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Chapter 6
“I really did not mean any harm and I am not going to do that again. I hope I did not disturb your family in some way. I know your wife noticed me walking so close to you when you reached your place. Can you forgive me?”
“I will if you do two things for me.”
“What?” She said suspiciously.
“Nothing that should make you worry. Your body's sudden stiffness betrays your emotions cupcake. Relax. We reached my place and I wanted you to come in and have lunch with me. It will give us enough time for you to tell me all the reasons you imagined that I come to your café everyday. I really want to know.”
Nicky wondered if she should accept his offer. She did not really know him even though her gut feeling was that she could trust him. Going into the house of a man she had met yesterday seemed like a big risk. Even if he was blind, he was still a man and a very powerful man at that. He did not seem threatening though and they would probably not be alone in there. His wife was likely there waiting for him, so the risk for her was even less. Plus she did not want to insult him and make him mad. Even if he had said that he would not turn her in to the cops for stalking him, if he got mad, perhaps he would change his mind. All those thoughts passed simultaneously from Nicky's mind and brought her to a final decision.
“I will come inside with you. Only for a while. If your wife does not mind that is.” She said. They had reached his place by now. Nicky was so anxious to explain herself that she had not realised that they were walking toward his place.
“Come in!” He said and opened the door for her. He was waiting by the door, and as she passed in front of him, for the first time got very close to him. His body heat scorched her body and her heart beat was erratic again. For the life of her, she could not explain her reaction to him.
As she entered his home he admired how everything looked beautifully arranged and in place. She guessed that his wife kept the house like this so that he would know where everything was situated. Her suspicion was confirmed when he folded his cane and started moving around his house as if he had a perfect eye sight.
“The kitchen is this way” He said and headed to beautiful and perfect organised kitchen.
“What would you like to eat?” He asked her.
“You are going to cook for me?” She asked incredulously.
“I enjoy cooking very much but I refrain from doing it when I am alone at home so that I don't burn the place down. But whenever I have company I snatch at the opportunity to make good use of my kitchen. So tell me what would you like. I don't want to influence you but my spaghetti carbonara kicks ass.” He smiled at her direction.
“I am not picky about my food. Whatever you cook I'll eat it don't worry.”
“That's great!!! Lets begin I might need a little help” He was like a little kid that was let loose in a playground after months of staying at home without any toys. He filled the water boiler and turned it on and went to the cupboards to find the pasta.
“Does not your wife let you cook with her? Is it dangerous? Should I be letting you do it?” She asked anxiously. She did not want to be responsible for burning down his house too. He turned towards her and paced closer to where she was standing.
“Cupcake, I am not married. Did the girls at work tell you that I am? Because if they did they were either misinformed or pulling a prank on you.” Nicky looked at him with her mouth hanging open.
“You are not married?” She asked
“No” He affirmed.
“The girls did not mention anything but I saw her meeting you on the porch yesterday and kissing you. Was she your girlfriend? Will she be jealous of me being here. I really don't want to cause any problems.”
“I am not in a relationship cupcake. I haven't been for a while now. So you don't have to worry over a jealous girlfriend or wife attacking you at some point.” He smirked at her.
“How was the lady hugging you yesterday?” Nicky asked in a irritated voice. Mike smirked at her jealous tone but answered quickly.
“That was Jane, my best friend from childhood and sister in law. She is married to my only brother and they have two beautiful twin monsters which I simply adore.” He said proudly as if the twins were his own.
Nicky felt kind of envious of him at that point. He had a family that he loved while she was all alone in this world. At the same time she was surprised that he was not married after all. Surprised and happy about it. That happiness she could not explain. She should be total indifferent to his marital status. As a matter of fact she should be a little afraid of him by now. He had tricked her into going to his place with him. She thought that they were not going to be alone since he had a wife and she had mentioned the fact that she believed him to be married more than twice. He never corrected her. That was pretty suspicious.
“Why didn't you correct me earlier when I told you I thought Jane was your wife?”
“I did not think you would mind. My being married or not did not seem important to our previous conversation. Unless it is important to you.” He told her and waited patiently for her reaction. He had turned the tables on her. She could not admit that she was reluctant to be alone in the house with him now that she knew he was single and there weren't any other people joining them.
