PART TWO OF THE SERPENT
✥The Rich Girl & Her Bodyguard ✥
She had first told me she loved me at 11:20 as my fingers were busy getting soaked by her. Those pretty coloured eyes begged a man who couldn't love to love her just as hard. Her rosy flushed...
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❦Blaise❦ The dark clouds flashed violently as the lightning struck in the comfort of their embrace. The rain angrily painted down my bedroom window. Trees whispered their telltale pain into the wind The kicks from our baby inside my womb caused me to groan in agony myself.
Sighing, I got up from under my sheets and slowly made my way into the lightly lit kitchen. Clutching the fabric of my nightgown between my hands, I groaned in pain as the baby continued to kick and the cramping continued lightly. Eyes closed, I took deep breaths in and out to calm myself down. Feeling her finally settle down, I opened my eyes to see that all the lights had suddenly turned off.
"No no," I whispered as my heart picked up its pace. The once-settled baby started to grow restless inside of me again. Growing panicked and with my hormones at an all-time peak, I felt myself tearing up in frustration. Just as I was about to grow more hysterical in the darkness surrounding me, I heard a heavy knock on my front door making me flinch in surprise. The once-caged tears dripped loose.
Wiping the tears that had slipped down my cheeks, I carefully approached the door where another set of knocks were orchestrated. Just as I came up to the door, I heard him on the other side.
"Blaise?" Just a whisper. That's all it took for me to calm down at the edge of a panic attack. All it took was a damning whisper from him and he didn't even know. He didn't even know how much he affected me, from my heart that calmed in his presence to my soul that ached whenever it was without his.
"Blaise." Not a question this time, he knew I was right there with him. With him always but just on the other side.
Feeling hesitant at first but at last giving in, I opened the front door to find his green eyes filled with worry and agony. So much agony that it took my breath away, and sucked it right out of me. As if they were named after him and made just for him to steal.
"Blaise." He must have been saying my name repeatedly because the worry in his eyes grew and he on instinct had moved closer to me at the doorstep.
"Uh yeah? Sorry, umm I...I." More tears replaced the ones fallen and I scrambled to move away from him as if I would dirty him with them and all my ugly emotions. But I didn't get far because before I could let out my next breath he had his arms wrapped around me and his hand weaving through my hair.
"Hey hey, shhh. It's alright, I got you."
"I got you, Blaise, shhh." Instant sweet relief swept through me as I let go of everything and shagged in his arms.
His fingers in my hair slowly soothed me as he continued to caress my head delicately. My tears wet his soft shirt which was already somewhat wet from the rain. The baby finally settled down between us after fluttering around.
"Are you okay?" He finally asked, never stopping the calming caress on my head.
I shook my head against his chest before sniffling away the tears that won't stop running down my face. I tightened my hold around him to the best of my ability with my rounded belly while he dropped a gentle kiss on the top of my head in response.
"Are you hurt anywhere? Is the baby okay?" He further asked as he gently pulled away to search for any injuries.
My hands went to my belly as I tried not to reach back for him.
"The baby is okay Octavio," I responded looking at the colored tile beneath my feet.
"And you?" He asked once again.
Sighing, I responded, "I'm okay as well."
When he remained quiet I continued, "I just got a little panicked in the dark and the baby wouldn't settle down today so I couldn't just go to sleep either."
"It just all became too much at the moment."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to go crazy on you." I further added before finally slowly growing brave enough to look back up at him and into his eyes again.
Those green eyes were tainted with something else this time along with everything else that was already there. Something that I had felt creep in my eyes so many times for him. Something dangerous. Something that looked a lot like love.
"I can stay if you want me to?" He offered, hesitation and his nervousness coating each letter. His hands unfolded and folded repeatedly as if they wanted to reach back out to me but were left empty instead.
"I'll sleep on the couch." He said as I sighed and eyed the figure of the empty couch shadowed in the dark.
"Please." He begged as he nervously ran his fingers through his now long dark curls.
"Okay." I responded.
"But you will sleep on the couch," I added.
"Of course." He said as he smiled nodding down at me.
"Let me get you a towel and a blanket then. You can go sit on the couch until then." He nodded at me once again before heading toward the couch. And as I turned around, a smile of my own painted on my face. And as bad as it sounded, I knew it was all because of him.
