Chapter 4
1153 Words
Third-Person POV.
Alice, Eleanor's mom, rushed towards her daughter and hugged her. She was scared that something bad had happened to her.
“ What happened darling? Why didn't you call or something?? ”
“ I'm sorry Mom but something happened. I will tell you everything. Let's go in and where is Dad?”
“ Dad is inside. He was also worried” she said to her as they walked in.
“ Ely. What happened? Do you know how scared we have been? We thought you had been kidnapped or so and you weren't taking your calls.”
“ Sorry, Dad. I didn't know my phone was on silent mode.” Eleanor said to her dad as they all sat on the couch holding her.
Eleanor began narrating the tale of how she lost track of time in the library to Sergio dropping her off at their house.
“ If not for Sergio's momma, I wondered what would have happened to me. I'm just so grateful to God.” Eleanor said to her parents while wiping the tears flowing down her tender cheeks.
“ Oh my God Darling. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. But I told you to stop taking that route. This city is becoming very dangerous. What if that Sergio guy didn't come? What do you think would have happened to you huhhh??”
Alice said to her daughter with a trembling voice. She wiped the tears from her daughter's cheeks and hugged her tightly.
“ I'm sorry Mom. I promise not to… again. I will try to be more careful.”
“ Ely, why don't you go to your room, freshen up and come down for dinner, okay? Your mom prepared spaghetti.” Her dad said to her.
“ Okay, Dad,” Eleanor said, but before she stood up, her mother held her softly and looked into her blue eyes.
“ Promise me, Ely, that you will never follow that route again, sweetie huhhh??”
“ I promise Mom, I will never. Not after what happened today. It's only going to hunt me.”
“ Good and I don't want you to be scared again. You are safe now, okay sweetie?” Alice said to her and released Eleanor from her gentle hold.
“ Yes, Mom,” Eleanor said as she took her bag and books, took the stairs, and went to her room.
“ It's going to be fine, Alice. Stop crying.” Enzo said to his wife while holding her sweating palms.
“ Do you know how scared I was? I thought he had found her and taken her.”
“ He is not going to find her. We have been hiding and protecting Ely from him for 19 years, okay? And we are still protecting her. ”
“ When are we going to tell her?” Alice asked her husband, looking up at him with a teary voice.
“ What?” he asked his wife worriedly.
“ When are we going to tell her the truth? It's suffocating me. I'm tired. What if she finds out elsewhere and hates us? What if?..”
“ No honey. Our daughter is a sweet girl. She would never hate us, okay? She will know we hid it from her to protect her.” Enzo said to his worried wife.
He hugged her and patted her softly. He was also scared of his daughter finding out, but didn't want to show it. He has to be strong.
“ We are going to tell her soon, okay? But let her graduate from college first. We don't want anything distracting her. Okay?”
“ Okay that's go..od,” Alice said while hiccuping.
“ You know we have to fulfill our promise to Emma. We can't let him find out about our Ely at all costs.”
“ Yes, I know. But I still want her to know. She deserves to know the truth.”
“ Yes, she does.”
“ What about this? Eleanor has two years left to graduate. By then she will be twenty-one. We will tell her everything. She will be mature enough to understand us better.”
“ Yes, you're right. I guess that's the best.” Alice said, looking at her husband with a relieved face.
She felt so much better after talking about it with her husband. It had been eating her up but didn't want to show it.
“ Honey, why don't you set the table, I'm starving.” He said with a chuckling tone to improve the mood.
“Of course, I will be back .” She said smiling at him while standing up and going to the kitchen.
Eleanor's pov.
I entered my room still feeling a little bit paranoid and lay on my bed. My mind drifted to that man that almost assaulted me and I started trembling in horror.
I quickly shrugged the feeling off because I didn't want to feel this way. Suddenly, my phone rang and I smiled when I saw the caller.
“Hello, Eleanor.”
“Hi,” I said shyly.
“ How are you? Hope you feel better. Are you still scared?”
“ No Serg, I'm fine now. Thanks a lot.”
“Stop thanking me, baby girl. I will do it again and again whenever you're in danger. But I promise you that it will never happen to you, okay?”
“ Sure. I feel so much better. How about I buy you co…ffee this wee…kend? You know, to tha..nk you for saving me and all.”
“ Are you asking me out?” He asked in a flirty tone. I blushed hard. Thank God no one was here at this moment to see my tomato face. I can imagine if Mia were here, she would tease me for life.
“N….o I'm not. I just wa…nted to… you know, show appre….ciation. But it's okay if you don't want to…..”
“ No Baby girl. I'm going to come. I'm just teasing you. How about you take some rest, okay? I will call you some other time. I need to attend to someone urgently.” he said in a scary tone, as if he wanted to kill someone.
I shrug that thought off. Maybe it's just a meeting or so. He wouldn't do that, I'm sure.
“ Okay then. Good night Serg.”
“ Goodnight baby girl,” he said and ended the call.
Anyone who sees me right now will think I was talking to my boyfriend. I'm not usually a stutterer, but I always find myself stuttering when I talk to him. My face was all red. I quickly got up from bed and went to the bathroom.
I need to take a shower to cool my head and calm myself down. After dinner, I will call Mia and tell her what happened to me after she ditched me.
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