When The Stars Aligned

Eighth

Time skip morning
He was standing on the balcony with a cup of chocolate coffee on his right hand and his phone pressed against his ear on the other hand. "Any news about who broke inside the showroom?" Graham sighed when he received a negative response from the other end of the phone. Cutting the call, he took the last sip from his cup right when the sound of the door knob twitching diverted his attention from the balcony into his room. "What on earth do you think you're doing?" he asked maintaining a poker face after Jocelyn stomped sulkingly with a pout on her face, literally rushing through the room as if she was searching for something. "I bet your little ears have heard me right? Don't you think you should answer to my question before I-", "I'm planning to go in the terrace so that I can jump from there and be free forever for not seeing your ugly face anymore." she said while making her way towards the study table side eyeing him after she received a moment of silence from him. "You don't need to jump from the terrace if you want to die so bad, my buddy is enough to make you die after I make it enter so deep inside you. Tell me kitty should I?" her eyes widened after she understood the double meaning of his sentence. Turning her face to her she opened her mouth to speak but no words came out when she noticed a dirty smirk plastered on his lips. "I... Ughh" she tried to pay no attention to him and fixed her attention to the study desk busy finding something. She side eyed him again after she saw him leaving the room. Finding nothing inside the drawer, she closed it with a huge smash and groaned in irritation. "Where did it go? Olivia gave me when I went to her place few days ago and I remembered I kept it here. Ughhhh this is getting in my nerves now. This is all because of him. If he wouldn't force me from going to the University then I would not have been fallen into this trouble. I need to give it to my Professor asap. Otherwise I'll be suspended from University and my exa-" she stopped immediately when a piece of paper dangled beside her face making her halt at her spot. Facing backwards, she saw Graham satisfyingly looking into her soul and a familiar paper rested on his hand. Snatching the paper her eyes brightened with a joyful look after she recognized the exact paper she was looking for just now. "This.. this is..." , "This is what you were looking for isn't it?" he asked while she nodded her head several times out of sheer happiness. "Although I don't want to but as I learned manners so I've to tell you. Thank you Graham, thank you a lot for letting me resume my university again." she said grinning so beautifully for the first time at him which made Graham fall in to oblivion. He felt something going on with his hormones, the more she smiled making him on the verge of loosing his control. He is witnessing such a beautiful smile of hers for the first time, something he never saw before which is undoubtedly turning him on. He never knew that this single act of handing her the medical examination form papers for her promotion would make her so pleased and he would be lucky enough to see this prettiest smile for the first time. Somewhere else he wished to do it again and again just so he could see this smile of hers again and again. He couldn't take his eyes of from her as his mind was already capturing this moment that seemed like an eternity to him. "Graham are you listening? Graham!?" she snapped him back to the reality before seeing her frowning at him curiously. "Yea- y..yah oh I was thinking that never mind. Jocelyn this your exam form papers. You accidentally switched it with your notes papers when you kept it in your drawyer. You can rejoin your university from today... I don't want my wife to be locked forever in this house with me as I have a human heart." he said these words receiving an inaudible scoff from her. "Inhuman heart in case you need a rectification.", "did you say something?" he asked raising an eyebrow after hearing her mumble something under her breath. "Nope. Not at all. What do I say?" she said after offering him a tight lipped smile. Moving closer to her, he whispered something right into her ear that made her freeze at her spot. "You really think Graham Hendrick's sharp ear exist for nothing? I heard what you said kitten. Listen. Just because I'm letting you resume your university doesn't mean you'll run away from me. Remember what I can do if I get to know that you ran away. And then I'll be in charge for you to make you learn the consequences if you try to act clever behind my back. Don't forget that I'm your Mr." he said pulling apart from her face before slightly giving a kitten lick on her ear lobe. He chuckled internally after seeing her cheeks getting red. Disbelievingly looking at him for the last time, she jumped away from him before grabbing her back pack and the form before rushing out of the room and leaving for the University. Heading towards the balcony, a sigh escaped his lips as he watched her hop into the black SUV with the driver and several guards opening the gates for her car to leave.
