Lord Rodriguez’s bride episode 23
♦️LORD
RODRIGUEZ’S BRIDE♦️
( The Unexpected Wife )
By, Cisca. H.
Chapter 23: THE GIRL BY THE BEACH.
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He was laying by the river, his body on the sand while Enya rested her head on his bare chest.
The wind which blow from the stream to where they laid cause Enya to shiver.
She rubbed her hand on his chest, while his hand tangled her soft dark brown hair.
” It’s beautiful out here, you never told me some where like this existed.”
” I never did because I wanted to make it a surprise. You like it, don’t you?”
She rose her head from his chest, staring at him. ” Of course, I do. You never know how much I have dreamt about being in a place like this. I feel like staying for eternity.” She laid her head again on his body.
” Can you swim?” She asked.
He chuckled.
” Why are you laughing at my question? Can you swim?” She repeated.
” I don’t… swim.”
” Hmmm. Why? You’re scared you might get drowned?”
He hesitated to say the word, ” No.”
Enya again sat up, now she was looking deep into his eyes. ” You hesitated, why?” He didn’t say anything. ” Did some thing bad happen? Did I remind you of your past?” She asked, worried. Searching for an answer in his eyes.
” No, you didn’t.”
” Some thing troubles you, My love, what is it?” Now she was becoming worried than she should.
” I was eight years old and I didn’t know anything then.” He started. ” I had this friends, they were good at swimming and with the skills. While me, I was just the prince everyone knew.
I had this compassion to do things like others but my parents never let me do anything. I always watch from my window, it’s was fun playing with the river… with the kids.
But I couldn’t have this fun because, it’s me locked up in my room every day. So one day, hours before the kids always come to play, I sneaked out of the castle to the river.” He sighed.
Enya adjusted herself to listen to what he was about to say. ” I was out there alone. First, I was playing with my feet, feeling the cold on my skin. Then I thought that I should give it a try.
You know, trying to swim. I did but… I couldn’t.” He scoffed.
” You drowned?”
” I almost did. Luckily, the kids came… came more earlier than other days so… they did save my life. ” He sighed again, heavily. ” Since then, I promised myself I would never ever swim in my life.”
Turns to her. ” So, what about you, can you swim?” He asked her.
” No.” hands rested at her back, while her eyes were fixed up to the sky, ” You’re lucky, you know. No one would have known you ever existed if not for them.”
” I know.”
” How did you get back home?” She asked.
” I’m not sure I can remember.”
” Yeah, you must have had a lot of water in your body, ha ha.”
” There was this girl, dark hair, little and she looked innocent. She was fixing her legs into her shoes, I couldn’t see what she looks like… my head was damn filled and I was … I felt dizzy. I think the other kids had gone then.”
” They left her all alone at the river? ”
He chuckled. ” I think so.”
” So tell me about this little girl.”
” When I woke up, I don’t even know what happened but… the least I can ever remember was her saving my life. I couldn’t tell her thank you. I mean, I bwish I had the chance to but… I can’t even remember her even if I meet her.
Her face… it’s all blur in my head. I wish I can get to see her again. I wish I can get the chance to say thank you to her. ”
Enya held the tears back from escaping her eyes. She can’t believe she had forgotten that moment. That very day she met him for the first time.
She was little… so little but felt love. When everyone had gone with lost hope that he’d survive, she stayed back.
Gave him the k-ss of life and… that was it. That was how it all started. The k-ss. Yes, it was the k-ss.
It was soft, those l-ips on hers. But then, she knew nothing about it. She was only trying to save his life.
That day, was the beginning of her dreams. Seeing his face every single night, at the river, laying helpless on the ground.
And when he had woken up, when his soft voice searched for hope, it was like a spark to watch him alive again.
She walked up to him, squatted with her brown eyes searching into his. She smiled broadly at him, ” You’re alive.” Her tiny voice sounded with a soft chuckle.
” What am I doing here?” He asked faintly.
” You almost drowned out there.” She said, pointing at the river. ” What were you thinking? ”
” I was only trying to swim… like you guys.”
She smiled. ” But you shouldn’t have come alone.”
” No one would have teach me even if I came with you guys.”
” Someone would, you just haven’t asked yet.” Looks up at the cloud, then at him. ” It’s dark already, we shouldn’t be here. Come on, let’s get you out of here.”
She held his hand while they walked out of the beach. Stopping at the pathway which led to the castle, she let go off him. ” I have to go now or my parents will be worried about me. Good bye.”
She turned to leave but he stopped her. ” Wait.”
” Yes.” She answered, smiling at him.
” What’s your name?” He asked her.
” I’ll tell you when we meet again.”
” Why not now?” He pleaded.
” It’s better if you don’t know it now. I promise, when we meet again, I will tell you.” She promised.
” Well I’ll tell you mine. ” He looked at her for an answer.
” You sure?”
” My name is Riguez and my father’s name is Rod. So everyone calls me Rodriguez. It’s crazy, isn’t it?”
She shook her head. ” You have a pretty name. I must get going.”
” Bye.” He waved at her. ” Good bye my friend.”
” Good bye.” That was the last time they ever saw each other, but that wasn’t the last time she stopped thinking about him.
He was always in there, deep in,side her heart every blessed second. He was the reason why she refused so many proposals which came her way.
He was the reason she had a troubled heart for love. He was likewise the reason she envied and felt jealous to who ever came to him.
She felt like meeting each other when they were little was fate, but when she grew up, she doubted it was actually fate.
Little did she knew, it was indeed fate’s doing for her to meet him at the appointed time.
” Did you get to meet her again?” She asked, and he shook his head.
” We never met again. And I didn’t even get to know her name. ”
” Have you thought about her or what she’ll look like after those years you never saw her?”
” I keep imagining that innocent face grow to be something beautiful. Even till now, I don’t why I can’t get her off my head.”
That’s because he was staring at that innocent face years back, grown to be someone gorgeously beautiful.
” One day, you will surely see her.”
” I don’t think so.”
” Why would you say that?”
” It’s years since the incident, it’s pointless hoping to see her now. Especially when I have you to myself.” He picked her cheek.
” Let’s have our bath and then we go home.” She nodded.
She was in thoughts that she spent nearly five minutes loosening the ropes of her gown.
Riguez held her hands, ” Let me help you.”
Her eyes moved to him, those ocean blue eyes still remained the same as years ago. She was staring but he didn’t know why.
Why he had loosen it all, he shifted the fabric off her shoulders. It stopped on her br-ast, then with his hands he slides it more further till it got to her wa-ist.
Pausing, he looked at her for a go ahead. She slightly nodded her head at him to continue.
Now, she was standing stake unclad before him, but her eyes never attempt to leave his. Each time he stared at her unclad, it felt new to him.
His eyes scanned her from head to toe, then back to her face. ” I’ll bath you tonight.”
” I’m not lazy.”
” I didn’t say you are, ”
” Why would you want to bath me?”
” Because… I think it’s my responsibility to. ”
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To Be Continued…
Cisca Writes ❤️