Chapter 25

Chapter 25

The next morning was filled with extreme bliss already. I woke up witnessing the sun from our room, hitting us already on the bed, and with Elijah Luciero beside me. He slept with no shirt and he was only wearing his boxer. In front of our bed is the glass window, where we can see everything in the sky and downstairs if we go closer. The huge curtains are widely opened. It seems like I forgot to close it last night.

For the first time in our marriage, I woke up in the morning without swollen eyes and with a lovely smile as I watched Elijah sleep. His arm was on my stomach while he was facing me sideways. I took that moment to examine his face closer. Nothing changed at all. He's still as handsome as before.

I remember before how many girls were dying to talk with him. He was a heartthrob on our campus. A lot of students envied me, Freya and Lily to be friends with Elijah, and of course, Lucas. They were both heartthrobs during those days. The change and twist of our fates struggled all of us. Who would have thought that I would marry Elijah? Who would have thought that we would lose Freya?

My phone suddenly rang, which made Elijah move a bit. I bit my lower lip and quickly grabbed it beside the bed. It's my secretary.

“Hello, yes?”

I already stood up when Elijah set me free from his arm. I quickly checked the time and it was already 6:30 am.

“Good morning, Ms. Faith. Everyone is already having their breakfast. Where are you and Sir Elijah? We will begin the photoshoot after this, the models are all here.”

“You can start it even without me. I just woke up and I have to take a shower first. I'll dress up and go there immediately,” I mentioned over the phone.

“Alright. See you later, Ms. Faith.” I didn't reply anymore and ended the phone call.

“Good morning,” I gasped immediately when I found Elijah standing behind me. I closed my eyes firmly and placed my hand on my chest. My heart almost jumped out of my chest!

“You're gonna kill me,” I commented and breathed deeply.

My eyes suddenly traveled down on his body. My brows arched as I bit my lower lip to him.

“Wear your shirt now,” I said before I marched out from his sight, a bit in a hurry. I need to be there as soon as possible.

“Do you need to go there now?” He asked and followed me. I faced him before he could even enter the bathroom.

“Yeah. The photoshoot will start and we still have to eat breakfast before going there. So, if you don't mind, I have to take a bath.” I was about to close the door when he suddenly blocked it with his arm.

My eyes widened immediately. “Hey!”

He was wearing that playful smile and I was too dense to realize what he was trying to imply. It took me a few seconds before it hit my mind.

“No way,” I uttered.

“We're married,” he replied.

“Elijah! Hey!”

My jaw just dropped when he removed his boxer and went under the shower. He faced me with no shame at all while I couldn't even lay my eyes at his damn sword!

“Oh, come on. We already saw everything,” he chuckled.

My cheeks are fucking burning. I couldn't even move right there as if my entire body was glued.

“Don't wait for me to carry you and bring you here,” I closed my eyes firmly again. Fuck. It is true that we already saw everything! But why am I still ashamed of him seeing my body?!

I took a heavy breath before I slowly removed my clothes as well before I joined him there. I faced the wall while he embraced me from behind. I closed my eyes at peace, enjoying every drop of the water coming out from the shower.

“I couldn't believe that we're doing this,” Elijah whispered behind my ear.

“I couldn't believe that we actually married each other,” I uttered.

The little smile on my lips vanished as well when I remembered how Elijah volunteered when my parents' told me that they are marrying me off. It got me thinking for a bit. If Elijah didn't do that, would I be in the better hands of someone that I don't even know? Would my life be like this?

After taking a bath together, I quickly dressed up as well to join my team who are probably working now. I wore a simple white sleeveless dress that showed a bit of my chest. I dried my hair as well before I tied it in a messy bun. I also brought my sunglasses that I can wear, especially today that the sun is a bit burning.

“Are you ready?”

Elijah is wearing a white polo sleeves, rolled up to his elbows. The three buttons were widely opened so that can barely see his broad chest. He paired it with his beige shorts and just like me, he was wearing his sunglasses, too.

“Yeah. Let's go eat breakfast first,” I said.

When we came out of our hotel room, he held my hand as we walked together to eat our breakfast in the hotel.

“Don't you have to work?” I asked. He's an architect who owns a very huge firm. He must be busy and yet he came here with me.

“I took a day off,” he said.

“A week?” I chuckled.

“Yeah. I'm the CEO,” he winked arrogantly. He slapped me his success that moment.

