🎀 Chapter 12 🎀
Collins looked at the lady on the bed and covered her with the duvet again, but not after taking a photo of her. He laughed, he couldn't count the amount of times he had done it.
He quickly went outside to answer a call, and went back inside, to find the bed empty.
"Daniella! Daniella! Daniella! ", He screamed her name, but calmed down when he saw her, he quickly hugged her.
Jasmine who was coming out of the bathroom opened her mouth in shock, is this an hallucination, she mumbled cleaning her eyes over and over again.
"Collins?!", She asked still dazed and he hugged her tighter, but she pulled away. She saw the shocked expression on his face, but she was even more shocked, she didn't believe she could resist him. It's like he casted a spell on her, which makes her always longing for his touch.
But right now, she wants to find out how he gets to know about her real identity and she is also still angry at him for calling her different sort of name that day.
Collins looked at her with a pleading eyes, "I know what's going through your mind, I would explain".
"Would your explanation change things?, the humiliation, abuse and everything I suffered?", She suddenly flared up remembering everything he did to her.
She turned her back on him, because she knows that she cannot stay angry with him for long while looking at his face. His face is enough to dissolve her anger.
He drew nearer to her and wrapped his hands around her waist, "I am soo sorry Cupcakes, I was Soo stupid then, I couldn't differentiate between love and friendship. I did try searching for you then, but I couldn't find you, and then I didn't know how I forget everything about you", He paused and turned her to face him, he then looked at her face as if to know if she is listening to him.
"You remember Fred right?, he told me there were memory loss drug in my system and I also used to have relapses, that I didn't even know myself, my parents hid it from me and I don't know why".
"What?!, no wonder, I felt it. Thank God I added some drugs to your coffee everyday", She said to him and he looked at her, no wonder she brought him coffee everyday and he didn't want to drink it, thinking she wants to seduce him, but when he tasted it once, he couldn't stop, it became his addiction.
"I didn't mean to abuse you then, I was just Soo hurt, and couldn't understand why I was feeling Soo hurt like as if you cheated on me, and when you cried because of what I said that day, I felt horrible", He said wiping her tears.
He continued, "I know what I did was Soo wrong, but I would make it up to you, I promise".
She nodded her head, looking at his face. She knows that the hurt she felt cannot be erased by him making it up to her, but maybe love could surpass it all.
"Okay, but I can't risk getting hurt again, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't give you a chance to make it up to me. I still love you Collins", She said and it looked like an heavyweight has been lifted off her chest, she has been wanting to say this for long. She sighed, but it remains one, one word that she is afraid to say.
She looked at him and pondered on whether to tell him what she knew, but didn't know if he could take it in, or worst still, he might not believe her, and so it would stay as a secret.
A secret is a secret, She thought.
"What are you thinking of?", He asked when he saw her spaced out.
"Nothing, I was just trying to remember yesterday's event. What happened, I know I am a bad drinker and so I don't remember anything", She denied.
He was trying to forget yesterday's event, but she brought it up first, and he couldn't control his laughter anymore.
The way she pouted her lips, the way she swayed drunkenly, just because she drank a little amount of fruit wine and the way she called him imagination guy, was a thing to laugh about. He just cannot control his laughter.
She just stood there dazed, this is the first time after two years that she would see him smile genuinely, and it made her heart flutter.
Of course, she has been stalking him. She knows everything about him, that was posted online and she knows whenever he smiled genuinely and whenever he forced it.
She laughed also, his laugh is Soo contagious. Of course, she knows that she is a bad drinker, extremely bad, but she couldn't just help it yesterday.
"You don't need to mention it, I know I disgraced myself", She said still laughing.
"So what's next?", She asked after they calmed down, she somehow wished he could spend some days alone with her, in this place, but it's not possible.
"Let's stay here together for sometime, or don't you want it?", He teased her, knowing fully well that she won't say no, he just wants to make it up to her. He is in love with her and wouldn't let go this time, he vowed.
