Chapter 275
Thea
I had to keep my word to Angel about joining them for breakfast but the fact that I was up by four in the morning was a result of my nervousness. Where do I sit when I eventually join them, how do I act if I had to be close to Angel. These questions kept disturbing my mind.
Knowing Angel, he’d be looking at me throughout breakfast and I wasn’t sure I could handle that yet. It’s true that my heart had began going soft on him after I felt the weight of my burden being lifted. In a way telling the truth about our child did give me freedom.All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.
Once breakfast call was made I went to Caspian’s room to see him. He never joined them for breakfast or involved himself in anything that didn’t have to do with me… Well except for the strippers Caspian brought to him. He was living his best life, I knew that because he loved sex.
I recalled my my promiscuous days and shook my head. I had a really wild life and a wilder one when Angel bought me but he struck a balance by having me here because I knew I was a changed woman and I was grateful for my values now.
Angel did make me a better person.
Caspian as usual had a stripper over and I just gave him my good morning greetings. We usually saw each other during the day and spent some time together. He had asked about the time I’d leave for home and I reassured him it was in one week time. I was the reason for his stay here.
I went to Florentine’s room afterwards because I dreaded going to breakfast on my own. I had asked her to sit in my place but she strongly refused saying Angel would be displeased.
“Who cares if he is? You should care about me more Florentine.” I said but she was the convinced.
“I’d feel weird sitting next to Angel and it would draw more attention at the table and make things awkward.” She gave me her reasons and I hated that I understood her. Eventually I couldn’t get her to agree to my request so we went ahead to breakfast and my heart kept pounding hard all through. I felt more tension with each step towards the kitchen.
We got to the kitchen and almost everyone was seated. Cassie and Knight seemed to have just arrived as well. My head felt light as I felt the sound of my thudding heart against my head, Angel was seated there, his eyes glued on me from the moment I walked in. I quickly avoid his gaze trying to fix it anywhere that wasn’t him.
I finally settled for looking at Cassie and Florentine walked by me to take her seat. I saw Cassie moving towards my side to sit. She passed me a smile and gave me a tilt suggesting I went ahead to sit beside Knight.
I looked at Knight and he seemed very pissed at Cassie. Now I understood what Florentine meant by awkward. Did I want to sit beside knight? It’d feel really weird. I looked at Camilo hoping she’d have a solution even though I knew it wasn’t possible. She just flashed me an awkward smile and exchanged amused gaze with Caspian. They definitely had an eye communication about the whole situation, that was their thing.
I let out a heavy breath and began walking towards the island. It felt more like I was dragging my feet, I felt so tensed and I could feel Angel watching me.
“Come over here Cassandra.” I heard Knight say with so much dominance in his voice. I stopped and looked at Cassandra and she seemed to waver. She looked reluctant and was avoiding his gaze.
“What are you doing there Cassandra?” This time it was Angel. The fact that both friends called her name in full meant that they were really pissed and breakfast would be bad if I didn’t sit beside Angel.
“Now….” Knight ordered again an she stood up twitching her lips. She walked past me and muttered an apology to me while I quickly nodded and began moving to my seat.
That definitely felt awkward.
I took a deep breath, kept my head high and sat next to Angel. I felt suffocated because I could barely breath knowing he was staring at me.
Please stop looking at me ….
I pleaded within me but my wish didn’t come true. Goodness! How do I get through breakfast. Angel was making me so nervous.
“I’m glad you came.” I trembled slightly hearing his voice. I gulped hard, glanced at him quickly and nodded in response.
The others soon followed expressing their pleasure that I had joined them. It was a warm welcome and it made me happy.
I was lucky enough that everyone began to bring up something to discuss during the course of breakfast. They made breakfast lively and never spoke about business. Maybe Angel had asked them not to in order to lighten the atmosphere of breakfast. Whatever it was I was glad.
“You should eat more, you haven’t touched most of the things on the table.” Angel whispered. I struggled and looked at him but then I was trapped in his enchantment. His eyes were the most beautiful thing. I blink and nod nervously.
We seemed to be in our own world because everyone kept talking not minding us. We were the most quiet during breakfast.
I try to reach out for some pasta but their was a slight difficulty because of the distance.
“Here…” Angel said passing me the plate. He had gotten it easily and I thanked him. He returned the plate once I was done and I began eating.
I found my fingers shaking as I held my fork so I quickly put it down.
“Are you okay?” Angels voice came again and I wanted to scream ‘I’m not okay!’ but I couldn’t do I just nodded. He squinted at me as if trying to figure out if I was lying.
“What?” I asked when he wasn’t looking away. I didn’t want the others to notice our silence and observe that we were rather talking to each other.
Angel’s face softens to admiration and I am taken aback by it. I be one shy instantly with the little sexy smile that curled his lips. His eyes screamed ‘I’m in love with you’ but I knew that already yet it made my heart swell.
“What?” I whisper again feeling so tensed.
“Your beautiful.” He blurts and I gasp in shock. I snap a gaze at him and swallow hard. I blink several times and dip my head. My entire body was washed with chills at what he just said. It was very unexpected.
“Thank you.” I managed to voice out. I cleared my throat because it felt like my voice was fading.
“I dreamt about you.” My eyes bulge again in shock. I leave my fork to my plate and noticed Florentine was looking at us now. I caught a glimpse of her and she looked away joining the conversation with the rest then I return my gaze to Angel.
“Why would you say that?” I asked.
“I missed you.” He said in the most seductive voice. His eyes were serious and felt dark… The kind of gaze that made my body heat up with desire.
“Stop… The others could hear you.” I whisper hoping they didn’t hear me as well.
“I don’t care.” He blurts again and my heart leaps several times. His words completely clouds my expression, I feel so shy that I couldn’t even move. It felt like any movement I made would be noticably clumsy yet I stupidly made a move and had my cutleries falling to the ground. It drew everyone’s attention and I trailed a nervous gaze at each of them before settling on Angel.
I was pissed at him, more like I was looking for someone to blame but he just relaxed back on his seat, his lips curling to an amused smile. He locks eyes with me and I feel butterfly tickles in my heart.
“Are you okay Thea.” Florentine asked and I nodded. I reached for the fallen cutleries but I’m shocked the moment I meet Angel’s face down there. I reach for the cutlery but he reaches for my hand instead, sending loads of tickles to my skin as he touches me.