The room was dimly illuminated by the morning sun rays that were filtering through the curtains of the windows. There, on the bed, were the couple sleeping. Their legs were tangled with each other and his arms were securely wrapped around her small frame.
After some time, he started stirring from his peaceful slumber. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the clock to see it was seven in the morning. He sighed and then his gaze fell on the beauty sleeping next to him. He propped on his left elbow and started taking in her features. Her face was beautiful and serene, her pink plump lips that were parted slightly and were inviting him. So, he leaned in and placed a feather light kiss on them. A cute little frown was formed on her forehead due to the slight disturbance in her slumber. And he smiled at that. She was too cute for her own good. His gaze then fell onto the duvet that was barely covering his wife's chest, showcasing a large amount of the perky skin beneath it. And he licked his lips and tried to control himself from devouring her again. She must be sore now. He had never thought that he would ever be able to devour her, thinking about how their firstmeeting was.(FLASHBACK)'CH Shelter Home'It was the day of a charity function. He had organized it so that the rich elite class people would donate some of their money by taking part in the auction, which would help the poor, homeless and abandoned animals to thrive. This shelter home was inaugurated by him, so, he was invited as the chief guest and he was always the biggest donor as well. He got out of his car and headed towards the entrance of the shelter home where he was warmly welcomed. When he got inside, his eyes fell on a girl, a beautiful girl. Standing there alone, she was scheming through her phone. A cute frown set on her face. A beautiful yet simple black sundress was adorned by her which ended just above her knees, showing off her legs. She was not that tall, maybe five feet and three inches of height. Her porcelain skin was glowing under the lights.The black clothing was like a beautiful contrast to her skin. He had a sudden urge to look into her eyes. But she was too much engrossed with that stupid phone of hers. He wanted to reach to her, shove that phone under the ground and lift her face to make her look into his eyes. But he refrained himself as he did not want to startle her. Then, she finally put her phone down and looked around like she was searching for something or rather someone. And then her eyes fell on him as if sensing his intense gaze on her. Her face suddenly held an expression of shock, like she could not believe her eyes. Her face contorted into a hard frown as she pinned him with her steely gaze. And he, on the other hand, seemed to be confused. He could not understand what had he ever done to her for her to look at him like she wanted to murder him. Because they were going to meet for the first time.Then, she averted her gaze and started walking away. And he could not stop himself from going behind her. She went to the water dispenser and started filling a cup. He also came behind her and started talking. "Hi. I am Cain." She did not acknowledge him, let alone answering him. So, he continued."May I know your name?" Again, no answer. "Hey, I am talking to you." He said, exasperated. This time, she tilted her head in his direction. "So?" She asked raising an eyebrow at him. He was all the more confused now. But most of all, he was angry now as he was disrespected. And he could never take disrespect. His glare became hard on her. "What is your name?" This time, it was a demand. And she was not the best known for taking demands or commands from anyone."It is none of your business." She said glaring back at him. He held her arm in a vice grip and asked in a deep tone, "Have we ever met before and you have a bad experience with me for you to behave like this?" "Behave like what?" She feigned innocence. He gritted histeeth. She had the nerve! "Like a brat." He said making her temper worse. "So now you are implying that I am acting like a brat? Then why talk to me? Leave me." She said trying to get out of his hold. But he did not budge. "Leave my arm this very instant." She said with a warning.But that too did not affect him. So, as a last resort, shedrowned the cup of water onto his face and he left herarm abruptly. Taking that as an opportunity, she ran away.And he stood there, wet all over from the water. He was looking at the direction where she ran to when two people came running towards him. They looked nervous. "Sir, are you okay? We are so sorry. How did this happen sir?" Asked Mr. McCenna, the manager of the shelter home. "Go, prepare the VIP room for Mr. Hutton." He ordered his assistant who was looking at the both of them timidly andscurried away quickly taking in his order. "Don't worry sir. I will find out who the worker was and fire her right away." He said with a determined look on his face."Don't bother, Mr. McCenna. It was just an accident." The manager was shocked