Satin Sheets Romance
Series: The Castillione Empire & The ENIGMA Saga Book 8.1
BY NIMFA BECK
Someone Like You:
WINONA
I never felt so helpless and weak I couldn’t even stand to go to the bathroom. Naupo ako sa kama at tiningnan ang bukas na pintuan ng banyo sa harap ko. I saw Neo in there, he was facing the mirror and I thought Iheard something buzzing. He must be shaving. I could see the side of his form. He had a towel wrapped around his hips and everything else was bare. The muscles on his arm ripped everytime he moved his hand. I could still feel them around me, surrounding me, as he held me tight while he pumped in and out of me.
Series: The Castillione Empire & The ENIGMA Saga Book 8.1
BY NIMFA BECK
Someone Like You:
WINONA
I never felt so helpless and weak I couldn’t even stand to go to the bathroom. Naupo ako sa kama at tiningnan ang bukas na pintuan ng banyo sa harap ko. I saw Neo in there, he was facing the mirror and I thought Iheard something buzzing. He must be shaving. I could see the side of his form. He had a towel wrapped around his hips and everything else was bare. The muscles on his arm ripped everytime he moved his hand. I could still feel them around me, surrounding me, as he held me tight while he pumped in and out of me.
Bigla siyang sumilip. “Hey, baby.”
I turned scarlet knowing he saw how I’d study his frame. Nag-isip ako ng pambawi. “No fair, why are youmoving around as if nothing happened and I can’t even move my legs and hips well?”
Kumunot ang noo niya. “You need to go to the bathroom?”
“I want to go pee.”
“Sure,” he smiled and carried me from the bed to the toilet bowl. He even helped me sit in the soft cover of the rim. “Go pee, I’ll put you back to bed when you’re done.” He went about and finished shaving. He wasn’t using any shaving cream. I guessed the razor that he was using didn’t need shaving cream. It had three flat points that he was moving up and down his face while holding a thick rounded handle.
I peed and he seemed not to mind. “Puwede ko yan gamitin sa legs ko?”
He looked down on me and smirked. Then he turned and showed me the top of the razor. “It is battery operated. When you think it’s full, bubuksan mo lang ito.” He opened the top part that he was rubbing in his face with a click on the side. “Then you will either clean the inside with a tissue or kung tinatamad ka, just kind’a thud it in the garbage para malaglag ‘yong hair.”
“It’s powder!” hindi makapaniwalang sabi ko.
“Yeah, it’s turning your hair into granules.”
I chuckled and finished. It hurt me to pee but I didn’t want Neo to know. It had been a long time and I didn’t want to act like a baby. “Done!” sabi ko sa kanya. I didn’t want him to keep on carrying me but I didn’t want to make a fool of myself either. The legs and thighs were shaking the way it never did before.
He put some good smelling shaving cologne in his jaw and set everything on the sink. Kinarga niya ulit ako papunta sa kama at inilapag malapit sa headboard. Inayos niya ang unan sa likuran ko na para akong batang may sakit then he kissed my lips and sucked my right nipple before he went back to the bathroom.
I never had a chance to gasp because he pulled away instantly.
Napangiti na lang ako at sinunsundan siya ng tingin. He was like a child doing things without planning. I liked him being caring but it felt a little weird. Ganito ba siya talaga sa mga babae pagkatapos ng…
I stopped at whatever I was thinking when I saw some spot of blood on the bedsheet. Gosh! Ang laki niya kasi, nasugat yata ako. Was that even possible? Mabuti na lang at sanay si Neo sa mga babaing hindi na virgin. Baka pag-isipan niya pa ako ng masama dahil ang tingin ng lahat sa mga Filipina ay virgin hanggang sa mag-asawa. I wanted to stick my tongue out to him and teased him with a gotcha! But I couldn’t take my eyes off the blood. Hinipo ko pa iyon. It was dried already.
“I called in a room service. I ordered all types of breakfast that they have. Hindi ko kasi alam kung ano ang gusto mo.” He went to the closet and extracted a white long sleeves shirt. Lumapit siya sa akin at tinulungan akong isuot iyon. “Papasok ang room boy, I’ll have the food set up on the coffee table.”
