She tensed up somewhat at my words and regally asked, "Why is it a surprise that I could be capable of doing it?"
"Because you're the first person in over a thousand years that I've met that still had the capability to do what I do."
Her jaw fell open in complete astonishment and I took a moment to enjoy how completely I'd just unsettled her, with a glimpse as to my length of days upon the Earth. Good, maybe she wouldn't question my judgment calls so much from now on.
Somehow I doubted it, because at heart she was a very independent woman, which was likely going to cause problems between us, as I only took orders from a Higher Authority.
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Maria stared out the window at the passing scenes of the city. Who had she gotten mixed up with?
Over a thousand years!
That meant he was older yet and she had thought that her condition had been a strange one!
The things he must have seen and done!
How old was he and why of all the women in the world had she been picked to be his companion?
No answer from heaven was forthcoming to her question. She glanced at him to see him studying her with a small smile playing about his lips. She quickly looked away back out the window. Did he have to be so gorgeous?
Everything about Elon was attractive and now he was as mysterious as she was on top of it all. She didn't want this!
She didn't want where she thought this was all headed. She'd never wanted anything like that!
Okay that was a lie.
There had been a time, but that time was no more. But what was the worst of it though was that she sensed that there would be a forced surrender on her part at some point and alarmingly she had the feeling that she would like it.
It started to rain and she inwardly groaned at the sound of water hitting the taxis' roof. She had to visit the restroom so bad!
Maria's face flushed, as she realized that Elon had interpreted her shifting about on the seat, in correlation to the sudden downpour outside.
"Give me your hand."
Maria glanced at Elon mortified, but obeyed with his request.
His big fingers pressed and pulled rhythmically in and around some of her fingers and the abrupt need to go was gone suddenly. The need to go was still there, but the urgency was not.
"Maria?"
She looked up into his eyes from where his fingers worked upon her hand and he said, "Don't let your pride get in the way again. When you need something ask me. When you have to go or need a rest tell me. If you're in pain let me know and if you're hungry and so on and so on. Don't try to be a tough girl or else this relationship isn't going to work for you as well as it could."