Alisha woke up. She was more disoriented than the previous time, she blinked, with her eyes fixed on the ceiling she could barely see through the corner of her eye, the silhouette of a person sitting on the chair that was near her bed.She sighed slowly, taking the courage to turn her face away as her eyes focused to that side.Fortunately the man sitting next to the bed was neither Gael nor Spencer and she was relieved.She let the air out of her lungs. Alisha laughed lightly, who was she waiting for, she must have looked ridiculous at her longing to wish very unconsciously that it was Gael Williams who was there as soon as she woke up from her dream.Louis told Alisha. "You should be hospitalized for several days due to excessive blood loss" his surly tone did not go unnoticed in his cousin's ears.Walsh was not surprised.In her hand she was holding a transfusion, still connected to the catheter that was slowly pumping new blood into her body through a catheter to help her organs
"Discomfort? Fine! I'll accept that I went a little overboard." Louis laughed at the young Williams' attitude. Gael had shed his office clothes and was wearing casual clothes, he looked more serious than before, he looked cooler. "I'll take back a couple of words." Gael stood on his feet."She's recovering, you can make your fuss outside the room." he spat without taking his gaze off that psychologist who now seemed to be an enemy. Gael didn't even know if they were really cousins, that young man looked to be in his thirties, he took his gaze running through the doctor's clothes. "You come to yell, where have you been this time?""Can work be annoying for you?" Louis forced a smile, that young man from the Williams family was taking away her calm, he had wanted to point her in the right direction, apparently everything had been reversed and he was the one they ended up interrogating.Alisha finally learned that Louis arrived at the hospital after getting off the night shift. She was
Gael took the seat next to the bed.As they were left alone in the room, it felt strange, looking at each other without having anything to say, the young woman lying on the bed seemed to be inspecting his face. Both of them slowly immersed themselves in such an uncomfortable atmosphere, at least it seemed that way to the heir of the Williams family.Looking at Alisha's smile, Gael remembered her abnormal behavior last night. Perhaps it was more than reckless of him to want to remain unclothed in the car, revealing his body to the young woman and unable to control his inexplicable excitement. He must have looked like a teenager with hormones frying his senses to the point of not knowing what he was doing.Of course, Gael wanted to justify his actions, he was a man in his twenties, he couldn't just take it for granted that it was part of the moment, so he rummaged through his head. The businessman set out to clear up the nonsense that must be going through someone else's mind, he had to
"It's uncomfortable to the ear" He raised his eyebrows, he was teasing while the injured person had to put up with her crossroads so hard. "You'll hear it all the time, isn't it better to get used to it already" seeing him so confused made her feel guilty, she was a young college girl, she was retaliating against an injured person, maybe if he was a fool. "Who's glad to mention it? You think I'm glad to mention it?" "You seem so gleeful, I don't know what I should believe" Alisha felt her voice lose strength, she felt herself momentarily stunned because of Williams, that man she waited for ten years is now a jerk. "He has said before we are a sham marriage, don't make a big deal out of it, he was just acting, why explain it in such detail now?" "So you think I make a big deal out of it" Gael spent the whole night babysitting him, he didn't really go home, but arguing with her felt pleasurable. Knowing he could talk was a sign he was recovering properly. They both had different thoug
"What are you saying?" Alisha was surprised to hear her cousin's question. She had misheard, she was making such a hasty conclusion of her relationship with young Williams.No, she wasn't."Have you fallen in love with Williams" Louis questioned again, her cousin looked away, she didn't want to admit it, she didn't want to state the obvious. "Alisha, do you really?" he pressed for an answer."You listen to what you say." Alisha paused and met Louis' accusing eyes. That was his psychologist for so long it was admirable his bravery for lying to the person who knows him too well for his liking. "You think I could like someone like him" but his reaction made Louis more convinced.Both cousins fell silent.I tried my best to keep an expression of indifference towards Louis' question, it was too hard to be able to deny it, I had liked him for years. I could turn it over like a page and tell my heart to stop beating as I watched that elegant man approach me.Louis could not believe that Ali
"You have everything, right" Louis felt unsure of his cousin's answers. Clearly his plans are taking a turn, if this is the person he waited for so many years, giving up is not an option. "When you show your true intentions, you must be very careful.""I'll get the house first" Alisha was encouraged to fantasize about her freedom, there were so many things she wanted to do, such a premature marriage made me stagnant, made her want to run far away. Still the idea of changing Gael's feelings lingered in her head. "I will live for many years, in a quiet place, without worrying about anything.""A house, isn't that space too big for you" Louis chuckled softly, she deserved the best. Her cousin had suffered through her life, she would have happiness somewhere in the world. "You'll become luxurious.""I can get some companion. I'll meet lots of people, maybe it'll be a friend from work!" Alisha pondered the possibility of renting the rooms and earning some money, she would have to get a job
I closed my eyes, letting out a heavy sigh. Every day had been so monotonous. So stressful and suffocating. Lying in an old bed in a fancy hospital, with various wires sticking into my skin, pulling in substances that would help my body, was exhausting.Alisha stayed in the hospital for seven days. I had never felt such an eternal week, every hour sounded like an eternity and I feared I would freak out at the great possibility of developing a different version of me, with so much time available the most twisted nonsense surfaced making camp for hours that I didn't even dare to sleep.On the seventh day I left the sheets, getting out of bed I approached the window attracted by curiosity, picked up the curtain and found to my surprise that Louis was entering the parking lot driving his black sports car. That was the only comfort I had.We would stay talking for hours about us, life and any triviality that would make us laugh so hard that we would want to go to the bathroom because we w
"You think they'll let you leave, it's not even a hotel. Think about it, it's a hospital with the nurses looking for you" I kept quiet, he was right, it was true, I had not been discharged from the hospital, we would have to wait, I still had to find him and clear up those doubts that were drilling in my head. "Are you going to escape?""You can come..." I tried to convince him to come back as a visitor, Spencer cut me off what I was about to propose."No" he blurted out. That young man who was using a manly and sensual tone, the same one that to my ears seemed so nefarious. He refused. He did it with no regrets, there was simply no turning back."I'll fix it, you just have to wait at the "With" cafe at tea time, I'll be there" I indicated, not knowing if you would really arrive, I proposed a solution, in the end it was me who wanted to talk to him, I should be the one to look for him. That was what I understood from his words. Sacrifices would have to be made.Alisha and Spencer agre