Chapter 20

45: Give Me a Second Chance
After visiting his son in the cemetery, the next place Davien went to was the convent where his wife grew up. Last year he did the same for his son's first death anniversary. He dropped to church to pray and talk to his son through God's passage.
"Son, are you from your son?" Mother Segunda sympathizes with Davien alone. He was sitting in the first row of long chairs in the church. He just finished praying.
"Yes, mother. I visited baby Angelo." Davien turned to Segunda and smiled.
"I'm sure your son loves you very much, son. I also always pray for your reunion. Just let Sister Avah go first. She was hurt so much not only as a woman or a wife, but as a mother. She carried your child in her womb for four months, it's only natural for a mother to be like that. But son, I know Sister and I know you already know her, she was quick to forgive and I know it's not over with you. " Segunda's long mantra.
They got up to sit down and Segunda accompanied Davien to walk along the church hallway. There they in the middle passed while talking.
"Thank you very much, Mother. I will remember everything you said." Davien stopped opposite Segunda.
"You are in a good mood, son. And all who have a springing heart are blessed." The old Segunda opened his hands. Davien came over here and hugged the nun while being very grateful.
Avah's heels created a loud tak-tak-tak sound as she entered her forever home. The convent where he grew up.
Segunda's eyes widened when he saw and recognized who the woman was coming, entering the church.
Whether her dress, walk, her posture, hair, body and her aura were ruined she knew who it was. The child he raised. Avah!
Segundat's sweet smile flashed and he whispered to Davien, "God is so kind, son. He has heard your prayer."
Davien slipped out of Segunda's embrace. She wonders what it says. Then the voice that he's been missing for so long echoed in the church.
"Second Mother!" Avah called her Mother Superior without knowing that it was her late husband who is hugging the old woman.
Slowly, Davien turn around. His heart is beating fast, abnormally fast. And when their eyes locked, they both had a goosebumps as excitement overwhelmed both of them.
"D-Davien ..." His name slipped her mouth the way she did it two years ago. Poor, tender and full of love.
"Avah ..." Davien mumbled. Shocked. Excited. Nervous. Happy. She no longer knew how to feel. His emotion was in riot, like his heart going crazy.
Segunda felt the need to wrap the two so to break it he met the woman.
"Sister!" Segunda exclaimed and hugged the child. They exchanged warm hugs and mejo lost some of Avah's. Then Segundang said, "I'll leave you two first. I can wait." Then she left the two broken hearts alone so they can fix themselves.
"H-hi! How have you been?" Avah forced herself to raise her voice.
Davien cannot believe what he's seeing. His wife is in the front. But it has changed a lot.
"I-I'm ... I'm okay. I'm fine, i-you? When did you arrive?" Davien stammered. Her tongue twisted with the various emotions that engulfed her.
"Two days ago." Avah keeps her face and voice neutral even when she is having a hard time. "I ... ugh ... I visited Angelo. I did see the ... y-the flowers and food you left." Avah could almost hear the loud beating of her heart pounding inside her rib cage.
They are a dipa away from each other. They cannot move their feet as if they were nailed on the ground.
"You were in the cemetery?" Davien asked. "You? How are you for the past years?" He asked.
"I'm good! I've started anew." Avah feel so guilty right now. He left without letting Davien know, or without hearing the story or explanation if there was any.
"G-good for you ..." Davien only said. He has a lot to say. He has prepared everything he has to say. He is waiting for this time but now that Avah is in front of him, his tongue suddenly recedes.
"O-okay ... ugh ... please excuse me. I'll see mother now." Avah smiles at Davien and passes him by.
Before she could walk away, Davien grabbed her right hand making her gasps in response. The sudden touch of him awakened her buried feelings. Avah is electrified by Davien's soft and warm hand.
"Are you keeping a man? W-what I meant was, do you have boyfriend? Or ... or husband?" Davien was afraid of what Avah would answer.
"N-nothing. What kind of question is that." Avah chuckled to hide the awkwardness in her voice.
Feeling relieved, Davien tightened his grip on his wife's hand. Then he move closer to Avah. He said, "can we talk please? Have dinner with me. Please, tonight."
"Y-yeah. Sure. W-where?" Her voice is chopped no matter what she does to correct her squirming tongue.
"On our house ... please. Tonight, seven." Davien plea.
"A-alright. On your house." Avah corrected the ownership on the place where they will have dinner. "See you tonight, please excuse me."
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Jacintha was overjoyed when her son called and said that she and Davien had met and would meet again tonight. Jacintha really wants Davien for her child but she doesn't want to take the lead in Avah's decision because she's too old for her to interfere.