“I eat everything,” sabi ko sa kanya. “The next time, you don’t have to order everything.”
He smiled at me. “I’ll remember that.”
Ugh! Why did I even bother to say the next time? Aalis na siya at aalis na rin ako. Paano kaya? Would he at least accompany me to my room just to make sure I would make it? Baka kasi bumagsak ako sa hallway. My legs just felt funny and weird it wouldn’t stand up on its own. The man was a riot in bed. He liked hooking my arms in his neck while he cradled my legs in his arms and carried me while he rock on the four, and lots of other positions that were just killing my ligaments and my ability to walk right now. “I didn’t mean to say that,” I spoke in silence and glanced at the blood on the white bulky duvet.
“The what?” tanong niya na muling tumayo at kinuha ang cellphone niya sa ibabaw ng chest sa paanan ng kama. I noticed that everything in his pocket yesterday was sitting in there, including the condoms.
“The next time,” I said.
He looked at me with killing eyes. “What do you mean?” his voice was verging into a dangerous tone.
What did I mean? What? He was confusing as hell. I took note of the time from the Rolex watch that I wore all night, ten thirty. Ano’ng oras ba ang pasok nito? It was Tuesday morning and my flight back to Manila was tomorrow morning. I had one night to go and I planned to just stay in my room and nurse his sperm to swim in my eggcell for seventy two hours. That would be neat I almost grinned. “Late ka na yata sa trabaho.”
“I don’t have time table,” mabilis niyang sagot. He was looking at me with those piercing eyes. “You haven’t answered my question.”
“The what?” I asked irritatedly.
“That you didn’t mean the next time.”
“I didn’t! I wasn’t expecting a next time.”
“Why?”
“Why would I?”
“You are not leaving until tomorrow morning!”
I glared at him and saw how he regreted saying the phrase. But he hid it right away and went back to the same formidable expression awhile ago. “How did you know?”
“You told me.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Yes, you did. Your exact words were you have three nights in Vegas. Last night was your second. Tonight is the third.”
That made sense. “Okay,” I said giving up.
Naupo siya sa gilid ng kama paharap sa akin. He was still on his white towel and the seam just parted to where it met when he sat showing a powerful muscled hairy leg. I tried to look at his face. He rubbed my cheek with his knuckles.“We’ll go to your room just for you to take your pill because I know you don’t have it and I totally forgot about the condom in my pocket. Then I’ll bring you up here again.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked incredulously.
“I’m leaving to go to that meeting for just three hours, then I’m coming right back. I want you to be here when I come back.”
That was just too bossy.
“I could’ve brought you-“
“I don’t want to go with you! What are you up to?”
He looked at me. “I’ve never met a woman like you. Are you married or do you have boyfriend in Manila?”
Umiling ako. “God! Boy, are you that dense, or what? I never plan on being unfaithful in my life.”
“Good then,” he said as he stood up and looked closely at the closet. Nakahilera doon and maraming terno ng business suit in different colors. But he picked a jeans and a black t-shirts with colored tribal prints on the front. “I’m not playing businessman today. It’s just a party. I don’t even have to be there, I loath to leave you.”
I was surprised by his admission. Surely, we weren’t here for something. “Don’t let me stop you.”
He turned and looked at me and discarded the towel from his hips. “Be here when I come back. Sasamahan kita sa kuwarto mo and I’ll bring you back here.”
“No, just go. I’ll do it myself.”
He eyed me suspiciously as he pulled a pair of silk black boxers brief. He stood straight as if making an impression. “Let’s get something straight in here, babes. You should be here when I come back. Because if not, I will tear the whole place down to find you and make a life miserable to those people who’d try to hide you from me.”
My jaw slacked in place.
The doorbell rang just as he was trying to button his fly. He went out of the room and my cellphone started ringing. I almost rolled my eyes as I picked it from the bedside table. It was Marion calling.
“Did you enjoy the night?” she asked bago pa man ako magsalita.
