All the Things You Never Knew - By Angealica Hewley Page 0,50

out as he looks up at her.

Her body seems to tense as if she had heard him and her eyes slowly opens and stared down at him.

“Leon!” she exclaimed, then cupped her mouth waving happily at him with her other hand.

Perhaps she did hear him. He doesn’t know why she’s so happy but he’s thrilled to see her so.

He pulled himself up on a vine that grew along the side of her window and climbed up to meet her gaze.

“Oh, Leon.” She suddenly threw her arms around him that almost made him lose his grip and tumble down, which was a shock.

“Shit,” he cursed as he steadied himself by wrapping an arm around her waist.

“Sorry,” she whispered, helping him inside, then quickly walks over and blew out the candles to darken her room.

“Gosh, Leon,” she said, coming back to entwined her arms around his neck. “I thought you will never come again.

It startled him to hear her say such thing after what she had told him the last time, but he likes it. It eased his nerves and raises his hope to succeed in what he had planned to do. Though he must admit, it makes him quite uneasy to have Rose starting to behave like this. It’s like she have something up her sleeves. Whatever it is, he doesn’t know. Besides, he doesn’t want to think about it because that was not part of the business he had set out for.

Leon embraced Rose tightly and said quietly to her ear, “I never thought I would come to see you again, too.”

It feels all wrong for him to do this, but blast it. God can condemn him for this sin. He can bear it, for Rose he could.

“Leon,” Rose murmured, pulling back to look at him. “I have to tell you something. I’m afraid that if I don’t, I will never have the chance again.”

“I do too, Rose,” he answered, resting his forehead against hers. “I want to tell you–I have to tell you everything. You might not care–it might not matter to you anymore but I have to.”

Rose raised her hands to cup his face and pressed a light kiss to his lips. “Tell me. I do care. I would listen.”

“Rose,” he paused in hesitation. “I don’t know how to start.”

“Must I go first then, since you’re so complicated?” she asked, sliding her hands to his neck. “I would love to–”

“No,” he said abruptly. He wasn’t about to let her ruin the moment again. “No more from you–not yet.”

Rose chuckled lightly and outlined the contour of his lips with her finger. “Okay, my love. Speak to me.”

My love? But she said that she was in love with–Leon clear off the thought that was about to meddle with his head and continued on.

“Rose, I’m sorry that I never told you the truth about everything that happened in the past–the reason I left–my intentions besides the fact that I love you and–”

“Whoa, take it slow, darling,” she said, pinching his nose lightly. “You’re taking it all in one breath. I’m here. I will listen. Don’t rush.”

Leon cursed his nerves and started again more slowly. “I’m sorry I left you,” he said. “I never mean to. I was left with no choice. What you saw that day I–”

“You told me that last time,” she reminded him. “And you said you didn’t touch that woman that I caught you with. Why don’t you tell your story from there? I am most tempted to hear.”

“Are you now?”

“Most certainly,” she answered gleefully, then slid her hand to his. “Leon,” she said, raising his wounded knuckles from their last encounter to her lips. “Your hand…I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean for you to injure yourself. I didn’t mean–I didn’t think–”

“Shhh…” Leon put a finger over her lips to shut her up. “Now you’re babbling.”

“Oh Leon…” She stroked her fingers through his hair and pulled him down with her onto the bed.

“This is most unfitting don’t you think?” Leon asked, resting his head on her chest.

Her sudden laughter startled him as she holds him more securely.

“You are unfitting,” she said, drumming her fingers along his back.

As an honorable lady, Leon never thought Rose would ever turn into something bewitching like this.

“Rose, you have to stop or else we would never get to the end of my story,” he said, flipping her on top of him.

She giggled and lean towards his face, her lips just inches from his. “All right, dearling. You have to hurry so I can