Semua Bab Warm My Bed, Little Pumpkin!: Bab 1 - Bab 10

OSWALD'S presence was oppressive, and it felt like the walls had shrunk. He took a step forward, standing directly in front of her now, looking down at her with an expression devoid of emotion. His hands quickly went behind his back."Listen carefully," he began, his voice low and deliberate, "there are rules and regulations I have gotten for you, laid down rules," she gasped, "you are going to follow every one of them, obey every one of them." Orlanda's heart sank as his words came, each one more terrifying than the last. He continued in a cold, measured tone: "First rule, you don't leave this room unless I tell you to. Never ever." "Second rule, you don't make a noise, no sounds, no talking, no screaming. No one should ever know you are in here. You stay quiet at all times." She blinked, fear settling deeper in her chest. "Third rule, if I give you an order, you follow it without question. You do not ask why and you do not hesitate." Her stomach churned. The rules weren't just

FOR a split second, Sophia wished the ground would just open up and swallow her whole. She had only come to the mart that evening to pick up a few groceries and leave quietly. But one careless, deliberately loud remark, one mocking and derogatory remark a lady had made about her now, making heads to snap at her and faces to disgustingly stare at her, shattered that peace and made her to say such prayer, that the ground she was standing on, should open and swallow her whole.“How can a low-life, low-class girl turn a man like Oswald Escobar on? Eww. It is disgusting.”The voice carried through the aisle, it was sharp and mocking. Heads turned. Faces twisted into sneers.“She isn’t even pretty enough, to be honest,” the woman added, her tone dripping with disdain.Sophia’s grip on the shopping basket tightened. Inside, her blood boiled. On the outside, she forced herself to keep moving, to ignore it.She was used to this, used to being the girl society rejected for daring to love a man f

“BABY…” he called softly, his voice rich with affection. “My little angel… my life… my love… my heartbeat…”He kept going, showering her with pet names that wrapped around her like a warm blanket.“Do you remember Sunday the 9th? That beautiful evening we first met at the beach?” His tone turned nostalgic. She sniffled, still curled up in his arms.“You looked so sweet, too sweet for me to walk past, too sweet that I couldn't resist. I didn’t care about the people watching or my status. I just had to know your name.” He stroked her hair gently, feeling her sobs grow lighter.“And… do you remember that poor woman who tripped and fell because she was staring at us?”Sophia burst into laughter at the memory, and his heart warmed instantly. This was his Sophia, soft-hearted, easily coaxed back to smiles.She hugged him tightly, her arms looped around his neck. “But why won’t people let us be? Why do they keep taunting me? I’m tired of it.”“People never stop talking about a shining star,”

... FIVE YEARS LATER…OSWALD Dino Escobar stood by the French window in the semi-dark room, gazing out over the quiet surroundings. In one hand, he held a glass tumbler, slowly sipping his wine as his mind drifted.For five long years, he had been away from home, away from family, away from his parents, away from the world of business, away from anything and anyone that could distract him or stop him from mourning his Sophia. Five solid years of self-imposed exile.How the companies were faring, he neither knew nor cared to know. The state of his parents’ well-being wasn’t even in the last lines of his concerns. To him, as long as they had the audacity, the sheer nerve, to destroy the only soul he had truly loved, their fate meant nothing to him.In all these years, no one had been able to find him. No one even knew where he had disappeared to. He had done everything possible to keep himself hidden and besides, he had left behind a stern warning that they should never come looking for

FOR a split second, both husband and wife were stunned and dumbfounded, they were lost for words, watching at Andrew with surprises written all over their faces.What has Andrew just said to them, that their son was finally back after five long years? Ahhh! It was unbelievable."Andrew, repeat what you just told us," Lord Dino said, gradually jolting back into reality.Andrew all the while was just smiling and excited, he wasn't as surprised as they were, although felt that way when he had just first heard the news."I said…" he trailed off and turned back, towards the large television set and picked up the remote control which was lying on the rack beneath the television."It is on the news right now, live," he said as he picked it up. The couple watched him.Then with the remote control, he put on the television and began searching for the particular TV channel where he had seen the news, but he needed not to, the first channel that showed up, was talking about it."Ah ha!" he exclai