Chapter 87 Eh, the alpha wants a daughter
87\. Eh, the alpha wants a daughter!
"Are you even listening to me, honey?" A hard jerk pulled Aura back to reality.
She flickered her stunned lashes and inhaled a deep breath. Then nervousness sat pink on her cheeks as Aura watched Madam Martha eye her with feigned anger for not paying attention to anything she said.
"Erm, I… I was listening to you until…" She lowered her head and shied away.
"Hmm, until I mentioned 'The marriage'? I should have known," The old woman said shaking her wrinkled face with a bemused grin.
Madam Martha rose from the chair. She filled a glass of water for Aurora and saw her drink it shyly. Her laughter rang in the area. She was amazed to see Aurora's expressions. As though a small kid caught while stealing candies, she refused to meet her eyes.
"Oh darling, what am I going to do with you? Look at your blush. You are all red." She caressed her cheek while pulling her up on her feet, holding her shoulders.
Aura was tongue tied. She was didn't know how to open a new conversation. Honestly, her mind had stopped thinking about anything other than their marriage. God, she had been waiting for this moment.
From that night of confession to the night of her tragic proposal, she had been dreaming of the atmosphere of her wedding hall. Damien's ring showed his love but that knot she fancied they needed to tie to make their relationship legit and bound seemed to never come.
Hearing about it the very next day of her naughty and hot reunion with her boyfriend disabled her thinking process. She didn't know how to speak or breathe. She just wanted to go to the church and get married to Damien or however he seemed fit at the earliest.
The thought of it alone did something to her stomach. It felt as if the baby in her belly was excited too. A hand pressed down on her belly and she closed her eyes before opening them with full concentration.
Aura had a strong comeback and excuses to save herself from more blush settling in her cheeks when Madam Martha turned her around and pointed to the corridor leading to Damien's bedroom.
"Perhaps some time alone is what you need. I can understand your excitement, dear. Go, enjoy your thrilling emotions as you think about your barbarian boyfriend and a marriage with him." She sang in delight.
She slapped playfully on her back and left before Aurora did to the kitchen. A sigh left Aura's mouth as she began her stride. She locked the door and sunk in a chair while holding her chest.
Her heart was hammering crazily in her rib. Her throat was dry and the back of her eyes burned with happy unshed tears. She clutched the handrest and tried to even her respiration. It all seemed like a fairytale happening at a fast pace, but happening for real.
First, the prince charming entered her boring, orphan and colorless life. He colored it as though he was a rainbow that rises in the clear sky post a rough shower. Then he introduced to her to a world she's read existed only in novels and then suddenly turned it into a real life experience for her.
From an unexpected pregnancy trope after a stunning night of lovemaking to falling for a Casanova male lead, seperating from him due to misunderstandings woven by evil antagonists to a romantic reunion to a final destination of marriage— Aura witnessed a love story that was intense than the ones published into a novel.
She smiled to herself with eyes twinkling joyfully. This was surely a life she had no idea awaited her when she first saw Damien years back as a teenager. Had she known he would become her husband, she would have proudly bragged about it in high school as other girls did.
Her chain of thoughts came to a halt as her phone buzzed aggressively on the bedside table. Aura's face bloomed like lilacs during spring, gracefully and proudly. Her lips quivered in unspoken passion and her breasts suddenly ached, becoming full. Aura felt her soft core between her legs cream. It was her prince charming. Oh, her Alpha charming!
She immediately hit the green phone dancing in the middle of the screen and elevated the cellular phone it to her ear.
"Hii, love," Her eyes shut close at the sound of his sexy voice.
It reminded her of the huskiness she had noted in his voice the other night as he uttered naughty and extremely dirty words in her ears. They actually rushed back to her reminiscence.
"Hey," Aura managed to reply, attempting hard to not breathe heavily on phone as the glimpse of their Makeout from the last night battled with her persistence to attend to Damien on the call.
"You sound short-winded. Is that because you're thinking about me, hmm?" His voice rang.
"About our intense portrayal of passion yesterday?" He added.
Her back erected to perfection. She brushed away his thoughts and with a deep breath said, "No ways, I am not thinking about you… or the night.. Do you think I do not have any work to do?"
"As far as I know Miss Martha and her obligations I don't think she'd let you work while you are pregnant. Not that I appreciate it. I don't pay two dozen servants for gossiping in the mansion!" An ache was sparked in the hollow of her stomach by his dark demanding voice.
He was not here but Aura can imagine a smirk plastered on his face. He was not only just talking about his authority he had on everyone but also highlighting the fact that she must be idle and lost in his thoughts which was a hundred percent true aspect.
