Chapter 10


    We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to


    rubber and my brain to gruel – Peter De Vries.


    Two dayster, Gisele decided to call Lizzie. “Hello, stranger.”, Lizzie said as she answered.


    “Hey, Liz.”


    “Yeah just ‘hey’. No ‘Lizzie, I missed you so much!! How are you. I wish I coulde stay with you''”


    “Lizzie…”, Gisele started.


    “It’s okay, I get it”, Lizzie cut in.


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    “You do?”, Gisele asked, surprised. Lizzie never let stuff like that go. She’ll rant, scream and sulk.


    “Yeah, I get that I live in some faraway vige with no modern amenities”, Lizzie said sarcastically.


    “I said I was sorry, Jeez”, Gisele eximed then continued, “So many things have happened and I


    realize I need you so much”


    “Oh dear. Don’t worry call me at any time and I’ll call you too, Okay”


    “Yay. I have a free day sometime soon. I’lle see you”


    “Okey Dokey. I’ll be waiting”, Lizzie said and hung up.


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    It was lunchtime and Gisele was trying to get Callie eat. “Come on, mon ange, you need to eat”.


    “I don want to eat, I want Daddy”.


    “You want Daddy?”, Gisele asked and Callie nodded with big sorrowful eyes. The expression on the


    kid’s face was funny but Gisele controlled her urge tough.


    “Then eat, if not daddy will get mad at you and he won’te back. You want him toe back? So


    eat.”


    Callie looked at her the started eating like she was in a race.


    Gisele couldn’t contain herughter this time, sheughed out loud and told Callie to eat a bit slower.


    Callie was obstinate about the fact that she could feed herself and didn’t want anybody else feeding


    her.


    Before Gisele realized what was happening, Callie was halfway across the kitchen, screaming


    “Daaddyy”.


    Gisele turned, startled and met te Hendrick’s incredible eyes.


    ***


    te parked his car in the garage and pa**ed through the adjoining door into his home. Home. Funny,


    he had lived with Jessie his ex wife for close to four years but had never considered their townhouse as


    home.


    He still remembered the day he realized love was just a stupid emotion.


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    Two years ago…


    “I admit it. I do! And? You’re the one responsible for all this!! First, you knocked me up, then you


    abandon me under the pretense of business meetings. You think I don’t know you do?!!”, she said like


    a mad woman.


    te looked at the ceiling and said, “Jessie…”, he started but she cut him short.


    “I don’t want to hear your stupid excuses! You leave me here all alone and you expect me not to look


    forpany?”, she said, almost on the verge of tears.


    “You are responsible for this. Don’t try to me your unthinkable behavior on me. You broke the


    promises we made to each other by gettingfortable with my business rival. And not even once did


    you consider Callie. Have you no self-respect?”, te asked with calmness and coldness that was


    lethal.


    “h, h, h. So cold, so unemotional, so detached. And do you know why I had s** with Rodrigo?


    Because I realized my feelings for him were more than my feelings for you! So you better say goodbye


    to Callie because I’m relocating to Italy and with her. I’ll just go pack”


    As she turned to go, he held her hand and said, “You can to any fùcking country you want but you are


    going to leave my daughter with me, okay”


    They argued, or rather she bítched and he answered back coldly, calmly. She took her car and went


    out under the heavy downfall and it was only the next morning he was notified of her instant death.


    Present…


    te was brought out of his reverie by a soft feminineughter. He followed the sound and found


    himself in the kitchen. He rarely came here.


    He was looking at his kid’s nanny, all the while imagining how her long legs will feel around his waist


    when a small force hurtled him and a little voice screamed, “Daaddyy”. He hugged her back but found


    himself lost in Gisele’s eyes.


    His fantasies started once more. Her, with no st**ch of clothing except for some spiky heels, sitting on


    his bed and peeking at him through her thickshes.


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    It was then that he realized that Callie was tugging his shirt. “Daddy, daddy! Are you listening?”


    te looked down at his little girl and scooped her up in his arms. “Yes Callie I’m listening”


    “Is it true dat if I don eat you’lls get angry with me?”


    He looked at Gisele who was smiling sneakily.


    “No, not really, but I won’t like it. So you need to eat, okay?”


    “Okay”. The adorable little minx said and ran to continue eating.


    Gisele gave him a genuine smile and was about to speak when Callie said, “Gigi, I need to eat!”


    Gisele smiled apologetically and went to the kitchen.


    Two hourster…


    te was sitting in his office when he heard a small knock on his door. She came towards him and


    said, “I know I shouldn’t interfere in your personal matters, but I need to tell you…”


    te cut Gisele off by kissing her. The kiss was wonderful even though it was obvious Gisele was


    inexperienced. It was like his first kiss all over again even if that one was nothing spectacr. He had


    never felt this way with any woman. He decided then that he wanted Gisele and was definitely going to


    get her…