Chapter 15 FEELING OVERWHELM
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I feel relaxed by what the women around me doing to my body, it's too relaxing but I didn't know that worse is coming for me.
After cleaning me, the woman brings a wax machine, well I know obviously what it is as I lay calmly while they wax my whole body. It's a bit painful as I am doing it for the first time but still it's bearable and then something shocking happens as the woman starts to spread my legs open.
What the ….?
I immediately sit up not hiding my shock as I gasp loudly, "What are you doing?"
"The bikini wax is included in your package…" She tells me politely and then gestured for me to lay down again. Hell, no… I am not going to do it.
"I don't want it," I say hurriedly and then close my legs defendingly.
"But…" The woman looks reluctant but I am also stubborn and then soon I am forced to lay down as she waxes my V and it's a hell lot of pain, I scream at top of my lungs like a lunatic while the other women smirk at me.
F**k, I hate this.
My mother's words suddenly start to ring in my head, "Don't overreact to the things that might happen."
So are these the things that mom was talking about? I think and finally, the woman has done her job. They put me in a sauna bath and my burning body especially my V feels good from it and gradually I relax.
I ask for the bangs and the stylist did a great job of it. I love my brunette hair as I ditch the color and go for a simple haircut that suits my bangs. I look all polished and new when I leave the salon.
Ron picks me up in the evening and my handsome future husband didn't show up, I think of something and then ask Ron to stop the car at the boutique, I need to do some changes to my wedding dress, I don't know if the lady would be able to change it on time but still I can try my luck.
Ron, at first, looks hesitant and then takes me to the boutique. After telling my concern about the dress, thankfully the lady gives me a positive response and with a happy face, I then go back to the car.
"Ron, is Andrew angry with me?" I ask Ron and he looks at me through the rearview mirror, "No, why do you ask?" He asks casually.
"Uhmm… I don't know… He is too serious and cold…" I reply to him, shrugging.
"Hah…" Ron takes a deep sigh and then says, "Mr. Andrew wasn't like this actually… He has changed a lot after his parent's death."
"Oh…" I sigh feeling sympathetic for him.
"He must love them a lot," I say sadly feeling his pain and loneliness.
"Yeah, he does, more than anyone could ever imagine," Ron replies, he too looks sad while telling me this.
Ron then takes me to a restaurant and I am happy because it sells pizza. I order a large pizza and as usual forces Ron to join me in finishing it. He looks introverted always absorbs in his thoughts ignoring everyone's existence. I find it strange how could be a lost person like him could become a bodyguard, a bodyguard should always be active and keep his focus everywhere instead of being lost in himself.
I seriously start to doubt his skills, after all, I am worried about Andrew's protection. Hah, that wife caring feeling. It just amazes me and the way Andrew calls my name, "Tessy" He calls me something that no one has ever called me.
One time, Aiden had made fun of me by calling me Tessy Tess and I nearly scratch his face in rage but when Andrew says my name and that too being so close to me, I feel goosebumps all over my body and shudder as the memory comes back into my mind.
I didn't know I was smiling like a stupid until Ron coughs and asks me If I am fine.
I nod my head and try to stay calm as we finish our pizza. Ron is a very quiet person but I make him talk, he is good company. He tells me, his father used to be a bodyguard for Andrew's father, Mr. Jack and as he passed away, after a few years his father too left this world.
He tells me that his father deeply loves the couple and wouldn't even hesitate to give up his life for them, his loyalty towards them was something that he admires a lot.
He praises Mr. Jack and his wife, a lot but I didn't hear him telling me anything about Miss Swan. I know Miss Swan is also a generous woman but I don't think Ron ever put any focus on her at all.
After all, Miss Swan is an outsider, an illegitimate daughter, who shows up after their parent's death and took over everything. I think that is why most of the people ignore her generosity because she doesn't have clean blood.
Well, I don't feel it right at all. If Miss Swan is an illegitimate child, what's her fault in this? And also she is older than Andrew so definitely she has more rights in the company than Andrew.
The people who think of her as a weak woman, she has proved them all wrong by keeping the company stable balance financially and also growing it worldwide.
Miss Swan is indeed a woman of great courage and power.
I truly admire her and want to become like her in the future, a strong, independent, graceful woman.
Later, Ron drops me off at home, I thank him with sleepiness lacing over my eyes making them heavy. As I enter the home, my father stands when he sees me and asks impatiently, "Tess, did you meet Andrew?"
What? How did Dad know about it? Did Miss Swan tell him? I nod my head and my dad looks at me with worry, "How was he? Did he… Did he say something?"
Yeah hardly a few sentences, I groan inwardly and then reply calmly, "We talk a little bit, Dad. That's it."
"Oh…" My father looks relieved and then looks down at my shorts, shit, no, I know where it is going. "Tess, why the hell did you wear that… Didn't you know that Andrew is coming?" My father scolds me like really…
"No, I didn't know Dad, and even when I knew he was coming, he didn't show up," I say dis heartily. I shouldn't be disappointed with his behavior but I am very much disappointed and distressed too.
And the way every time my father keeps pushing me on pleasing them and making them right in every way, I feel offended and then angrily I climb the stairs and close the door of my room, loud.
BOOM
Once I am in and alone, I start crying stupidly. Oh no… no… no… Tess, why are you crying? Isn't this what you always wanted, your dream, your fairytale, then why now suddenly your heart is sinking at the thought of your wedding with Andrew.
It's maybe because today somehow I have noticed the indifference, disgust, and loathe in his eyes for me. I can bear his indifference but that loathe and disgust, what had I done to deserve this hatred from him?
I feel a pang of pain in my heart making me grieve in sadness. I should be happily dancing at this moment instead of crying like a pathetic creature. No… No… No… Tessa Don't overthink Don't overreact.
I keep saying this mantra repeatedly and fall asleep on the floor with the overwhelmingness of the day still shrouding my heart and my soul.
