Yours Sincerely

CHAPTER 06: RESPECT...

SAPPHIRE’S POV:

I blinked once, twice and thrice and chocked at my own saliva. ‘Did I heard it right?’

“What?” I looked at him and he moved nervously. Now looking at me with doubt in his eyes.

“Not right now of course. And not like it’s an order. I wanted to tell you slowly but I guess I can’t just lie to you.” He rushed out. I looked at him with pain in my eyes. Not wanting to lose his company yet it is the right thing to do.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked him an stood up, ready to leave this room as soon as possible.

"I'm doing what?" He looked at me confused and baffled. 

"This whole melting my heart and soul. And then giving me almost a heart attack. I think I should go to bed now. Good night Adam." I sure to leave only to be stopped by him again. He took my hand in his and turned me around. Looking at me like he was in dilemma for a decision.

"Hey! Come with me." Without waiting for my response he dragged me towards his room which was on the exact opposite side of mine. I silently followed him.

"What are you doing Adam?" I asked when I saw him lock his door and rumbling his bag that was in the walk-in closet of the room.

"Wait a minute. Got it." He took an envelope out from his laptop bag and handed it to me. I looked at him in confusion.

" Just open it and read." He ordered and sat on the couch in the room. I shook my head at his bossy behaviour and opened the envelope. Inside it, it was latter from the man I loved the most. Glancing at Adam one last time, I started to read the letter. The letter was dated for my birthday. His death day.

As I read the letter, my eyes widened and surprise rushed in every part of my body with anger. 'Did he just came into my life cause he was obligated to?'

I felt like s**t cause I thought that it just him wanting to be with me but now that I know the truth, I feel pain in my heart.

Wanting to laugh at me as to how I wanted no one near me and yet now that I know it was all a good show I was upset. How Hypocrite of me.

"Dad was just trying to look out for me. You don't have to be here." I wiped my eyes as the stupid tears wouldn't stop.

"What!? No! God! What are you thinking about me right now?!" He jumped out of the couch, taking the latter out of my hand and threw it on the bed. His was was loud and somehow I didn't like it.

"Tell me what are you thinking, please." He shook my shoulder. Looking like he was hella frustrated.

"You don't have to be with me when you don't want to! You should be happy and I can't give anyone happiness." I moved back removing his hands off of me like they burnt my skin.

"You deserve so much better than a broken person. I'm not a good person, Adam. Everyone who loves me dies! My real parents died because they asked the fire rangers to save me first! My dad died cause I couldn't stop myself from giving him his dose of death every single day and now I can't endanger anyone's life." I huffed and moved to leave the room.

This is too much, dad! But as soon as my hand touched the knob I was pulled back and turned around. Pressed against the wall and a very muscular chest.

"Don't leave in the middle of the discussion!" Adam said and I couldn't help but snort at him.

"There is nothing to discuss! I don't want to marry you. That's it." I screamed. Everything went silent and the voice of our heavy breaths was all we could hear around us.

"You don't want to marry me. Why?" Adam asked through his gritted teeth, making me shiver in the coldness of his voice.

"Marriage is not a game Adam. We are too young to decide such a huge deal. You marrying me because my father tells you to is not right. What if I'm not good enough for you. What if we can't love each other. What if you or I fall for someone else. Did you even though about how divided our family will be after we won't work out." I shook my head cleaning my tears. "And most importantly, what if I will be the reason for your death?" I sobbed covering my face with my hand.

I felt him move away and take my hands softly away from my face. I continued to sob as I saw his hands resting on either side of my face. Drying away the tears.

"Come here." He whispered taking my hand into his and led me to his bed. We sat on the edge of the bed facing each other. I felt him rum his thumb over the back of my hands as he started to speak.

"It is not a game for me Angel. Neither it is just because your dad asked me to nor I'm here just for a promise." He made me look at him. His eyes were shining with many emotions but what caught my eyes was RESPECT.

"Tell me one thing, Sapphire. You call yourself a bad person, a stroke of bad luck. I can't think of any bad person screaming the fact that they are bad. You are a good one. You make peoples heart swell even without knowing it." He took the letter from the bed and held it in front of me.

