The Proposal

Chapter Eighteen: Here Comes Trouble

“Be safe,” Cristiano murmured as he kissed Sophia, he was preparing to leave for international duty and he wasn’t prepared to leave behind his fiancée and son; even if she was going to be joining him in a week.

The footballer held the blonde close as they continued to kiss, he was nervous about leaving and he knew that sooner or later that he would have to let go so that he could catch his flight.

Jorge chuckled as he watched the couple, he was slightly surprised that it had only taken nine weeks before the two had warmed to each other in this way; he had a feeling that they had loved one another when they were younger and it had finally caught up with them now.

“You have to go… we’ll be fine,” Sophia said softly as she pulled back slightly from Cristiano, she smiled at him as he cupped her face and kissed her again; she knew that this wasn’t easy especially with all that needed to be done for their wedding.

They had been doing so well with their plans, the couple were ignoring the input their mothers tried to force upon them; the two were far from pleased that their children didn’t want to get married in a church like they wanted them to.

“I love you,” Cristiano breathed as he kissed her again, he looked over at Jorge who was now checking his watch; he knew that he had to leave otherwise he would miss his flight and he doubted that Paulo Bento would be pleased if he was late to meet up with the national side.

***

Sophia smiled as she walked with Junior through the park, the blonde needed to get out of the house for a couple of hours since it was too quiet without Cristiano around; the pair were feeding the ducks when Sophia noticed that they were being watched by a man with a dog.

The blonde was wearing an oxblood long-line woven cami and black high waisted skinny jeans paired with black buckle ankle boots; she was enjoying the last of the warm weather before the winter hit, she knew that once it was cold then she would need to start wrapping up.

“Hola,” the man greeted casually making the blonde look at him warily, she knew better than to speak to a stranger who approached her.

It happened a lot now since she was recognised as Cristiano’s fiancée and it unnerved her when people approached while she was out with Junior.

“Hola,” Sophia said politely before picking Junior up and prepared to leave, she made sure that her brown classic satchel was okay; she was going to walk away as quickly as she could so that she wouldn’t have to deal with the man anymore.

“Does your fiancé leave you alone often?” he asked making the blonde carefully step away from him, she didn’t trust this man what-so-ever.

There was something about him and she didn’t know what it was, she just had this feeling that he was a threat to her and Junior.

“I’m sorry I’m probably scaring you, I’m Daniel Martinez. I just saw a hermonsa thing such as yourself with a child so young and couldn’t help but wonder why you were alone,” he said making the blonde look at him curiously, she knew better than to trust someone who approached her randomly in the street.

“Sophia,” she replied making sure she was carefully backing away from Daniel, who watched her intently; she wanted to get away from him as quickly as possible, she didn’t know what he was capable of and it worried her what he might do.

“It was lovely to meet you Sophia, I hope we met again soon,” Daniel said sensing that he was overstepping slightly, he knew that if he wanted to play things right then he had to back off now.

Watching him leave, Sophia couldn’t help but be suspicious of his motives for speaking to her; everyone knew that she was engaged to Cristiano so it made no sense to her why Daniel had seemed so interested in her.

***

Cristiano looked confused as he heard a knock at his hotel room door, it was getting late and he was just about to go to bed; he sighed as he climbed out of bed and padded over to the door.

Anastasia smirked as she looked at the footballer, she leant against the door frame as she admired his bare chest; Cristiano was wearing sweat pants to bed and looked far from pleased to see her again.

“Anastasia what are you doing here?” the footballer asked as she pushed herself into the bedroom before she sat down on his bed, looking at the Portuguese expectantly; he had ended things with her a week ago and she was furious that he was getting serious with Sophia and not with her.

“I missed you Cristiano, I haven’t seen you since you’ve been spending time with her,” she said making Cristiano frown, he knew that she was forgetting that he had ended things between them and he wanted her gone; he wasn’t going to be unfaithful to Sophia anymore.

Anastasia smirked before she stood from the bed and wrapped her arms around Cristiano who sighed as he gently pushed her away; he wasn’t going to give her any false hopes and he wasn’t going to cheat on Sophia like this.

“I love Sophia, Anastasia I won’t hurt her,” he said making the Russian frown at his words as he stepped away from her and moved back towards the door; he wanted her gone and as fast as possible, the longer that she was here the more problems she caused.

Anastasia pursed her lips considering what he had said, she couldn’t believe that he had fallen for the blonde; she had expected him to end things with the blonde and choose her.

“I know what I said Anastasia but I really do love her,” Cristiano said before he pushed her out of the bedroom and sighed knowing that she was going to be difficult; the model crossed her arms as she glared at him, she hadn’t expected things not to go her way.

“This isn’t over Cristiano,” she promised him before turning on her heels and storming off down the corridor, shoving passed Nani as she went; she knew that Daniel had made contact and soon she would have what she wanted most in the world.

Nani raised an eyebrow at his team-mate and friend, he wasn’t pleased to see a stroppy woman leaving Cristiano’s hotel room especially when he was engaged to Sophia; he didn’t want to see the blonde hurt by his friend.

“Former one night stand that won’t take the hint,” Cristiano explained making Nani nod before he entered his own room; he knew better than to question the captain this late at night.

Running a hand through his stressed hair, Cristiano sighed knowing that Anastasia wasn’t going to let this go easily; she had decided what she wanted and was going to chase it no matter what.