C17 Chapter 17

Eliza Campos

I wanted to understand why Peter was doing all this to me, but looking at his face, I could see that he looked agonized about something.

After a few minutes on the road, the car is finally parked in a garage and there I could see several luxury cars that I had no idea which models they were.

My mother is well off, however, she is not rich, but she has a certain wealth, but I don't care about this, something my mother complains about until today.

Pedro gets out of his car and opens the door so that I could get out.

- Let's go,” he says impatiently.

I take a frustrated breath at how he was talking to me.

- Pedro, explain to me now why you brought me to your apartment.

Pedro bites his lips, nervous about everything that was happening.

- Please, Eliza. Let's go to my apartment, I swear I'll explain everything inside, it's a long story,” he says, breathing impatiently.

- Pedro, you are engaged, I won't enter your house like this. I've already said it and I'll say it again, I won't.” I say, knowing that I may sound like a tantrum child, but I was tired of the way he was treating me.

But Pedro doesn't wait for me to say anything else and takes me in his arms, throwing me over his shoulders like a real sack of potatoes.

- Stop it,” I shout trying to get him to let go, but he seems to pretend not to hear me, and I could see that it wouldn't do any good to try to let go at that moment because he really wouldn't let go.

So Pedro just locks the door of his car and follows me on his shoulders towards the elevator, Pedro then presses the button on his floor, and some people who were in the place just look at that scene without understanding anything, but, preferred not to comment anything, believing to be an adventure of two young people in love.

After a few minutes in the elevator the door is finally opened, Pedro comes out with me still on his shoulders and opens the door to his apartment, comes in, and sits me down on his sofa.

- Would you like something to drink? - he asks.

I can't believe he is asking me about this, since the way he was treating me, he should be ashamed of himself and start explaining everything to me right away.

- I don't want anything,” I reply, still angry with him.

I can just hear Peter taking a deep breath, probably trying to find the right words.

- Eliza, I'm sorry for the way I treated you, but, I needed to talk to you and really clear things up," he answers, sounding sincere.

- All right, since you didn't give me any choices, you can start explaining yourself," I say.

- Just wait for me to take a shower and I'll be right back," Pedro says.

I was tired of everything that had been happening to me for the past few days, so I decided that I would wait for Pedro to take his shower so that he could explain everything to me.

- I'll be here waiting for you," I said.

After Pedro left to go take his shower, I took the opportunity to look around his house, it was a luxury apartment and was well decorated, I looked at some pictures of when he was a child and was together with two other boys, probably his younger brothers.

After a few minutes, lost in my thoughts, I was startled to feel a warm breath on my neck and even more amazed to see Pedro, who had just come out of the shower with wet hair and wearing only black sweatpants.

He really was a piece of work, and unfortunately, I couldn't look away and probably Peter had noticed, as he gave me a sideways smile as if he was happy with my reaction.

- Can you put on a shirt please," I ask, before he could say anything, I decided to speak up for him.

- Why? - Peter asked debauchedly, "Are you afraid you can't resist my charms?

Peter said this getting closer and closer to me.

- Of course not. I asked, starting to get impatient with his delay. I was trying with all my strength to resist and end up kissing him and then regretting it.

- Okay," he says monosyllabically, putting on the blouse he had hidden behind the couch, which he had probably done just to provoke me.

Before he could say anything else to provoke me, I decided to start with the questions.

- Why did you bring me to your apartment?

- Because I needed to talk to you and I'm sorry about the jealousy scene, I was just uncomfortable with that man so close to you," he answers.

I admit that I was not expecting that answer from him.

- For what reason? You, as far as I know, are engaged to Heloisa, my half-sister," I say.

Peter frowns, probably thinking about what answer he could give.

- I know she's my fiancée, but I don't feel anything for her anymore," he answers, making me look impressed.

- And for what reason would you marry someone you no longer felt anything for? - I questioned, as much as I don't like Heloise because of everything she did against me, no woman deserves to be in a marriage where there is no love.

- Eliza, what I'm going to tell you now, almost no one knows and I hope you'll keep this secret," he asks.

What secret is Pedro keeping? So that he can have an arranged marriage with Heloise.

- All right, I won't tell anything - I speak and signal with my hand that he could talk about this secret.

- Manuel, your father, has a huge debt with my family," he says, "And to pay it off, he gave his daughters' hands as a guarantee of marriage.

When Peter reveals this, I can only think about what Manuel did to me and my brother when he abandoned us, and how he managed to give his daughter's hands in a sham marriage as if they were just objects.