"You knew Uncle Hunter more than anyone else in this world. Do you think he would shower someone with compliments just like that? Well, he won't and you know it. Every single life who knows Hunter Steel knows it." He kept the letter aside and sat closer to me, making me feel how warm he is in the icy cold weather.

"I know that we are young but we are different Sapphire. You will be running a multinational company and complete your studies side by side and I'll too. We are nowhere near normal right now." He signed and took my hand in his. "Should know that when we can make discussions that affect more than a thousand people around the globe than we a make decisions for u too." 

"And why would I even think about someone else when I have the most beautiful goddess by my side." He smiled and paused, before continuing, "And last but not the least, this proposal is not just for your good. It is for me too." At this, I looked at him questioningly.

"After mom and my twin brother died, I kind of want to be a bad boy at school and home." I chuckled at him while his face made a gorgeous smile.

"I'm sorry about your mom and brother. It's just the part where you said you are a bad boy. I can't see you anywhere near the bad boy." I chuckled softly and took his hand in mine.

"What happened?" He sharply looked at me and I felt embarrassed.

"Sorry! Did I went overboard?" I rushed out but he quickly quite me down by telling me that it's nothing.

"It happened when I was 10. Mom and dad went on a big fight. I and Abel saw mom dad fight for the first time. It was that mom found out that dad cheated on her with his secretary and now we had a little sister named Mia. Mom didn't take it well. They got divorced and I and Abel were separated. Mom took Abel and dad took me. But when my mom was on her way to the airport, her car blasted and they died. Dad was so much broken that he cried for a month before somehow Flora convinced him to get married to her. For the sake of me and Mia off cause. Dad still lives with me though, turned out my stepmom was no better than yours." I blinked and looked at him for good two minutes. Processing all that he just said. Just like me, he didn't cry for his past. We both are on the same page pretty much. Though I knew Uncle Ethan loved aunt Amelia with all his heart I never thought he'd be stupid enough to make such a big blunder. I shook my head as it is none of my business.

As I looked up I saw Adam already looking at me.

"Do you know what is the most important thing in a relationship?" I shook my head again.

"Respect. Respect for the partner is the success of a relationship. Respect for one another's choices, likes, dislikes, insecurities, love, honour, trust and of course dreams." He said it so sincerely that it made me want to kiss him then and there. But of course, I shook the thought away.

"And I do respect you for the girl you are. I'm here because I wanted to make 'us' realize that we are good enough for each other. I want to give us a chance and you deserve the world. Believe it or not." I was so engrossed listening to him that I didn't realize how close we were.

"We deserve a family." He said with so much enthusiasm that I have knocked off my wild imagination and hug him.

If dad had this beautiful man waiting for me, I guess he completed his last promise to give me away to take true Prince Charming.

I didn't realize that I was still hugging him till he patted my head. We pulled apart and I stood up taking a deep breath as I felt my cheeks warm up and my stomach doing summersaults.

"So, will you marry me?" I saw him going down on his knees and taking out a blue velvet box. My eyes widened in horror.

"Wait, you are proposing half-naked when I have a birds nest as hair and in my Micky Mouse PJ's!" I pointed my finger at him in an accusing manner making him laugh. 

"Just open it!" He said laughing and I scoffed opening the box and gaped. It was a beautiful and delicate necklace.

It was a platinum angel wing with a delicate chain. I took it in my hands for a close look and frowned.

"It's just one side of the wing," I said and looked down at Adam. He shook his head and went to his walk-in closet. Coming back with a similar box and handed it to me before going back to his original position making me smile at his actions.

I opened the other box and there was another similar wing necklace but it looked more masculine. This one had less delicate work in wings and the chain was just a little thicker than mine. Realization hit and I looked at Adam. Seeing him smirking so snuggly I wanted to kiss him. But when I opened my mouth, completely different words came out.

"This is cheesy." I bit my tongue and saw his smile fall for a second and came back again. He stood up and took the chain from my hand and made me turn around. I sucked in a deep breath as I felt his fingers touched my skin when he put my hair on one side and locked the chain around my neck.

"You meant you loved it right?" He whispered roughly near my ears making a good type of shiver run down my spine as unconsciously moved my head giving him a clear view of my neck.

He blew softly behind my ear and lightly kissed my hair.

"Right?" He asked me again and I nodded clearing my thoughts.

