MAGGIE
Hunter’s breathing slowly gets back to normal, I’m still wrapped around his neck, the cold water soaking our stiff bodies.
He was on the verge of a nervous break down, it was scary.
The way he suspended Fred by the neck, as if another man lived inside him, primitive, uncontrollable. I know that if I was some other kind of woman, I would be miles away after seeing him almost killing a man.
But I’m not any kind of woman, and Hunter, definitely isn’t one of the guys I dated, or the coward Fred.
He just wanted to protect me, to get Fred’s hands off me, but a wrath came o
HUNTER I even get worried with everything so perfect in my life, call me a pessimist if you want, I know it’s not about thinking I don’t deserve a slice of the so boasted happiness. Everything is about a clearly simple statement: I’m not used to gentleness, cuddling, never, from nothing and no one. The beatings I got from life started early from my first years of life: my parents used to say I was a child with delicate health, my bones were too weak and no doctor could explain it. I barely walked, I didn’t play with my brothers. Till the day there was a fight between Adam and some boys from the other pack, he tried to face them all alone and of course, he got the worse of it. As he is my older brother, the role model I always admired and followed, without me even waiting to, I got in the middle of all the confusion. I
MAGGIE I think I can get really spoiled waking up with this wall of a man stuck to my back. Hunter is moving agitated, like if he was stuck in some kind of nightmare, he hugs me tight, almost to the point if suffocating me and he moans disconnected words. “Don’t be afraid, baby, no, don’t, stay!” I try to squirm free of his grip and I turn to face him, Hunter waked up sweating, still trying to find himself in his own bedroom. I caress his cheeks, and he looks scared at me, it must have been a horrible nightmare. I ask him what he dreamt abut. Hunter looks me still rubbing his eyes and then I looks away embarrassed. 
MAGGIE Cold sweat runs down my body, I toss and turn on bed and I don’t have the strength to get out of the nightmare. I can’t say if what’s going on is my mind fantasy or if I really lived all that, there an infinity of blanks in my mind to be filled, the image is always the same, my mother arguing with my father at the library, their are in a heated conversation and they can’t see me. Dad yells at mom, he has papers in his hands, insisting on her to sign them, but she resists saying: “You can’t fool me anymore, Geffrey, how could you be such a villain?” “Lucila! Let’s finish this ridiculous argument, I’m your husband, you are sick,
HUNTER Our trip to New York was less tiring than I thought, I can even say that it was a riveting trip, Maggie sleeps cuddle up in my arms while I read ‘Archer’s Voice’ by Mia Sheridan, with the cover covered in black , of course! After all, I’m tired of my friends making fun of me because I’m a MMA fighter who likes to read novels. We get to Park Central Hotel and Gary check us in, I’m so happy for Maggie being here with me I’m barely able to hide my happiness. Gary looks at us hugging in the elevator and throws a bucket of cold water on me by saying: “Love is beautiful, but in a few minutes we are going to the gym to practice, okay, Sickle?”&n
MAGGIE I went shopping and when I got back to the hotel I was still pensive, with something bothering that something doesn’t fit, I’m almost sure Manfred is hiding something, but I’m going to find out. As soon as I get to Portland, I’m going to get to know my assets, I think that if mom wanted dad far away from my inheritance, there must be a really strong reason to make her think like that. Getting to the suite I’m in with Hunt, I find him doing push ups in the middle of the room, wearing only boxer shorts, that’s just dirty, that’s not fair, geez, I’m made of flesh and bones. And my desire for my Big Guy is so frail. The thoughts that invade my mind by looking at his muscly
HUNTER It’s seven in the morning on the side table watch, I watch Maggie sleeping, her calm face, the lips slightly open, her bangs on her face and I think that I’m a lucky guy. Life tripped me a few times, but also gifted me with amazing brothers and a fantastic woman, that surprisingly faces my imperfect trajectory, broken and she still loves me and looks me with the same magic of the first time she saw me. I get up, take a long shower and as my sleepy girl still on Morpheus arms, I decide to run in the park and get back in time to have breakfast with her. I put on my running sweat pants, a low cut green shirt, my training sneakers, my headphones with selected James Brown songs and I quickly take the elevador,
HUNTER I enter the bathroom and lock the door, now there’s only Maggie and me, she’s broken, devastated because of the fight she just had with her father. Just by thinking of the problems this man can cause me, I already feel my body trembling in anger. And if he tells Maggie about me? I’m going to lose her when she finds out I’m a monster, like that miserable man said: ‘a freak’, a squeeze her tighter in my arms, the fear of losing her makes me even more possessive. With eyes still full of tears, she avoids looking at me. I hold her by her ass, keeping her tight on my lap, I go to a metal bench and sit to take a cold shower. Maggie motions to get out of my lap and I stop her. “No,
MAGGIE I called Manfred wanting to know about the financial transactions, a detailed report on my properties and the documentation from the land I inherited from my mother. After almost a week waiting for him to gather everything, finally he faxed me the paper work I asked for. I made two sandwiches with some rare steak I had in the fridge and calmly sat in the kitchen to enjoy my afternoon snack, when I hear the sound of the living room door opening and Hunter enters taking off his beaten boots. He throws me a kiss and takes the beaten boots straight to the laundry room. Since last week, when he asked me to marry him, our relationship has gone back to it’s natural form. Nothing was planned by both of us, I gave him a copy of my keys a day after he proposed t