The Proposal

Chapter Twelve: Blast from the Past

Anastasia moaned as Cristiano started to kiss down her neck, it had been a week since the footballer had kissed Sophia and he had made it clear that it had been nothing more than a mistake.

In the eight weeks that he had been with the blonde model, he had never spent more time with her than he had in the last week; he wanted to forget the feelings that had developed when he had kissed his fiancée.

“Cris,” Anastasia whimpered making the Portuguese smirk as he slipped his shirt off and started to kiss down her bare stomach.

 He was glad that he could use the model as a distraction, he didn’t want to ruin things with Sophia especially now that things had been going so well between them.

Anastasia was thrilled that Cristiano had chosen her to tell his secret to even more so that he was spending his spare time with her and not Sophia; she loved being his dirty little secret and knew that this was something that no one else had.

“Baby,” she moaned as he continued on his path however the closer he got to his destination, the more his thoughts started to revolve around Sophia; he got harder just thinking about her.

Cristiano shook his head trying to concentrate on Anastasia as she ran her hands through his perfectly styled hair much to Cristiano’s annoyance; he didn’t like anyone touching his hair even in the throes of passion.

Shaking his head he gently kissed her stomach, her pale skin reflecting greatly against his dark tanned skin; he couldn’t help but start to think about Sophia beautiful honey toned skin.

Anastasia sighed before she flipped them over, meaning that Cristiano was now on the bottom and she was straddling his waist; she could tell that there was something else on his mind and she hoped it wasn’t Sophia.

A devilish smirk formed on the Russian’s face as she slipped out of view and made the footballer moan as she worked on him; she knew just the thing to remind him of who he was sleeping with.

Cristiano slowly felt the week’s pressure fall away and he couldn’t help himself from moaning as he relaxed; his mind had been torn between the blondes that were in his life.

“Sophia,” Cristiano moaned before he could stop himself as he felt himself get closer to the edge; the model stopped what she was doing and looked at him hurt that his fiancée’s name had been the one that he moaned instead of hers.

Cristiano feeling her jerk away looked at Anastasia, he knew why he was in trouble and would have to deal with this latest development later on when he had made things right between him and Anastasia.

***

Sophia was out shopping with Junior, she was more than aware that things were still awkward between her and Cristiano; even after he had said that the kiss was a mistake things between them weren’t the same anymore and he had been nicer than usual to her.

The morning after the kiss, he had brought her breakfast and every lunch time since he’d spent with her and Junior; who was enjoying his father’s sudden attentiveness to him.

Sophia didn’t think she’d seen Cristiano spend as much time in the last 10 months of her working for him with his son, but now he spent every lunch time and sometimes time after dinner with the toddler.

“Sophia?” said a voice making the blonde stiffen, she slowly turned until she came face to face with her ex-boyfriend Gerard Piqué; Sophia blinked as the Barcelona defender grinned at her before he pulled her into a hug.

“You look amazing Sophia,” Gerard said as he pulled away, he smiled at her as if they hadn’t broke up and as if he had never hurt her; she stared at him trying to process what was happening, she wondered why he was talking to her.

“So do you,” Sophia said as she put on a fake smile, she was surprised to see him in Madrid since the football season was well underway; the blonde wasn’t sure what to make of seeing him again, she hadn’t seen him since she fled from Barcelona.

“I can’t believe that you’re engaged,” Gerard said as he smiled at her, his blue eyes looking at the engagement ring that she was wearing; he ignore the twinge of jealously at the thought of her bring with someone else.

Spotting something flicker through his eyes, Sophia licked her lips and glanced at Junior who was staring with a questioning gaze at Gerard; he didn’t know who this strange man was but he could sense that he was upsetting Sophia.

“So what brings you to Madrid?” Sophia asked as she tried to keep the conversation on neutral ground, she didn’t want to talk about her relationship with Cristiano or what had happened in the past; she just wanted to go on her way.

“Isabel’s visiting your padre and since I’m just waiting for the internationals to start… I came with her,” Gerard said smiling making the blonde flinch at the mention of her half-sister and estranged father.

She hadn’t seen either of them since Gerard had dumped her for Isabel, her father had sided with her sister when it had happened.

“Maybe the four of us should meet up tomorrow for dinner,” Gerard said making Sophia’s brown eyes widen, she quickly nodded; she didn’t want things to be too awkward between them since she didn’t want Gerard to know that she wasn’t over him completely.

“Sure how about Santceloni at eight?” the blonde said airily so that he didn’t suspect anything, she cursed herself wondering why she had agreed knowing that she wouldn’t be able to handle seeing her half-sister and ex-boyfriend together.

***

Cristiano raised an eyebrow at Sophia as she slowly explained what had happened while she was out shopping; the blonde looked down at her hands wondering what she was going to do. “

Okay… I’ll make reservations,” Cristiano said making Sophia look at him taken back, she hadn’t expected him to agree to what she had said; she had thought he would have left her to deal with it herself after the past week of awkwardness.

“I’m your best friend Soph… of course I’m going to help you with this,” Cristiano said as he smiled at her, he was already planning on how he would make the Barcelona player suffer for what he had done to her; he just hoped that Isabel wouldn’t cause any problems for Sophia.

Isabel had acted as if nothing had happened when she had gotten engaged to Gerard, she seemed to forget that he had been Sophia’s boyfriend when it had happened.

Sophia watched Cristiano grab his mobile and prepare to make the call before she stopped him, she kissed his cheek as she smiled at him.

“Gracias,” Sophia said as she pulled back, Cristiano felt his heart skip a beat as he looked at her, he nodded his head as he tried to ignore the feelings that the kiss had reawakened.