Chapter 51
“Wow, I’m kind of overwhelmed by your opinion about me in your interview,” Andreus‘ said on Saturday as soon as Ciara’s scheduled dinner with him happened.
They dined in fancy restaurants as VIPs, but of course, they could both smell that a paparazzi would still catch them again being together.
“You’ve watched it?” She asked
“Of course. I would not miss it. I was actually smiling the whole time. You made me smile really,” he smiled beamy.
Ciara could really tell that he was still wearing the smile that hadn’t left his lips the moment they met up earlier like he was having a good day and it radiated on him.
“I really want to work with you, and I think I will learn a lot of things from you. Everything I said there is true,” she pointed
out.
“Yes. I am more invested in knowing you too, Ciara. I want more than a friendship to progress between us,” he said. meaningfully, with a smile stretching on her lips.
She gave him a smile as she looked at her food and distracted herself with it for a bit.
“I’ve seen those flowers. Who gave them?” he asked.
“Oh, it’s a family member who’s very important to me who surprised me with a dinner,” she explained and smiled. Andreus‘ brows shot up. “Oh, that’s good to hear. I almost think someone has already occupied my spot,” he chuckled. Ciara smiled and sipped on her shot. She knew that half of their topic was about business, and how they planned on working with each other, and of course, Andreus always took his chance to tell her that he was planning to fire his shots at her.
“Hmm, it might be a bloody war then, Ciara said, smirking.
Andreus laughed. “I’m a natural soldier, baby.”
Ciara shook her head and laughed, just as Cara’s fascination with Andreus would always ring in her ear.
Who wouldn’t fall for him? He has that wavy jet–black hair and gray eyes that are very captivating, and every time he smiles, his face shines like a sky full of stars, which is just too irresistible to look at
Even Ciara admits that he is really captivating and very charming, but a part of her just doesn’t easily fall for the look.
The longer the time runs, the more Andreus is invested in asking things.
“You haven’t tried dating or…
Ciara shrugged. “I only tried once. But that’s not even dating”
“Oh wow. It seems too interesting to listen to. What happened? Is it one–sided? He ghosted you? Someone has ghosted you?” His last question seemed to be so unbelievable that he was a bit shocked to ask it
“No, not like that. But you can call it a failed relationship,” she explained.
“Oh. I’m assuming you were the one who called it off. Because I felt like if I were the man, I’d keep you for a lifetime.”
Ciara smiled. “I called it off.”
Andreus nodded like it was kind of understandable, and he was really expecting it from her.
“Because he’s waiting for me to do it,” she added.
Andreus looked so stunned that he dropped his fork on the plate, his brows knitting.
“No way.
She nodded. “Yup. We didn’t work out, I guess.
“No, I don’t believe that. He probably didn’t try so hard to keep you
Ciara was in the middle of an attack with arrows; she couldn’t even dodge.
“He was protecting someone else at that time.” She shrugged..
“Wow. That’s an asshole. How come he couldn’t prioritize you?”
Ciara shrugged. “Reasons. He has lots of it.”
“You know, when you prioritize someone, despite the reasons why you shouldn’t, you always find that one good enough reason to do it. Sometimes, even if we don’t have any reasons at all, we just do it for love. Because there’s no valid reason why you want to prioritize someone.”
Ciara could feel how she was trying to cover up Callum’s past mistake by thinking that he had valid reasons for doing it or that he was more looking on the other side that could save them both, but no. The more she tried to save him in his mind, the more she felt like she was so low.
“I don’t know the whole story of why he chose someone else over you, but you see, a man could turn his back on everything, even the world, if he wanted to, and give priority to the woman he loves. He can do it.”
“Well, what if he did it because it’s for the best of us?”
“You can only say it’s for the best when you two are both happy after it. Coz if it wasn’t, it would just be one of those relationships that fails because you two don’t know how to work things out for the both of you.”
Ciara smiled a little. She isn’t blinded by her own mistake. She acknowledged it. Their relationship failed because neither of them could vocally express what was on their minds, and they didn’t have that healthy communication where they would talk about them in a deeper way, as they only both pretended that it was because of the business that the two married.
“It’s already in the past. You can’t change it, and I hope that you should have tried so hard. Maybe it really happens when love isn’t at the right time?” she said.
“Or love was for the wrong people?” Andreus chuckled softly. “Not to promote myself here, but… I know I could make my choice as the right person for me.”
Ciara only smiled, as she didn’t want to put too much thought into it, knowing that she knew how easily words could be composed.
Though she could really sense that Andreus was a gentleman, it just that maybe it was her who was the problem at all because she might have opened the door for everyone, but she still blocked those who wanted to enter her life.
A call made her thoughts stop as soon as she saw the name Callum plastered on the screen.
And she slowly realized how she would always make a way for Callum in her life. Even if she closed all of the doors, even the window, if Callum was knocking, she wouldn’t hesitate to open it for him.
She could tell that Andreus might be a better man than Callum. Someone who would only make her laugh and not make her cry. But her heart would rather fall for the latter and suffer with it than live a peaceful life without the man she wanted.
She wanted to test herself sometimes. She wanted to be so untouchable as if Callum couldn’t even dare reach her despite how close they were, as she didn’t need to distance herself anymore because she knew even if he was at the front, she wouldn’t fall
for him.
But it would always lead to her falling into his traps until she would only find herself being drowned by him.
“Here,” Callum lends the big bouquet of flowers as soon as she slips into the front seat of his car when he fetches her again secretly after her dinner with Andreus.
Chapter 51
She senses the coldness in him, the serious expression that’s making his face darken a bit as she already knows from the when Callum was disappointed every time he couldn’t get something he really wanted while working hard for it.
“Thanks,” she said, taking it as she put it on her lap.
past
Callum started the engine of his car until it roared outside. She took her phone out of her purse and took a photo of the flower while Callum was seriously driving.
“By the way, I will already arrange for you to meet up with Cara. It might be at our properties for better privacy since there were some paparazzi that are just too good at snooping into our lives,” she started.
Callum nodded. His eyes remained on the road as he loosened his tie until it hung freely on the neckline of his dress shirt, while his hair was a bit disheveled.
Ciara pursed her lips when she could feel the heavy tension forming between them. She suddenly remembered the interview she had earlier at five o’clock in the evening, in which she talked about Andreus more.
Compared to Andreus‘ smile earlier, like he was the luckiest man on earth alive, Callum seems to be the opposite. She doesn’t want to assume that it was because of the interview that changed his mood at the moment, but Callum has been so vocal lately that Ciara could properly tell it was because of her statement in the interview.
“I thought the two of you were just pure business. I didn’t know you two were knowing each other and taking it slow,” and finally, the bomb exploded, as if Callum couldn’t endure keeping it anymore.
There, he is really jealous.
