CHAPTER 34: A SHOULDER TO LEAN ON

The moment the ice cream touched her tongue, she let out a soft sigh. The sweetness lingered, and a faint smile curved her lips as though the taste alone carried her away.

"Are you sure it’s okay for you to spending money like this, especially with all the repairs you have to do at the shop?"

"why not, it’s just ice cream," Yohan took a scoop from his small cup as they continued to walk.

"Still you should try to save your money,"

"What did you expect me to do when you wouldn’t stop crying?"

"Sorry about that, and thank you for cheering me up,"

"It’s fine, I still don’t understand why you were crying for someone like Jamie when he literally tried to kill me,"

"To be honest I can’t explain it either, anytime I think about the fact that he isn’t coming back home I just feel... so sad..." her voice broke as the sadness slipped in.

"Don’t start crying on me again," Yohan mumbled.

"I’m not... I’m not going to, I miss him that’s al. It’s not like I didn’t know what kind of person he was, I just never thought he would do something like this"

Yohan could easily see that her emotions for Jamie weren’t fake, she geniuely cared for that bastard. Only God knows how that was possible.

"Don’t worry you’ll forget about him in no time, you shouldn’t even be crying over a scumbag like that after everything he did,"

"Maybe I should hold you responsible since you are his loving girlfriend," Yohan added playfully, but it seemed the joke escaped Mia,

She stopped walking and bowed, "I’m honestly sorry about everything that happened with the shop, if I could help in some way, even if it means working without pay or picking up some extra shift just tell me, I’ll do whatever I can do,"

Yohan was a bit startled by her sincere display, "you don’t have to do all that, its not like any of this is your fault,"

"But I still feel responsible, if it wasn’t for me Jamie probably would have left you alone,"

"I highly doubt that, that bastard would have done something eventually, plus we can’t regret the past now, especially when you’ve always been such a good employee," he said with a smile.

Mia felt good hearing those words so she also smiled. She then noticed blood trickling from the injury on his head.

"You’re still bleeding," she said moving to take a closer look.

"It’s fine Mia, it hardly even hurts,"

"Still, you should come inside so I can apply some ointment and a band-aid"

"You sure?" Yohan asked

"Yeah, it’s the least I can do. Come on my house is just by this corner,"

Soon they arrived at a small apartment building and Mia led him up to her apartment.

She flicked ok the light, "welcome to my humble house," she said with a light tone.

"Wow, your boyfriend has great taste," he chuckled. "Can a gangster really afford a place like this?"

"It’s not that expensive, we just take good care of it. A clean apartment always look expensive, take a seat let me get the first aid box,"

He sat in the small sitting room and she quickly returned with the box. She used a disinfectant to cleanse the wound before applying some ointment and putting a bandaid.

All this while Yohan couldn’t get his eyes of her cleavage.

’its like they are calling to me’

His eyes were locked on the deep circle of her breast, a hypnotic swell that rise and pressed together like it existed only to taunt him. The way her skin glowed faintly under the light, made his chest tighten with hunger he could barely contain.

Every breath she took made them shift subtly, and the longer he stared the harder it became to resist the savage urge to bury his face between them.

"I wonder how things are going to be around here now that Jamie is gone," she sighed sadly

’why does she keep bringing up that bastard?’ Yohan cursed under his breath

’At this rate, She’ll be too down to enjoy sex. Should I offer her a massage? But I’m not even with my special oil’

He exhaled, ’All this thought just to have sex with a girl, is it really worth it?’

One look at those plumpy melons was enough to convince him that Mia was worth every effort.

"Look Mia, maybe you should try not to think about Jamie for the rest of the night, that way you would feel too lonely. It’s not like the scumbag is dead, he might even be in a better place now,"

"Yeah, think of it as a place where he’ll be reformed. Most guys rediscover themselves when they go to jail. Who knows, he might come out as a whole different person," he added, this way he could at least make her forget about her boyfriend for a while.

Mia thought about it for only a moment, "so you think I should wait for him?"

"What? No, that’s not what I meant," Yohan said frantically.

"But if Jamie is working on himself it wouldn’t be fair to him if I just leave him like that," her eyes begun to shine with a different type of light. It seemed she was understanding his words way differently than he expected.

"No, no I never said any of that, I only said he might–"

"Don’t worry, I understand. I can only hope that he’s doing his best in there and what is love if not hope," a small smile tugged at her lips, it was clear that her decision was already made.

’No, no, no... how could my plan have backfired like this? That gangster is probably never going to change, even if he does my goal is to get laid not make their relationship stronger’

’At least it doesn’t look like she has started feeling guilty about what we did earlier so maybe I still have a chance... I should just go for it’

Yohan leaned in and kissed her, grabbing one of her breast in the process. Mia’s eyes widened, unable to react before their lips touched.

Only when Yohan tried introducing his tongue did she push him away,

"Yohan, what are you doing?!"