Chapter 33
LEILA
" A month later "
It's been a month since I crèche at Faith and Christopher's, they didn't want me to go back home so I had to terminate my contract with my tenant, if you're wondering how it went with my ex sugar daddy , a week after my release from the hospital, I gave faith my consent to sort through my belongings at my workplace, I had to release my employees, I redirected them to stylist friends who had fashion houses, what I was able to salvage from the collection I sold them on my website, when I sent the keys to the building that housed my business to my ex darling he came to see me until here I don't know how he knew I was here, we were seated when the security called us that I had a visitor and I was surprised to hear the name of the person who wanted to see me, I leave him come, when he arrives
Him: Good evening my darling!
Me: how did you find me?
Him: well let me go at least and answer my greeting
I bring him to the ground behind where I install him, I serve him a fruit juice and I bring it to him
Me: Good evening, to what do I owe the honor of your visit?
Him: How are you doing? It's been a while I haven't heard from you
Me: as you can see, I'm doing well, I hope you're doing well too
Him: yes it's ok, I was sent the key to the local with a note from you, it was a truck that I was happy to do for you, why are you sending me the key?
Me: it almost cost me my life, but what I want you to understand is that I want to do everything by myself, you understand?
Him: but that doesn't mean you shouldn't let the people who love you help you
Me: no I don't want to, I want to do it alone
Him: It's a polite way to tell me that you don't want anything from me, isn't it?
Me :….
He walks closer and takes my hands in his
Him: you know what? i love you so much, i thought i couldn't love someone so much anymore but you came into my life and you taught me that no matter how old we may be, love can at any time visit and I don't want it to stop now
Me: I loved you too you know, I loved you so much, you allowed me to dream of a future with a family of mine as I always wanted but forgetting that by trying to be happy i'm depriving another woman of hers, i can't go on like this anymore, i want to be able to love without feeling guilty or being afraid that someone will fall on me at any time, i want to be able to blossom completely, i'm really sorry for everything i've caused in life, i'm so sorry for this mess i've caused but i can't and won't live like this
I'm begging you, fix things with your wife, get back with her and try to be happy together
Him: but what are you telling me, do you think love is easy? You have to fight to be happy, this life is the jungle you have to fight to get what you want
Me: I'm sorry, but I don't have the strength to fight, you have a woman who is ready to fight for you...
Him: whether you get back with me or not, I won't be going back with this woman anymore, it's a truck that should have arrived a while ago so...
Me: I'm sorry for everything...
Him: I don't think we have anything more to say to each other, and there's no need to take me home, I know the exit...
He leaves me sitting there and leaves, I love this man but I can't be with him, he must hate me right now but I can't help it, this guilt that won't let go of me won't allow me to to be happy by his side I still prefer to suffer from not being able to be with him I will end up forgetting him and forgetting this guilt that I feel
Since that day I haven't heard from him anymore, he hasn't contacted me anymore and I don't either, I think it's better that way, it would be better if we kept our distance to avoid hurting each other, I do everything to forget it and for the first time in my life I prefer to be single than to be in a relationship with a man, it would allow me to find myself to reconcile with myself, to rediscover myself before thinking of falling in love again one day
" Later in the day "
Christopher
It's been a few weeks since we removed faith's cast and now we're making perfect love together, everything is going very well between us and I can't remember the last time I was this happy in my life. , I'm thinking of proposing to her before we leave for England, the details are settled for the trip which will arrive very soon
I'm going to go see Leila for her to give me some advice
Me knocking on the door that was halfway open: can I go in?
Leïla looking up from her computer: yes you can come
Me: I want to talk, I hope I'm not disturbing you?
Leila: don't even worry, what are you talking about?
Me taking out the ring: by the way, I want to ask faith but I would like to know how we do it here
Leila jumping for joy: but it's very beautiful she's going to love it, well it was about time, I thought you were really taking your time too much
Me scratching my head: yes but hey I decided to start now
Leila: normally with us here you first have to go see the girl's parents when you're ready to get married with the cola, we call that the first step, like to warn the parents that you want to marry their daughters and that soon you you will bring the dowry, these are the presents that are brought to the woman's family, a day of celebration and joy for the whole family, for the parents and especially for the daughter when the dowry is accepted you can offer her the ring
Her eyes shone when she talked to me about that, you have to believe that it's a truck that all the girls dream of having here, I'll bring all the presents from the earth if necessary if it's which will allow me to marry this exceptional girl whom I love more than anything
Leila: but you know as well as me that faith lost her mother and none of her mother's family cared about them even when she was alive, they were always alone so I don't think that she would like them to be mixed in with her
Me: I would so much like to please her and do things well, so if after the request she wants me to bring the dowry I will gladly do so
Leila: yes I know, it's really cute, when do you think you'll do it?
Me: I'm going to do it tonight, I don't want to wait any longer
Leila all excited: I'm so happy
Me: shuuuttttt make less noise she might catch us, I want it to be a surprise
Leila: you can count on me, I will be silent as a grave...
Me: thank you
After she left her room she was still hysterical like a fan who just saw her favorite artist, women and rings always gives her her
Faith
Chris wants us to go out to dinner tonight, I just want to sleep tonight, I'm already starting to feel pain in my back and it's not very pleasant, but he insisted so much that I couldn't tell him no, I haven't been out of the house for a while so it's not bad I'm going to take the opportunity to get a change of scenery
I don't understand what is taking Leila tonight but she has decided to want to turn me into a princess at all costs as she says, this girl will always amaze me I will let her do it, it will please Chris so I play the game
When I finish drying myself after the bath, I put on a bathrobe and I come to sit down as the lady asked me, she is fine to put on my makeup and take out my sexy underwear.
Me: but you're not serious, you can see that I don't look like anything, I'm not going to add that
Leila: of course you're going to put it on. Did the guy tell you he liked you more? Or that you look like nothing?
Me: no need to say it, myself I see myself am all deformed
Leila: shut up and put me on quickly
I shut up and I wear them, she pulls out a long close-fitting dress that goes down to the ankle in black colors
Me: but we only go out for dinner, we don't go to a party
Leila: ooorhhhh hurry up, don't you want to make yourself beautiful for your darling?
I shut up and I run, she pulls me out of heels and a silver clutch, when I'm done she circles around me and she seems satisfied, she pulls me to the mirror, and I really like what I see, I have the smile ear to ear, I turn to her
Me: thank you very much
Leila: well come with me, your darling has been waiting for you for a while
I follow her to the stairs and down there was Chris, he was breathtaking...