Chapter 97 One more kiss after cookies would be better.
97\. One more kiss after cookies would be better.
"Errgh, I can't bear this freaking baby inside me anymore?" Eight and half months pregnant Aurora frowned with tear drops shining by the corner of her eyes.
"Damien Hunter, your baby is bothering me so much now."
She dragged her feet carefully, each at a time as she took the support of the wall. She had been advised to rest as much as possible given that she was close to the date of delivery. But the annoying baby in her womb won't stop bothering her at all.
"Damien Hunter, where are you?" She shouted for her Alpha husband so that she could complain to him about the baby and his tormenting kicks.
"I am here, love," Damien replied. "In the study."
"As if I don't know. Come here and get me, idiot!" She gritted her teeth and hunched her shoulders towards the wall as she could not walk properly.
Her feet were swollen to the ankles. Her eyes were puffy red from constant crying due to the pain she had been feeling these days. She's not gained enough weight but the baby in her womb was adequate for her to cringe and bother her husband. A loose t-shirt with loose pants suited her while she held her plumped stomach. Not to mention the glow her cheeks adorned.
"I told you to call me if there's anything important, Aura. Why do you stress yourself so much? You can't walk properly with this big belly. I don't want you to slip or fall, right? Then why don't you listen to me or Madam Martha, Aura. You have to take care of yourself huh." Damien got her by the waist and started dragging her to his study carefully.
"Just shut up," Her tearful eyes made him chew his lips and keep his mouth quiet. "I am already taking care of a baby inside me. It's your duty to take my care. Don't give me that lecture again or I'll punch your pretty sexy face."
As they reached his study he made her comfortable on the couch and lifted a glass of water near her mouth.
"You have no idea how much your baby is bothering me. I've been kicked seven times already since the morning." She sobbed with tears and pouted.
"The baby won't let me be in peace." She blinked like a baby herself.
Alpha Damien's heart melted over the cute expression she projected and he hugged her shoulders tightly.
"Aww, my darling," She loved his pampering.
He would make her days blissful with his positive response and help her forget she was in pain due to her pregnancy. He cared for her and took care of his business too.
She rested her head on his shoulder and inhaled his cologne. The kicks and the associated pain was inevitable. In fact, the books she read explained and shared tips on how to bear the pain and overcome the exhausting feeling. But Aurora Hunter enjoyed being cared for.
She loved Damien's soft tone. She loved when his long and slim fingers stroked her plump belly and massaged it with oil. When he kept his business aside and gave her his attention in entirety, she felt the pain reduce. She just loved being in his arms all these months as she carried their little one inside her.
Even now if one hand was around her shoulder then the other was gliding up and down her swollen belly under her t-shirt. The baby seemed to have developed a connection with his father because he would stop moving inside her womb whenever his palm met her skin. The baby and the father's already decided how to bother her. Thought Aurora.
"Just a few more weeks then you will get rid of this pain. Tolerate it for some more time, Aura." He said lovingly, his lips pecking her creased forehead to ease.
His soft tone was elixir, sweet and consoling. Yet her mood swings made her grit her teeth and spit back, "Since it's not your womb, so no opinions."
Jaw dropping in amazement, Alpha Damien bit back his smile and raised his hands in surrender. It was useless to argue with her in this condition. This or that way, the Alpha's darling should win the argument from him.
"I am hungry. I want to eat something." Damien looked in front of him at his desk and the laptop, then back at his Luna.
An important document was waiting for his attention on the laptop, but he smiled at her, "Okay, what would Mrs. Hunter like to eat?" He asked, kissing her knuckles.
"Choco chip cookies made exclusively by the best baker in the world Alpha Damien." His eyes widened in surprise while Aura laughed at the expression.
All this while Damien cooked a lot of dishes to satisfy her cravings. It may sound astounding but the alpha was actually a good cook. Aura wouldn't have known if he didn't make five steps lasagna for her once when they were alone in the house and the servants with Madam Martha went on a small holiday trip together. She was so hungry that she could eat anything.
