Chapter 110
Antonio adjusted the rearview mirror as he drove and Zabelle’s excited chatter filled the car.
She was more than excited to be going to the amusement park, and it felt more like watching a child.
However, her excitement was contagious as he was happy to be doing something with her.
The life Gabriel had refused to give her, he would give her that and more. It was amazing to see how it was the littlest of things that got her excited, not money or power.
Antonio glanced at her as she looked out the window when she paused, and a small smile appeared at his lips before he caught himself and refocused on the road.
He wasn’t supposed to feel this way. Zabelle was… complicated. Beautiful, yes.
Sharp–tongued and endlessly amusing, sure. But letting himself develop feelings for her? That was never the plan.
It was the guess that had popped into his head the previous night, and he still couldn’t wrap his head around it.
There was just no way he was developing feelings for Zabelle. Sure he didn’t hate her anymore but saying he had started to like her was pushing it.
“What are you thinking about?” Zabelle’s voice broke into his thoughts.
“Work,” he lied smoothly, keeping his eyes on the road.
“Work, work, work,” she muttered, shaking her head. “You need to take a real break. Loosen up a little, Antonio.”
He smirked. “I’m driving you to an amusement park. That’s pretty loose for me.”
She rolled her eyes but didn’t argue, her attention shifting back to the scenery as they had arrived.
“Oh my goodness, we’re here!” Zabelle clapped excitedly as she took in the scene.
The amusement park was everything Zabelle had hoped for: bright colors, the smell of popcorn and fried food in the air, and the distant sound of screams from roller coasters.
After they had parked the car, she quickly got out of the car and made her way toward the entrance, with Antonio trailing behind her.
“Okay, what’s first?” she asked, spinning around to face him after the guards had handed them their tickets.
One of the perks of being a billionaire’s wife, she didn’t have to stress about things like that, Zabelle thought to herself.
Antonio raised an eyebrow. “Aren’t you supposed to have a plan for this?” He had followed her there and not the other way around.
“It’s more fun to wing it!” she declared after giving it some thought. “Now pick one.”
“Fine,” he said, a smirk tugging at his lips. “Let’s start with that.”
He pointed toward a massive roller coaster, its track twisting and looping high above the park.
Zabelle’s eyes widened slightly, but she quickly masked her apprehension. It looked really dangerous, but wasn’t that the point of an amusement park.
‘Are you trying to get yourself killed?‘ The voice in her head yelled. She had been excited by videos of people she had seen in the amusement park, and now that she was there, she was having second thoughts.
“Is there a problem?!” Antonio snapped his fingers to bring her back to reality,
“Sure, let’s ride that” she agreed, trying to sound nonchalant, and they made their way there.
However, as soon as she was buckled in, Zabelle changed her mind. “I want to get off!” She cried.
“Well, it’s too late for that,” Antonio said as the ride started moving.
“Ahh!” A scream escaped from Zabelle’s mouth while Antonio laughed.
The ride was terrifying and exhilarating, but more terrifying for Zabelle.
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She screamed at every drop, clutching the safety bar, so tightly her knuckles turned white.
Antonio, on the other hand, looked entirely too calm, a smug grin on his face. He had been on different rollercoasters from when he was younger, and so he was hardly terrified, if anything, he liked the thrill.
As they got off, Zabelle gagged as she felt dizzy, and she had the strong urge to puke her insides out.
“Look at me and take deep breaths,” Antonio said to her as he held her to prevent her from falling to the ground.
“That’s it, slow and steady,” he praised as she inhaled and exhaled.
“I am never doing that again,” Zabelle stated when she felt her body calming down.
“That’s a shame,” Antonio remarked as he tried to pretend as though he was sad.
“You enjoyed that way too much, and you’re not even pretending properly,” Zabelle complained as she hit him lightly on the chest.
“I wasn’t trying.” Antonio shrugged nonchalantly. “Besides, I enjoyed your terrified reaction,” he admitted, chuckling.
“You’re evil,” Zabelle hissed in annoyance.
“Thank you,” Antonio remarked, as her words were a compliment to his ears.
Without warning, he reached out to Zabelle’s hair and pulled out the scrunchie she had used to tie her hair up.
“Hey!” Zabelle complained as she tried to take the scrunchie from him.
He however raised his hand to stop her, and he heard her curse as she knew she wasn’t going to reach up there due to their height difference.
“I told you, I like it when you wear your hair down.”
“Well, in case you haven’t noticed, it’s already touching my waist. I need a haircut. Now give me my scrunchie!”
“No.” Antonio refused, and if vapour could come out of Zabelle’s ears, it would with the way she was boiling.
Reaching out to her, he ruffled her hair, and he sighed in satisfaction after he was done. “There, you look even more pretty,” he complimented.
Zabelle couldn’t stop the blush that crept up her cheeks over Antonio calling her pretty.
It wasn’t something she heard a lot, and especially not from Antonio.
“Really?” She asked, wanting to hear it again.
“No, you’re ugly,” Antonio said instead, and he burst into laughter when Zabelle’s expression did a u–turn.
“Stop laughing at me, I’m not ugly!” Zabelle cried out. Although it would be a lie if she said she didn’t like seeing Anton
laugh, even if it was at her
own expense.
“Good, so you know you’re not ugly, stop letting people get into your head and making you think that you are,” Antonio told her as he reached out and cupped her cheeks.
Zabelle was rendered speechless by his words, and she found herself breathless while her heart began to do the thing it always did whenever she was with him.
She snapped out of the trance he put her in when he pulled his hand away. “Come, you pick the next ride.
“Ah yes, the rides,” she mumbled as she was reminded of the reason they were there.
Zabelle then led Antonio to a spinning teacup ride.
“I’m not getting on that,” Antonio frowned.
“Bingo! Zabelle celebrated in her head.
“Oh no, we’re doing it together just the same way we went on the rollercoaster,” Zabelle shook her head as she grabbed his hand and pulled him
there.
“I don’t want to,” Antonio stated.
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“Well, too bad, you’re going to!”
By the end of the ride, Antonio looked slightly dizzy and unlike himself, which made Zabelle happy.
“You look a little green,” she teased as they came off the ride.
“I’m fine,” he said, though his expression said otherwise.
“You don’t seem fine,” she laughed.
“Haha. Keep laughing, and I’ll put you back on the rollercoaster ride,” he threatened, and Zabelle swallowed her laughter.
“Do that, and I’ll put you back on this ride,” she matched his energy.
“Wow, you’re growing brave,” Antonio rolled his eyes.
“And it only took being your wife to master the art,” she smiled, and he flicked her:
before turning and walking away.
‘Annoying brute!‘ Zabelle muttered under her breath as she followed him.
Their day continued like that as they hopped from ride to ride, their banter growing more comfortable with each passing hour.
Antonio found himself stealing glances at Zabelle: the way her eyes lit up when she laughed, the way her hair fell in loose waves around her face, and he found himself falling.
This isn’t good, he thought to himself You can’t feel this way about her, he tried to brush of
However, the more he tried, the deeper he spiraled, much to his dismay.
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