The Return Of The Secret Billionaire

Chapter 164

Today the sunshine was in his bones, it's heat radiating outwards into the bright day. It was as if the people glowed, their aura so happy on these summer days. Manuel rested in the shade, his eyes on the foliage above, on each green leaf in that vast canopy. He watched a man reclined in that dappled shade, a book resting on his raised knees, his eyes following the text as if it were the soft call of a lover.

Before he had quite chosen what to do, his feet have taken him under that same tree, perhaps they longed to feel the coolness of the grass around him. And as he read on, he dreamed and the moments stretched out into a medicinal ambiance, made all the stronger for the heat, the brilliant light and the blessing of such company.

After a while, he decided to head back home. That was when Manuel observed that there was a kind of tiredness that needed a good night's sleep, and another that needed so much more. For him, one became the other, starting out as the "one night kind" until on