She was destined to Love, he was born to Hate. She needed to escape her father's plan to marry her off to an abusive man, and he needed a child to get his father’s inheritance. She was the Light, he was the Darkness. Sofia Winters and Oscar Baron were strangers who had everything to lose—they find themselves at the most desperate of times and begin an enthralling love story in a city miles away. These were two broken souls fated for each other. Would their new-found love overcome all the trials of their new life or would it set them apart? And alas, would it be a happily ever after or an arrangement that would end in pain and regret? Two Complete Strangers, One Complicated Deal, and a Sexually Deviant Brother.
Lihat lebih banyak穂乃果はただその場に立ち尽くすしかなかった。
熱い視線に絡め取られ、身動きひとつ出来ない。息が詰まって喉が窄む、声を出すことも出来ない。一枚、また一枚と白い花びらが捥がれてゆく。白いキャミソールに彼女の輪郭が浮かび上がる。拓海はキャミソールの紐をその薄い唇で喰み、ゆっくりと滑らせた。触れた肌が熱を持ち、呼吸が浅くなる。衣擦れの音が床へと落ち、白桃の胸が露わになった。穂乃果はゴクリと息を飲み、ギュッと目を閉じた。
心臓の鼓動が耳元で響く。怖い。なのに、どこかでこの瞬間を求めていた自分もいる。拓海の吐息が首筋に触れ、穂乃果の身体は微かに震えた。こんな自分、知らない。いつもなら逃げ出していたはずなのに、今夜は違う。この非日常の熱が、彼女の凍てついた心を溶かし始めていた。拓海の手が彼女の肩にそっと触れる。穂乃果は目を開け、彼の瞳を見た。その中に、彼女が忘れていた何か……温もり、欲望、繋がり………が宿っている気がした。
「震えてる、やめておく?」
穂乃果は声にならない掠れた呟きで「やめないで」と首を横に振った。「わかった。いいんだね?」拓海の唇がゆっくりと近づき、頬に軽く触れた。それは突然、現実になった。しっとりとした唇の感触が穂乃果の唇に重なり、息継ぎが出来ないくらい何度も繰り返される。
「……んつ、ふ」
彼女は自分の声に頬を赤らめながら、拓海の口付けを受け入れ続けた。それはやがて首筋へと落ち、白い肌に赤い花びらが散る。二人はそのまま、シーツの海へと崩れ落ちた。穂乃果の瞳には煌めく夜景が広がり、重なりあう鼓動に耳を澄ませる。窓の外、ネオンの光が揺らめき、部屋の中を淡く照らす。拓海の指が彼女の髪をそっと梳き、穂乃果は自分の心臓の音が彼と共鳴していることに気づいた。
怖かった。こんなにも誰かと近くにいること、こんなにも自分をさらけ出すこと。なのに、穂乃果の心は不思議な安堵に包まれていた。拓海の吐息が彼女の耳元で囁く。「穂乃果、きれいだよ」。その言葉は、彼女の凍てついた心を溶かし、かつて忘れていた感情を呼び覚ました。恋。温もり。繋がり........この瞬間、彼女は確かに生きていると感じた。 シーツの柔らかな波に身を任せながら、穂乃果は思った。この夜がどんな結末を迎えるのか、明日にはまた色褪せた日常が待っているのかもしれない。でも、今この瞬間、彼女は非日常の輝きの中にいた。
FIVE YEARS LATER.“Aunt Annie!” A child’s scream reverberated through the halls before a little girl of about five years scurried into the room in a bright yellow dress and the first thing she did was embrace Ann who was waiting with her usual open arms.“How are you, Mia?!” She lifted the girl into her arms, adorning her flustered face with kisses. “Where is your mommy?” And just as she asked that question, Sofia scurried right after, Oscar by her right hand. “Have you got the keys?” She asked, panting from her lips and looking around the room perhaps for anything they might’ve been forgetting. But just for a brisk moment, Oscar reached out to her hands.“You look beautiful.” He didn’t fail to compliment her whenever she did, in the last five years at that. Oh how time flies, truly. And to say a lot had changed would be a massive understatement but then again, not so much, I mean Oscar and Sofia were still so madly in love with each other.“Mommy, aren’t we running late?” Mia called
SIX MONTHS LATER.The sun was out on this chill Saturday evening and the winds filled the trees around the magnificent canopies. There were flowers of every kind and colors and balloons scattered across the garden fields. Everyone was seated with their eyes turned to the couple, the main reason they were here in the first place.“Theodore Baron and Victoria Freya Winters” The officiator called both their names and it was hard for a tear not to well in Sofia’s eyes in that moment. Her sister looked beautiful in that flowing white dress and it was exactly how they’d both envisioned everything since they were kids.Including her as her maid of honor and the same could be said about Theo who by his right hand side had Oscar beside him as well. In that moment, his eyes met Sofia ever beaming with a smile. Six months had passed since his very first surgery and all the events that came after. So did the second and the third, and now that the trial was over, there was only one final test left
