CHAPTER 15

He groaned and fell on top of her and she held him there for a few minutes. Lucian then removed himself from her and she woke up. She didn't know what to talk about so she rolled out of bed, picked her panties and rushed to the bathroom. She cleaned herself and took a deep breath. She did it and she felt great; but would he resent her after this?
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Lucian followed Aurora into the bathroom after he dressed himself and found her washing her face.
“Are you okay?' he asked worriedly, feeling bad for how he took her without preparing her for what was to come but the girl had been provoking him for long and he just failed to control himself.
“I am, thanks for asking,” she answered in a low tone.
“I didn't think I would get to see the day you speak like that but now that I have seen it, I don't like it. I prefer the old you,” he said and hugged her from behind.
“What are you doing?” she asked him coldly.
“I'm hugging you. We can't hate each other if we are going to be a family Aurora,” he decided to build a positive relationship with her.
“So, you won't bring up that blackmail thing again?” she asked, wanting to make sure as she didn’t trust him fully.
“I will not but one day I hope I will hear personally from you why you carry around a gun,” he said in a pampering tone and kissed her neck affectionately.
“One day, I guess. We should return now,” she told him evading the topic as she was not in the mood to talk or hear about it and he remembered that Jewel was still alone.
“We need to talk about the wedding,” he said.
“Don't you have everything prepared?” she asked as in her mind, Lucian was doing everything.
“I do, and on Sunday let's have dinner with my family. My mother will be happy to arrange the wedding and I guess it will be ready in a few weeks’ time,” he informed her.
“It's okay with me. By that time, I will be done with my things.”
“What things?” he asked curiously.
“I need to resign from my workplace; I doubt you would want me to work in a café.”
“No, I wouldn't. If you want to work then I will open something for you. No wife of mine will work for another,” he told her and he was surprised to hear that he meant every word.
“I think I'm starting to like you, old man,” she said in a teasing tone and kissed him lightly on the lips.
“Are you telling me you slept with me when you didn't like me?”
“It's not surprising. Sometimes we sleep with people for the sake of lust and nothing else,” she acknowledged as she looked deep in his eyes.
Was she crazy to utter something like that at her age? Didn’t she know that her words were enough to drive a man crazy and urge him to pounce on her and teach her a lesson she will never forget.
“I won't argue more. Let's leave now,” he said and led her out of the bathroom as being in there with her for long will lead to disaster and he didn’t want to do it again as she was still swollen.
Lucian led the way out of the mansion and back to the door. He still couldn't believe how much their awkward relationship had improved in just a few hours. He didn't want a decorative wife but a wife he would share his bed with and have kids with, no matter how much they hate each other.
By having her by his side he would be able to uncover all her secrets and find the relationship between her and his deceased aunt. By then he will be ready to accept whatever comes to him as long as she wasn't his aunt's daughter which he doubted was the case. His aunt never had another child except for his young cousin Gloria who was already married.
He looked at her and she was sleeping, she looked peaceful and yet it looks like she was wrestling with some inner demons. What kind of life was she really leading to become who she was now?
Only time will tell, right now they were going to take it one step at a time.
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Aurora looked one last time at her things, things that could make one crawl by seeing them and locked the room. She was hoping that she won't be using them ever again. Maybe one day she would be able to dispose them and let go of her dark past, a past that she wanted to reveal and bury at the same time. She only took a push dagger and put it in her bag. She left the warehouse and took a taxi.
It's been a few days since she started living with the Ladra's. It was a new environment for her and things were a bit complicated since she was hiding a lot of things. She couldn't reveal them until she was certain. The taxi took her back to the mansion and when she arrived the staff showed her respect. Apparently bit by bit she was becoming the young madam of the mansion.
Upon her arrival the first thing she did was to go to the master bedroom where she had been staying with Lucian and changed into something comfortable. Jewel was at school and Lucian at work. Since she wasn't working anymore she had nothing to do but get stuck at home.
She left the bedroom and began to finish the tour she left in the middle the previous day. The mansion was huge. It consisted of three floors. The master bedroom was on the second floor including Jewel's bedroom and two more bedrooms.
The first floor had a library, a movie room, a game room, a bar and two more bedrooms. The ground floor consisted of the kitchen, the lounge, the dining room, the sitting room and Lucian's office.