The ride from Christ the Redeemer to Dona Marta Lookout point was silent. For the first time, Eva was embracing silence by not blabbering every single second. But now that she was not saying anything, I was beginning to feel worried. Is she sick?

I looked back to check if she was still following me and if she was then why was she so damn quiet?

And there she was-munching something. Yeah, her mouth was full with chips because of which she was quiet and here I was wondering if she was not well. I still can't get used to her new ways of showing that she is crazy. I have never in my life seen a woman like her.

"You need to stop staring at me." Eva said making me realize that I was staring at her.

"Come one. Walk faster. We need to reach the the lookout point before it's so dark that I can't even identify my own hands." She added as we carried on with our our way towards the Dona Marta lookout point.

"You were the one who had to stop in the restaurant to get something to eat. You can't blame me for being late." I said defending myself.

"Okay fine. So now, it's my turn to ask questions. And I am going to ask two question and you have to answer it honestly." She said and before I could say something, she continued talking. That's Eva.

"So what is the deal with you and Carinae?" She asked scoffing. I got the feeling that she didn't like her that much. Well, the neither did I.

"Why the sudden question about her?" I asked her trying to understand her sudden interest.

"Well, that girl practically claimed you as her 'baby' in front of me, when technically we are supposed to be a couple. So according to my dictionary I guess we call her.....a bitch?" She said making me chuckle at her genuine hatred.

"Well, Carinae and I go a long way. There was a time when we were in a relationship -" I was cut off by shrieking.

"Ughh, please don't tell me you loved her or I would definitely be having a cardiac arrest after which you would have to carry me all the way back from where we came and then you would have to sit with for hours in the hospital as they try to wake me up while I don't respond to the machines because I would still be shocked from the fact that you are capable of loving someone and not pushing them down a cliff. I do not want you to waste money on my health and I am not saying time because I am damn sure that you wouldn't even sit with me for a second if I was hospitalized because that's who you are and I know you are never gonna change but I thought maybe you-" I cut off Eva by pulling her towards myself as she crashed onto my shoulder, hitting her cheekbones.

How can she not see while walking? She was going to fall in the dug out pit in front of her.

"Oww- Why the hell did you do that?" She shouted as she tried to balance herself on me.

"You were about to fall in the pit down there, dumbass." I said frowning.

"Oh..I am so sorry...I didn't see." She said embarrassed. She is always falling here and there, I don't even understand how can she keep stumbling here and there.

"Of course you didn't. You were busy blabbering." I said rolling my eyes.

Before she could comeback at me I shushed her by putting my fingers on her lips and then said "Shut.Up.Right.Now."

She froze in her place and nodded while she stared into my eyes, looking for something which I couldn't guess.

"If you speak again, I am not going to tell you about Carinae and then you can blabber all you want." I said and she nodded in understanding as I removed my fingers from her soft lips. She really had very soft lips, I am sure many would be dying to kiss those lush lips and I was ......

Okay, stop.

We continued walking towards our destination as I told her about what happened with me and Carinae.

"Firstly I didn't love her, she was just a girl who I thought understood me and was my friend. I spent a lot of time with her in our childhood, she was my neighbor and we got to know each other through our families. She was great girl, she was funny and beautiful and always made me laugh. But it came to an end when I moved away and came to Ric Hillwood. It was hard leaving her because she was one of my closest friend. I thought I would never see her again and that there was no chance in hell that we would meet again. But, that wasn't the case. We met. We met in Ric Hillwood. She had to come there for some fashion show and I was the guest of honor in that show. We didn't recognize each other instantly because it had be years since we saw each other. But eventually when I found out about a girl name Carinae, I thought what are the chances that she is the one who was my friend?"

"So we met. We talked a lot but she had changed and so had I. After that day, she moved there only and we met almost everyday. But I didn't understand why she was always following me and meeting me. First I thought that it was just because we were good friends but I was proved wrong. One day Carinae asked me to be her boyfriend. I was not shocked because somewhere along the lines I knew something was not right. But a relationship? I wasn't ready for that." I said trying to give every single detail of how everything happened.

"You will never be ready for a relationship." Eva muttered under her breath but I caught it. But I pretended that I didn't hear it even though I knew it was the truth.

I continued. "So naturally I declined her proposal by telling her that I didn't think of her as someone like that and that I didn't do dating and all. She was sad but she understood, or at least I thought she did. But few days after that a new problem came to me. I was abroad for a business meeting. When I came back, I found Carinae in my house talking to Jennifer and John. I didn't understand what was happening. I asked them what was going on. Instead I got scolded by Jennifer for not telling her about Carinae. So I was like what about Carinae? Jennifer then said that Carinae had told her everything about coming to Ric Hillwood, fashion show, our meeting, her proposal and my refusal. I was angry. How can she come barging in my house and talk shit?"