I turned red and I felt it. “Err, yeah. It was wonderful.”
“Good. Listen may party sa BUSINESS Summit this morning. I and Isha are both going with Greg and Nath of course, you can join us.”
I cringed nervously. “Err, that would be great. But I’m fine, still enjoying Vegas.”
“Pupunta kami ni Isha sa room mo bago kami umalis, ha, maliligo lang kami.”
That alarmed me I almost jumped out of the bed. “Errr, ano’ng floor ba kayo?”
She told me the same floor number where I was. I was right, nasa kabila ko lang sila.
“Hey, hows the date with Neo last night? He’s so hot! In a dangerous way,” she stopped as if she just realized what she said. “Tatawagan ka sana namin ni Aleesha kagabi to find out if you are okay but our husbands stopped us. We should let you enjoy daw. Lumabas din kasi kami kagabi at nag-ikot. I was wondering if we can go out tonight, with Nath, Greg and Neo, you know.”
“I enjoyed it,” I said truthfully talking about last night. “We can’t invite Neo, this is not permanent.”
Hindi agad nakapagsalita si Marion.
“Come on! Don’t give me that crap!” I said guiltily. I hated it when they started to think.
“No, I’m just. I thought I am having déjà vu of my ownself from you.
“Gosh, shut up! Nath is committed to you since he met you.”
“Not really-“
It gave me goosebumps on my skin. “Please,” I didn’t even want to hear it.
“Fine! See you in awhile.”
That was it! I hanged up on her and tried to move out of the bed. Stop being a baby! I told myself. I should be able to walk okay. I pushed myself to the edge of the bed and winced at the discomfort. I tried to stand. My feet were wobbly but I managed. I was already at the door in Neo’s shirts that swallowed me whole dahil halos umabot na ang haba niyon sa tuhod ko when I saw him giving tip to the hotel guy.
The guy saw me and smiled before he headed to the door.
“Hey,” Neo smiled when he saw me. He clasped my waist and assisted me to sit on the couch. Nasa coffee table na ang mga pagkain. The whole oval surface was filled with different breakfast foods from cereal to pancakes and toast, butter and jam, bacon and cheeses and eggs and coffee, teas, juices and even chocolate drinks. Hindi ako makapaniwala. “I’ll get my shirt,” he said at iniwan ako sandali. Pagbalik niya ay suot niya na ang t-shirt.
I looked around. “Nasaan ang damit ko?”
“Pinababa ko sa cleaner, iaakyat na nila. It should be here bago ka matapos kumain.”
“This is really a waste, Neo.” I said looking at all the food.
“Hey, my aim is to please you.”
“I am not pleased.”
He looked at me na tila hindi makapaniwala.
“I’m sorry, I know I sounded like an ass pero ang daming nagugutom ngayon and you know na hindi ko naman ito kakainin lahat.”
“It’s okay, I helped the hotel restaurant. I gave an enormous tip to the guy who brought it here and I want you to eat as much as you could. Ginutom kita kagabi hanggang kaninang umaga.”
I felt that I blushed again. Dinampot ko ang sliced bread at pinahid sa butter. I folded it and ate it that way.
“Coffee,” he took the cup with hot water and the three connecting jars on the side. “How do you want it?”
“Black and a teaspoonfull of sugar.”
He did what I asked and put the coffee infront of me. I looked at him. “Bakit hindi ka kumakain?”
“I’m not really hungry, yet. Hindi talaga ako nag-aamusal. Mamaya pa dadating ang appetite ko.”
I washed the bread in my mouth with the hot coffee. It tasted good and different from my ordinary coffee breakfast. The aroma of expensive coffee was filling the air. Hindi na siguro ako makaktikim ulit ng ganito kasarap na kape.
Inilapag niya ang isang keycard sa harap ko. “Are you sure you can manage to go to your room by yourself?”
I nodded and kept on eating. I had to goat alam kong hindi niya ako paalisin ng hindi kumakain.
“Here’s the keycard to this room. Come back as soon as you could. I will ring the hotel phone even I’m in the function and you better answer.”
