Young Adult

Chapter eighteen - Giving love

"Addison!" Ezra called out my name in between his panting. I couldn't think of any words to say to him, all I could think of was how cute his black straightened hair was beginning to curl from his sweat, or how his buttons on his jacket were mismatched as he hurriedly put it on.

"Ezra!" Lyn called out to him from the living room after grabbing dome food, he looked around at her apartment and saw the two bottles of wine we had drunk.

"You've been drinking?" He asked Lyn from the door, she nodded "it was only a couple glasses, I thought that Addy would be fine with that much." He sighed looking at me disappointed. "Lyn I'll take her home now." He grabbed my hand before either of us couple respond.

The elevator was silent put once we got into the back of his car he sighed in relief. "Sorry about today, after my meeting I thought about our conversation and I didn't want to leave it where we left off, I ran over to Lyn's straight after that but I haven't thought of what I should say yet."

I looked at the dark circles around his eyes and how tired he looked, as Ezra's driver started the car I put Ezra's head on my shoulder.

"We don't have to talk yet, you haven't slept since a couple days ago as you've been working, so just take a nap now." He didn't fight it and soon let out some soft snores.

I stroked his hair as he drifted off, he smelled like cinnamon cookies and his hands that had flopped onto my lap were very soft.

"Miss we've arrived." The driver said as we parked in the driveway. "Ezra." I shook him gently as he grunted as he began to wake up.
"Are we home?" He asked and I nodded my head.

He turned over to look at me, our lips only being a couple inches apart. We both blushed and turned around before getting out of the car, "Ezra ..." I shyly asked as he walked into the house.

He sighed "I know, we need to talk, let me change and I'll meet you in the living room." I nodded and sat down waiting for him.

He came back down in a sweatsuit, I've only ever seen him wear business casual or higher, but this style looked great on him too.

He took the seat adjacent to mine, there was a moment of silence of us not knowing what to say to each other before Ezra began to speak.
"Addison ... Addy, I'm sorry about what I said, I want you to be happy but me bringing up spending time with your ex boyfriend probably made you feel like I wanted space between us."

I gave him a look signalling that he was on the right tracks, "I don't want you to get close with that guy again, I'm scared that you would leave him for me, but this isn't about me. It's about you, you've already done so much for me that I could never repay you, it would be greedy of me to stop you from being happy."

I rolled my eyes at him "you'd think you having ten more years of life experience than me you would be able to know more about relationships, look couples shouldn't be give or take. They should be walking step by step with that person, you can't owe love to someone, you can only repay it." Ezra nodded.

"So how do I repay you?" I blushed before answering, "maybe we can watch a movie together as a start? What kind of genre do you like?" I asked, he pondered "I don't really watch movies, maybe noir films they're interesting." I shrugged and put one on.

He sat on the couch beside me and began to fall asleep during the movie, my eyes began to shut aswell as the movie ended.

When I woke up me and Ezra were both still lying on the couch, but I was tightly wrapped in his arms, our faces less than an inch apart.

I shut my eyes again, falling asleep to the beat of his heart.

I woke up when the doorbell rang, Ezra was already gone and he had put a blanket on me, I stretched and got up. I walked over to Ezra at the door.

"What's going on?" I asked as I turned to look at the two men standing at the door.

"Are you Addison Reed?" I nodded, one of the men pulled out his badge to show that he was a detective.

"What's going on?" Ezra asked them, "Mr Reed, your wife might remember me from six years ago, I'm detective Stevenson."

I gulped, remembering exactly why he's here, I took a step back and Ezra took that as a sign to hide me behind him.

"Look I don't know why you want to talk to my wife, but you should bring a warrant if you want to take her anywhere." He declared, "Mr Reed please calm down, I have a warrant, Mrs Reed we found new evidence in the case three years ago, when we tried to reach out to you but your doctor said that you were suffering amnesia, we just received a call that you can regained your memories so we would like to bring you in for questioning."

I clung onto the back of Ezra's shirt, "if you're not here to arrest Addison then she doesn't need to go with you right now." He expressed to them.

"We are here to cooperate right now, but mrs Reed if you don't want to go peacefully I can arrest you right now for being an accessory to murder." I clenched my fists as he said those words ... was I finally getting my punishment.