I won without having to put up a fight. Just like I’d expected, Theo couldn’t match up with me. Being the posh British boy he was, I bet that was the fastest he had ever eaten in his life and still, he was slow compared to me.“Okay, fine you won. You can stop grinning like a Cheshire cat now.” He said with a slight frown on his face. I placed my elbow on the table and rested my chin on my hand. “And why should I stop grinning? Huh? I bet you would have grinned wider than I am right now if you had won.” He waved his hand in the air, dismissing my statement. “Why? Are you offended because you know I’m right?” I had a cheeky smile on my face. He rolled his eyes at me and I let out a mock gasp. “I didn’t know we’ve got a damsel here.” “Dam- what do you mean?” He asked, eying me skeptically. “You just rolled your eyes like a total damsel. Oh so sassy!” I mocked barking out a burst of laughter. “I see you’re having so much fun making fun of me.” He said with an irritated expression o
Theo and I didn’t get back home until around 9 pm. We had somehow managed to lose track of time at the game center. We had started with bowling at first but when I started to beat Theo at it after getting a hang of it, it hurt his pride and he made us try out other games there like darting and arcade games to which I beat him in everything. By the time we decided that it was time to go home and stepped out of the illuminated building, we found that it was already dark outside. That didn’t stop Theo from getting me the gelato I’d been craving after the games and when I asked if buying me the gelato was one of my three wishes, he replied;“Do you want it to be?” I quickly shook my head. “Then I guess it’s not.” “That means one of these days I’m going to invite you out to eat something expensive.” I said because I felt embarrassed that he had been spending his money on me all day and I couldn’t even offer to pay for our gelato all because I had no money. Aziel had indeed given me half
I woke up around 9 am the next morning craving gelato. Then I remembered that Theo got extra for me and it was lying somewhere in the refrigerator. A huge smile broke out on my face at the thought of satisfying my cravings. I quickly got off my bed and hurried to the bathroom to brush my teeth and take a shower. I got dressed in a short armless blue dress that reached below mid-thigh. I paired my dress with a pair of black sandals and applied my daily minimal makeup. When I was satisfied with what I looked like in the mirror, I sprayed myself with my favorite perfume and headed out of the room. I skipped to the kitchen, singing ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams under my breath. It was a beautiful happy morning after all. Perhaps I should have taken my time before walking inside the kitchen maybe my happiness would have been short-lived. The huge smile on my face turned upside down the instant I stepped into the kitchen and saw Aziel. The song I’d been singing abruptly died in my throat.
“She’s so beautiful. She has your eyes and Aziel’s nose.” My mother in-law said as she smiled down at my daughter sleeping in her crib. “Don’t you think so?” She asked and I nodded. There was no way I was going to tell her that she didn’t have Aziel’s nose but Dylan’s who somehow managed to have the same nose as Aziel. I was just thankful that at that moment that she had my brown eyes and not Dylan’s blue eyes because of the suspicion that will arise. It’s been three months since I’d given birth to my baby. A year since I signed the contract with Aziel. I still remember the day I was in labor like it was yesterday, I remember how I hard I had pulled Aziel’s hair and almost broke his fingers from squeezing too tight. I remember how I had cried when I finally met my baby for the first time. The nurse had asked me then what I wanted to name her and I couldn’t think of anything. I had thought I would have a name when I finally met her but I was wrong as my mind was totally blank at that
W-why?” I asked. My voice was trembling. I didn’t know if it was because I felt cold or because of him. He gently started to raise my shirt and I didn’t hesitate to lift my hands for him to pull it off my head. Tossing it to the side, I was now standing in front of Aziel topless. My nipples were stiff from cold and the intense look he had in his eyes. One of his hands slowly reached up to trail down the region between my breasts, down to my belly button before moving up again. His index circled around my areola before touching my sensitive nipple. I let out a shaky breath the minute the pad of his finger came in contact with my erect nipple. He slowly moved to the other breast, tracing his finger around the outline of my areola and then my nipple. My breath got heavier by the second and I anticipated his next move. His hand left my breast to hold my waist. He pushed me back slightly till my back hit the wall of the bathroom. He lowered his head till his nose was nozzles in the croo
It was a beautiful Saturday morning and I was by the kitchen stove making rolled omelettes while humming a song whose title I couldn’t remember. “Good morning, Mr. Walkers.” Lana who was standing a few feet away from me and assisted me in making breakfast suddenly said. I glanced behind my shoulder to see Aziel standing at the doorway of the kitchen with Aurora in his hands. I lowered the heat of the stove and wiped my hands clean with a rag before walking towards Aziel. “Good morning baby.” I said to my precious daughter who immediately began to giggle at the sight of me. She looked so excited to see me, flailing her arms up for me to carry her and I was even more excited to see her ‘cause she had been asleep when I woke that morning. I tickled her belly slightly and gave her a kiss on her cute button nose. I glanced up at Aziel, noticing that he had walked out of the shower only a moment before coming down to the kitchen because his hair was still wet. His expression was blank an
“Of course not. What do you think I am, crazy?” I said to Athena, my younger sister in Spanish. It was a Sunday and I was in the living room of Aziel’s house on a video call with my sister. I’d been there for a few hours ‘cause I’d talked to all my family including my older brother, Julio who had tried to cross the border with me but couldn’t make it. I had spoken to my mom and her sister’s children as well as my aunts and abuela. It wasn’t often that I got to speak to all of them at once ‘cause they were rarely in the same place at the same time but that day happened to be the fourth anniversary of my abuelo’s death so everyone had to come together. “Your skin looks really white and perfect. Your hair looks shiny and perfect. Life there must have been as easy as they say it is. I’m really jealous.” She said in Spanish, sighing at the end of her statement. I almost scoffed at the part she said life must have been easy for me. If only she knew that for the past six years that I’d been
I twirled around, doing a 360 in front of Aziel. “How do I look?” I asked him. I was wearing a double-strapped short black dress with a very low neckline that exposed my chest and little front boobs. My black purse and heels matched my dress and my long natural curly hair was straightened flat to my back, almost touching my butt. My makeup was on fleek and I could say I looked breathtaking. His eyes went over my face leisurely, down to my body before snapping back to my face. He gave a single nod. “Adequate.” I scowled at him. “It took me almost three hours to achieve this look and that is all you have to say?” “Yes.” He deadpanned. “Whatever. I don’t care.” I said before walking over to the Mercedes parked in the garage. I was a bit upset that he didn’t have any other thing to say about my looks beyond that one word. I mean did he even notice that I had to use heat on my hair just because of him, I could have fried my hair if I hadn’t been careful. Why did he say I looked beaut