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Adrien POV

As our lips merged. I felt everything around us melt away. The tension, the uncertainty. It all melted away with the kiss.

I deepened the kiss as my hands cradled her soft face. My thumbs traced the curves of her cheeks. She tasted so heavenly.

Her lips were so soft. I felt I could kiss them forever and never get tired of it.

I felt her melt into me the more. And her little moans were driving me up the wall, especially when she placed her hands over my hair and tugged at it.

It took everything in me not to take her right there. I wrapped my hand tightly around her waist. Pulling her closer to my body.

Our bodies aligned perfectly. It was as though our hearts were beating as one.

My Dick felt hard, and the feel of her body did little to reduce the frustration I felt from it. So I pulled her body closer to mine. So I could get some relief.

But it only seemed to make things worse. As I even got more erect.

I couldn’t get enough of her, taste enough, or feel enough of her. I wanted to consume her and make her wholly mine.

I want never to let her go. To keep her forever imprinted on my skin.

The kiss felt like a dam was breaking between us. It was like we were both releasing all the pent-up emotions, the pent-up longings and desires, we were letting everything go in this kiss.

And damn! It was a whole lot of pent-up desires and emotions.

A loud crash echoed through the room, disrupting our kiss and shattering the moment.

We broke apart at the sound. And looked at the direction from where the crash had come from.

Margaret was standing by the staircase. Her face was frozen in utter shock. While the pieces of broken glass lay around her feet.

“Margaret!” Esmeralda said in a state of shock.

Margaret's face mirrored her expression.

“Uhm. I’m terribly sorry, I just wanted to Uhm- I was thirsty- so I came down to get some milk to patch my dry throat.”

“It’s okay,” I said in a hoarse note.

“Uhm. Yeah. I’ll help you clean it up.”

“Don’t bother. I’ll clean it up and leave you two- to Uhm-“

Amusement danced around Margaret's eyes while Esmeralda bit her lips. Her cheeks reddened from being caught.

“We are- we are done.” She said in haste.

This had me stifling back laughter. Did she seriously say that? Oh, she could be so cute when she was flushed and nervous.

She noticed the sound of my stifling laughter. And she glared at me.

“Good night, Mr Agreste.”

Mr Agreste! I was struggling not to laugh. While Margaret chuckled. But also stifled it immediately.

Poor Esmeralda had her face even more flushed. She turned to leave.

“Good night, Ms Montana!” Margaret called out. Earning a glare from Esmeralda.

Which caused Margaret to laugh.

After which I turned to go into my room. With my dick erect and hard.

It sure was a long night as I couldn’t sleep. My thoughts were fixated on her and our kiss.

And of how she had initiated the kiss, does that mean things between us were starting to turn up on a good note?

My heart raced at the possibility. I certainly hoped so.

I finally slept off, and when I woke up, it was the sound of the knocking on my door.

I stretched, trying to adjust my eyes to the form of the room. It was Miss Irene.

“Good morning, sir. I was asked to come wake you up.”

“Oh.” I turned to my alarm clock. The time was 9 a.m. I had slept in really late.

“Why hadn’t you come in earlier to wake me up?”

“The miss asked that we shouldn’t disturb you.”

“The children? Have they been prepared for school?”

“Ms Margaret drove them off to school.”

“Is Esmeralda the one who asked you to come wake me?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Alright, thanks.”

She went away. While I stood up and went to freshen up.

Then I changed into new clothes. I put in some cologne and went downstairs.

Irene served me some meals. And I was halfway through the meal.

When I asked for Esmeralda.

“She is in her office, sir.”

“Why is she working? Isn’t she supposed to be sleeping?”

Irene had no answer for me. I finished up with my meal and went to her office.

I knocked on the door. And on the third knocking. She asked me to come inside.

When I stepped in, our eyes met. I heard her breath seize. And our eyes locked.

“Hey.” She greeted in a soft note.

“Hey, how was your night.”

“Fine.” She avoided eye contact with me.