I looked up at him. “Are you threatening me?”
“No, I’m telling you. I had this funny feeling that you are just walking out of me.”
“Eh, ano naman?” I almost snorted. I knew I’m being such a bitch but this was only how far I wanted this to be.
“No!” his voice was low but very firm. “We’ll spend the night together again and I’ll bring you at the airport tomorrow.”
I almost choked on my coffee. “I have a service car to the airport at ihahatid ako ng mga boss ko!”
“So?”
“You don’t have to bring me to the airport, I’m fine!”
Umiling siya ng ilang ulit at saka tumayo. I felt his stare on my head as he stood near me for a very long time.
Tiningala ko siya.
“I don’t know what’s going on. From the moment I met you and that was just two nights ago, you have been pushing me away. You are the very first woman I’ve met who didn’t call me the next day and didn’t even want to hear any promises of seeing me the following days ahead. I don’t fucking know why I am pushing myself on you!” He pointed his finger on me now. “But Christ! Could you at least play along until tomorrow? I am not pulling you into something you don’t want, but stop pushing me away! Damn it!” he walked back inside the room at muntik nang malaglag mula sa bibig ko ang tinapay na kinakain ko.
I slumped on the couch and covered my face with my hands.
The doorbell rang again and I got my clothes back. I got dressed silently while he was pacing around the room talking to people on his cellphone. There wasn’t even a time that he tried to hide his phone calls. He was precised in everything he talked about. I couldn’t believe that the man in the dragon and encryption tats was a prominent sounding businessman. After the last phone call he threw the cellphone on the bed and squatted in front of me. I stopped putting my shoes.
“I gotta go,” siya ang nagsiksik ng keycard sa bulsa ko na hindi ko alam na iniwan ko pala sa may couch. “Sabay na tayo sa elevator and you can get out on your floor.”
That should be fair enough. Unlike on this floor, there were about thirty rooms on my floor. He wouldn’t be able to guess.
“You will just take your pill and you’ll comeback here, okay?”
I nodded absentmindedly.
“Sorry for the outburst but I don't want to comeback here later knowing that you aren't here waiting. So promise me you’ll be here.”
Tumango ako.
“Do you always keep your promise?”
“Yes.”
“Then say it, I want you to say that you will be here when I come back.”
I smiled at his epic expression that was almost begging. Really? If I hadn’t known men better I would think that he just lost his heart to me. Ang galing galing na umarte ngayon ng mga lalaki. But then, whatever happened, I always kept my promise so I just told myself in an instant that I would just spend another crazy night with him. “Alright, Neo. I’ll be here on your bed naked when you come back. Which is after three hours, happy?”
He kneel on the carpet and hugged me. “Thank you!”
I turned scarlet knowing he saw how I’d study his frame. Nag-isip ako ng pambawi. “No fair, why are youmoving around as if nothing happened and I can’t even move my legs and hips well?”
Kumunot ang noo niya. “You need to go to the bathroom?”
“I want to go pee.”
“Sure,” he smiled and carried me from the bed to the toilet bowl. He even helped me sit in the soft cover of the rim. “Go pee, I’ll put you back to bed when you’re done.” He went about and finished shaving. He wasn’t using any shaving cream. I guessed the razor that he was using didn’t need shaving cream. It had three flat points that he was moving up and down his face while holding a thick rounded handle.
I peed and he seemed not to mind. “Puwede ko yan gamitin sa legs ko?”
He looked down on me and smirked. Then he turned and showed me the top of the razor. “It is battery operated. When you think it’s full, bubuksan mo lang ito.” He opened the top part that he was rubbing in his face with a click on the side. “Then you will either clean the inside with a tissue or kung tinatamad ka, just kind’a thud it in the garbage para malaglag ‘yong hair.”
“It’s powder!” hindi makapaniwalang sabi ko.
“Yeah, it’s turning your hair into granules.”
I chuckled and finished. It hurt me to pee but I didn’t want Neo to know. It had been a long time and I didn’t want to act like a baby. “Done!” sabi ko sa kanya. I didn’t want him to keep on carrying me but I didn’t want to make a fool of myself either. The legs and thighs were shaking the way it never did before.
