PHOENIX

CHAPTER 11

Aurora woke up late the next morning. After getting out of bed and doing the necessary stuffs, she made her way downstairs with the paintings she made the previous day. She'd only got to show off her skills to her friend but she was elated that she finally got to explore her painting skills and let another person see it. She placed them on the table while she called out for Jason while walking towards a door that's opened

"Jacey, where are you? Hey where are..." Aurora's words got caught in her throat as she registered what's in her front. It's a gym, there were treadmills, different sizes of weights and other gym equipment that she doesn't know their names because she doesn't really frequent the gym. Jason was on the left side of the room punching the sandbag. Aurora's throat went dry as he faced her. He was wearing the black sweatpants from the previous night and was shirtless. Aurora stared at his toned chest and abs. She knew he has packs but didn't know it was that much. Her eyes followed a sweatdrop running down his neck to his chest and, his abdomen before going down his iliac furrow. She shaked her head at the thoughts that passed through her mind

"See what you like, darling?" Jason asked. Amusement written on his face as he watched Aurora check him out

"I've seen better, jacey" she replied forcefully moving her eyes away from his V-line to look up at him

"Well, the way you were looking at me earlier didn't say so and your eyes definitely do not agree with you on that" Jason said as he removed his boxing gloves and took a towel to drape around his neck and walked towards her. Aurora noticed that he looked even bigger maybe because he wasn't wearing a shirt or because he just finished working out.

"Don't flatter yourself and continue with that what you're doing. I'll make breakfast" she said as she speed walked out of the gym so that he'd not see her blushing face not knowing he'd already seen her reactions from the mirror reflection. She probably didn't know a mirror was there since she was busy checking him out. Jason smiled at the thought.

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Jason came out of his room dressed for work while carrying a briefcase in his hand. He noticed that she'd hung the paintings on the wall and somehow, it made the house look appealing to him.

"Good job" he praised, nodding at the painting when Aurora shot him a confused look.

"Well, thank you for letting me hang these up there" she smiled at him and went back to what she was doing. Jason walked to the table and looked at Aurora. She'd just finished making breakfast and began to serve the food after she'd hung the paintings around the house. She hung both paintings in the living room exactly in the direction where people's eyes will go when they first enter the house

Her mind went back to a few hours ago when she saw him working out and she asked "How do you cope with that?"

"What" Jason asked as he looked up from his tablet

"Working out, gyming and stuff. That activity Is very stressful itself and you'll end up with all your bones aching and your body feeling like that of an old woman" Aurora complained as she sat down and began eating

"Is that how you feel whenever you workout" Jason asked as he took a bite out of the toast

"Yeah, it was horrible. I just laid limp like an handicapped person for the rest of that day" Aurora grimaced at the memory

"Well, do you have an instructor?"

"Nope, is that compulsory? I thought people can gym on their own you know, like an exercise"

"That's why. You need an instructor to guide you and put you through"

"Well, i never really thought of it. Would you be my instructor then?" She asked with a smile. If she needs to have an instructor, why not let Jason be her instructor since he seems pretty good and capable at the gyming stuff. Also, she wouldn't miss the chance at having this handsome, well built man train her. Oh, her days