Chapter 48: Your dream man
The slow kisses when turned hungry, they both didn’t realize. Layla felt his hand resting on her back while the other one remained on her thigh. He moved his hand slowly up on her thigh, her body got tensed. She was the first one to pull away while breathing hard. Her chest rose and fell, noticing he was feeling the same or even more tenser than her.
Moving her hand to his chest, she stopped it to his left, feeling the thundering beats of his heart. When she was in a relationship with Roderick, Layla shared kisses with him, but he never carried the gaze like Lucius always did while being with her.
"What are you thinking?" Lucius questioned.
"That why do you love me? I never gave you anything in return. I mean... Does love can be so pure for a person even when you aren’t around them? Whatever you have told me so far, I have realized you waited for me while watching me from afar. And for some reason, at the most unexpected time, you came knocking on the door and married me. I have always been humiliated by the people around me, but you saw me as the treasure when others didn’t."
She remembered once how Roderick told her he needed time to tell his family because of her birth status. Her mother was a mistress, which could anger his family. Layla, who never received love from her family, blindly trusted what he said.
Layla didn’t even leave him when she once heard Roderick not standing up for her when one of his friends directly remarked she was the illegitimate daughter of the Rosenzweig Family.
Indeed she was foolish and naive, thinking only Roderick could give her love as he always claimed.
However, Layla saw the true meaning of love, the kind that she knew through the words of her few friends in Lucius. Not once but every time he made her see the love he carried for her. Unlike Roderick, he didn’t say ’I love you’ all the time, but his actions spoke everything.
"It seems you saw a lot through me. I told you I ended up falling for you when you scolded me but in the most strange way. That day I was not looking great if you remember. You did notice that, but you just gave me some advice before walking away. You see, I’m a very crazy and bad person. However, around you, I ended up becoming a good guy. Loving you wasn’t a choice, it just happened."