hearing this coming from his cold and stone-hearted boss. Was that girl someone special to Mr. Hutton? Only God knew. But now he was rest assured that he would not be fired by him for hiring workers who lacked professionalism like it was going to happen the last time. "Sir, the VIP room is ready." His assistant came near them and said. "Mr. Hutton. Please come." He politely ushered him. Though he went with the manager, his mind was still lingering on the girl. Her feisty nature had somehow snatched his attention. Most girls would just throw themselves at him, and he would just disregard them. But she was different,....unique. He had never once been entranced by someone this much. But as his eyes fell on her, his insides were turned into haywire. Never in his twenty six years of living, he had been into anyone or in any kind of romantic relationship. But when his gaze stopped at her, it seemed as though it was time for that record to break. However, she was needed to be tamed first and he would do that, gladly. He smirked at that. He would tame that little but hell of a fire, and would make her his, forever. He cleaned up quickly and left. He had a task at hand which he had to execute.*****She started stirring in her sleep. Because her sleep was being disturbed by him as he was subconsciously, running his fingers up and down her face, chest and stomach. Seeing her eyes fluttering open, he quickly rolled off to his side and started pretending to be asleep. A few seconds later, he felt some movement beside him. And then his little wife was snaking her arms around his midriff and snuggling her face to his side. She even placed a feather light kiss on his right shoulder, then, on his head and sniffed him. He was trying his best to supress the amused smile that was forcing its way to his lips. This little vixen never failed to amuse him. That was why he named her little amuse. His little amuse.Not able to control himself anymore, he turned to her and that act of his, startled her and she let out a shriek of surprise. She retracted her arms from around him and was going back to her side when he held her by her tiny waist and pulled her even closer so that their bare chests were now touching, leaving the duvet somewhere dangling near their legs.Her cheeks started burning. A blush covered her face. When he moved slightly, his chest got rubbed against her pebbled peaks and the hair on the nape of her neck raised in attention.He leaned in and gave her a chaste kiss on her forehead and pulled away, much to her dislike. When he started getting off the bed, she wanted to grab his hand and pull him into her but she did not want to look desperate infront of him. So, she just let him go. When he entered the bathroom, she fell back on the bed, closed her eyes and tried to get her erratic breathing back to normal. In the bathroom, he tried to control his raging little buddy by using his hands. The sight of his wife, naked, did nothing but gave him a hard on. But no matter how much he wanted to get his release and make love to her, he knew that how much tired she was last night. She must be sore as well. And he could not hurt her. He would make all the love to her, but when she would be okay with it. Though he was not sure if he loved her or not, as he had never loved anyone before, he was now certain that she meant everything to him.When he came out of the bathroom, he saw that she was still laying on the bed, with the duvet still barely covering her body. When her eyes fell on him, her already red cheeks flushed some more. She stood up, holding the sheet tightly around her naked body and hurriedly walked passed him going towards the bathroom.He released a laugh looking at her flushed state. She was acting so shy infront of him. "Why so shy now, little amuse? You were so bold last night. And it is not like I have not seen any of this before. So, no need of hiding that delicious body from my sight." He said smirking victoriously when she literally ran into the bathroom and closed the door behind her. He could not stop himself from laughing out loud at her cute antics.After taking a quick shower, she got out of the bathroomwearing a bathrobe. She went inside the walk in closet and her eyes fell on her handsome husband who was wearing a casual black tee shirt and grey sweatpants and was now combing his hair. She f
She slid down the door after securing it with the lock. Her tears were flowing freely. She was feeling vulnerable. She had thought that he was different from his family members but he was just the same. She once again realized that no one in this world can love a poor and orphan person. Then how could she expect him to love her? She should not have. It was her mistake."Cali, please. I did not mean anything like that. Please open the door, give me a chance to speak. Please." He was softly knocking on the door as he knew that she was leaning against it. He could hear her muffled sobbing. He was really guilty. He did not want to yell at her but it was just the jealousy, yes, it was jealousy. He was jealous. She was his wife. How could he let her go to meet another man?She did not respond nor did she open door. Only the sound of silent crying was heard. Now, he was feeling super guilty. He did not want her to cry. He wanted to comfort her. He wanted to say sorry to her. But he could do t
