Blood Or Love (COMPLETED)

Chapter 30

Anastasia's POV

"Lori, I can walk if you forgot." I complained for the umpteenth time. "I'm not letting you walk Ana. Stop complaining and let me find a pretty dress for my queen. It's our first date in such a while." He answered and I roamed my hand in his hair. He had picked me up in a monkey style. My front touched his front and my legs were crossed around the upper part of his hips.

"Here, I have chosen a blue dress for you and a blue shirt for me. We will change our clothes at our safe haven okay? So I'm taking PJs too." He instructed as I nodded quietly. "What happened Ana?" He asked but I just shook my head. He placed up and sat me down on the bed. "Hey, tell me what's wrong? You don't want to go on the date? We won't. You want to do something else then tell me but why are you being so silent and all." He pleaded because I think he saw the look on my face.

"Nothing Lori... It's just that my cramps are hurting but they go away in no time so it is all an odd sort of stuff. One minute I'm drenched in pain and the second I'm not." I complained like a kid. I was immediately brought in a comfy hug as I wrapped my arms around his torso and my head dug in his stomach because he was standing. He suddenly grabbed the back of my head and started stroking it very fast. And I melted in a pool. I started crying silently in his arms and slowly he peeled himself off of me and got on his knees in front of me. "Ana, Ana, look here." He shook me emphasising my name the second time.

"Don't get so weak Ana. Come on, let me tell you a story. A story of a queen. The queen was a very very silent and smart girl since she was born. Not to forget she was too strong. She lived with parents whom she didn't know too well. They were always out and would sometimes come home hurt. Then her father's friend came to her home on her birthday with his family. The queen then saw a boy of his age and they became friends. The boy had a young sister but she was always busy doing something or other. Later on the boy gets so attached to the queen that he stopped caring for the world and he'd come to the queen's place everyday. Someday they'd decide to meet at a park that is exactly in the middle of both of their houses. Boy started getting feelings for the queen but didn't know how to express it. Then one day while discussing some random stuff like they used to do all the time, in the flow of the moment, the boy confessed his feelings and surprisingly to the boy, the girl also confessed to him saying that she also loves him. At that time, they had their first kiss, in which their teeth clattered and it was so shameful that they immediately hugged each other so as to not see each other's faces but in a few moments, the girl looked up back and grabbed the nape of the boy and brought him closer to him and pasted her lips on him. The boy felt a booster of emotions at one time at the moment. They had their best kiss and first kiss on that day. Then eventually, they got in a relationship but the boy had his own problems so he broke that and went away from the queen for six years. When he met the queen again, six years later, same day, same time, just a different boy. He was no longer the weak and lousy person. He was the most feared and powerful person anyone knows. He was also chief executive officer of a big company. The day when he came to her after six years later was the day when he felt that he'd shatter the life of his love. Of his queen. Because now he had got a temper and would never ever talk like people with anyone. He'd just give orders, break things, shout at people and all. He thought that he's going to make his love cry and give restless nights. But when the queen got to know about all this, she stood up for him and tried to understand him as much as she could. They got married just as they had planned six years ago and then they led their own lives. Boy tried hard to not hurt his queen. She changed the boy in less than about a month and brought back her original boy who was always happy and fun to be with. But the boy would never tolerate anything wrong with his business so with outsiders he was still cold and ruthless but for the family, he was soft, polite and kind that no one in the boy's family thought was possible. Just think how strong the queen was to convert such a person and make him dance on her pinky. After about four or five months of their marriage, she got to know something about the boy that shattered her life but what she knew was partially wrong. At that time, her father went missing and her mom was near to death so showing as much courage as she had, she ran away to a safe place because she thought that the boy was harmful to her. She didn't want to believe it and in real life, she never believed it. She was soon kidnapped by one mafia gang but she fought with all of them showing so much courage. Though she didn't know at that time but still she was pregnant and yet fought them. Imagine a pregnant girl, maybe one or two months pregnant, fighting a Mafia gang for her life. As soon as she got to know that she is pregnant, she started working part time jobs and soon she got a permanent job and made one friend whom she could trust very well. That friend stood with her in hard times. The queen had and still has a bad habit... She never tells anyone what is going on in little brain and keeps quiet so anyone else doesn't worry about her. No matter the friend being by her side, she always had one person by her side. Not physically but only mentally. She had one photo frame of the boy, her husband, and she used to talk to him for hours. Even during delivery, she had that frame in her hand and that frame, the father of the triplets, was the first one to see the kids. First she made him see the kids then saw them herself. Or else which mother would show kids the photo of the father who did so many wrong things? But the queen did. She knew that no matter what, their father was always there with them. She gave kids the habit of kissing their father goodnight, she taught them good manners, she asked kids to whisper what they wanted in their father's ears and kept them in the hope that their father would come into their life. Father tried for so long to reach her queen but he couldn't. Meanwhile the queen said all sweet and pretty things to their kids about their father. She and the kids even celebrated their father's birthday every year. She never celebrated her own birthday for five straight years. Later on, one of her kids was in trouble and only father could help her. She let down her ego and went to ask for help from her husband. As soon as he got to know about it, he forgot the world and all he could do was feel overwhelmed. He made sure the other two were safe and though it was stupid of him to ask the queen to calm down, he still did. He fought the gang that had kidnapped his son and when he went back, the kids had the house decorated and later he realised that it was his birthday. Kids accepted him so soon and got mixed with him as if they have been together since years. What shocked him most was that the princess had told kids everything about the father except for bad things. Later they all shifted to his mansion and the queen was still not able to stand her husband. Of Course how could she, but when her father told her everything that her husband did and why, she realised what she was told was not completely true. She came to his mansion and patched up with him. Now they are totally safe and live as a family. Family.. it is still a foreign word for the boy but he is slowly trying to digest it, now that he has his strong queen by his side." He completed as tears filled my eyes.

