Chapter 8: CHAPTER EIGHT

Marie My head was throbbing, I knew clubbing wasn't a good idea. I had to go and test my luck and let's say that my luck wasn't happy with me. I tried to get up from my bed and realized that something was holding me down, I looked down to see the naked arm of someone over my torso and a very naked leg crossed over mine.

‘Dear Lord, please let it not be what I think it is...let it not be who I think it is...”

I turned my head slowly to place a face to the rest of the body parts. Jameson!!!

I screamed and fell out of the bed.

“What have I done?! What have I done?!”

Jameson jumped from the bed in all his naked glory and began to look frantically about, when he noticed that there wasn’t any apparent danger he looked at me and made his way over to where I was sitting on the floor.

“What’s the problem babe?”

What?!

The nerve of this bastard, who does he think he is. I pulled the duvet from the bed secured it around my body before standing to my full height.

“You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”

“What did I do?”

“You did this on purpose!! You just can’t take no for an answer, you just have to get what you want, right?!”

He legit had the gall to look surprised, confused even.

"I didn't do anything you didn't want, you begged for it last night."

“You sick bastard!!!”

I charged at him and kicked him where the proverbial sun doesn’t shine and I felt some sick satisfaction inside me as he went down hard holding on to his family jewels.

What was I going to do?

What was I going to tell Luke?

How was he going to react to this?

I started running around the room, packing up all of my stuff, and hopping into the shower. I scrubbed my skin until it turned bright red, I wanted to wash away all the memories of last night. I cried through my bath, through the flight, and only tried for some semblance of normal when the car pulled up at my front door, and even then, the crying was replaced by guilt.

I don’t know how I was gonna do it but I have to face Luke and kiss him as if nothing happened. We've come too far to go back to where we began.

I walked into the house and found Lucas asleep on the sofa. I carefully took off my shoes and sneaked up on him and then literally fell on his face first.

“La lalalalalalala di dididoooooo!!!!”

“What the! Oh shit!!! Marie!!!. What are you doing?”

I laughed so hard tears began to fall from my eyes. I sat up and straddled him.

“You should have seen your face. You looked like you just saw a ghost.”

He wrapped his arms around and pulled me down towards him.

“I missed you too Marie.”

“I missed you too.”

“How was the trip?”

“It was alright. We got the partnership and...I also informed Jameson I’ll be resigning by the end of the month.”

Lucas smiled and kissed me deeply, that kind of kiss would have led to more but I don't feel comfortable kissing him with lips that have been kissing another man, especially one he doesn't like.

“I’m just gonna take a shower and perhaps a nap. The trip in was quite nasty.”

“Sure.”

I stood up from his body and went up with my bags. I’m gonna have to learn to live with this.

Lucas Marie has been acting strange. Almost weird, since she came back from her trip with Jameson and I couldn’t help but wonder if something happened. She already resigned and since then I have been pointing out vacancies to her. This time, it's not a problem of she wants to do it on her own, she's just not interested.

I have asked severally if anything was wrong and the answer was the same, ‘No’

Ashley has been coming around making sly remarks like ‘...maybe you’re not enough to satisfy her...’. Now, what the hell is that supposed to mean?

It has been a long day at work and I was more than happy when the day was finally over. I looked at the time, 5:25 pm. I tried my best to make it home on time to be with Marie and I was glad that I was able to keep to that promise.

I parked my car and walked into the house, Marie wasn’t in the living room, she wasn’t in the kitchen so I assumed she would be asleep in our bedroom. I was right about the bedroom part but sleeping was far from what she was doing. Marie stood with her back to me looking at something in her hand. I snuck up behind her and looked over her shoulder and she was holding a test that read positive.

“You’re pregnant?!!!”

Marie screeched and jumped away from me, holding her chest as she tried to catch her breath.

“Luke, you almost killed me!”

I raised both hands in mock surrender.

“Sorry love. You are pregnant!”

I dropped my suitcase on the floor and gathered Marie into my hands, spinning with her. I dropped her on the bed and sat beside her.

“So you’re happy about the child?”

“Why wouldn’t I be? It’d be nice to have one more...or two again.”

“I just thought that after Jana you wouldn’t want any more kids..”

I held her face in my hands and placed a light kiss on her lips.

“I want an entire tribe just as long as you’re the one to give them to me, otherwise I’m not interested.”

Marie gave me a teary smile and wrapped her arms around me.

Oh, well...another rollercoaster of emotions for another 9 months. I wouldn’t trade that for the world.