"What's wrong?" Was it spoiled?" He kneels next to me on the floor and smooths my face."I don't know. I don't think so. I got a little nauseous with the smell too.""Nicole..." Valentin speaks my name as a warning, and I look at him, not understanding. "After we had sex on the trip, did your period come down?""What's with that... What? No, I'm not pregnant! Don't be silly.""How do you guarantee me?""I'll take medicine, I told you!" I get up off the floor, stressed out just by this crazy invention of his.He opens his mouth to speak, but I interrupt him, not wanting to hear such nonsense. "I already know that nothing is one hundred percent effective, I already know.""If you're not, you don't care if we do a test, then.""I'm not going to do anything, Valentin. Weren't you the one who said that everything would be fine, that I didn't need to be paranoid? Just because the sushi didn't sit well with me doesn't mean I'm g
I wake up with the strange feeling that something is missing, and when I wake up properly, I notice that it's because Nicole isn't in bed. I hear a noise coming from the bathroom and get up quickly when I see that he is vomiting again. Furthermore, I knock on the door so that he doesn't get scared and enter, positioning myself next to him on the floor.She doesn't say anything because she vomits again, looking tired. Her eyes are swollen and red from crying, and her hair is messy and full of volume."You don't have to stay here to see this. You've already reached your quota of seeing me vomiting.""I want to be. I scheduled the exam and an appointment for you."Nicole just agrees and puts her forehead on her hand, leaning on the powder room. I stay there too, smoothing his back, waiting for his time to talk, to scream, to cry again."This son is yours, he's already sucking me," she says with a grimace, and I let out a laugh. Nicole lets out a sniff
I get up in fright, with the noise of my curtain being opened and the light invading my room. I cover my eyes and let out a loud grumble, pulling the duvet to cover my face, but it doesn't take long for the fabric to uncover me."When was the last time you showered, Nicole?" What happened, sweetheart?" I hear Nat's voice and just let out another grumble in response. Of course, she won't understand, but I just want to sleep and be quiet in my room, alone, without having to think or explain anything. "Nicole!""Leave me alone, Nat!""No, I won't!" Your boss came to me to ask for news about you, because you don't answer his phone calls and you don't even answer the door either! Why is your boss worried about you and why don't I know you had something to worry about?" he asks. From the tone of her voice, I know she's really upset with me, but she's most likely trying to be understanding of my state. I know Nat too well."I'm sorry," I whisper, feeling the urg
I feel guilty for worrying him. I can't imagine how desperate he must have been, thinking the worst things about me. If you dared to look for Nat, your nerves must be on edge. I'm sure if I had the key to my apartment like my best friend has, Valentin would have broken in here a long time ago."I think you're in love already.""What?" Are you crazy? Have you ever seen me in love before, Natasha Forbs?" I ask, letting out a mocking laugh."No, and that's why I'm saying. You're different, and it's not even this motherhood thing and all that. Well, before that, it was. Something tells me your happy ending is coming, sweetheart."I look at my friend in shock, wondering if she knows me. Because it's not possible that I'm so deluded just because I'm going to have a baby with Valentin. You don't need to have love to fuck someone, much less to get pregnant. It can happen to anyone who has sex without a condom, involving feelings or not."You're crazy!" I e
I think that in addition to being pregnant, I also found out that I'm crazy because I heard Valentin ask me to marry me.It's the only explanation, isn't it? I keep looking at the ring thereafter, he opens the box, but the penny doesn't drop. I'm dreaming, it can be an alternative."Valentin... Have you gone crazy?""It's not quite the answer a man expects after proposing to someone, Nicole," he says, opening a sideways smile."What did you expect?" That I screamed for joy and jumped on your neck? This is crazy! I can't marry you! We do not live in the last century! There is a way to raise a child without involving a marriage, in fact, without involving any kind of relationship.""But it's not what I want," he says sincerely, staring at my face attentively. "I want to be present while our son grows up. I don't want to be in another house, missing out on important things. Or see it only on weekends. I want this baby to have a father, Nicole, I know
I see the man leave his room and stop in front of my desk."Have you had lunch yet?""Not yet. I only had a chicken soup that Nat took earlier, but I was already going.""Did you take the vitamins?" How's the nausea?" he asks worriedly, looking at me carefully."I did." They have improved, but... I haven't eaten much in the last few days, so I haven't had anything to get sick of," I reply, embarrassed because I don't want Valentin to think of me as a bad mother. It's just hard to see myself like this yet."If you married me, I'd be able to take better care of your diet.""Valentin...""Will you have lunch with me?" I have a meeting later, we can go straight from the restaurant." He looks at his wristwatch and waits for my answer. "Please, Nicole. Let me do it.""That's okay."I get up, clean up the mess I made with the papers and my post-its, take my bag, and accompany him. We go to his car, where Lionel is already waiti
