Mysterious guy

Author's Pov

"Are you ready?" Lily stood up from the dressing chair after finding Charlotte leaning against the doorframe sipping on the glass of water she grabbed from the kitchen.

"Yeah." The moment she stood up, Charlotte frowned at her, she raked her eyes up and down shaking her head slightly like she was disapproving Lily's dress.

"What are you even wearing? We are going to a pool party, not some tea party!" Lily frowned looking down at herself, she was wearing a black knee sized dress which she thought would be fine for the occasion after all she wasn't actually going to jump in the pool anyways. She was just going there because Charlotte insisted on taking her.

"I think its fine." Charlotte sighed placing the glass on the side table before shrugging off.

"Fine, as you wish. Let's go." Lily did hesitate a bit watching how Charlotte didn't look happy with her dressing, and after seeing Charlotte's shimmery mini dress with high heels and hair curled at the end she knew maybe she looked underdressed for the occasion.

But she didn't have any other eventful dress to change yet so eventually she went with the same dress. Charlotte as usual didn't speak much just heard all the banter Lily had, she even shared the incident in the restaurant making Charlotte look at her in curiosity especially after hearing the name of the restaurant.

"You should be careful, that restaurant is dangerous." Charlotte mumbled not wanting to know further details even though Lily wanted to tell her about that man and the little encounter they had but seeing how Charlotte was frowning after hearing about the restaurant itself she stopped.

"That restaurant, what's so dangerous about it?" Charlotte gave her a side glance before driving to the parking lot and sighing under her breath.

"It belongs to one of the dangerous men of Russia, so it will be better if you don't have any encounter with him, that's why better stay away from his place as well." Lily instantly tensed up hearing Charlotte's serious suggestion especially after remembering the gift she got from the owner.

Her hand snapped up touching the bracelet she was wearing, she stared at the silver bracelet covered with light green emerald stones, it was extremely beautiful and she fell in love with it the moment she opened the gift box. This was given to her by the restaurant owner, but now hearing Charlotte's suggestion she felt a weird feeling crawling against her chest.

"We are here. Let's go." She snapped her head to the front and jumped off the car after they reached the place.

Charlotte called her in the early morning telling her about the pool party one of her friends was holding, Charlotte didn't want Liliana to miss out the chance to enjoy the life in Russia especially when she might not be able to come again after her art exhibition would be done, so Liliana appreciating Charlotte's efforts to get her be comfortable around her friends agreed.

They entered the massive mansion and soon enough Charlotte was surrounded by several people, "Charlotte, любовь моя, ты наконец здесь." The woman with thick Russian accent ran towards Charlotte hugging her tightly, Lily noticed a rare wide smile on her friends lips as she greeted the woman. (Charlotte, my love you're finally here)

"señora, meet my friend, I told you about." Charlotte finally after saying something in Russian to the woman turned to Liliana introducing her.

Lily smiled pulling her hand to shake, but the woman looked at her up and down before giving a small nod to Charlotte who shrugged in return, lily frowned for a second hesitantly pulling her hand back but soon she was engulfed in a tight hug making her gasp out in horror when the woman embraced her tightly.

"In Russia, we meet like this, Dulce niña. " Lily smiled awkwardly patting the woman's back before pulling away. (Sweet girl)

"I must say, Charlotte, you have such a beautiful friend, by the way, I am Lada Sechin, you can call me Lada, Charlotte told me about you Liliana, you're such a pretty girl." Lily uncomfortably moved on her feet when the woman caressed her cheek.

"Thank you Miss Lada." Lada laughed and with her broken English she talked with Liliana, after a while finally someone called her and she left making Lily to heave out a sigh of relief as she grabbed Charlotte and glared at her.

"What's wrong with that woman?" Charlotte chuckled raising a glass of juice to Lily who grabbed it with a sulky face.

