Before I even opened my eyes that morning I could hear the gentle sounds of rain hitting the roof. I sighed softly and snuggled closer to you, feeling the comfort of your warm body near me as you smiled in your sleep. I love to watch you sleep, you look so calm and serene as your dreams play out and distant looks of happiness and hope cross your face. I sometimes like to think that it’s me you’re seeing in your dreams, because I know that you tend have a starring role in mine.
Your back was to me that morning, so I slowly snaked my arm around your body to hold you closer to me. Even in your sleep you responded to my touch and held onto the arm that was draped across your body. I fell back asleep like this, with our bodies pressed together and our legs intertwined. I woke up again, but this time not because of the rain. I felt your hand on my thigh, and then felt it slowly start to caress, moving higher and higher on my leg untiWe stared at each other in an odd way, as if it were a silent argument. Our glances battled each other, until tears arose, and we found ourselves crying."Why did you do it?" I hiccuped, tears rolling down with the same quietness. He sighed, wiping his own tears, before rising from the hospital bed, and wandering toward the window with a curious slowness. His hand was curled around his stomach and he staggered in mental and physical pain. I felt an urge to do something, to comfort him, but also myself. In a moment I pressed my lips against his, felt his body loosen and arms touch my shoulders. I chuckled beneath the salty tears, "It's payback." Then we hovered right there, quite soundless for so long, simply feeling each other's presence.She grabs my arm. The one that’s covered in little angry red scars. My heart skips a beat. She doesn’t react. Did she know already? “How long?”
From the time that Ruriel woke them up next morning with his cry heard over the monitors, Oberon started operating on the assumption that Rhonda would marry him and no question was asked whether it was actually settled between them, no question about what Rhonda actually wanted and when was it going to be discussed. Watching him with their baby son and watching him share his new life with him and taking pleasure in their company that made her stay silent and go about all her duties as a new mother since the morning.Oberon was trying to be a hands on active from the very beginning and Ruriel was also taking him very well provided that he was a baby and to him Oberon was a virtual stranger. Rhonda could not bring herself to disabuse the idea from him.Let it ride for the moment, she thought. She wanted to see how long Oberon’s keenness for it lasted, to be the new father and to have a family. New
“Once I lodge this at the register office along with all the necessary documents and the relevant ones of course---copies of our birth certificates and all other stuff like that we are going to have to wait for a month,” Oberon informed Rhonda. He hitched himself up in the front of the desk directly before her line of sight taking the position of commandeering dominant control. His arrogance was staggering and so overbearing that Rhonda could not help but sigh out loud at his words.A month, she thought as she looked at him. Was a month going to be long enough to see and find out if Oberon really wanted this? Was a month going to be long enough for testing how genuine Oberon’s commitment was going to be for both herself and towards their son?“Which means that we will be running into Christmas and New Year,” he kept on going with his own line of thought,” making the
Rhonda’s announcement came as a shock to Oberon. He looked at her with the same shocked expression when she put down the pen after signing the papers and looking at him with a cold glint in her eyes which would only mean that she was not going to change her decision no matter what the situation was.She faced Oberon with decision made in her eyes and Oberon could not believe exactly what he was hearing from her.“Why not?” he asked. His eyes were narrowed and he looked at her with a fierce gaze with probing assessment. Then he continued,” I don’t think that any one of us is planning to do this again Rhonda, I mean it is going to be a one-off. So why not make a statement? Why not make the big splash and the whole fairy-tale wedding that the women want?”“Hah!! Fairy-tale wedding!!! What an idea Oberon…you of all people should unde
“Whose voice are you listening to Oberon? Why are you so keen on making this a public statement?” she threw back at him in a fiery challenge,” What focus do you have on our wedding day?”“My focus is completely clear and honest Rhonds. I am not going to hide anything about us and neither am I going to be thinking that this is something that I can’t be upfront about either, what is the problem with that?” he drilled back as Rhonda looked at him in a heated manner.Her cheeks burned under his intense gaze of criticism that she was being less than open about their marriage and she was not going to tolerate that under any circumstances. ”Oh!! Funny!! Really Oberon!! I thought that this wedding was going to be about how we are coming together…me you and Ruriel! When did it start developing the agendas of exposing this to the other people?”
In fact like she was standing, as a brick wall to the idea of the whole big and splashy wedding made him even wary of taking up this again with her. With all the fraught nerves that she was displaying Oberon was now getting more and more scared and he wanted to legally tie up both Rhonda and Ruriel to him as soon as possible.“We could get on a plane, or take a jet, fly to Las Vegas and then get married at one of their all-night chapels and come home married—if that is what you want. It will make no difference in the world to me,” he said to Rhonda in order to test her attitude.But her head jerked back in negation…she said,” Las Vegas is tacky and I would never feel comfortable with Ruriel in a place like that. Besides,” she added as she whirled around to look at him and then said,” I think that it is best to wait for a month as required by Australian law and
Rhonda’s entire body shuddered with pleasure whipping him into an instant frenzy of desire and arousal. Her arms loosened dropping to her sides and moving backwards to claw her hands up and down in her thighs inciting an even more urgent desire matching his own erotic move with his own. Compelled to challenge her for his dominant sexual power, Oberon thrust up his hands under her shirt and took possession of her breasts. His own fingers seductively kneading and not clawing.“We should save something special for our wedding night,” she said as she lifted her shoulders back even closer to him to raise her breasts in proud ownership though the husky edge beneath her voice betrayed the excitement in it.“Tell me what would please you?” he urged her, purring his own wicked desire and pleasure in the double edged question that he placed before her.” How do you visualize ou
One month later Oberon was looking at another set of closed doors, waiting for his bride to appear. He had respected Rhonda’s wish for a completely private wedding---not a whisper to the media about where or when ---but he was certainly stunned by her choice of place.He had felt that it was wrong of her to have shunned the high society wedding that every single person envisions for them and it should have been detailed to the last single scrap of high society trimmings that everyone would kill for and people would have spoken about it for months to come as the wedding of the decade. In a way it seemed like she had cheated them both out of something which should have been a happy occasion for their families involved but guess that was never going to happen with their family history anyway. They had taken a lot from Rhonda and him and putting them through a few days of pain was going to be less than anything they deserved