Chapter: The promise ring

Chapter: The promise ring

I looked at him in complete shock, tears overflowing my eyes without being able to stop them.

Get married?

I took the ring on the desk, and looked at it, it was his medical graduation ring, the one he never took off, it was big and obviously made of silver, I knew it was something very important to him, and he had given it to me.

Wow, he's serious.

I put it on, but it was too big on all my fingers.

I laughed a little, unable to stop the tears from streaming down my face.

I never imagined myself married, but now that Hades had brought up the idea, boy did it appeal to me.

"Okay," I said, "I'm already late for the next hour."

His smile widened, the dimples in his cheeks rising. "Okay, I'll call you," Hades promised.

Now we would be calling and texting these days, what torture.

We looked at each other for a moment longer, his golden eyes with a touch of green drawing me to go towards him to kiss him, the intensity being palpable and torturing me but the thing is that whenever we were alone everything else disappeared.

«But if I kiss him quickly now...».

...No, the Nube cameras.

I cleared my throat and stood up like a spring, leaving the office before sending everything to hell and giving up before my desires fell into the arms of Satan.

She couldn't be more in love with Hades Parker.

Now the torture began while being away from him.

****

It was the middle of the week, the situation between Andrew and Professor Pompeye was still on the surface, and I had not had contact with Hades Parker.

And no, he had not called me as he promised, nor had he written to me, nor did I at least the first day, but the second I wrote him a simple “hello” and it took him a long time to answer me another simple “hello”.

I got upset and didn't respond anymore, I figured he was busy and I had to occupy my time too. I completed a lot of work from university and prepared myself even more with ballet practices for the presentation we would have soon. In addition to the fact that the university was planning an excursion to a canning process plant for the 3rd year engineering students, as a way to include us in practice with the companies, that company was near a beach and they were convincing the coordinator so that we could extend the departure a few more hours to stay on the beach.

Really wait for that outing, I wanted to swim at the beach to see if it would make me want to continue studying and working.

That night when I got home I didn't have many things to do because in fact I had already done all the work and I wasn't sleepy, so I started to tidy up my room, when I found the box with Hades Parker's letters.

I smiled and took them to start reading them, they all said different things, the first ones were apologies for his Asperger's condition, the next ones he told me how he was doing in Europe and how much he missed me, and the last ones he told me that he was going to return soon and that he really hoped that I would forgive him because after this time he realized that he wanted a future with me and that he was determined to change for me.

I lay there rereading the letters.

Indeed, it was like that, Hades came and changed many things just to make ours work.

I bit my lips and took my phone, I would call him, I wanted to hear his voice because this distance only tortured me more every day thinking about his hands, his lips and his body next to mine, I missed him too much, I touched the necklace that was now hanging from me. neck, showing the ring he gave me.

I suddenly frowned when I saw that Saraelí had sent me a photo, I opened it confused and went pale, feeling my hands tremble.

It was a photo of Hades and Professor Pompeye sitting at a table in Frank's bistro/restaurant where she worked.

What?