To Be Yours Again-Chapter 252 Scared of knowing

*LORENZO*

"I’m still trying to get my head around it, man... I’m finding it hard to believe that Danica is the woman you’ve been talking about. I mean, she hates your gut.”

"She is and now, I’m in a very big trouble."

"But you once told me that you couldn’t fall in love at this time.”

"I don’t know...I just want to be with Danica and I want her to feel the same. I don’t care about anything else anymore."

"That’s like mission impossible, you know right?"

I nodded.

"But I got your back. I’ll tell you everything you need to do to make her fall in love with you.”

"What do I need to do?" I asked, anxiously.

Markus was very good at this women stuff.

He could help me out.

"The first girl I ever liked didn’t reciprocate my feelings because I didn’t prove to her that I am capable of taking care of her financially.”

I frowned. “You always speak about so many women that you’ve liked. Do you always fall in love on daily basis?"

He eyed me. “That’s not the point here. Now we’re going to try out two strategies. If it doesn’t work, then we’ll try more. The first one is that some women love to be showered with gifts and money so if you want Danica to fall in love with you. Show her that you can take care of her, financially"

I grimaced, slightly. “How do I do that? I don’t have any money" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Oh, Andro. Do you think she’ll find you respectful if she keeps handling all the household expenses. I know that you’re working for her without pay but randomly gifting her with money and gifts will blow her mind.”

"But where will I get the money from?"

"I can ask around for vacancies in construction site and other places you could work.”

I cringed.

I wanted to object.

Those kind of jobs wasn’t befitting for me.

Even working at Danica’s restaurant is demeaning talk more of this.

But I didn’t object.

I needed to do this, to prove to her that I can be a real man...a better man than Elias, or that fucking Lorenzo and Lucy’s dad.

"What’s the second strategy?"

"Take her out on a date but since it’s just the beginning, and she still hates you a lot, don’t use the word ’date’ when you ask her out. She would get pissed off that you’re going against your agreement so simply make something up, something convincing. You could take her to the beach, to other cool places but mind you, when you do take her out, you have to be the one sorting out the bills, one of the women I..."

"It’s okay...I get it.” I interrupted, not ready for another of his sermons of the numerous women he had loved that left him.

"Thanks, Mark.” I told him, appreciatively.

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Markus found a job for me at a construction site.

"I won’t be able to work at the restaurant anymore.” I told Danica over dinner.

She looked up at me with a frown on her face."Why?"

"I found a job at a construction site.”

She laughed."You can’t work there, remember."

I shrugged. “I’ll try"

And then she stared, probably wondering where my determination was coming from.

After a while, she shook her head as Lucy got her busy with the latest news in her school.

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Working on the construction was still hard as fuck.

But as the day went by, I started getting used to the tedious work.

And what motivated me more was the jealousy I felt seeing Elias anytime he comes by to see Danica, knowing that very soon he’ll be out of her life.

I just have to keep working, I was sure she won’t want to be with Elias anymore if I can be able to support her financially.

I was elated when I got my first pay and as I walked home, I practiced how to present the cash to Danica.

I could just say...

"Hey, woman, get yourself something nice."

Aww...no.

That sounded cocky.

"Baby..."

I paused.

She doesn’t like it when I call her that except during sex.

Ugh!

That woman was too cold.

Of all the ladies I’ve encountered, my stupid heart chose her.

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Taking a deep breath, I knocked on the door of her bedroom.

She opened up and leaned against it.

"What?"

"I...em...I got a little something for you.” I replied bringing out the cash.

Her eyes widened.

"Where did you..."

"I got paid today."

"But it’s....why are you giving your pay to me?"

I ran my hand through my hair. “I just want you to get something with it...you know...a dress...or one or two things needed in the house.”

"I can take care of the household expenses.”

I grimaced.

Markus said this would blow her mind.

But she looked far from it right now.

"Andro, I can’t take your pay...you worked for it so it’s yours.”

"But I want to give it to you.”

"I can’t..."

"I insist.” I pressed on.

She sighed."You..."

"Please"

"Fine.” She took the cash from me but extracted a few notes then she handed me the rest.

"Since you badly want to help out with the household expenses, I can use that...thank you.” With that, she walked back into the room and slammed the door.

Darn it!

I had imagined her hugging me or something when I present the cash to her.

She didn’t even smile about it!

I walked back to the living room and slumped on the couch.

My body ached from the hard work at the site and yet I wasn’t achieving a bit of my goal.

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"Wow, you mean you presented her all the money?" Markus asked.

I nodded.

He laughed. “You’re really love struck. When I said get a job and be able to foot some of her needs, I didn’t mean you should give her all your damn salary."

"You didn’t actually tell me not to give her everything.”

"Well, I thought you might still have some common sense left and keep some money for your own needs. Oh man, what has Danica done to you?"

"That isn’t the point now. She wasn’t impressed.”

"You could try out the next strategy. Ask her out"

Ask her out?

"And by the way, since she didn’t accept all the money, you could give me the rest.”

I eyed him.

He snickered. “What? You can give her everything and not me?"

"Shut up.” I chuckled.

But deep down, my mind was in turmoil.

How do I ask her out on a date?

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*DANICA*

I’ve been trying to know why Lorenzo has been acting strange towards me.

I just couldn’t put a hand on it.

I’ve limited the way we have sex because recently ,each time, we do, it was as if he takes my body...my mind and soul to a whole new level and it left my thoughts scattered all over the place.

When he told me of his intentions of resigning from my restaurant, I had pretended not to care but deep down, I was annoyed.

Seriously...how could he?

I had to quickly fight off the disappointment I felt knowing that I won’t get to see him every time.

I thought he said he didn’t like working at a construction site.

It was so hard to understand him.

Seeing him getting back from work everyday and looking so exhausted made me wonder why on Earth he had chosen to work at a construction site.

And the most shocking part of it all was when he got paid.

Why would he just present his full salary to me?

I don’t understand what he was trying to do.

A part of me wanted to know what was going through his head.

And the other part was scared of knowing.