AVERY I stepped out of the bathroom only to collide with something. I grabbed the first thing I could and steadied myself from falling. I looked up at the wall in front of me to see Maverick staring at me with worry written all over his face. My hand went down to his arm that I was squeezing tight. My eyes widened and I immediately let go of his arm. "Are you okay?" I asked eyeing where my hand just left. He didn't give me a reply and only pulled me into his embrace making me gasp slightly at the sudden gesture. "What are…" "Stay still." He mumbled into my hair. "I didn't wash my hair," I warned and he immediately moved his head away from it. A light chuckle escaped my lips and I wrapped my hand around his waist. "Are you angry?" He asked suddenly. "About what?" "What I said earlier." "What?" He pinched my waist in return and I slapped his back lightly out of instinct. He froze on my arm and so did I. Did I just slap Maverick? "You..." "Sorry. I did it out of instinct.
In a one-bedroom apartment, seated there was a ginger head girl crouched in the corner of a dark room. Her shoulders shook as she sobbed. Her hair looked unkempt, she obviously hadn't bathed in days, and she was scratching her arm that was exposed due to the light sleeveless dress that she wore.She was Rosa, Avery's Favourite Maid.She raised her tear-streaked face as her eyes darted around the room. Guilt, Sadness, and Horror were evident on her face. She had done something. Something horrible.She stopped her scratching and bit her lips to contain her sobs and she looked down at her hand and let out a wail as the tumbling body flashed before her eyes.Why did she do it? Why couldn't she have rejected? She was now regretting it after Avery had ended up in the hospital. Yes, Avery wasn't dreaming, it actually happened. Avery had trusted her, Avery liked her above all maids and she repaid her this way? Rosa knew sooner or later, she would be found. As much as she regretted it was as
"Call Ramon," Maverick commanded in a strained voice."Yes, Master." The maid replied eyeing the pool of blood beneath her Mistress's limp body. The red blood stood out in contrast to the sparkling white marble tiles. It was evident something that had happened there."Wifey... Wife, look at me." Maverick cried tapping Avery's cold cheek."Why is she not answering, Butler Flora?" He asked helplessly. The old butler's heart shook at the vulnerable man in front of her. He was always collected, and cold, and his head was set. Now that he was holding his wife's unconscious body in his arms, he couldn't think for himself anymore."I suggest you take her to the hospital right now. Don't wait for Mr. Ramon to come to you, rather go to him." She advised with a bow. "Yes." He replied with a sniff. Maverick carried his wife and ran out of the room with his hand holding her head up. The door was pulled open by a maid and Maverick wasted no time in entering the car. Carter stepped on the gas ped
"How many fingers am I holding up?" Ramon asked the woman on the bed. "Three." "I'm holding up four." "Tch. Stop joking around." "She's good," Ramon said with a nod. Maverick nodded his head and kissed her knuckles. The woman turned her head in his direction and couldn't help but be awed again by his handsome face. "Ramon?" She called the man who was checking out her pulse. "Hm?" "Who is he?" She whispered. Ramon paused his actions and looked up at her face. "Who is who?" He asked his heart beating faster in his chest. "Him," Avery replied twitching her head a little to her right. Ramon's eyes went to her right to see Maverick staring at her rather confused as he was. "What do you mean by who is he? That's Maverick. Your husband." Ramon replied with a nervous chuckle. "Husband? I'm married?" Avery asked her eyes growing in size. "Avery?" Ramon called looking at his friend's face. "Yeah?" "Look to your right for me. Who do you see?" He asked pointing at Maverick. "A hand
Avery sat in her hospital room staring at the wall. She had just undergone an MRI scan but she hadn't gotten the results. She had to be wheeled over there because the muscle in her leg had gone to sleep. But that was not what was on her mind. Rather, she was thinking about Maverick. Two people have claimed she had been married to him yet, she had no memory of their wedding or their courting. She didn't even remember his face! She closed her eyes and straightened her back. She closed her eyes and racked her brain trying to remember who Maverick was. Her mind kept turning up blank and then a voice came to her. Her voice. She had said, "Hubby." Seeing she had a lead, she tried to look for who she had called Hubby at that moment but the door of her room sliding open and close chased the image from her mind. She snapped her eyes open furiously to see Butler Flora standing at the door. The sharp words that had been on the tip of her tongue that she wanted to lash at the woman died almost
"This your face?" She asked and the man nodded.Maverick wasted no time in leaning in the dark to capture her lips in a fiery kiss making the dainty woman gasp slightly. The moon shone brightly that night as it reflected in the hospital room. Beneath the shining moon were two couples madly in love with each other were sharing a passionate kiss.Maverick's hand pulled his wife's body closer and as if he was discontented, his hand that was staying on her cheeks went to her neck tilting her head slightly. Not too much that it would give the woman a migraine but as much so he could gain more access to her lips.The woman however felt her hand go to the depth of her husband's hair. She moaned lightly against his lips with her eyes tightly closed. Her other hand was hanging on his shoulder while the hand in Maverick's hair played with the strands of his hair.Maverick slowly carried the woman off the bed and she complied since her leg wasn't working or so she believed. He guided her limp le
"What are you doing?" He asked shaking the bowl in his hand at Avery."Have your food. I'll go and request another bed." She replied instead and turned around walking towards the door. "Why do you want to look for another bed?" Maverick asked from behind her making her pause to turn around to look at him."We're two. The bed is one." "I know."The woman stared at him as if he had grown two more heads. If he knew there was just one bed, why was he stopping her from going to request another bed?"We can manage this.""I'm not sleeping with you on the same bed. Especially one as small as that.""We used to sleep on the same bed back at home." He retorted."I don't remember that.""Come over here. Ramon said if you visited places that you've been to, it might trigger your memory. Come and lie down here, you'll see you'll remember something."'I guess he's not lying since I've been having fragments of my memories.' She thought."What are you thinking about?" "Nothing.""It's not nothing
AVERY"I never imagined spending Christmas in the hospital," I said with a sigh. Maverick patted my head in response and I let out another defeated sigh."Don't you have a gift for me?" I asked turning to him with a smile on my face."A gift?" He asked and I nodded my head. We were both sitting on the couch facing the window. It was night time so the sky was covered with a thick blanket of unending darkness but the snow was falling rapidly.It's been a week since I woke up. I was fit to go home but Maverick says I should stay here for two weeks more before we returned home. I have one week left to spend in this hospital. Not that I'm complaining!"Oh, that's right. You don't celebrate Christmas. How did I forget that?" I mumbled before I faced forward."Do you want a gift?" He asked and I turned my face to him."Why? You would get it for me?" I asked and he raised a brow."It's fine if you don't want it." He muttered turning his head away. I grabbed his face before he could turn it fu