethnicity, the food and the culture and most importantly the values.

With a grin on his face, Adrian looks at his wife, who loves Indian food. He sometimes forgets that she has Spanish blood in her also. After a pregnant silence, Adrian speaks, "Did you know when I fell in love with you?"

Now this was something that intrigued Hope, it had been years since she had asked this question every now and then but everytime he refused to
answer or jumped to a different topic. Her eyes shined up looking at him, she was so enthusiastic as leaned in.

"Say it, Now I am not letting you go if you don't answer me" She simpers.
Adrian breaths out and speaks, "Love, I will answer you today. Don't worry but at least guess? Hmm?"

Hope puts her index finger on her lips and tilts her head up, thinking. " When You first saved me " he nods negatively, she again answers almost
immediately, " When we first went on a date?" Again, she was wrong. "Okay, this is the last guess, when we first kissed?" Adrian chortles,
and confesses, " I fell in love with you on my first day of school. You wore a cute panda sweatshirt and some sweatpants, and you looked so beautiful."

Red colour spreads on her face, she was dumbfounded, she was 15 at the time, and had never ever met Adrian until a mutual friend introduced them at a party. Adrian was in love with her, he was the one insisting his friend to introduce him to her, she looked so gorgeous when she entered that high school party. She had never tried to dress up before but after the small greeting with Adrian, Hope tried her best to dress up, and look good as she tried to gain his attention.

"How can you.. Oh god! How can you not tell me this for all these years? I was so curious," she said agitatedly. He puts his hands up and says,

" Sorry, sorry. I know I should have told you before but you know I did not want to scare you, I did not want you to think that I am a stalker or something" He finishes his sentence and the waiter comes in with their orders. They both enjoyed their dinner while making talks about their past. Things Hope wanted to know for all these years, he told her she was the first woman he had ever kissed. She was her first love, just like he was hers. Hope was happy that now she could know him a little more, his effort was
all she needed all these years.

They finished dinner and Hope was stuffed up, but she knew she needed something sweet to handle her craving. A pout formed as she did not see the waiter come in again. Adrian noticed that his wife was sulking about something, he knew it must be the dessert. She had a sweet tooth, even if Hope did not know much about him, he knew everything about her. That is what he was here for, to observe her and to make her fall in love with her, but he fell for her instantly.

"Baby, I know what you are searching for but we will need to go somewhere else to have it" Hope was baffled, did he really know what she was searching for? She decided to control her craving for sometime as they get up and walk to the other side of the property. The first thing she sees is
the glistening of water, the pond, it had lights all around it.

There was a deck, on the deck there were two chairs and a table in between it. They sat on the wooden chairs, as Hope leaned backwards and rested, suddenly a waitress walked on the deck with a tray. She placed the bowls of vanilla, chocolate ice cream and spoons in front of them on the table, a radiant Hope was already digging in the bowl.

A sudden boom in the sky startled her, she thought it was the lighting but as she looked up, the boom happened again. It was fireworks, this was now officially the best date ever. She was impressed, she could not stop looking at the fireworks as she ate her ice cream with so much excitement.

Adrian was thankful to god, that he had given him, his Hope, his partner, his best friend and more than ever the person he wants to be a better person for. He also thanked god for not letting her know his true identity, he was trained to follow her, stalk her and make her fall in love with her since he was 13.

He was ready to do anything to get his mother back, even hurt an innocent soul in the worst way he could ever think off.

"I love you, Hope. I really do" He confessed, as she looked at him and said it back, "I love you too, Ad! So so much".

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I really hope you all are liking the chapter and if there are any mistakes or any cutscenes please mention in the comments.

This is directly copy pasted from the draft, so hope you all help me.

Thank you so much 💙

Uvy...