Chapter 40

"You mean you didn't want to say anything to me?"Ammy asked again after a while of silence.Max looked at her innocent face and wished he would tell her how much he loves her but he couldn't.Not when he didn't know how she felt for him.

"I didn't....or do you want to say something to me?"he asked calmly.Ammy shook her head.

"I don't think so but...it's fine if you didn't want to say anything,"she responded trying hard to keep her voice steady since she felt like bursting to tears after what he said.

"Why don't we take a walk at the garden?"Max offered after seeing how sad she was beginning to look.

"Okay.."Ammy agreed to his idea and they stood and walked out hand in hand.The two were silent as they walked around the garden.Ammy was deep in thoughts,her thoughts lingered on the absence of her beloved ones.She didn't even realize that there were tears falling off her eyes.They rolled and landed on Maxwell's arm that was entwined to hers.Max didn't notice it because he was wearing a long sleeved shirt.The silence between them was deafening and Max was beginning to get bothered by it.

"Ammy, what do you think of our party?"he asked trying to get rid of the silence.Ammy turned her concentration to him and parted her lips so as to answer his question.

"It was nice...very beautiful,"she responded while cleaning off the tears that were flowing down her cheeks.Max noted the change in her voice and the wiping the tears off her eyes.He stopped abruptly and turned her body to his side.He cupped her face in to his palms and asked softly.

"Ammy are you okay?... why are you crying?"he asked sounding concerned and loving.Ammy lowered her gaze before speaking.

"Am okay Max,just got a little emotional,"she responded trying to keep calm.

"Emotional?....why on earth should you get emotional?"he asked calmly not able to understand what would make her so emotional.

"Yeah...the party was so beautiful and more than what I expected,"she starmered.Even though she had cooked such a lie, Max didn't fall for it.

"You know what?...it's very difficult or almost impossible for someone to lie to me.So just tell me what is bothering you,"Max continued calmly though he was getting irritated that she was lying to him.Ammy was quiet for a while before deciding to tell him the truth.

"I wish...just wish that my mother, Andy and my friends were here.It would make me more than happy despite our relationship and faking all this.. I feel so alone,"she finally confessed while wiping off the final bits of tears from her eyes.Max was quiet after what she just said.He knew where Andy was and who she lived with but she didn't want to bring her back to her before they got married.He wanted them to be finally together before reuniting them but he also was feeling a strange feeling in his heart for being the one to separate her from seeing her sister.

"Am I not enough for you...I mean can I not take that loneliness from your heart?"he asked taking her in for an embrace,trying to make her feel like she was not alone as she thought or felt.

"You are Maxwell but I just wish I had mother around and sister just like yours are around,"she explained tears rolling off her eyes again.

"It's fine Ammy...and am here for you,"he spoke soothingly still embracing her and patting her hair softly.Ammy cried in his arms silently until her cries turned into moans and finally she calmed down.

"Should I take you to your room?"he asked when she finally calmed down.

"Yes please,"Ammy answered in a low tone and her voice sounded quite hoarse.Max carried her off her feet like a princess and took her inside the house and took her to her room.He laid her gently in the soft bed and help her take off her heels.He carefully took her feet and laid them on his laps and began undoing her ankle straps of her heels.

"I think I have made an observation....you love ankle straps heels alot and wedges as well,"Max stated his observation with a smile on his lips.Ammy's eyes widened with surprise at what she heard.Ofcourse that was true but she couldn't believe that Max had noted that at such a short time they had been together.

"And how did you know that Maxwell?"she asked still surprised.

"Why are you so surprised by that dear fiance?"he asked when he noticed how surprised she was.

"I don't get it....how did you know that?...we have been together for a very short while?"she responded.Max smirked and averted his gaze from her face to the soft and beautiful feet lying on his laps before responding.

"I know more than that about you Ammy,"he continued calmly.This time, Ammy's brows creased.

"I don't get it...what do you know about me?"she asked calmly.

"I know that you love booty shorts.."he continued but Ammy bursted out laughing before he could even finish his statement.

"What's funny?"he asked still amused by her outburst.Infact he had not seen her laugh out before.He was dumbstruck by her beauty when she laughed but he ofcourse had to ask what made her laugh.

"I laughed because you stated something so obvious.....I used to always wear those and you always saw me in them and they always pissed you off,"she answered still laughing.Max looked her in amusement since he couldn't see anything funny with that.

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Milady was sitting by herself at the lounge.Maya had gone talking to her friends and Michael had definitely gone girl hunting and she was left alone.She was bored of sitting alone while almost everyone at the party had a partner and she decided to get to the lounge.She rised the wine glass to her mouth and was about to sip it when someone hugged her from behind and kissed her cheek lovingly.Milady smiled thinking that it was either Michael or Miguel or even Vivan doing that,since they always treated her like a small girl and showered her with sweet kisses.

"I knew you would come,"she spoke guessing that it was one of them but the voice she heard made her heart pound against her chest.She placed the glass in the table and stood abruptly and spined around face the man who had just kissed,her chest heaving heavily.Her eyes fell on the on the handsome face she had fallen in love years ago.She had loved him with everything she had and had given him everything including her heart and body just for him to...

"How dare you even think of doing that?"she asked , definitely angry by who she had seen and what he had done.

"We haven't met for almost three years now and all you can say is how dare I?"he asked quite confused.Milady folded her hands under her breasts, threw her head back and looked at the man with a raised brow.

"And who asked you to come back you bastard of a human?"she growled calmly.The young man pinched the bridge of his and sighed loudly before moving closer to her.

"Milady..."he began but he was too slow to putting his thoughts into words.

"Don't Milady me Rayan,"she barked at him before he could even finish his statement."Why on earth did you even come back Rayan?..."she continued but in a low voice and almost in tears.Rayan shook her head and spoke again.

"I came back because this Gel is my home....I didn't come back for you,"he barked at her.

"I should have also seen that coming...I know you cannot and will never come back for me or to me...I should have always kept that in mind,"she responded not able to hold back her tears anymore.She ran upstairs her eyes blinded by her tears.Rayan looked at the girl running upstairs and his heart shattered.He had caused her alot of pain before but it's not like he wanted that.He had done that to keep her safe or just to satisfy his fearful self.He had left Gel with a hope of moving on with his and keep her safe by not dating her anymore but he had not been able to forget her leave alone loving someone else....and now that he was back, and saw her reaction towards him...his heart shattered and he felt like crying all his pain out but he was a man and he couldn't do that,atleast not in public.He sighed loudly and sat on the couch and gulped down the remaining content in the glass Milady was drinking from.