Chapter Eighteen
2510 Words
Leon
I put all the things we needed for the vacation. I convinced Leandra, the woman which is basically the guardian of Bella. I wonder where her father is and I tried to ask but that left unanswered.
Luckily, Leandra let Bella have a vacation with me. Too much questions were asked because she was too protective of Bella. But me, a very confident and the most good looking, kind person to live on this planet handled all the questions confidently and convinced her that I mean no harm to Bella.
I looked up in the sky and saw that the sun is starting to rise. My staff knew that me and Bella is just going for a work related trip and I need Bella to get handy. I have to pull some lies for them not to worry and think.
Bella doesn’t want them to know that we are going on a vacation. She feel weird that she’s going away with her own boss so I just made some alibis.
“You ready, baby?” I asked. I smiled when she nodded.
We are currently on the front of the apartment complex she lives in. She’s wearing a skinny jeans and a long sleeves crop top. The jeans were a killer because it defined her curvy sexy legs and her sexy ass. Having a hard on early in the morning because my girl is so sexy with a jeans on is not cute.
Luckily, I’m wearing a long tank top that covered my crotch. Thank God.
“Are you sure Leandra said yes? Or you’re just tricking me?” She asks with a worry eyes.
I cupped her cute face, my hand is still on a bandage.
“She said yes, baby. There’s a high chance that I will kidnap you but that will come another time.” I joked. “Trust me, she said yes.”
I had a hard time convincing her but I did. The only person who doesn’t like my idea is that snobby friend of hers, Helios.
He literally questioned every single thing about this trip like he was the motherfucking father of Bella. He threw me a deadly glare all throughout that I’m in their apartment. Sure, I remained calm and never bother hissing at him but I silently planning a f*****g murder towards him.
I’m not an i***t. Well maybe, sometimes I’m a dumbass but I’m not that stupid not to notice that she likes Bella. She see her not just only a childhood friend but as a woman. He likes her romantically. I can see how he glances softly to her because that’s how I look at my Bella.
I think I have a little competition here and I intend to win.
“Are you excited?” I asks. I heard from Leandra that this is her first vacation since she was a kid.
That’s why I planned this vacation based on her likings. She loves oceans and white sands, so we are going to a beach. That’s my mother’s private island but she put that island under me and Wallace’s name.
“Yes. But I’m guilty though.”
“Why?” I put my hand on her thigh and gave it a little squeeze.
“Because I feel like I’m avoiding my work and having this vacation with my own boss. Isn’t that weird?” She titled her head, thinking about the situation.
I laughed a little realising how cute she is when she’s thinking like that. She’s like a lost puppy trying to figure out where to go.
“Don’t think about that. Just remember that this trip with me is paid. It’s like being with me because I need my girl to with me.” I winked and returned my gaze on the road.
She nodded hesitantly. My hand found hers, I gave it a little squeezed silently promising her that our trip will be okay.
I headed to the airport as soon as possible because I’m sick and tired of this city, I want to go and have a break.
The trip to the airport was silent but comfortable. It was too early in the morning and having a nonsense conversation at this godly hour is not really my cup of tea. I squeeze Bella’s hand from time to time.
“This way Sir Monzato.”
I held Bella’s hand as we go to my plane following the airport staff.
“The plane is already ready to board. But I think your friends are now getting bored from waiting.”
“My what?” I frown. I never invited any of them here. Dang, I never told them I will go on a vacation.
Who snitch on me this time when I never told someone my plans? The f**k.
“Your friends are coming with us?” Bella asked, smiling.
I smiled lightly, massaging my temple to prevent the migraine from coming in. At least prevent it. “I don’t think so. I never invited them.”
My friends are so f*****g folded by detectives. They find out anything like a f*****g FBI agents. No secrets will be keep in this f*****g friend group, they find out every f*****g thing. Goddamn it.
We arrived at my plane and I looked around. Weird. The coast looks clear, no sign of my friends. Maybe the staff is just trolling me or something.
“Our things will be transferred here by the staffs. Let’s go inside so we can start our vacation?”
“If you insist.”
“Hands up in the air!” Someone shouted from the back. And from the voice itself, I know who the f**k is that intruder.
“I’m the new Police Head Chief!”
I turned around and my jaw dropped when I saw Damon and Crow dressed up in a fake police uniform and holding a freaking water gun. Their posture is so good, you will believe that they’re cops— minus the f*****g water gun of course.
“Sir Crow and Sir Leon! Good morning.” Bella chuckled while waving at them.
“Good morning to you too, Dolly Bells. We are here to save you.” Damon said, shooting me with his gun tight in my face.
“f**k you!”
Crow walked towards us, shooting me with the gun “You okay, Doll? Tell me why this i***t is kidnapping you.”
“Kidnapping? Are you f*****g kidding me, Crow? Now, I’m f*****g wet from that stupid guns from the both of you!”
“We are going on a vacation. I don’t think that’s an act of kidnapping when he asked me and I said yes.” Bella shrugged.
“We are just making sure you’re okay. Friends do bad things, you know?” Crow said, smirking like a f*****g i***t. I glared at him.
