"Well, I'll see you tomorrow night. Get home safely." I say to Joyce, on my way out the door. When the door closes behind me, my mind goes back to the other night when Quinton pulled me into the alleyway. Looking either side of me prior to crossing the street, I cross to the other side, where there aren't any alleyways or side places for Quinton and his goonies to hide. I crossed the street to the other side after acknowledging that there was an alleyway that almost walked by.
As I'm walking down the street, I could hear footsteps behind me, walking at the same pace as me— if not a little faster, as if the person was trying to catch up to me. My mind immediately goes back to last night when Quinton grabbed me from off the street, 'I'm definitely ready for that bastard tonight, this time I won't be so caught off guard.' thinking to myself, while beginning to quicken my pace and run to a more public place where there are people. 'Whoever is it, they won't try anything weird in a public place. As soon as I find a place to get to just before they…' A small yelp escapes from my lips as I'm pulled from my thoughts and into the real world, where I'm pinned against the wall and someone lightly places their finger over my lips. Stomping hard with my sneakers on their feet, they let me go and I take off my bag beating them with everything I've got while screaming.
"Stop–stop!" the person says, I just keep on hitting him with everything I've got. The person then grabs my arm and twists my arm behind my back. My back is facing him now and he says to me in my ear, "Hey, calm down and take a moment to listen to the sound of my voice." I'm trying to pry myself away from his hold on my arm, he says to listen to him, don't really feel like doing so. He then says to me calmly, "Kemille, I need you to relax— I'm not here to hurt you. I'm sorry for not protecting you, honestly I should've tried harder…" A gasp escapes from my mouth, the person who's holding me down is— Lucas. This is his voice, I stop fidgeting around and he notices that I stopped moving.
He says, "I see that you finally recognized my voice." Lucas, releases my hands and I slowly turn around to face him. A small smile tugs on his lips as his arms are extended out to me and I walk into his open embrace. He wraps his arms around me pulling me tight into his warm embrace; Lucas stepping a little closer to me. Wrapping his arms around me, where I let go of a breath I didn't know was held in— he pulls me in tighter as if he could never let me go. I can feel my heart racing at his touch rubbing my back up and down in a slow motion as his scent robs my senses. Just feels like I'm surrounded by his overall aura.
Lucas places his hands on my shoulders and we separate from each other and he says, "What do you say, that we head on home now?" his hands cups my face, as his blue eyes stare into mine as if searching for something. I nod my head moving up and down. We then turn around to walk back towards his car, "Do you want to come back home with me or I drop you off at home?" Lucas asks me, with tenderness in his voice.
"Your place is fine with me. As long as you don't turn out to be the next Ted Bundy."
He says to me in my ear, "Well, if it puts your mind at ease, Ted Bundy had a huge thing for blondes." I turn to my right to face him, his eyes staring back at me. His eyelashes are so long, how come I never noticed till now. Lucas continues to say, "Last time I checked you're not white and you aren't blonde— besides I would never harm you."
We reach his car and I say putting my finger in the air, "Never say never." A small smile appears on my face with my eyebrow quirked up.
He nods his head as he opens the door for me, as his eyebrow quirks up, "Cute." He extends his hands to me to get in his car. I get in and he closes the door, he walks around to the other side of the car and lets himself in on the driver's side and starts the car.
We pulled up to this beautiful building that said not the sign, "Starry Condos". It's known to have the best looking condos, it was expensive but worth every penny. I then say, "Wow, you live here. These are luxury condos— you can see the whole city from this building."
He says while parking the car, "You've been to this building before?"
"Yeah, when me and Fei were looking for an apartment we checked out this place. We knew it was gonna be expensive, we just wanted to take a chance and check it out. Beautiful everything, nice space, big rooms and awesome kitchen, but we couldn't afford it on our salary."
"So guys decided to go with the place you live in now." I turn to look at him while nodding my head.
Getting out of the car and going to the thirtieth floor of Starry Condos, truly beautiful and bright just as I remember.
Sitting on the floor while he's in the kitchen and says, "What would you like to drink tea or wine?"
"After yesterday and today, I'd take wine please." I walk around his living looking at his pictures and accomplishments. Lucas comes out of his kitchen with two bottles, one of them is merlot and white wine. He then says, "What would you like to have, sweet or bitter?"
"Mmm, do you have pink moscato instead?"
"Oooh, grown and sexy. I like that." He walks back into the kitchen where he places the white wine back into the refrigerator and pulls out the pink moscato. As he leaves the kitchen with a bottle of merlot, pink moscato and two stem glasses.
While he pours the merlot into one of the cups he says, "So let's address the elephant in the room, why didn't you tell me about last night's altercation with Quinton?"
A small sigh escapes from my lips, "I didn't want you to worry about me. I take it that Fei told you about what happened then— especially when I told her not to."
After Lucas pours my drink into the glass cup and slides it over to me, "Well good thing that she did tell me." I take a sip of my drink
"Can I ask you something?" He takes a sip from his cup.
"Sure. What's your question?"
A small smile tugs on his face and his eyes soften just a little bit, he slides a little closer to me, "Why did you decide to date Quinton?"
My eyebrows shot up with my mouth slightly open, I took two more sips from my cup. A small chuckle escapes from his lips and he added, "Wow, the answer requires all that?"
"No, you just asked the fifty million dollar question." I put my cup down on the table. "It's been eight months since I've broken up with him and the death of his brother always haunted me for the longest while. I— I always felt guilty for what happened to him. Fei often told me that it wasn't my fault bu I felt that it was because if it wasn't for me telling Quinton that I had planned to leave him— Aquila wouldn't have to die in such a horrific way like that— you know."
Lucas nods his head and takes a sip of his wine, "The one that you loved?"
I nod my head, "Yeah." A small sigh escapes from my lips. "But your question was why did I choose to date Quinton after dating an amazing guy. You know, thinking on it now, he was charming, charismatic and he had a way of making you feel special as if you were the only girl in his world." I scoff and added, " and that was a fuckin' lie."
Both of us laughed and he placed his hand over mine, it was comforting to me— it felt like there was someone hearing me out. There was a moment of silence between us, taking the last sip of wine from my cup, sucking up all warmth from his touch.
A thought popped into my mind saying, "That is until I met you and Fei."
Lucas looks at me while quirking his eyebrow up and says, "Oh really?"
My eyebrows furrow saying "Huh?"
"You said that until I met you and Fei. Which means that you are including me in helping you believe in love and yourself." His eyes slowly move down to my lips and a smirk appears on his handsome face.
I sway my hand at him, "Pipe down lover boy."
His eyebrows furrow, "Pipe down? I didn't do anything."
Leaning on the table moving a little closer to him, "Smirking at me, looking as if you want to try to kiss me."
He leans in on his side of the table, "Do you want me to kiss you?"
A/N:
I apologize for the long wait of Chapter 15 thank you to my readers for your patience. At the time, a lot of was going on but I'll make sure to put the chapters out in an efficient amount of time. I hope that you continue to read my story and thank you so much for the support.