Engaged to the Heartless Heartbreaker ✔

Chapter 49 - Beauty

To @DrdeyaKhan, for the lavender scene... especially the part where the flowers are on Thea's palm. I didn't make a promise, dear doctor, but I did try my best on this, lol... Hope you like how it is portrayed in this chapter.
Enjoy!!!
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~~~ CHAPTER 49 - BEAUTY ~~~

We were inseparable after dinner. I knew mom wanted to talk to me but she preferred to give the time to Nigel and me first. So after tucking her to bed, Nigel and I went back to my room.

"Hey, you can't sleep here tonight," I said when we arrived there, pushing him to go out.

"I've slept here with you for two nights. Why not make it third in a row?" he pleaded as he hugged me. Both of us were standing near the doorway.

"I'm no longer sick. Besides, what would everybody think in the palacio if they'd know?"

"They wouldn't mind," he said, tucking behind my ear some strands of my hair which covered my face. "Besides, you're mine... and yeah... they wouldn't mind... and, I know, they've been praying for this... for you and me... This is how they love us, Althea." His voice was getting serious this time.

"I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry," I finally uttered what I had been meaning to tell him since daytime. I wrapped my arms around his waistline

"Why are you saying that?" he asked, very surprised.

"For being so weak... for leaving you and mom... for being easily duped..." I said slowly, looking up to him.

Nigel kissed my forehead. "No, who am I to blame you for doubting me? I've had my own share of mistakes, too, princess. For years, I had made you feel that I took you for granted. If only I had been true to myself, then this wouldn't have happened to us. I might have stood by you and you might have stood by me during those times when fate tried to test the both of us."

"No, I'm really, really sorry..." I still insisted, placing the side of my head on his right chest.

"No, please... I don't want you crying anymore, okay? I hate it every time I see you cry. What's important is I'm here and you're here... Promise me that you'll never leave me again."

"Not anymore," I whispered and we hugged even more tightly.

"So what happened between you and Javier Suarez? Did you have a sort of a break-up?" he asked moments later.

Oh, yeah! Javier!

"Break-up?" I exclaimed, pulling my face from his chest. "There was nothing for us to break off because he was not my boyfriend."

"Really? That's interesting to know... So why did you have to run through the rain while he was following you? I really thought you had a lover's fight with him. It tore my heart apart seeing you with him in the rain... You looked like a desperate girlfriend, confronting him with something..."

I widened my eyes. Good Lord! "So you were watching us?"

Nigel held and raised my chin up with a forefinger. "I was there parking and waiting for you to come out..."

"Okay... I think... we need to sit down." I said when I realized that this called for another more time for a talk.

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"That was it," I said, after telling him what I discovered about the Suarezes that night.

Though I told him he couldn't stay with me anymore in my room, we still couldn't help ourselves. We still went back to my bed. He was sitting there with his back on the headboard while I was placing the right side of my head on his lap and lying with my right side on the bed.