Chapter 66 - Weekend With You [1]

I put on a floral silky dress and filled a backpack with a few objects that may be useful if we went for a hike.

My heart beating in agitation, I checked myself at the mirror several times before walking finally out of my room.

"Ready to spend two days with Mr. CEO?" Joanna asked with a smirk on her face.

"How do I look?" I twirled around.

"You look great." She said, before walking with me to my car she hugged me and wished me to have a good time.

I reached his house and found a new luxury car waiting for me. How many cars did he have?

He walked out and flashed me with a big bright smile and then he opened the door for me, "you look great." He whispered.

I lifted the skirt and got in the car, he drove for about one hour and a half and then we arrived at a countryside house immersed in green. The house was a beautiful huge cottage surrounded by wooden fences. Birds chirping welcoming me in as a soft breeze blew my hair.

"Here is my little piece of paradise." He said as soon as we both walked down the car.

"It's amazing here," I replied in awe, so many flowers bloomed from the lawn.

"Come in." He stretched his hand for me to take it and when I did he pulled me inside after opening the door.

The inside was even more beautiful than it was outside, it was rustic and ancient and mixed the whole country nature style.

Every house he had was completely different from the others and had its style in decor. 

He slided away one of his pot from a kneeler and then put some water to boil to make some tea.

He wrapped his hands around me and hugged me from behind. He kissed my cheek, "I am so glad you accepted to come here."

I smiled, closing my eyes to fully appreciate the kiss.

When he leaned forward I inhaled his scent and melted in his sweet warmth.

His body was so soft despite his muscled lean figure, I added the tea in the water as he started to brush his hand in my long wavy hair.

"Your hair is so soft and smooth." He whispered before he took it to the side and kissed my neck. 

He placed two cups on the table and poured some tea on it. 

"I thought about you more than the usual those last days." He started adding some sugar to his cup. His voice sounded serious so I got worried he would tell me to stop seeing each other.

But when his smile grew and his eyes sparkled in the usual way when he talked to me I felt relieved. 

"I think I am starting to like you very seriously Lily." He confessed before taking a brief pause, "but I don't want this feeling to stop. I felt like all these years that I prevented myself from feeling like if I was floating upon the surface but just when I met you I finally started to breathe through the tide."

I took some sips of my tea, I felt the same way I felt like I finally started to live my life and not only survive it. I didn't feel this odd feel of content in a long while.

"I feel the same." 

He leaned forward, "I know you do." He pressed his lips with mine and we stayed like that for a while.

After drinking the tea I traveled my gaze around the house to admire it, few rooms appeared from the corridor and I pointed at them. "You should make me have a tour of the house."

He stood up, "of course follow me." He said in a low suave voice, heading to a corridor.

"Here is the bathroom." He opened the door of a small room, revealing the bathroom. The wall was made of grey stones tiles, the wood was distressed and there was also a bathtub and a shower to the side with few plants in the corners.

Then he walked to the other rooms until we got outside. He shook my hand as we accessed another room, it was an enormous sauna, three-quarters of the room was filled by a pool whose water was crystalline and transparent. A huge pool dug in stones with a wooden floor and few hommocks.

I smiled, now that reminded me of him, elegant yet rustic. 

"Why are you smiling?" He asked pinching my cheek gently.

"Because this pool is very beautiful," I said looking at him as he walked past me and laid on a hammock.

I sat at the edge of it. He laid his head on my knees and looked at me from upside down as I caressed his forehead.

"Am I the first girl you bring here?" I asked, my heart had begged me to ask such a question.

"You are. I don't know why but you made me do things I thought I would never do." He said darting his gaze from my eyes to my lips.

"Why are you so scared to open up, Cameron?" I asked again.

I needed to know and I felt like he was ready to tell me.

"Because I had a bad relationship with my parents. They got along until I was three years old then they started to fight and since that day I never spend a day without hearing them yell at each other and barely taking care of me. My father started to drink daily while my mother got so depressed that she never left her room. Whenever I tried to talk to her or help her she rejected me because she said I looked too much like my father."

My heart narrowed in my chest hearing his story, I was so sorry to hear that he had a childhood like that. It must be quite traumatic to grow up on your own and deal with absent parents when you are only three old.. Now I understood why he was so obsessed over control, it was because he always sought it and needed it to deal with his life at such a young age.