Things are going differently from my plans. I wish I was following the pregnancy more closely, making sure Nicole is doing everything right. Taking medicines, eating, sleeping, avoiding stress. Unfortunately, the stubborn woman denied my marriage proposal. I expected it, I didn't imagine that I would accept it at first, but I thought that at some point I would be able to convince her that it was the best option for both of us.It would be a convenient marriage, for both sides. I'm going to need to use a strategy I wouldn't like, and I know she's going to hate me, but it's going to be for the greater good. I just can't stop living because I'm worried if you need me. I am controlling and systematic, I need to have the situation in my control, and with it away from me, this does not happen.I leave my room and find her typing focused on the computer. It's been a few days since I asked her to marry me and I haven't brought it up again, because I asked her to think about it
I've never been grateful that Tyler loves throwing a party before, but it's going to be useful to me now. At least I'll try to get Nicole closer to me. I want to know about her life outside this office, and I want her to know mine too."Your birthday is the day after tomorrow." I had forgotten," she comments, sounding thoughtful. "I'm going to talk to them to see if they can. I warn you.""All right. Do you want to go out to dinner now?""No, I'm a little tired. I just want to try to get some sleep.""I can cook for you, at your house, if you prefer," I offer, wanting to bang my head against the wall because I've never had to humiliate myself so much for a woman in my entire life."Valentin...""Nicole..." I repeat your name the same way you say mine. "Why are you pushing me away? Things were starting to look good between the two of us. Why are you avoiding me?""Because everything got serious all of a sudden," he confesses in a whisp
We speak quickly with Enrico and stop when Oliver comes into the kitchen with our little one.“Where’s my little one? Today I'm being romantic..." Oliver says holding a huge bouquet of red roses.“How beautiful,” I say it with a smile, he gives me a gift every week and I always feel silly.“No more beautiful than you, my love.” He says it charmingly and I feel a fire.Oliver is getting more and more handsome, and when he charms me, he's irresistible.I kiss him as a thank you and I can't wait for us to be alone.Dad and my father-in-law arrive and call Mom, my mother-in-law, and the children, dinner is ready and it's priceless to see everyone together eating, talking, and laughing around the table.Nobody talked about the subject of the newspaper and dinner was delicious as always, we served desserts and when we finished we went to our Kart track.We stay there for a long time and I only run two races to
- Allison's POVWe leave the company and go to the market, I buy the potatoes and then we go home.I help Clara put the potatoes to cook and I go to pack the things I bought, I send a message to Jennifer and she comes to the house to help me make some desserts.There are me, Jennifer, Donatella, Rafaella, Lorena, and Clara in the kitchen, the boys are playing video games in the TV room and everything is calm.“Will Dad get involved if I wear a dress?” Rafaella asks as she cuts some chocolate shavings.“I don’t think so, use that new flowery one we bought and you haven’t used it yet, it doesn’t have any cleavage and it’s well-behaved,” I say while mashing some potatoes.“I still don’t know what I’m going to wear,” Lorena says thoughtfully.“Wear a dress, so my dad doesn’t freak out,” Rafaella says and she's right, if Oliver sees that they're both dressed the
- Allison's POVYes, we built our long-awaited Kart track and we play on it almost every week.The kids start making fun of Oliver and I just laugh, I beat him most of the time and he gets all pussy, I love it, after all, later in bed we caught fire.“The food is good Clarinha, I think I’ve gained a few kilos,” Filippo tells Clara right away that she's coming to bring some fruit for dessert.“True Clarinha, the rank was,” Lorenzo says wiping his mouth with the napkin.“I ate everything,” Donatella says smiling at Clara.Everyone praised the food that Clara made and it was delicious, she thanked us and we started helping ourselves to the fruit.“As soon as we finish here, you, Rafaella, and I will go to the office,” I speak to Oliver."No! I am not going! I have nothing to talk about, if we go there to talk about that little guy, forget it.” Oliver says seriously.&ldq
