“Falling? You mean to tell me that you still haven’t fallen despite all I’ve been doing to sweep you off your feet?” Bryan asked with mock surprise, and Sonia poked his side with a finger making him laugh.
“I don’t remember you doing anything special,” Sonia said with a shake of her head, as she wondered what could have possibly made her fall for him.
“I can remember you doing everything. You annoyed me so much that I constantly thought about you, so I guess I went from thinking about how to kill you to how to keep you around me,” Bryan said, and Sonia’s heart fluttered as she blinked at him.
“I thought you said you weren’t sure of your feelings yet?”
“Yeah. Sort of,” Bryan said with a nod.
Sonia pursed her lips thoughtfully as she looked at him, “Okay. Let’s do as you said before. We can just keep getting along without attaching any title to our relationship. I also need to be sure about my feelings for you, so when we are both convinced about our feelings, we can name what we have, okay?” Sonia suggested, and Bryan narrowed his eyes at her. He knew that what he had to was be with other girls to be sure of his feelings. What did she have to do?
“So what are you going to do? I mean what is going to convince you of your feelings for me?” Bryan asked curiously.
“Well, I’m going to go out with other ridiculously handsome guys to see if I will still find them interesting, or if I’m going to keep wanting to leave them just to get back to you,” Sonia said, making Bryan sigh. He should have known that she was a crazy chick.
“And what happens if you find them interesting?” Bryan asked with a scowl, not liking the idea.
Sonia grinned at that, “I guess I will just have to take things further to see if I’m as sexually attracted to them as I am to you,” Sonia said playfully.
“You’re going to let them touch you?” Bryan asked, not bothering to hide his annoyance anymore, and this time Sonia giggled.
“Yes, I am. Don’t worry, you are free to do the same. When your ankle feels better, we can both go out to the club together and pick the people we want to be with, how about that?” Sonia suggested, making Bryan shake his head. She was crazier than he had thought if she really thought he was going to let another man come an inch near her.
“You were going to call your best friend, weren’t you?” He asked, reminding Sonia that she had mentioned it earlier.
“Oh, shit!” Sonia exclaimed with wide eyes as she quickly got off the couch, and Bryan grinned at her, glad that he had managed to distract her from the nonsense she was spewing.
“I guess I make you forget everything else,” Bryan called after her with a smirk as she ran off in search of her phone.
He had a smile on his face as he watched her run from one end of the living room to the other trying to find her phone. He was falling helplessly for the exact opposite of the kind of woman he wanted.. A crazy woman, he thought with a shake of his head.
Harry glanced at Jade who was looking out of the window as he drove the car. It seemed like she was upset with him, as she was yet to say a word to him since he asked her to zip up her shorts. What did he do wrong? He had only pointed out that she had failed to zip up.
“How are you?” Harry asked after a long while when he could no longer stand the silent treatment.
Pretending not to have heard him, Jade searched through her handbag for her earpod and blocked both ears with them before returning her attention to the window once again.
Okay! She was making it clear without using words that she was pissed at him. He must have really provoked her, Harry thought with a sigh. It looked like the only thing he seemed to be good at around women was annoying them. Maybe it was best if he just shut up and not speak unless it was absolutely necessary.
Once he returned his attention to the road, Jade sat up on her seat and turned to look at him, “Do you perhaps suffer from DID?”
“DID?” Harry asked in confusion, turning to spare her a glance as he wondered why she suddenly decided to talk to him.
“Yes. Dissociative identity disorder. I’ve been trying to figure out how you could sound so pleasant like a normal person over the phone just hours ago, yet have been acting like an A-list jerk since you walked through my door,” Jade said, looking at him with undisguised confusion.
Okay, maybe he deserved that, Harry thought with a sigh. “I’m sorry,” He murmured.
Jade looked at him, slightly taken aback by the apology which surprisingly sounded sincere, “I don’t care much for your apology, I just want to know if something happened between the time we spoke on the phone and the time it took you to get here,” Jade said flatly.
Harry paused to think about the best way to answer her question, and then he sighed, “Nothing happened. I was just very surprised to see you in that state. I wasn’t happy about it. And maybe I was cursed with the misfortune of being blunt, seeing as it is a hassle not to say things exactly the way I see them, no matter how unpleasant,” Harry explained, and Jade nodded, as though she was getting what he was saying.
“So it’s not like you are angry with me for making you come down here? You just have a problem with sugar-coating your words as most men do,” she said thoughtfully, and Harry turned to look at her once again.
This was one thing he admired about her the first time they talked back then. She was very practical and always leaned more towards logic than her emotions, “Something like that. Besides, this whole thing is awkward so I don’t really know how to act around you,” Harry confessed, making Jade raise a brow.
Although she was tempted to ask him to act like the big brother he had claimed he was, but that wasn’t the most important argument at the moment, “By this whole thing, I assume you mean living with me?”
Without looking at her he gave her a nod, “Yeah.”
“I don’t remember asking you to come here. You came here of your own volition, and you can decide to leave now that you have seen that I’m okay,” Jade pointed out, sounding harsher than she had intended to.
“Well, you may not have asked me to, but your brother did,” Harry confessed once again, making Jade narrow her eyes at him this time.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.