Chapter 431 - CHOOSING TO GIVE UP
Erwin ran outside with the gift in hand. He drove out one of the cars in the garage and tried his best to catch with Sabrina. 'Damn it! Who's driving her to the airport? Ah! So stupid.' He told himself as he pulled his phone from his pocket. He dialed Cayenne's number to ask him about the driver and after knowing it was Martin, he ended the call and dialed Martin's number this ti.
"Erwin? What's the matter?" Martin asked as he continued to driver.
When Sabrina heard the guard utter this na, his heart skipped a beat and she was torn between excitent and worry. She was hoping that he was calling for her but at the sa ti, she was telling herself not to get so much hope or she will be disappointed.
She looked outside the window instead and started singing a song in her head so that she couldn't hear the conversation.
Martin gave their current location to Erwin without stopping the car. He thought that the man was just calling for Sabrina's safety. He had no idea that he was chasing after them.
"Pull your car over to the side of the road. I'm on my way to take over."
"Ha? Why?"
"Just let drive her to the airport. Don't tell her anything yet."
"Oh." Martin nodded his head with a wide grin on his face. Just based on the desperate sound of his voice, he could now deduce what's going on. "Fine. Be quick."
Martin slowed down the car to give Erwin enough ti to catch up to them and when he saw noticed the car not far from them, he pulled the car at the road side.
"Why are we stopping?" Sabrina asked when she noticed what Martin was doing.
"I'll just check the tires at the back. Give a mont please."
"Okay."
Martin got down the car with his phone and went to the back of the car; not to check the tire but to exchange keys with Erwin instead. Erwin jogged towards him with a small gift in hand and threw the keys in the air to Martin. The latter did the sa and the two finally exchanged keys.
Martin drove the car that Erwin used back to the property while Erwin got inside the car silently to drive Sabrina to the airport. Sabrina was still looking outside the window and didn't know that the driver has been changed. However, when the aircon hit Erwin's body, his perfu wafted in the air.
Sabrina instantly turned around and looked at him with wide eyes. "How co you're here? Where's the driver?" She looked at the back of the car but there was no shadow of her previous driver. "Cayenne asked for him to co back?"
"Yes." Erwin took a deep breath and started the engine. "I'll drive you to the airport."
She just nodded her head and didn't say anything. The atmosphere inside the car was really cold and they're like strangers even though they spent so much ti together in the past few days. None of them spoke.
Ten minutes later, Erwin found a drive thru fast food restaurant and ordered so food that Sabrina could eat. "Take this. Your flight will be long and it's not good to travel with an empty stomach."
"Thank you." She received the food and she wanted to be happy for what he's done but she felt like, it was the last al she will ever have from him.
Erwin continued to drive while letting her eat. He didn't drive fast nor slow, just enough to make their ti to the airport.
"Don't you have anything else to tell ?" Sabrina questioned after so ti, braving up herself to confront him.
"I have. I'm just finding the right words to say them."
"Just say whatever you have in mind." She told him while taking a bite of her French fries. "I won't judge you. I'll listen."
Hearing her words of encouragent, Erwin stole a look at her through the mirror. "I like a woman. Even though she's bossy, I still like her. I like her smile, her laughter, and her ways of encouraging people. I like her because she could understand . However, we're actually poles apart. We're like south and north poles, no chance of eting in between. So, I decided to let go of her before my feelings would grow deeper. I decided cut my feelings before it turns to sothing she would hate. I don't want to drag her down. I don't want her to beco the laughing stock of the town if people find out that she's hanging out with a person like ."
"Did you even ask the woman how she feels about you?" Sabrina asked with red-rimd eyes. She wanted to cry but she stopped herself from doing so. She didn't want to look desperate and miserable in front of him.
Erwin looked at the gift on passenger seat beside him. He wanted to stop her from going back but if he did that, what can he do for her? How can he give the life that her parents have prepared for her? "There's no need to know about her feelings. I'm sure this is just a one-sided love."
"How sure are you?"
"Because she never really showed a single hint to . She annoyed and she bossed around. Although we'd talk like friends sotis, she'd also treat like a servant most of the ti. So, - "
"What if she was only pretending to do all of those? What if she just did those things to make you look at her? What if she likes you?" Her hands were trembling while asking this question. She didn't even try doing this to Stefan before. She didn't confront Stefan this way and she didn't explicitly told him her feelings. This was the first ti that she got so much courage to start showing her own feelings to soone.
"Why would she like ? I don't have any good points. Well, if she needed a servant, perhaps I fit the requirent she has in mind."
"Is that how little you think of yourself?"
"It's not how little I think of myself. It's the truth. I'm a servant."
"But I still like you despite being a servant. I like teasing you because you easily get annoyed but you still ask what I want later on. I only bossed you around to annoy you. Didn't I change in the last few days? Didn't I try to be the independent woman that you like? I don't really care if you're a servant. So, tell that stupid girl that you like her because she's telling you now of her true feelings." Sabrina was heaving for oxygen after telling him these things in one go. She was embarrassed. She was scared. But she was also happy that she got to express her feelings.
Erwin stopped the car once again so that they can talk since the airport was just few minutes away from them. He reclined his chair and turned to face her. "I like you. I really like you even though you snatched the toy from . And I like you even more after knowing that it's you little red who's been playing with in the ga." Sabrina was about to smile but his next words crushed her heart to dust particles. "We're not really suited for each other though."
Sabrina's tears that she had been holding back for a long ti started rolling down her face. "How do you know we're not suited when we haven't even tried it?"
"Sab, I'm not rich. My savings can't be compared to your riches."
"It doesn't matter!" Sabrina yelled in anger. "I don't need those riches! What can it do to ? Buy things. I don't need material things. I've had enough of them. You don't have to compare your status to mine."
"But I'm a man. It's not really good for a man to live off of his wife. I should be the one providing for us."
"Then, I'll leave. I will leave everything behind."
Erwin was stunned to hear her response. All this ti, he only thinks about himself and what other people would think of him if they find him liking soone like her. He was thinking of his pride.
Erwin took a deep breath and sighed. "Do you really like ?"
"Hn."
"Then, I'd be shaless to ask. Can you wait for ? Give a year. I won't try to match with your riches but I will look for a decent job."
"I can wait. I can. Just don't give up on . Just don't." She held his hand tightly, looking so pitiful with her tears falling on her face. So even fell on the back of his hand.
"I won't give up on us. I will do my best to find a job that you can be proud of." Erwin pulled her closer to him and hugged her. Sabrina moved to sit on the seat beside him and also received his gift. It was pictures of them together at the park.
When they took pictures, she intentionally asked him to use his own phone so that he can have those with him. She didn't expect that Erwin would develop a copy for her and even make it into a mory book with lots of heartfelt words written on them. He learned it from Dalia and Daisy and he even asked those kids to help him with the designs.
Erwin had no idea that the mont he chose her, Sabrina chose to give up everything for him as well. She understands a man's pride. She knew that he will be walking on a difficult path because of her. Instead of riding on her parents' coattail, she decided to start with her own career without their help.
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