Black Butterfly || Anakin Skywalker x Reader

39 - Love at First Sight

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"No one believes in love at first sight until that special person comes along and steals your heart."

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"What do you think you're doing?" Anakin questioned me as he watched me place a divider between his stuff and mine.

I knitted my brows, "Dividing our stuff?"

He reached over and grabbed the divider to put it back where I got it from, "No, I'll be paying for your groceries today. Ring them together please." He addressed the cashier as he shifted his pointer finger between our items.

If it was just the coffee creamer and eggs then I probably would have let him pay to avoid us bickering about it. But I had grabbed a lot more during our time here, I basically did my entire month's worth of shopping. That's what I get for coming to the grocery store on an empty stomach. I grabbed everything that looked even remotely appetizing, "Anakin, I can pay for my own-"

"Sh," He pushed his finger against my lips and I stumbled backwards. The cashier looked like he was holding in his laughter as he scanned our items, starting with Anakin's, "I kept you from work today, the least I can do is buy your groceries so don't be stubborn and let me be a gentleman." He removed his finger from my lips and poked my nose, causing me to blink involuntarily.

I shook my head with a sigh of defeat, knowing that no matter what I say he was going to get his way. If anyone is stubborn here, it's him, "Fine, but I don't like this." I complained in a low mumble.

He smiled victoriously, "And I don't care."

I rolled my eyes and walked around him so I could stand at the end of the conveyor belt and watched as a young girl bagged the items, "If I knew you'd do this, I would have grabbed less."

"We both know I can afford it, don't worry," He chuckled as he pulled out his wallet from his back pocket, a picture falling out as he did. It was the picture, the one I saw him take from the man who was following us. I caught a glimpse of it before he stepped back and covered it with his shoe — there was a smiling woman with two young girls, around the ages of three and five if I had to guess.

Would he actually hurt them like he threatened he would? Or was he only trying to scare the man?

I'm only hoping it was a simple scare tactic. It's hard to believe someone this sweet and kind could end the lives of anyone. Not even his record has him accused of murder, it just never seemed like his style to me — based off of what I've read, witnessed, and heard.

The only time I've ever suspected him of anything along those lines was the body in the alley, but by now I know it wasn't him, in fact we still don't know who that was and it's meant to be Connors job to figure out. But it seems he's been too busy ruining our marriage to do that, maybe I'll just take things into my hands and solve it.

I watched as the cashier scanned the last few items and my eyes widened when I saw the total, knowing the majority of it was because of me, "Your total is three-hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-two cents."

"What the fuck did I buy?" I whispered to myself while eyeing everything being bagged — I probably could have done without the three different kinds of chips.

Anakin looked at me with a raised brow, "The entire store."

I smacked his arm, "Don't tease me."

He laughed while he slipped his card inside of the reader and pressed in his pin, "It's a good thing I'm rich. You're an expensive date." The moment he mentioned he was rich, the young girl bagging the groceries, who looked to be around the age of eighteen or nineteen, glanced at him and her eyes lingered. She was checking him out and not being subtle about it in the slightest.