CHAPTER 41READER'S POVRose came down from her car and looked around. She heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that the parking lot was empty save a few cars and there were no people lurking around.She put her keys in her bag, put on her sunglasses and drew her hat closer to her face. She made sure that nobody was walking around in front of the restaurant whose red brick walls made it seem as if it was built in the sixties before walking to the front door. She nodded at the man tending to the front door, not saying a word so that she wouldn't draw attention to herself.When she entered the restaurant, her lips tightened into a grimace. There were a few people scattered around in the dining area of the restaurant; some of them were couples, others eating or drinking by themselves. Not too much crowd as if it would have been if it was a Friday night but the nature of the reason she had come to the restaurant made her uncomfortable.The truth was she would have preferred she was not se

READER'S POVRose watched as Maurice Walked out of the room. Her eyes veered back to Daniel when they were now finally alone and she raised a questioning eyebrow."What do you want," she asked, watching Daniel walk closer to her.Daniel stopped in front of her and held her hands, it seemed to her as the most impossible gesture for her to make at that moment as her eyes battered as she blinked up at him in confusion, wondering about his sudden change in attitude.Just a second ago, he'd said hurtful things to her. She wanted to pull her hands away from his but decided not to."About earlier, I think we should leave everything behind and start afresh," Daniel said, looking into her eyes with sincerity.Rose frowned at him. Why was he saying this now?"Easy for you to say, you are not the one hurting from all of this," she said with a defiant tilt of her chin."Hurting? My God Rose, Why can't you see that I'm trying to put in efforts and all you are doing is undermining it . I know I h

ROSEI glanced at the clock. It was nearly midnight, but I knew the raging feelings inside would continue to drive me. On impulse, I reached for his lips and took him in mine.My breath caught in my throat. I was being so brazenly forward, especially for someone like Daniel who just made a misogynist remark at me.A tremor went through me at his skill of working the tongue, at the thought of his touch. Part of me longed for that contact. The wiser part knew I shouldn't allow it. And yet, I gave in to the temptation.His gentle fingers traced the raised ridge of my nape, sending tingles along my skin. Our faces were perilously close, his breath warm against my neck."Daniel..." I breathed his name like a prayer, leaning even closer. I could smell the sweet, manly scent of his hair.That was my last tether to sanity. Abandoned it, claiming his lips with a fierceness that surprised us both. Daniel made a muffled sound in the back of his throat but kissed me back with equal ardor, his ar

ROSEThe moment he walked out of the room, I knew that was my chance and I had to do something really very fast at the moment, it was mostly difficult for me to deal with at the moment, I knew to get away from him required for him to be totally out of sight…He walked into the room and I had seen him trying to look at my face to see if I had been sleeping.At first, I acted like I didn't know anything that was going on and acted as though I was sleeping.Soon after he had walked away, I was quick to Swatch into new clothes and made my way out fast as i could —Only when I made my way out did I find a bit of relief much to my own expectation. A warm breeze flowed through the streets as I made my way through. I could imagine to myself what he would be doing at the moment.Was he aware that I had left?It made more difficult the fact that all of these happening were as a result of two adults not being able to talk.Finally, I approached where I had been making my way to, I could hear my

CHAPTER 49ROSEShe tried getting away from where she was just so, she could be call but it was to no avail as he didn't call back immediately, soon after she had made effort to get away her phone rung again.By now, she was at the car getting ready to leave —With her stomach rumbling due to the nerves that had settled in there, she dropped all the shopping bags onto the back seat and picked up her phone that had suddenly begun to ring from the car seat that was next to the driver seat. Even without checking the caller ID, she already knew it had to be Daniel calling. She had been anticipating the call the moment she had been debited for the five Christian Dior bags that she had bought, these were things she most definitely didn't need.Taking a sweaty lock of hair away from her forehead, she checked the caller ID and saw that it was indeed Daniel that was calling“Told you he was going to call." She called out at Anna that was still right there waiting, Anna smiles sheepishly. “Yo