NOTE: Chapter contains mature content. All of it. So if you are not okay with smut, you may skip this chapter.  TAMI GASPED desperately in the kiss as Raphael ravished himself in her. The kiss was hard and hungry--almost angry as they both fought for dominance.    Raphael held a fistful of her hair, and he never stopped pulling so he could get more of her.    "I told you not to test me, Tami," he growled as he roughly grabbed her rear. She yelped at the impact, but recovered quickly as she gazed up at him out of breath.    "And I still mean what I said," she shot back, this time her voice dripping with

"Checkmate." Tami beamed proudly as she stopped the timer, indicating that she had won yet another battle of chess.  Raphael squinted his eyes, as he playfully glared at her. It was quite obvious that Tami had a competitive spirit, but it was far more than he anticipated.  "You cheated," he accused, inching closer to her.  She giggled. "I didn’t."  "You did. What's your secret? Why do you keep winning?"  "Because I'm good." She shrugged, reigning innocence. "It's not my fault you suck."  Raphael growled playfully before launching at her. She squirmed and tried to

SHE HEARD them coming.  Tami heard the footsteps coming up the stairs like a mighty army ready to whisk her away from paradise. She had seen when they pulled up to the house through her bathroom window, and she knew it couldn’t have been anything good.  How had they known that she was there? It’s obvious that they were there for her. But how?  It didn’t matter. She knew she had to hide. If they were here, that meant they suspected Raphael, and seeing her in the house wouldn’t yield great results for him.  If only her mother had believed that she wasn’t kidnapped, then this all wouldn’t have been happening.  

THE SILENCE was deafening, but no one dared breaking it.  There was nothing to say, and Raphael didn’t know how to approach her either. What started out as a normal, happy morning, turned into a hectic day of packing and arranging flights.  She sat at the window alone, staring out the window as the plane lifted from the ground. She hadn’t said anything for the past four hours except 'yes or no', and it was quite worrying.  After seeing that post on her sister’s Story, Tami had gone into what seemed like a state of shock.  Her eyes weren’t focused and her breathing had never leveled since this morning. It didn’t even seem like she was aware that they were on their way to another country.  All she did was stare.  Sighing, Raphael pushed a duffle bag under the chair when the plane had leveled in the air. He had to make a lo

THE RAIN was a light patter against the umbrella, but it was the only sound Tami heard.She never heard the sound of what the priest had been saying in the sermon, nor all the nice words that supporters shared. It was all drowned in the sound of the rain and her own sniffles. Raphael held her close to his side with his arm around her waist. Even though he didn’t know Mr. Knowles, the kind words of friends and well wishers gave him just enough information that he needed to know about this wonderful man. Not to mention that since the two whole days that Tami had been home, she had barely said a word to him.  Things were just about the same on that part.Her sister was still pissed at her, and her mother had been busy with family, friends and the media, talking about her husband and her returnee daughter. He had tried to be there for her the best he cou