A delicious shiver ran down her whole body at his possessive confession. She had never thought that he would claim her as his one day, and now that he did, she could not help but blush furiously. The memories of last night came into her mind vividly when he claimed her as his over and over again. He was looking at her amusingly. Last night she was so bold and now his simple confession had her cheeks painted all red as she was avoiding eye contact with him. She was feeling shy. He chuckled lightly, shaking his head. She never failed to amuse him. He still could not believe that this mixture of boldness and shyness, whom he called his wife, was all his and his only. "He is not whom you think he is. Ace is like my brother. We grew up in the same orphanage and we have quite a good bond. And do not take his words so seriously. He is just like that. Always teasing anyone and everyone." She said while chuckling at the last part. He looked at her surprised. "He is like your brother?" He ask
She laughed at herself remembering how she had misunderstood him at first. She always treated him badly because of her misunderstanding. Like throwing a glass of water at his face in one of those charity events when she met him for the first time after seeing him that day, talking rudely and arrogantly with him and once she even stomped on his foot angrily when he tried to approach her again like he always did. It was just the day before she joined the 'CH Advertising and Design' company as an intern graphic designer. How wrong she was about this man of hers. He truly loved animals just as much as she did.After getting married to him, when she found that that cute puppy was none other than Diesel, she confronted him about it. He then told her that he had found him on the road, abandoned and hungry. The cute little puppy came onto his feet, licking him which quite startled him and he ended up kicking him out of instincts. After realizing that he felt guilty and took the little puppy ho
The middle aged man stood there, dumbfounded. His eyes shone with moisture as he reminisced her face from just a moment ago. It was the same face, the very same face that he used to adore and care so much for and was regretting till now not being able to see her again for one last time. The very same face that he was dying to see again in real and not in his sweet but painful dreams only. The very same face that belonged to her. His beloved little sister. But how could it be? Same face, same nose, same lips, and even same eyes except her black hair. How could it be possible? Could it be...He needed to inform him about this. With that thought, he moved towards his office. * * *The harsh air slapped her face as her palms were getting clammy. She was on the verge of experiencing a heart attack. And she clutched her husband like her life was dependent on him, and it was actually, at that moment. "Will you slow the fuck down?" She shouted in her husband's ear, finally catching his atten
They just got home and Cain went inside the washroom to freshen up while Cali went straight to the kitchen to feed herself some delicious chocolate ice cream. It was when she got a call from an unknown number. She frowned as she settled herself on the couch in the living room holding the tub full of ice cream in her hands. She was contemplating if she should pick up the call or not. At last, she picked it up. "Hello, Cali Ruth here. Who is this?" She asked politely. "Hello, Ms. Ruth. This is Scott from the Russells' group of company." Mr. Scott said from the other end. "Oh! Hello, Mr. Scott. I apologize. I did not recognize your voice." She replied. "It is alright, Ms. Ruth. I was just told to inform you that our boss, Mr. Russells, would like to have a meeting with you." He said and Cali's heart raced at that."What for, Mr. Scott. As far as I know, our meeting was over this afternoon. Then why do we need to go there again?" She asked, tone as polite as ever."Not Mr. Hutton. Our
The loud blaring of his phone woke him up from his peaceful slumber with his woman in his arms. He looked at her and saw that she was frowning cutely due to the disturbance but was still sleeping. He then took his phone from the coffee table top and saw that his mother was calling. He frowned and looked at the time and it was ten in the night. He then picked up her call immediately. "Yes, mom. Is everything alright?" His voice was groggy because he was sleeping. "Darling, were you sleeping? I must have disturbed you." His mother said, and he realized from her voice that she was crying. He got tensed all of a sudden. He sat up on the couch but as Cali was sleeping above him, he first untangled himself from her and laid her back on the couch. She stirred but went back to sleep. She must be tired. "Mom, what happened? Why are you crying?" He asked worriedly. He loved and respected his parents so much."Son..." She again started crying loudly and this got him much more worried. "Hey, h
