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"What's nothing?" she asked."It's just that during my research I noticed that this place is a hot spot for dating but no one seems to be here" "It's a weekday" Arabella reminded him. His mouth formed an oh shape as if he had remembered something out of the blue. "That is true" Kieran admitted. They got into the elevator and went up to the fourth floor they were directed to. "Let's check the library first and then the bookstore maybe I would be able to find new steals to go home with" Kieran saw some kind of excitement. It was like one he had never seen before and he was glad that he brought her here. At least she would always remember him as the man who took her on such a date that made her so happy. "You can do whatever you wish to," he said. As he pushed the glass doors and she stood inside, she stood with her eyes closed and her nostrils open to take in the smell of the books. "Doesn't it just smell so heavenly?" she asked opening her eyes and running her eyes over and over
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Arabella and Kieran returned home after their date. By the time they got home, it was already late into the night but Ethan was neither up nor waiting for them like Everly would have done."Do you want to have a cup of coffee?" Kieran asked as they entered the house."Coffee? At this time?" she asked him."Oh I see, this is too late to have a cup of coffee" he continued realizing what he had said. It was indeed too late to have any caffeine at that time."Yeah, I would like to sleep tonight so I could be awake early tomorrow" "If you are late I will wait for you" Arabella could not deny that Kieran had a sweet mouth because why did that singular statement make her stomach swirl in a fit of happiness?"It's not about you waiting for me but about having me being early to work" she said trying to steady her emotions. She did not want to swoon over him. "Okay then maybe we could have tea?" he suggested. He knew they were late but he did not want to let go of her yet. He wanted to stay e
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Kieran choked on his cup as he began to cough. "What?" he asked dropping the cup to the island. "What?" she asked her eyes going wide like a doe."What did you just say?" Kieran asked wiping the corners of his mouth with his hand."I said I found you sexy" Arabella replied feeling bold about her statement. He had been the one making her swoon all day so she was glad that from the expression on his face, she had the same effect on him."You should be careful of what you say" Kieran said taking up the cup again and taking a sip. "You should only say what you mean" he added before taking another sip."I meant it" she shrugged wondering why he would think she said it mindlessly."Ara," he said silently. His breath was so heavy that she could hear it. "Should we go to bed?" "Already?" she was perplexed. He was the one who wanted to extend the night and now all of a sudden he wanted to call it a night abruptly."I still have some tea left" She tapped on the corner of the glass before taki
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The ice melted on her tongue before she decided to read time to get into the room and call it a night. She glanced at the clock. It was just a few seconds past midnight and she felt the urge to go to bed."Let's go to bed" she announced like a judge giving a verdict. "Together?" he asked with a slyish smile dancing on his lips."Yeah," she trailed off when her mind finally comprehended what he was trying to say. "Not together but together," she said. She played back her words in her mind and discovered how stupid she sounded."What I mean is let's leave this place together and go to bed separately in our beds" she clarified. Her voice was quick and sharp as if she was begging for relief from any form of torment. "Stop looking at me like that" she murmured her head down. She wondered how he had quickly turned the table so fast when she had been the one with the most power over him just a few seconds ago. "Like how?" he wanted to feign ignorance. He watched her eyes go up in surpris
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Kieran cleaned up the table and washed out what he had used. As much as he thought Arabella was cute for her reaction he did not want to weird her out. He ignored the urge within him to see her face one more time and went to bed instead.By the time he was up in the morning, he was sure she was still asleep because he had passed by her room and the entire place was silent and dark. He went on to make breakfast before going to wake her up. He knocked on the door and waited for her. He heard a stumble through the room before the door flew open.For some reason Arabella was surprised. She expected it to be him but was shocked that he was actually standing there. "Good morning," she said before he could say anything."Good morning, aren't you going to come down for breakfast?" he asked and she nodded. "I would be down in a jiffy" she said swinging the door in her hand. "Okay," he said backing up into the hallway. He stopped midway and charged towards her. "What is..." her statement wa
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"What is with him?" Arabella asked feigning ignorance. She knew she would have been able to get out of letting out her relationship with Kieran to her sister if it were not a video call because her face would give her away but she was willing to try how far she could push her luck. "So why is your face about to break out into a smile? A happy one at that?" Seraphina narrowed her eyes. "Is that make-up on your face?" "Because I am so happy to see and hear from you and I thought I should try to make up now," she said. "I video call you frequently, I know you love me but it's creepy to hear you say that and I know that you are not telling the truth right now" "Are you calling me a liar?" "Digressing from the actual point? Making useless excuses? " Seraphina raised two fingers to the camera as I'd she was counting. "What are you counting?" "Points that would let me know if you are dating him already" "Seraphina" Arabella let out in a flustered tone."Arabella" Seraphina mimicked he
