Kitten

Chapter 40: Little tease

James

I was angry, I was sad, I felt like my whole world crumbled before me. Isabella was my world. My oxygen, my everything. If anything happened to her, I know for a fact that I would not survive the aftermath.

Before Isabella could shed another tear I pulled her into my arms and cradled her and let her cry into my arms that wrapped around her so tightly. Her body shook violently as she cried aloud making my own eyes well up as I listened to the helplessness in her desperate cries. 

"Shhhh baby, I'm right here. It's going to be alright. It's going to be ok. We will get through this. We always do". 

"B-But there's a possibility I might die"-

"No. Don't you dare say that. We fight. We will fight this fucking cancer together, side by side. You hear me? You will not go through this alone. We go through this life together, through sickness and in health". 

"Through sickness and in health" she mumbled into the sleeve of my jumper with a hopeful gaze up at me.

"That's my wife".

Gently swiping my finger across her tear stricken cheeks, I lent down and pressed my lips gently against hers. 

"We will get through this baby" I whispered comfortingly into her ear and began to rock her soothingly before humming a gentle tune into her ear. 

"I will arrange an appointment with a consultant today so I can be updated on everything and then we can look into the most efficient treatment possible. I know you're scared, but I will be right beside you, always". 

"Always" she repeated to herself as if trying to cling onto some hope and reassurance that it would all be okay.

But there was a chance it wasn't going to all be okay.

God, I cannot lose her. 

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Lily

Alexander had spoiled me completely rotten. I felt on top of the world whenever I was with him. I lucked out hard with him. A mysterious man at a bar on the worst night of my life to the most wonderful boyfriend in the whole world.

I was no longer Mrs Evans. I was a free woman standing beside a protective and loving man who valued me and didn't see me as a trophy to hang on the wall. 

"Has anyone told you how cute you are Kitten?".

"Yeah, that guy in the market stall back there did".

Alexander's eyes widened and spun around facing the direction that I was pointing at.

"Where? Who? Which man was it? I'll rip his fucking eyes out"-

"I, um was joking". 

Alexander stared down at me with an unimpressed frown before tightening his grip on my waist and pulled me protectively to his side.

"If you keep misbehaving then I'm going to have to put a leash on my little kitten" he whispered huskily into my ear. 

If he carried on teasing me, I swear we'd end up having sex in a nearby alleyway. Alexander undoubtedly made my sex drive sky high. It had only been yesterday that we first had sex together, but I had already lost count.

"Oops" I muttered innocently as I smacked the open coke bottle Alexander was holding and knocked it down on the floor watching as the sugary liquid dripped down the drain.

Alexander's head whipped over to mine with a shocked expression as if in disbelief of what I had just done. 

"That's it" he growled before gripping my hand and pulled me into a nearby building.