Chapter 4

  Lauren walked into the kitchen, oblivious to the fact that Damien had been snooping around. “Tea?” she asked him, he nodded in response and she put the kettle on the fire.

     “How are we going to do the test? We go together to a hospital, or we get a private doctor” She asked.

     Damien walked to her, he put his hands on either side of her, holding the counter firmly. “The hospital is a better option, a private doctor might give false results.” He traced her jaw, fighting the urge to peer down and into her gown.

     “The hospital it is then,” She said. He didn’t leave her or move away. Instead, he looked at her intensely, turning her head slightly to the left to get better access to her neck.

     “What are you doing?” she asked, her voice incredibly lower as her heart beat faster. She looked into his green eyes, noticing how it had turned into a darker shade of green.

     He didn’t answer her question, he kept tracing her jaw, eventually letting his finger slide all the way to her collar bone. He let it wander lazily down to her shoulder, then the top of her breasts.

     “Damien…” she called unto him, her voice dropping below a whisper “We can’t…” she trailed off. Unable to think properly because of the warmth of his finger that was drawing lazy circles on top of her breasts.

     Damien stopped what he was doing and was about to step back when Lauren grabbed a hold of his finger and put it back where it had been.

    He looked at her, for confirmation that she was feeling what he was feeling. Also for permission that she wanted this as much as he did.

     Lauren pushed her breasts into his chest, sighing in relief as her soft body molded with his strong, muscled ones. She closed her eyes, their touch transporting her back to the good old days when they had to note between them.

     She looked back up at him, why did they have to end? It hurt so much that even after being away with him, she still craved him like she always had. This was why she stood on her toes and pressed her lips to his without thinking twice about it, so she wouldn’t back down.

     Damien smiled against her lips before capturing it in a case. This was exactly what he wanted Nathan to see. He slipped his hand between them, tracing under Lauren’s breasts.

     “Damien…” She moaned, pushing herself so close to him that there wasn’t any space anymore. Damien worked her slowly before covering her breasts with his very large hands making her sigh in relief. This was exactly what she wanted and had been craving for.

    Still locking lips, Damien hoisted her up onto the kitchen counter. He separated her legs and stood between them, making her core crave for him in the process. He slips his hand up her back, then into her hair. He missed waking up to her hair sprawled all over his chest.

     “I miss this” Damien muttered, pulling her close. Lauren’s hands moved frantically, her need for a release clouding her sense of judgment. She pulled at his shirt, pushing it away to reveal his huge chest. She let her hands explore having missed it for so long. Damien hummed in response before pulling her gown over her head to reveal the sight he had imagined seeing for so long.

    “Still ever-beautiful,” he said, his voice raspy with need. He took her breasts in one mouth before sliding his palm down to her core where her thighs met, “So warm and beautiful” he said, his voice muffled by the flesh he was sucking on.

     Lauren arched her back, biting her lip to stop her from screaming “I need you inside me now” she said, rushing her words.

     Damien understood exactly how her body ached. He lay her back on the counter before ripping her underwear apart with his teeth. He let his pearly whites linger on her for a while before unleashing his tongue, just the way she liked it.

     “Oh, Damien” she cried, wiggling her hips and thrusting them towards him. His hot breath hit her, caressing her in ways Nathan was never able to.

     Damien stroked her, drinking up the juice she let trail down to him. he stood up and in one thrust before Lauren could recover, pushed himself into her, filling her up in more ways than one.

    He started moving slow at first. Gently, savoring her warmth until she moved to meet his beat and drove him crazy. With the only release in both their minds, they drove themselves crazy with their need and after a minute, they both cried as they found release in each other's arms.

     Damien rested his forehead on hers, both of them breathing heavily with exhaustion. “That was… something I should have never stopped doing,” He said.

     Lauren remained silent, her head beginning to clear once her need was taken care of. She pushed him away and picked up her nightgown from where It lay on the floor.

    “I should never have let you step into this house,” She said, pulling the gown over her head and putting a good distance between both of them.

     Damien studied her closely, “Is that regret I see in your eyes Lauren?” he asked quietly, knowing his heart was going to break from her answer.

     “Yes,” She folded her hands over her chest, unaware of how it pushed it higher, exposing them for Dame to see. “now I’m Married Damien”, she gestured between “Both of us can't happen anymore,” she said.

    “And the baby?” Damien asked, looking away. He was hurt that she pushing him away even though he understood that she was no longer his.

     Lauren looked away, her eyes darting from one corner of the kitchen to the other “We’ll go to the hospital tomorrow, then result should be out in a couple of days and we won't have to see each other again”.

     Damien nodded, absentminded “Why are you so sure the result will turn out to be negative?” he asked

     Lauren took a step forward “Because I will make sure of it”.