"So she was a bitch from the starting, before you started dating her. Good, now I know that you have the worst choice when it comes to girls." Eva said smugly.

"Oh yeah? That includes you too by the way. Technically I married you." I said smirking.

"Well, you didn't chose me for dating you. It's a contract marriage, see the difference? But yeah you have the worst choice." She said not making any sense.

I shook my head and continued. "So yes, I was angry. But at that moment, my anger didn't help. On the contrary, Jenna got convinced that I also loved her and then she was obsessed with getting us two together. And Jenna being Jenna, emotionally blackmailed me and in the end - I had to date Carinae. But I never loved her. But it was better to date someone I knew than someone who was a stranger to me. So we carried on with our relationship for over a year."

"So you have got a thing for fake relationships or what?" Eva butted in again.

"Will you stop commenting? It's not a sports match going on." I said annoyed.

"Oh okay, majesty. My bad, You can carry on with your my-ex-bitch-girlfriend story." She said feigning to be a loyal servant of the king.

"Then everything was fine, until a year ago. I was in one of the biggest parties for all our business partner and naturally Carinae was my date. As usual, I was busy with some of my business partner while Carinae drank and partied off. But that day, I was looking for her. I needed some papers for which I needed to get back, so I was looking for her to tell her that. But I couldn't find her. When I found her, she was in a room - fucking Nick." I said spitting.

"Wait what? Nick? As in Nick Albrecht? The one who danced with me in the reception party? You have got to be kidding me, Ace!" Eva said surprised. Yeah, I expected that.

"Yeah that bastard. He is John's son. He-" I stopped as Eva stopped walking too.

"Are you really planning to kill me? Why the hell are you saying things like these? Can you please tell why do you have so many secrets? And why are you dropping so many truth bombs on me? Why didn't you tell me this that day only?" She said holding her head.

She is on her 'mad-mood'.

"I didn't want to. Now start walking, we are almost there." I said as I looked ahead.

"yeah sure. You keep throwing bombs on my face while I continue walking." She muttered.

"My pleasure." I replied.

I then proceeded. "So John came to live with us after my father died in the road accident. He was supposedly helping my mother after dad left us. But I know better than it. Anyways. Carinae was cheating on me with Nick. Later I found that they both had been doing that for months. I was furious, it wasn't because I loved or something but because she fucking lied to me. She was the one who came to my house, and yet she was the one who cheated. "

"What the actual fuck? Nick told me that he was Carinae's boyfriend when she met you at the fashion show. And that you two got together and Carinae cheated on him with you. He even said that you persuaded her to cheat on him and that you did this because you both were business rivals. He said that when he found out about you two, he broke up with Carinae and didn't even tell her that he knew that you two were having an affair. I thought that was odd but now I understand, it was all a lie. He said he loved her and that he was heartbroken. That was all bullshit? " Eva said, and I was not that shocked.

"And he also said this -:

"But then, how are you sure that Ace persuaded her?" I asked scrunching my nose in confusion.

"It was because I met Ace also few days after my meeting with Carinae. It was an award function. He was receiving the award of 'BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR' which I had won for the last three years. He just said some words to me when he passed by me which made me sure that I was right about Ace, he was an asshole." He said laughing at the last part.

"what did he say?" I asked ,my curiosity clearly obvious in my voice.

"He said - 'Like the show? I took your girl as well as your award.' " He said with anger. "

Eva said quoting what Nick said to her while dancing.

"I expected him to do something like this. He is a bastard who is jealous of me. He was the one who said that to me in the award function when he won the award of 'BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR' for the first time." I said scoffing.

"So why did he do all this? For business rivalry?" Eva asked.

"Yes. But that was not it. He hates me because he thinks that his own father John like me more than him. Jealousy is the reason he does every bad thing to me. John left him to come with us and this infuriates Nicholas like hell because it makes him feel inferior than me. It hurts his arrogance." I explained.

"But why me? I mean why make me believe that you are the wrong one? What would he gain from telling all that to me?" She asked confused.

"He thinks that I took his father away from him and he wants to get even by taking someone who means a lot to me. For him, we are married and as far as he knows me, he knows that I don't do commitments. And if I have married someone it would definitely be because that person means everything to me. So he was trying to ....to.. take you away from me." I said hesitantly. I didn't like the sound of that sentence.

"Oh. Well it wouldn't have worked anyway because I do not mean everything to you. You would let me die for your laptop." She said chuckling.

"of course not. I won't let you die." I said instantly, without thinking.

Eva fell silent, and I was grateful for that.

"Anyways, Nick did all this. He was the one who was having an affair with Carinae and to be honest, I know Carinae is not innocent at all. My guess is that she knew everything. She had the guts to cheat me. I cannot forgive her for that. But the thing is that I really don't care about those two liars." I said truthfully.

"Oh is that so? But you were angry as hell when I danced with him? If I didn't know better, I would have thought you were jealous. But of course I know better than that. So what was it?" She asked.

