Chapter 32: Chapter 32

Chapter 32

‘Think girl, think! Make sure you find the best way to talk to him. Don’t make him angry.’ That’s her my beautiful innate. She is the only one I have now and probably forever. She never leaves me by myself and she will always remind me when I need to do something.

I keep looking at him secretly. I don’t want him to see me and start thinking I am scared. He is way too focused on the road and I don’t want him to lose that.

The focus.

‘’What was that all about?’’ I ask looking ahead. I don’t want to look at him straight in the eyes.

‘’What?’’

‘’The argument. Did you mean what you told her?’’ well, if he wants me to ask him, then I will. I don’t think I want to keep staying oblivious to the happenings.

‘’I meant every shitty thing I told her. I could say it to the whole world. I don’t care about their money, I care about you. I am a grown-ass man and my decisions can never be influenced by anyone. It doesn’t matter if they fed me, gave me whatever I have today, and made me who I am. I have my own decisions to make and the best they can do is to respect that. Don’t you think so, Clarita?’’

I ignore that. ‘’Don’t you know that social status matters a lot? Don’t you think that you and I are from two different worlds? How do you expect me to fit into your world, Harrison?’’

‘’If you wanna try to fit, all the best. I love the person who you are. You got neither lies nor secrets that aren’t supposed to be heard by the world. You are pure and loveable. You don’t have your parents trying to control you and who their work is only to care about themselves. You are so beautiful, simple, outgoing, and self-driven. I don’t know if I have ever met a girl who has even have of any of these traits. You are one in a million, Clarita.’’

‘’You will not receive your inheritance, if you insist on doing this, Harry. Get to know that in all these things, you should get your parents' blessings before you carry one with anything that you want to do. If they say I am not good for you, then the best thing is to let go.’’

‘’Is that what you want?’’ I stare blankly at him. That’s definitely not what I want. I want him and even though I don’t want to tell him that because I don’t what him taking advantage of the same.

‘’What will you do about all these sagas?’’

‘’What is there to do? Of course, I will love you till death do us part. I will stick by you because to, it’s not about your poverty or my money but the temperament and persona. It’s not about you being a village girl but what you can do.’’

‘’And what can I do?’’

‘’A lot.’’

‘’I am listening.’’

‘’For starters, you can make not only a good wife but the best wife ever. You can sire kids, you can keep me on the line and lastly, you are meant to be baby. And no one, absolutely no one can change that.’’

‘’Don’t make promises you will not be able to keep, Harrison.’’

‘’Don’t judge a book by its cover, Clarita.’’

‘’Meaning?’’

‘’Hold your horses and let’s see if I will not be able to keep the promise, okay, Clarita?’’ I shake my head.

‘’I don’t think I am willing to stick around for too long.’’ I pause a little. ‘’I don’t think I wanna nurse a broken heart at the moment. There are super special things to take care of before then.’’

‘’Am I gonna break your heart?’’

‘’Please answer that question.’’

‘’I won’t, beautiful. Has someone ever broken your heart before? Because if I ever find out, I will break their necks.’’ I turn to look at him in awe, but my face brightens a little when I find him smiling at me. ‘’You look beautiful, and I will never try to gamble with your happiness.’’

His words though. Aren’t those words too promising? Don’t you think they are way too great? Well, these are just words. I don’t think they mean anything. He could promise them, make me fall for them, and then break my heart later.

Something in me keeps warning me not to fall hard for him I shouldn’t go into this in full swing. I should be very careful how I do it because if he decides to do this and his parents say no to it, then I will end up crying inside a toilet. I don’t really want that for myself. I don’t wanna let myself down by mourning instead of celebrating my own success.

‘’Shall we go?’’ he startles me from my side and I don’t remember seeing him stop the car. Leave alone getting out of the car.

‘’What happened to Ellen?’’ I ask with confidence.

‘’I promised I would tell you the story once I feel like you will not leave me after that. I asked you to promise me that but you were hesitant. You know I can only talk about it once I trust that you won’t judge me and that you will not leave me.’’

His arm brushes mine and I swear I feel disturbed instantly.

‘’I promise.’’

‘’Good girl.’’ I roll my eyes at that. ‘’Now, shall we?’’