He put some good smelling shaving cologne in his jaw and set everything on the sink. Kinarga niya ulit ako papunta sa kama at inilapag malapit sa headboard. Inayos niya ang unan sa likuran ko na para akong batang may sakit then he kissed my lips and sucked my right nipple before he went back to the bathroom.
I never had a chance to gasp because he pulled away instantly.
Napangiti na lang ako at sinunsundan siya ng tingin. He was like a child doing things without planning. I liked him being caring but it felt a little weird. Ganito ba siya talaga sa mga babae pagkatapos ng…
I stopped at whatever I was thinking when I saw some spot of blood on the bedsheet. Gosh! Ang laki niya kasi, nasugat yata ako. Was that even possible? Mabuti na lang at sanay si Neo sa mga babaing hindi na virgin. Baka pag-isipan niya pa ako ng masama dahil ang tingin ng lahat sa mga Filipina ay virgin hanggang sa mag-asawa. I wanted to stick my tongue out to him and teased him with a gotcha! But I couldn’t take my eyes off the blood. Hinipo ko pa iyon. It was dried already.
“I called in a room service. I ordered all types of breakfast that they have. Hindi ko kasi alam kung ano ang gusto mo.” He went to the closet and extracted a white long sleeves shirt. Lumapit siya sa akin at tinulungan akong isuot iyon. “Papasok ang room boy, I’ll have the food set up on the coffee table.”
“I eat everything,” sabi ko sa kanya. “The next time, you don’t have to order everything.”
He smiled at me. “I’ll remember that.”
Ugh! Why did I even bother to say the next time? Aalis na siya at aalis na rin ako. Paano kaya? Would he at least accompany me to my room just to make sure I would make it? Baka kasi bumagsak ako sa hallway. My legs just felt funny and weird it wouldn’t stand up on its own. The man was a riot in bed. He liked hooking my arms in his neck while he cradled my legs in his arms and carried me while he rock on the four, and lots of other positions that were just killing my ligaments and my ability to walk right now. “I didn’t mean to say that,” I spoke in silence and glanced at the blood on the white bulky duvet.
“The what?” tanong niya na muling tumayo at kinuha ang cellphone niya sa ibabaw ng chest sa paanan ng kama. I noticed that everything in his pocket yesterday was sitting in there, including the condoms.
“The next time,” I said.
He looked at me with killing eyes. “What do you mean?” his voice was verging into a dangerous tone.
What did I mean? What? He was confusing as hell. I took note of the time from the Rolex watch that I wore all night, ten thirty. Ano’ng oras ba ang pasok nito? It was Tuesday morning and my flight back to Manila was tomorrow morning. I had one night to go and I planned to just stay in my room and nurse his sperm to swim in my eggcell for seventy two hours. That would be neat I almost grinned. “Late ka na yata sa trabaho.”
“I don’t have time table,” mabilis niyang sagot. He was looking at me with those piercing eyes. “You haven’t answered my question.”
“The what?” I asked irritatedly.
“That you didn’t mean the next time.”
“I didn’t! I wasn’t expecting a next time.”
“Why?”
“Why would I?”
“You are not leaving until tomorrow morning!”
I glared at him and saw how he regreted saying the phrase. But he hid it right away and went back to the same formidable expression awhile ago. “How did you know?”
“You told me.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Yes, you did. Your exact words were you have three nights in Vegas. Last night was your second. Tonight is the third.”
That made sense. “Okay,” I said giving up.
Naupo siya sa gilid ng kama paharap sa akin. He was still on his white towel and the seam just parted to where it met when he sat showing a powerful muscled hairy leg. I tried to look at his face. He rubbed my cheek with his knuckles.“We’ll go to your room just for you to take your pill because I know you don’t have it and I totally forgot about the condom in my pocket. Then I’ll bring you up here again.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked incredulously.
“I’m leaving to go to that meeting for just three hours, then I’m coming right back. I want you to be here when I come back.”
That was just too bossy.