Time skip evening
She was getting bored as she had nothing to do in this giant house. The maids were in charge of all the choirs and she wanted to help them since she already completed her college homework assignments an hour ago. But they forbade her not to help them since it was their boss's order. As a restless girl, she knew she wouldn't stay in one place doing nothing. Therefore she decided to roam in this huge penthouse and see all the different other rooms, hallways, other side of this huge palace looking structure because she hardly got the time to explore every corner of this building since her marriage. Moving through the corridor way, she was so busy admiring the sunset city view from one of the highest floors of the penthouse, she didn't noticed that she was about to get bumped into Carter who was also coming in her direction. His eyes were stuck on his phone texting someone about something and neither did he noticed her. But both there attention got diverted the moment his phone tinged with a notification. "Ahhh a gho-", "shit who-"both of them nearly screamed in unison before their eyes met in shock. "Oh Jocelyn you? You scared me for real." Carter spoke calming himself down by putting his hand on his chest after realizing the person in front of him. "Dad I'm sorry I was just spending some time as I didn't have anything to do." Jocelyn spoke after catching her breath. "It's OK child. You don't need to say sorry. How are you by the way?" she sighed knowing what his last question meant. Carter asked this since after her marriage, he hardly got any time to speak with his daughter in law since Graham usually don't allow anyone to enter his and Jocelyn's shared bedroom not even his father and she is forced to get used to his weird restrictions. And most of the times, Jocelyn is seen busy with her college assignments and after she rejoined her college almost a month later because of her marriage. Nobody in the college knows about this news yet except for Olivia, her best friend. "Sorry to say this dad but you it'd be better if your son gave you this answer." she said with an annoyance in her voice which didn't went unnoticed by him. "Listen Jocelyn. It's expectant for him to behave abnormally with you after all the storms took place in his life. Nothing was right in his life before you came and he thinks that you are the reason behind all these. When circumstances forced him to be a sober, he was slowly drifting away from his work, our business which I could've never seen getting drowned ever in my lifetime. You know business blood runs in our family. From generations we've been holding the position of CEOs from among the wealthiest jewellery brand in the world. And after the tragic incident that took place, he became more aggressive than usual. His behavior changed which makes him to do crazy things while being drunk. As a father, I tried to make him understand a lot but to in vain. He just never listens to me and does whatever comes in his mind. But after so many years, when you stepped in his life, I felt like I got a glimpse of my old son back. He again started pouring his all into our business. And for the first time after so many years, I found that lost glow on his face, something that felt lacking in his life after... Jocelyn, if theirs anyone who can fix my son's pain, it's you. If theirs anyone who can refill his life with eternal love and happiness, it's you. Please take care of him and never leave his side so matter what... Please Jocelyn don't leave him no matter what." Carter's every word flew over her head instead of going inside her brain. Understanding not a single word, she just nodded her head on the fact that whatever he meant, their was a meaning behind it. But on the other hand, his words, somewhere didn't reflected how Graham treats her behind the closed doors according to her. For some reason, her brain felt like everything her father in law blurted out about his son is a lie but her heart unknowingly believed in all his statements as truth. "I understand dad." she said these with a tight lipped smile receiving a nod from him. "I took my best decision choosing you for him. May God bless you both with a happy married life. Take care." Carter said these words and went away from her side. She just looked at his back with a scoffed expression until he got away from her sight. "Both this dad son duo has gone mad probably." saying this to herself he gave a last glance at the city sunset view outside before making her way back to her room.
Time skip 1 a.m. night.
Sleep not ready to dwell in her eyes, and she wiggled under the duvet like a cocoon after being awake for so long unable to drift in her dreamland. The fragrance candle and the cool peaceful environment isn't helping her today. She was so lost in hundreds of thoughts of her husband when suddenly the aura around her changed. Clearly feeling something is not right, her breath hitched when the familiar cologne hit her nostrils making her beats accelerate. She stayed still realizing the other side of the bed sinking down indicating him lay beside her. A low gasp escaped her lips when he, "You woke up honey?" his husky voice made her stomach twitch in an unknown sensation. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't even hear the sound of the door knob twitching open indicating that he entered inside. "You-" , "Shhh" he cut her words off after wrapping his legs around her waist caging her completely in his embrace and rested his hand on her stomach. Placing a little kiss on her hair, he let out a long sigh after her addicting scent filled his nose calming him down in an euphoric pleasure. "I just returned now from work. I'm tired. Let me hold you like this and sleep." he spoke brushing his thumb against her hand. "You need to move away from m-", "Jocelyn" he whispered directly in her ear sending butterflies in her tummy. "if you keep speaking with this voice, I swear I'll loose my control and do something which will make me regret later." he said after her rough voice hit his bare skin right against his chest , which undoubtedly was turning him on. "Sleep kitty. Good night." Graham spoke. Jocelyn felt his Adams apple bop up and down as if her touch is doing something to him. Without paying further attention, and protesting him to leave her, she closed her eyes and both of them drifted into sleep, clinging and hugging onto each other like koala.