I take the hand that is set out to me. He helps me get out and asks me not to overthink what his mum said. That he will explain everything to me at the right time. I don’t know what the right time is according to him but I can survive that. I don’t wanna push him too much. So far I feel like if I ever find myself in a relationship with Harry then his parents especially the mum will never allow us to be happy.

Harry leads me to a place with varieties of clothes and shoes. Very cute. I walk around admiring the clothes as I make a mental decision. I will not let him spend his fortune on a person like me. The dresses are damned expensive ad I swear I would have to work for several months to be able to afford a decent dress and shoes.

Which kind of people comes to such shops? Anyway. He makes me try a few dresses and when I protest saying that I will not let him buy them, he doesn’t insist. Somehow, I feel like he should have insisted but he drops the matter after making me try very nicely fitting dresses and beautiful shoes.

Those that I see mostly on magazines and TVs.

‘’Why wouldn’t you let me buy you the dresses?’’

‘’Because I don’t want your mum insulting me. If I want dresses, then I will just work hard and earn the money to buy what I want in the future and without making your wallet suffer.’’

‘’It is not complaining. Or is it now?’’ I smile at the funny words that just escaped his lips.

‘’It doesn’t have to, Harrison. You only need to purchase one dress here and you will know that it’s hurt because you will see it limping.’’

‘’Funny.’’

‘’Tell me about it.’’

He leads me back to his fancy car. He opens the door for me and holds it patiently until I am fully settled and have buckled up my seat belt.

He pulls out smoothly with a big smile on his lips. This guy is malicious but he must tell me about Ellen and how I will end up dead like her.

‘’Who was she?’’ I ask again. I know he might not be ready to talk but I am ready to listen so, he should do things my way. At least for today.

‘’Beautiful,’’ he calls gently.

‘’Mmh.’’

‘’I have told you about my fucked up life and earlier today you also heard about some part of it as I was arguing with mum, right?’’ I nod.

‘’I didn’t concentrate much on your conversation but yes, you have mentioned that before.’’

‘’Let’s get somewhere to sit so that I can tell you about all that. You have promised not to leave me so I hope you don’t do it.’’

‘’Okay.’’ After parking his car, I open my door and skip out. He raises his eyebrows at me but I ignore that.

‘’Next time I am with you, I open the door. That’s what dad taught us. We should be treating women with love and care. Opening doors is one of the gestures.’’

I roll my eyes and smirk. He reaches for my hand and entangles our fingers. We walk majestically to the magnificent restaurant. The place is cool and quiet.

We walk into a lounge labeled VIP. I swear this guy will show me things. There is no one in there apart from the two of us and a roaming waitress.

I love the place already. Too bad I cannot enjoy myself freely because I do not know when I will be attacked by Harry’s mum.

He pulls a seat for me and after I sit and make myself comfortable, he walks his handsome self to the opposite side and sits facing me directly.

You can order whatever you want. I want us to sit here and take our time talking without any interruption.

‘’I am not hungry.’’

‘’I know, but you have to eat.’’ The commanding and authoritative Harry has spoken.

‘’Is that an order?’’

‘’Take however you want to. I am just sitting down with a hungry girl. Not me.’’ ‘’If I say no?’’

‘’Then I won’t tell you the story. So, choose.’’ He is so daring. What will I lose anyway? I don’t think I care about the story that much.

Alright, I will eat. I am hungry, no doubt but I just feel like I am exploiting him. I know he will not let me pay the bills and that’s the reason I am saying no.

‘Pay the bills indeed, with what money?’ I smile at myself inwardly trying so hard to push back the urge to roll my eyes.

Gross.

I cannot afford such a place.

After I order some fries and a milkshake, Harrison who is looking at me like I am crazy orders some funny foods whose names I don’t bother to cram in the end.

‘’Here we are, beautiful.’’ I nod. I am feeling a bit cold and scared. I hope desperately that what he is going to tell me will not make me change my opinion about him. He is an ass, I know but I need to acquire some strength.

‘’Sure.’’

‘’Now,’’ he starts to speak but his stupid phone picks to ring at that moment. I am so anxious and scared at the same time