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"I am sorry you had to talk with my sister" Arabella apologized. "She is like a social butterfly" "It's fine, I would have had to speak with them anyways, it's good that I have gotten this out of the way" "Are you going to talk to all my family members?" "If I have to, I am ready to" Kieran said with a smug expression on his face."All of them? I have a really large family back at home" Arabella teased. "I can talk to them all" Kieran sounded confident. Arabella laughed because she knew what a turmoil her entire family was. Her grandmother would be elated to hear that she had a boyfriend, the problem was her aunties and cousins, they would be having a field day teasing and giving them a hard time. "I am not sure you want that," Arabella said dismissively. "It's not about what I want is it?" he asked like he was seeking some kind of validation. "It's about what I have to do," he said.She nodded her head to give him the satisfaction he seemed to want at that time. "Anything that
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"Hello there," Kimberly said again. Her voice was flirty anyone could hear it from a mile away.Her presence forced a swarm of memories into his brain. He shook a bit by the impact that she had on him. Arabella looked her up and down. She was a bit shaken to see who her supposed competition was. She had heard a bit about Kimberly from Everly. Seeing her in person was quite different from hearing bout her.She was gorgeous and her hair looked like she was straight from the salon. Arabella was almost tempted to compliment her and fan over her beauty. She was quickly reminded that this woman was her competition. Her beauty was the kind that did not need anything extra to enhance it. Arabella could not deny it she was breathtaking. She pushed ahead but was stopped by Kieran's hand."Where are you going?" his eyes searched her gently. She could see and feel the warmth of it and she was glad for it. She was sure he was shaken up to see her because even as a girl she was shaken up by her
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"I am so happy for you," Ava said as she stood with Kieran and Arabella; they had just got married, and it was truly a joyous day. Kieran had been so quick with the preparations that it took them barely two months to put everything together. "I just couldn't believe that my little one had found love," she added, tears welling in here again."Mom, you need to stop crying; seeing you cry makes me cry as well," Arabella said, blinking back the tears. Her make-up artist had retouched her make-up multiple times because she knew she was getting annoying already, but she could not control the burst of emotions flowing from her body. "Mom," Seraphina said, coming from behind and putting her hand over the shoulders of her mother. "It is a happy day; why do you keep crying? Someone, I mistake you to be mourning." "I am just thinking of how proud your father would have been to witness today.""I am sure he is watching over us from above," Arabella said, holding her mom's hand tightly."Mom, let
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1 YEAR LATER Arabella was meeting Kieran after work; she had moved out because she was not comfortable with being there while dating him and had found herself a new job where she seemed to function much better. She was even on her way to write a book of her own. Kieran, who started a book publishing house solely for the money, now began to learn about this thing so he could help her out with the publication.She was glad that she had given in and tried to date him, or else she would never understand what this kind of relationship meant. Kieran was so attentive and made her feel like his entire world revolved around her. She learnt to drive and even bought her car.Sometimes she believed that he was going to propose to her because he would bring up discussions that centered around their future home, but then after that, it would be like they were back to base one. She liked base one, but she hated living all by herself. She wanted to move back in with him, and she wanted to begin havi
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"A trip?" Arabella asked, taking up the blanket and covering herself. "Yes, a couple's trip," he said, dropping the phone back on the table and walking to her. "What about work? Aren't you going to work again?" she asked. "Are you afraid that you would live broke?" he asked in a teasing tone."Of course I am," Arabella said before tilting her head. "I am jobless now; at least one of us needs to work so we can live a happy life," she added."You know that I do not mind you still thinking with us," Kieran said. After the trial, Arabella decided to stop working there even though Aurora was no longer there. How could she work there after everything that happened? She would be able to face her co-workers if that were the case. "I am sure I will get an offer soon from one of those companies," she said, and he sat beside her. "And you know you do not need to work again; I can take care of you and as many children as you want to have," he said with a wink. "Children?" she said flustered
