Reyona ignored her ringing phone as she drove home with Aria’s latest song “Truth or Dare” playing on her stereo.She knew who was calling and since she could guess what he was going to say, she decided not to pick up yet.She was going to call him back when she was ready.Preferably after she had soaked in the ambience of her familiar home that would be free of a lurking man or kids trying to tug at her heartstrings.Where no one would try to pull her in further than she already was.As she took the last turn that led to her home, she was already anticipating how she was going to have the best sleep she had had in days.Right after…Her eyes widened in shock when she saw the familiar car in front of her house.What the….Reyona parked away from the driveway, giving his car enough room to turn and leave as fast as possible.He came out of his car just as she was coming out of hers.“Why were you not picking up?” he asked as he walked towards her.“What are you doing here?” Reyona aske
Reyona was going mad with a raging passion inside her.His hands roamed freely over her body as he kissed her like a parched man offered water.The kiss was engulfing and overpowering.He let out a groan in his throat when she bit at his bottom lip, then soothed it with her tongue.He touched her back in a certain way that had her gasping softly with pleasure.He took the opportunity to invade her mouth with her tongue, and they engaged in a duel of tongues as he backed her towards his car, which was the closest to them.Reyona gasped in surprise when she was momentarily suspended in the air, but she was soon seated on the hood of the car as he moved in between her legs and continued kissing her without breaking contact.Reyona could feel his bulge against her lap as he changed the angle of his head and sent her into a frenzy again.Her senses were all aflame, and she had no idea when she suddenly grabbed him tightly with her thighs.She was gasping for breath when he finally released
The next few weeks were filled with guilty pleasures for Reyona.She knew she should put a stop to it, but she just couldn’t.They could hardly keep their hands off each other.They made fiery, passionate love in unexpected places.Just as they came together in the gentlest and soul-stirring ways.Reyona couldn’t believe she could do the things she had done with him the past couple of weeks.She wanted to blame it all on his insatiable hunger for her, but she knew that would just be hypocritical.She was as hot for him as he seemed to be for her.Having dinner or breakfast with him in the company of the children was nothing short of torture.His eyes drank her most scandalously.Reyona wondered how she had managed not to combust from the way he looked at her at times.And the words he whispered to her when no one was watching?It was enough to send her heart spiking every time.His small and deliberate touches when they were together alone or with people never failed to suffuse her bo
“I think…mmm… I think Celia is on to us.” Reyona said amidst moans that night.They were in the sunroom where the shimmering-low-toned dripping chandeliers had nothing on the ethereal glow of the moonlight filtering through the garbled, glass roof panels.The fluidity of soothing light as it penetrated through the roof-to-floor glass walls reminded her of how he had joined her in the swimming pool the night before and turned her into the wanton woman she had never thought she could possibly be.She discovered more about herself every time she was with him.She had thought she was conservative when it came to sex until she realised that was because she had never been with him.Their first time had been mind-blowing as he had unravelled all the defence she had put up that night.She had been expecting a clean and straight passion-crazed sex that they could both forget as soon as they were done, but somehow he had turned it around on her and turned it into the most sensuous lovemaking sh
They met bleary-eyed Jane coming out of her room while cinching the ropes of her nightgown.For a moment, she stared incomprehensibly at the two of them rushing towards her.“What is going on?” Reyona asked urgently.“I am just about to check. I heard someone scream.”“We did, too,” Maxwell said as they rushed past her.“Ally?” they heard Junior’s voice as Reyona opened the door to the children’s room.The expansive room was decorated just as the kids wanted.The two sections of the room were divided by an AC sheet room divider that gave the children a feeling of having their own space even while being together.Allysyn’s side was decorated according to her taste.She was more of a purple and print girl and that influenced her choice.The wall was done in interlacing bold and light purple, the bedding purple accents, while the wall decor, artwork, frames and side lamps were in contrasting bold colours.Even her mini bookshelf had purple accents at its end.While Junior’s side was most
Reyona held the seven-year-old’s quivering body till the latter cried herself to sleep.Then she gingerly lay her on the bed and eased out of bed as Maxwell covered the girl’s body with her blanket.Jane came forward to meet them as she stood up from the beanbag she had pulled closer to Junior’s bed.“He fell asleep,” she said quietly.Maxwell inclined his head towards the door as Reyona moved closer to the boy’s sleeping form.“I am so sorry,” she whispered as she smoothed his hair away from his face.She pulled his blanket tightly around him, suspecting it would be at the other end of the bed before the night was over.She left the room with a set look on her face.Maxwell followed her out to the hallway, where Jane was waiting in the hallway.“Will she be fine?” she asked anxiously. “Do you want me to stay with them tonight?”“There will be no need for that.” Reyona said, then asked, “How much of that did you hear?”“I heard some of it, ma,” Jane said carefully.“Good,” Reyona said
Reyona’s anger rose to a feverish point as she looked at the couple who were nonchalantly repeating the mantra “Our boys are good breeds”.The husband was not as outspoken as the wife, yet, like broken records, one echoed what the other said.“How can you even take what that troubled child said over what we told you?” The woman, who was oblivious to how close Reyona was to letting her have it, said to the associate commissioner.“We have always been very diligent in taking care of these children and never has anyone had such a complaint about us before.” the woman’s voice was rising by the moment. “Our boys are an example of what a good job we do with these kids. Nobody had ever had a complaint about them before. They are good kids. Top of their classes too.” With her gaze turned towards Reyona. “How dare…?”“How dare a child speak about a traumatic experience she had in your home where she was supposed to be protected? How dare she try to protect her brother from your good boys? Well
In the car, Maxwell asked, “So, what do you think?”“I think they know about this. It is either that or they suspected the boys were into something like that. What I don't understand is why they would allow it or even try to cover them up. A child almost got killed for God's sake!”“Just my thoughts,” Maxwell said as he clipped his seat belt. “Those two definitely know something.”“Do you trust Han to do the right thing?”“He is a decent man, and he owes me a favour. He would do the right thing, or he would have me to contend with. Let’s give him twenty-four hours as promised,” he said as he started the car.“I think therapy would help her. We should get both of them into therapy. I know Junior seemed almost unbothered about it, but one can never tell about these things. If there is anything I have learned, it is that unpleasant memories tend to stay with kids more.”“You are right,” Maxwell said. “We can get a top children psychologist in the city. Someone who wouldn’t even mind work