DAVE .
After she left my rush back to her room, I decided to let her be.I continue the cooking even though I know how terrible I am in cooking. Few minutes later I finish cooking and decided to go and call her.I climbed the stairs to her room, I stood at the doorpost and knock on the door severally but there was no response from her.I quickly open the door then I find her laying in her bed, she had her eyes closed and was smiling, she was so lost that she didn't notice I entered .I stood staring at how her beautiful she look with her eyes closed, her smiles were beautiful.I walk closer to her and she didn't know I was there, I slowly lower lips to hers and slam my lips against her.She open her eyes wide, ai know she was shocked to see me kissing her for the second time again.She pushed me away , I almost tripped off then Sofia arrived calling my name, she ruined my Chance of telling her my heart.She became mad at me hearing Sofia's voice, I can't blame her , she is an human. after all and she is Mrs Blake not Sofia.I have never treated her like the way the real Mrs Blake is supposed to be treated, I treated a girlfriend better and treated my wife so bad.I know she loves me deeply and I have pushed her to her limit and that is why she is demanding for freedom.When she turn around , I know she doesn't want me to see her crying, I feel disheartened that I continually break her heart.She turn to me and held my hand, I could feel her anger the way she held me that she is mad at me.She threw me out of her room but I am not giving up in winning back my wife.I turn around and saw Sofia walking towards me, she looked at me in surprise that's because she find me at the doorstep if my wife's room.I frown at her and just walk away, I climb down the stairs and she followed me."Finally the day has come" Sofia said.I stopped in my track on the staircase, I turn back to her." What day has come? I asked." Your Divorce! The deal is over now we can get married, I have waited for this all my life" She said hapilly.I turn around coldly and walk back to the kitchen with no words.She followed me , she stood in front of me at the Kitchen counter." What is it? Why do you look unhappy? she asked and look back to the stairs." Did she do something? I mean your maid" Sofia asked.I got angry hearing her call my wife and I quickly defended her." She is not a maid! She is my......" I quickly cut off my words folding my hand into a fist.Sofia was surprised at my action, she stood still while her handbag fell off her hand.She blinked and look at me, I shut my eyes and sigh, I walk closer to her, I helped her pick her handbag then I held her hand.She pull out her hand from mine." Tell me what's going on? first of all you were at her doorstep , then you are at the kitchen and now you are defending her? she look back to the food on the dining." You know I don't eat all of that” That kind of food and I have never seen you eat such food? Tell me what's going on? She asked.I look into her eyes and look up the stairs.My wife was there watching us, when our eyes met,Our eyes glued to each other for a while, Sofia traced my eyes to hers, I could see how pain through her eyes." I can't believe this" Sofia said and walk towards the door.I didn't chase after her but then she stopped and said to me." I want to believe you are not cheating on me with her but if you do , I will have my dad withdrew his shares from the company.She said and walks away.I shut my eyes in confusion.I open my eyes and look up my wife wasn't there anymore.I began to think of how much fortune the company would loose if her father takes a while of his 40% shares from the company it will be a lot of loss for the business and gaining it back in a shortwhile will be hard and this will really affect the company.I turn around to walk to the living room then I heard footsteps climbing down the stairs. I turn back and it was my wife struggling with her Luggage box.I rush to her blocking the stairs." Where do you think you are going? he asked.She kept struggling with her luggages, she didn't look up to my face.It would be so easy to reach out and take the comfort and warmth and pleasure of being with him again. He’d wrap her in his arms and stroke her back and kiss her hair, and she’d feel his body stir with desire for her and…She’d missed him so much. But if she gave in to the need aching through her now,Micheal would be encouraged to stick around, and the inevitable consequences would be worse than her current sense of deprivation.Better to remain independent.“I don’t need your help, Micheal,” she said flatly.“That’s not how it looks to me,Lucia.” He reached out and took her left hand, fondling it warmly, persuasively pressing a link between them as he added, “I think we should get married as soon as possible.”“No!” She snatched her hand away, feeling as though he’d burned her. Her eyes blazed fierce conviction. “I won’t marry you, Micheal.”“Why not? It’s the most sensible, practical thing to do.”“I will not subject my baby to a father who doesn’t want her.”“If you’re worried about