"Yeah! Off course! Right! Absolutely! Definitely! Sure! Si! Segura! D..." I stopped my rumbling when I felt him kiss my forehead. He was now in front of me and his hands were on either side of my neck holding me softly. I closed my eyes in satisfaction and smiled.

"Now help me with this will you?" He asked and I nodded eagerly. I took his chain and secured it around his neck as well. Coming forward I tiptoed and kissed his forehead as well. Just like he did mine. We smiled and stayed there for a while.

My hands warped around his neck and his hands held me close by my waist. After a while, said our good night and I finally went to my room.

I closed the door behind me and rested my head on the door. Today was the craziest rollercoaster day ever. I laid down on my bed and closed my eyes. This time, sleep come to me with ease.

RING... RING...

I immediately shut down that awful classically annoying noise of my alarm. I noticed that there was pounding at my door and quickly moved to open it while fixing myself a little bit.

"What ha..." But I was pushed aside by a strong arm and hulk walked into my room looking for something god knows what. Then the hulk walked to my closet and took the first pair of clothes he got his hands on and even took my freaking undergarments and shoved it in my face. I saw that he handed me my phone with clothes which had 27 missed calls from Max and Bella. And I'm f*****g late for my exams!!!!

I ran to my bathroom throwing the mobile on my bed. Taking a quick shower and wore the clothes Adam handed me. Luckily it was faded blue jeans with a white knitted sweater. I left my hair open just unknotting them and put on some lipgloss before leaving the room with a pen and my phone in hand.

Adam was standing near the stairs with a coffee cup and sandwich in his hand.

"I'll drive you, you eat your breakfast, Angel." I nodded and we walked out of the house and settled down in his car. I eat the sandwich and drank my coffee as Adam drove me to my school. Side by side, I was reading for today's exam as well.

"I'll pick you up for the office after your exams." I nodded at Adam knowing that he's looking at me.

As soon as the car stopped Adam ran to open my door and I rushed out shouting thanks and ran like a madwoman.

I was in front of the office in no time and signed in relief when my principal was cool about me coming late for the exams. I shrugged it off and started with the first paper I was given...

My second exam was after lunch so I spent two hours in the library preparing for the test as I didn't get time for it before and when the bell rang I rushed to the cafeteria to meet my best friends.

As soon as I entered the room, the whole room got quiet and everyone saw me like a hog. But just then I was warped in a bone-cracking hug from my screaming friends Bella and Max.

"How are you, sweetie? How was your exam?" The said loudly on either side of my ears making me scoff.

"I'm... Dying..." I patted each of their backs and they finally left me. Looking at them I always felt energetic.

Max and Bella are some of the few friends I have. Bella is a sweet bubbly personality who can be a real b***h if you get on the wrong side of her. She is what people called beauty with brains. Black shoulder-length hair with curvy structure and pale white skin can make Bella from twilight jealous.

Max on the other hand is the Greek God of the school. Quarterback of the basketball team and the most serious among the three of us. It was four. But 4 years ago my best friend Luca Martin flew to Italy with his father. He was the tanned dark hair blue eyes, guy, you drawl on. 

Yet, we are still in touch as he wants to be a part of his normal. Thing is, Luca is the son of Italian Mafia Lord Sebastian Martin. He was going to become the leader once his dad steps down. We always keep in touch as he says we are the only thing that is keeping him from becoming his father.

"I'm good guys." I signed as we sat on our usual spot. 

"You're not good. You look like you haven't slept an hour yesterday. Where you reading or something?" Bella asked as Max warped his arm around her shoulder. I forget to tell you a tiny bit of information, Bella and Max are dating since like, forever. They an ideal couple of most of the school. Making the rest of them envy them.

"I did it's just all the constant reading and stuff," I replied and took some fries from Max's plate. They lectured me about taking care of myself and that they are always there for me when the bell rang.

We said our goodbyes and promised them a night out. After giving my second exam I left the building but as soon as I reached the school door I was paparazzi outside the school. I turned back before they could recognize me and messaged Adam to wait for me at the back door. 

I rushed to the back door of the school building and saw Adam's car waiting for me already. I quickly passed the doors and Adam opened the door for me. I sat inside the car signing in relief.

"I'm gonna start hating them sooner than I thought." I signed and Adam chuckled beside me as we drove off.