Chapter 127: DETAILS
"Have you been avoiding me?" Andrew asked Jasmine whose eyes were focused on the table, admiring it as if it was the most beautiful object she had ever seen.
She sighed before parting her lips to speak, "Why would I avoid you? That doesn’t make sense". After that crazy night that the both of them had made out, Jasmine had always felt weird due to the nightmares she would get whenever she slept, the kiss hunting her down.
"Then why have you not been picking up my calls or replying to my text messages?" He asked her.
Not knowing what to say anymore, Jasmine tried to avoid his eye contact and quickly carried her purse and was about to leave. If only she had been careful while walking around, then they wouldn’t have bumped into each other at the mall.
Andrew grabbed her arm to stop her, "Wait", he said and she halted her steps. Before he could say anything else, Jasmine spoke first.
"Can we just forget about what happened?" She requested. "It was just a kiss and I already love someone", she raised her head to meet his black eyes that stared at her intently.
"You love someone?" He asked her as if forgetting her words the other night that she had confessed her feelings about Ethan.
"Yes, I love it...."
"Are you sure you love him? Not because he was your savior when you both were kids or because your father wants you to be with him for his benefit?" he interrupted her. His question left her speechless, she parted her lips to speak but no words came out. "Tell me something Jasmine, didn’t your heart skip a beat the first day we met?"
’How did he find out about that?’ she thought to herself.
"You are probably thinking about how I know that, right? I am a psychologist, Jasmine", he revealed. "I study human behavior".
Speechless, Jasmine could only stare at him without saying anything. ’I’m not falling in love with him’, she said to herself.
"Let’s go to my office and discuss your mixed feelings so that you can be at peace", he pulled her towards him and when he felt her not resist, he started walking.
At the city hospital, Andrews led Jasmine into his office and the both of them took a seat.
"So what are we going to do now?" she asked, feeling slightly uncomfortable as she held her purse tightly.
"First, I want you to narrate everything that Ethan has done for you. Start with when the both of you met to where he would save you from your father’s wrath and do not leave any details behind. I will only be able to help you when you are true to me and yourself", he answered, grabbing a paper and pen, ready to write down some details.
Jasmine released a sigh before she started, "When I was 8 years old....."
22 years ago,
At the first Anderson mansion, Mr. and Mrs. Davis held Jasmine’s tiny hands so that she wouldn’t run away.
The couple entered the mansion and was greeted by a younger butler Benjamin.
"Good day, the Anderson couple is waiting for you in the second living room", he informed both of them.
"Thank you", said Mrs Davis and the trio left to head to the second living room that the butler had mentioned.
Little tugged on her father’s big palm and asked, "Papa, where are we?"
"Princess, we are at your future husband’s house", Mr. Davis replied and Mrs. Davis slightly punched him on his shoulders and said,
"Stop talking nonsense, Jasper. She is still too young and it’s not appropriate for you to be talking about her husband when she doesn’t even know what "future" is".
"Okay okay, I will stop saying it for now but it will happen", there was a slight determination in his tone.
"Stop talking nonsense", Mrs. Davis warned.
The three of them climbed the stairs and opened the doors to the second living room, where Mr and Mrs Anderson were, seated on the soft couch as they joked about one or two things.
"Hello", the couples greeted each other and settled down.
"So where is that little son of yours, Ethan right?" Mrs. Davis asked the Anderson couple and they ordered one of the maids to bring Ethan.
Ethan entered the living room after some minutes passed, wearing a sweatshirt with black pants. Even though he was just a 10-year-old, he already had a handsome face that would make girls his age crush hard on him.
"Ethan, come here", Mr. Davis beckoned the young boy to come to him.
"Good day, uncle", he greeted.
"Good day to you too", Mr. Davis stared at Ethan as if he was a lottery that he had just won. "Meet your future wife, Jasmine", he pointed at Jasmine who was staring at the sleeping Cassandra in her crib.
The Anderson couple laughed, thinking that he was joking but only Mr. Davis knew the plans he had.
"But I don’t want to get married yet", Ethan said as he vigorously shook his head in objection, which made the elders laugh even more. "And besides, she is too young", he added.
"That’s right Ethan, but you can always try to be friends with her first", his mother, Mrs Anderson said and the little boy nodded.
The couples from different families stayed and spoke to each other until it was late and the Davis had to return to their mansion.
"Jasmine, please go to your room and wait for your mother there," Mr Davis said as he pushed her to her room and locked the door.
Mr. Davis walked back to his room and saw his wife who was taking off her jewelry, when she saw him staring at her, she questioned him,
"Why would you repeat Jasmine and Ethan’s marriage, Jasper? They are still very small and it’s only going to make the Anderson couple think that we want a marriage alliance".
Mr Davis walked towards her and aggressively pulled her hair, making her yelp in pain.
"Jasper...let me go, it hurts", she begged but it only made Mr Davis pull harder.
