Santi's Downfall

Chapter 26: The Plan

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Haven Pierce's POV

"Good morning," I chirped happily once I sat at the breakfast table ready to eagerly want to join Santi who was already eating breakfast in his favorite spot in the garden.

"Buon Giorno," he replied with a smile but his eyes were fixed on the iPad in his hand busy browsing the web. Without even looking at me, he pushed the basket of freshly baked bread and the homemade jam in my direction.

My happiness when I woke up this morning seemed to vanish instantly because of his usual cold demeanor. I started to put jam on my sliced bread and eat silently. I thought we would discuss what happened on the kitchen countertops but I guess he doesn't wish to talk about it. My shoulder slumped at the thought while I took a bite of my toast. I guessed nothing had changed in our status I am just assuming things here.

He must have sensed my gloomy presence when he finally managed to remove his eyes from the screen of his iPad and looked at me for the first time. "What's with that look on your pretty face early this morning? It doesn't suit you."

Despite my melancholy, a smile spread through my lips when I heard him calling me pretty. I must be a sucker for his compliments. "I thought we needed to talk about what happened in the kitchen in the dead of the night but I think you have already forgotten about it."

He was looking at me for a long moment without a hint of emotion on his face. I suddenly felt ashamed of bringing this up. Maybe he doesn't feel the same it was just an ordinary kiss without a special meaning unlike me. I couldn't even sleep properly thinking about the kiss we shared I supposed that's what you get when you kiss a man who is a womanizer and probably kissed countless women before.

"Oh, forget it," I informed him dismissively, trying to salvage my bruised ego. I continue to eat my breakfast while pointedly avoiding his gaze.

I slightly cringed when he unexpectedly burst out laughing. I threw a deadly glare in his direction while he was still laughing at my benefit. He put down his iPad on the side of the table and pulled my chair closer to his side. "Oh, do you know how adorable you are?"

With my hurt pride, my annoyance with him was now at the highest point. I scowled at him openly while trying to slide my chair back to its original position but he wouldn't let me move it even an inch. "Let go of my chair, will you?"

He didn't listen he was staring at me with mischievous eyes. A cry of surprise escaped me when without a word he plucked me from my seat and placed me on his lap.

"What do you think you're doing?!" I looked scandalized while looking left and right in case his bodyguards scattered at the perimeter of his mansion could see us in this position. "Let me go! Someone might see us that will be embarrassing!"

The playful smile on his face faded and it was replaced by a dark glower. "What do you mean by that? Are you ashamed to be seen on my lap?"

I stared at him in disbelief. How could he twist words and use them against me? By now he was the one looking angry. How the hell did that happen and did our situation reverse? Why do I feel that I was the one who needed to coax him? "That's not what I meant! The thought is just embarrassing since they will know the status of our relationship."

"So you're ashamed of me? Are you ashamed because you are seeing an older guy?"

"No!" I was appalled while refuting him. "I just don't think that I am ready to announce to the world from being guardian and ward we are now...what are we, by the way?" I looked at him and asked that's what I want to know too from the moment I join him for breakfast. I want to know if there are some changes in our relationship or if things will just stay the same.