Chapter 10

Leah saw the field full of blue flowers and beamed. She ran, laughing happily, but when she looked back she saw her father rolling his eyes. Her happiness started to deflate like a balloon and she sat down on the floor next to the flowers.

“Can we leave already?”

“We just arrived.” Leah heard her mother say shyly. “Let her enjoy the moment.”

“She is always enjoying too much. Besides it's not like a have time to waste like this.”

Her mother sighed and looked at her sadly, signaling that they had to leave, too. Leah moved a hand to touch a flower to say goodbye, but as she was not looking she didn't notice the bee until it stung her. Her parents looked at her when she screamed.

“Shut up, already. It was just a bee.” her father said walking to her.

Leah flinched when he stopped in front of her and grabbed her hand. He squeezed her finger hard, making her cry louder until he got the sting out.

“I said to shut up and move.” he dragged her. “This happened just because you wanted to do this stupid thing. Pff... Flowers! As if they are that impressive.”

“She is just a kid, John.” said her mother trying to reach them to grab Leah from his grasp, but he was walking too fast.

“You shut up too. You are always letting her do whatever she wants.”

He grabbed Leah and carried her to get home faster. She used her tiny fists to hold onto his shirt. At least, she had never felt like he would let her fall, but that was probably because he hated to hear her cry. Or even talk.

When they got home, Leah entered her room and quietly cried on her bed. She didn't know exactly when she fell asleep, but she woke by a soft pinch on her arm.

“Wake up, leech, dinner is ready.” her father said.

She stood up and followed him. She was reaching the table when she noticed her finger was throbbing, when she looked at her hand she saw the finger the bee had stung was swollen and red.

“Leah, put this on the table, please.” her mother said.

Leah scratched her neck and grabbed the plates she was passing her without looking and the pain in her hand made her flinch, and drop them. She heard the ceramic breaking against the floor and the silence filling the room afterward. She quickly looked at her father who exhaled an exasperated sigh, frowned at her, and approached her stomping. Leah felt like she was not able to breathe anymore while seeing her father approach her like that and closed her eyes tight when he grabbed her arm.

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Leah opened her eyes, gasping for air. Seeing her room walls she noticed she had been dreaming, but it was so real she could still feel the lack of air and the hand on her arm. She looked and saw William was looking at her worryingly, he had woken her.

“Honey, what is it that is troubling you this much?” he hugged her.

Leah was still gasping for air so the hug felt a little uncomfortable at first, and then she felt secure and hugged him back noticing she was crying.

“Shh... It's ok, it was just a nightmare.”

She didn't consider that a nightmare though. Even though her father had been annoyed at her that was not the period when he was just purely angry and completely hated her. After dropping the plates, she lost consciousness. Hours later woke up in a hospital with her father next to her, vigilant, and her mother sleeping next to her. That was the day they discovered she was allergic to bees. Her father had not approached her to reprimand, but because he noticed her face was swelling. Back then, he had never hit her, but his harsh character toward her always had her feeling he would at any moment.

Leah inhaled William's scent, softly bringing her back to the present and erasing the lingering feelings from the dream.

“You are still here,” she whispered and sniffed.

Without letting her go, he climbed on the bed and lay down next to her, dragging her with him all the time. Then, he hugged her tighter and tangled his legs with hers.

“Yeah, Leo has not arrived yet. There's traffic.”

She wondered what time was it when Demon climbed onto the bed with them. They both looked at the dog which looked back at them. Leah knew he was going to growl at William but the dog just passed over her and lay in between both of them, forcing them to separate to give him the space he demanded.

“Oh, D.” she gasped remembering she had fallen asleep without attending him.

William grabbed her arm before she could move.

“I already fed and walked him.” she looked at him gapping.

“You walked him?” he nodded. “How?”

“Hmm... I... I'm not sure how you want me to answer that... I just took him out and walked with him until he did his thing.”

“And he went with you?” Leah started to examine his body looking for a missing limb.

“Well, I did have to pull him out at first but then he just followed me, until he saw we were coming back. Then, he was the one commanding the way.” he scratched the dog behind an ear. “I'm surprised he didn't try to rip me apart when he climbed up.”

“Well, I told him not to.”

“When?”

“Last time you were here and he tried to bite you.”

Although she knew she had told Demon to not be vigilant with William, it still surprised her he would do anything William commanded. At most, she just expected him to not growl, not to let William roam the house and walk him.

“What is it that is not letting you sleep?”

She looked back at him after he whispered that, still scratching Demon.

“It's too soon to introduce you to my problems.”

“You said the same last time.”

“And just a week has passed since; it's still too soon,” she said brushing it off.

After a moment of quietness, he talked again.

“You didn't want to get pregnant, right?” he got closer, squeezing Demon between them. “I mean, you already mentioned you were on the pill and didn't plan to get pregnant from our night together. But I guess... Even if you were with someone you wanted, a pregnancy was not in your plans, right?”

She looked at him, surprised, but she thought it would be easy to guess, considering how she panicked during her medical check.

“It doesn't matter who is it with, an unplanned pregnancy is always hard, and if you didn't want to get pregnant at all is even harder.” He continued.

“It's weird, isn't it? A woman who doesn't want a relationship or kids.”

