9. Thought He Didn't Care

Flora's POV

Well, I really cannot blame Serena. It is how she is she has always been. So overly protective right from the start. She has never trusted me being with just any man.

I don't know what to say about her, but I kind of have this feeling that she has this decerning spirit to look at a man and see if he is genuine or just some wolves under sheep's clothing to get under my skin or something.

She had warned me from the beginning about Damien since I first met him but I had just been so blinded By Love at that time I decided not to listen to her.

"Look, he's different, okay? I know him very well and I don't think he would have changed after all these years. do you think he's some sort of enemy or what?" I ask but then she looks back to look at Lucas.

I am pitying Lucas right now. The expression on his face is telling me that he doesn't want to let me go. he is not happy about what I'm going through, and he wants to help. I can see the genuine gentleness in them. Why can't Serena see it?

Serena finally rolls her eyes and waves at him.

"okay fine. It's cool okay? I understand your plight, and I know you're concerned about Flora, but don't worry. She is in my care right now, okay? You can head back to wherever you came from. She is not heading back to his house. I'm taking her to my home." she replies and I watch as Lucas frowns slightly as if not believing what she had just said.

"It's all right, Lucas, okay? I'll be fine." I say but he is still hesitant.

" Can't I just like a tag along or something? I just feel I should be there, you know, or..."

" No, you can't be there. You are a stranger who just popped out from nowhere after how many years of not seeing her. You guys can catch up later, but right now, we have very serious, important business to deal with that doesn't concern you. Goodbye Mr Lucas." Serena says quickly and begins to drag me quickly towards the vehicle.

Oh, Lord. I think I need to give her a very good old discussion about her attitude sometimes towards strangers or people she doesn't know about.

That right there was just so harsh and I don't think I would have been able to bear it if I was the one in Lucas'shoes.

I watch as he slowly turns around with his eyes still on me walking away as soon as I and Serena had gotten into the vehicle.

"I will text you," he says from the movement of his lips and it makes me frown lightly.

Am I the one who just imagined that?

How is that supposed to happen? I never gave him my phone number. I wonder to myself but Serena's voice jolts me back into the car.

"I think I need to give you a serious, good, long lesson about the way you relate to strangers."

I roll my eyes.

" He is not a stranger, Serena, okay?"

"How are you sure about that? The long time between high School up to this moment is enough for someone to change. Don't you get it? Want to know what I think? He can't be trusted. Isn't it a little too suspicious that he just popped up from nowhere right at the moment you were going through distress??"

I scoff and roll my eyes before glancing out the window as soon as she has moved out of the premises now driving through the highway.

Sometimes her overprotectiveness infuriates me. It's not like it is bad. It is actually good, and I like it in some way, but then, at times, it is just too much.

My mind is not at peace with the way she responded to Lucas and I can feel the hurt he must have probably felt.

I sigh before thinking quickly of a way to divert the topic.

"So what is it that you have found that you wanted to tell me?" I ask quickly and then she chuckles.

"Oh about that. I'm going to discuss it with you the moment we get to my home."

I then remember something and fold my arms ."

" Good, I just remembered something. I appreciate the fact that you are right about everything you have told me but I can still remember vividly telling you that you shouldn't investigate this matter behind my back."

She chuckles with a nervous sort of expression on her face as I glance at her through the rearview mirror.

"Yeah, I know that. I'm so sorry. I couldn't help it, but at least it turned out that I was right, wasn't it? You shouldn't be angry about that."

I roll my eyes. " yeah, right, whatever."

"Don't worry, we are going to discuss everything in detail by the time we get home. I really should have been so strict with you when you were about to get married to Damien. You, my dear, have made an enormous mistake."

" And how can I be sure that this is not one of your manipulations and tricks to make me believe you?" I ask and watch as she frowns.

"Well, his actions or whatever he has done to hurt you today should be enough proof, isn't it? I might not know what he has done to you, but I can tell that things are beginning to manifest slowly," she says, and this makes me sigh, defeated.

Yep, she got me.

"Yeah. You are right ."

She chuckles when I scoff and look out the window once again.

"That bastard ."

"Don't worry dear. I promise you that it's all going to be sorted out." she says but then my attention is no longer in the vehicle.

Everything and I can think of is about one man. one particular man that made my senses hot and rekindled some strange sweet delicious feelings i never expected to feel all these years back in that restroom.

Lucas.

God knows it is so going to be very hard to forget about him.

The vibration in my bag catches my attention I quickly turn around and take out my phone to see Damian's name on the caller ID.

Why the hell is he calling me now all of a sudden? I thought he didn't care.

I pick up the call and place the phone on my ear but I did not say anything.

"Where the fuck are you? I need you back at home right now!!"