The night was really planned out by my husband. Now we sit in the living area cuddling up and watching a movie. I can't even concentrate on the movie because of our position. My body is so aware of his. That I can not move as much. We are seated on the floor and he is behind me, my back to his chest and his hands are loosely wrapped around my body. His heart is the only sound my ears can concentrate on. The beating is in a regular relaxed pattern not like mine, which makes me pray he can't hear mine the way I hear his. At some point his index finger makes circulation motions on my belly resulting in goosebumps. If anyone asks me the movie we are seeing, to be really honest I wouldn't know what to say because my whole attention is on how our bodies fit so perfectly. “What would you like for me to get for you when I get back”. His voice vibrates through me.“You really don't have to” is my weak response.“What do you want, little bird”. His voice is more firm.“Anything is fine”. “Hm
Gregory left three days ago and he calls me every day to speak to me and ask me how things are. And in all our time sleeping together he has never left my side. This is his first time going on a trip without me. A trip that he isn't really sure when he'll be back. I know he said he'll be back in two weeks time but he also said it might take longer. I've missed him, I've missed his warmth on our bed. How he'll hold me close, I've missed how he'd give me a massage when I needed it. I've missed how his voice would brush against my skin when he would speak so close. Oh how I've missed him. I've gotten addicted to his smell, his touch, his voice near me and his very presence. You know how a drug addict can't do without their drug?I think I've gotten to that extent without even realising it. The only thing that has made me realise it is his departure. Sometimes I sleep with his shirt on to get his pine wood smell on me. I know it's insane but there's no helping it. I'm not sure but I think
“Few seconds ago you looked like you had seen a ghost, we both called your name and you did not respond, I had to shake you for you to come out of whatever trance you were in”. Rosie informs me worriedly.“Nothing of that sort, I just remembered something”. She looks at me quizzically.“Whatever you remembered must be something unpleasant then”. She brings her head towards me.“what is really going on?” She whispers to me in a bid to make whatever she is saying not heard by others.“Nothing ”. I plaster a fake smile, my hands are shaking slightly but they are not too obvious to someone not looking. “Let's just eat our food guys, enough with the questions”. This is my attempt to steer them from my apparent fear. We begin to eat again but the thing is the fear has stolen my appetite. I have to pretend and force the food down my throat, my prayer right now is to not let too much slip because their eyes are still on me, watching me like hawks.“Hello Miss”. A little boy tugs my dress,
Gregory called me, we spoke for a while but I never mentioned to him about my encounter. I told him everything else aside from the Patrick ordeal. I told him I asked Oliver and Rosie to stay over because I was feeling lonely and scared.He didn't question me, he only wished he could be home to be with me, to make me feel safe.To steer my mind off things, I told him I've started to feel the baby kicking. He was so excited. I've felt those small jabs for a while now but I kept it from him.The first time I felt the movement I was in bed, I never expected it, it was so small but it happened. That was around my fifth week, as the pregnancy progressed I started seeing more and more of that subtle movement, now it's often, stronger and more pronounced.“Why aren't you sleeping yet?”. Rosie mutters beside me.“I just finished speaking to Gregory on the phone, I haven't really settled to sleep”. I responded to her query.“You should sleep, you need all the rest you can get”. She yawns, putti
Oliver dropped Rosie at her apartment before we went home. According to the instructions given to him by Gregory he is to stay with me until the day he returns from his business trip. So we went to the penthouse house together.“ Welcome home ma'am, lunch has been prepared”. Carolina tells me once we enter the penthouse house.“Serve Oliver some food”. I instruct her.“What about you ma'am?”.“Please just bring fruit salad to my room, I don't feel like eating much”. The truth was I didn't feel like eating at all. My body is still in a frenzy. It's certain they all noticed, but they chose to turn a blind eye to it. I appreciate that they didn't say anything about it.Who wouldn't be in a frenzy?, When you finally get to pay your tormentor his money. The money that he brutalised and battered your body for. The money that he almost raped you for, that same money that he threatened your entire bloody existence for.Despite it all, I'm supposed to be elated that the money has been paid but
Gregory's POVDays ago Denise called me, she was frantic, she told me a package was delivered to our home. The content of the package was a dead rat, the blood of the rat still fresh. Alongside the package was a note stating that whoever sent it always wins.My first thought was it could be that guy that she owed money but she was certain it wasn't him, she said she paid him off. As she told me the ordeal I could tell she was at the verge of tears, my wife was scared and I wasn't there to comfort her. Since she told me it wasn't that guy she owed money, it was clear to me that the people destroying my business are responsible for this. They've grown some balls to send threats directly to my home. Oh! and they did it at the perfect time. They were aware I wasn't home and they decided to send it to my wife. I've asked that she be moved to my other house in the city, and the security be doubled. Nothing should get past the security or I was going to deal with them personally. Even now
Denise's POVAs soon as I told Gregory about the dead rat incident he had me move to his other house in the city. This house is grand, I thought the penthouse was huge but this one beats it a hundred times. The grandeur blows my mind away. I know the man I married is a billionaire but sometimes I seem to forget.The security has been tripled, I see guards walking around the perimeter of the house. It is weird, all my life I have lived so carefree but now I have to be secured who could have imagined.“Ma'am, Mr Gregory is home”. Carolina informs. My instructions were for her to inform me if my husband gets back so I can welcome him personally. “Thank you Caroline”. A child like excitement bubbles in my chest and hums in veins all because he is home. That's the kind of power he holds over me. The beautiful garden and magazine is of no importance for me anymore as my swollen legs carry me to where the man who makes my body hum in excitement is.As I make a round in the corner, his frag
“Ma'am dinner is served”. Carolina tells me later in the evening.“Thank you”. I responded to her.I wanted to ask about Gregory but I stopped myself from doing so. It's better to stay off him for now. The house is silent, I know it is usually silent but it feels different, it's colder, even though it's almost winter, there's this coldness my body cannot shake off.His dark gaze watches me as my legs transcends down the stairs. There is no telling if he's angry or not from the point he is at. I avert my eyes from him and walk to the dining area. The plate has been set, Carolina chose to set my plate close to him, precisely on the left side of the head of the table. It is too late for me to tell her to change my position. Gregory comes over to the dinning. My eyes are pinned on the plate before. I cannot bear to look at him, to look at those eyes that have lost their warmth. His eyes have gone back to how they were when we got married. How do I explain to him that things have chang