“So you just let me be worried that I might have scared or enraged your “wife” by following you yesterday?” That was the best excuse she could come up with and she was glad she had at least that.
Mike lost the satisfied expression he wore up until that point.
“I am sorry I let you worry about that. I did not think this through from your point of view. It just seemed like a meaningless detail at the time.” His sincere apology made her relax a little bit.
“So we are alone today? Isn't your sister in law coming here to help you every day?” She asked. He got a little bit offended by her comment.
“I am blind Nicky, I am not a total invalid. I can take care of myself. I have a housekeeper that comes twice a week to clean the house and that is just fine for me. Jane has her own family to take care of, and believe me the twins are quiet a handful.”
“I did not mean to offend you or anything. She just seemed very close to you and she was tending to the garden when you came home yesterday, so I assumed she was helping you with the house chores that is all. But you are right raising twins can be time consuming.” Mike laughed at her comment.
“I am sorry if I was a little bit harsh on you just now. I don't like people thinking I need help all the time. Jane comes to visit me often, especially now that the twins are more grown up. She loves cultivating and takes advantage of my garden since her own is turned to a playground for the twins. That is why you saw her gardening, I did not ask her to do it, as a matter of fact she did not even ask me if I mind her being in my place. That is the price I have to pay for tolerating her as a best friend when we were kids, now that she got married to my brother I am stuck with her for life.”
“Ya, you really seemed to hate her company” Nicky said mockingly and Mike grinned.
“Well wait till you meet her! Now come here and put some oil to the frying pan. We are going to cook the bacon and onions I just chopped.” Nicky obeyed. She did not comment on his hint about her meeting Jane. Did that mean that he meant to invite her again to his house and introduce her to his family? Boy thinks seemed to get a weird turn.
“So, Nicky it is only right that I ask you what is your marital status. Are you married or in a relationship with some guy?”
“No. I am single. I live alone in an apartment that I inherited from my grandmother when she passed away a few years back.”
“I am sorry to hear that, you sound like you loved her a lot.”
“She was the only one I had after my parents died when I was young. Now I am all alone.”
“You are not alone cupcake. You are a good person, I can feel it and good people always find people that care for them.” It was a very sweet thing of him to say and she did not say anything not to spoil the moment. Not that she knew how to respond to something like that.
The pasta was already in the boiling water and they were frying the ingredients for the sauce. Nicky was trying to concentrate on cooking but being close to him was too unsettling for her.
“So you haven't told me yet why you thought I come to the cafe everyday.” Nicky's back stiffened at that. She was sure he was going to make fan of her.
“Promise not to make fun of me?”
“Yes I really want to know what you thought”
“Well in the beginning I thought you liked one of the girls and that you were coming there to be with her.”
“I am not interested in the other girls at the cafe Nicky” he said close to her ear and she shivered all over. There was a double meaning in that sentence. She wondered if he meant that he was interested in her?
“I figured that out because you did not pay to much attention to any of them.”
“What did you think next?”
“I thought that maybe you did not have some place to go in the morning because your place was occupied in some ways in the mornings. But that is clearly not the case.”
“What else?”
“Many silly and embarrassing things crossed my mind. At some point I even thought that you might not be blind and actually work as a spy. That this was your cover.” Mike could not help himself and he laughed at that.
“Hey you promised not to laugh.” She pouted.
He placed his hands to her waist and kissed tenderly her cheek and she felt sparks to explode inside her like fireworks.
“I am sorry it is just that you obviously have a very productive imagination.” She blushed.
“Are you going to tell me why you really come to the cafe?”
“Oh I don't know. I am the one doing the interrogating today.” He teased. She was feeling very relaxed now with him. She placed her hand on his chest and felt the muscles there flex. 'WOW that is how the chest of a guy feels' she thought.
“Please.....” she said. She was feeling so hot now as if a tremendous heat wave was going from his body to hers, just by the touch of her hand to his chest. This was getting out of hand but she did not have the power to stop it.
“OK, I will....”
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