I sat down on the empty seat opposite her.

“You know you are not supposed to be working?” I scolded her playfully.

“I have to. I can’t imagine the workload I placed on Margaret just for being absent for more than a month.”

“We handled every single work. There is no reason for you to fret. What you need to do is to rest.”

“I have been resting. Besides, if I’m not doing anything besides resting, I may actually lose my mind.”

I chuckled. “Always the workaholic.”

She smiled. “You know you are worse than me.”

“Granted. But does that mean I can’t convince you to stop working?”

She shook her head playfully and turned to the system in front of her.

“What are you working on?”

“Just some files.”

“Uhm. I wanted to talk about last night.”

This had a freezing.

She swallowed hard. “What about last night.”

“The kiss.”

“Oh.”

“I just wanted to know if it meant anything. Or if it was just-“

The pinging of my phone kept ringing.

Bad, bad timing.

I checked the caller ID. It was Logan.

He just never knew when to call.

I ignored it.

“Maybe you should pick it up,” Esmeralda said.

I sighed. Picking it up. “This better be good.”

“It is. It seemed the men caught a glimpse of Ray in the motel.”

“Oh. Have they gone in with him?”

“They are waiting for your order.”

“I’ll come to your apartment in some minutes. Tell them not to move in till I get there.”

I ended up the call.

Esmeralda gave me a worried look.

“Is everything alright?”

“It seemed Ray was spotted.”

“Oh. So you are going to go capture him?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay. Can I come with?”

“Uhm-“What I wanted was to talk about our kiss last night, but more importantly, I had a pending matter. And I didn’t even know how I felt about her being involved in it.

“You just recovered. Are you sure you should be involving yourself in such dangers?”

She sighed. Then she opened her phone and showed it to me.

The phone displayed a text message that read;

“Happy recovery, Esmeralda. I was waiting for the day you would come out of the coma. Good to see you pulled through from all that.”

“I got the message last night. I wish to know if it’s from Ray or Diane.”

The message seemed like a normal message. But it had some eerie vibe to it.

“Did you ask your friends and your mother if they were the ones who sent it?”

“Yes. And they all said no. I mean, it looks like a normal message. But I can’t help but feel it has an eerie vibe to it.”

“So you wish to follow me so you can find out if they are the ones who sent it?”

“Yeah. That and- to also silently get back at them for almost killing me and traumatizing my kids in the process.”

I nodded. “You have every right, too. If that’s the case, then no worries; we will go there. Provided you stay close to me. I just got you. And I wouldn’t wish to lose you.”

She smiled. “Thanks for always caring about me. And about the kiss-“

I felt my nerves rise higher. There was a huge chance that she was going to dispel everything and say she didn’t want anything between us. Though the way she kissed me- I had a hard time believing she didn’t want something more.

“I actually wanted to kiss you. And not cause of some experiments. But cause I wanted to, I figured it’s time I stop holding back to past pains and instead move on.”

The silence that ensued didn’t match the way I was internally screaming.

She wanted to kiss me!

A smile crept up my face. But it did little to express how happy and touched I was by her words.

“Really? You want that?” I said in a whisper. As though saying it louder would make her change her mind.

A soft, tender smile spread across her face.

“I don’t know what we would be, but I do know I want to try. When I almost killed. I regretted not being able to express my feelings. I regretted the bitterness I spent years building and living in. I do not know when my life will end. But I don’t want to spend it in bitterness and hatred.”

I reached for her hands. Squeezing it lightly.

“Thank you. So damn much. I promise I won’t ruin this. I swear I will-“

She broke out in a laugh. “I trust you, silly. If almost sacrificing your life for me and the kids twice doesn’t make me trust you? Then I don’t think anything ever will.”

I smiled. Got up from the chair I was seated in. Then I went closer to her.

And I leaned in and captured her lips in a soft and romantic kiss.

She moaned into the kiss. I was responding with the same enthusiasm. The kiss represented a new beginning for us. And I made sure we enjoyed it well enough.