"Never separate your mind from your heart when making relationship decisions. The purpose of the mind is to protect the heart."
~Anonymous
Alexanders POV
This is the third time we've come out since last week and the first was seven days ago when Julian took me to the park and although it ended up bad because some cameramen saw us together and tried to make a scene when securities told them no photo in the park and Julian had to get me out of there as fast as he could.
It was almost a week since Julian's arrival and he'd done more for me than anyone else had done since the last eight weeks and we've tried out a few things too, grilled fish, chicken suya and my favourite the grilled gizzard. We bought them four days ago when we went to the park and since then I haven't been able to get enough of it. Julian who is an amazing soul got them for me. Whenever he's coming home from work would buy and bring them over.
"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."~F. Scott Fitzgerald,He opens the door of the car for me and I enter and he closes it before going over to his side and entering."How has your week been?" He asks, speaking up for the first time in five minutes"Good, not like you cared much." I blurt out, staring through the window and the beautiful night sky"Of course I care, I called you every day since the last time we met." He points outI rolled my eyes as I feel angrier now than sad, "Yes, you called and talked as though you were addressing a ticking time bomb.""Alex...""I came untouched Julian and not only were we unable to talk about that, but you also distanced yourself from me, you stopped visiting the office or home."He stares at me for a while
"I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."~Haruki MurakamiRogue's POVFlashback"Rogue, oh, thank goodness you are here, I thought you would no longer be here," Melissa exhaled in relief as soon as she closed the door and she walked up to me and kissing me deeply on the lips. Her tongue active and fast as it worked its way into my mouth to explore more, but when she noticed th
"You don't run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk."~Rick Yancey"Do I need to emphasize how important this client is to our firm?" Julian asks over the phone as he makes his way towards his car he's in a blue Ankara on a black shoe. His hair is permed and parted at the side ith and I make my way towards him. He pulls out his car keys from his pocket and unlocks the car as he gets closer and I step out to stand before his car and he stops walking and step back."Rogue, what do you want?" He demands, his voice already blunt and rude with its delivery.I step towards him, unbothered by his crude response, "It's nice to know that you still remember me."I don't know if it's my intrusion into his private space but he suddenly become uncomfortable and it is all over his face, "What do
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."~Chuck Palahniuk"My testimony exposed what had happened to me to the eyes of the rest of the world, maybe it was not the whole world, but everyone around me knew what had happened to me and it wasn't a great thing. I was label 'the beautiful boy' because at trial when I was put on the stand, I told the court that my uncle called me beautiful whenever he touched me and that was the beginning of my next nightmare.""Why didn't you tell Mrs Angelica?"I run my hand through my hair and tug on it a little, "I couldn't, at first she kept visiting but a few months later, she got transferred to Toluca in Mexico and the only way I could talk to her was over the phone and Audrey was
"Controllers, abusers and manipulative people don't question themselves. They don't ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problem is someone else."~Anonymous"Did you report to anyone that she hit you? Her husband maybe?" Kemi asks and I looked up at her to find her clenching on a white handkerchief in her hand.My mouth twitches causally. "It is a normal thing to get spanked when you get naughty then so I didn't; besides I reported to Mrs Angelica and look where that got me? I had a place that gave me shelter and food and no amount of physical pain was going to make me give it up. Again I was the naïve one.""I'm sorry."I shake my head, "It's fine, I think that was what made me the bad kid in her eyes and later she wanted to know more about me apart from what was already on the ne
"You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever.~Ashly LorenzanaFlashback..."Hey, Ray," Yolanda made her presence known from behind me and she wrapped her hands around my waist. My body tensed up and I took hold of her hand and I pulled it away from me as quickly as they touched me and then I pulled her to stand before me.If she noticed the way I just tensed up she didn't take it to mind, as she continued to speak, "How was practice?" She asked, leaning on the locker and grinning at me, the perfect gap between her teeth showing with the wideness of her smile, making her even more beautiful."Good, it was good." I placed my bag into the locker and closed its door.Audrey enrolled me into senior high school last year so I could graduate high school. Having missed a year
"No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for."~Ashly Lorenzana"When we were done, I was torn, I was sad and I hated myself. I cheated on Yolanda and she deserved better than that, if only it was that easy to give it all up I would for her, but I couldn't. I was lost in thought and I couldn't focus or study because of the massive guilt I was feeling and she told me she knew what I needed. That night she introduced me to a drug in a syringe, emphasizing that it would help me get over my moody self, concentrate and study. It helped me calm my nerves and made me relax and I thanked her because she had found a way out for me and we had sex again.""It wasn't a way out though was it?" Kemi asks and even though it sounds more like a rhe
