Chapter 40.2

They left.

“Tara! Don’t you want to swim?” Johnny asked me, making the others search for me.

I was about to leave the place but now that Johnny shouts my name, I think I can’t escape easily. I saw the look on Lester’s face, it is like he is telling me ‘Told you so’. I looked at Johnny again, he is looking at me, waiting for my answer.

“I will, John, later.”

He shook his head. He got up from the pool. The water is dripping down from his body to the floor. He smiles at me, a genuine smile like what he always gave me. “Come here, let’s get that robe off of your body,” he said.

Extending his hand to me but I didn’t accept it. I don’t like the attention that I am gaining in this scene. I can feel the stares of his guests and I am not wrong when I met their gaze. “Come on. What’s the use of