“Do you remember? In high school, we both loved drawing. You draw clothes and I draw houses,”

I nodded while we began to eat together. I feel like there are only the two of us there. I couldn't stop from watching his smile draw on his lips.

“Yeah. We're always holding our pens and sketch pad then Lily will lecture us all the time about having our own worlds,” I remember it all.

We used to hang out in the garden of our campus. The three of them will watch a movie and talk about different things while eating. While Elijah and I were having our own worlds with our sketch pads and pens.

“Perhaps you can talk to them now,” I was scared to bring that up, but I felt the need to mention it. We can't be together and fix this marriage while our friendship with Lucas and Lily are still shattered.

That smile faded on his lips as he moved his eyes away from me and continued eating.

“You miss them,” I can see that right through his eyes. He wouldn't mention it to me if he doesn't mean those golden times we spent together.

“How? Lucas just confessed that he's into you. What would be the relationship between the three of us? He's in love with you and we're married…we're making this work,” a light sigh came out of him. I'm getting his point. It would not be easy to go back to the things we are used to. It's really complicated but I am not giving up.

“He would understand. We're married, he wouldn't try to separate the two of us.” I already hold his hand on the table, convincing him.

“It's the reason why we fought,” he replied, still on that.

“He only did that because he saw my bruises,” his eyes came back to me. For a few seconds, we exchanged gazes. I was the one who broke it as I let go of his hand as well and focused on the food.

“Brian saw it, too.” I mentioned. He might wonder why Brian hates him.

We both turned silent and I regret bringing that topic in the middle of our meal.

“Fine. I'll try my best,” he captured my eyes in one snap when he said that.

He even held my hand on the table before he gave me a soft smile.

“I'll make it up to you. I will do my best to erase those violence that I did,” I knew from that moment that Elijah meant it. My high hopes became stronger. I knew that I would cling onto that until the end.

“Where's Brian?” My secretary asked aloud while the models were doing the photoshoot.

“We haven't seen him for breakfast,” one of them said.

“What's going on?” I already meddled.

“Sir Brian isn't here. I'm sorry, Ms. Faith. I didn't notice that he was not with us earlier,” my secretary was already nervous and bothered.

“Did you call him? Can someone please contact him?” All of us stopped from working because of that. Of course, we need Brian. He's one of the biggest models we have and he's not here.

“His phone is turned off,” I closed my eyes firmly and bit my lower lip.

I almost forgot that we had an argument yesterday. Did he really take that too much?

“Go and check him in his hotel room,” I said firmly.

“NOW!” I exclaimed, losing my temper.

How can he act this way? We should be professional and set aside whatever we feel.

“What's happening?” Elijah intervened.

“Sir Brian isn't here. He's not answering his phone, either.” My secretary answered him while I was already stressed there.

“Are you okay?” He asked as he went beside me.

“We had an argument yesterday. I think he's taking it personal,” I said, too anxious to face him. I started to bite my nails while trying to think of a solution.

“Faith!”

We all stopped when we heard that voice.

“Sir Brian!” My secretary exclaimed.

There he was, walking towards us, topless. My eyes landed at the bottle of alcohol that he was holding. He was not walking properly, too.

“He's drunk,” I uttered.

“Where's his manager? This would be a scandal for him,” I said immediately.

“Can you help me to bring him to his hotel room?” His manager said, already worried.

“Of course. I'll help,” some of my employees already went towards him but he was really fighting them.

“It's not a good idea that you include him here,” Elijah said beside me.

“Let go of me!” He exclaimed. His eyes pinned at me and to Elijah.

“You!” He shouted.

“Back off, Brian.” Elijah quickly hid me behind him when Brian went closer to us.

“Sir Brian, you're drunk!” My employees are still trying to drag him.

“Why does she have to be married to a jerk like you, Luciero?” He laughed like a psycho.

I massaged my forehead with the extreme stress he's giving us. He would regret his actions later.

“Stop this now, Brian. Pull yourself together! Why are you acting like this?”

“You should bring him to the room. Faith, let's go away from here for a moment. He's dangerous, he's drunk.” Elijah already held my hand and was about to bring me out of there temporarily.

“I like you, Faith!”

That made us all freeze. Even Elijah paused from walking after hearing that.

“I was smitten by you and I couldn't accept that you're choosing that jerk when you can be in better hands!”

“He's drunk, Elijah.” I quickly said when I saw how his eyes became sharp.

“You heard me, right? Yes, Faith! I like you so damn much!”

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