Calmly, I picked up the basin from the night stand. "I prepared a juice to help with your hangover, drink it," I said and left him. Though my whole body was shaking, I still managed to get downstairs without an accident.  After cleaning the basin and placing the face towel in the washer, I went to the guest room. I sat on the couch looking blankly at the French window.  His words were like a broken recorder that kept ringing in my ears. I stayed like that until the crack of dawn. I could not think of anything, just his words that cut my heart. I went back to our room to have a shower. We met at the door of the bathroom. He had just finished showering. Ignoring him I walked past him. And closed the door immediately. I stood under the shower head, drowning my sorrow away. Surprisingly, my husband was still in the room. Just as I was goin

"What letter?" I pretended not to remember it. "Stop pretending, wife. I'm here to take you back," he lifted me in his arms. "No, I'm not going anywhere," I said with a stern voice. "Put me down," I looked at him without blinking, fortifying my resolve. He refused to back down but I was adamant to make it hard for him. He has no idea how hard I went through waiting for him each day. "Come back with me, mom and dad missed you," he said and it hurt me more. His parents missed me. Just great, they missed me while my husband didn't miss me.  I looked away as my eyes were stinging with unshed tears. "And I missed you so much, babe. Come back with me," the words I was waiting for he finally said but I felt my pain heightened. "Didn't you miss me?" His voice was muffled as he nuzzled my neck while talking. I bit my lower lip, refusing to succumb to my body'

I went to the bedroom after dinner and I took Dr. Klaus's book and began to read. This is me. When I start reading and get fascinated by the book, I have trouble putting it down. That was why my dad called me a bookworm. I was too engrossed in the book when suddenly a hand pulled it away from me. I looked up and my husband's handsome face amplified before me. "I've been here for half an hour and yet you didn't spare me a single glance," Andrei was complaining like a child. A while back, I felt the bed dipped and someone slipped under the comforter but I was utterly consumed by what I'm reading. Hence, I didn't have the time to react and look away from the book. Andrei gave back the book to me. I placed the book on the nightstand as my momentum had been disrupted.  I switched off the lights leaving the lamp in the wall in a dim mode as

"Well, it happens that I was also going to wander around the city. It would be good if we go together," he said to me jovially. "Sounds like a plan," I said. I would be using this time to learn from him while we are hanging out. I have a lot of things to ask him about his book. I was rather grateful that we bumped into each other. Shortly, the bus arrived and we boarded. I did not let the opportunity slip away, hence while travelling I asked him all the things I would like to ask and he gave me a satisfactory answer. He taught me the whole time we traveled to the city. He brought my knowledge to a whole new level and I was amazed by his broad knowledge and his ability to teach without making it sound complicated that any student could grasp. "Thank you Dr. Klaus," I said as we came down the bus. "Gian," he corrected me. "I forgot," I chuckled. We walked in the middle of the pavement.The thin, white clouds that cover the whole sky like a veil create a halo around the sun, as

Tara's POVAt the conference, I was asked to sit in the front. It is not a secret who I was married to hence the special treatment. Somehow, I was thankful for my identity as the former first lady.  Being seated at the back with hundreds of participants from all over the world sometimes there are lots of distractions. When I was in university, I always preferred to sit at the front so I could concentrate well. Nothing has changed, I still love to sit at the front to fully put my attention on the lecture. When Gian started to speak, I took notes and recorded the lecture. I am not just intelligent but I'm also diligent, that was my advantage. Others are intelligent but not diligent. Putting intelligence and diligence together, the result is exponential. I graduated summa cumlaude on both of my degress. After the lecture we had a thirty mi