Last week, we met Faith and saw her perspective on Mark (from Making Scandal). If you've read Keeping Secrets, then you probably wonder what happened between the two of them the night they all met up with Felix and Ebony for the first time. Well, wonder no more. Here's a teaser from that scene. It is unedited.
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"Why didn't you return my
call?" Mark asked after the waiter had taken their drinks orders.
"I've had a very busy week at
work," Faith said, lifting her shoulder in a blasé shrug in an attempt to
mask the more than casual sensations twirling in her belly.
She glanced at him and lowered her gaze
to the table, not wanting him to see how much he affected her.
"I'm not avoiding you, although I
think we don't really have anything more to say to each other."
His hand settled on her left thigh,
branding her with strength and heat, her fitted linen pencil skirt providing little
protection for her awakening skin.
"There's still plenty we haven't
said to each other. So much about you that I want to find out."
"Why?"
"Oh—kay." Feeling embarrassed
she looked away. "You're very direct, aren't you?"
The waiter returned with their drinks
and left.
"I believe in calling things as I
see it. There's no point in playing games," Mark said.
Faith took a gulp of her vodka and coke
to shore up her courage.
"Well, since you're being direct,
I guess I have to let you know that there can never be anything between
us."
"Oh?" Dark eyes scanned her
body in a slow appraisal. Her cheeks heated up. "I like you and it was
obvious to me last week Friday that you like me too by the way you responded to
my kiss before Wumi interrupted us. So what's the problem?"
Lowering her lashes coyly, she glanced
at him through their dark veil and noticed he was watching her without
flinching. Their gazes connected, his black eyes now with flecks of crimson
turning her already heated blood into lava. For a moment, she forgot what she
was about to say.
She pulled her gaze away and
concentrated on her words. "For starters Wumi is my friend and it looks
like she wants you for herself."
"Let me make this clear in case
you didn't understand me last week." He took her hand and held it between
both his surprisingly soft palms, his expression serious. "I have no
personal interest in Wumi. She is the sister of a friend. In fact her brother
was in school with Felix and I, that's how we know each other. We have never
been romantically involved and never will be no matter how much she wants it.
Do you understand?"
She nodded, partially relieved that he
wasn't involved with Wumi. But still she couldn’t get involved with him. She
frowned.
"Was that the only reason you
didn't want to see me?"
She stared at Ebony and Felix who
seemed too engrossed in each other as they danced on the floor to even notice
what was going on with her and Mark. She hadn't even seen them stand to go to
the dance floor.
"The truth is that I haven't been
in a relationship since when I did my youth service."
Copyright Kiru Taye 2014
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