Chapter 38: Chapter 38

Triffany got home with a sore feet after the long walk back, she took her bath and puts her feet in a warm bowl of rose water as she started editing the file.

She read three paragraphs and edits them, she looked at her feet that was in the bowl. "Ouch! It's really red." She touched it as Carlos came into the room and saw her feet in the water.

She looked up when she noticed he came in. "You're back so soon." She closed her laptop. "How is Kelsey? Is she badly hurt? Is she doing okay?"

Carlo was just staring at her. "I understand why you have to leave in a hurry, I would have done the same if it's my family." She smiled. "I hope she is not badly hurt."

She noticed Carlos was staring at her feet that was in the bowl of warm water. "My feet will be fine, I've not walked that long distance before with heels." She smiled. "I'm glad I had to do some exercise.

"Stop it!" Carlos shouted and Triffany looked up.at him. "Can't you just get angry at me. Why are you such a moron, huh!"

"How am I such a moron!" Triffany screams. "Your lover got hurt and you have to leave the one you don't love for her. How then am I a moron?"

Tears filled Triffany's eyes as she looked at him. "You had to do what you have to do, sorry I got in your way all the time."

Carlos furrowed his brow. "What do I do with you?" He rubs his forehead.

"Yes, don't think of doing anything." Triffany said without hesitation.

Carlos rinse his hands through his hair as his eyes stares down at her. "My Gosh! Where did you come from?"

He walked over to where she was and sat close to her. "The trouble I went through searching for you."

Triffany looked at his face. "Searching for me? How?" Her eyes widened in realization. "You searched for me in the highway?"

"Forget it." Carlos looked down at her feet. "Let me see it." He removed her feet from the water and wiped it with a towel to her surprise.

He examined her feet. "Its really red." He got up and brought a foot massage oil, he puts her feet on his lips and started massaging it.

"You.." Triffany lo6ay Carlos with wide eyes. "You're acting strange."

"Stay still." He told her and she did, when he was done with the massage he looked at her. "It will be better by tomorrow." He puts it down gently.

Triffany looked at her feet. "Why?" Carlos looked up at her and their eyes met. "Aren't you going back to work?"

Carlos shook his head. "No. I'm exhausted. Just thinking of how much trouble you must have caused this time or if you had fainted somewhere on the road."

"Who have you see faint from a walk." She looked at his face. "Were you really worried about me?" She asked him almost smiling.

"In movies the husband is really worried and rushes back in a hurry, he hugs his wife and say, I thought I lost you, I'm sorry for leaving you at the highway, I promise never to do it again and please forgive me." She told him cause it was what she was expecting him to do.

Carlos shoots her forehead with his finger lightly as she held her forehead. “Wake up, you’re in reality, and I wasn’t worried.”

Triffany signed. “I know.” She looked away. “You don’t care.” Carlos got up and took off his tie and coat as Triffany puts the bowl away. “Carlos.” He looked at her. “Come over here.” She waved him over, opening her laptop. “Come and read this.”

He sat on the sofa next to her. “What is that?”

“I’ve edited three chapters, check it out.” She hand him her system as he went through it. “How is it?” She asked expectantly.

“Just this?” He looked at her.

“That’s how far I’ve gone.” She looked at him.

Carlos signed. “You still have a lot of Chapters to edit and there are still few errors in this.” He circled few lines she made mistakes in, then he put the laptop down and stand up.

Triffany looked at him. “Where are you going?”

“Mind your business. Focus on what you were doing.” He pointed at her laptop. “And stop acting like a typical wife.”

Triffany scoffed. “When did I?”

Carlos shook his head with a thin smile on his lips. “Just continue editing.” He walked out of the room.

…

Gabby met with Tommy at a coffee shop. “I’m surprised you called today.” Gabby said smiling, she had been waiting and expecting a call from him for a long time.

“Guess what?” Tommy smiled.

Gabby stared for a while because his smile was so charming and dazzling that it makes her feel lost at times. “What?”

“I met with my first love.” Tommy told her happily.

Gabby stopped smiling. “Really?” She sipped her coffee and looked down.

“Yes and she’s now extra pretty.”

Gabby looked at Tommy’s happy face and forced a smile. “I’m happy for you.”

“Thank you and there is another extra.”

“What.”

“She is working with me and it’s a good chance to start over with her again.” Tommy told her and Gabby’s face fell. “I will make sure I let my feelings out this time, like I’m so happy that I have to tell someone about it.”

Gabby looked at him and her heart ached, she loved him but he can’t see it, she smiled when she saw him looking at her.

“Gabby I will introduce you to her soon, when I confess my love for her.” He looked at her eyes with twinkles in his eyes.

Gabby shook her head “You don’t have to. I’m happy you finally found her.” She ate her cake.

