Don't Forget About Me

Chapter 7

There was a knock on the door and I ran over to answer it. When I open it Os is standing there in blue jeans and a white tee and holy fuck he is so hot. “Are you going to stand there and keep staring at me or can we get going babe?” Damn, there it is again me turning red all over again. 

“You're so cute when you do that.” He goes down and gives me a kiss and I get hit right in the face with his scent and shit if it doesn't make me want to just drag him back to my room. When he steps back I know that he heard the small moan that came from me as he moved back. He leaned back down to my ear and whispered “Did you want to take this back to the bedroom?” As if he was reading my mind. “Um nope we can get going.” I say as I smile and go to walk forward. He grabs my hand and we start to walk towards the elevator. When we get inside I catch myself looking at him slightly trying to not make it obvious.  But as I do he gets this smile on his face like he feels my stare. “Something you want to say babe?” He then turned and looked at me. “Nope, just enjoying the scenery.” 

As soon as we hit the main floor, he goes and leads me out. As we go to walk out the front door I look up and I notice that across the street there is a man in all black looking like he is staring at me. It sort of looks like the guy I saw when I was on the bus the other day. As I stand there a second longer to see if I can tell who he is I notice Os look in the direction that I am looking. He starts to tense and grips my hand a little harder. “Get in the car Kelsey.” He says it with a voice that I am not used to hearing. I hurry over to the passenger door that he already has open for me. When he goes around I look to see if the guy is still there and he's gone. “Do you know who that is?” I asked him because the way he reacted was as if he did. “No.” I'm pretty sure he actually is trying to lie to me right now. “Ok, then why did you react that way when you saw that man on the other side of the road?” he sighed “Ok, he is one of my fathers men. Remember I told you that my family is fucked up? This is one of those things. My father has his men following me and verifying everything that I do so that I don't mess with whatever his plans are.” 

I looked straight ahead as we kept driving. “I am pretty sure that I saw him before.” I notice that his hands tighten around the steering wheel. “When” I looked over at him and then looked down. “Yesterday when I was on my way to get on the bus down the street.  I didn't know who he was or what he wanted. Why would they be watching me if it was your fathers guy?” I look at him with so many more questions than I thought I would have. 

“I have something to tell you but I am afraid it's going to make you want to stay away from me so can I take you somewhere first before I ruin probably the best thing that has happened to me?” I feel the sudden urge to throw up because I am terrified of what he is going to tell me. Do I trust him? Should I just have him take me back home? Something in my gut tells me to hear him out but something else is still telling me to be careful. There is something about him that is familiar and I need to find out what. “Take me wherever you want to take me but please promise that we will come back to this conversation.” He turned and put his hand on my leg. “I promise I will tell you everything.” 

We have been driving for what feels like forever. “Where are you taking me this time?” I turn to him and try to give him a genuine smile because I am really trying to have a good day especially if I may never talk to him again which breaks my heart to think about. “We are almost there babe, just sit back and relax, you're going to enjoy this.” I can tell that he is trying to keep it together too but I just smile and look back out of my window. 

As we pull down a road towards a large gate all I can do is turn to him because really another gated place? When we pulled up and stopped he opened the center council and pushed a button and all of a sudden it opened. As we drive in after we pass the gate I look behind us and realize that it is already closing behind us. The drive down the long windy road is beautiful. 

On one side there is an open field that I can see horses running in, it's like a movie. On the other side I see a lake that is surrounded by trees and rocks which gives extra appeal to it. When I notice that we are coming to an end on the long road I see a beautiful cottage style house. It's like something out of a fairytale. With the vines that seamlessly go up the side of the beautiful vintage house to the history that you can feel has been here over the years. 

“Oh my god Os, this place is beautiful. Whose house is this?” As he got out of the car and came to my side he opened my door and reached to grab my hand. I go to step out waiting for him to respond to my question but I notice he is just staring at the house. “This was my mothers childhood home, my father doesn't know about it. She left me a letter that was sent to me after she died that she left this place to me and said that he would never know about it. This is the place that I know I can go and not worry about anything or anyone bothering me. If you ever need to hide just know that you can come here and not be found.” 

As I study him I can tell that he is worried about something but I can't figure out what it is. Is it his father? Is it what we need to talk about later? “I'm sorry about your mother, What happened to her?” He took a deep breath and led me to the door. As we go to walk in I notice that this place is even more of a dream inside. Everything is perfectly in place and clean. I see some portraits on the wall and I look at Os as he is standing next to me studying them also. 

“She was murdered but they made it seem like an accident.” He let go of my hand and turned towards the chair that was sitting by itself in a corner. “She wanted out of this life with my father and she was going to take me with her. My father got wind of what she was planning and decided that there was no way she was going to take me, his only heir. One night she was coming to get me from school but she never made it. My father was there to get me and told me there was an accident and that my mother was not coming home.” 

I walked towards him and put my hand on his shoulder and started to rub it to let him know that I am here. He grabbed my arm and stopped me then pulled me onto his lap. “I  never told my father that I knew what she was going to do. He always assumed that she was just going to take me without me knowing anything but I was old enough to know who my father was. My mother told me everything so I knew that the day would come, either we got away or I would lose her forever.” 

I can tell that he is just exhausted from all that he just shared and the memories that are floating around in the house. “Lets go lay down and take a nap, we had a long drive and I think that it will refresh both of us.” He nodded and got up still holding me. He walks us down a long hall to a door at the end. He opens it and we walk in. He lays me on the bed and kneels down and reaches for my shoes. He starts to take one off then the next. As he gets up he takes his off and comes to lay next to me. He pulls me in close and snuggles into me and before I know it we are fast asleep.