“I could’ve brought you-“
“I don’t want to go with you! What are you up to?”
He looked at me. “I’ve never met a woman like you. Are you married or do you have boyfriend in Manila?”
Umiling ako. “God! Boy, are you that dense, or what? I never plan on being unfaithful in my life.”
“Good then,” he said as he stood up and looked closely at the closet. Nakahilera doon and maraming terno ng business suit in different colors. But he picked a jeans and a black t-shirts with colored tribal prints on the front. “I’m not playing businessman today. It’s just a party. I don’t even have to be there, I loath to leave you.”
I was surprised by his admission. Surely, we weren’t here for something. “Don’t let me stop you.”
He turned and looked at me and discarded the towel from his hips. “Be here when I come back. Sasamahan kita sa kuwarto mo and I’ll bring you back here.”
“No, just go. I’ll do it myself.”
He eyed me suspiciously as he pulled a pair of silk black boxers brief. He stood straight as if making an impression. “Let’s get something straight in here, babes. You should be here when I come back. Because if not, I will tear the whole place down to find you and make a life miserable to those people who’d try to hide you from me.”
My jaw slacked in place.
The doorbell rang just as he was trying to button his fly. He went out of the room and my cellphone started ringing. I almost rolled my eyes as I picked it from the bedside table. It was Marion calling.
“Did you enjoy the night?” she asked bago pa man ako magsalita.
I turned red and I felt it. “Err, yeah. It was wonderful.”
“Good. Listen may party sa BUSINESS Summit this morning. I and Isha are both going with Greg and Nath of course, you can join us.”
I cringed nervously. “Err, that would be great. But I’m fine, still enjoying Vegas.”
“Pupunta kami ni Isha sa room mo bago kami umalis, ha, maliligo lang kami.”
That alarmed me I almost jumped out of the bed. “Errr, ano’ng floor ba kayo?”
She told me the same floor number where I was. I was right, nasa kabila ko lang sila.
“Hey, hows the date with Neo last night? He’s so hot! In a dangerous way,” she stopped as if she just realized what she said. “Tatawagan ka sana namin ni Aleesha kagabi to find out if you are okay but our husbands stopped us. We should let you enjoy daw. Lumabas din kasi kami kagabi at nag-ikot. I was wondering if we can go out tonight, with Nath, Greg and Neo, you know.”
“I enjoyed it,” I said truthfully talking about last night. “We can’t invite Neo, this is not permanent.”
Hindi agad nakapagsalita si Marion.
“Come on! Don’t give me that crap!” I said guiltily. I hated it when they started to think.
“No, I’m just. I thought I am having déjà vu of my ownself from you.
“Gosh, shut up! Nath is committed to you since he met you.”
“Not really-“
It gave me goosebumps on my skin. “Please,” I didn’t even want to hear it.
“Fine! See you in awhile.”
That was it! I hanged up on her and tried to move out of the bed. Stop being a baby! I told myself. I should be able to walk okay. I pushed myself to the edge of the bed and winced at the discomfort. I tried to stand. My feet were wobbly but I managed. I was already at the door in Neo’s shirts that swallowed me whole dahil halos umabot na ang haba niyon sa tuhod ko when I saw him giving tip to the hotel guy.
The guy saw me and smiled before he headed to the door.
“Hey,” Neo smiled when he saw me. He clasped my waist and assisted me to sit on the couch. Nasa coffee table na ang mga pagkain. The whole oval surface was filled with different breakfast foods from cereal to pancakes and toast, butter and jam, bacon and cheeses and eggs and coffee, teas, juices and even chocolate drinks. Hindi ako makapaniwala. “I’ll get my shirt,” he said at iniwan ako sandali. Pagbalik niya ay suot niya na ang t-shirt.
I looked around. “Nasaan ang damit ko?”
“Pinababa ko sa cleaner, iaakyat na nila. It should be here bago ka matapos kumain.”
“This is really a waste, Neo.” I said looking at all the food.
“Hey, my aim is to please you.”
“I am not pleased.”
He looked at me na tila hindi makapaniwala.
