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Chapter 26: New Feelings

Ricardo P.O.V

"Higher daddy! Higher!" Dante squeals as I push him on the swing. Me and Dante are currently at the park on a Saturday afternoon enjoying the sunny day. I decided to go to the park today because Dante needs to burn of the energy he has from eating to many sweets that Dante beg the maid to give her. I felt like scolding the maid for giving him so many sweets but I know how irresistible his puppy dog eyes are I let her of the hook.

Then I decided to take Dante to the park since it's a nice sunny day and he can run around at the park until he's tired. When I told Dante that we are going to the park he got so excited that he could hardly stay still. Even in the car he is bouncing in his seat asking "are we there yet," so many times that I sigh in relief when we reach the park. Here we are an hour later and Dante is still full of energy even after running around non-stop since we got here.

I didn't realize that taking care of a child could be this tiring as I thought my friends were just exaggerating when they told me they felt like passing out after taking care of the kids the whole day. I actually laughed at my friends but know I guess karma came to bite me when I have one hyper kid that refuses to stay still. Know it's my friends' turn to laugh at me.

"Daddy stop! I want play the seesaw with friends," Dante said loudly. I hold the swing when he comes towards me to stop it. Once I caught the swing I let it go slowly until it stop at its original place and as soon as the swing stop he jump off and race to the seesaw where another kid is sitting there waiting for him. I smile at him and walk to the bench that is beside the playground to rest a bit.

I'm seriously sweating from moving around playing hide and seek with my son. He maybe small but he can really run fast when he wants to. I had to chase him all over the park. Thanks to that I don't need to work out at home as I got plenty of exercise from this. My t-shirt is damp with my sweat and as soon as we get home I will have a shower with Dante.

I'm just watching Dante play with the other kids when I felt that someone is looking at me so I discretely look to my right and see two women whispering to each other and giggling while occasionally looking at me. I roll my eyes, don't they have anything better to do than stare at me. I don't have the slightest interest in women right know as I'm to busy taking care of my son and work.

Ok that is no completely true. I do have a tiny interest in one lady but I'm not sure why as it's only been a year since her death. I can't even say her name in my mind without feeling being in pain like she just pass away yesterday. But still for some reason I'm very aware of this person whenever she is near and her being near me almost everyday makes me aware of her a lot.

The women who has captured my interest a little is none other than my secretary who also happens to be my first love's sister. I feel like I'm betraying my first love whenever my heart beat increase when I am near Miss Jones. Here I am having and interest for her sister when she had to suffer for three years before her death. Furthermore, it has only been a year since her death, I feel like it's to soon to have interest in some other women.

But no matter what I tell myself my body betrays me whenever she is within my sights. I realize this recently as I have been getting closer with her since Dante came into my life. She is practically at my house almost everyday since Dante tends to miss her a lot and cry if she is not there. There this one time when I thought I could distract him from thinking about his aunt, boy was I wrong! He threw a tantrum and would not stop until Miss Jones assures him that she will come to my house.

After that, I gave up on trying to not think about his aunt so much. I think he's attach to her so much because his aunt reminds him of his mother as they are both loving and kind. I thought at first that I have an interest in her because she reminds me of my first love but I realize that I like the fact that Miss Jones is not afraid to speak her mind. Sapphire is the kind of person who is soft spoken and afraid to speak her mind incase she hurts someone's feelings.

Even though the sisters look a like on the outside, their personality is different. So thanks to this, recently I am in constant confusion over my reactions to Miss Jones who is my employee. I always have a strict rule of not mixing pleasure with business as that may lead to unnecessary problems at work but Miss Jones is making me rethink that rule especially when I held her in my arms last week Sunday at Dante's fourth birthday party.

I happen to walk by when I saw Miss Jones trip on a toy that someone drop on the floor and my body move without thinking to catch her before she fell. Her eyes was close when I caught her and open her eyes when she didn't feel any pain from hitting the floor. Then she realize someone caught her she looks up and gasp as I don't know why but I'm studying her face.

She felt so warm and soft in my arms that I felt like holding her but I force myself to lift her until she is steady on her feet than quickly let go. She whispers, "thank you," before turning around and walking away. But I saw her face turn pink before she walk away and I felt please and annoyed that I felt pleased.