She was tempted to hurl it in Micheal ’s face. It might sober him up. Whatever impulsive and stupid ardour had driven him into this room needed dampening down. He wasn’t thinking straight, any more than she’d been seeing straight. But she could see straight through him! Having figured out what she was doing in a maternity ward, he had a hot case of guilt.“You need looking after, Lucia,” he said gruffly. “And I’m the man to do it. Drink up now.”She sipped, just to moisten her throat. Then she glared her outrage at him. “Don’t you tell me what to do, Micheal. You have no right.”He returned a determined look. “I contributed to this situation and—”“You did not.” She cut him off with more belligerent determination. “You trusted me to get the contraception right, and I messed up. It’s all my fault.”“Accidents happen,” he said grimly.“Well, you don’t have to pay for this one. I take full responsibility.”“Sure! And you’re doing a fine job of it, letting yourself get so run down you alm
Maurice’s question broke through the glaze of horror in his mind. They were looking quizzically at him. Had he missed something? Apart from a nine-month pregnancy?“Sorry.” He sucked in a deep breath and swallowed hard. “I was just thinking how great the three of you look together.”Ingrid laughed. “Time you found yourself a wife and started a family, Micheal.”Join the club. They all said that. Once they were caught in the family trap, it was as though anyone who was free of it was an offensive reminder of what they’d given up. The hell of it was he might very well have a child somewhere on this ward, a child whose mother had decided was better off fatherless than having Micheal in their lives.“Aren’t you thirty-something?” Ingrid persisted.“Darling, I’m forty,” Maurice reminded her. “Age has nothing to do with it. If I hadn’t met you, I’d still be a freewheeling bachelor like Micheal.”Micheal didn’t want to be a freewheeling bachelor. He wanteded Lucia. He didn’t care if she came
“He’s got my ears, poor little blighter.”Micheal smiled. “Well, one can always resort to plastic surgery.”Maurice laughed indulgently. “They’re not that bad. He’ll grow into them.”“Bound to,” Micheal agreed, his face aching with smiling.Micheal obediently performed the comparison, studying the straight, aristocratic nose of Maurice’s buxom blonde wife and the longer, slightly bumpy one of his friend. He forced another smile. “Yes. Much the better nose.”Why was it obligatory to divide a baby’s features between the parents? It was inevitably done, like a ritual, perhaps affirming true heritage, or an assurance that a little replica would fulfil its parents’ expectations. Not only was it a deadly boring exercise to Micheal,, it almost drove him to snap, “Let the kid be himself, for God’s sake!”But that wasn’t the done thing.He wondered whom Lucia had been visiting on this floor. Not that it mattered. No point in trying to find some contact point with her. From the attitude she ha
Her hair was cropped short, but he couldn’t mistake that face, those eyes as she stared straight at him. Recognition, shock, disbelief, fear, anger…each expression pulsed briefly at him from a stillness that shrieked with tension. Then she whirled past him, jabbed a finger at the control panel inside the elevator and hugged herself against the back wall, glaring a fierce rejection of him until the doors closed.The message burned into his brain. She didn’t want him. She didn’t want anything to do with him. He quelled the raging instinct to chase after her, find her, make her listen to him. Useless. She’d made her decision to shut him out. It hadn’t changed. It wasn’t about to change. She’d just done it again.He forced himself to walk away, to check the room numbers he passed along the corridor. He’d come here to oblige a friend. Never mind that he had no heart for it. It gave him something purposeful to do. He had to forget Lucia.But why had there been fear in her eyes? He’d never g
Micheal darkly reflected, undermined every normal, congenial intercourse between intelligent adults. They infiltrated people’s lives even before they entered the world, then took over like tyrannical dictators. Nothing was safe from them.Micheal brooded over these truths as he drove through the tunnel under Sydney Harbour, taking the shortest route to Paddington and the Royal Hospital for Women. He wished Maurice had been satisfied with hearty congratulations on the birth of his son. It was totally unreasonable of him to insist Jack actually come and view the new pride and joy. Paternal enthusiasm run rampant. Micheal wondered how long it would last.One by one his friends had succumbed to the lure of fatherhood, only to find themselves knocked off their happy perches of being the main focus of attention in their households. They’d groaned out their misery and their complaints to him, envying his freedom from the chaos they had brought upon themselves.“Good sex is impossible.”“You