Chapter 8: Scott

I was done taking my bath at night, I took enough time to organize my stuffs properly, I haven't done that since I got here because of all the running around, I made sure to do everything so that I can be able to resume my duty tomorrow, I have to cover a lot of things and make sure to be through with this case as soon as possible, I have changed a lot just few days back in town, how will I be acting in weeks time or months?, something not to think of for the moment.

After every organizing was done, I still feel wide awake, no sign of dizziness in my eyes.

I headed downstairs, maybe something to eat can serve at this my unplanned leisure, Maria was there, with books in her hands, covering her face, she can't see me and I can't see her face, she looks so injected in the book that she might not have heard my footsteps coming downstairs.

She flinched immediately I sat down beside her, taking her by surprise, " seems like I am not the only one having trouble sleeping ", " No, but I will be heading to bed sooner, getting tired with the book already ", the guest room returned to it's silence before I showed up, I believe now is the right time for us to speak about my behavior back at the funeral weeks ago.

" I never knew what to say to you back at the funeral, I never expected to meet up with anyone at all, but things never went the way I expected, James ended up telling me about your promise to Raphael, actually an escape root for me, I believe you think I acted foolish and stupid, you are actually right if you thought so then..... I acted foolish indeed, but there is no way I was going to take Evangeline away from you after popping out of nowhere, and I have never been a people person, Evangeline might not even want to come with me if I had requested, she never knew me, I was just a stranger, she trusts you much more than a stranger like me.... I should have also made a good introduction of myself to you, but I never did that, really sorry for my mistakes then ".

Shit, this is definitely my longest speech in my entire life, quite impressive how she just sat and keep quiet, watching me talk her ears off, I don't know if I can withstand listening to this my trash if it was someone else was explaining all this to me.

Either she's thinking for the perfect reply to give me or she's trying to break down the whole explanation so that she could be comfortable with it, either way, I have nothing else to do here, I got up from the couch and headed into the kitchen to find something to eat.

I took my time in the kitchen on noodles, noodles that would be enough for the both of us.

Returning to the guest room, I didn't saw her where I left her, have she gone to bed already?, I think I will have to eat alone, the noodles were for two peoples and I won't find it pleasing to eat all by myself, I have to call her to come join me if she was still awake.

I went to the room which belonged to Raphael before, there is a high chance she would want to sleep alone there, she wasn't there also, where might she be?, I was about to leave the room when I saw her with a towel drying her hair, and also have a large towel covering her body which stopped at her thighs, with her hands up drying her hair, the towel covering her body was reaching up, with the edge standing in between her knees and her hips, no matter how I wished to abnegate right now, I can't seem to take my eyes off those soft thighs of hers, which looked toned and smooth.

" You are beautiful ", I heard the words escape from my mouth, she wears a beaming smile for my confession right now, " thanks ", " I came looking for you, just finished cooking some noodles, mind joining me?", " thanks ", she replied again, as she get passed me and entered inside the room.

What am I doing, Scott focus, this is your late brother's fiance, my late brother's beautiful and sexy fiance who just got my dick standing right now.