Once Upon A Royal Matrimony

40. just a little more

Eden Salvatore

She had never been a fragile flower. My wife was as fragile as a fucking bomb. She entertained the demons in her head and let it played with her and that terrified me to my very bones. The darkness in her shined the brightest light.

For the first time in years, I was afraid. Scared of the thought that it might just eat her alive and she would just explode one day, ending it all with a blade to her vein. I might just die with her right then.

My fingers hovered above the screen of my phone as I looked at her contact. The side of my lips lifted into a ghost smile and my heart fluttered at the sight of the little heart she put beside her name. A throaty chuckle choked from the back of my throat at the fact that she might just be the only person who managed to stay alive after stealing and going through my phone.

Eden: Take a nap, darling. I'm fucking you for a few hours when I get home.

I sent the text to check if she was still alive before placing my phone back on my desk. The screen of my computer glared back at me with a full day schedule of work and surgeries. I loved my job but it was the people in it that annoyed me to death and they might just be the reason of it if I decided to end it all one day but that only if my wife didn't mange to give me a heart attack first. She seemed to be going at it a lot these days.

A small ding snapped me out of my though and my phone lit up with her text.

Addie<3 : Do you want me on my knees or on my back?

That little vixen. I felt my dick twitched at the possible grin behind her screen. I knew she was smiling. The smile that could light up my dark soul.

Adrenaline struck through my system and went straight to my chest as a picture of her flashed across my screen. She wasn't even here and still she managed to get on my goddamn nerves.

I tried to calm the fuck down by sipping on my boiling coffee. I savored the bitter taste on my tongue, hoping to rid of her sweetness that lingered at the tip of my mouth and let the hot liquid burned down my throat and with it, the stupid desire for her. Pathetic.

It was almost scary how I spent days with her, hours holding her and yet I managed to miss her annoying ass the second I left. She was in my head and everywhere I didn't want her to be. Her sweet flower scented skin never left my nose and the feeling of her skin slick against mine imprinted on my body forever.

Eden: Come see me.

Addie<3 : I just got rid of you. Why would I do that?

I frowned at my phone. Offended. It was supposed to be the other way round except I was diving head first in love with her. " Annoying pain in my ass. "

I huffed just as the door of my office slammed open with a dramatic loud bang. I texted back a quick whatever and placed my phone on the desk again. My brother's grey eyes came into view. His hair was tousled in every possible directions like he was racing here. Elliot grinned at me while I narrowed my eyes at him in suspicion. The fucker never visited me unless he wanted something. He held out a square box in my direction before kicking the door closed behind him.

I sighed while he took the seat in front of me, throwing his feet up my desk like he owned the place. Mannerless peasant. He set the box before me then motioned me to open it with an eager grin. I realized then that I didn't want to see him today or any other day.