The tension that was present in the car was palpable and I didn't know or see where we were going since the car had tainted windows. When I had changed my mind, I didn't expect him to show up in front of my apartment and intimidate me. Ohh and when he had gotten close to me all my senses had gone into overdrive. It was the first time a guy who wasn't my brother has ever been that close to me before and affected me in such a manner.
"I do hope you read and memorized everything about me that was in the file." He spoke in that authoritative tone of his interrupting my thoughts.
"Yale Adkins-Benenati, thirty years old, born on December 12 1988. Only child of parents, who are both dead, mothers name Fiona Adkins, father's name Silvio Benenati, grandfather's name Dante Benanati. Half Italian, graduated top of your class with honors, you have a degree in business, you come from a family with firm beliefs in good morals and values and was raised by your grandfather after your parents death. You love to play the piano and the guitar. Your likes include......"
"A simple yes was all I required." He said cutting me off from further rantings. What did he think, that I was a dunce? I was kinda really smart and intelligent, and really accomplished in education but who cared.
Being with him in this car was getting harder and harder, and the fact that he scared me a little bit contributed to it. I was huddled at the far left corner of the car looking straight ahead fidgeting with my fingers. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him busily texting away on his phone with a little frown on his face.
"A..are you not going to ask anything about me?"
"Not interested. All you have to do is act like you so much in love with me and only talk when I'm with you. Got it?"
"Yes sir"
"Good. Have some water, you look parched." He stopped whatever he was doing to give me a bottle of water from the compartment.
He handed it over to me without even turning his gaze. First off, he forces me into this, asks me to act so in love with him and he won't even spare me a glance. Was I that hideous or was he gay?? Ohh my goodness he was gay, I have been at the company for a month and never had I heard of any talks about him having any relations with woman and what had happened to him......with his leg and using a walking cane and being cold and mean.
My mind kept on wondering totally forgetting about the bottle of water that was in my hand.
"Drink Miss Wilson." He ordered.
Was barking orders and being authoritative all he knew how to do? This was going to be a very very long week, I thought to myself before opening the bottle of water.
"Y..you can call me Santa Faye or Faye sir." I chirped in before bringing the bottle to my lips. I didn't like the fact that he called me Miss Wilson.
I gulped down a little bit of the water before I heard him talk again.
"When asked how long we have been together, say five months, and it's Yale for this week.....and we are going to Italy."
Before I could comprehend whatever he had just said, the world around me started to blur out of focus. His lips had moved but I didn't hear one word. I closed my eyes hoping the world would stop spinning for a second.
What was happening to me all of a sudden? I thought to myself. Everything was just hazy.
"I..........I don't feel so good." I managed to slur out.
With unsteady eyes I looked to the bottle of water in my hand and to the man beside me before everything turned black.
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The sound of chirping birds and something else woke me up from my sleep. I lazily sat up in the bed with my eyes closed and my mind still foggy. That was one hell of a dream I just had and also the best sleep I have had in a long time.
My hand flew to my eye to rub the sleep out of it, before slowly opening it to adjust to the bright and sunny room.
Wait.....my room wasn't as bright as this, neither was it painted white nor did I have a canopy bed with white chiffon draped around it or a ceiling fan and my room was definitely not decorated like this.
I jumped out of the bed wide awake and in fright. Where the hell was I? Taking in the room that I was in, my mind struggled to recall how I ended up here.......wherever this place was. I made my way to the wooden French doors and opened it hoping to at least find out where exactly I was. But it only led to a balcony and what my eyes saw made me more scared.
Endless blue.......a vast expanse of endless blue water. My feet stumbled back as my last memory came to me. All I remembered was that I took a sip from the bottle he gave me and then everything went black afterwards. Ohh my God, He had drugged me, that devil of a man had drugged me...but why? Was it his plan after all, to kidnaped me and then sell me, or was I going to be killed? I thought to myself on the verge of tears.
I had heard and read about instances like this and I couldn't believe my rotten luck, it was happening to me. A single tear slid down my face as I felt more building up.
I moved from where I stood to frantically search for my phone with my heart thudding wildly in my chest. A relieved sigh escaped my lips when I found it on the bedside table. Some of my bad thoughts ebbed away as I picked it up and tried to turn it on but nothing.....it was dead.
With my bare feet, I headed to the door, praying that it wasn't locked, it was when both my hands reached the door did I notice the foreign object perched on one of my fingers on my left. I stopped what I was doing and lifted my hand up to stare at the pink sapphire and diamond ring on my finger.
How come I didn't notice this at first and who had placed it there? It was so huge and shiny and beautiful and the sapphire was shaped in a heart form and set in diamonds.
Still in a haze, I got out of the room with my eyes still enthralled on the ring. It felt so foreign and heavy on my hand.
"Ahhh you finally awake!!" I heard a feminine voice say out loud from a distance making me look up.
Right in front of me, a slender woman who seemed to be in her early thirties with beautiful black hair and warm brown eyes came to a halt.
"Everyone is so eager to meet you. You were still asleep when you guys got here. Venire(come), I'll take you to Ilario." She happily said in a thick accent before grabbing hold of my hand.
My legs followed in the direction she was going, too confused to notice the numerous rooms we were passing or what she was saying. All I could think of who this Ilario person was and where she was taking me. We came to a stop at a stair way before she turned to look at me again.
"Mi dispiace (I'm sorry). Where are my manners, I'm just so excited. I'm Federica, Ilario's cousin." She smiled again as if what she said explained everything.
The only thing I could do was nod my head to whatever she said. And I think she was speaking Italian, if I wasn't mistaken.
"Venire, venire" She started to descend the stairs signaling with her hand for me to follow her. I did as she said taking one stair at a time.
It didn't take long before we reached double wooden doors, she pushed them opened and tadaaa. All heads seated around a long table turned to where we stood by the entrance, well where I stood, Federica had left me to join them. Both young and old prying eyes just stared, making me feel self conscious of myself. I quickly bowed down my head as I felt my anxiety surface.
"Cara mia(my dear), you are awake." Came the very familiar voice, but it sounded..different.
My head shot up just in time to see him stand up from where he sat near an elderly man, looking breathtaking in a form fitting blue linen shirt with khaki pants. He smiled at me and his face change into something beautiful, this was the first time I have seen him smile and boy did he a panty dropping smile. Why didn't he smile more often??
I stood there, barefooted, like the fool I was, totally transfixed on him and his heart warming smile. Slowly, he made his way towards me with everyone looking our way. He came to a stop in front of me and brushed a strand of my disheveled hair out of my face. That simple action alone sent my heart spiraling out of control.
"Come let me introduce you to my nonno(grandfather) and everyone."
Santa Faye Wilson☝🏾
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