- Charlotte Carter is a 23 year old young woman who is a Landscape Architect. She has been looking for a job lately and her best friend Waverly's friend Liam works at Lombardo Construction Company which is one of the best Construction Companies in t...
I went to the kitchen to prepare something for dinner. While I took out some chicken and vegetables I noticed that I have been craving some things I just never realized it. It makes me smile to realize all the clues I had but I just dismissed them or didn't give them much thought. I was cutting some carrots when I heard someone enter the kitchen. I looked up and saw that it was my husband.
"Hey Mrs. Lombardo" he said, coming over to hug me from behind and kissing my cheek. I giggled and looked over at him. "What is my beautiful wife cooking?" he said and I smiled. Although it's been almost two months since we got married it still feels so unreal to be Mrs. Lombardo. I put the knife and cutting board to the side after putting the carrots in a pan with olive oil, broccoli and green beans.
"I'm making some Rotisserie chicken and some sauteed vegetables like you like them" I said turning around for a kiss. I quickly turned around to grab the chicken and seasoned it. I felt Ivan kiss my shoulder and I hummed. "Thank you love" he said, I looked over my shoulder and kissed him again just a little bit longer. "I love you so much Ivan" I said and he smiled. "And I love you butterfly," he said.
"The foods going to be ready in like an hour or two, I don't want you to get bored," I said, chuckling. "Why don't you watch something?" I said and he shook his head walking over to the stool on the other side of the kitchen counter. I love our kitchen. It's literally my dream kitchen. Ivan took the fact that I love cooking and baking into consideration and had the kitchen made bigger and remodeled it while we were on our honeymoon. when we came back he surprised me with it and I loved it.
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***Kitchen***
"I'm not going anywhere. Is it okay if I turn on the kitchen TV or is it too distracting" he asked and I nodded. "No, it's okay," I said. Ivan got up and grabbed the kitchen TV remote from one of the cabinets and put on Netflix while I cooked.
I put the chicken inside the oven and set a timer on my phone. I finished the vegetables and made some brownie batter from scratch. I looked up and saw that Ivan was looking at me grinning. "What are you making?" he said and I hid my shy face away. I'm not the biggest fan of sugar except when it comes to tiramisu. I always liked brownies but I wouldn't crave them so I never really made them.
"I'm craving them okay!" I said chuckling. It was true I started to crave warm brownies this morning so I had decided today I was going to make brownies. I put the brownie batter on a thin pan and placed it on our second oven. The timer went off and I flipped the chicken around and placed another 15 minute timer. I cleaned the dishes I used and the counter. When the timer went off I started to set the table for dinner and Ivan helped.
While Ivan finished setting the table I started to serve the food and checked on the brownies before we sat down and ate. While we ate we talked about work and also there were some things Ivan wanted to talk about. "Okay so promise me that if you go to work and start to feel stressed you'll come home and call me, or at least just call me yeah?" he asked and I sighed
"Babe I can't just walk out of the company whenever I want," I said to Ivan and he raised an eyebrow. "Well... technically you own the company so... you can" he said, causing me to slightly giggle. "No, if I want the employees to take work seriously I have to show them I'm serious. I've already missed enough days" I said and Ivan sighed.
"One, you missed days because we were on our honeymoon. Two, you'll miss days because you're pregnant. And three, you need to think about your health and the baby's before anything." he said and I nodded. I know he's right but I also don't want me being pregnant to stop me from certain things. I deeply sighed while I picked up both of our plates and brought them to the sink.
I thought for a little and went to sit on Ivan's lap, placing my hands on his face. "You're right. Nothing is more important than our little one. I promise to try not to get stressed and if I do I'll call you and come home" I said and he gave me a small smile and nodded. "I just... don't want to feel useless for the next 7 or so months" I said, placing my head on the crook of his neck while he massaged my back.
"Baby, look at me... look at me" he said, picking my head up so I could look at him. "You aren't useless. Hell you're carrying our baby in here" he said, placing his hand on my lower abdomen slightly moving it side to side. I closed my eyes and took in the warmth his touch gave me. "I like it when you do that," I said gently almost in a whisper. "Do what?" he asked and I opened my eyes. "I like when you place your hand over our baby. It makes me feel happy and warm inside. Makes me feel loved" I said and he leaned into me kissing my lips gently. "I love you" he said and I hugged him. I kissed his neck and hugged him for a little before getting up to take the brownies out.
After I let the brownies cool down for a little while I cut them into small squares and gave some to Ivan while I ate some. We started to watch A Christmas Prince on Netflix while we cuddled in bed after eating a couple of brownies.
"I think I have a meeting with Tony and Gabriel tomorrow morning" I said to Ivan who looked at me concerned and confused. "Why?" he asked and I sighed. "Well they think that if we combine our companies the money intake will increase. Or if not combine, have an equal amount of percentages like 50 of each company" I said to Ivan drawing circles on his bare chest. He sighed and played with my hair.
"What do you think?" he asked, emphasizing the 'you' part. I shrugged and replied. "They aren't wrong, the economy would increase largely because we are top 2 in all of the US. But I also built my Company up on my own, working hard and I don't want people to think that I got to where I am because I'm married to you" I said in a whisper tone. "People know you as the first 24 year old woman to build their own empire in less than a year. I don't think marrying me makes much of a difference, love. But if you don't feel comfortable then we don't do it" Ivan said to me kissing the top of my head. "I don't want to merge our companies but if you're down... I think we should both own the companies, 50% LCC and 50% 3C's" I said to him and he nodded.
"As long as you feel comfortable with that, yes" he said, I nodded and I smiled up at him. "We can sign the papers tomorrow if you're okay with that" I said and he nodded. "I think we should also announce it to the companies before rumors start" I said and he nodded and replied. "I agree, do you feel comfortable doing it after we sign?" he said and I nodded. "Also I talked about this with the girls because... they are the ones who helped me start it and I feel it was appropriate to ask them for their opinions" I said and he smiled at me and nodded indicating for me to continue. "They are happy about it. They said and I quote 'you guys deserve to be happy and do what you're heart pleases' " I said while Ivan and I both laughed. We turned off the TV and cuddled ready to sleep.
"Good night my love" I said to Ivan, placing a kiss on his chest. "Good night, beautiful" he responded.
