Her Blazing Desire (IB Hotel Series #1) ON-GOING

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Eighteen

"TELL ME! How is he?!"

The combination of shock and pain on the woman's face are visible. But I can say, she was as sad as we can see in many of the tragic movies. I don't know what's going on, but I don't want to be officious.

"T-tell me, Mama." She's silent now that made me stride forward to her. Slowly, her phone fell from her hand making me worried more.

I don't know how to approach her, it's a relief that no one is here at the tenth floor. I gasped when I saw her crying so bad now. I didn't waste time and immediately went to her because she's about to fall. I caught, and held her hand.

"Madame, are you okay? What happened?" Stupid question it is, but I was alarmed.

Umiling siya habang may luha pa rin sa mga mata. Umayos siya ng tayo at hinawakan ako sa kamay. Huminga siya nang malalim at niyakap ako. Ilang minuto rin kaming ganoon samantalang tanging pagtapik lang sa kaniyang likod ang nakaya kong gawin.

"Can you accompany me for a while?" she asked, suddenly calm.

I looked at her and then to Keegan's suite. This is what I've reached upon arrival here at the tenth floor, taken back. My real agenda is to talk to Keegan, but I guess I have another agenda for today. I sighed and nodded at her.

Then her eyes smiled.

"I've been in love with him for all my life," she started talking after a long silence of watching the blatant cars, the traffic, mountains of people with different problems for today.

Dinala ko siya sa roof top sa wala masyadong tao. Hinahangin ang kaniyang buhok habang magkasalikop ang mga kamay. I guess she's in mid forties, but she's still gorgeous tho.

She is smiling, but I can tell, she is heartbreaking... or more than that.

"I fell in love with him the first time." She chuckled with a spoon of sadness in it. "You'll probably don't believe me, but I even offered to marry me when we just only known each other for two weeks," she added, trying to lift up the atmosphere.

Nakatingin lamang ako sa kaniyang pagod na mga mata. Hindi ko man alam ang buong istorya pero nababagabag ako sa kaniya. Lalo na sa kwento niya. I thought being in love at first sight makes no sense, I don't know how it works, I don't easily fall in love.

That's what I think.

"Is that... possible?" I unsurely asked.

She turned to me. Her brows furrowed.

"What? Proposing to a man or proposing when you just barely know each other?"

"No— I mean, the love... at first sight." I bit my lower lip.

Tumawa siya at tumingin ulit sa harapan. Pagkatapos noon ay tumingin sa langit na para bang inaalala ang mga pangyayari sa buhay niya.

"It is, well maybe for me. I don't think love choose when, where or how will you fall for that one person. It's just how it is. Hindi nasusukat kung hanggang kailan mo na kakilala ang taong iyon, o kung kahit ano pa man ang pag-uugali niya." She stopped for a second.

Hindi ko alam ang mararamdaman ko. Mayroon sa mga salita niyang tumatatak sa isipan ko na para bang nararanasan ko ngayon ang mga ito.

"Love is just love. As from my case, sigurado na akong pagmamahal iyon noong magtama pa lang ang mga paningin namin. He's not my ideal man, but he was the only man who can take my breath away. And from that day on, I already knew that he is the one whom I want to spend the rest of my life with."