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Chapter Eight

Gabriela

I should be scared that they were taking me somewhere they refused on telling me the location. But I wasn’t. Oddly enough, I was sort of curious. I sat there on the plane, well more like a jet than a plane since there were only a few seats, the compartment was smaller than a normal sized plane should be. The seats were plush and spacious, and I didn’t have to worry about any passengers sitting next to me since there was one seat per row anyways.

Enzo sat in the seat across from me, looking down at a tablet as he slowly drank water from a glass. He looked completely relaxed and not fazed at all. In fact, he looked like he belonged in this setting.

I couldn’t help but stare at him from time to time. My heart wouldn’t stop pounding at the thought of being so near to him, that I could physically reach out and touch him if I wanted too. At times I tried hard to find that young boy he had been all those years ago, but it’s been so long I don’t know if he was buried in there somewhere, underneath that thick exterior he was displaying now.

Where has he been and why hasn’t even ever come back to the vineyard in the last eight years? Has he ever once thought about me? All these questions kept pooling into my mind, desperately wanting to know the answers.

We’ve been on the plane for about two hours now and I was getting highly bored. I don’t even acknowledge Domenico sitting further in the back with Charlie, both talking lowly, but not loud enough for me to hear. Enzo had forced him to sit back there with no explanation. Charlie took it upon himself to sit with him probably because he felt pity for the guy.

I didn’t sympathize with him at all. He could be strapped to the wing outside and endure all the pain and suffering that would bring him on the way to wherever the hell we were going, for all I cared.

But Enzo was a different story. And I had enough of the silent treatment. “You don’t remember me, do you?” I decided to start with.

It was bugging me to keep quiet about this. I wanted him to recognize me damn it. I understand it had only been two weeks spending every day together, eight years ago. But did I really meant so little to him that he couldn’t even remotely remember the little girl who was fascinated by him at the time?

He puts the tablet down in his lap and slowly turns his gaze at me. The bold color of deep blue made me feel like I could just drown in them and never resurface again. Hell, maybe I didn’t want to. To be lost at sea in those eyes…I don’t think I would mind that at all.

“I wasn’t aware we had met before.” He states with a straight face.

The rising heat in my neck and cheeks caused me to look away from him. The embarrassment was strong as I felt foolish that he had just admitted that he didn’t remember me at all.

“Hm, maybe I’m mistaking you for someone else then. I guess you just reminded me of someone.” My voice was a little too high for my liking, so I just shut my mouth.

I hear the movement of the cushion of his chair, and I couldn’t help but take a look in his direction. I flinch when his entire body was now facing me, a curious look in his eyes now.

“And who would that someone be, if I may ask.” His low tone was deep and if I had to guess amused.

I don’t know why that irritated me a bit, him being amused by this conversation, but it caused me to fight back a little, just to piss him off a bit.

“Just someone who I thought had been a friend at one time. He made promises that were broken, so I guess he isn’t really a man of his word. Oh, not that you do that, you just seem the type that would string people along when its not in your best interest to keep the acquaintance going.” I give a patronizing smile.

His jaw was tight, his lips a bit thin as he stares me down. Oh, that really got to him. Maybe he didn’t like people putting assumptions that he was a jackass that couldn’t handle a simple promise such as the one he made me. I should feel guilty, but honestly the hurt he caused to my heart was still throbbing. I should let it go, but I just couldn’t.

“Well, maybe that person had his reasons to break that promise. I’m sure if he had the chance to redeem himself, he would.” He smarts back.

He doesn’t give me a chance to respond as he swings his chair facing away from me and picking his tablet back up, now ignoring my existence. I clench my fists in rising anger, but you know what…he doesn’t deserve my attention. It’s apparent that he didn’t care, still doesn’t care and the hurt of that made me want to never speak to him again.

He wants the cold shoulder, fine I’ll give it to him. Saying he doesn’t remember me, that’s fine too. I’ll just close the book on those beautiful memories and never open it again. Once this whole thing was fixed and over with, I’ll never give Enzo another thought for the rest of my life.

I’ll bury him and the love I accumulated since I was thirteen so deep that they’ll never have a chance to resurface again.


I took a nap since I didn’t know what else to do with my time on this trap machine. I just wanted to go home and forget any of this ever happened. Forget that Enzo just came crashing back into my life and causing even more hurt and painful memories that I didn’t need.

