His Business Her Heart

Chapter Six

(Back to Lynda’s point of view)

I sat in silent going over my plan to make Ryan want me, but I am not going to let him have me, let see how he likes it when he is the one that is being lead on. I keep going over my plan to help me ignore the s****l tension that is building between us in the car while we are driving towards his grandfather’s house, ‘I hope we get there soon’ I think to myself while turning my head towards the side window and closing my eyes and trying to concentrate on my breathing, after about ten minutes I feel the car come to a stop and I thank my lucky stars that I can get out and put a bit of distance between Ryan and myself. Before I can get out of the car by myself I see that Ryan is already at my side, opening the car door. Ryan holds out his hands to help me out of the car, nervously I place my hand in his and he pulls me out of the car, once I am on my feet I try to pull my hand away from Ryan, but he will not let me, I try to calm down my breathing while I feel the sparks from where his skin is touching mine go up and down my arm, “are you ready?” I hear Ryan ask me and I quickly look up to him “as ready as I ever will be” I say in a shaky breath failing to hide my nerves which made Ryan smile, ‘he really has a beautiful smile’ I am unable to think to myself which does not make myself happy, “you don’t have to be nervous, my grandfather is going to love you” Ryan says trying to reassure me which I can’t help but smile a big smile at him for the words he said, Ryan looks taken back for a moment but he quickly recovers and snakes his arm around my waist before I could protest Ryan starts moving us towards the front door that is attached to the biggest house I have ever seen ‘and I thought Ryan’s house was big’ I think while walking with Ryan, Ryan takes a deep breath and knocks on the door, I follow Ryan by taking a deep breath trying to calm my nerves. Suddenly the door swings open by a woman who does not look older then 30, I see her smiling at Ryan ‘they must know each other’ I think waiting for her or Ryan to speak but no one does Ryan walks both of us into the house, he stops us at a grand staircase. While we have not moved I take the chance to look around, the floors and walls are either dark wood or dark colour and is decorated with antiques or posh furniture ‘they look like they have never been sat on’ I think to myself as I continue to look around, I could not help but be memorised by the gorgeous rub that we were standing on, it looked so soft that you could let on in and fall into a peaceful sleep. It was the colourful thing in the whole hall, “oh Ryan, aren’t you so handsome” I hear someone call, I look up just in time to see an elderly woman wrapping her arms around Ryan’s neck, the elderly woman was at less two feet smaller than Ryan, but Ryan bent down giving the woman an easy way to hug him better. I was trying to figure out who this woman was when an elder man came round the corner “Edythe let go of the poor boy, he can’t breathe” the man says while smiling and walking towards us, once he was in front of us he pulled the one called Edythe away from us and stuck his hand out for Ryan to shake, “nice to see you again son” the elder man said while shaking Ryan hand “good to see you grandfather and grandmother” Ryan reply’s with a smile on his face, I felt so silly not putting it together that they were Ryan’s grandparents. While Ryan and his grandfather were catching up Edythe just kept looking at me, I was too nervous to say anything, so I just smiled at her and kept quiet “is this your girlfriend?” Ryan’s grandfather asked making me jump and look up at his startled “yes this is the lovely Lynda King, we meet about eight or nine months ago at a mutual friends party and hit it off right away, we have been kind of on and off for the last six months ain’t that right baby” Ryan says sweetly looking down at me ‘god he is a good actor, I almost believe it’ I think to myself then I remember he was waiting for me to talk “yes we spent the whole night of the party together, talking and laughing, it was one of the best nights of my life” I say hugging into Ryan hoping that his grandparents are buying our story. At first they do not say anything then suddenly “oh my gosh you are so beautiful, I do hope my grandson settles down with you” the grandmother shouts as she pulls me into a bit bear hug, I was having a hard time breathing until Ryan’s grandfather pulls Edythe away from me, allowing me to breath at last “sorry young lady but as you can see we are so happy to see Ryan’s playboy ways being put to a stop” Ryan grandfather says to me with a warm smile and I can not help but smile back ‘I see where Ryan got his good charms from’ I think to myself smiling “well you must be hungry lets have dinner shall we” Edythe says grabbing my hand and pulling me further into the house.

