Chapter 43 : B

"Who said you re going to get it? I'm not allowing you to do that thing on me. And for the gift, thank you, but if that s what you re going to give me as a gift, I don't like it." She meant it, and from her expression he knew she meant every word she had said. But he wasn t going to let it be, he was going to give her the first and last kiss that could ever be shared between them. If he hadn t seen her under this illuminating light, if she hadn't been so irresistibly beautiful and desirable tonight, he would have reconsidered it, but not anymore.
"What if you re going to enjoy it? Because I'm sure you will, Mairam." She chuckled at how pathetic he looked and sounded yet, firmly, Maryam shook her head. There was no way he was going to tell her that she was going to enjoy that thing, it even looked like something that would suffocate people and she was in no way interested in that.
"I'm sure I won t enjoy it, Captain. Just let it be, it s so late at night, I should even be asleep by now." But his firm hold didn t even give her a room to even shift on his laps, talk of going down from them.
"Can I sleep here then?" He asked, turning to look at the bed. But Na im knew he wouldn t make that mistake. If anything, so long as he still thought of divorcing her, then she deserved to keep her virginity to herself. Her bulged eyes made him laugh while he shook his head, "I didn t mean that, Mairo. I was just joking."
She seemed relieved and slightly nodded her head at him, "You should leave then." There was a sheen on her lips that made them slightly plump and insanely attractive that he had to look away to stop himself from taking her off guard with his kiss. But he was so determined to do that today and nothing she said or do would stop him.
"I'll leave, but until I kiss you first." She was now staring into his eyes and from her expression, he knew she thought he didn t mean to do it. Na im placed his hand on the back of her neck and brought her face even closer to his, she slightly shivered at the proximity before he lazily smiled at her, "Let s try for the first time and see, Hoor." Maryam had opened her mouth to speak when he coalesced their lips in a slow, yet passionate sync that had taken his heart into a somersault. Her lips were softer than he imagined and he had never imagined how it felt like to kiss a lady, or maybe a woman until today.
She gasped, but his lips on hers made it sound as though it were a moan, yet, Na im kissed her in such a slower pace that had set a fire in his soul. She squirmed slightly and he let go of her lips, staring right into her eyes that had slightly changed their color. He smiled at her again, "Any better than what you thought?" Immediately, Maryam shook her head and he knew, that would certainly be her reply. "Relax then, I won t hurt you. You know, right?" She didn t know why she was obeying his every word, but Maryam did as he said. She relaxed under his strong arms before she nodded at his question. She didn t think she would be able to speak and so when he leaned in to kiss her again, she could only close her eyes and felt the way it felt.
Maybe it was because her heart was beating louder than it should, or perhaps it was because of his arms that she could feel the heat of him, the solid maleness of him that made her shiver slightly. She was able to feel his mouth moved with hers in a sync so passionate she didn't even know what exactly it was that she felt and when he pulled his mouth away from hers, Maryam nearly begged him to kiss her again, she wanted to feel it again. Nearly.
She took her time to calm her raging heart before she opened her eyes and laid them on his. He wasn t looking like his usual self, his eyes had slightly turned bloodshot and his gaze, disturbed. She smiled lazily at him, "This is better than the other," she admitted and Na im found himself grinning despite the way his body was getting swarmed with a feeling he had never experienced to this extent.
"Maybe you should kiss me back this time, I'm sure you d love it." He was ravenous when he took possession of her lips again and heat surged through both their bodies that Maryam felt she might as well melt under his touch. Without knowing how, she wrapped her shaking hands around his neck to keep herself stable and she heard the soft sound that escaped his lips. She closed her eyes and began copying the movement of his lips and when she felt his tongue colliding with hers in a tremendous sync, Maryam didn't know the sound she made was heard by him as a moan.
He kissed her as hungrily as he felt with need, but Na im knew just a kiss was his limit. And this will be the first and last he would ever get from her, so he had all intentions of kissing her to his fill. He felt her melting even more under his touch as they kissed, even though not as expertly as they should have been, it was the most fantastic feeling Na im had ever felt in his life.
Without wanting to, just because they needed to breath, Na im broke them apart and she looked right into his eyes with the shyest smile he had ever seen a woman conjured. She looked so ravishing that he wished he could tame the raging storm of desire in him, but Na im knew this was his limit and it wouldn t even be repeated again.
"So, did you enjoy it or not, Mrs Bolori?" He asked after he found his voice and she smiled softly before she rested her head on his shoulder. He felt the way her soft and wet lips got in a direct contact with his neck and Na im knew, the easier way for him to save his sanity and the promise he had made to himself was if he got out of the room now. But she had held him, in such a delicate way that showed him how much she had trusted him and what she was feeling was new to her body, so she had to lean on him. He wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on hers while he took labored breaths to calm himself down. That was...well, he couldn t name it yet.
...
Na im thought that when he fed his curiosity, tame down the ache of need of her with just that kiss, everything would be back to how it used to be. And there wouldn t be that attraction that kept pulling him to her. If only he knew, this was how he would crazily be staring at his ceiling at 12 in the afternoon unaware of what to do or even to think, he wouldn t have made that mistake.
Yes, he knew that a mistake would never have tasted the way Maryam s lips were honeyed with everything he would never have imagined, but it was a mistake nevertheless. Something he had never imagined he would feel, the surge of need that swarmed his entire body, how desire wanted to suffocate his being. He had barely closed his eyes yesterday at night, and it was the same story even when it was morning and it was afternoon already.
The sound of voices being spoken a bit higher than they should, have brought him out of his reverie and he wondered what was going on. He trudged to his window and yanked open the curtain while he stared at the guards that were howling at Bilkisu. His heart lost a bit, it was only something so serious and out of her control that would make her come to his chamber.
"What s wrong?" He called out and Bilkisu immediately turned to him as she ran towards the window, she looked agitated.
"Good afternoon, Your Highness. It s Mero, she s been sick since at dawn, her lower abdomen hurts and she has been crying since. I thought you d come by but it seems like you re not planning on coming. I'm sorry for disrupting your sleep..." Bilkisu looked up to meet an empty window and the curtain was closed. She wondered what was going on but when she heard the entrance door being yanked open at full force and her eyes catching a glimpse of Na im as he rushed to their apartment, she understood everything and ran behind him.
Na im was so scared, he thought that maybe the kiss they had shared yesterday had stirred emotions that were so huge for her body, so fierce that the only way her body could tame itself was the ache. He prayed his thoughts weren t correct and as he rushed into her room, he found her curled at the far end of the room on the floor as she groaned in pain, her hand holding her lower abdomen.
He rushed to her and knelt in front of her. Before, while leaving her apartment yesterday, he had promised himself that he wasn t going to come back ever again, unless there was something so huge that needed him there. Because he had figured that the more he saw her, the harder it was for him not to find her desirable. But this time, he was agitated to even think of her that way and, she was in so much pain to be able to stir anything up in him.
He lifted her head slightly and placed it on his laps, "Mairam, what s wrong?" He knew that was so bad of him to ask, it was obvious that everything was wrong with her. He had once suffered from stomach ache and that proved to be one of the most painful illnesses in the world.
Painfully, Maryam looked up at his face and when she saw that it was him, she shook her head and laid back on his laps. She kept groaning in pain and was crying as painfully as she could that turned his senses upside down. He resorted to the only thing he could think of, and that was calling Nafisa. She picked at the third ring and panted a bit, which told him she had ran to where her phone was when she heard him calling.
"Good afternoon, Dr," Na im greeted and heard the way she shuffled through things and then found her sit before she answered him.