—CHRISTIAN—As soon as I turned back to see Jennifer, she wasn't at her seat anymore. A sudden panic ran into my body as I looked around hurriedly, scanning the party hall to find her and stopped once my eyes spotted her. I took a step towards her but my feet froze when I realised that she wasn't alone. Jessica was with her and the way Jennifer had her hand grabbed was clearly telling that she wasn't there with her own will. I frowned and before I could contemplate anything, Jennifer started dragging her towards the stage with her faltering steps. She was too drunk to even walk properly but her grip on Jessica’s hand was more than sobar of her. The expressions she had on her face were scary enough to guess what was going to happen.“ Shit!” Cursing lowly, I raced towards her hurriedly as she reached the host and snatched the mic from his hand sending him into shock. “ Good evening…G-Gadies and Lentenman!!” All the heads turned towards them, shooting another wave of panic in me as
—JENNIFER—“ No way you rambled about your back up!” Cally laughed after I completed the scene that happened last night. “ They say, you speak what you have in your head while drunk.” Celeste said, sitiffeling her laugh. “ What can I do? The bitch literally had started to get on my nerves. The way she kept coming back and Christian wouldn't do anything about it made me a little insecure.” I confessed my fear. “ Then you better do something to kick her out of your life permanently.” Cally said, suddenly turning serious. “ He told me last night that I won't have to see from now on.” I shrugged. “ What will he do?” Celeste frowned. “ I don't kno-...But I can get to know.” I grinning um suddenly getting an idea. Pulling my phone out of my pocket, I dialled James' number but he didn't answer the call. “ Definitely will be busy tolerating the tantrums of his boss.” Cally scoffed. “ He's not that bad.” I murmured. “ Shut up.” The glare she threw me had me biting my inner cheek to
—CHRISTIAN—My phone buzzed and I muted the call without even checking because I was in an important meeting that I had told Jennifer about, in the morning. It buzzed again and Mr. Stevens gave me a look. I muted the call again and then decided to silent the phone before it would interrupt again. I saw that it was Alex and he doesn't call me back if I ever disconnect the call. I felt a sinking feeling that something is going wrong somewhere. “ It's Okay, Mr. Brown. If it's urgent you can take the call.” Mr. Stevens said, guessing my sudden uneasiness. “ No, it's fine.”The phone beeps with a message while it was already in my hand and I couldn't help but go through it. My heart thumped loudly in my chest as I read Alex's message and stood up abruptly, making all the heads turn towards me in confusion. “ I am afraid that I'll have to pause this meeting because of a personal affair. I'm really sorry Mr. Stevens.” Saying quick to those shocked faces of Mr. Stevens and his assistant,
—JENNIFER—I frowned as I stood up from my chair, seeing Christian standing near the entrance of the cafe. It was only a moment after when Alex ran inside and stopped beside Christians. Both of their breathing was heavy and quick, telling that they reached here in a hurry. My frown deepened as I scanned Christian's appearance. His hair was badly dishevelled. He wasn't wearing his coat jacket and two upper buttons of his shirt were open.“ What are you guys doing here?” The question that stopped on my tongue seeing his condition, was asked by Cally as she quickly reached Alex. Alex, instead of answering her, met my gaze and held it concerned, for a long moment. “ Jennifer. I was telling you something. Please listen to me.” From beside me, Catherine spoke up and I remembered that she was also present there. I quickly turned to face her. “ Yeah, Can you give me a moment?” I said, excusing myself and turned back to Christian, who seemed to be a little nervous or maybe anxious. “ No J
—JENNIFER—I turned back to look at him but was surprised by his sudden move of bending close. I sucked a breath as he stared right into my eyes. “ I didn't go to meet her but to send her away from our lives forever.” He said and I felt a sudden relief rushing into my body. “ You did?” I asked, confirming. “ I had promised you.” He shrugged, moving back but I grabbed his collars and captured his lips into mine, taking him by surprise. “ I love you.” I murmured into his lips, smiling. He groaned before slipping his hand into my waist and lifting up to settle me on his lap. I gasped as he did in a span of two goddamn seconds that I couldn't even realise. My gasp died down as his mouth claimed down on mine with his hands slipping under my shirt, causing goosebumps to erupt. In these six months of marriage, we have kissed uncountable times but every time with him feels like the first time. His touch wakes up every single cell in my body as if giving them a new life. I moaned when
—JENNIFER—“ He left for office early today.” I answered in a meek voice and my face saddened immediately. “ What???” Celeste and Cally both screeched together, staring at me as If I was some alien. “ I don't speak Spanish.” I rolled my eyes. “ Not surprising but,... What the fuck is he doing in office today?” Cally replying to my ‘Spanish’ sarcasm first and then asked about Christian. “ Yeah, He should have been spending a day with you, taking you out or something? Celeste backed up her question and I could help but made a helpless pout. “ I don't know. He was gone before I was up.” I straightened my back again and shrugged nonchalantly as if it wasn't any big deal. “ What??” They both screeched once again at the same time and after giving each other a look, they turned to me in disbelief. “ Are you implying that he didn't even wish you?” Cally asked with utter incredulity. “ H-He forgot, I guess.” I answer, biting my lip. “ For fuck's sake!” She grumbled lowly and Celeste
—JENNIFER—When I called out for mom and dad again, a blast followed by loud shouts had me screaming. “ Surprisssseeeeeee!!!” All the lights were suddenly turned on, blinding me for a moment and I closed my eyes to restrain it from hurting my eyes. Everything happened so all of a sudden that I couldn't even get a chance to understand what was exactly going on. It took me another minute to adjust to the sudden lights and open my eyes to look around. Before I could notice anything else, my eyes landed on Mom and Dad. Without thinking about anything else, I raced towards them and stopped before Dad grabbing his shoulder. “ Are you fine? Mom, What happened? Are you both alright?” I asked in one breath, checking both of them for anything unusual, any Injury or even a scratch on them. “ Hey, Hey!! We are fine. See! Nothing is wrong. It was just a joke.” Dad replied, grabbing my hands and my brows furrowed together to stare at them dumbfounded. “ Joke? What doesn't that mea-” I was l
—JENNIFER—Everyone gave me gifts one by one before we settled down at the dining table for dinner. We had fun chatting which was mostly taken ahead by Alex and Micheal because of their bad sense of humour. After the dinner, Mathhew left for Brown mansion since it was past 11:00 PM. Anya stayed back with us since everyone decided to do something fun which they still couldn't decide after a whole hour of arguing and ranting. “ Alright kids. Have fun. We better be retiring to our beds.” Dad said as he and mom stood up. “ Good night.” We said before they walked to their room.After some more arguing and rejecting God knows how many ideas, everyone decided to do settle for Karaoke.“ But Uncle and Aunty would be disturbed.” Celeste said at the idea. “ Wait, Let me go and check the study if it's clean. It's soundproof so it will be fine.” I said immediately grinning at the idea and standing up. “ Thank god. I almost forgot about it.” Cally sighed remembering the way we would often use