Chapter 26
so much I’m already groaning
I’m will in over my head thinking of how had this whole episode was when he came in with the food, the scent was so from wanting to take it into my mouth.
“You are salivating.” He gave out a short laugh as he came closer, dropping the food on the table.
“I never knew you were such a good cook, who could have imagined.” The food looked so nice, and I knew the only way I could send him thanks was by appreciating how thankful in was for him to do exactly this.
You haven’t even tested it to know if it just smells nice or is not even good.”
He took a plate and started dishing out the food, and I couldn’t wait for him to be done before taking a spoonful of the rice and mixing it with the
“Oh my god” I moaned in between the food in my mouth as the deliciousness mixed gave the exact taste that it should, “This is delicious, where did you learn how to cook so well? You must tell me.”
He smiled beautfully, before yanking out a seat and settling down as he continued dishing out for the both of us.
Well for starters, it was a way for me to escape, so I decided to learn more about it as I grew.” He said.
I wasn’t just going to take that, behind all this that he had said, there was another hidden fact inside, something
ng that I wanted to ask him.
I know that this moment was the peace of us enjoying a meal together, but suddenly, I was keen to know more about him.
Not only that, but I wanted to know everything about him.
“I cannot imagine Kyler teaching you how to cook,” I said.
Hetiru laughed, then took a spoonful before dropping the spoon.
“Well, I always go up the kitchen because I was tired of the way she always treated me while in the house. One of the servants in the house would… make me do little chores, and from there I had fun making hitle bits of food.” He smiled, from the way his eyes cracked together, the memories that he was remembering.
It was obvious that this was what made his childhood worth it
All of a sudden, my heart ached for him. There was so much that he had gone through as a child, yet he cannot even mention it because the world doesn’t permit that
“How did you even spend a childhood with her, I can imagine all that you must have gone through with her,” I said, wanting to reach out to take his hand and give him a little comfort.
He braced out, stood up, and walked to the kitchen.
His back is tight, they are hunched together.
You know those backs have carried so much inside,
That they are holding so much, too.
I cried for the child he was, cried for the memories that only he could carry
I don’t know when I stood up, I couldn’t think for that moment when I walked to him, took his hand he reacted immediately
He wants to withdraw his hard, but I’m holding tightly to it because that was the first instinct in my
mind.
That little hand was the only thing I could offer him.
I wanted to do a little thing for him, but wanting to take this topic far away, I smiled and gave him a reassuring brush.
So after learning from her what else did you do?” I asked him.
His hand is so warm, so comforting, but I’m taking a step back as I run off to the other side of the kitchen, watching him do a little frying in the kitchen.
“When I went off to college, I worked in a linde kitchen where they allowed me to do a little brushing and cooking. It was something college more than bearable for me
ing that made
His voice, the way
y the words came off, the sadness that is latched in them
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Chapter 26
Suddenly, I want
to know him more, I would like to know all that he has been through
I wanted to be a shoulder that he could lean on and forget all that he had gone through.
Stopping myself from reaching him. I held the chair tightly, gripping it in my hand as I watched him make more food.
The way his eyes held it, the way he stared at the food with so much happiness as he kept working it.
The happiness in his eyes is so obvious, and it made eating this food to be lighter.
“I’m supposed to be asking you how your day went since you came back so tired.” He said, trying to reach out.
The day that I always knew wasn’t going to go too well.
But I told him regardless, told him everything that happened today and the way he couldn’t stop being sorry that it all happened to me.
“Well not that I wasn’t expecting it anyway, but regardless I’m happy that I took this decision to work more on myself and yes, I’m going to take whatever comes my way
And I mean it.
Going through all this makes me stronger, it makes the version of me that I like so much come alive.
It made me who I was before I walked into that marriage.
My life wasn’t perfect, but I loved the life that I had, and I never wanted much.
But then he came into my life and made the little that I have to be like I have nothing.
Now I’m free from all the stress that life has done to me, and now I have to move on because that was the only way I could.
When I looked and saw the man looking at me, with the pureness in his eyes and the way they kept shining with nothing but appreciation.
I don’t know if I should take his hand and move to the next stage, or keep holding on to my hand and trust myself.
There was so much in my mind and I didn’t have any idea how to take them out.
But I know the only thing I want badly is for my mind to be free, more free than it has ever been.
