313 Role model
Christian chuckles. “Let’s go to the balcony, enjoy the silence of the city when everyone is asleep gives a pleasant sensation. You will like it.”
“Really?”
Christian extends his hand towards Zwetta. “I guarantee you’ll like it.”
“What if I don’t like it?”
“I’ll bet you’ll like it,” Christian says confidently.
Zwetta pursed her lips. “What’s the stake if I don’t like it?”
“You can ask anything, and vice versa.”
“Eh? What does that an?”
An impatient Christian then grabbed Zwetta’s hand and forced her to get up. “You’re smart enough to understand where I was talking, Zee.”
.....
Zwetta who doesn’t like any kind of physical contact then pushes Christian’s chest hard to get away from her.
“I can walk on my own and definitely don’t need your help!” fiercely Zwetta snapped before finally walking towards the balcony in a hurry.
Getting unfriendly treatnt from Zwetta only made Christian smile a little, because he didn’t want to make Zwetta enjoy the view alone, Christian rushed after her with a glass and bottle of wine that Zwetta had previously chosen.
As they almost reach the balcony, Christian stops in his tracks when he notices sothing is different about Zwetta. A triumphant smile appears on Christian’s lips when he realizes that he has won the bet he made a mont ago, because Zwetta is currently fascinated by the view of Luxembourg as Christian said a mont ago.
“When I first ca and stayed in this apartnt, I was the sa as you,” Christian says quietly. “I imdiately fell in love with this place, more specifically the view from this room.”
Zwetta who was shocked imdiately turned to Christian, she looked nervous when she faced Christian who caught her admiring the view from where she was now.
Christian chuckles. “It’s ok, Zee. You don’t have to be so nervous.”
“I’m not nervous, who’s nervous?”
“Do we need to change rooms?”
“What?”
Christian imdiately raised his hands up. “Don’t think bad of , I an good. I’m just making an offer to you to switch rooms so you can get this view.” Christian spreads his hand pointing at the dazzling twinkling city lights.
Actually, Christian’s offer is quite disturbing Zwetta’s soul, because Zwetta doesn’t have access to this beautiful view from her room at this ti. What Zwetta saw was another apartnt building adjacent to her apartnt building. Contrary to the view from Christian’s room.
“How? You want to swap?”
“No need, after all I’m quite comfortable in my room,” Zwetta refused quickly.
“Are you sure? My offer is only valid once.”
Zwetta nodded. “Sure, 100% sure.”
“Okay then, I won’t insist,” Christian says softly with a smile.
Zwetta imdiately turned her face the other way, trying to hide her disappointnt because she really wanted the room Cristian was in right now. However, because her ego is too big, Zwetta chooses to refuse Christian’s offer.
“Here’s your glass.”
Zwetta turns and takes the glass from Christian’s hand. “Thank you.”
“It’s nothing, Zee. You don’t need to thank ,” Christian replies quietly, he slowly lands his butt on the chair next to Zwetta.
Feeling uncomfortable standing alone, Zwetta decided to join Christian in sitting in the empty chair.
“Can I ask you sothing, Zee?”
Zwetta who just landed her butt on the chair imdiately turned to Christian. “Ask what? Don’t you already know everything about , don’t you? Has Oliver Lee, your informant not satisfied your curiosity yet?” Zwetta said sarcastically, he deliberately brought Oliver Lee’s na into their conversation.
Christian chuckles. “I’m no longer in touch with Oliver, since the information I needed from him was enough I stopped contacting him.”
“If you don’t need any more information, then why are you still asking ?”
“It would be more satisfying if I asked the person directly, wouldn’t it?” Christian asks smartly. “I just want to be closer to you, Zee. I want to get to know you better, despite your dangerous job.”
Zwetta narrowed her eyes, looking at Christian warily.
“I wanted to know your life before finally joining Robin, to be honest I was very curious about it,” Christian says honestly.
“Why do you know about my past? What’s in it for you?”
Christian smiles. “There’s no point in it, I’m just curious. It’s unfair that you know all about but I don’t know anything about you, aren’t we friends? It doesn’t matter if I know about that childhood story of yours?”
Zwetta clenched her fists tightly, Christian’s words rattling her mind. Getting questions about her dark childhood made Zwetta so uneasy, her tearful childhood was a ti that Zwetta wanted to erase from her life.
“If you don’t want to tell I don’t force it, Zee. I just want to...”
“I never got a proper education because my father didn’t have the money to send to school, the people who taught to read, write and count were the bartenders where my father and I only then. Those kind won felt sorry for , that’s why they wanted to share their knowledge with so that I could read and write. I was only able to read and write well when I was nine years old.” Zwetta smiled sadly, rembering her dark childhood made her sad. “And when I was a teenager, my father who was a gambler and a drunkard sold to a pimp to pay his debts to moneylenders. And the pimp who gave turned out to be one of Osbert’s n from that bar. I chose to run away to save the only dignity I have as a human being who deserves to have a better life without thinking that night.”
Christian’s jaw tightened at Zwetta’s words, even though he was new to Zwetta, Christian looked so angry when he heard how Zwetta’s life struggles.
“I, who was so scared, decided to keep running regardless of the coldness of the New York streets at that ti, until finally I accidentally bumped into Robin who had just co out of the coffee shop. breath with sweat that had soaked my whole body seed to imdiately make Robin realize that sothing was wrong with . Because of that he imdiately took into his car, since then I have lived with Robin as a student as well as a worker at his house, “added Zwetta again. “If it weren’t for Robin, I might have beco one of Osbert’s money machines. If it wasn’t for Robin that night I might never have felt my freedom as a free human, that’s why yesterday I was so angry with you when you said that Robin wanted . Robin is a brother, father and ntor to . It seems impossible for Robin to have feelings for .”
Silence.
Christian is silent, he is at a loss for words. All the words that ca out of Zwetta’s lips pierced the deepest side of his heart.
“That’s why I ask you not to badmouth Robin by saying Robin made his money machine, because believe , no matter how much I pay him it will not be worth what he did for at that ti.”
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