CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
I had just arrived from work for lunch when I caught up with Maggie with something attached to the wall. Maggie told me she will make food for lunch so I went home. She lives with me after we come back from our vacation in Baguio. I already told her about this house. She said it was okay and I hadn’t given her this house before because she might burn this also.
“Hi.” I greeted her and approached to kiss her. I looked at the painting Hailey gave us. It is placed in the vacant spot in the middle of two tiger paintings.
‘That’s place belongs to you.’
“Beautiful right?” she asks.
“You’re more beautiful.”
“I know it’s been a long time, by the way, the ones we’re going to wear to the wedding have arrived. The case isn’t here because Margot stole my gown. Dane took yours.”
“Huh, how was it taken?”
“I said I’ll check if it’s fit for me. But they said it’s superstitious that the bride and groom shouldn’t measure anything to wear to the wedding. And they know I’m crazy and when it’s in my hand it’s impossible for me not to measure it.” Then she hugged me. “Is that superstition still valid while we’ve had sex?” I smiled and hugged her. We will get married three days from now and I’m really excited.
“Let them. They know more about the old superstition.”
“Yes, they have the same old faces and brains. Let’s go eat and you’ll be back in the office.”
I am holding her hands as we go down. When we arrived she let me sat me down while she prepared the food. It’s been a few months since she moved here and she always does it to me. But I feel always new. Seeing her preparing our meals makes me happy. I thought it would never happen again. Just to think that I almost lost her is that I feel so much guilt.
She stops using drugs because Dylan doesn’t want to give her anymore. She also stopped drinking alcohol. She focused on taking care of me and the housework as we did when we first got together. I hired an assistant to accompany her and help with the heavy tasks but when it comes to cooking, ironing my clothes is what she does.
“Hmph, smell good,”
“Shrimp porridge.” She set the dish down in front of me. “I haven’t made any dessert because you have a long time now on break so I am your desert.”
“You said that and I will accept it.”
“When it comes to sex, you’re really fast. Sometimes I don’t believe them that you rarely had sex with a woman back then.”
“Believe me, love, you’re the only one I really can’t refuse.”
“Yes and maybe I’ll change my mind about your desert.”
We eat together. I am feeling happy thinking is someone is taking care of me and not just who but the woman I love. The woman I want to be with forever. After we eat, we let the maid take care in the kitchen. As Maggie promised, she is my desert. We just take a rest and then we make love.
“What time are you coming back to the office?” We’re both naked while she’s playing my chest.
“Later, I don’t have a meeting today so we can still follow round two.”
“No problem, but nothing tonight.”
“I changed my mind. The other one is tonight.”
“Blaze,”
“Hmph?
“Our wedding is three days from now. I will be a real Gonzales.” She looked up at me so I kissed her. “Thank you for loving me, Blaze. For not giving up on me. For taking me back.”
“And thank you for coming back.”
“Honestly, I can’t see myself with someone else after I fell in love with you.” She pushes herself to me. “After my first heartbreak, I never saw myself with someone else. I promise myself that I won’t fall for anyone. I am just planning to give my purity to someone else that deserves to have my virginity but no string attached. So, I can enjoy being liberated after. But falling in love, tsk, is not on my plan. ”
“Not until you meet me,” I said.
“Not until I fall in love with you. When I marry you, I am planning to give you myself as a payment when I get to Paloma. But everything changed and I love you. Since then, I promised myself that I will never give myself to others. It will be you and only you. Even if we separate forever, I will still crawl on you. Even if you have someone else, I will still harass you and rape you.”
“Me too, I thought the same, Mag. That night I brought you home and something happened to us. Even though I used to think that you and Dylan I told myself that it’s ok that I will be the one who acts like a side catch. I don’t care about Dylan and with what you have as long as you’re mine too. But more than that, I want to protect you silently even if you still have Dylan.”
“Do you really think Dylan and I have a relationship?”
“Yeah, he told the doctor, then you even kissed at the hotel on Daze’s birthday.”
“We just teased you. We noticed that you couldn’t take your eyes off us so we went out. We really expected you to follow so Dylan tripped you.”
“That one is really stupid.”
“Very much, as stupid as I am.”
“Mag”
“Hmph?”
“Can you now tell me what Dylan told you in the hotel?”
“When he tamed me?”
“Yup.”
“I said that I can’t say.”
“Why?”
“Well, let say it’s friendship code. So, it’s between me and Dylan. Dylan shares those quotes, sayings, I don’t know what to call it, to someone special to him. It’s his own version as he said, so I can’t share it with you.”
“So you’re special to him. Well, I’m jealous before but now I know that you are mine alone, I can’t feel anything for him, except for being proud. Because I thought the fool only knew how to fuck but he also knows how to think.”
“Don’t get jealous of him. He may be my first boyfriend, but I never loved him the way that I loved you. Even Khairo before, I loved him but not the same as I love you.” She cupped my face and face it to her. “I loved them as much as I love you now. I could have gone crazy when they disappeared, but I almost went die when you almost disappeared. If you hadn’t come back I don’t know who I am now.”
“I believe you, not because that’s what you said but, because that’s what I feel. And I want to let you know that I don’t regret that you were the first woman I loved. The length of time I restrained myself from loving a woman because I don’t want to gamble but it’s worth the wait because I love you.”
“Blaze,”
“Hmph?”
“Round two.” I couldn’t answer when she was on top and kissing me.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.