5 Chapter
Lina
In his presence I felt like a little girl who was afraid of everything. I was scared of his eyes… So piercing and scalding. Till my knees trembled, which I automatically pulled up under me.
” Lina, eat.”
“I’m not hungry,” I stubbornly said, but my body strongly disagreed. My stomach rumbled. As always, all at the wrong time!
” You can’t fool me, eat!” My boss didn’t ask for it anymore, he insisted.
Took one slice of pizza and took a bite, and he watched with amazement.
” Lina, tell me about yourself. Where you’re from, where you live, who.”
With whom,” but he never asked the last question. But I already guessed what he wanted to ask. Who am I sleeping with or…?
” How about some wine? ” He got up from the couch, and headed to the counter, on which there was a bottle and two glasses.
” I don’t drink… ”
” Just a little, just a few sips?”
“Okay, Vladimir,” I agreed, and he poured our glasses, we drank, and then… Then I relaxed a little, apparently so affected by the alcohol, and began to tell him everything about my life.
After having listened to my almost fifteen minute story about my life he got a little bit sad. Of course he had got everything for nothing, unlike me. When I had to go to school for three years in a row wearing the same clothes and with a shabby bag… When I was bullied because my parents didn’t have the ability to give money for birthdays and school needs. I was very thin in 10th and 11th grade and weighed only 40 kg with a height of 168 centimeters. And all because all of my parents’ money went to the heart surgery for Kostik – my youngest and most beloved brother. Only for his sake I was ready to put up with all the humiliation and suffering. And in those moments when my peers were having fun in clubs, I was chewing the granite of science, to get to the budget. And my dream came true.
I got a scholarship, cleaned up, recovered a little, and became the best student in my class. I was always on the first-name basis with numbers, because I had a mathematical way of thinking. And also I took part in all student beauty contests and always won first place. Beauty and intelligence – that’s the main weapon of every woman.
“And how old is your brother? “Vladimir asked. ”
He’s twenty years old. He’s studying auto assembly at uni and works part-time at an auto repair shop. In a word: crazy. Recently he saved some money and bought a motorcycle, a second hand one, but of a good make.
” I also have a Ducati Monster in my garage, a present from my favorite aunt for my 30th birthday.”
” What about your parents? ”
– I have parents, but they live in America, they are used to it. And I can’t. Especially Russia has the most beautiful girls in the world. And you are a direct confirmation of that.
I looked at the wall clock, the hand of which was already showing 22:00.
” I have to go, Vladimir.”
” I embarrassed you with my answer? But it’s true,” he brought his palm to my face, lightly touching my cheek with his fingertips. ”
“Not embarrassed, just. I really have to go,” I pulled away from him and rose sharply from the couch. I have to go before it’s too late!”
” Okay, okay, I’ll take you home.”
” No! I have a car! But it’s not my car, it’s the restaurant’s,” I blurted out. I wonder why I was so afraid of him. He’s not ugly, he’s very attractive, and he’s a very sexy man. Maybe because I haven’t had sex in seven months? Or maybe I just don’t want to turn our working relationship into a one-time thing?
” Okay, okay. But can I at least walk you to the door and leave a tip?”
” That’s okay,” he handed me a few bills and opened the front door.
“See you tomorrow, Vladimir.”
“See you tomorrow, Lina Rostova. And please, don’t be late on your first day of work. All right?”Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g
“I’m a punctual person.”
” Well, then we’ll definitely work together, see you tomorrow,” he repeated before I left his apartment. When I turned around, he was already inside, and only after that, I could breathe a sigh of relief.
Today had been full of surprises. I was so glad it was over.