The clock struck three now but her eyes remained open with helpless tears running down her cheeks. She remained seated on the couch with her head resting on the handrest of the couch and her gaze fixated on the front door which was closed. How she wished it to open to let her have the sight of her husband who was yet to return. For how much time she was just staring at the door, even she could not remember. She just wanted to see her husband walking through that door and to take her into his arms. She missed him now. He did not even wish to talk to her. Her eyes were now starting to get heavy, not because of sleep but because of the amount of tears she had shed by now. Her eyes were all red and puffy. They were burning as well. But she could not care less about it. All she wanted was to clear all this mess between her and her husband and continue to live as they were living until now, him not ignoring her but loving her. She remembered how they ended up in this marriage. At first, sh
The whole sky was filled with colors, blue, orange, and pink as Cali sat on a chair in her balcony with a mug of chocolate smoothie in her hands, watching the beautiful sunset. She smiled with her eyes closed, feeling the serene touch of slow wind. It had been three days since she came back to her country, and a whole week since that incident happened. It was still difficult for her to think about what Horace did to her. She thought of him as her best friend once. But looked like he was harbouring an unhealthy obsession for her all the while. If he loved her like he claimed he did, he would not have done all of that to her, kidnapping her and attempting to rape her. She was still in a trauma for days as she could not believe that that person who did all that to her, was Horace. That day, Cain and her father came to her rescue right on time. Horace was handed over to the police but before that he got beaten by Cain. He punched him until he became all bloodied with a broken nose and
"Mr. Russells, here is the current location of that ring. And it is stationery which means your daughter is in there or maybe she lost the ring somewhere there." Said Mr. Russo while them the computer screen. "Okay. Let's not waste any more time. We should go there and check first." Cain said quickly as he got up from his seat and dashed out of the penthouse. Mr. Russells thanked Mr. Russo and asked him to send the location and to keep an eye on any movement as he too dashed out. They both settled inside Cain's car and he started driving following the given location, all the while praying mentally for Cali to be there, safe and sound. * * * "Darling, wake up now. You have slept for so long and it is past lunch time already. Come on, wake up. See, I have brought you your favorite chocolate muffins and smoothie." A voice called out to her making her groan as she shuffled in the bed and slowly opened her eyes. Seeing that man with dark beard infront of her, she squinted her eyes and
It was already twelve in the noon but there was no trace of Cali. Cain had called and informed Mr. Russells about everything. He got hell worried because she never did any such thing before, at least not without telling him. They tried her number again and again but it was now switched off. And right now Mr. Russells was on his way to come here. Cain himself was hell scared and worried for her as he called his private investigator to investigate this matter and was now pacing back and forth in her room while waiting for Mr. Pietro's call. Where could she be? Soon, he got a call from him but got disappointed when he told him that there was still no lead of her and it was more difficult because no one knew with whom she went out and there was no camera fitted in here. Cali always liked her privacy and that was why she did not let her father fit surveillance in her penthouse. Cain sat on the floor holding his head in his hands. After two more hours, Mr. Russells arrived there. His fac
The doorbell of the mansion rang. One of the maids opened the door which revealed Mr. Cain Hutton. However, his state was completely disheveled, with messy hair, damp cheeks and dull looking eyes. The maid let him in. When he went in, he spotted Mr. Russells sitting at the dining table sipping on a glass of water. Looked like he just finished his lunch as it was already two in the afternoon. Cain had not eaten anything since morning but he could not care any less about that right now. The maid informed Mr. Russells of the arrival of Mr. Hutton there. "Mr. Hutton, what brings you here?" He asked him in a cold tone as he came out to the hall. Cain just remained standing there with his head hung low. He was ashamed and afraid too. He was thinking Mr. Russells knew about his and Callistaa's relationship. "Please have a seat, Mr. Hutton." He said in the same emotionless voice. He nodded and sat down along with him. He cleared his throat and said, "Mr. Russells, I don't know if you kno
