“I know where he is,” I say firmly as Melissa gazes at me, and the look she has upon her face, is wonder.
“Adrian loves France. He practically lives over there.” I say. Before I give Melissa a chance to reply, I begin again. “He owns a mansion and a yacht, he stays half the week over there, there is nowhere else he can be.” Melissa smiles weakly at me, her eyes are wide and her cheeks are starting to flush.
“Alanna, I never told you exactly what Adrian said to me today.” I am astounded, why would she hold back information about Adrian?
“Melissa, I suggest that you tell me what he said.” She leans back and takes the seat that sits at my bedside. She folds her arms, and her feet begin to tap rapidly against the cool white floor.
“Okay, but I don’t want you to get mad with me.” My heart begins to race, and I cannot breath. However, I pull myself together and I give her look of, agreement.
“I won’t get mad, please, if you know something, then I really need to know.” She exhales and begins to say,
“When, Mr Black calls, he usually just talks to whoever comes to the phone. However, today when he called he asked for me personally. I have no idea how he knew my name, but he did.” I gasp slightly and I want her to tell me more.
“He called me Melissa, and that really surprised me.”
“If he asked for you, then why where you surprised that he knew your name?”
“It wasn’t the fact that he knew my name that I was entirely surprised about. He knew about me.” I am finding it hard to keep up with what she is saying. I also hope that there is a point to all this and that it is just taking her a while to get to it.
“What did he know?”
“Everything, he knew how old I was, he knew what colour hair I have, and he also knew my boyfriend’s name.” I am confused, why would Adrian care about the nurse in this way?
“I don’t understand, what are you saying?” Her face looks confused and I see her shift a million things around in her mind. She breaks her silence,
“I am really confused by him. I do not know how he knows so much about me and I cannot understand why he would care. Alanna, do you have any idea, as to why?” I shift nervously; I do not really know why Adrian would care so much about Melissa. However, I know him and there will me some reason for his actions.
“Melissa, Adrian is very complicated. He has different ways to us.” I say smiling at her.
“Even so, there is something strange about his behaviour. Normal people do not act in the way he has.”
“I know that, but he has had a very difficult time as child.”
“I kind of thought that.” She agrees.
“Did you question him on his actions?”
“Yes, I asked him how he knew so much about me.”
“And what did he say?”
“He just said he has connections, and that type of thing is not hard to find out.” Her words sting my mind. That is exactly what he said to me, when he first revealed himself as the mystery man, in my life.
“You have to tell me everything he has said to you.”
“Okay, he was very interested in you. He wanted me to update him on your recovery and he was glad to hear that you were almost back to normal. He also demanded to know, how many visitors you have had. He wondered if his stepbrother had been to see you and when I told him that he had not, he did seem surprised by that.” Melissa concludes. I search for words to respond with but I have none. I look to her.
“It is clear to see that the guy still loves you. However, I feel that he is not only in love with you, but he is obsessed with you. That type of behaviour is alarming to me.”
“He is not obsessed, he just is a little bit overprotective and he tends to overstate things. I know that he is intense, but that makes him even more special to me, and I love him.” I say proudly.
“There is no doubting that, but can you trust a guy like him? He ran out on you when you really needed him. That type of action is unacceptable and if it were me, I would not want anything to do with him.” Melissa says harshly. I look at her in surprise, who does she think she is? She cannot judge Adrian; she does not even know him. I bet that she has not even seen him. I gaze icily at her.
“I can trust him. He is not here because he is scared. It has nothing to with the fact that he doesn’t care.”
“I never said that he doesn’t care about you. I am just saying that, he has made a wrong choice by not being here with you.” Melissa rises up from the chair; she walks over to the door. I feel annoyed with her and I was not aware that our conversation was over.
“Melissa, wait, I am sorry if I was harsh with you. But you have to understand how I feel about this guy.” She looks over at me sympathetically.