I wasn’t sure how long I actually fell asleep, but when I awoke, I was alone in the front of the plane, Enzo nowhere to be found. Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I look to the back to see that Charlie and Domenico were still sitting there quietly doing their own things.

I take a look out the little window to see we were still high up into the sky. Nothing but clouds with a few breaks here and there to show me nothing but farmland. I really wished I knew where we were heading.

“Charlie?” I call out.

“Yes, miss?” He was always so polite when we conversed, which kept me feeling calm that I wouldn’t be treated horribly at least.

“Are we almost to our destination?” I ask, leaning against the back of the chair like a small child would when bothering the person behind them.

“We should be arriving within the hour. So, just sit tight and we’ll be there soon.” He gives me a gentle smile before looking back at his phone.

Turning back around, I sighed heavily, wondering what to do with the rest of the time. I was starting to get hungry and hoped there was something on this plane that I could munch on. There had been a stewardess before, giving Enzo steaming eyes of pure sexual desire that just made my blood boil to watch. He never gave the woman a second glance and I wasn’t sure if it was only because I was sitting right here.

But now that I look and think about it, neither of them could be seen. Both mysteriously missing from the compartment. She wasn’t even sitting in her spot in the staff lounge that could be seen further up ahead.

I don’t know what came over me as I stood from my seat with my heart pounding against my chest in the fear of it being shattered in a few moments. Maybe he decided to succumb after all. I mean why wouldn’t he? She was a beautiful, sexy woman that I couldn’t even deny that fact. Hell, even Domenico was putting the moves on her a while ago, making her giggle and such.

So much for being in love with Ivy. Or maybe he did, and he was just one of those jerks that couldn’t help but cheat on their girlfriends or wives. I felt sorry for the girl who manages to get his attention and wanted that long time relationship.

I walk to where the bathroom was at, no one saying anything to me about leaving my chair, so I just continue to go forward. It was closed and I slowly put my ear to it, hoping I didn’t make any noise. But nothing was coming from the other side, letting my heart calm down a little. There wasn’t much space on this plane, so if they were going to have intercourse this would be the most likely place to do it.

So, where the hell did they go?

“What are you doing?” A loud whisper graces my ear, making me jump in surprise of getting caught.

I swing around to see Enzo staring down at me with an uplifted eyebrow. He was a little too close for comfort, my body heating up at his nearness to my person. But stupid me doesn’t back away, wanting so much to just take a tiny step forward to get that little collusion that it would create.

“I-I was just needing to use the restroom.” I say uneasily.

“Then why are you listening to the door, instead of knocking to see if someone is in there?”

I don’t think he was aware that he leaned in just a bit more as he said that. I wish I could say he did it purposely, but I knew better than that. He was curious on why I was eavesdropping on someone who could be taking a shit for all I knew.

“I was going to do that next.” Was my lame reply.

A little quirk of his lips, he leans further into me and reaches for the slab that opens the tiny compartment, sending thousands of tingles throughout my body, my breath hitching with surprise, and my heart beating out of my chest.

Okay, that he did do purposely.

Maybe he was getting a reaction out of me for fun or maybe to confirm something, I don’t know. All I do know was that it was working damn it. I wished I was the type of person who could hold my emotions and reactions in check like a steel bar, but I wasn’t.

In fact, I was an open book and that was something I never got a chance to work on. Shit, if I wasn’t careful, he was going to learn about the feelings I had for him. Didn’t matter if he remembers me or not. I was doomed if he ever thinks that I wanted him more now than I ever did back then.

And that, was definitely not okay.

He leans in a little further into my body, placing his arm just above my head to lean against the stall, his eyes taking on a hint of a glint. “Do you need some help?” he asks huskily, causing shivers to go down my spine at the way his voice sounded.

My entire brain shuts down, his intoxicating smell overwhelming and addicting. Leaning his lips close to mine, my heart starts pounding like crazy and my breathing becomes labored. I couldn’t help but stare at those lips, wishing he would hurry and kiss me.

He was so close, too close. But I couldn’t help wanting to reach over and just press my lips to his, just to get over this tension that was starting to build between us. And just when I go to close my eyes and hold my breath, literally feeling the breath hair away of his touch, I hear a small click.

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