Sam's POV
"Acquainted? I don't think you are." Philip said. The way he spoke so confidently made me start having second guesses. Of course we didn't really know anything about each other in the training, but clearly, Philip was someone important.
"Let's cut all this nonsense right now." Bella said."You know what? Let's just go, Danny."
I stood still. I didn't understand what she was talking about. "I need to speak with you, Danny--"
"--back off, bitch. Daniel is mine." Bella snapped."If you think that you're going to take this one from me too, think again. He's mine."
My lips parted to speak but I smiled instead. She held him by the arms and was dragging him out. "Control freak." It came as a soft whisper.
"What?" Bella turned back with fire in her eyes. "What did you just say right now?"
"It's starting to make sense to me now. You've not even changed a bit." Back then when I was still married to Justin, Bella was the devil in the family, always lying and saying mean stuff about me. And her mother would back her up.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." She said, fidgeting. Why was she fidgeting?
"Listen to me," I got closer to her, standing face to face. "I've forgiven you already. So stay clear from my sight, from my life, do you understand me? I won't hesitate to strike back if you come near me, every one and everything I love."
She eyed me up and down for so long it became uncomfortable. As I turned back to leave, she raised her hand up and was about to hit me. I couldn't notice but Philip did. He held her hand tight and pushed her back she staggered, almost crashing down to the next chair and table.
"Your session has expired. From today, you and this other man here have been banned from stepping foot in my restaurant." Philip commanded.
Bella was still laughing until Philip made signal to call some securities over. Kicking them out was too surprising to me, amusing even. But what made me sad was the fact that Danny was already on her side, just like that. How did that even happened!
Philip led me towards a place, it was more quiet and calm. "You have a guest." He said calmly.
"Wait, hold on. Just who are you? I mean, why are you being nice to me?" I queried.
He looked at me for a while. "Because you helped me when we first met."
I blinked. I didn't even remember that.
"It was raining and you gave me your umbrella. I never forgot your kindness." He said. I could only just nod slightly to that.
"So you own this place?" I asked. He'd been acting like the owner I thought it would have been obvious to Bella--
This time, he actually burst out in laughter. "I have no idea who owns here. All that was just acting."
I actually froze. Before I knew it, I'd began to laugh too. So all of that was just...acting?? "Damn, you were good." I teased. When it had all died down, I found myself asking. "Wait, I have a guest? Who is it?"
Just in that moment, Nicholas walked in. I jumped up. I hadn't been expecting to see Nicholas like this. How did he know I'd be here though?
He sat down opposite me and cupped his face in his palm as he stared at me. I frowned. "What's this?"
He didn't utter a words still. Heaving in a deep sigh, I felt I should apologize to him. "Listen, about the other--"
"It's fine. Sam, my dearest Sam."
This was unlike Nicholas. I didn't think I'd ever witnessed him being drunk like this before! He leaned closer and big palms engulfed mine. His touch was warm, friendly.
"I hate when we fight, especially when it's about him. You stopped talking to me because you got married to him." His face was all serious now.
I swallowed. He wasn't wrong. "It won't happen again. You're all mine now, don't ever believe anything else." I found myself blushing at that. Thankfully, I didn't think he noticed.
"I'm here because you're in hot soup." He said just as quickly as he pulled his hand away from mine. It was almost shattering, I straightened up instantly. I was longing for that warm touch and he just dared pulled away like that?
"Hot soup?" I just realized and was still saying when he interrupted.
"There was a picture of us. We were smiling --" he paused.."You know what? I'll just show you." He reached for his phone and showed me the picture.
"Wow, this is lovely. I love it, what's up with that?"
He swallowed, actually looking all worried. "Granny saw it and um, well, she's coming in town to see you."
"What!" I spat out. His granny was the only nice soul besides Nicholas. "But what? Why?"
"She asked about us, about you. I couldn't deny what's going on with us. So I just told her I'm in love with you."
My eyes widened. In love with me? How could he just say that casually like that! Why was I shaking like this? I--I didn't even know what to feel, what to say. I just...!
"Listen mi corazon,"
I keep forgetting he called me that sometimes. It was the day we just met at school. I was practicing Spanish on an app and kept saying mi corazon(my heart) when he asked for my name. Since then, he kept calling me that. My heart did always skipped a bit when he called me that.
"I'm here for you now. I won't dare let you go again like the last time." He said. There was this honesty in his eyes. I hated how drawn I was to him too. How did everything even happened? I loved Justin, he was my fucking husband! And yet, just in under weeks of reuniting with Nicholas, I'd suddenly fallen out of love with Justin?
And in love, with Nicholas?