“Shut your god forsaken mouth, Leonetti.” I say. I snatched the water gun from Damon’s grip and fired him with his own weapon.
Serves you right, fucker.
“Hey stop that! f**k you! You’re ruining my uniform! This is my costume for today!”
I stopped shooting him with a gun. “Costume?”
“Yeah. It’s halloween today. This is our costume.”
“Is it necessary to f*****g dress up at six o’clock in the morning?”
“Yes.” Crow shrugged pointing his gun towards me. “Anyways, halloween aside. How are you Lee?”
“I’m good.” I nodded. Even without telling me, I know what he meant. This is about what happened between me and father.
Crow’s fatherly attitude is coming out again. I gave him a genuine smile to tell him that I’m really fine. That’s why I’m doing this vacation to escape things that would put me in a bad mood or bad situation.
For once, I want to enjoy my life and my money that I worked hard for years.
This time, I want to have some time with myself and Bella of course. You cannot let her behind knowing that Helios will be around. Gotta protect what’s mine at all cost.
“All right then. You have fun, Doll. Have fun with your friend.”
“f**k you again, Crow.”
Crow raised a brow to tease me more. “What? Friends should have fun. Right, Doll?”
“That’s right, Sir Crow.” Bella smiled.
“Okay! Bring me the white sand, Lee!” Damon walked towards me and kissed my cheeks. “Have a good vacation then. Love you, man.”
I chuckled and gave him a nod. “Love you too. Be a good kid to Crow.”
“Oh, he should be. He will not go trick or treating if he pisses me off.”
“Sod off. You know that my favourite event is Halloween.”
Crow hugged me and kissed my head. He gave Bella tight hug before tugging Damon to leave.
I sighed when I finally got a chance to sit in my plane. Bella is beside me. The pilot announced that we will take off in two minutes.
“It’s beautiful.” Bella muttered out of nowhere.
“What?”
“Your friends. Your relationship with them is good, no problem with showing affection to each other.”
I smiled.
People might get confused why me and the boys are not scared to show affection just like how women shows affection with their girl friends. Maybe because there’s no such as being embarrassing about that, especially when men is doing it. If women can do it, so as men.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Even though we’re kissing you each other on cheeks, we hug like a sweethearts or say I love you to each other. That’s completely normal.
“Yeah. That’s my brothers, baby. They got my back.”
“I can see that. You are lucky to find people who will stay by your side when life’s treating you like shit.”
“You just need to be smart enough to pick who to trust.” I said, grabbing her hands close to me.
“I don’t think so. No matter how smart you are to trust or not to trust someone, that’s on them. If they’re going to cherish your trust or they will just throw it away like a used old toy.”
Damn, who hurt her? She got a point though.
“Then how will you if someone will trash your trust?”
She shrugged and flashed a smile. “I don’t know. That kind of thing is one of the unexpected events that could happen to people.”
“Do you trust me?” I asked.
“Nope. Trust is a heavy word. It’s a small word with huge meanings. I trust you enough to come and be alone with you in this vacation with you but I do not trust you to let you know all the real struggles I went through before I became your maid. I trust you enough to ride this plane without the fear of you, pushing me down to kill me but I do not trust you enough to open up myself to you.”
Trust is a heavy word.
I shook my head from a sudden realisations. I trust her enough to gamble my bachelor life and my heart to get her whole attention. I trust her enough to give her time to like me back even though I knew for myself, that that’s down right impossible because I’m too old for her, but still I’m trusting her and the process. I trust her enough to get to know me.
But I don’t trust her enough to tell the real score between me and father. I do not trust her enough to tell her that I’m heartless enough to kill someone for my brother and Purple Heart’s sake. I do not trust her enough to let her know that I’m broken, trying to pick myself up without letting her help me.
I do not trust her enough to tell her that I’m just some f****d up dude who struggles to ask people for help other than my friends.
On that contrary, we are in the same page. I might like her but not enough to give her all of my trust and reveal all of my secrets.
“Will you let me know the real you?” I asked quietly. I looked her in the eye.
“Why would I do that when you struggle to let me know the real you?” Her voice was sweet, so genuine. No signs of hurt or annoyance. She caressed my cheek with her free hand while smiling.
“If you cannot do the same, why are you asking for it? Why are we asking for more when we cannot risk giving what is ours?” She continues, “We cannot do a give and take thing we always ask for something that would only benefit only ourselves, no wonder this world is in chaos, full of desperate and greedy people.”
“But I like you. Isn’t that enough?”
“If the definition of your feelings towards me getting everything you want and not caring if I agree or not. I don’t want it. Learn to trust me and I will too.”
“If I can’t?”
I’m afraid of what will happen if I let her come in to see the real me. The persona that I’m showing right now is only a third of who I am.
I’m broken boy inside.
“Then we will go nowhere. We will go on separate path. For the books that I’ve read, I learned that in life, some pages need to be turned to see what will happen next and some are needed to be forgotten because there’s no point on remembering them when that page is too much for you.”
“And I hope that we will not come to the point that I need to f0rce myself to forget and burn our page because you make me so happy, Sir Leon.”
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