“I’m sorry, I know I sounded like an ass pero ang daming nagugutom ngayon and you know na hindi ko naman ito kakainin lahat.”
“It’s okay, I helped the hotel restaurant. I gave an enormous tip to the guy who brought it here and I want you to eat as much as you could. Ginutom kita kagabi hanggang kaninang umaga.”
I felt that I blushed again. Dinampot ko ang sliced bread at pinahid sa butter. I folded it and ate it that way.
“Coffee,” he took the cup with hot water and the three connecting jars on the side. “How do you want it?”
“Black and a teaspoonfull of sugar.”
He did what I asked and put the coffee infront of me. I looked at him. “Bakit hindi ka kumakain?”
“I’m not really hungry, yet. Hindi talaga ako nag-aamusal. Mamaya pa dadating ang appetite ko.”
I washed the bread in my mouth with the hot coffee. It tasted good and different from my ordinary coffee breakfast. The aroma of expensive coffee was filling the air. Hindi na siguro ako makaktikim ulit ng ganito kasarap na kape.
Inilapag niya ang isang keycard sa harap ko. “Are you sure you can manage to go to your room by yourself?”
I nodded and kept on eating. I had to goat alam kong hindi niya ako paalisin ng hindi kumakain.
“Here’s the keycard to this room. Come back as soon as you could. I will ring the hotel phone even I’m in the function and you better answer.”
I looked up at him. “Are you threatening me?”
“No, I’m telling you. I had this funny feeling that you are just walking out of me.”
“Eh, ano naman?” I almost snorted. I knew I’m being such a bitch but this was only how far I wanted this to be.
“No!” his voice was low but very firm. “We’ll spend the night together again and I’ll bring you at the airport tomorrow.”
I almost choked on my coffee. “I have a service car to the airport at ihahatid ako ng mga boss ko!”
“So?”
“You don’t have to bring me to the airport, I’m fine!”
Umiling siya ng ilang ulit at saka tumayo. I felt his stare on my head as he stood near me for a very long time.
Tiningala ko siya.
“I don’t know what’s going on. From the moment I met you and that was just two nights ago, you have been pushing me away. You are the very first woman I’ve met who didn’t call me the next day and didn’t even want to hear any promises of seeing me the following days ahead. I don’t fucking know why I am pushing myself on you!” He pointed his finger on me now. “But Christ! Could you at least play along until tomorrow? I am not pulling you into something you don’t want, but stop pushing me away! Damn it!” he walked back inside the room at muntik nang malaglag mula sa bibig ko ang tinapay na kinakain ko.
I slumped on the couch and covered my face with my hands.
The doorbell rang again and I got my clothes back. I got dressed silently while he was pacing around the room talking to people on his cellphone. There wasn’t even a time that he tried to hide his phone calls. He was precised in everything he talked about. I couldn’t believe that the man in the dragon and encryption tats was a prominent sounding businessman. After the last phone call he threw the cellphone on the bed and squatted in front of me. I stopped putting my shoes.
“I gotta go,” siya ang nagsiksik ng keycard sa bulsa ko na hindi ko alam na iniwan ko pala sa may couch. “Sabay na tayo sa elevator and you can get out on your floor.”
That should be fair enough. Unlike on this floor, there were about thirty rooms on my floor. He wouldn’t be able to guess.
“You will just take your pill and you’ll comeback here, okay?”
I nodded absentmindedly.
“Sorry for the outburst but I don't want to comeback here later knowing that you aren't here waiting. So promise me you’ll be here.”
Tumango ako.
“Do you always keep your promise?”
“Yes.”
“Then say it, I want you to say that you will be here when I come back.”
I smiled at his epic expression that was almost begging. Really? If I hadn’t known men better I would think that he just lost his heart to me. Ang galing galing na umarte ngayon ng mga lalaki. But then, whatever happened, I always kept my promise so I just told myself in an instant that I would just spend another crazy night with him. “Alright, Neo. I’ll be here on your bed naked when you come back. Which is after three hours, happy?”
He kneel on the carpet and hugged me. “Thank you!”
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