     Nathan watched as Damien left his house, trying to understand the game he was playing at. He turned away when he saw Lauren slide to the floor with tears streaming down her face. he hated that he was hurting her but all he was trying to do was secure a future for them both.

    He turned back from the surveillance room and went back into his lab. He walked to the tube where a figure that looked exactly like Damien was suspended, tubes and wire hanging from every part of his body. It might just be time again to bring him out to play.

     “Sir, the perimeter was breached,” John said. He was Nathans assistant, having worked with him sone they were in college.

     “I know John, I watched it myself,” Nathan said before walking back to his office to draw up a new plan. He called an unsaved number on his phone, the call was connected on the first ring.

     “What happened to keep him away from my family forever?” Nathan asked the person he called.

     “My man couldn’t get to him on time,” the person said, an apology on the tip of his tongue, for fear that Nathan would do something rash to him for failing his assignment.

     “You know what we agreed on, find a way to fix this or let your family suffer the consequences,” Nathan said, inhumanly calm about the situation.

     “I will do exactly as told this time”

     “For your own sake, you better” Nathan hung up after that. He picked up his journal and began to outline the plan that was already taking foundation in his head. He hummed a rhyme he and Damien used to sing when they were still kids as he wrote.

     When they had drifted about was when Damien decided he was in love with Lauren as they started dating. Things had been perfect when they were just three best friends, growing up and playing together.

     Suddenly the trio turned into a couple and a third wheel. They stopped inviting him to the movies and started going on dates instead, just the both of them. By the time they were in college, the only real relationship that existed between him and Damien was that of mere roommates and childhood friends.

     That was when he realized he had to do something, he had to keep them away from each other. At the same time, the fondness he had for Lauren had blown into an obsession, he had to have her no matter what.

     He had come up with the most brilliant idea to keep them apart and both Damien and Lauren had fallen for it. He didn’t feel bad for it one bit. If they had both loved each other as they claimed, they would have seen right through his plan. Everything worked out for him in the end and he wouldn’t Damien ruin what he had spent so much time building.

     With a final scribble, he set his journal down. Things were bound to get more interesting. He went back to the surveillance room, and watched little Harry sleep, as Lauren cried herself to sleep on the floor.

     He had to destroy what Lauren and Damien had created. As long as Harry was there, beating Damien’s features for everyone to see, his family would never be truly happy.

     With a final look at Lauren he left. He had to make a quick stop at the hospital. When he got in he requested his private doctor.

     Sitting across from him in scrubs Dr. Dre looked at Nathan with dismay and uncertainty. Whenever Nathan came to see in person that meant something was wrong, he already had a bad feeling about it.

      “Good morning doctor” Nathan greeted, rather cheerfully.

     “To what do I owe this visit?”

     “Going straight to the point I see.” Nathan sat up om his seat, pulling it closer before putting his hands on the table that sat between him and the doctor.

     “My wife will be here tomorrow”

     “Is she sick?” the doctor asked.

     “No” he picked up the pen on the table and twirled it between his fingers “She’ll be coming for a paternity test with Damien, he wants to confirm the child is his”

     “Everyone can see Harry is his” the doctor spoke without thinking. He covered his mouth when Nathan glared at him, realizing what he just said.

     “I need you to make that result come out negative” Nathan said, taking his hands off the table and daring the door to say otherwise.

     “But…”

    “I don’t know what you’re going to do but I want you to make it happen. I don’t want Damien to take him away, I want to do that myself” Nathan finished and relaxed his hands on the table.

     The doctor could only look, he knew Nathan was planning something and it wasn’t going to be pretty. He was among the few that knew and had seen just exactly what Nathan was capable of and how dangerous he could be, even to his own self.

     “Okay,” Dre said, “Anything else?”

     Nathan chuckled “You seem rather displaced with my plan” he leaned towards the doctor “Why is that?”

      Dr. Dre gulped before answering “I’ve never asked questions whenever you asked me to do something, but I have something, just this once, don’t hurt the kid. Don't use him to punish his father, he doesn’t deserve that” he looked at Nathan, waiting for his reaction. What he got was Nathan laughing like he had said something so hilarious.

     “You think I would hurt a kid?” Nathan laughed louder, clapping his hands in the process, “Doctor, you must think so bad of me”

     Dre wanted to say he didn’t trust Nathan one bit but held himself, Nathan was the most unpredictable human he knew, and staying on his bad side was something he never wanted to do.

     “No sir, You’re the loveliest person I know,” Dre said instead, going ahead to look away for fear that his eyes would betray him and show the words he truly wanted to say.

     “It’s fine Dr. Dre, I pray for redemption every day. You don’t have to lie to me”.