Since that incident I am even more interested in her than before which annoys me and leads me to be easily irritated at anything. Though I try to suppress it since my employees are starting to not feel so scared to approach me anymore and I want it to stay that way. So to distract myself I throw myself into work whenever I'm at the office and when at home I hit the gym if she is in the house.

I want to avoid her as much as possible thinking that the feelings would go away but it just increase my body's reaction towards her whenever I have to interact with her at work or about Dante. Because of this I tend to give her more work so that she will have to take time to finish it and less time to check on me.

Recently I have ask another one of my worker to bring me, my latte everyday so that I don't have to see Miss Jones come to my office to hand me my drink. This is a first time I have an interest in an employee that is not how well she can work. To further my interest, she is a hardworking women that finishes her work on time with a few mistakes only.

That is the only reason why I don't give her another job as she makes my work life more easier and less stress. I am brought out of my reverie when I felt a small body crash onto me. I look down and its Dante giggling while hugging my legs. "Had enough?" I ask him and he just nods his head yawning. So I carried him and left the park to go to my car.

When we reach the car I unlock the car and open the backseat door, putting Dante on the seat buckling the seatbelt before closing the door. Then I walk to the drivers' door and enter the car. A few minutes later I am driving home for about twenty minutes until I reach the house. Once I park the car I switch off the engine and got out of the car to get Dante. Dante startles awake when he hears his door open and blinks and yawn at me tiredly.

I chuckle at him and unbuckle his seatbelt before carrying him into the house. I nod at the maid as I enter the house and head to my room to shower Dante and myself. I put Dante on my bed so that I can get the bath ready. After the bath is ready I take off his and my clothes I carry him to the bathroom. "I want sleep," Dante whines at me but I told him, "You have to take a bath first before you sleep because you have been running around and sweating. You will get itchy later."

He just pouts and nods his head. I shook my head, then went into the bathtub, making him sit on my lap as I wash him while he's playing with the bubbles. 15 minutes later I finish cleaning him and myself so I got up from the tub, take the towel on the rack and dry Dante and myself off. Rapping the towel around my waist I carry him to my walk in closet to get his pajamas and a t-shirt, boxer shorts for me.

I then walk to my bed and help Dante put on his Spiderman pajamas. Then I tuck him to bed as he likes to sleep with me before wearing my boxer shorts and unwrapping the towel. I decided not to wear the t-shirt and just get under the cover, hugging Dante when he rolls towards me and close my eyes for a nap.

Scarlett P.O.V

Ever since Dante's fourth birthday party last Sunday, the atmosphere between me and my boss is weird. I get the feeling that he is trying to avoid me as when ever I come to visit Dante he always make an excuse to be somewhere else and only shows up when I am about to leave to say his goodbye. Furthermore, lately he has given me more work compared to before.

He even ask me not to bring him his drink in the morning anymore and asks some other worker to get it. But I am kinda glad he is avoiding me as something weird happened between us after he saved me from falling when I tripped over a toy that was on the floor. Mr. Giovanni held me for a few seconds more than necessary, then he help to lift and steady before quickly withdrawing his arms.

I didn't know what to do so I thanked him and quickly walk away hoping he didn't see that I was blushing so hard. When Bethany saw my face was so red, she ask me what happened so I told her as I tell her everything. Her jaw drop when I told her what happen and she thought I was joking. I assured her that I wasn't and she was just speechless. Then she recovered and said don't think about.

But the thing is the more I try not to think about it the more I end up thinking about it and every time I think about it I blush like I was teenager in love.

That thought me froze me. I could not possibly like my boss, just a year ago he lost the women he loves and that women is my sister some more. That would be betraying my sister who had to suffer for three years before she passed away. I can't possibly starting to like my decease sister's love. It will be awful of me to think of my boss that way furthermore there is Dante to think about.

Would he see it as me taking his mother's place if I were to start a personal relationship with his father. I shook my head I cant believe of starting a personal relationship with my boss. The only relationship that me and my boss will have his that of a employer and an employee. I decided to not think about it an focus on something else to keep my mind of it.

