"I'll be home at lunch." I said to Gabriella who was now sitting on her bed, her fever had gone down but she was still pale.She chuckled as she shook her head. "No need to do that. I'm already fine." She replied.I shook my head. "No. No. I'll be home by lunchtime, and you spend some time now sleeping." I put the bowl filled with cream soup which is now empty on the nightstand. "Surely after taking the medicine.""I can do it myself." She said with a smile. "You can leave now."I'm in doubt."Just leave, it's okay. After taking the medicine, I will sleep.”I exhaled slowly, and nodded. "In that case, fine." And then I got up to leave her.Putting the bowl on the kitchen table, I chose to wash it later. Actually, I didn't want to leave Gabriella who was sick, but on the other hand it would be very unprofessional if I asked Rhysand for another day off. Some employees would definitely say that I used our position and proximity to do whatever I wanted.I didn't want that to happen, so I
"Is this going to take long?""Depends." Ron answered. "I can't give you hope.""Is there anything I can do?""You'd better just sit still, and wait." he replied, blinking."I can't do that." I argued. It felt really bad when I just sat around doing nothing, or helping anything and waiting. Waiting for it really can make me surrounded by anxiety, waiting for it is the worst thing. "I will help as much as I can. You can ask for it."A disdainful grunt escaped from him.I glared at him and wanted to throw curses at him but the sound of someone's footsteps was heard. My instincts seem to have memorized the presence of Rhysand del Millero."Ronald is right." he said, standing beside me. "You don't have to do anything, just still and let us take care everything."I looked up at his gentle expression. "Why do I feel like you guys are underestimating me?"Ronald choked on laughter, and I immediately looked at him with a glare. Rhysand chuckled. "No, Princess. No one underestimates you. We ar
My steps quicken and stop beside Rhysand, pulling his arm off Claudia's neck. Her face was already red, telling how strong Rhysand's grip was."Get off, Rhys. Let her go!" I screamed until my throat hurt.Rhysand didn't move at all, like my tugging and snapping was nothing to him. While Claudia rebelled, really tormented. Her mouth was open, and her chest was rising and falling with gasps. Searching for the thinning air in her lungs, I was still tugging at Rhysand's arm."She's pregnant, Rhysand. She's pregnant. For god sakes!" I snapped again."I've always felt sorry for women, but if you dare to set foot wherever Amanda is, meet her, you will be finished in my hands." He said low and cold, really threatening. "It doesn't matter whether you are pregnant or not."Claudia's screams were heard, and as Rhysand took his hands off her neck, Claudia fell to the ground. I immediately dropped my knees and sat beside her. Touched her shoulder as she coughed coughing and busily gasped."Are you
This morning I live a little lethargic.Renne's husband seems to intend to resign from his job because he doesn't have any bussines travel at all. Renne couldn't do anything, and asked me to suggest anything other than waiting for her husband to leave. Felicia had already made plans: Renne would ask him to go on an outing to a place a little far from Montreal, or go on vacation to another country but he refused. Saying that the extreme winter in Montreal would lead to some bad odds for their trip. There was nothing else for us to think about, and I hated myself for my stupidity.Snorting, I folded my arms on the table, and rested my head on them. At least there's something that keeps me from getting into my bad mood this morning, Gabriella is healthy and fit. Apparently she was really healthy when she proved it to me this morning, and then she asked me to have dinner at her restaurant, then we were going to do girls night in Central park. Like we always used to do.I'm really grateful
My legs are weak, and I wonder why until now I'm still standing.My heart raced with horror, and a sense of terror. A terror at what I just heard. I staggered and leaned against the wall as Rhysand and Xavier laughed."She's not gonna believe you. What proof can you provide, huh?" Rhysand's voice was heard in between his laughs.What he said consumed me from within. There was no denial, and no rebuttal of what Maxel said. And that means..That Maxel was right.That what Rhysand was doing was manipulation, what he had been doing to me all this time was something he had planned, and what he had told me was just a lie. I didn't even expect... I didn't expect that the night incident two years ago was his plan.I'm trapped, and I'm already trapped.And another truth.. that he did all this to Jordan and me just so I hate his cousin and make our relationship end...Oh god, what kind of man am I dealing with?And what did he want from me to make him do that?"You think I'm stupid? I wouldn't
"Enough, Rhys." I let out a gasping sound as his hands crawled up my breast again. Squeezing it as his face drops to my neck.Teasing me again, and again.We were both naked, completely naked on the bed in his private room which was in his office. Touching each other until I remember nothing but pleasure and release. What he did to me was able to make me not think about anything and made me let go of all the heavy things that weighed on my mind and heart. Even though he is most of the cause, on the other hand he is the only one who is able to extinguish the fire that is inside me so that all that is left is smoke.I can't fall in love with this man.I'd rather never have been in love at all than have my love unrequited, and fall for a man who would only play me as his bitch. I've seen that possibility quite a few times though I've had a few denials when I heard what he said about me.That I was different from the women he spent time with. In contrast to women who satisfy his lust. But
I wake up with my head throbbing, and my eyes stinging.Last night, well, I did choose to tell everything and let it all go with crying that lasted for more than two hours. The big-hearted Gabriella was calmly at my side, and several times gave me a gentle pat on the shoulder. Told me that it's okay to cry, it's okay to let it all go, and I did.Let go of all the things that attack me in one and the same time, and without pause. All the problems that brutally shocked me mentally, and became a burden that pressed my chest until all I could feel was continuous tightness.That feeling faded little by little because I had let it out by crying, and I was grateful that Gabriella was always by my side and said nothing but a good listener. She doesn't judge me and I don't know how I got up this morning if it wasn't because of her.I sat myself on the bed while wrapping my whole body, except my head, with my thick blanket. My stinging eyes stare at the sight of snowfall that's back to attack N
"You told me there was another way besides waiting for her husband to leave, right?" I said as he put me in the back seat of the car.This time he was chauffeured in his fancy limo, and the astonishment seeped into me a little because, hell, why did he have to have a chauffeur when it wasn't that far from his office? But it was thrown to the side of the road when I remembered something.Rhysand sat by my side with a frown."Why? There must be another way, right?""Why are you so excited? Didn't I say that we shouldn't rush into it?"I snorted. "But I can't wait any longer, Rhys.""Baby," one of his hands wrapped around my waist and he lifted me to be on his lap. Seeing that he wasn't bothered at all by my weight made me a little weird. Am I really not that heavy? "There has to be a process. We have to pay attention to the invisible details that might otherwise be overlooked." His hands brought my head to rest on his chest, making me stare at the beautiful New York City with snow. "And