"What the fuck!!" He groaned loudly when he read the news headline about his and Ivy's wedding. This deed must be done by his parents. They were trying to convince him to marry her since a long time now. That was why he stopped visiting or talking to them. But this was just too much to take in now. What were they thinking while doing this? What if Cali read this? Or had she already read it? Oh, no! He would lose her for good. No, he would not let this happen. He went into his car and drove off to his parents' mansion. He was going there after so long. And that too, not for a good reason. He sped up and soon he was in their driveway. "No, you listen to me Ivy! What do you mean by you will expose us? Huh? Don't tell me you don't want this. I know that you badly wanted to get married to my son. Then why all this drama now? Just zip it up and what you are told to do." He heard his mother's yelling while he stood there outside the door which was cracked open a tad bit. He frowned. Expos
"Yes, Harold. I am fine. I just called you to let you know that I am back here. And right now I am heading to my penthouse. Are you home?" Asked Cali. "What? But you did not even tell me that you were coming beforehand. I would have received you at the airport." Harold said from the other end. "No worries, Harold. And I am sorry that I could not tell you that I am coming. Well, it was just last night that I decided to come here and now here I am." She sighed after explaining to him. "Okay. Go home for now. I will be there with dinner and we will eat together." She smiled at that. "Thank you so much, Harold. You are so sweet." She said and he chuckled. "That I sure am." He replied cockily. She giggled. "Alright, see you." ....... "Home sweet home!" She sighed tiredly when she reached home. The house was clean and all because of the workers assigned there by her father. She went into her room and plopped on her bed. It was a hasty decision. She knew but she had to leave.
"Dad, actually I need to talk to you." Said Cali while playing with her food on the plate. It was the next morning and they were now sitting at the dining table having breakfast. Mr. Russells stopped eating and looked at his daughter with a concerned look. "Wait, don't tell me you are pregnant already?" He blurted out making her choke on her saliva. "What? No, dad. I am not...pregnant. Why would you think like that?" She asked as she gulped some water from her glass. "You know, I just don't trust that boy, what is his name again, Harold?" She nodded. "Yes, Harold. I don't trust him around you at all. He seems like a playboy to me." He grumbled. Cali laughed at her father. "Oh, dad. I don't know what you are saying but that is not true though. He is a real gentleman." She said trying to convince him otherwise. He shook his head. "Sweetheart, tell me one thing. Do you love that boy?" Her face lost all the look of laughter at that question. "Uh...dad..." She stuttered but could
Five days later.... Sitting inside her office cabin, Cali was trying to focus on her work but everytime her mind was drifting to the one and only man who was invading her dreams every night. Everyday in the office, she was anticipating his arrival. But he never came back once to see her after that day when she lied to him about being a gold digger five days ago. Five days, it had been five days since she had seen him. She even contacted his secretary two days back to remind him that they were to discuss the changes in that contract. She thought that he would come to the office even if just for the sake of that contract. But how wrong she was! He sent his secretary to her office instead and did not come there himself. She was getting vexed now. She wanted to use the boss card by demanding that his presence was needed here but refrained from doing so because if she did something like that, he would get the idea that he affected her which was true to some extent. She shook those though
"Because you have proved that nine months ago. You chose to stay with her and have fun in your bedroom rather than being with me when I cooked lunch for you." Her voice broke and his eyes widened. "What?" He let out a mere whisper. She huffed and averted her eyes away from his as she felt them burn. He strode towards her and grabbed her jaw making her look directly in his eyes. "What do you mean by 'have fun in my bedroom'?" His jaw clenched with anger but his hold on her did not get hard so as to not hurt her. She tried to get out of his hold but in vain. Her tears started to leak out of her eyes. She was desperate to get away from him as she knew that she could not resist him for that long but she would not allow herself to fall for him again. "You know exactly what I mean. Now let go of me." She gritted out. But he did not faze. "You don't know what you saying. You don't know anything." He said darkly. "Oh! You mean to say that I am wrong in what I am saying?" She asked hi