I found the perfect dress as quickly as I could, it was a long dress that reached my heels, it was wine red, sequined, and fitted to my body, plus it was low-cut, and the neckline was designed as if it formed the top of a heart on my breasts.
It was a dress that, when I measured it, was perfectly drawn at my waist.
I was impressed by how I looked, I had never wanted to accompany my parents to one of their social events where I always had to dress elegantly, wear dresses, not shorts or jeans, or sweatshirts.
Now that I had seen myself in the mirror of the store's dressing room, I saw a completely different woman, and I smiled to myself when I thought that Matteo was going to like how that beautiful dress looked.
I bought the dress, and in addition to the dress, I decided to also buy some black heels that the store adviser had helped me choose for the dress, they were heels that when I put them on I knew they were the right ones because they were comfortable and also very attractive to plain sight.
I leave the store, and I just find myself in a scene that I shouldn't have seen, because I was surprised that Matteo was there, in the corridor, but he wasn't alone, he was with a girl, and to top it off, they were kissing, and I don't know why, but when I saw him, I felt that my whole body was paralyzed.
The worst thing was that I couldn't claim anything, I just had to keep quiet, because I was simply a victim of his revenge.
I was nobody for more, I was just the bait that he would use to take revenge on my parents for having ruined one of his businesses.
"Hey… Matteo, I already have everything you asked me to buy, we can go now" I tell Mateo trying to hide the fact that my blood was boiling from the anger I was feeling.
Matteo separates from the girl's lips as soon as he heard me speak to him, and then he turns to look at me.
"Go to the car, I'll be there in a second" he says without further ado.
I nod my head, I have been looking at the girl, and yes, I have felt terrible because she is much prettier than me, she is dark, she has a model's body, and perfectly well-groomed straight, and long hair.
Where did Matteo know her from? Who knows, but I wasn't going to get involved there, and I preferred to obey him before having to make another fuss over something that was none of my business because in the end Matteo and I were nothing to make me jealous over it.
I get in the car, and five minutes later, Matteo gets in too, and the driver then drives off in the direction of his mansion.
We arrive at the mansion, and the saddest part of all this is that I have to hide from Matteo that nothing that happened is affecting me because even I am having a hard time assimilating that perhaps I am beginning to feel mixed feelings for him.
Which I cannot accept because he, as far as I know, is only my kidnapper, and he is nobody else.
I run quickly down the stairs to go to my room, and as soon as I enter it, I immediately lock the door so that Matteo would not have any opportunity to want to enter without even asking my permission.
He put the shopping bags on the floor and I lie on top of the bed, lying on my back facing the ceiling.
"What the fuck is happening to me? I can't be falling for a kidnapper! Of a gangster-like he is! No!
My parents wouldn't accept it! They wouldn't forgive me!" I say out loud, talking to myself like
I'm reflecting on what's happening.
But no, Matteo didn't want to come to my room, how lucky I was, I felt so devastated that I didn't want to see him, but I had to because yes or yes, I had to accompany him to his happy business dinner, I've I looked at the time, and it's starting to get late to get ready, and better, I hurry to organize myself the best I could.
I have put on my dress, and I have organized my hair because Ramón had left it beautiful to go out to the business dinner, and he did not need to do anything else to me.
I put on my heels, and I'm ready to go out with Matteo to his dinner.
Not only that, but I sit on the bed, I don't want to go out until I wait for Matteo to call me to come down, and then, 15 minutes go by when I hear that Matteo is finally calling me to leave the house.
Likewise, I go down to the first floor of the mansion, and I find Matteo in the corridor of the living room, looking just in front of where the stairs are, I have seen that he has stared at me with his mouth open, and then, I have understood that he has been fascinated by my dress.
"Do you like it?" I ask him as I smile at him, having finished going down the stairs.
"Yes, you look beautiful, you are going to dazzle everyone at dinner, shall we go?" says Matteo without even smiling at me, since he had remained looking at me seriously.
I nod in response, I walk to his side, he extends his arm and I intertwine my arm through his to intertwine and walk together to leave the mansion.
We got into the car, it was already night, and it was a bit cold, but it didn't matter, I was happy because I knew that Matteo was not stopping looking at me dazzled by the beauty that I didn't know he had.
We arrived in the center of the city, the business dinner was going to take place in one of the most luxurious Italian restaurants, I was happy to know that although I was not going to be comfortable with the idea of being surrounded by many people that I didn't know, at least, I was going to be comfortable with the food bar.
Matteo and I got out of the car together, Matteo grabbed my hand without even asking my permission to do so, and when I entered the restaurant, I was shocked when I saw a person I knew very well from afar.