Sophia My Love Episode 16
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“Hello boss, I’m sorry I didn’t call as promised, I was very busy with mother throughout the day. How are you?” Sophia asked Jovani over the phone as she sat on her bed, pulling off her sneakers.
She had been out all day with her mother, and had just returned when he called again. She had promised to return his call when he called her earlier, but she hadn’t had a moment of rest since morning.
It’s been over five months since Jovani helped her get out of the bondage Brad entrapped her into, and in all of these times, Jovani had managed to remain a gentleman, letting her heal from the pains of the failed relationship and getting back on her feet as an independent woman.
As he had promised the night he had the confrontation with Brad, Jovani got Sophia gainfully employed, giving her the opportunity to earn a living and adjust her reasoning on financial-benefits based relationships.
Jovani had offered her the official car and apartment as he had promised, but Sophia had to reject the house because her mother insisted she didn’t need a house alone, when she was still hurting from a failed relationship.
Jovani worked in a different branch of his company, but he got to see Sophia every lunch time, during which they just ate and talked about general stuffs. He would drive to her branch and get her to join him in the staff canteen, where they ate like friends
He liked the Sophia he was seeing, and was beginning to get convinced it was time to get things right between them, but his fears of what she’d say was keeping him from moving in bold steps.
So he called her earlier that day to know if she could see him at the end of the day’s work, but she had said she was very busy and would return his call later.
“I would be better if you stop calling me boss. For Christ’s sakes Sophia, I’ve told you to call me by my first name” Jovani complained.
“And I’ve told you before, I won’t be able to adjust to calling you anything else, because you’re my boss and would remain so even if you fire me today” Sophia insisted.
“Oh really? So the fact that I was first your friend before I offered you that job doesn’t matter?” Jovani asked
They argued some more, and as usual, Sophia insisted on calling him boss. Jovani stopped arguing with her because he didn’t call her to talk about what she called him.
He called to see how he could invite her to a date, and he was hell bent on getting her agree to go out that day and avail him the opportunity to day what he neded to say, before the courage evaporated.
Sophia was very tired and planned to take a nap as soon as she got home, but with the boss asking her out that night, something he hadn’t done for so long, she was anxious to know why he seemed edgy all day.
“Mum, my boss invited me for a date tonight, and I really didn’t see a reason to turn him down, so I’d be leaving in the next thirty minutes.
“Is there something you need me to prepare for you before I go out? We have rice that you can microwave later, but I don’t know if you’d want me to prepare something else for you” Sophia asked her mother.
“No Sophia, I’ll be fine. You may go. But please be careful. Mr. Jovani appears to be a good person, but we never can be too careful. Don’t let same stump claim two pots from you Sophia” her mother told her.
“You’re right mother, I will be careful” Sophia promised her mother before she ran inside to get prepared.
Sophia got into an exquisitely simple but good looking gown, one of the beautiful and expensive clothes he had got her the last time he visited her.
She was anxious to meet him where he asked her to see him but also afraid of getting her hopes so high that he would ask her out.
They have remained friends for so long that Sophia was beginning to get tired of seeing him treat her like a little sister.
He’d just visit her, get her some good gifts and go home after speaking about so many things without as much as venturing into personal issues between both of them.
Her mother had told her it was a good thing that Jovani wanted them to study each other as friends, and let her get over her failed relationship before he got closer to her in any form of intimacy, but she was tired of waiting for him to make the move.
When Sophia got out of the house, ready to head towards the place he asked her to meet him up, she least expected Jovani to be sitting in his car, waiting for her outside their house.
The shocks expressed, the happiness shown, and they were on their way to an entirely different location.
He had asked her to meet him in one of the eateries close to her house, but Jovani was soon walking her into a five star hotel where he had made reservation for a special table for them.
Jovani wanted them to sit to a candlelit dinner while he asked her to be his girlfriend. He knew she was cool as a girl, but was afraid of getting a no. So he felt the ambience of a romantic candlelit dinner could lend credence to the love emitting from his pores.
The possibility of getting a no scared him to no ends because in all the time they’ve been together as friends, she never really showed any sign of being interested in him. Yes, he could tell that she saw him nothing more than a friendly employer.
“Aren’t you full of surprises boss?” she asked him as she walked hand in hand with him into the special table he had ordered at the poolside.
Jovani grunted in response, walking on like he didn’t find what she said a compliment. “Boss my foot” he thought
They we’re soon seated and their meals served, but Jovani wasn’t there to eat, and from the looks of things, neither was Sophia, for she was toying with and sniffing her food without eating.
“Sophia, I’ve been waiting, I’ve been watching and I’ve been wanting to tell you this for so long, but I needed to be sure you weren’t giving me a yes because you were running away from your hurt.
“I didn’t want a yes because you needed me for financial gains or because you needed me to prove a point to someone.
“Yet, I’ve been afraid to ask because I do not know how I’d carry on if you give me a no. But then, I realized how dångerous it is for me to remain on the fence.
“Yes Sophia, it would be pure c0wardice to keep on watching you go to lunch with me and return to the office without asking you to kiss me, when my heart and soul desperately need that kiss.
“Please Sophia, will you be my woman? Will you let me be the one for you? Will you let me hold your hands without having to act like I don’t feel a thing?
“Will you let me kiss your lips and quit with the imaginations and dreams of how it’d taste?” Jovani asked Sophia, holding her hands and looking into her eyes.
Sophia had been waiting for this day. She had been hoping that he didn’t somehow lose interest in her after finding out about her past, but now that he asked, fresh feàrs grew in her heart.
What if she allowed him into her heart and he hurt her like she was hurt before? What if he abandons her when she had made him her all?
Jovani watched her expressions falter, and he could tell that she had fears, and those fears were likely going to stand in the way of his happiness.
“See boss…” she began, but Jovani hushed her. He knew what she was going to say, and he knew his heart wasn’t prepared for a no.
“Please don’t say it Sophia. Please don’t say a word. I can give you more time to think about all of these, but please don’t say no now
“I know what you have been through. I told you my story as well Sophia, but I understand that you are not me. And you can’t react in exact same way as I do to situations, but can I hug you Sophia?
“Please don’t say no too Sophia. Can you let me hold you close to me, not like I have held you in the past months as a sister, but as the one I love and the one I’m waiting and wishing for her to see how much I love her?” he asked, and Sophia who was trying to control the tears welling up in her eyes, gave a nod, afraid that she’d choke on the the lump in her throat.
Jovani hugged her tightly to himself, his eyes shut and his soul soaring in joy as she rested her head on his broad chest. Jovani’s powerful arms were around her as firm and sure as his resolve to keep her forever, but he noticed someone shoot him dagger stares opposite him, causing him to stiffen suddenly.
TO Be Continued
