CHAPTER 44Christian was lost at words, "You have to think this through," Damien added. "What about the kids?" Christian asked rhetorically. He couldn't bring himself to leave the kids, nor could he leave Antonia. Damien seemed to have heard his thoughts and replied, "They will be fine without you, you don't have to worry about them. After all they're not the first kids to grow with a single parent," Christian was enraged when he heard this, he cast an angry look at Damien. "Stay out of this, I don't need your opinion anymore," he growled. Damien was surprised at the sudden change of Christian. Wasn't he the one who had asked him for an advise? Why had he suddenly change?"But you were the one who asked for my-""And I regret asking for your harsh and cruel opinion!" Christian hissed. "Ill do whatever suits me the best, you can now leave," he added."I'm sorry if I had-" again Damien was cut short."I asked you to get out, didn't I?" Christian asked and gave Damien a cold look, lo
CHAPTER 45The wind was gentle against her skin, the curtains beat wildly against the window as the cold air rushed into the room. “Stop that!” Laura giggled and playfully swatted his hands away from her cheeks.“Make me.” Riam teased, threw her arms above her head and dipped lower till he back was on the bed. “I’d really love to see you try.” He smirked.Laura tried and failed woefully. Rian laughed and planted a kiss on her cheek. “You look so cute when you’re mad, you know that?” He cooed and placed another kiss on her cheek.He tucked back a strand of her hair and her eyes fluttered closed as she leaned into his touch.“You’re so beautiful, Laura.” He whispered against her skin.She chuckled, “you’ve said that atleast ten times just this morning.” She teased, her brows scrunched up as an unpleasant thought crossed her mind, “sure you’re okay?” She asked suddenly worried.“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” He grinned. “Wait, is it because I stated the obvious?” He wondered out loud.Laura
CHAPTER 46Placing his hand under her head, Christian pulled her to himself, taking her lips into his slowly. Already looking forward to sharing a kiss with him, Laura gave in fully. With her hand resting on his chest, she returned his kiss with equal fervor and soon they were both fighting for dominance with their tongues in each other's mouth. This left them exhausted when they finally pulled away. “Let's go in.” Laura offered, pushing her hair away from her face as Christian shook his head in the negative. Raising her brow at him, she asked, “Why is that? Is anything wrong?” “Not at all.” He replied, swirling his key in his hand. “I will be off now.” He said and with that, he got into his car and then drove off before he could stop him. Laura didn't let her gaze off the car until she couldn't see it anymore. With her fingers now combing through her hair, she turned around and then made her way into the house. Now in her room,she was sitting at the head of her bed with her leg
CHAPTER 47“It's just past midnight.” Christian muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. Pulling himself up, he rested his head against the wall with his eyes fixed on the ceiling. Even though he had just woken up from a dreamless sleep which had left him drained, he wanted to return but each time he closed his eyes, they would be wide open the next minute. Frustrated, he fixed his gaze on the clock only to start calculating the hours left before dawn. “12…1…2…3… ugh! More than four hours left until dawn. What am I going to do now? Going back to bed is impossible.” He groaned as he let out a low sigh of frustration. Swinging his feet off the bed, he made his way towards the bathroom and after washing his face, he returned to the window and then parted the curtains. Now leaning against the wall, he began to stare at the sleeping city. Minutes after minutes went by, still yet, he didn't have the urge to return to bed despite all his attempts to tire himself out. In contrast to the
CHAPTER 48She didn't know which was more embarrassing, eavesdropping or having Christian stare down at her where she laid so useless or the fact that he had a quite absurd look on his face.She looked up to him and could hear her heart ricocheting, she turned her gaze as he walked away.She could tell that he was annoyed and she would have to pacify him again.She walked in and caught him in a foul mood,for the first time since when she could remember he looked at her with disdain, as if the very idea of what she had done was starting to irritate him.Tonia's voice was calm when it came to him, she could… As usual it was easy to tell that she was sorry about what she had done, but he couldn't get it off his chest as it thuds heavily.“Why." He muttered. “You are acting differently, especially after the entire situation that had happened." She couldn't bring herself to say anything as she knew that she had wronged him.Regardless, Antonia presses on. “I am sorry, I was just curious.”
CHAPTER 49Staring at her reflection in the mirror, Laura stood right there in the middle of the room trying to get her most recent altercation with Rian out of her mind. She looked back to where he laid on the bed still asleep and wondered to herself if that was what he cared about after all— Sex!They had started the night most definitely arguing and then it had ended with her having to appease him with sex as well.She undid the simple braid Riley had helped her with the previous week and let the strands fall off to her back, her eyes seemed a deeper shade than it should have been as she drew in a deep breath.She brushed back the faint lines of tension showing on either side of her brows and she sighed deeply again.The truth was that she was tense, as a matter of fact her whole person was— She turned and looked back at him one more time.She thought it was best she had a shower to help her calm her nerves, as soon as she was in, she turned on the taps, stripped and stepped into
CHAPTER 50 “Alright, but can't you tell me why you want to see me so bad?,"Her voice is two tones higher than it should be, giving away her trepidation, she couldn't tell why but it's sounded so important from what he had said and she had to see her parents.Still she is not convinced, she had that feeling that all of this had to do with something as the call couldn't be coincidence.“I’m sorry. I should have been clearer,” he insists. “But trust me you'll hear more about it when you return.” When she turned to face Rian the look he had showed he wasn't that pleased. “Should I come with you?" he questioned.For what felt like a minute, she held his gaze. " I don't think that would be necessary.”“And the summit?" He asked.She groaned. It had slipped my mind, and only now did it occur to me that it would be coming up later that evening.“I will have to call Riley to represent me.I will not turn around my mind because of this.”Rian knew it was a lost cause trying to convince her,
CHAPTER 51He watched in silence as Antonia walked back out of the room, his mind whirring. He could feel his conscience being consumed till it died away in his chest into a state of nothingness.For what felt like a while it quieted in his chest for the first time since all the Madness and jealousy, one would have expected that he would sigh relieved at the bit of silence, but he didn't… and it made him uncomfortable.He was becoming too invested in trying to learn the truth about the entire situation, he wanted to know why Laura was tricking him with the boy's, at least that was the way he saw it.He wouldn't deny that he didn't feel attached to them but at the same time, the entire drama was starting to cost him his life, his wife —He looked again at the door as he could hear her sobbing.He frowned, a hand automatically coming up to rub his chest again as though to keep his heart in check before he does anything stupidly outrageous.He didn’t like that in a way his soul was getti