"Master Hayden is waiting to have dinner with you in his sitting room," Auntie inford
after poking her head into my art studio.
"Oh, right…it’s dinner ti already…" I murmured as I glanced at the clock.
I had been working so hard that I hadn’t realized that so much ti had passed by already. Quickly, I got up from my seat before following Auntie out the door.
"You don’t have to walk
there, you know. I can get there just fine by myself," I told the old woman who seed persistent on escorting
to Hayden’s room.
"I’m sure you can but if I don’t do this then I don’t know why I’m still employed," Auntie replied with a grin.
"Well, if you insist…" I replied with a small laugh.
Auntie seed proud to escort
to Hayden’s room and I gave her the pleasure of doing so. We shared small talks all the way there and I realized how much I missed her company. When we arrived, Auntie opened the door for
even though it wasn’t necessary.
"Thank you so much," I thanked her.
"You’re more than welcod. Now, quickly head inside," Auntie said encouragingly.
I stepped into the room and the door rapidly closed firmly behind . Auntie did not join
inside the room, and I found that slightly strange; however, I didn’t have much ti to dwell on that thought. The fantastically decorated long dinner table caught my eye and my mouth hung open.
What is this?
"Why do you look so shocked?" Hayden spoke up.
My head turned imdiately towards his voice, and I saw him approaching the table. My eyes returned to the table again as Hayden took his usual seat at the dining table. The sight of Hayden sitting at the overly decorate table felt out of place. It wasn’t Christmas or anything worth celebrating today so I had no idea what the special occasion was.
"Umm…did you prepare this?" I asked in a shaky voice as I approached the table.
"No. You did," he replied.
?
"I did…what?" I asked, cluelessly.
"You prepared this," Hayden replied as he gestured with his hand at the decoration on the table and around the room.
"No, I…didn’t…do this…" I replied hesitantly.
Unless I lost a part of my mory, I did not rember decorating this room or getting it decorated like this. The work here was professional level and there was no way that I could achieve sothing as elaborate as this even if I tried my hardest.
"That’s strange…Auntie did ntion that you wanted to have a special dinner of so sort with
here…" Hayden said thoughtfully as he cocked his head slightly to one side.
A special dinner…
"Oh, I rember now!" I blurted as I finally connected the dots together.
Hayden chuckled before he grinned at
with a slightly mischievous glint in his blue eyes. I cursed myself silently for taking too long to realize what this dinner set up was for.
"Little Hayden ran into the pathway to Harvey’s wing while I was on my way here to check up on the decoration that Auntie was working on. After that, you know…so yeah, I didn’t get a chance to see it, so I didn’t realize that it turned out to be…this over-the-top elaborate. I an, it looks great and I’m very thankful…but…" I said while stuttering.
What am I going on and on about? Why am I suddenly so nervous?
I never thought that Auntie would do sothing so amazing like this. She probably went over the top and hired so professionals to decorate the place when I asked her to help prepare a special dinner for us. The more surprising thing was that the whole set up was still here after all that ti that I spent locked up in the room underground. Did Hayden decide to leave it all here?
"Shall we have dinner?" he asked.
"Yeah…we should…" I mumbled, still feeling a little lost.
I shook my head a little to clear my thoughts before approaching my regular seat at the table which was opposite Hayden’s. Hayden called my na softly when my hand reached the back of the chair. I looked up at him to see him gesturing for
to go to him with the crook of his finger. My hand slipped down from the back of the chair at the change of plans.
After walking around the long table to his side, I stood at his side as I waited for him to instruct
on what I should do next. Wordlessly, Hayden patted his lap with his large hand as his blue eyes teased .
"I thought we would be having dinner…" I mumbled.
"I’ll feed you…if you’re hungry," he replied casually.
I pursed my lips together before lowering my bottom onto his lap just like how he wanted. His large hand grabbed the sides of my hips and settled
down onto his lap before he began caressing my waist and the plain of my stomach with his left hand. My eyes tried to focus on taking in the vast variety of food on the table to distract myself from being too conscious of his closeness.
"Don’t act so nervous. Your whole body is stiff…and I don’t like it," Hayden said with a hint of warning in his tone.
I would have relaxed my entire body for him if it was that easy to achieve. Taking in deep breaths seed to help
calm down a little and soon I started feeling quite comfortable on his lap with his arms around my body.
"What’s the special occasion?" Hayden asked from behind .
His question caught
off guard and it took
a few seconds to realize that he was probably referring to the original purpose of this special dinner.
"It’s not really a big deal or anything…" I mumbled softly.
The real reason that I wanted to celebrate was because I got my first paynt for my first commission work since moving to this mansion. However, the amount isn’t anything to brag about and definitely not to soone like Hayden. For a mont, the cause of my celebration seed normal and insignificant that I didn’t want to tell him about it.
--To be continued…
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