Sofia was the never one to believe in miracles.Well that was until today. Three hours had passed since everything that happened, Dimitri’s arrest as the everything in context. And as she sat there, she kept replaying it all behind her eyes. She was wrapped with a blanket and Theo and Damien were right beside her.Of course they knew now of what had happened to Oscar and how Annie had dived in front of a bullet to save Sofia, falling off the building in the process. They were just as shocked as the person who unfortunately had to witness it all. It was no wonder she stayed quiet for those three hours, reeling in the aftershock and post trauma. However, the silence had to come to an end as the doctor came out of the room just then. She stood with aching feet, feeling like she’d always spent weeks in these particular hallway. Her lips parted but her eyes said the most words as the doctor heaved a sigh.“It was a success. You can go in now” The doctor broke the news and in that moment,
“We can’t let her leave” Dimitri muttered to David, whose name Sofia had only just come to know. The two of them were at a safe distance but she could hear the murmurs from their lips. They stood at the foot of the door so her only likely escape was jumping down down the five foot building and she couldn’t dare to scream because Dimitri had already assured her his non reluctance to shoot if she tried anything funny.And so she stood there, with her fingers intertwined with each other, playing it off as though she wasn’t genuinely scared for her life. Her skin was pale and her face was flushed off every color. A million thoughts ravaged her head, most especially the ones about how she could escape.She wondered how unfortunate it was that she’d walked into yet another predicament but in that moment, half the thoughts that roamed behind her eyes were about Oscar. And each time she stared at Dimitri, she was so full of vengeance that she wanted to pay him back for what he’d done.Howeve
As Sofia stood there, she couldn’t even utter a single word. Her whole mind raced with a thousand thoughts as the chaos behind the curtains echoed back to her. Her eyes were flooded with tears and there was a shooting pain that pierced up her spine.In a moment, her eyes fell to her open hands and he was all she saw. It was as though she had drifted back to the moment that she held unto him, begging him to open his eyes…to wake up. But the hardest part was she wasn’t even certain that he could hear her. She wasn’t certain that he would ever actually open those eyes again. And hers, well they darted to the piece of sandwich that laid capriciously on the hospital floor and before she could even start blaming herself for leaving, something she would have never done if she knew things would turn out this way. And for what, for food.Before she could blame herself or further immense herself into the guilt, an arm drew her back. “Hey hey” That shrill rang into her ears and Sofia had to ac
There was always something so terrifying about nightmares. Especially for Oscar and so that was why when he plunged his eyes open, only to find out that he was surrounded by an impaling darkness, the first thing he did was scream at the top of his lungs.The atmosphere was cold, sending a chill up his spine so much that he shivered. The hollow halls returned an echo of his voice as well and he was too afraid to move even an inch forward. He hated the darkness, he wasn’t scared or, although there was something quite eerie in the air.He just hated being lost and in that moment, he was.But that was until a shrill whisper crept up behind him and Oscar sharply turned around. He could swear that someone was here, was close to him but alas, when he threw his head over his shoulders, there was no one. Maybe now was the right time to get scared.His hands fell to his side, feeling the crisp texture of his scrubs and as he moved forward, the noises were all he heard. It was hard to move with
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