It was a foggy morning when Rafael woke up at the crack of the dawn to work out as usual. He felt tired like he barely slept for an hour. A delicious tingle ran down his body when he realized he indeed slept only for a couple of hours. It wasn't an ordinary morning when he always woke up alone in his bed.Ruhi had thrown the blanket on the floor and wrapped her legs around his. He felt her warm breath on his face and her lips on his forehead. His head was resting on her ample cleavage while her hands were around him in a protective hug."My baby!" He smiled at her peacefully sleeping face and untangled her arms around him.Feeling the loss of warmth, she cuddled closer and rested her head on his shoulder. He was soon slipping into a blissful daze because of her nearness."Damn!" Giving up on the idea to go down to the gym, he put his arm around her, pulling her to his chest.He felt strangely at peace watching her sleep. Reachin

"Who would want to listen to my conversations?" Ruhi repeated it a second time, now more to herself, wondering if that unknown infiltrator heard her talk to Lisa about her pregnancy.There were many nights she spent wide awake, yearning for the feel of Rafael's body next to her. The thought of someone hearing on her private times when she imagined him touching her while she moaned his name, made her feel embarrassed and pissed at the same time. The chief security officer was in the room within minutes and took care of the bug while talking to someone on the phone. More men arrived with devices that could detect radio frequencies.  "How long has this plant been here?" Rafael caressed Ruhi's cheek and placed his hands on her shoulders to calm her down."It's been a while. It was there when we had sex for the first time." "Same pot?""Yes. I was decorating your dad's living room for over two days before I s

"Oh, no! What are you doing?" Ruhi reached for Rafael's phone to stop him from calling the doctor."It's just the stench in here. I'll be fine if we go back up and get some fresh air." She looked at Rafael and Antonio who both had one eyebrow raised in suspicion about her tense behavior."Is everything all right with you, Ruhi?" Antonio asked her softly."Of-of course! Why would you think it's not? I-I'm just not, you know, not used to all this. That man's lip is cut so badly I can't not have my stomach turn.""Are you done with your course of medication?" Antonio asked her."Medication for what?" Rafael asked his dad."Ruhi was clinically diagnosed with anxiety before getting discharged from the hospital. The doctor told her parents it was because of the trauma from what happened at the beach. Her dad told me to keep an eye on her for this kind of erratic stuttering and shaky hands.""I'm completely fine." She showed them her st

Rafael stuck to his word and didn't ask her again about coming back. He texted her only once the next day to ask if she was doing okay. She waited until midnight to see if he would call her.'What was I even expecting? He would rather die than call me. Maybe I should call and see if he's awake and thinking about me.'She checked her phone for the hundredth time and finally wrote a text. But she stopped before hitting send. She thought it would look desperate if he wasn't actually thinking about her. If he already went to bed and she was the only one tossing and turning, sending texts at 12.30 AM, it would be terrible.'I'd also rather die than call or text him. Why can't I sleep if he can?' She put her phone away and closed her eyes forcefully.Hearing a beep, she jumped out of her bed to reach for the phone at lightning speed, hoping it wasn't one of her cousins from India. It wasn't. It was from Rafael just as she prayed. The air of loneliness

"Why is he like this, dad? I thought we were doing fine... we were doing fantastic actually. I was waiting for him to ask me to move back to the mansion. Then why... why would he go look for his Kimmie now?" "That's not the case, Ruhi. He didn't go around looking for her today. He has been looking for her for years. Today happens to be the day the men we hired found her." "Does he... he---" Ruhi started sobbing. "They found her with the kid, didn't they? So now Rafael doesn't want me anymore." "She was a few weeks pregnant when she ran away, so yes, they found her with the kid. We weren't sure she would keep the baby, but she did. But that doesn't and shouldn't change things between you and Rafael." Ruhi dropped the car keys on the ground and left the door open absent mindedly. "I guess he doesn't want to see me anymore. So he just decided to ignore my texts and calls. How is that fair to me?"  "Stop using this