“Why weird?”

“Supposedly, all women have that maternal instinct. I don't.”

“So, weird as if you are a defective machine?” he shook his head. “These are different times; women are not roaming Earth just for having babies. It's ok if you don't want to.”

“With the way society reacts when a woman says she doesn't want to have kids, you would think otherwise.”

“Well, fuck society.” he rolled his eyes. “They won't help you raise any kid, nor would they give you a single cent for you to spend on a child.” he sighed. “I guess I should apologize. I put you in this situation, even though I was not looking for it either, we had sex three times and on two of those, I did it without a condom and came inside. Who knows maybe the condom I had was defective and this intruder escaped from it.” he touched her still flat belly.

“Yeah, a very sneaky intruder, considering it decided to also ignore my contraceptive.”

He smiled at her and raised a hand to caress her face.

“You also never mention getting an abortion so I assume you at least want to try it.”

She started to play with her finger.

“I guess I do. But I'm afraid I might fail,” she whispered.

He got closer and kissed her on the cheek. Demon complained about being so tight between them and she told him to go down.

“Sorry, boy.” he looked back at her. “But I'm here. You just have to tell me whenever you are scared; I'll try my best to make it less scary.”

“You were not looking for this, are you not scared?”

“It's unsettling, but I guess I'll be fine. I've taken care of my cousins since they were babies; I like kids.” he smiled at her but she grimaced. He blinked surprised. “You don't?”

Her eyes quickly filled with tears and she started sobbing while shaking her head to let him know she didn't like kids. She covered her face with her hands when he gasped but quickly felt his arms surrounding her again.

“Shh. No. Don't cry.” he passed a leg over her and used her to pull her closer. “Not liking kids it's not a weird thing. Many people don't like kids.”

“How am I even–” She sobbed harder.

“Shh...” he tried to soothe her. “That doesn't necessarily mean you will dislike yours. You will know how to deal with them and recognize what they want and need and they will know your character and till where to push your buttons.”

She shook her head just thinking about the kids she always witness misbehaving and disrespecting their parents in the street whenever she is out and how she reacted whenever she saw it. She sobbed even harder, inconsolable. He hugged her tighter and rubbed his face on her neck.

“Don't cry. It breaks my heart.” he pleaded.

She calmed a little with his words. She had heard them before but could not tell from where. She raised a hand to his face and felt his eyes wet. She backed from the hug to see he, indeed, had teary eyes.

“I'm sorry.”

“Don't. It just pains me to not be able to alleviate your pain. But you'll see with time, I'll show you to be more patient with kids. I told you I'm not going anywhere. I'm here and I'll always be.”

She sobbed quietly because of his words. His phone ran but he just hugged her again and grunted.

“Not now.”

She hugged him back again. She liked how it felt; it was very comfortable to be hugged by him.

“You have to leave.”

“I waited for him for a while. He can wait a few minutes.”

She chuckled without humor. She hugged him for a while before pulling off of his arms. He pouted.

“Thank you.”

“Are you sure you are ok?”

“I'll survive,” she said nodding.

“I'm starting to dislike that phrase.” she looked at him confused; that was actually a good phrase and promise. He explained. “I don't want you to just survive; I want you well and happy.”

His phone rang again while she felt her heart fluttering. He picked up the phone.

“Wait a fucking minute,” he told whoever was calling and hung up without waiting for an answer.

She smiled seeing him exasperated, so to distract him and to let him know that she was fine now, she kissed him. He moaned and froze in surprise, but quickly recovered and kissed her back.

She had planned to give him a short kiss and pull back, but William showed her once more he was an amazing kisser and even better sober than while being drunk. She wrapped her fingers in his hair and the man bun he had came loose. He put a hand on her hip and held it tight, later moving the hand to her ass and squeezing while bringing her closer to his growing erection.

She moaned and gasped for air, and he took the opportunity to explore and taste her neck while slowly bringing his hands to her breast and teasing her nipples.

“Liam.” she moaned his name out loud.

He grunted and changed positions, to be on top of her and between her legs. He kissed her and ripped her shirt open, quickly sneaking his hands under her bra. She could not believe she was about to have an orgasm so quick when he started to rub his erection over her pants, but it had been the same the first time. She liked him too much, it has been like that for a long time, since she started to invest and found his company.

She started to investigate and study companies to check which the best ones to invest were and so she found him and his company. She spent the last few years reading all news regarding him with the excuse of doing it to make the best decision while investing. When she finally had him in front of her a couple of months ago, she couldn't believe it and was so nervous, the only thing she could do was pretend she was not interested at all. And when she saw Samantha lurking around a drunken William, about to approach him, she left Benjamin behind and went to him to keep the redheaded away.

The last thing she expected was to end up in his bed, the same as what was happening now. William stopped kissing her just to kiss her cheek and make a way down her neck and lower, softly but hungrily as if he was adoring and enjoying her body. She arched her back to remove the shirt and the bra and he quickly took possession of one of her nipples with his mouth. She moaned loudly and grabbed his hair. He started to tease the other nipple with his hand and not long after the so waited orgasm shook her body.

William let go of her breast and laughed, pleased, before softly biting her torso and continuing his way down.
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