Chapter 39: he ran away

Allison’s p.o v

I woke up feeling like the best version of myself.

I hadn’t felt this way in a while, heck! I’d never felt this way my whole life.

I felt like I was finally getting all the good things I deserved in life and more.

Flash backs of how he handled me the previous night flashed through my mind and I couldn’t help the blush that stained my face.

I had finally given him a piece of me that was dear to Me. My all, and he had not thrown it away.

I smiled. He was finally mine and i was finally his.

I properly opened my eyes to see that the bed beside me was empty.

I couldn’t help but feel my heart drop to the pits of my stomach.

I shook my head a bit. I was always the type to bury my head in books while I was younger, it was no doubt the reason why I could be a bit delusional.

Of course I would have loved to spend the morning cuddled up in an embrace after the night we had shared together, but I knew that he was a busy man and he always woke up before me.

I stood up from the bed, eager to meet him in the kitchen or in the bedroom.. ne hoping that he was not in the kitchen as I was not ready to taste any God awful food from Jim, no offence.

I made my way out or the kitchen, only to see Arnold and the maid, laughing about something and just genuinely being in their own world.

I smiled at that, a bit of jealousy raising its head

Ben and I have never had that or at least it never lasted. He had never been in a situation where we could be happy with nothing to come in between.

I shook my head at the negative thoughts. Well not anymore, I was quite certain that from now on, it would only be happy moments that we were going to share. .

They seemed to notice that I was with them in the room because i felt the moment they were sharing naturally disappear into thin air with shock and embarrassment on their face.

“good morning miss” Arnold greeted, schooling his emotion more than the maid did.

“Morning” I said with a smile, the vest I could do was pretend like I didn’t see what happened just now “I’m looking for Ben have you by chance seen him this morning?” he looked confused

“He left with Aaron for Birmingham this morning” I thought you knew about this ma’am.

I was shook. There was no way, he would have at least told me. I told myself over and over. ”oh” I gave a faint smile. There was no way I was going lol like a fool in front of them. “guess I forgot” I smiled immediately going back to the room

I tried his phone over and over which only went to his voice mail each time I called

Thousand thoughts crossed my mind, what if he had gone into an accident? What if he was robbed? With panic, I went back out, lucky to still find Arnold out there, but this time, they were not in close proximity as before.

“Arnold could you give me any one’s number? His cell doesn’t seem to be going through” he must have seen the panic written across my face because he wasted no time giving me Emily, Dominic and Elias number.

I would rather watch sand than willingly call Emily, and I barely knew the Dominic guy so Elias was my best bet. We have left on somewhat civil terms when he left here.

He didn’t hesitate to pick up.

“hello?” it was a female voice that picked it up. I shook a bit. His girlfriend maybe?

“Hi. Sorry to bother so early this morning but..”

“Mr. Elias is in a meeting right now, please tell me your name and relationship so I could inform him as soon as he gets out?”

His secretary? I thought to myself

“Umm please tell him Allison called. He’ll know what to do.” I said cutting the call almost immediately

I waited hours, not getting any calls back, which made me call over and over.

At this point, I knew the woman was fed up with me.

Finally, after hours had passed, my phone rang.

I rushed to it hoping it would either be Ben or at least Elias with information from Ben.

I picked. Nor allowing the phone ring for long.

“Hello?” his voice was softer, and happier. I looked at the phone to be sure who was calling.

Tobias’ it had read causing me to blush in embarrassment.

“hii” I said trying to be enthusiastic.

“did I call at aa bad time? You don’t sound very happ” one thing about Tobias, he said anything and everything that was on his mind.

After our date/outing I realised one thing. He was into guys but was a great friend and listener. Some how, in some way, we had shared family trauma and we bonded over it.

“no, no. I’ve just had a long day. How did your day go?” he had in the shortest time, become my closest friend.

That was an avenue to spit out how he was going. He was in an abusive relationship before and wasn’t ready to open his heart to another person. But there was this guy....

“any ways, enough about me. How are you” that was it. The door I needed to be invited to and now. There was no going back. I pouted out everything that had happened from last night till now, leaving the overly detailed parts.

“THAT BITCH!” He said in an angered voice. “how could he just up and leave.”

“He is a busy man maybe he forgot to tell me considering our activity and maybe something bad happened that’s why he hasn’t called me till now.” I said making up each and every excuse i could think of.

There was silence over the phone, I could just imagine him shaking his in a disapproving manner, something he always did when he was annoyed.

“that’s just excuses.”

“look, I know him best” I let out a sigh. “ I’m just going to about this later when I am less stressed.

He talked about other things, trying to get my mind of it before he finally had to go.

Just as the call ended, it rang again this time, with Elias name across the phone and this time, an answer to where/what happened to Ben ...