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Arabella rolled over, and she landed right into Kieran's hands. She looked at him like it was an offence for her to do so. She peered at him and then covered her eyes with her hand. She could not believe what she had done over the night. If her mom heard she was going to give her a long lecture and then have her head afterwards. She looked at him, and she was tempted to trace her finger across his face in frustration. "Sleep so much more," she was startled to hear him talk as his mouth moved without even opening his eyes. "How long have you been awake?" She muttered, feeling shy that he had caught her staring so much that she could drill a hole into his face. "A while now," he said, his eyes framing open like a princess that was cast under a spell but was now liberated all of a sudden. He pulled her closer as he wished they could somehow get closer and maybe even mesh together. "Should we go home? Everly must be worried searching for us," Arabella murmured into his chest. He opene
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"Somewhere, like where?" she asked shyly, dropping her head so their eyes would not meet. "You would see," he said, lifting her head gently. "But we have to make sure that the ride ends first," he said, looking around. He had thought that they were going to have a moment there, but seeing how things turned out, he could not wait to be out of there. Finally, the ride was over, and he drove out of the amusement park to a hotel. "You brought me to a hotel?" she asked in shock as they drove into the underground parking lot. "Why?" she asked now that her tone was in a hushed whisper. "I told you we should come somewhere, and you agreed," he said as he drove by the cars looking for a place to park. "That was because I thought you said that we should go someplace nice," she muttered, looking around like they were sneaking around. "Why are you looking around like we are committing a sin?" he asked, noticing how uncomfortable she got. "It is not that...""Am I being clueless? Am I jumpin
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Kieran paid the operator to let the ride go in a loop three times, and Arabella wondered why he did that."Why?" she whispered to him."To have some alone time," he replied with the same wink from earlier. She gulped down hard, wondering what he was thinking.As the ride got into the tunnel, Arabella held the hand of Kieran tightly with her eyes closed. She had no time to think of what he might have meant with the wink and statements because the ride was definitely scarier than she had expected it to be. She looked at him when she felt his firm hand hold her face and turn it to him. "Are you scared?" he asked, dropping a kiss on her lip. "Kieran," she said in a hushed whisper as she looked around. "There is no one here, and I have been waiting all day just to get that," he said before dropping his head for another kiss. She placed her hand over her mouth because he could kiss her and therefore kissed the back of her hand. He took her hand from her mouth and began to drop multiple k
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Arabella could feel Kieran's excitement for the date, and she wondered why they got so lucky. They went on every ride in the park like they had been waiting to do this. Arabella was more proud of the fact that a handsome hunk named Kieran was with her. In every line, they heard murmurs of people talking about how handsome he was. She was not letting any of that bother her because she could disagree with them; he was a beauty to behold. She did not let the nasty comments, such as those criticising his choice, get to her. He glued to her like gum on the sole of a shoe, and it must have infuriated the crowd the more because of the kinds of dirty glances she received from them. Kieran was always pushing back her hair and staring at her while holding her hand tightly and dropping random kisses on her forehead. She was shy, but she liked how he marked his terror so openly. She was on a date, and she was going to try her best not to be affected by any of that. "Should we go there?" Kieran
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"Do you want to explain why you are here?" Kieran asked. Arabella had expected him to scream his lungs out, but he was wrong. Myabe's drive down has calmed him down. "It is a stupid reason; I don't want to tell you," Arabella murmured to herself. She had wanted to hear an apology so much that it felt like her self-worth depended on it. She turned her head to the side so she was looking out the window. "Look at me," Kieran said softly. "Look at me," he said again, this time turning her head with his hand gently. "I am so ashamed of myself; I don't know what I was thinking," Arabella said again. Seeing Kieran had somehow triggered something in her. It was like judging her actions without even saying anything. "Tell me, I want to know why you dressed up and left the house to come here when you should be resting.""Okay," she said as she heaved a sigh. "I wanted an apology so bad." "What?" "See, I knew you would judge me.""Ara, I am not judging you. I just want to understand what y
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"Why are you laughing?" Arabella was shocked. That was not the expression she was expecting from her. "Dearest Arabella, you must think the world revolves around you," she said, leaning in that she was seated at the edge of her seat. "Why do you think I would apologize to you? I did what I did, and I would do it again and again if need be.""You are not sorry for kidnapping and assaulting me even though you ended up here?" Arabella asked. "Of course, if I had the chance to, I would do it again. Can you imagine how hard I worked? I worked hard on Kieran, and you swooped in from nowhere and decided you wanted to take him from me. Oh, please, like you deserve him," Aurora said, leaning into the chair. "If you are here to ask me for an apology, I am afraid that you have to go back without one today and that you need not expect one from me," she said, looking at her nails like she had gotten a fresh set of nails. "Arabella, I think one of the problems you have is that you seem to overra
