The Secret Between Us
Chapter 28

While I’ve tried to keep her calm, I can’t deny that I’m afraid they’ve found us. I know my father’s reach when it comes to searching for someone, and since I’m his son, I don’t doubt that he’s mobilising heaven and earth to find out where I’ve gone. Her family is no slouch either, her uncle also has plenty of resources to find her if he wishes to do so.

Trying not to make too much noise, I approach the door and look through the peephole to see who it is, and I’m surprised to see a blonde-haired woman with something in her hand. With a lot of doubts I move away from the door to open it, and when I do, I see the woman of about thirty something years old with blonde hair and grey eyes -Hello- I pronounce for her to give a little explanation.

-Hi, I’m sorry I came, but I live in the house at the end of the street and I noticed that there were new neighbours… I just wanted to say hello and give you this, they are some snacks that I have prepared for you”, she says kindly while she approaches me a tray that is covered with a transparent plastic.

-You wouldn’t have bothered, thank you” I answer accepting what he has prepared for us.

-Noelia” She introduces herself and offers me her hand.

-Sebastian,” I say using my fake name and shake her hand.

She smiles at me in a way I know very well and I play it cool. It’s not that I’m a conceited man, much less that I believe that all women fall at his feet, but in the world in which I moved with my family; there were many women like Noelia… -My love, who is it? – I hear Mia’s voice and inside I’m laughing.

I turn to look at her and I don’t know how I’m holding back my laughter. She appears with one of my t-shirts on and all her hair messy as it ends up every time we make love, I know very well why she has done it and instead of making me angry, I think it’s the most beautiful thing… her first scene of public jealousy, and of course, her first time pushing women away like this -It’s a neighbour, her name is Noelia- I explain when she is already next to me and I look again at the woman who has knocked at the door.

Her face is a poem, I don’t know if she was expecting something else from me, but what she definitely didn’t expect was to meet a woman here -I’m sorry to bother you, I just wanted to make a nice gesture- She justifies herself.

-Thank you very much, I’m Camila, Sebastián’s wife” She introduces herself and I swear I want to k**s her right now… I’m discovering that she’s even jealous and territorial, she’s beautiful.

-Nice to meet you Camila, well… I was just bringing you this and that’s all… eh… if you need anything I live in that house over there… and welcome” She explains and we nod.

-Thank you very much,” we say in unison, and once she leaves, I close the door and lean against it after leaving the tray on the small table on the side.

-Hey… you’re kind of dangerous when you’re jealous, huh,” I comment and she smiles.

-Hi, I’m Noelia…” -she says mockingly and seeing her gestures make me get closer to her and take her by the waist to hold her close to me.

-You know you don’t have to be jealous, don’t you? – I ask her and she looks at me seriously.

-Well, I am, apparently you’re like the prey that every woman in Spain wants,” she complains, “We should have gone to Alaska or Russia and settled in the middle of nowhere,” she says making me laugh.

-You’re very exaggerated,” I say over his lips and he shakes his head.

-Not at all… you walk down the street and they all want you,” he complains amusedly.

-But I only want you, don’t you see? They can put me in the dressing room of the Miss Universe pageant, and I’m still going to choose you… I’m still going to melt for you, and want to marry you a thousand times to form the family we’re forming” I explain and while I do this, I take my hands to the end of the shirt she’s wearing “Besides… nobody in this life looks better in my shirts than you” I whisper in her ear and get closer to her mouth.

-You always convince me of everything… -Yes?

-Oh yeah?” I ask as I lift up my shirt.

-Yes… -She answers and after practically taking off her shirt in one single movement, I k**s her urgently to make it clear that there is only one woman for my life, and that woman is her.