- Allison's POV“Honey, I already explained that they don't need clothes, they are already beautiful naturally and we agreed that only Doug would wear clothes...” I explain patiently.Doug is our dog, he is of the Golden breed and he is already a little man, he is almost years old, I gave him as a birthday present to Oliver, when I got home with Doug Oliver cried like a child, the two of them are like flesh and blood, when Oliver he's at home, Doug stays glued to him.“But Doug can’t wear little dresses.” She says going over to Doug who is sprawled out on his bed sunbathing.“But you can wear nice clothes, look how cute he is,” I say going close to Doug who is wearing a beautiful blue outfit.He never really liked clothes, but now that he's old he wears clothes every day.I've already thought about getting a female puppy so I can put it in a dress, but I'm afraid because of Doug, he's at an age where
- Allison's POVWe laugh, we talk nonsense and I feel on cloud nine, I feel complete, loved, and happy.Today I have everything I ever dreamed of having, I live in a sincere and true relationship, without secrets, frills, and lies, and I can even say that one of the best things that happened to me was catching Stephan with someone else in bed, yes, it was one of the best things.If it hadn't happened I wouldn't have separated, and I certainly wouldn't have gotten involved with Oliver, with Stephan, I lived inside a box, I believe that if I hadn't discovered the betrayal I could have even fallen in love with Oliver, but I would repress it. the feeling and continue living with Stephan, I would spend my whole life deceiving myself just to please everyone, I would live unhappily ignoring the truth as many people do out there.They say that evil comes to good and that God writes correctly through crooked lines because I blindly believe that.I had t
- Allison's POV“The other day we were at the mall and I wanted to buy a royal blue shirt, she didn't like the shirt and said it would look ugly and that I would look like an Italian mafia boss, then a young girl came into the store and she went to buy a shirt to her father, I think it was her father's birthday, anyway the girl bought a green flag shirt, so I just turned to Sarah and said "As I would like to have a wife who respected my tastes, that girl, for example, would certainly approve of me wearing a royal blue shirt, but I understand you, Sarah, after years of marriage you've changed and you're leaving your youthful air aside...", I said this with the biggest look of shame on my face, Sarah was completely covered in fear and said I could take the shirt, anyway, I'm not Sarah's boss, I'm in charge of that woman, just put on a little drama and a nice face and Sarah will do everything I want.” I hear Dad talking and Mom just watches.“I've
- Allison's POVThey already know how to kiss, they already know how to hug and it's delicious, only those who are mothers or take care of a baby at this stage know how delicious it is, there's nothing better in the world than seeing a baby smiling happily.Jack is driving and another car with our security guards follows us, I pay attention to my loves and talk to them the whole time, when we arrive at the company Jack stops the van in the parking lot and helps me get into the elevator.I placed my babies in the twin strollers, two in each stroller, and adjusted the two suitcases hanging in them.Jack went with me to the elevator and helped me up, he's a few years old and super respectful, from what I know he's married and has two children, one a year old and the other, but I never asked him much.The elevator goes up and as soon as it opens we go out with the strollers, the girls at reception come to see my babies and they are both silly with them, when
- Allison's POV“Damn, let me see if they woke up, you screamed so fucking loud,” Oliver says and I agree.He goes to look at the babies in the room and I look at the tablet and see that everything is ok, everyone is sleeping and no one woke up to my scream.I see Oliver looking at the cribs and I look at the window seeing the shameless cat peeking inside, I get closer to the window and take a closer look at the cat who is very well looked after, he is gray and has blue eyes, he has a beautiful collar and I see a pendant written "Lancelot", that is, the cat has an owner.“His name is Lancelot, he has a collar and everything, should we give him some milk?” I ask Oliver when he comes back to the room.“If he has an owner, we won’t worry…” Oliver says, stopping behind me.“I think he's just walking around, I'm going to close the curtain, I don't want an audience...” I say, closing the curta
- Allison's POV"I said nothing wrong! How horrible Oliver! I’m not clueless, I just want to try something different.” Let me explain, I would never say anything embarrassing to babies.“And you think this will work?” Oliver asks.“I don't know, but it doesn't hurt to try, I'll play some relaxing music to help them sleep, and let's see if it works, after all, we're always doing the same thing,” I speak and he agrees, for all these days we haven't tried anything different.“Okay, let's put everyone in their pajamas, Dad will make the bottles, and after everyone has fed, we'll relax and sleep to the sound of some music that Mom will choose,” Oliver says and we do so.We changed everyone's diaper and put a very comfortable onesie on everyone, then I breastfed and breastfed and Oliver gave the bottles, during the process I played classical music, apparently none of our babies liked the music and we tested the rhy