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Marital Obligations

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It was past 11pm, and the lorenzo mansion had settled into silence except for the patrol guards and security dogs hovering around under the floodlight poles.

The only sounds in Don Pedro’s bedroom were the faint rustling of bed sheets and the soft creak of the bed as Tessa moved around it, touching it.

The scent of his cologne lingered in the air, it was his room after all, what was it suppose to smell like?

Fresh night breeze drifted in from the open balcony doors, except for the curtains that separated the balcony from the room..

Franco and his men had just finished moving her belongings into the room, and now that she was alone, so she thought, she looked around to see how she can make out her own space, somewhere to set up her own mirror and wondered at the possibility of sharing a room with her environmental hazard of a husband.

She stood still in the centre of the room, her arms wrapped tightly around herself, her eyes darting between the enormous bed and
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