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2024-10-29 19:42:56"You can do this,” I said to my reflection, "You’re strong, determined and you will be independent again, maybe not in a few months, but in a few years."
I finished putting on the gold earrings and decided to remove the rest of the piercings from my ears.
They wouldn’t be seen because the loose hair would be covering them anyway.
I’ve put on my septum with fake diamonds I only wore on special occasions and stepped back to look myself up and down one last time.
I looked... like a bride not at all determined to be one and the subtle makeup I had chosen helped to accentuate the panic in my eyes.
The rest? I looked like a heart attack.
To be something not serious at all, Louis had taken the subject of the wedding very serious; He’d taken me shopping on Fifth Avenue where he dragged me from store to store until we found the dress that, according to him, was perfect for me.
Said dress was white and reached belo
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"It's okay, Aiden. Sansa’s not going to do anything to you,” Eva explained as she tried to get him off her back.“What's that?” He asked without leaving his place, although following us out of the elevator."That's a dog, and her name is Sansa,” I answered seeing that Milena looked at my pet with curiosity, so I bent down for her to get a better look.At least the girl was curious.“Get her away from that!” Aiden exclaimed taking the baby out of my arms and making her start crying and Sansa barking again thinking they were playing with her.Yes. I recognized my dog's barks.I looked at Eva not knowing what the hell was going on with the boy and shut the dog down with a signal, leaving us only with Milena crying and Aiden breathing hard as he walked back to the elevator without taking his eyes off Sansa.
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“What is it, darling?” Eva asked, her eyes inquisitive as we turned to him."Nothing,” he murmured solemn before stretching his arms towards the baby, "I’ll bathe her, that's my job."“Your work?” Eva asked confused. "Aiden, your job is to do well in class and keep your room clean, children are adults’ job, darling."Aiden looked away swallowing hard before lowering his arms."Elisa always made it clear that my job was to take care of my sister,” he muttered uncomfortably."Well, you don't have to take care of anything but yourself, boy,” I replied patting him on the shoulder, trying to take the weight off the issue. "What do you think if we go to the bathroom and you explain how you do it, okay?"He nodded swallowing hard and followed us into the bathroom.As we entered the bathroom t
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“What's up, doc?” Alex asked ten minutes later. "His pupils are responding well and the bleeding has stopped,” replied the doctor Alex had called when he’d seen what was happening in the room when he arrived. True to his word, Alex had arrived a few minutes later as he lived one floor above us. The surprise of finding myself next to a very pale Louis and holding a towel to the wound on his head had vanished after a few seconds and then he proceeded to call the doctor who was now carefully evaluating said wound. I was grateful I had reacted to dressing and fixing Louis's underwear before anyone else arrived, although Aiden hadn't had the same luck since he had seen every part of both Louis and me. “So what, doc? Why isn’t him reacting?” Alex asked looking carefully at the unconscious man on the bed. "Because, although the blow was not strong enough
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Hmm... something smelled amazing. I took a deep breath and my lungs filled again with the same rich, seductive scent. As I moved a little, my body made contact with another and then I remembered my wife. At some point in the night, we had switched positions and I had ended up with my face buried in her neck and her arms hugging me. I didn’t want to move; I was in paradise. "My secret is buttermilk,” said a voice, breaking my dream moment. “Really? Louis never uses that.” "And chocolate chips. The best pancakes have chocolate chips, otherwise they aren’t pancakes.” “Then I don't know what Louis has fed me these days.” I was going to kill Alex Hardy. What the hell was that bastard doing in my house poisoning Aiden's mind? I started to get up when a sharp pang in my head left me frozen in place, reminding me of what happened the night before. Shit, the boy had tried to kill me with a tennis
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So what can I say except you're welcomeFor the islands I pulled from the seaThere's no need to pray, it's okayYou're welcomeHa, I guess it's just my way of being meYou're welcomeYou're welcome. What I least expected when the elevator doors opened, was to find Louis still in his chef's uniform, singing and dancing throughout the room, Sansa following him everywhere and Milena wearing her Hawaiian costume clapping happily with the show my ridiculous husband was giving to her. Hey, it's your day to say, "You're welcome" 'Cause I'm gonna need that boatI'm sailing away, away, you're welcome'Cause Maui can do anything but float. I met the bright gaze of Aiden, dressed in his usual jeans and T-shirt, sitting on the couch next to his little sister, amused by the ridiculousness of the situation. It amused me to see Milena dressed in that way, when yesterday she didn’t even want to see the skirt of her costu
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“Did you pack everything?” “Yeah, baby.” “You’re sure?” “Eva...” "Okay, I'll go change Mile and we're off." I sighed without taking my eyes off my wife as she went to the baby's room to take off her pajamas so we could go to the party. We'll talk about that in a moment, but for now, let's talk about the following: I had lied to my wife. And I almost choked when I did. But what could I do? I had panicked when I saw her own panic creep over her features. I don't want your love, baby. Of course I wanted it, I wanted all from her. I really wanted my wife to love me. Because, you know the funniest part? At some point since we met, I had started to fall in love with her. I had fallen in love with those children. I had fallen in love with the family we had become, the family I never had and I never even thought I would have. That's why I would hate when the day t
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LOUIS 25- EVA
“Look, aunt! I'm swimming!” “Excellent, darling! But don't go too deep!” I yelled in amusement when I saw he dipped his head back into the pool and began to swim hard. It was reassuring to know that Louis, Alex and Mark were in the pool with the kids and that nothing would happen to them. I was in a chaise longue with Abbie, Olivia and Elizabeth, while the rest of the group was in other activities. Never in my life did I think I would be living this experience. To find myself drinking a piña colada by the edge of a pool in an exquisite resort and unable to take my eyes off my husband's beautiful tattooed body. Son of a bitch. I had a husband. "Oh, I want to know more about that sigh,” Olivia said, turning to her side to look at me. “I didn't sigh.” "You definitely sighed,” Abbie agreed, sitting at the foot of my lounger, "And you did it while making puppy eyes at Louis." I saw the two women with
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