Chapter 19
Author’s POV
Leaving the restaurant, Meredith goes to the back door of the car but Max goes after her and catches her in his arms.
“Stay on the passenger seat, near me.” he says and his heart is trembling seeing that she can’t look in his eyes.
Since he asked her about the reason her husband left her she had a sadness in her eyes that made him feel horrible.
“There’s no need Mr. Cruz,” Meredith said, lifting her eyes and looking into his black eyes.
He is a handsome man and he was her husband, the husband that never wanted her, the husband that forced her to make an escape plan, seeing that until the wedding day he had no intention of knowing her.
He is the husband that made her feel even more insignificant than she already felt.
And now he had the audiency to ask her if she was mentally constipated?
She just looks at him and when her heart is finally still she tells him:
“Please take me home. I am not feeling well”
I’ll take you to the hospital,” Max said, scared.
“No, Mr. Cruz is about my mind. I remembered something tonight and I just need a good sleep and tomorrow I will be fine ”
Call me Max, please.” he said, still holding her in his arms.
“I can’t. I am too weak and insignificant to stand in front of you, “she said, making him startled, because those are exactly his inner thoughts.
“You are not,” Max said, raising a hand and caressing her face, and he is almost trembling when he touches her. Her body in his arms ..is beyond everything he felt in this life.
Meredith looks at him and asks him in whisper:
“Why are you acting like this?
“Isn’t it clear?” Max said coming near her ear and inhaling her smell, and then putting his lips in the crock of her neck where his mark should have been he puts a soft kiss there.
But Meredith moves away from him.
He has no right to act like this with her. He is just playing with her, all the time they were married he never asked not even once if she needed anything, if she was sick, if she was happy.
She can’t forget. She fooled him only on the day of their marriage but after that every day she was Meredith Cruz, the real one, simple and humble, waiting for her unworthy husband to come home.
So she gathers her strength and gently pushes him away from her.
“What are you doing, Mr. Cruz?” she asks him.
“Call my name, please. I want to hear it in your mouth.” Max said, approaching her again and holding her face in his hands, he rested his forehead on her forehead.
‘I can’t,” Meredith said again but as soon as she finished Max kissed her lips lightly, putting soft peck on her lips and she didn’t fought with him this time..
“Call my name please.”
She lifts her head and looks into his eyes and whispers “Maximillian“.
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Chapter 19
His name on her lips sounds like an incantation for him and his heart for the first time understands that he can’t just reject her, even if he can’t accept her directly.
“Will you let me go, now?” she asks him without taking her eyes off him.
He open the door from the front seat and sign her to enter, and then he goes to his seat and drive straight to her apartment, without knowing that from the parking lot Vincenzo Castellano was looking at them.
“They’re really together,” he said to his beta and clenched his fingers into a fist until they began to crackle.
“I want that woman, Craig!” he said. “Find a way to bring her to me”
But in the same evening, Max is worried.
What’s the story of Meredith Quinn? What’s so sad about her marriage?
So after he left Meredith at her apartment he called the only man that can find anything in this world, because he is an innate detective.
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