“I am sorry,” the apology slipped off his tongue before he could even stop it and it sounded to useless and paltry even to his own ears. Even though he was sincere, no one was going to believe in his sincerity. Especially not Rhonda, after all that she had to face.
But what else could he even say?
He gestured an immediate appeal of forgiveness to be showed him so that things could change for the better. Pride alone dictated that he be cast away as far as possible and no intimate relationship or bonding be formed with him. But for the letter from Bolivia and the last challenge thrown in his direction to know his brothers and sisters and his decision to marry Rhonda, if that had not happened then his son was going to grow up without a father. That alone dictated how much correct his late father was but that did not mean that he was going to have to acknowledge it, yet he had to acknowledge it somehow, that the man had been correct in Oberon’s assessment of character.
Then her chin lifted in defiance of the name that she had chosen for their son. After all, he had been her son till now, till Oberon had come to know this and now he was trying to stake his claim on him. Rhonda added,” I liked it. It was different and unique.”“Ruriel Hunter,” he said testingly, as if testing the weight of the name and the respect that it was going to command,” Well it is definitely an unusual name. And it is something that he will have to live with his life. If we have a shorter version for him already then it should not invite any kind of taunting variations from his classmates at school. It is a name that he has to learn to live with.”His arrogant assumption that she had used his surname made him coolly correct him by saying,” It is Ruriel Grint, not Hunter Oberon.”“He is my son, Rhonda,” said Oberon as his green eyes blazed at her. It was like a dark dangerous energy jolted up from him challenging her instantly,” I am his father.”“You
For whatever reason Oberon had decided that he wanted a child and he wanted Rhonda to marry him, he had chosen her as his partner in procreating a fresh and new generation altogether. A pragmatic choice, since she earlier mentioned she was free of any gold digging ambitions at all. And she was good looking of the right class and echelons of the society to match with him and had certainly the social upbringing to match and host by his side. She was young for any kind of problem free reproduction in further life. And she had a comfortable understanding in his how his life actually worked.The only huge irony of this situation was if he had made this proposition a year ago, if he had said that he would want her as his wife then she would have been deliriously happy. She would have been jumping with joy that she had gotten Oberon Hunter as her man, and not feeling so horribly screwed up inside.It was ten months too late.It was ten months of heart ache and devastation
“Here it is!!!” murmured Oberon as the red Lamborghini was driven up to the point where they stood waiting. He was obviously referring to this as his car because it suited him perfectly.He was a fast man who liked fast cars and a fast life with no attachments at all but now everything was going to change and Rhonda could not help tensing up at the thought that how was he even going to handle the transition from his current life to the life that he actually wanted to lead. Rhonda thought that if she thought even for one single moment that she could envision a future with him and that too of settling down with him then she was absolutely insane. But she was not thinking that, in her defense it was Oberon who had brought that to her mind once again.And she was letting him invade her heart, her life, her home…..it was like she was putting everything at stake…She did not realize that her fingers had curled up and now was digging in Oberon’s arms. All the thoughts tha
Oberon barely restrained himself from flouting the speed limit of his Lamborghini. He was no alone after all, and the car which he was driving was teasing him to put his foot down and power up and the enticing power of his Lamborghini screamed at him to burn all the kilometres to Rhonda’s house. His son was waiting there. Awake o asleep that did not matter any longer. The fact that he was there made everything simple.But speeding did not sit well with this brave new world of fatherhood that he had embarked on at the moment. And as far as he could tell from Rhonda’s face, neither did a Lamborhini…it was a car to show his class and status alright…but status to whom? Women…and other men who desired his wealth but could not achieve…and none of them had any place in his new life any longer. The days of his swinging bachelorhood were now essentially over. Rhonda was right. Before he saw his son, Ruriel he had to accept to leave a lot behind of the current life that he had been leav
“There is no such thing between a man and a women when the chemistry is as crackling like ours,” said Oberon with a flirtatious smile on his face.But Rhonda was having none of it. Her voice became more agitated as she recalled what he had said to her that night after they had made love,” You insisted specifically that it was what we have once we were…”“We had driven it too far and then made it all complicated and unmanageable between us?” asked Oberon gingerly as he recalled the same words that he had spoken a year ago.“Unmanageable?” she shot out again. This man was trying her patience immensely tonight.“It was not going to be fun anymore, was it Rhonda? Not after that night at least…it felt too damn serious and it had become so too fast,” said Oberon and Rhonda seethed at his words.“Does everything have to be fun for you? Does sex have to be fun for you compulsorily?” she flung at him irritably.“Fun does not end up in clawing at each other
The baby was shockingly tiny and was all swaddled up like an Egyptian mummy in a tiny bundle in a blue and white checkered cloth. Only his face was on the show, a fine little face with very prominent features, and well-proportioned as well. Nothing too big or small…ears placed on the side of his face beautifully, very important for a boy.He had lots of black hair in corkscrew ringlets which would be embarrassing…girly also if you could say as were the crescents of his long thick eyelashes which were fanned across his fair cheek, but attitude was the key to stop anyone going on that score. Any teasing that might happen because he was a beautiful boy, he could stop them with his attitude and he, and Oberon could teach his son a lot about attitude. A pretty boy tag was not going to last long.The slight dimple in the centre of Ruriel’s chin was like a magnet which drew Oberon’s attention. It was like a genetic blueprint that belonged to the both of them and Oberon’s finger
Once laid on the flat trolley surface, Ruriel fought hard to free himself of the constricting bindings of the cloth that had been placed all around him with very little help from his mother. It seemed that he wanted out of this soft prison of clothing that had been made around him. His arms and legs were going like pistons and determination was clearly written on his face to get rid of this. Rhonda had quite a job in both controlling Ruriel and then undoing the press-studs of the blue body suit that he was wearing. Her hands were darting here and there all the while there was more than enough kicking and squirming all around. However he did lie quietly still while she was opening the nappy.Before Oberon could get a good look at his son’s male organ Rhonda had placed a small hand towel over it.“What is with the modesty Rhonds? It seems to me clearly that Ruriel likes to get naked and isn’t it better to have air on his skin after being cooped up so long?” asked Oberon in
Anger at her implied choices and criticism of the way how he had been leading his life so far and still now seeped in his features and spilled out in his words which he spoke next.“I thought that for a baby this young it was the best for his mother to have him breast fed, but it seems that you have him attached to the bottle quite early. Is there any particular reason for that? I mean. I had heard that mother’s milk was the best for the babies,” asked Oberon as he really wondered if everything was fine with their health.Rhonda could not look up at him or meet his eyes and then she sighed and replied,” Actually it is not Ruriel’s fault…he is perfectly healthy baby. But while the delivery was taking place there were some complications which made me incapable of feeding him, so I had to give him the bottle.”Oberon grimaced at her. Rhonda had great and beautiful breasts. And he could not be inclined to believe that they had failed in their prime function to nourish