The ambiguous moment between the two was disrupted when the waiter returned with their wine. The couple had no choice but to pull apart, Simon returning to his seat and Alvira blushed with embarrassment in a way that made Simon amused and caused him to smile at her sweetly. Soon they clinked their glasses, drank their wine, and ordered their meal while enjoying each other’s company like that of couples on a real date. They didn’t talk much. In fact, they were silent most of the time, just occasionally stealing glances at each other as they ate, but the silence wasn't awkward, rather it was pleasant and comforting. Like they didn’t need to say anything at all. Soon the date came to an end faster than either of them would have liked but they both didn’t say anything. While they waited for the bill, Alvira took the opportunity to stand by the glass plane and have a full view of the lake below. It was extremely beautiful and romantic. The sight of the lake made her wonder what it would

Simon sat opposite Josh and stares at him with an expressionless face as Josh calmly picked up his cup of tea and drank it, acting as if he had no idea why Simon was there. Simon felt Josh was too calm and unconcerned for someone who had invited him to come to a place as far away as this, but he didn’t say anything. He was willing to see what this cousin of his was up to. Simon, even though he was seating alone with Josh, didn’t actually come to the restaurant alone. He came with Asher and they had arrived at the designated venue, three minutes ago, before they walked into the massaging parlor called sky run palace.On their way there, Simon fairly understood Asher's worries, the massaging parlor was inconveniently located on the far outskirt of town, on a hill amid the forestry by the roadside, and from the look of it, he had every reason to believe a lot of shady business occur there. The palace was officially a massaging parlor but also had a restaurant and a few rooms for travel

In a private ward at St. Joseph, a hospital miles away from town, the pulse monitor beeped continuously reading the rate of the heart in the process, Simon lay on the bed still unconscious, a neck brace around his neck and a drip attached to his hand. Asher sat in a chair beside him, a worried look on his face and a bandage wrapped around his head, he had woken up about an hour ago and was a little surprised but relieved to see that he and Simon had been transported to a hospital. The doctors had shown up and informed him that they had been in an accident and that had jump-started his hazy memory. He immediately got to work upgrading himself and Simon’s ward to a private one then having a thorough checkup done on both of them, especially after he heard that there was nothing wrong with Simon, as well as himself. Now he sat by Simon’s side waiting for him to wake up as well as for the results of the test they had carried out.Even though Simon was taking longer to wake up, he knew

Simon slowly opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling for a while before turning his head calmly to Asher who happened to walk into the room at that exact minute, the bandage on Asher’s head was now gone and replaced with a small plaster, as was the neck brace on Simon’s neck. "How was it?" He asked and Asher beamed. "It was successful." He replied and Simon sighed heavily, swallowed, and returned his gaze to the spot on the white ceiling that his eyes seemed glued to. While it was good news that the spinal surgery had been carried out successfully, it still seemed too good to be true to him. The first thing he had done three days ago, was to convince Alvira that he needed to be discharged the day after as he claimed he had to make a trip to a meeting the day after and also that he would be gone for a while. Even though she had complained that he needed to rest more at this hospital, she still had no choice but to agree to let him get discharged from the hospital. He had gone home

Alvira wiped the sweat from off her brows and sighed as she looked around the room she had just finished cleaning, her workload had increased greatly over the past few days and even though she knew it was purposely done by Lara to torture her she turned a blind eye to it, the best she could do was to adjust her shifts to before and after classes.Today in particular, she had changed her shift from morning to evening as she had been busy with her exams off late, what made things a little convenient was the fact that Simon was not in the mansion, thus the cleaning of the room was not as urgent as it usually was. She sighed as she pushed the cleaning cart towards the storage room downstairs, she stopped there, returned the cleaning equipment to their usual places, and headed for the changing room. As she did, her phone rang and she pulled it out of the pocket of her apron, looked at it and her eyes widened when she saw more than five missed calls, and they were all from Emily. Why didn’