“Right.” Tommy grinned from ear to ear. Deep down Gabby’s heart was bleeding, was this what it feel when the person you love tells you about their own love.

Gabby met with Blake at his house, Blake left everything he was doing and sat with her after offering her a red fine wine.

“Blake I’m losing it.” Gabby told him after a long silence, he was the only one she tells the sort of things to.

“What’s wrong?” Blake asked softly.

Gabby told him everything, how Tommy found his first love and was now working in the same company as her and how he said it was a good chance to confess his feelings to her.

Gabby signed sharply as her voice were hoarse. “I’m not happy Blake, I should be happy but I’m not.” She looked at him. “Is it wrong? I’m I turning into a monster? I wish he had never seen her again.” She sobs.

Blake embraces her, Gabby was like a kid sister to him and all the friends of Carlos. “You’re not a monster Gabby.” He whispers In her ears and refrains. “I also have a time when I felt bad that my first love had another man. It hurts, but we are not monsters, that’s just the feeling.”

“I never know I would end up being a loser in love, like I never lose in anything. Why love?” She cries as she looked at Blake.

Blake smiled. “Most of us are losers in love, take for instance. Carlos lose Kelsey the love of his life and married Triffany who he doesn’t love. Then Eric, he has been in countless relationship that didn’t work out.”

Gabby laughs in the mist of tears. “He became a play boy.” She added and Blake chuckled. “I know about Garratt’s.” Gabby sniffles. “He swore never to love again ever since the girl he loved left him.”

Blake looked at her. “You see, we are all losers in love.”

Gabby leans chin on her hands and stared at Blake for a while. “Should I just date you?”

Blake moved away from her like she was a flu. “Wrong number.” He raised his hands as Gabby chuckles.

“I’m I that bad?” She asked him.

“You’re worst and I have a girlfriend and Carlos will skin me alive if I try to date you.” Blake sipped his wine.

“Crazy dude.” Gabby laughs and sip her wine.

“When will you stop calling me a dude? Other girls call me by my name, why are you so different?”

“That helps me a lot.” She told him honestly.

“How?” He looked at her curiously.

“If I don’t call you guys that, I might end up in a relationship with all my brothers friends. You guys are so hot.” She confessed.

Blake blushed “But you called me ugly recently.”

Gabby rolled her eyes. “Yes. You’re all so ugly, but hot.” She smiled.

Blake shook his head with smiles on his lips. “Naughty girl.” He refilled their glass as they continued chatting but no longer in tears or saddened.

Carlos came into the room and saw Triffany asleep on the couch with her laptop opened on the desk. “I guess she’s tired.” He looked through what she had done so far and saw that she had also made corrections on her errors.

He squats close to her and smiled. He looked at her flawless face and brushed her hair backwards in an affectionate way. “She’s just so…” He was about to say something when Triffany opened her eyes.

“Just so what?” She looked at him, Carlos who was not expecting her to wake up jerk back and mistakenly hits down a little glass ball that hits her hands close to her wrist. "Ouch!" Triffany held her wrist and cries out in pain.

"Are you Okay?" Carlos held her hands. I'm sorry."

"My wrist hurts." She sat down and whined.

"Don't be such a cry baby." Carlos looked at her but he saw how serious she was and she was also crying. "Is it broken?"

"I don't know." She yells in pain.

"Let's go to the hospital."

The doctor attended to.them immediately and handed her wrist after treating it and running some Xray. They discovered it was just a minor accident, not a fracture wrist or broken wrist, lucky for her.

"How long will it take to heal?" Triffany asked the doctor.

"Three days."

"That's so long, will I be able to type with it?" She asked panicked.

"You should give the hand a week break." He looked at her. "You shouldn't do any strenuous thing with your hand else the recovery process will take long."

"Thank you doctor." Carlos said and the doctor left. He turned to Triffany. "Why ask so much questions?"

Triffany rubs her forehead with the other hand. "I have a book to edit and I've got only a week to submit it and now this." She lo6at him with tears in her eyes. "Why do you always like hurting me?"

Carlos looked at her shock as the words hit him. "Don't say it like I've hurt you many times."

"Yes you have." She sniffles. "I had a cut on my hand because you made me pick up a light bulb you broke. I had sore feet because you left me on the highway to walk back home and now this."

The tears in her eyes rolled down her cheek. "Are you a danger zone?"

Carlos exhaled sharply. "You're always getting in the way that's why."

Triffany wipes away her tears, there was no point talking to him. "Talking to you most times also hurts." She got up. "Take me home. I would have been peaceful sleeping if you haven't come to disturb me."

She picked up her bag and walked through the lobby and into the elevator as they head down to Carlos car and drove back home without any other words.