It not only smelled tasty but the flavours also charmed Aurora. She can still feel the taste on the tip of her tongue. But the best of the best were his baking skills.
He actually won a baking competition at his academy conducted in his college days. Aura was tongue tied when she held his certificates as they were going through his achievement once in his room— after she expressed her desire to see how talented her husband was. It was then when she expressed the urge to taste something baked by him and he made Choco chip cookies for her.
"Err, you sure want me to cook them for you?" He scratched his head, recalling that he had important documents to review. "Can't Miss. Martha or anyone else make them for you?"
Her face instantly frowned. She blew air out of her gritted mouth and prepared to get up. Her Pikachu-like angry red face made him laugh and hold her hands tighter as he made her sit in his lap
"Don't blame me if our baby happens to have crazy anger issues." He kissed her neck. "Because you don't seem to pass any good habits to my offspring in your womb." Her eyes rolled and she scoffed.
"As if you will teach him anything nice." She mumbled.
Damien picked her up in his arms and strode to the kitchen. "Good afternoon, Alpha," The women working in the kitchen bowed their heads in respect and exited the room.
It was not new for them to see their alpha cook food for their Luna. Every time she lost her shit or got extremely pumped up due to pregnancy, he would step in the kitchen and prepare food to satisfy his woman and her bothering stomach.
"I want them extra sweet," Aura spoke while he was mixing flour with other ingredients in a transparent bowl.
She was sitting on the kitchen slab next to him, watching her handsome alpha husband prepare the batter for cookies.
Damien obeyed her wish, "Don't you think you've been eating way too sweet stuff lately."
"You think so?" He eyed the bag of gummy bears in her hand that she was chewing on.
"I have no problem but later when you gain weight, I don't want you to— Err, I mean to say," While his wolf cursed him in his mind, Damien cursed his tongue for slipping out of control.
Why? Aura was sniffing with teary eyes at him as she complainingly pouted.
"You want to say I have become fat, right? And that... I am not beautiful any more." She slapped the bag of gummy bears on the slab and inched away from him so he couldn't get her with his hands.
"I swear I didn't intend to—"
"Oh no no, let me get this straight Alpha Damien, so you love my figure not me. Isn't that correct?" Her nose turned red as she circled her round belly with both her hands.
Sighing defeatedly, Damien dealt with the cookies first. He placed small portions in a baking tray over a parchment paper and threw it in the oven. He set the timer to cook before spinning around to face his pregnant Aura, throwing a complaining gaze towards him.
He paused before her. She was crying but she looked utterly gorgeous. The glow of pregnancy was making her look more and more alluring.
As his eyes fixed with the trickling tears on her crimson cheeks, he placed both his hands on the slab on her either side.
"There are hundred percent chances for you to divorce me after I deliver your baby. I can see you moving around with sexy models while an even sexier nanny takes care of your heir. You will not love me since you've made it clear I've become fat. You will not look at me either. I know you in and out, Damien Hunter! I can imagine you dumping me right after your baby is born." He joined their foreheads and let her knit a list of consequences that would never take place.
"In fact, in fact, I can imagine you throwing me out of this mansion as I would be of no more use to you. It would not hurt your fcking ass at all if I die or get kidnapped after that, would it? You would simply enjoy eating grapes in your lavish mansion from the hands of a half naked new mistress with tons of makeup dusted on her fake face." She added twisting and pulling at his collars.
"Done?" When she had nothing else to say he looked up.
"Yeah, I am done whining. What would you do now?" She said toughly, targeting his already tempted heart with her cuteness.
He caught her mouth in a kiss longer than expected and intertwined their fingers together.
"Was that enough to put off the paranoia in your mind, Mrs. Hunter?" He stared at her reddening cheeks, this time growing red with blush.
Her mood swings were lovelier when experienced. She would throw crazy tantrums at him at any time of the day but one deep kiss and she would relax down as if she had never ever been crazy at all.
While behind him the oven chimed, indicating her cookies were ready, "One more kiss after the cookies would be better." Aura hid her face in his chest and smiled.
Tbc…