But she didn't want to give him supreme satisfaction. So Aura heaved dramatically on the call to prove him wrong, "Give me a break Mr. Hunter, I still have many things to do if not the household job."
"Really?"
"Yes, Mr. Hunter,"
"Like what, Mr. Hunter to-be?" Aura stuck her thighs together to prevent heat tickling at her moist core that his rough voice triggered.
That 'Mrs. Hunter to-be' did something to her body. Pressing a hand down in her hardening nipples, Aura tried not to smile too much and give away her excitement and desperation she was diving through at the moment.
"Like taking care of the baby. Reading about good habits during pregnancy and thinking about lunch and dinner because my boyfriend is very moody. He only likes food I prepare for him with my special ingredient put into it." She said walking to the window.
She heard a melodious laugh on the other side. He might not have expected this conversation to become so cheesy but they were loving it. Aura didn't want it to end even if it could at any moment.
"What's your special ingredient, love? I am curious to know." She slowly licked her shuddering lips as she adored Damien's huge portrait hanging behind the bed.
Her cheeks warmed looking in the molten intensity in his golden eyes. His portrait was also enough to awaken shudders in her body.
"Lots and lots of love and care, and good prayers." She answered.
Damien was on a pause for a small moment. He was talking to someone in an incomprehensibly soft tone. She sat there patiently and when he returned, she closed her eyes at the sound of his sexy moistening roughly exciting male voice hitting her eardrums.
"Wow! Now I perceive why the hell am I turning so polite with everyone these days." They fell silent afterwards as Damien got busy again on his side of the atmosphere in a distant conversation.
Aura impatiently tapped her foot on the floor. She was waiting to resume their sweet conversation. She was loving it and they've only started it. This time but it felt like there was no chance. There seemed to be three to four men with Damien.
"Sorry, love, just a bit busy." He said, making her heave happily for coming back on the call.
"You must work then, we will talk later."
"Oh no, this busy is not business related busy. It's something else," He paused urgently, as if refraining his desperation from spilling out spoilers. "There's a surprise for you."
"Surprise?" Aura felt him smile through those words.
Her heart suddenly caught speed and she couldn't help but widen her mouth and celebrate it herself with a big grin. Her cheeks turned tomato red. She suppressed her grin not wanting Damien to sense it. She would be the last person to spoil his surprise that was not a surprise for her at all since Madam Martha already gave away the hints.
"Yes, a lovely surprise you're gonna cherish your whole life. Just give me some while, you'll have it come to you sooner. I can envisage your popped out eyes and a dropped jaw." He sounded desperately delightful.
"And your solid nipples too," He cracked up.
"I am electrified Mr. Alpha. Can't wait to see it sooner." She replied avoiding his last statement.
They talked for a little more while until Damien got busy again. When he returned to the call, "Okay love, I need to go for a meeting. Take care and be careful on the stairs if you go up. Ask Miss Martha to help you with all the necessities you want and give loads of love to our baby. Tell her, her papa misses her so much and that he's going to play with his daughter once he comes home tonight."
"Her? I told you it could be a boy too, Damien." Aura said with a drop in her tone.
They had a cute argument regarding the gender of the baby in the morning during shower. While he claimed it was his baby girl, Aura stood to her grounds of it being both either a boy or a girl. She was happy if she got either but she didn't want Damien to develop hope for a daughter.
"I don't want you to be disheartened when the doctors pull out a boy. So please, don't expect a girl already." She said, "If you are so desperate then we can go and check the baby's gender for your relief."
Damien chuckled at her words. She enjoyed his musical cackling before he spoke, "There's no need for that. A boy or a girl, we are going to love them unconditionally that's for sure. And please, let me enjoy these days with you while we are pregnant. This is not going to come again for a few years after our first baby is born." He kind of complained. "Let me relish my assumptions and make plentiful memories through our pregnancy."
"I still hope it is a baby girl. I want a beautiful daughter like you, Aura. Your little version. I want to buy her expensive dresses, make-up, shoes and everything she points her finger at." She loved his curiosity.
"You want to spoil her, you mean?"
"You can say that if pampering her with gifts and luxuries sounds like that."
Aura's mouth clenched in annoyance. The baby was not here but he was already thinking about spoiling it. She shook her head, shoving away the future drama she was to endure and focused on the present. This conversation was still the best of the day.
"Okay then, bye love. Take care. I need to go." Damien uttered.
"Hmm, bye. I love you."
"I love you too, darling." With that he disconnected the call while Aurora happily chuckled, hiding her face in her palms.
This phase of life was gorgeous. Thought Aurora. Perhaps, this is why they said pregnancy is a blessing.
Tbc…