Chapter 150: A compensation for the bad day I thought I was having…
Selene POV
By the time I arrived at the office which Noah had told me to come to, I was more than thirty minutes late. My earlier confrontation with Brooke had rattled me more than I cared to admit, throwing me into a state of confusion and fresh anger. I stopped at the door and adjusted my dress. Drawing a steadying breath, I knocked lightly on the door before I opened it and ushered myself inside.
Noah was already seated and I didn’t need to be told he was angry. His aura filled the room making me wonder how the counsellor could cope. She was a surprisingly young woman. Maybe in her early fifties or middle fifties at most and she was beautiful too with hair styled in a way that fit her face and drew your attention to her eyes which were the brownest I’ve ever seen.
"Luna Selene?" she rose politely and came to meet me.
I ignored the withering look Noah flashed me from where he was sitting and stretched my hand towards the counsellor giving her the best of my smiles. Of course, she would be angry that I delayed but she was a professional, so she wouldn’t show it. As I opened my mouth to greet and also offer an apology, Noah’s voice reverberated through the room.
Either the counsellor was used to having couples like us or she was made of steel because she didn’t flinch at all. "You’re late," Noah bit out, jaw clenched "After I repeatedly told you how important this first session was to us. If you didn’t want this you could have told me from the onset. Do you know how embarrassing it is for me to have kept," he pointed at the counsellor "Her here for more than half an hour without you showing up,"
Annoyance sparked in my heart at his words and I wanted to retort with the grimmest of details, especially with everything Brooke told me a while ago but I decided to be calm about it. Though the counsellor’s face was blank and she kept pushing at her bourgeois eyeglass that kept slipping to the nose of her bridge, I knew she was not comfortable and it’s best not to give her a bad first impression of me.
Instead, I mustered a bright smile "You’re right, darling," I said, keeping my tone earnest and apologetic. "I lost track of time preparing myself. It won’t happen again, I promise," I also turned to the counsellor with an entreating smile on my face as well "Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay. There’s no excuse and this will be the last time it’ll ever happen,".
As usual, Noah thought I would be on the defensive and was set to rebuke me again but my remorse must have thrown him off-balance. I saw the fight leave his eyes as he nodded curtly and murmured "It’s fine," then gestured for me to take the empty seat next to him. Just before I settled on the seat, I let one of my hands brush his bare arms and his thigh just to confirm what Brooke had told me earlier and he shrank back. I caught the guilt in his eyes too.