That question brought so much anger in me, how can I forget that.

"Is that your next question?" I asked her trying to change the topic.

"What? Isn't it related to this?" She asked scrunching her nose.

"No this was about Carinae and Nick, the other thing you are asking is about Nick and someone else." I said.

"Well, then it's good because I have another question left." She said smiling toothily.

I forgot about that. Should I lie to her? No, I can't. It isn't fair. I should probably tell her the truth. At least she would stay away from that bastard that way.

"Fine. I will tell you." I said as I told her her about the reason why I hated Nick. I don't even know why is she so curious to know.

"This is about the time before all this with Carinae and Nick happened. It was few years ago when I had moved to Ric Hillwood with Jenna and John. I and Jenna had never met Nick. We only knew that John had a son whose name was Nicholas but he never brought him up so we never discussed about him. It had been only a month or so after we moved there when Nick came to our house. He said he was visiting John because he missed him. I don't know about Nick's honesty but I knew that John didn't miss him because as far as I knew he hated his own son. John never approved of Nicholas' impulsive way of doing things. He had told us that. So that day when he came, naturally there was some chaos in the house. But after it all gradually silenced, I started seeing Nick as a good person. I was in the illusion that maybe he was good and John was being a douchebag like he is."

Eva commented "Why do you hate that man so much? John is such a nice person."

"Will you stop with the incessant questions?" I said.

"Oh yeah, sorry." Eva said shutting up.

"So continuing. Nick and I were sort of getting along. But it was not only me who was liking Nick, Jenna had also started having a special liking for him. It was only a matter of time after which I saw both of them dating. I was not against their relationship because I thought he was good for her. -and that was the biggest mistake I made. He deserved getting kicked by me, not date my sister. But it was too late when I realized this." I said gritting my teeth. Telling the whole thing made me relive it again.

"What did he do Ace? You are scaring me, what happened?" Eva asked and I could sense the restlessness in her voice. I took a deep breath as we reached the Mirante Dona Marta(Dona Marta lookout). The view was splendid.

"When they were dating, Jenna was very happy. She used to keep smiling and soon I knew that they were getting serious. One day she even told me that she loved him and wanted to spend her whole life with him. I was surprised because I thought it was too soon. But again I had never experienced what love is, I thought maybe they both really loved each other. It was Nick's birthday, Jenna wanted to surprise him and also confess her love. I helped her by getting her all the things she needed and set up the other things. I even booked a suite for them. She was so happy." I said smiling, remembering the happiness that lit Jenna's face at that time.

"But Nick took advantage of the fact that they were alone in the suite. Before Jenna could even confess her love, that bastard...he fucking..he started forcing himself on her. I don't know the exact things that happened that day but thankfully I was on my way to her to give her back her phone which she had forgotten at home. I arrived just in time I guess, to kick him hard and beat him up into a pulp. I was furious, I hit him till he bled and stopped only when Jenna came in between asking me to take her and leave. I couldn't do anything so I left that fucking bastard as I took Jenna home." I said trying to calm myself down.

"Hey-hey, you are okay. Calm down." Eva suddenly said sounding worried as she came closer to me and made soothing circles on my back, trying to calm me down. And to be honest, it helped.

"I failed her, Eva. I was there the whole time and then also I couldn't figure out his intentions. I was so ignorant. I could have prevented that day, I should have prevented that day but I couldn't. She was shaken for days after that. She didn't even let me report him because she fucking loved him. You see, love? Love is the root of all the problems. Love made your mother protect That bastard Zach, love for Aaron made you marry a monster like me, Love made Jenna protect that bastard, Love made me hate love. That's the only things which-" I stopped as Eva put her fingers on lips, just like I had done earlier.

She then looked at me with an emotion which screamed understanding, and then she wrapped her hands around me. I froze for a second as I realized that she was hugging me. No one does that, well except for Jenna sometimes.

She rubbed my back and nuzzled into my shoulders, as she whispered "It's okay, it was not your fault." She breathed into me and I tried to relax even though I was transfixed in my place. Her touch was gentle, but too gentle. I wasn't used to that kind of softness. I finally relaxed and wrapped my arms her waist too but I had to bend down a little to reach her short height. I breathed into her hair and smelled the rose shampoo she used. It was really soothing, but I don't think I will ever admit this to her.

"Love made you hate love, but I promise you that love will make you love again." She whispered and we stayed hugging each other for some time while the breeze swept around.

"Please don't cry now. I would not be able to handle you or the awkwardness now." She said playfully.

I got away from her and glared at her for thinking of me as someone who would cry, well maybe I can cry but I haven't in years.

"And the - glaring, thick headed, pig headed, stony, highly irritating, pessimistic, grumpy, disdained, egoistic, apathetic and arrogant jerk - Mr. Apathetic is back." She said and laughed along with the winds that blew around us.

Crazy girl.