XI

DELILAH

I was sitting there still only thinking that it was not my imagination to see him at such a time. But as he came closer to me, I realized that this was not some naive imagination of mine. He was real.

With the intention of apologizing to him and thanking him, I stood up in my place. He stopped in front of the door to my front room and took a look at me when I stood up.

I would be lying if I say that I did not feel tickles all over my body after just one look by him. Just one look of him had held me to the alertness of the place I was standing, although there was no emotion in his eyes. There was no meaning of his gaze on me. Maybe he even looked at me by mistake.

"Hi," I said and I was nervous. I knew he could sense my nervousness, that is why he scanned me down with nothingness in his emerald eyes. I won't forget to compliment his eyes. I had fallen in love with his green eyes at first sight.

Without answering me, he only thought it necessary to look at me. He looked into