We have been sat in the dinner hall for half an hour now, everyone is talking and having fun, well everyone but me. I find it hard to talk to new people unless I have to ‘doesn’t help me that I am so shy’ I think to myself while looking at the family size pasta in front of me, I take a bit and hands down it is the best pasta I have ever tasted, I have to remember where I am before I started shoving food into my mouth as fast as I could. “so what do you do for a living Lynda?” Edythe asks me putting the spotlight on me, I could see Ryan looking nervous because he had not told me what I was meant to say, before answering Ryan’s grandmother I thought about what I wanted to do and the last course I had done before having to leave my mum’s house. “I am trying to open my own coffee shop and bakery” I say and take a look around at everyone’s reaction before continuing “you see I have always had a passion about food especially cakes and sweet goods, so I took courses in cooking, baking and business management” I finish saying happy with myself because this was not a lie. At first no one spoke, and I started to get scared in case I have said something wrong, “that sounds wonderful, I am so happy you have a dream you are working to, ain’t that right John?” Edythe said while smiling at me “differently, you sound a lot better than the bimbos that we heard Ryan hanging out with, you have got a keeper her Ryan make sure you hold on to her” Ryan’s grandfather says to Ryan who smiles and grabs my hand and gives it a little squeeze “I fully intend to keep tight hold of her grandfather” Ryan says while smiling at me which made everyone around go aww, ‘that is so sweet’ I think while trying to calm my fluttering heart by Ryan’s words, the rest of the evening went by in a blur and before I knew it, it was time to leave. As we were saying goodbye at the door I could not understand the feeling of happiness that I was feeling, was it because they fell for mine and Ryan’s lie, was it what Ryan said about me this evening, while I was thinking this I felt a pair of arms wrap around me. Without knowing who it was I wrap my arms around this person and hug them back, as the person pulls away I finally see who had hugged me, it was Ryan’s grandmother Edythe “thank you for having me, your house is so lovely and the food was heavenly” I tell her with a smile on my face “there is no need to thank me, I just hope we will become family very soon” she reply’s making me bush, “we will have to wait and see grandmother” Ryan says taking my hand and leading me towards to car, after waving one last time out of the window Ryan pulled out of the drive way and back to his home. “Well that went better then I thought, I’m sure I will start to receive phone calls off my grandfather at the latest tomorrow morning” Ryan says a little smugly while deep in thought I was about to ask if I did ok, but he interrupted me “is it that what you are going to use the money I will be giving you at the end of the year?” Ryan asks me without looking at me, “yes” I say quietly afraid that he did not like the answer, I wait for Ryan to respond but he does not so we both just sit there in silent, the only thing that can be heard is the sound of the engine of the car. Once inside the house Ryan starts to walk towards the office “is everything ok?” I ask at first Ryan just stopped not turning around, after a couple of minutes I start to walk forwards but before I reach him he turns to face me “nothing is wrong, I was just thinking about something I have to do tomorrow, go to sleep goodnight Lynda” Ryan says and walks away from me “goodnight Ryan” I say not sure he heard me and headed to my room.

I wake early the next morning hoping I am awake before Ryan, I had come up with a plan to make Ryan I lovely breakfast to try and lift his feeling, he seemed a little down last night when we got home. I quickly go into my own bathroom and get washed and dressed for the day and make my walk quietly downstairs, I take a quick look around and see that no one is awake yet, I make my way to the kitchen while trying to think what to make ‘should I do something sweet or a normal hearty breakfast’ I think and after a while I decide to make two ham and cheese omelettes with bacon and fresh orange juice, I also make some pancakes and chocolate waffles my personal favourite, as the syrup is heating up I set up the dining room table with all the food and drinks ready for when Ryan walks up, just as I put the syrups on the table Ryan walks me “what is that heavenly smell?” Ryan asks while looking around I walk over to him with a smile on my face “it’s breakfast” I say while giggling and leads him to the head of the tables and making him sit down and place an omelette in front of him “it’s ham and cheese omelette with a couple of pieces of bacon, I hope you like it” I say while taking a seat next to him and start digging into my own omelette, “you made all of this?” Ryan asks me and I cannot help but smile at his shocked face “of course, now eat up the waffles and pancakes are better with they are warm” I say between bites and in the corner of my eye I see Ryan digging into his breakfast. “That was the best meal I ever had” Ryan said while leaning back in his chair, I could not help but giggle at his words as I start to clean up the table, “you don’t have to do that” Ryan says while starting to stand up “I know but I’m happy too” I reply while piling up all the plates and taking them into the kitchen, I feel Ryan close behind me and before I can make it to the sink Ryan took the plates off of me and put the in the sink. “Come on” he says grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the kitchen “I don’t mind doing the dishes” I inform him, Ryan just looks at me and smiles while leading me though the house “I know that, but I need to take you somewhere” he says as we walk out the house, “where are we going?” I ask while climbing into the car, “it’s a surprise” Ryan reply’s while winking at me. I watch as he walks around the car, I could not help but admire him he really is a good-looking man, once Ryan is in the car I go to ask him again where we were going but he put a figure on my lips to silence me “no questions until I tell you we are there got it?” he says, and I just nod as my reply. After about forty-five minutes Ryan finally stops the car and gets out without saying anything, I quickly follow him moving as fast as I could to catch up to him. Ryan opens the door to an old-style café, at first the place looked like no one was in there but then a smartly dressed handsome man walked towards you “Ryan it’s good to see you, I have the keys here for you and a copy of the contract and your good to go” he says, and I could not help but be confused, not sure what was going on. “Thank you Jack” Ryan says taking the keys of the man and I could not do anything as I watched the man leave. “Ryan what’s going on?” I ask hoping to clear some of the confusion that I had, Ryan just turns at me and smiles and I could not help but smile too ‘he really has I beautiful smile’ I think but then quickly shakes my head remembering that I am waiting for an answer, “do you like it?” Ryan asked with a hopeful smile on his face which made me have to answer “it looks great, just how I want my coffee and bakery shop to look” I say while looking around, “well that’s good because I just brought this for you” Ryan says, as Ryan said this I quickly turned to face him, did I just hear him right. I tried to say something, but nothing was coming out of my mouth because of the shock I was in, all I could do was look up at Ryan with a dumbfounded look on my face.