“I love you,” Tiki said sincerely.

I looked at him seriously; I didn’t expect this from someone I’d just met. It looked like a fairy tale. We had just met at a party. He followed me when I was taking a plate to choose my food to eat. He greeted me, I greeted him back. He kept looking at me, and I became aware. I stopped choosing the food I wanted to eat and stared at him.

When he said he loved me, I could sense I was also connected to him. There was this feeling I had. He stared at me and I was out of words as if I was falling for him. No one has said the words, ‘I love you’ in this way. Looking at him, he was a tall, handsome man with a broad chest as if he went to the gym.

“Is everything OK?” he asked.

“How can you love someone you just meet?” I asked with curiosity.
“When I looked at you, you sounded like the woman I want. I really loved you,” he said.

“OK, I am flattered,” I said shyly.

I wanted him to hold me. This was crazy; I didn’t even know his name, where he was from or his age. I sat on the chair next to the table. He sat opposite me.

“Will you give me a chance? Please?” he begged.

I nodded. It had been 5 years since I separated with my husband. I never dated after he cheated on me. I hated men, I didn’t want to fall in love again but there was this feeling when he said those words. I could feel I was also attracted to him. Was it because I wanted to be loved?

I searched my heart, I loved this guy, but it was so strange. Maybe I needed someone to love me. I couldn’t believe someone would love me ever again. I had lost myself, and today, I found love again. It was pure joy. We sat there chatting. His name was Tiki Ras Tikas. I kept staring at him as if he was the only human on earth. He was 25 years and I was 28.

“What do you say about our age?” I asked him.
It didn’t make sense that I could make him my soulmate. I was afraid it would damage our relationship, and I didn’t want to be a Sugar Mama or him a Ben 10.

“What matters is that I love you,” he said.

Where was this guy when I met my husband? I wish I had dated him and he married me, we would be still together. I liked his personality and his character. He was everything I wished for. He was too loving and caring. We exchanged numbers and began to communicate a lot through phones. Maybe it was true that love existed.

I had decided that love was for fools because of my marriage which was a disaster. He was the one, the right one I had been searching for. He promised he would never play with my heart, mind, body and soul. He refused to hurt me.

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