CHAPTER 22 “A RIDE TO WORK"

"HELLO, Uncle Joaquin!"

Lara immediately smiled when she heard Callie's cheerful greeting to Joaquin who had just arrived.

"Good morning, beautiful," was the warm response of the young man then lifted and carried Callie.

"Are you going to have dinner here again tonight?" her daughter asked automatically wrapping her arms around the young man's neck.

“I don’t think so. But I will try,” he replied to the girl.

Callie nodded as if to say she understood everything. She then kissed the young man on the cheek before Joaquin lowered her.

“Let’s go?” Joaquin asked her.

"Okay," Lara replied. "Bye, Callie," she said as she bowed her head and kissed her daughter’s forehead.

Her father also came out of the terrace. That was when she and Joaquin said goodbye to him.

"Last night when you left, Ramil came," she began the story when they were on the road.

"Ramil?" ask Joaquin.

"He's the one I told you, my long-time suitor," she replied following her words with a heavy sigh.

"Well that’s deep, huh," Joaquin joked when the deep sigh she let out has reached his ears.

"No, the truth is that we had a misunderstanding last night," she would tell the truth.

“Really? What is it that you are not in a relationship yet but you are already fighting? And honestly, you seem to be affected,” the young man teased her.

At Joaquin's words, Lara was shocked. “No, of course not! The truth is that he was jealous of you so we had a misunderstanding,” she told the truth to correct the young man’s misconception.

"Me?"

“Yes, he saw when I delivered you to the gate. He felt jealous,” she added.

"Why did he feel that way?" Joaquin asked.

In the tone of the young man's speech, she could say that he seemed to enjoy what she was saying. And if it just so happened that maybe he was someone else, she might have been annoyed.

But for Joaquin, it was surprising that she did not feel that kind of emotion. Something she wondered.

"Because he thought you were my boyfriend," was her unequivocal answer that in the end she also seemed to want to take back.

“Nice! I haven't even started courting you yet but someone has already mistaken me as your boyfriend?” Joaquin replied.

The pleasure in the tone of Joaquin's speech served as a way for Lara to blushed. She was very grateful because the focus of the man's vision was on the road so he didn't see it.

"W-What are you saying?" she couldn't help but ask that in response to what the man had said.

It was then that the traffic light changed. So Joaquin had a chance to face her.

The young man stared straight into her eyes. After that, he spoke in a tone of speech that caused an intense shiver in her body.

"I'm not going to mess around wasting my time anymore because I'm too old to do that," he told her.

"I-I don't understand you," she replied.

Then the traffic light changed again so Joaquin had to turn his attention back to the road.

"I'll explain, later," he said afterward.

At that point, Lara didn't speak anymore. She just remained silent while they were on the road. That also includes the feeling she created while she was with Joaquin.

*****

Ramil's heart fluttered whenever he thought that Lara was now with the man who she told him last night that was just her friend.

He was even more jealous when he remembered what she had said to her last night that the man was just a new acquaintance.

"I've been courting her for a long time but it's never been easy for me to convince her of what I want," he whispered then leaned his head on the headrest of his car.

That is the truth. And he couldn't avoid resentment because of what Lara doing to him.

She didn’t want to think that the only hope he had was about to vanish. Although at least once he also did not feel from the young lady that hope. Because she always says only one thing to him. That she sees him as a friend.

Ramil wanted to be content there. But he couldn't. He tries to be a good person and show that he has a pure desire for Lara even though the truth is, sex is the first thing he wants to get from her.

At that thought, Ramil immediately felt the intense heat of his body.

He feels an intense longing for Lara. That is despite the fact that he gets it for free from all the women who are crazy about him and his good looks.

That's true. He has many women and that is hidden from the knowledge of Lara or even her silly father.

At the last thought, Ramil smiled.

He knew Lara's father wanted him for his daughter.

Well, he can't blame that old man either because he's really good at pretending. Although he really loves Lara. That still doesn’t mean that it happens that she accepted him, he wouldn’t have sex with the young lady. Because her beautiful body is among the things he dreams of getting, devouring, and tasting.

It wasn't just once that it happened to him that he had sex with someone else and he was seeing Lara. Such was the intense longing he felt for the young lady.

But with what is happening now, he thinks his chances have been narrowed. So it looks like he needs to hurry if he doesn’t want that man to get ahead of him.

He needs Lara in his life.

He loved he dearly even though he coveted her. He can also accept her son and everything about her.

He was in such a state when he heard his phone ring.

It was a text message.

He read it and smiled knowing from whom it came.

The text came from Selena.

Selena is the woman who is currently giving warmth to his bed. She is a popular model and is actually very aggressive when it comes to sex.

After reading the text message from Selena he decided to go home.

According to the message, the woman is now in his apartment waiting for him to return home.

Ramil immediately smiled at the thought.

Surely he would have something to do later. When he comes home, he will pour out on Selena all the resentments he feels because of what Lara did to him.

*****

"WHAT took you so long?" Selena's sullen question when he got out of the car.

He shrugged his shoulders and instead of answering he just greeted the woman with a deep and savage kiss and she responded quickly.

"Let’s go inside?" he asked her.

The woman nodded one after another so that was all, and he opened the door and then pulled the woman inside.

Ramil slammed the door afterward. He also immediately grabbed the woman's small waist then pushed her behind the closed door and then stared at her intently.

"I was annoyed last night with the woman I talked to in the shop where I bought a dress," Selena started complaining as she began to unbutton his top.

“Yeah? What happened?" he asked as he was so focused on the jewel that was between her thighs.

"Ohhhh ---," the woman muttered when he gave a nice squeeze to the femininity that was only covered by thin clothing made of expensive kind of lace.

"I can't tell you about it if you continue that," Selena whispered to him as she seducingly bit the bottom of her lower lip.

That was when Ramil felt even hotter. That's why he didn't say a word and bowed to the woman and then started kissing her with so much lust.