Obsession, Madness & Love (#6)

Chapter 12 | Jealousy?

✨ ALTHEA ✨

AFTER Calix left for work, I felt relieved.

That idiot was having a weird effect on me. Making me blush, feel the butterflies and what not.

I trained for sometime in the garden and then took another shower and changed my clothes and roamed around the house, not knowing what to do next.

I don't know how he used to live here all alone...it just feels so lonely.

I groaned having roamed around for half an hour. It's so freaking boring!

I messaged Adrian asking where he was and told him to get the car ready. I am going to pay that idiot a visit.

Knowing it will take me 20-25 minutes to reach him, I initiated a conversation between Adrian and me. "You must be missing your family...I am sorry you had to come here to look after me." That was a genuine apology.

He glanced at me from the rearview mirror before focusing back on the road. "It's okay. I already owed Lucian a favour, I am just returning it. And Calix wanted to keep you safe that's why Lucian chose me."

"Calix is an idiot." I muttered.

"Who is in love with you."

My heart skipped a beat at that before I realised that he knows that our marriage is fake. He spoke before I could ask, "I know... it's obvious you both have a fake marriage. But Calix is obsessed with you and in love, it's written on his face."

"Please, he is not in love with me."

"Staying in denial in not good. You have to accept it and maybe give him a chance."

"I thought you were here to protect me not give me a free love class." I snapped.

His lips twitched. "I am a romantic at heart. And if my advice helps you both get closer then I would be happy."

"Shut up, Adrian. Calix made me marry him by lying to everyone. He is delusional as he thinks I will fall in love with him in these six months. And he might be obsessed with me but I don't think so he loves me."

"I beg to differ, Althea." Adrian said softly. "That man is in love with you. You need to give him a chance."

"Did Calix told you to say all those things to me?" I frowned at him.

"No. I am saying all this because I have seen the way he looks at you. Why do you hate him so much?"

I sighed and leaned back. "I don't...hate him exactly. Hate is a very strong word. I just don't like him much. And imagine giving him a chance, imagine actually..." I gulped. "... falling for him... it sounds weird."

"Why does it sound weird?"

"Because...I don't know! He...he was three when I was born and can you believe that he was the one to name me? And then I grew up spending so much time with him that even my first word was his name, not mom or dad but his name. Dad was very offended by that. And then he was there when I had my first period which is so embarrassing."

"I don't see how that makes it weird for you to fall for him." He spoke lowly.

And I realised that I have been sharing too much with him. I narrowed my eyes. "Hey, I don't need your love lessons. Now forget we ever had this conversation."