Chapter 15

Aliza played with her fingers looking down at the floor in anxiousness as Charles walked towards her in slow, tormenting steps. 

“I’m not gay like you think. I’m as much attracted to you as you are to me, if that is the doubt you have.” 

Aliza looked at Charles and bolted out of the blue. How did he know her inner feelings? Charles ignored Aliza’s facial expressions and answered the unasked question of her. 

“You blurted everything to me last night in the intoxication.”

Walking to his dressing mirror, he pulled out a cigarette from the pack and lighted it. Puffing out the smoke facing the window, he explained to Aliza everything about the veracity of his emotions locked up so long in his kernel. 

“I never abused women and sex but I had my physical desires.” He cleared his throat in unspoken guilt. 

“I am not a virgin,” Charles declared, blinking his ey