"She has a son, Ivon Sechin, he's a famous businessman and a good looking guy, she has this obsession of making an English girl his son's wife as he studied in UK, she's a little crazy and now she likes you." Lily slapped her forehead closing her eyes in resignation while Charlotte laughed patting her shoulder.

"Relax, she's not that bad, Ivon isn't bad as well, he's kind of rude and cold that's it." Liliana opened her eyes and shook her head.

"I don't care about these things, I don't want to know about him or anything, especially when I am not interested." Charlotte sipped her cocktail before looking at Lily with a stern gaze.

"You can't stay single your whole life Lily, look around, there are many options for you. Better grab one when luck is in your side, after all you always said you wanted to marry the man you love not the one chosen by your family." Liliana sighed taking a sip of her orange juice before nodding her head.

"I know, but I am just not ready yet." Charlotte finally sighed giving up.

"As you wish, enjoy the party, there is a buffet as well, I have to catch up with some friends I will return within an hour, if you need me simply call me, we will leave within 2 hours max." With that she without giving Lily any chance to speak walked away.

Liliana stared at her disappearing frame for a few seconds before sighed out heavily, she had no idea what had happened to Charlotte recently, she had been behaving distant and indifferent from the time Lily arrived in Russia. Charlotte and Lily used to talk for hours but she had no idea why she felt so far away from her friend even when they were this close.

Finally she looked around but found nothing special to stay in this party, so eventually she decided to walk out. Her bright blue eyes swept over the pool side and she with slow steps went there. It was a weird thing that the party was called the pool party but there was no one near the pool side. They all were busy inside the venue dancing on the loud music, she sighed when the loud music didn't bump against her ears anymore.

She crouched on the edge of the pool but her eyes soon frowned in confusion when she noticed the water slightly waving, she blinked gulping down in fear, she leaned closer slightly to see what it was but soon her whole body was thrown back on the surface as a loud gasp escaped her lips finding a half bare man coming out of the pool.

Her wide eyes stared at the man in pure shock, she was roaming around for at least 10 minutes around this pool, she was shocked that he stayed under the water this long. Soon the man's sharp pitch black eyes met her expanded ocean ones throwing her off guard. The area fell completely silent with only raged sounds of the water inside the pool and light noise of music coming from the main hall.

He brushed his long wet light brown hair back revealing his clean shaved face with light freckles adorning his cheeks, his sharp jaw could cut the tension in the air, he was only cradled in shorts with no cover over his ripped chest. The man was undeniably handsome, perfect well built body and those sharp eyes could shy away any woman and Lily wasn't any different. She held her sense of morality and didn't dare to look at his bare flesh.

"¿Quién eres?" His hoarse voice mixed with the heavy breathing because of staying way too long in the water echoed in the empty room making Lily gulp down. (Who are you?)

Liliana felt a weird sense of terror in her heart, she didn't like the look he gave her and instantly she stood up gulping down, she was ready to run back but his voice again paused her. "Wait!" She halted before looking back at him when he spoke English all of a sudden. The man raised his his hands.

"Relax, I have no bad intention, I will leave if you're not comfortable." Liliana suddenly felt a pang of regret in her heart for misjudging him just because of his sharp features but soon she frowned.

"How do you know I don't speak Russian?" The man suddenly gave her a small smile before jumping out of the pool making her look away instantly feeling her cheeks burning up.

"You don't look Russian," He answered flatly before wrapping a robe around his body. She hummed but soon her back stiffened when she felt him standing way too closer than needed.

Her eyes snapped up finding him leaning his face closer to her staring at her like he was trying to read her, "I have some work to do, so I will have to leave," His sharp eyes suddenly curved up as a small twisted smile appeared over his lips tensing the woman.

"Nos veremos pronto, Liliana." With that he walked away leaving the girl flabbergasted, she had a weird feeling that whatever he said wasn't good even though she didn't understand but soon her body froze when she realised something.  (We will meet again, Liliana.)

How did he know her name?

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