Avah get herself ready. He couldn't understand himself why he felt like this. Twitter mixed with excitement and excitement. She dressed herself like she's going to a runway and modeling. Feeling over dressed, she changed the dress into a simple A line v-neck pink homecoming dress with tiered short cocktail skirt. She paired cream white sky high heels that were almost five inches high. She curl her black hair and made it bouncy.
By 6:40, Avah had finished her makeup. Just a simple nude makeup. Feeling satisfied on her look, she left her hotel room and took the car key. Avah drove to the house that meant to much to her. The house she used to call home. Avah still remembers the way to get to the house she and Davien used to have.
Davien look at Divina and Daniela's creation. They set up and cooked dinner for him and Avah. There's candle light, and fresh flowers, very romantic ambiance. When Davien asked for their help they almost flew to the man's house to start what they called "Operation Bringing Back The Past". Even if they want to stay at home to see the in-law they can"t. They have to trust Davien that he will bring them back tonight. So eventually, the mother and daughter left.
Davien look at his wall clock. It reads as 7:12 P.M. Any moment the husband will come. When someone rang the doorbell, his heart pounded again. For him to join a marathon, his heart is going nuts.
Davien wore a suit. And when she saw what her husband was wearing, she could not find the right term to describe her unique and rare beauty.
"H-hi." Avah greeted in her usual tone.
"Hi. You look beautiful." Davien open the door widely.
"Why, thank you. You look amazing." Avah return the compliment.
The two entered the house. When Avah scanned the house, she felt nothing had changed here. Then a huge picture of her unborn baby that is hanging on the wall caught her attention. The ultrasound picture of Angelo when he's four months old in her womb.
Avah's foot automatically stepped closer to the child's picture. Davien watch her stopped in front of the huge picture. He caressed the picture and smiled sadly.
Davien went next to her.
"Our baby Angelo," Avah smiled as she continue staring at her little angel.
Cannot hold his feeling anymore, Davien took Avah's hand and said, "let's go back to how we used to be, Avah. Please give me a second chance."


46: Putting Back The Broken Pieces
Avah stare at Davien. Her eyes show how bewildered she was to Davien's request. Avah quickly withdrew her hand.
"I-I'm sorry. Can we just eat?" She said, now all conscious and uncomfortable.
Before Avah could get away and go to the kitchen Davien took her hand again. He pulled her close as he crushed her body against his. He hugged his wife very tightly. He missed her so much. Davien always misses the warmth of his wife's body, her smile, laughter, presence, her voice ... everything about Avah he has been longing for for a long time. There was never a day that he didn't think of the woman.
"Avah, please. Give me another chance please." He whispered while securing the woman he love in his arms.
"Davien, get off!" Avah used her whole force to push him away. "This is over. I'm going home!" She burst out and then aim to walk away but Davien was fast to grip her wrist.
"This is your home, Avah." Davien raised his voice.
"This ain't my home! We are over the moment you lied to me and filed that damn annulment paper!"
Their problem two years ago is now only traded and talked about. The mention of what happened before made them feel like it all happened only yesterday. It was as if their little angel had disappeared just yesterday.
"I didn't sign the damn paper, Avah! So in legal terms, you are still my wife and you fucking live in this place!" Davien shouted. "You left me! You left me without even hearing my story! Without even knowing what really happened! Then now you're leaving me again? Do you even love me truly? Do you think all this time I'm having fun with life? I'd "been searching for you! But you try to stay away, Avah. And every time you walk away, I try to pick every broken piece of me. But I can't complete my personality because you aren't here." Davien's tone dropped as it started when he ran away with his tears.
Seeing him cry made Avah feel bad.
"Don't turn the blame on me, Davien. And don't even question my love for you because all of that is true!"
"If you did love me you wouldn't leave me without a toothache. I'm like a fool waiting for you here, Avah."
"You gave up on the two of us Davien! You gave up on me and you never visited me when I went with mom!" Remembering the days that Avah waited for the husband at the mother"s door bring her to the edge. He also cried non -stop.
"I didn't give up, Avah. I gave you space because you said that is what you needed. I didn't give up, the right term is you shut me out."
"Because you lied to me! That's why you were so sweet to me the night before the accident because you were guilty of cheating on me!"
"What do you mean?"
"Did you think I didn't know that Alexa was with you the night you came home drunk? I know everything Davien. And seeing you kissing with that whore broke my heart. And so I gave you the freedom that you needed. That you wished for from the very beginning. So don't blame me for everything that happened between us. "
Right after Avah sent the annulment paper to Davien she received another brown envelope. Inside was pictures of her husband with Alexa. Printed and super clear that they are kissing. Alexa sent those. She retaliated against Avah when Davien hurt her.
