Chapter 03

• I wake up in the middle of the night with a pounding headache, I don’t know how long I have been sleeping but the figure laying next to me has me almost jumping out of my skin.
• ‘You are awake.’ He says in his deep voice
• It’s only now when it hits me KayLee suggested and I beat my forehead lightly realizing the kind of fool I am.
• ‘For a minute I thought you were dead, you are not such a heavy sleeper.’ He says now holding my waist
• ‘I guess I have just been tired.’ I say standing up
• I notice I am still in the dress that I was wearing earlier, this is a good sign. At least nothing happened whilst I was asleep.
• ‘Why are you up?’ He asks now sitting up right.
• My stomach betrays me, I had started drinking earlier hoping I would cook something later but I guess the wine got to my head and I dozed off.
• ‘I figured you would be hungry so I cooked.’ He says on his feet
• I look at him, it’s hard to believe that anyone would do anything for me without wanting anything in return. I mean I have only been with Garvin and through the years he has changed from the kind of man he was when we first started.
• ‘You look surprised.’
• ‘I just didn’t expect you to cook.’ I say walking behind him
• ‘I am surprised you are not throwing a fit for cooking for you, you always insist on eating food prepared by your house helps.’
• ‘Well they are not here.’ I lie
• Being Bailey is so much work and I already feel tired but right now I am just so hungry all I want is to eat.
• We get into the kitchen and he begins to get plates from the cupboards, plates I don’t even know are there because the time I have been here I have not cooked anything.
• He dishes the food before putting it before me.
• ‘Enjoy your food.’ He says
• ‘And you are not eating?’
• ‘I had something before sleeping.’
• I say grace then dig into my food, he has prepared rice with mince and I must say I love how it tastes.
• ‘This tastes amazing.’ I say with a mouth full of food
• He laughs
• ‘I was honestly worried you wouldn’t like it.’
• ‘Are you kidding me?’ I ask after drinking some water
• ‘You are difficult when it comes to food, I hope this appetite doesn’t go away once we are back home.’ He says
• I laugh.
• By the time I am done eating I am not sleepy any more, I try to wash the dishes but he insists on doing them and so I just sit there watching him. It’s nice to be treated like this, I mean this is something that Garvin doesn’t do anymore and for the life in me I would have loved if he had been doing it but I guess I can’t ask for what he can’t give me anymore.
• ‘What do you want to do now?’ He asks when he is done
• ‘We could sit in the living room and talk or watch movies.’
• He looks at me as if I have grown an extra pair, ' Is something on my face?’
• He laughs and says, ‘Lee I have been trying to get you to talk for the past six months that I have been seeing you but you always say talking is boring, talk about watching movies.’
• ‘I guess I just needed a change of environment to make me rediscover myself.’ I say trying to sound convincing
• He just smiles at me and I don’t know if I am convincing enough
• We go to the living room where we start to talk, I allow him to tell me about his family background which he seems to enjoy sharing of course. I learn he comes from a family of two, his elder sister being the first and married to an Ethiopian man. She and her husband are doing well for themselves except she doesn’t want to live in the UK anymore because of how their father still wants to control their affairs. He on the other hand has always worked away from his family business except he still gets a huge allowance out of it, he has his own shipping company and makes huge sums of money from it but from time to time he helps his father with his company books and gets paid out of it.
• When he is done talking I can’t help but admire the kind of man he is, he genuinely seems hard working and the way he talks about his family makes me feel that he is capable of being a good family man. I can’t help but wonder too why my sister hasn’t given him a chance with all these qualities.
• Without realizing it, it is already 2PM and even though I would love for us to keep talking I decide it is best we go to bed because I have an appointment with the salon the following day.
• ‘I really liked opening up to you.’ He says when we get to bed
• ‘I liked knowing that information about you.’ I say honestly
• He smiles and kisses my forehead before I close my eyes to sleep, by the time I am waking up he is still deep in sleep and I decide not to wake him up so I just go to the bathroom and brush my teeth before going into the shower.
• ‘Jesus Francisco.’ I scream when he walks into the bathroom
• ‘Don’t you knock?’ I ask trying to cover myself.
• ‘B, we have bathed together more than once, I have seen you nude. What is the problem now?’ He asks as he starts to pee.
• I almost cuss realizing we have to use the same room at once.
• ‘How was your night?’ He asks
• ‘It was okay.’ I say feeling really uncomfortable
• ‘When did you start snoring, I had fun watching you for a while.’
• ‘I don’t snore.’
• ‘Of course you do.’ He says laughing
• ‘I don’t.’
• ‘I knew you would refuse so I took a recording.’
• ‘You did what?’ I ask
• He removes his clothes and joins me in the shower making me to stand still.
• ‘Relax B, I won’t do anything you don’t approve of. Even though I am dying to make love to you because your muscles look like they could use some stretching.’ He says making me freeze and I just stand there with my eyes almost falling off my sockets
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