I am currently scrolling through the newspaper when I see a column on the news section about a man named Jacob Stanley getting sentence to death for abusing and murdering a women by the name of Sapphire Jones. I choke on the apple juice I am drinking while reading the newspaper. I cant believe it, that guy is finally getting what he deserves for what he did to Sapphire.

I waited for a year for him to get his sentence and I'm glad that the judge decides to give him a death sentence as he deserves no less. I feel like a burden is lifted from my shoulders when I read that news. Know I don't have to think about that guy anymore and focus on more important things like my job and Dante.

Speaking of Dante, I love the fact that he is so attach to me but what I am uncomfortable is how he wants me to come to my boss's house at odd times and he would not stop crying until I promise him I will come. It's so weird to be at my boss's house in the middle of the night and I end up have to sleep there with Dante so that he will fall asleep

I don't know how many times I have slept at my boss's house. It's also really awkward when we bump into each other in the morning. Believe me when I say that I have seen him in only his boxer shorts more times than I care to count. No matter how many times I see it I will still blush so hard and get away from him as soon as I can. I don't know how he can act normally at work.

I'm not able to look into his eyes when I tell him about his schedule for the day and just look at the clipboard until he dismiss me. I couldn't help but walk out of his office as fast as I can and restrain myself from running. I keep having to tell myself that I can't start to have feelings for my boss who I'm sure is still grieving over the death of my sister a year ago.

I finish reading the newspaper after I couldn't find anything interesting and decide to go to the books store to buy some novels that recently came out. I'm so happy about not having to pay for it as I did read the book and told Bethany all about it. My face was red the entire time I told her the gist of the book. I can't understand how people can read a novel like that and like.

Oh sure I like the romance part but the rated stuff just ruins it for me. But anyway I don't have to read it anymore and I can unlimited number of novels for a year courtesy of Bethany. So I happily hum while I get ready to do to the mall for book shopping. After I'm ready I told Beth my plans and she groans but gave me $150 to shop. I squeal and said "Thank you!" before running out of her room and out of the house to my car.

I arrive at the mall 20 minutes later as park the car that is close to the entrance and cut off the engine. Then quickly walk into the mall and head to the bookstore. When I am in the bookstore, I breathe in the smell of books before walking to the romance section to look at the selection. I must have spend a few hours at the bookstore searching everywhere for anything that interests me.

After I'm satisfied made my way to the cash register when I accidentally bump into someone and all the books I am holding fall from my hands. "Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going," I apologize while bending down to pick up my books. I look up when I hear my name and I froze. Of all the people I could of bump into I had to bump into Timothy who is the last person I would want to meet.

"H-hi," I stutter, not sure what to say right now. He helps me to collect all the books I drop and carried it in his arms. "Oh! Thanks," I said about to take the books from him when he said, "Its okay I'll carry it for you. You're going to pay for these books right?" I couldn't say anything so I just nodded my head and let him help me carry the books to the cash register.

"I see that you still love to read," he said and again I just nodded. I cant believe he stills remember that about me. I was so hoping that I would never have to meet this guy again. I feel so awkward around him. When we arrive at the cash register I put the books in my hands on the counter then Timothy put the rest on the counter. "So have you been busy," he said nonchalantly.

"Oh yeah! I am swamped with work and taking care of my nephew," I told him. "You have a nephew?" he asks, his brow furrowed. "Yeah! My sister got married a few years ago," I explain.

"Oh. Your sister Sapphire if I'm not mistaken. How is she?" he asks. My heart tighten when I said, "She is not here anymore. She passed away a year ago." "I'm so sorry for your loss," he said with an apologetic look. I wave him off and told him, "it's okay I'm learning to cope with it know." He nods his head and was about to say something but the cashier interrupt him by telling me, my bill.

My bill is $110 so I gave the cashier $150 and wait for a few seconds for the change than grab the plastic bag with the books in it and made my way out of the bookstore saying, "well it's nice meeting you, but I have to meet with my friend so see you later," to Timothy. He just nods his head with furrowed eye brow but I didn't stay to ask him what's wrong and just walk away.