"I'm leaving!" Avah said firmly and then turn around.
"Without even listening to me ?!" Davien remained standing on his spot. He watched his wife walk away. "If you leave now we're over, Avah. If you take that door, you'll surrender to the two of us."
Avah halted. Tears flowing in her eyes. He closed his eyes tightly and opened the door and went out. Davien no longer chased after his wife. That was her decision and he respects her even if it hurts him so much.
Davien sat down dejectedly. He did not expect that to happen. He thought he saw something in her eyes when they met at church. Now it really is over. They are already broken.
As Avah walks out she cries out loud. She stopped at her tracks and looked at the couple's house. She waited again. She waits for Davien to come out the door to chase her. It's like the wait he did two years ago.
"If you take that door, you will surrender to the two of us"
He heard it over and over. It's as if the things they argued before are just sinking in. Only now does he understand Davien's point. Only now did he understand that they had suffered for two years because he had not given Davien a chance to explain himself.
Avah took off the high heels she was wearing and ran back home. When she entered the house, she heard a very loud shout from the kitchen. Simultaneously with Davien's shout were loud crashes and shattering sounds.
Davien broke the dinner date prepared for them. For what else? It is useless.
Avah reached the kitchen and she covered her mouth when she saw that the kitchen utensils were completely destroyed. She also saw lots of wasted foods, flowers, candles scattered and feel bad. Davien did that for her but he let anger control him.
Davien did not know that the husband had returned. So when he broke the whole kitchen he sat to one side and cried quietly.
He was crying like that when a warm feminine pair of arms wrap him. Avah hugged tightly the husband who now had a wounded hand due to the loss made. She sat on his lap, both of her knees are on the other side of Davien's thighs.
His head buried on her chest as Avah mumbled, "I'm so sorry ... I'm so sorry, Davien ... I'm really sorry ... I love you, and I can't leave you again. .. please forgive me. "
Davien's silent cry become loud. He wrapped his hand around Avah's body and hugged it tightly.
"You came back ..." Davien cried.
"Yes, I came back. I thought I could turn around and get away from you. But I can't because all those years, I am still loving you. And I'm still hoping that you feel the same way about me. And I'm here right now asking for forgiveness because I gave up. I became weak so we lost our child and that's why we broke up. " Avah cried on Davien's shoulder. "I'm so sorry, Davien! I let you suffer alone when I could have comforted you. I stayed away from you. I was angry with you. I love you so much that is why the pain I'm feeling became anger. But I see you every day I thought. That we would have been a happy family if I had just been stable ... I love you, Davien. All this time, my love for you stayed the same. " Avah poured out all the remorse she had done.
He didn't know why he just now thought he was one of the reasons why they were broken. Maybe because she learned how to set her pride high. Or maybe because she was blinded by anger. Whatever the reason it doesn"t matter anymore because all she wants is to stay by her husband"s side.
"I love you, Avah. Only you and I will swear to cherish you, just give me another chance."
Avah moved slightly away from her husband. And his answer was that he introduced her with a warm kiss.
"I love you too, Davien. I love you so much. And for the second time around, I'm promising that we will never be set apart." Avah reiterated a promise made two years ago.
Davien caught her lips once again and devour it like he wasn't promised tomorrow. He's satisfying himself for two years of craving for Avah.

47: Two Years of Craving
Davien snaked his hand on Avah's nape as he pull her closer for the kiss that he'd been wanting in his every dream. Avah can kiss now unlike before. Davien kept thinking. Is there another man who can kiss his wife? The thought was unbearable. He doesn't like the idea of ​​somebody else kissing his wife because she belonged to only one person and that is Davien.
They both angled their head for a better access. Moving in sync and union as Avah grabbed a fistful hair of her husband. Tugging it and pulling it because of the mind blowing kiss. They let their tongues play with each other, taste every skin on of their lips. They can't stop missing each other seconds by seconds. It's been two years. And the attraction between them wasn't dead. It was just sleeping, but there's no reason to hold back now.
They know that it's their time. And they wouldn't let anything come to their way. No. This time they've grown stronger, wiser and their marriage become unbreakable.
"I missed you ... so much," Avah breathed out when they broke the kiss. Both are panting and breathing fast. She leaned her forehead to his. The bridge of their noses are touching and they can smell each other's fragrant breath.
Davien also could not feel the wounds inflicted at that time because his mind was busy with the wife he had long dreamed of touching and kissing again.
"I won't let you get away, Avah." Davien said like his words are irrevocable. He pulled his wife closer again and crushed her with his warm kiss.