"If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind."~Shannon L. AlderI pressed my lips together and close my eyes, "You're right Audrey." I began to climb back up slowly, "All you've done is take me in and love me and I've been such an ungrateful person. I'm so sorry for everything I've said before, it's the drug it makes me feel, do and say things that aren't true, things that I don't mean, I need more of it. Of course, I liked it when you touched me, I like it when you teach me new things, Audrey." I got up to where she was and dropped my bag.I could see she didn't believe a word I was saying so I said, "I'm sorry Audrey, I'm scared because I love you and scared the world would judge us if they find ou
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."~Samuel RichardsonThree weeks later"How much longer do I have to sit still?" Alex asks impatiently as Martha and George try to get her hair into a perfect curl as if that was even possible. Her hair is curly there's no such thing as perfect curl, at least not for her hair. She remembers, Sarah, her mom constantly having to battle with her hair every day of school when she was younger. It was painful almost every time she touched it, but she had to endure it if she wanted to look neat and pretty for school. As she got older the curls lessened and the pain she usually felt as a child left— or maybe she just got used to it.Her hair has never been the soft and perfect looking one, it was tou
"The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire."~François de la RochefoucauldShe feels his touch over her lower lips down, her neck and further down her chest and his fingers find her nipples, delicately strumming it, making her moan and arches her pelvis up, silently telling him where her needs for him is much, but he pushes her back down on the bed and continues his torture on her nipple and she moans out.He watches as her lips part and her tongue lifts between them as she moans out and he knows she's loving being touched, he didn't want to ask anything, he wanted her to communicate to him what she was feeling like he had instructed her earlier.He moves to the other nipple and he stro
"When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man."~Maya BanksThey step towards their bed and Rogue tilts her head up and snakes his tongue into her delicious mouth, tasting the vanilla flavour of the ice cream she had before they left the restaurant and that mixed with the taste of her mouth drives him insane. He pushes her against the close by window and he takes his time to worship his mouth with his lips as well as her face.
"I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me." ~Tallulah Bankhead"Do you miss our scenes?" Rogue suddenly asks midway into their meal and Alex almosts chokes on the food in her mouth as a result of how blunt and unexpected his approach was."Rogue...""I'm sorry if this is taking you by surprise, one of the things about BDSM is talking and I want to know what your opinion is on us resuming our scenes after so long.""Can we have this talk later?" She asks with awkwardness voice and her eyes don't lie.He looks around left and right, "No, there is nothing wrong with talking about it now, no one i
"A marriage is a like a house. When a light bulb goes out, you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb."~Happy Wives ClubThird POVA week laterAlex is at the balcony staring at the stars when she hears the door closing and she turns around and sees Rogue step into the bedroom, he's been out working late again and though she has nothing against him, the fact that tomorrow is the day they both go shopping for what they will need for their wedding makes her think that he may be too tired for it.
“There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.”~Eckhart TolleWe enter into the building and as we approach the guard, wearing a black trouser and white short sleeve shirt with a badge he gets up and walks over to us,"Buenos dias (Good morning,)" he greets."Buenos dias (Good morning,)" we respond in unison."Estas buscando a alguien? (Are you looking for someone?)""Si, estoy aquí para ver al director de la prisión, señor Edwardo Fernanda. Dile que Rayyan Martin está aquí para verlo (Yes, I'm here to see the warden of the prison, Mr Edwardo Fernanda. Tell him Rayyan Martin is here to see him.)" I reply and he nods and goes away.I've not used the name R
"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."~Steve MaraboliFlashback"I want to go home, I want my mommy! I don't want to be here anymore!" I cried out as Lorenzo got up from beside my bed to put on his clothes. My whole body was dead from what he just did to me and I could barely even move it. I was numb and aching and I could only speak and that was what I did. Tears rolled down my face and go into my ears."I told you before, your mommy left you and she's not coming back because she doesn't want you, no one wants you. Are you happy hearing that?" Lorenzo sneered wickedly."You're lying, you're a liar, you always have been! I don't believe a word you say!" I refused to believe
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross"Why are you up?" The sleepy voice of Alex calls out from across the room and I turn away from looking at the stars to see her scrunched up but beautiful face. "Come back to bed!" She calls out to me, raising her hand but it drops immediately from weakness and she lay back down in bed.I find myself smiling and I make my way over to the bed and I sit down beside her. "Why are you still up?" She asks with her level of concern high. "You can't sleep?" She adds."Yes, I couldn't sleep, gatita, but I'll be fine," I confessed to her and take her hand in mine."You won't be fine, sleep is important and without it,
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."~Elisabeth Kübler-RossFlashbackThree months after meeting Lucas.The door opened and Lucas and I stepped into the hotel room, the trial just ended and I was found not guilty by the judge on the count of first-degree murder of my foster mother Audrey and after the verdict was made, Lucas offered to take me in as my guardian and when the court saw I didn't object they let me go with him. He informed me about the legal process of becoming my guardian and it involves papers works and most importantly my consent. I didn't have so much option or choice in the situation.Lucas