Chapter 64 I Will Live to Make You Happy
By Alejandro
I arrived at the beach, wearing a long-sleeved shirt. I'm neither hot nor cold, just consumed by an inner anxiety.
I search for her among the people sunbathing.
Finally, I see her. I stand still, watching her. She's wearing a red bikini, tiny.
I lose my breath at the sight of her. How could I have left with someone else after having Valeria in my arms? With everything she makes me feel.
That's it, I feel everything, or everything I feel is because of her.
She's a goddess, and if I add her skin, her scent...
I'm trembling.
She's lying on a deck chair, with headphones on and her eyes closed.
I approached, delighting in the sight of her body.
I crouched beside her, casting a shadow, and that's when she opened her eyes.
She jumped up.
"Ale! What are you doing here?"
"Finally, I found you! I love you, Vale, and I missed you like crazy. I need you. I want to marry you."
"How did you find me?"
"I tracked you down through everyone. No one wanted to tell me where you were. I can't live without you."
I hugged her and started crying.
She was crying too.
Our embrace was eternal.
I had found her, and I didn't want to let her go.
"Don't do this to me, Ale. You'll just leave with someone else again."
"I swear I'll never be with another woman again. Since you left, I haven't been with anyone. I'll apologize for the rest of my life for... everything."
I kissed her, with hunger, with passion, with love.
"I can't take it anymore. Your face is the first thing I want to see when I open my eyes and the last before I sleep. I really want to marry you. If the apartment bothers you because of all the women who have been there, we'll sell it and buy whatever you want, wherever you say, but please don't ever leave my side again."
"Ale, I put distance because I'm hurt. After that night, you went off..."
"It was the stupidest thing I've ever done. It was even hard to be with another woman... and my orgasm was only thinking about you."
"I can't help but feel deeply hurt. I felt like I meant nothing to you."
"Vale, I realized you're the most important thing in my life. I was scared of no longer being the guy who had all the women in his hands, to end up depending only on your kisses. I didn't want to admit I had fallen in love with you. I went out that night just to prove to myself that I couldn't be hopelessly in love. I was terrified of love, of dependency, and everyone told me I was in love with you—my friends, my aunt, Susana, even my father told me to stop being an idiot and not let you slip away, that I would regret it. And since you left, I've been desperate. I sleep with... your panties in my hands."
"Ale, you scare me because you've never lied to me, and if you do that... I love you with all my life, and if you go with someone else, I'll want to die."
"No, my love, no one else, not anymore, I swear. You're like a drug I can't quit. I've wanted you so much for so long that if I can't imagine being with you... I can't do anything."
"Alejandro, it's very hard for me. I'm jealous, angry, furious. You have no idea how I feel. I don't know if being together is the best thing."
"I'll live to make you happy, I promise."
"I'm afraid that one day you'll get out of bed, looking at me with the indifference you always had for all the women who passed through your bed."
"That will never happen. I love you. When I met you, I wanted to seduce you, and when I touched your hand, I was electrified just by touching you."
"You electrified me."
"I never felt that before."
We both said at the same time.
I kissed her again, and the kiss was much more passionate.
"We're on the beach."
"Vale, you're almost naked, and I'm dying for you. I asked the flight attendant to reserve a room for me. Come with me."
"The flight attendant?"
She asked, suspicious.
"I made it clear it was for my future wife. I used those words, and I swear I haven't touched another woman since we did it in my office. Vale, you're the only woman I want to be with. Come back to me, please."
"I have to stop by my sister's house..."
"I met her a while ago, your nephew is beautiful... Did you get your period?"
"Yes, I didn’t take anything, I was very nervous and forgot, and then I got my period."
"I want to start a family with you."
For the first time, she hugged me.
I touched the sky.
By Valeria
A Fairy Tale
I can't take it anymore.
I keep myself busy with my nephew and sunbathing.
I don't want to hold Agustín too much because I don't want to pass on my anxiety to him.
And once again, I'm pretending in front of my parents.
With the help of my sister and the money from the house they sold in Argentina, they bought a small but quite charming house, just a few blocks from my sister's place.
For now, I'm sleeping at my sister's house, keeping her company, but I think I'll end up occupying the room available at my parents' house.
I'm really very distressed and I don't want them to worry, that's why I haven't moved into their house yet.
My sister understands me a bit more.
Her husband, my brother-in-law, is a sweetheart and doesn't mind that I stay with them.
Kevin called me, and I told him I was no longer with Alejandro's company, that I had come to the United States, but that I was in Miami.
To other partners who called, I gave them Alejandro's number.
He must have already passed them on to his new secretary...
I think he must have changed quite a few by now, like he did before me.
Who knows how many lovers Alejandro has had since I left.
Days went by, and to avoid waiting for his calls, I blocked him, as well as Omar and Emi.
Arguing with Emi hurt me a lot, it sped up my departure.
I had nothing tying me to Argentina anymore.
I had the affection of María and Susana, but they brought me closer to Alejandro, and I can't take it anymore.
I think he must have been with someone else within two days, and I'm dying for his arms, his seductive smile, his hands running over my body.
I want to feel his hands...
I cry every night, which seem endless.
I miss his kisses.
I despair.
My mother asked me what happened, I told her I fell in love with my boss and that he is a very good person, but too much of a womanizer, and I didn't think he would ever fall in love with me.
My mother believes in fairy tales, she says he must have fallen in love with me because I'm beautiful and good, besides being smart, and that if he didn't replace me with another secretary in a year, he will miss me and come looking for me.
She is more naive than Emi.
Even though he told me he loves me, he must have forgotten about me by now, maybe someone else is taking those women out of his bed, and of course, someone else must be making him breakfast...
God, I miss him with all my soul.
I would forget the world if he came for me, but I know that's impossible.
I'm so lonely...
In a few days, it's my birthday, and it will be the most miserable one of my life.
I adore my family, but my life was supposed to be different.
I think Emi had reserved a restaurant to celebrate with her, Maria, and Susana, I even dreamed of spending that day with Ale and Omar too.
Maybe Omar fell in love with Emi... although we both saw them in the middle of an orgy, and that's what I meant.
That social class is so high, they always get what they want.
I didn't say it out of resentment.
She also helped me open my eyes when I was dating Diego, that's what friends are for, but she chose to say I wasn't her friend.
God willing, Omar falls in love with her and is never unfaithful to her, but that would be another fairy tale or princess story...
We both reacted badly.
I was overwhelmed, and maybe she had a bad day.
A lifelong friendship ended over nothing.
She called me a few times and then stopped.
A few days went by, and I was thinking about looking for a job.
I didn't intend to stay here, but it felt like everything was pushing me to do so.
I'm sunbathing and listening to music, every line of every song reminds me of Alejandro.
I try not to cry, at least not in public.