Famished

Chapter 17

Sania and Henry welcomed their baby home the next day. "What will we name him?" Sania asked Henry. "I want to name him Aiden. Aiden means fire and our child is exactly that. He fought along with all odds and evils since he was in your womb to save his life, since the day you were poisoned till you were almost into abortion. He is a strong boy, he has got all qualities that I see in an idealist. He is the future generation of the Rodriguez to reign the mafia world." Sania ran her hands softly on their baby's head. "Yes he is indeed Aiden then, Aiden Rodriguez."

"You know something Sania?" Henry kisses her head while holding their baby in his arms. "Since the day you were carrying this baby a corner of my heart said it was mine and somehow I believed in that intuition. In a way you can say my possessiveness increases for you because you were carrying Aiden." Henry finally confesses his feelings kissing the head of their baby in his arms.  "My genes are very dominant and so is my sperm. The surrogacy contract worked miraculous for both of us." He beamed like a little boy of two getting his favorite cookie from his mom.

"I got a child I wanted and you got two millions because of which you saved your father though unfortunately you were raped on the same day but all is well that ends well. Do not think of your past. We should always think about future. See we have hot a beautiful baby to raise." Henry told Sania cheerful. Aiden was already yawning by then trying to stretch his little body. With the tiny exertion he underwent his complete body went tomato red. Henry chuckles at the cute deeds of his son. "You cannot continue to be so fragile young man. You need to be tough, blood for blood and life or life to rule the world number one American mafia. Do you understand?" He blew the words in his ears like a mantra when he was not even a week old.

Sania felt it slightly weird but nevertheless ignored the frail thought. She places Aiden's clothes in the cupboard which was complete with his toys even when he was too young to play with them, baby books, Henry purchased everything for his son. He said Aiden is born with a silver spoon in his mouth and he lacked in nothing. Aiden gets everything that he wants." There was an attitude in his voice which Sania did not like. She wanted to raise her son as a down to earth person.

"You know young man, now your mother is going to run away ten feet with the sight of groundnuts after seeing you and me. She can't bring them anymore in this house though it is her favorite. Poor mommy, but we can do one thing. After you go on top feed, we can take her to a restaurant, order all her favorite groundnut dishes and direct ours on a separate table so that we are not risked."

Sania tightened her lips at the father and son conversation. "Very funny" she slapped Henry softly on his arm and walked away from the room. Henry follows behind his angry wife still carrying the baby in his arms. Since Aiden is born he doesn't want to leave his son even for a single minute. Aiden is already his daddy's kiddo. Henry keeps the baby monitor beside him and sleeps during the night. He runs to his room before Sania wakes up and is in charge of diaper duties as long as he is at home.

He changed so much after Aiden is born, he comes home early unlike getting home late nights. "Henry why did you want a baby when you weren't married and did not want a woman in your life?" Sania let out her long stored question from her heart. Henry chuckles. "Darling, for having a kid I do not require a wife and that you know by now. I lost interest in marriage after your mother said 'no' to me but as you know that is not her fault. She simply did not love me like the way I did to her but I wanted to have a child. I wanted to train him/her before my energy slips away from me. I'm growing older and before my age is gone from my reach I needed a heir to my multi million dollars business." Henry gingerly put sleeping Aiden in the crib of his room and left the door slightly ajar before he walked out of the room.

"How do you know that it is going to be a son?" Henry turns around and looks back at his wife with his hands in his night trousers. "Tell Savvy to arrange the table, I'm feeling hungry." Sania twists her lips. "Are you trying to avoid the topic." Henry pulls the soft cheeks of Sania. "No sweetheart, the best way to solve a problem is to face rather than avoid it and being a mafia leader you cannot run away from your problems. I learnt this lesson long ago when I newly joined mafia tailing my older brother and he taught me the toughest and most rough truths of mafia."

"Your brother is a very soft and caring person." Sania says thoughtfully. "Do not judge the book by its front cover." Henry chortles but firm in his speech. "He is the toughest among all three of us when the time arrives. Otherwise he is very cool and silent guy." He tells as a matter of fact shrugging his shoulders. "Do you know about the cobra? As long as you do not cross its line, it doesn't involve with your work but if you try meddling it, its poison is most vicious that you're killed the next moment." Sania held her jaw open in fright after she heard Henry's narration.

The plates were arranged on the dining table along with the dishes and glasses. Henry took a sip of his wine when Sania asked him again about her previous question. "How do you know it's a boy." He shook his head. "So you did not forget your question." He sighs. "No, I do not know its a boy and I did not want to find the gender either." Sania interfered thoughtfully. "That's because you did not know it was your child." Henry smirks. "Don't you remember sweetheart, I told you I will accept your child as mine even if it belonged to Abraham to protect him?" Sania quickly put the chicken nugget into her mouth in order to avoid herself  stop speaking more foolish.

"I do not like to make gender discrimination. For me a son and a daughter both are equal. As long as they were yours and Abraham's the decision was up to you in how you were going to bring them up. I will though father them giving them my name.  But now when I come to know its mine the right vests with me on how I bring up my child.  I have long decided I was going to raise my kid the toughest way. I am going to train them rough, violent  and aggressive whether its a son or daughter because that's the only way they can survive in the mafia." There was wildness and fire in Henry's eyes when he said the words.  "and for that...... " This time he added softly almost unheard. "I did not want a woman in between. That's why I opted for surrogacy." The colour in Sania's face was instantly lost as though someone has locked the air in her lungs.

How can a father say such boisterous words for his own son? Sania thought with grimace. She felt she just saw a demon in her boyfriend, the man she trusted so much was poison in his heart. No doubt he is a mafia leader and he needs to be tough that he already is but is this what she wanted in her man, blood for blood, life for a life? To what has she involved herself into?

Sania should have been cautious in her decision to choose Henry specially when he told her he belonged to world number one American mafia. He wasn't to be blamed he told her the truth before she falls in love. But she was stupid to offer her life to him on a silver platter before thinking pros and con's of her actions.  She had seen him torture Abraham and couldn't digest the way he sustained though Henry's advances, even though Abraham had treated her in most violent ways.

Henry observed the change in features of Sania's face. "Sania I know what you are thinking. That's why I avoided this topic. Do not see me with fear. I do not like it." He admonished her soft but firm as though in a command. He tried to hold her but Sania leaned back. There was trepidation noticed in her eyes for him which Henry did not like least bit and Sania ran to one of the guest bedrooms locking herself inside to protect herself from him.

He roared in anger and crushed the glass on the dining table with his iron fists. Savvy left the home immediately fearing her life. Within next twelve minutes the house went into a burial ground. Why did Henry fall in love with Sania? She not even belong to his taste, she did not have the qualities he preferred in women. Henry always wanted women to be revolutionary and strong characters ready to challenge the men when they cross their boundaries. That is exactly how he trained Sania in facing her problems. He encouraged her to question Graham Walkhart and win over his property.

Why he fell in love with Sania, he had absolutely no idea. Was it because she was Margaret's daughter or she was the damsel in distress who needed his help to save herself?  Henry's soft corner always was to help women who are weak and that's exactly where Sania clutched Henry's nerves. He would go to any extent to save them. But that is only one side of his face.

Being a mafia leader he is vicious, violent and wild and today Sania saw the true color of Henry though he always tried to maintain to stay calm the soft guy of next door. All these days she saw him in the same way - the silent and fun loving guy who she fell in love.

But now after seeing the real side of his form was she going to accept him as his better half? Or she was going to escape him?