I bent down a bit and pasted my lips on his. It was our story. Ofcourse it was ours. I could recognise it and it was nothing new. "Love you my queen." He whispered, breaking the kiss, smiling at me. "Love you my boy." I whispered as his eyes got a bit darker shade. He picked me up as it is and sat me near the bedrest, he looked in my eyes and smashed his lips on mine as they moved in perfect synchronisation. As we broke the kiss, he had a normal shade of his eyeball. That means he now knocked the sense that I've got my periods so he has to wait. "Are you feeling good now? Want to go or chill here?" He asks all such questions everytime. Do you want this or that and all. He's just being too cute.

"Come on, let's go." I answered, smiling at him. "You wait here." He ordered as I sat there quietly. "Here." Sometimes I really think about how he gets to know what I'm feeling when and what I want at that time. Is it something like telepathy or that cliche soulmate thing that people out there say 'Your soulmate always knows what you want and the reason for what you do.' I never believed in this nor I understand this. "Now what's cooking up in my baby's head?" See I told you.

"Don't you think we should just check on the kids before leaving?" I lied. "Are you sure that's what you're thinking? Your face says something else about my love." Ughh how does he!? "Yeah I was just thinking how you always know what I want and the reason for what I do... " I trailed off. He changed into a blue dress and brought his t-shirt along with him.

"Well... that's a secret my love." He winked at me as I blushed, slapping his arm playfully. "Are we ready to go?" He asked as he packed a bag of our PJs. I nodded my head and he again picked me up in the monkey style. I crossed my legs around his lower back and we slowly opened the door of the boys' room. They all were asleep except Aiden. He still sometimes gets nightmares and comes running in the middle of the night. "Why are you not asleep honey? Lori let me down." I asked Aiden and whispered the last line to Lori who pretended to not listen. "I was just about to, I woke up to drink water. Daddy, why do you always carry mumma like this?" Wow, way to dig my own grave. "Because my boy, your mumma is in pain. Doesn't she pick you up when you're in pain?" Lori saved me but didn't let me down. "Yeah that's true. Then you should carry her your whole life daddy, because she is always in pain. She is so thin, yet has given life to three of us so it'd have been very painful, right?" My baby grew up so much. "I know my boy... That's why I carry her always. Now it's time you sleep." Lori ruffled his hair as he pecked both of us.

While we were walking down the stairs Lori looked at me. "Look Ana, our baby has grown up so much, speaking all biggies. He has taken so much after you." He nudged his head towards mine. "He's your blood too Lori. You know Lori... When I was... Uhh living on my own with these, they all reminded me of you. Like all the features are the same. I often thought that I wanted them to meet but..." I couldn't complete the sentence.

"It's okay baby. But their physical features are like mine. The Inside is like yours." He winked and I knew I couldn't argue with him ever. "By the way Lori, I was thinking that one day, we'll call all of our family and Tats and Marco and catch up. I doubt they know about me and the kids." I suggested out of the blue. He went quiet for a while and opened the car door for me to get in.

"Lori?" I asked as he sat beside me. "If that's what my love wants then so be it. We'll call them the day after tomorrow, will your pain also decrease by then?" He asked, looking at me as I nodded. "Yes, the day after tomorrow it is!" I exclaimed. "Now my love, shall we pay attention on our date? I hope you know we're going to be alone in my safe haven. And I hope you know what happened the first time we went there." He whispered in a raspy tone.

Oddly though a shiver ran through me. He makes me bathe, he has seen me naked and we even have had sex but it was years ago. "Hello miss, dirty minded person! I was talking about eating lasagna and waffles." He laughed and I slapped his arm playfully. He started the vehicle and there we went on our belated anniversary date.