Chapter 19

LORENZO The following weeks passed with a blur and Leigh-Ari Montreal was nowhere to be seen! Or at least that’s what she thought!

I had a very perfectly vivid image of what she was trying to paint in my mind and decided to humor her.

Yes, she played “hit and run” on me! She came so hard on my fingers and was limp and half-dead in my arms; then the following morning she had disappeared like water in the sand, with no traces of her.

As I said, that’s what she thought! Little did she know that I was very aware of every single step she took i n her day. I had my men following her all over and knew that she was crushing at her friend’s place. She would sneak into her house to get a few files when she thought I am not watching and then silently leave;

my front door camera would catch every single move. Even when she slightly leaned over my door to ·

listen to whatever was going inside!

The first few days after the limo incident, I had called her and texted her; knocked on her door just for the fun of it. And all my attempts to reach out to her were unanswered! I showed up at her work some other time, only to have her hide in the ladies’ room until I left! It was rather funny though; especially because she had just a little time before… You know what, never mind!

“Is everything ready?” I asked with a commanding voice, turned, and looked outside the morning sky from my balcony door!

“Yes, Sir it is all ready!”

“For how many days will it be? The hotel?”

“It will be for three days and St. Andrews Hospital is on the list sir. I have booked a hotel, 2 separate rooms at Sheraton Grand Atasehir…”

“No no no! Don’t separate the rooms. Book one room. Make it a penthouse. The bigger, the better!” I instructed with a smile stretching on my face!

“Okay, sir right on it!”

I removed the phone from my ear and hung up, then gave out a well knowing smirk. I looked down at it again and punched a few numbers and then dialed them. The receiver answered on the third ring!

“Mr. Cattanio, good morning sir!”

“No formalities please. Lorenzo will be okay!”

“You are my benefactor Mr. Cattanio. That goes without saying, you have my utmost respect.”

“You have such a glib tongue don’t you?” I walked from the balcony and got inside the house, “Not at all Mr. Cattanio. And how may I help you?”

“Can you kindly name the candidates who will be elected for the workshop?”

“Okay give me a second…” There was a few rustling from the speaker before the voice called out;

“Mr. Catt?”

“Still here!”

“Oh right! We have one doctor from Cardiology, two from Rheumatology, three from Surgery, 3 from Endocrinology, two fro…”

“Wait up! The names of doctors from Surgery?”

“Oh yes…. It’s Dr. Montreal and Dr. Elijah!”

“I see. I would like to put in a few changes into that list!”

“I am all ears!” Now that’s what I wanted to hear.

“From the surgery department, can you put Dr. Montreal only? I mean, it wouldn’t be wise to take two good doctors at once. At least one of them should stay in case of emergencies that could arise!”

“You are very right Mr. Cattanio. I was thinking about this and now that you have pointed it out, I will pass it to the higher up and have it dealt with today.”

“Okay! That’s about it. Thank you so much for the help!” I interjected being as polite as I could possibly master.

“I should be the one to thank you, sir. You are oing so much for our small hospital and it means a lot. I am super awed by your warm heart Mr. Cattanio and we will forever be indebted to you. I am hundred and one percent sure that this workshop will bring good things to this hospital.”

“Oh yes, it will!”

LEIGH-ARI “Avoiding Mr. Hotpants won’t solve your problems. Besides I have no idea why you have to ghost on him because he made you squirt! Not all men can do that!”

“You shush!” I yelped from my seat and covered Laura’s mouth with my palm and muffled all the words she was spitting out. Her voice was raised and I could practically feel the curious glances boring holes in my back.

“Just keep it down dang it!” I cursed through clenched teeth and watched as she laughed from my palm. I raised an accusing finger at her and made her raise her hands in surrender, I arched a brow; and she nodded rapidly. I took a deep breath and uncovered her mouth.

“Okay, as I was saying; I do not understand why you are ghosting him. From what you said, he kisses like a god, fingers like a devil…”

“Laura Montez Petrou, will you keep your voice down?” I raised mine causing people in the cafeteria to look back at us again! The shameless her went on by waving her hands to everyone who was looking, blew kisses, and did some fake gun-shots. I took a dry French fry from my tray and tossed it on her. She chuckled and took it with her fingers before throwing it in her mouth.

“Alright alright! But I really don’t see the point in your running vendetta. From the looks of it; he can make you cum to oblivion, and from what I heard, he is perfectly capable of doing it! So why do you run away from him?” she asked in a much serious tone this time.

“Because he is involved with Valerie.” I pointed out annoyance dripping from my tone.

“Yeah right! The very same Valerie whom you’ve known for just a week and who made it vaguely clear that it is simple, emotionless sex. I mean come on, you saw Valerie, you saw what a hot mess she is and I guarantee every man on this earth will want a piece of her. No, Mr. HotPants being involved with her doesn’t seem to be much of a problem. And if that’s the reason why you are hiding at my house, I tell you solemnly; that’s bullshit.” She took a sip of her soda, placed it down, and then stared back at me.

“Unless of course…” She smirked and I so hated that smirk on her face.

“Unless what?” I inquired with an arched brow!

“Unless our badass heroine is scared. Afraid!” she intoned thinning her eyes towards me.

I leaned back and contemplated on her words. And to tell the truth, I was scared shitless about my neighbor dearest. Whenever he was around, he gave me this weird unsettling sense of Deja Vu that made me want to jump at his bones in an instant; at the same time made me want to run for the hills. He made m e feel like I was missing out on a rather important faction of… life in general.

“Maybe!” I whispered.

“Come on girl. What’s there to be scared of? His cock maybe?” she winked at me causing me to smile.

Heavens bless this girl.

“Well, yes that’s one of the things I am afraid of. His cock is huge, it’s the size of my arm okay, and that time it was still in his pants, now imagine if it was out of the clutches of his tight pants and then…” By now we were both down with laughter. She took the French fry and threw it my way.

“Okay okay! I have heard about this at least a million times now. Tell me honestly; what makes you fear him?” She leaned forward and stared right into my eyes. I took a good minute and thought of what I was going to say next; because I didn’t want it to sound as insane as it sounded in my head.

“I feel like I have known him before. There’s something about him that is very familiar. And yes yes, I know it sounds crazy, but really; it feels like he and I may have crossed paths before. But I do not know when, or where!” I put forth causing her to give me a small smile!

“Why are you smiling like that? It’s creepy!” I interjected causing her smile to fall quickly.

“Fuck you!” she cursed at me and I doubled up!

“Ha-ha! Now, what do you think of what I just said? Am I crazy?”

“No, darling. You are not crazy! It may happen, I mean who knows, we live in a very weird world and it may have happened that he was your husband a million years back, you two incamated and now here you are, found each other again.” 1 “Yeah right? I mean we even had seven babies.”

“And you were phantom spirits.”

“Then we slew the dragons and then thrown into the farthest pits of hades but the high god took our souls. and planted them in the future!” my mind, when I was with Laura, was a piece of work itself.

“Uh-huh!” she laughed and I just smiled. Maybe we met in our previous lives also?