He's hungry for more. His urging needs for Avah will never end. Only she have that spell which send Davien wild and crazy. They both keep their tongue in motion and it touches urgently. Davien slowly slides his tongue into Avah's mouth. He move it around her tongue a bit to show that he is feeling bold.
Avah reciprocate Davien's actions so they're not just kissing a limp tongue, and the desire between them rose up pretty quick.
Davien's hands are in Avah's nape while the other one was squeezing and massaging her beautiful smooth thighs. While busy kissing, his hands move upwards underneath her beautiful dress. Davien traced the lacy underwear of his wife. Short and very soft fabric that feels so good on his hands.
Finding out that she ain't wearing anything aside from the lacy underwear turn him very on. The strength of his desire to claim his wife was stronger than their first time. It's like he's on drugs. The two years feels so lonely and cold and Davien was trying to feed his craving that only Avah could fill.
They wouldn't feel comfortable if they did that in the kitchen so Davien stood up. He lifts Avah's full weight. No one knows how they ended up on the living room sofa because the two were busy with the kiss they had long been waiting for and dreaming of tasting again.
Davien laid Avah in the quite huge sofa. He's never been this thankful that the sofa is spread out the way he feels grateful about it right now. He stayed on top of her. Avah is receiving his full weight because it has run here. Their lips never set apart. They keep the fire alive and burning minute by minute. They sucked each other's lips like a hungry baby who gets to eat from the mother's breast for the first time after whole day.
Because Davien was able to run after Avah, he didn't have to squeeze her neck anymore. Instead, he busy his hands in unbuttoning his sleeve, he helps Avah get rid of her dress. Avah welcome every thrust of his tongue gladly. Davien have to break the kiss so he can undress properly. And once he removed his sleeve, he tossed it in the air.
His body never changed. His big arms are still there, his abs that he can be proud of to call summer body at any season, his muscular biceps, the broadness of his shoulder. He is still very shy.
Davien grabbed the edge of Avah's dress and then took it from hugging her body. She let Davien do the work, she just put her hands in the air like a child running to the father to undress because he was going to take a bath. After she was out of that little dress of hers she was just left in her undergarments suit. Her breast was back to it's average size. She used to be pregnant so it's bigger. She wore a push up bra so her breasts were almost touching.
Davien stared at her for a minute. She has a very curvy body. Her skin was also very white, smooth, soft and fragrant. Wanting and urging for more, Avah pulled the husband for another hot kiss that they would never get bored of.
Davien unbuckled his belt, he tried his hard to take his pants off without parting from Wife's lips. When fully naked on top of her, the woman was the one who took off her clothes. When both of them ain't wearing anymore, his kisses went down. It goes down her neck, then to her collar bone, down to her breast giving equal pleasure to her taunt nipples. Then to her belly where his son lived for four months. Even tho Avah was biting her lips to prevent herself from making loud moans and cries there was an infiltrating padin growl. Then Davien crawl back to Avah and claimed her lips.
Before thrusting himself inside of his wife, Davien whispered huskily, "this is what I always been thinking for the past two years ... you underneath me, making love with me and only me because you are mine, only." Then Davien take her with one smooth penetrating thrust. Avah's tightness feels like he'd never been there before.
Avah welcomed his every thrust. Welcoming whatever pace he take and soon, they've reached the edge of their climax.
"I thought you really left." Davien whispered after they had sex. Avah made her husband's arm a pillow as they lay on the sofa without any covering. The only thing covering their naked bodies was their clothes.
"I thought I can ... but I can't. I can't leave you." Avah's confession.
"Thank you for coming back, Avah. For giving me another chance." Davien kissed his forehead.
Avah took Davien's hand and caressed the wounds on his hand. "Does it hurt?" he said that the reference was to the wound.
"It doesn't hurt, it's nothing compare to my past two years without you." Davien remarked.
"My past two years was hell too," Avah continued massaging Davien's knuckles.
"Do you want to hear what I got to say?" Davien asked.
"I believe in you. You don't have to say anything, Davien. Its our past. Let bygones be bygones. What matters to me is you and our future." Avah looked up at the husband and kissed him on his cheek.
"You're an angel, Avah ... my angel."
The two were still talking when suddenly the phone rang in the living room. Because the phone was only on her head, Avah handed it to her.
Divina was on the other line, "What's the news son? Did you win her back? Did she like dinner? What did she say when your brother and I set up?"
Avah made a smooth chuckle while looking at her husband who was now ashamed of what the mother was saying.
"Yes, ma. Davien win my heart back." Avah replied in-law. A moment passed until all Avah heard was that she and Daniela were shouting. "Because you've always been occupying a special room in my heart." Avah whispered to the wife.