The Hunter and The Prey

In Touch

Chapter 32

In touch

Natalie had no choice but to keep herself surrounded with five or more guards whenever she put her toe out of their bedroom. Chasen was being too paranoid with their safety lately even his parents had been given dozens of bodyguards. He keeps on reminding them of the new threat in their lives. His overbearing had gone through the roof and he was on edge lately which made Natalie, twice in every hour, to calm him down. He keeps her in his line of sight whenever he was at home, his hands might as well be a permanent part of her waist. This made Natalie's patience in test whenever her husband clings unnecessarily. Other wives might love this gesture of their husbands but sometimes a girl would love to have a bit of time for herself, an hour would do. 

"Should the wife be the clingy one not the husband?" she asked one time when she decided to visit the kitchen alone but Chasen insisted he come too with his left arm either dangling on her shoulder or hugging her waist.

"Rule has change so get use to it wifey," he replied in a matter of fact tone, scowling again for stubbornly interpreting Natalie's  words for being unwanted even though deep inside him it wasn't really true. It just the overwhelming anxiety he felt right now for his love ones safety. He still wanted for Natalie to bear their child, wanted for his parents to spoil the kid, and he and his wife watch their little one growing healthily and happily. He yearned to see the house decorated with scattered toys, little clothes and see his kid jumping in excitement in Christmas morning eager to open tons of presents. What a sight would it be to see it with Natalie and is parenting smiling in jubilant at the little innocent kid. He yearn that, so this tightened security is necessary.

"Yes, but can I please move freely? In case you haven't notice we are at home where so many men are guarding the place"

"I am preventing men catching your attention. I know those men I hired they had a thing for you, so I don't like them using this opportunity to make a move on you," he stubbornly pointed. He saw few soldiers trying to flirt with her when he area warned them thag they will lose their teeth if they ever try to catch her attention.

Natalie gave up trying to beat sense on his territorial mind. There is no point and she will just waste energy trying  to convince him to loosen up a bit.

"Well I am going to talk to my friends and Nate," she told him.

"That Nate again," she heard him murmured in disdain. Old discussion, she thought grinning in privately at her husband's irritation at her best friend.

"I will be in the study room alone please talking to them while you talk with your guys about the situation, remember you are supposed to report from time to time with the high officials?" she emphasize.

"You are just kicking me out of your sight," he grumbled, frowning at her for pushing him away, "let's be honest and open her,"

She laugh so did Will who came jogging towards them. "Hate to break your interesting conversation but Clayton wanted to brief us with regarding to the progress of operation Delta."

"Alright alright, please don't talk too much info about what is happening here," Chasen muttered reluctantly at Natalie who rolled her eyes at his unnecessary concern. "And," he gritted that made his wife look at him again, "my kiss?"

"Geez, it's hard to stomach witnessing you like this," Will wrinkled his nose in disgust before leaving them to sort out their marital obligations.

"You are just jealous," Chasen snapped, "I got the per-" Natalie halted him by grabbing his head and caress him so he would stop his grumbling.

"Happy?" she breathed once her husband let go of her. She could feel his hands ready to carry her in somewhere private where no one can see nor hear them. Chasen is becoming so quenchless she always felt worn out whenever he discipline himself to let go of her.

"Can we continue-"

"Go to work Chase," she laughed walking away from his disappointed face.

She would love too to be honest but they had all the time for whatever he had in mind when night time comes. For now she will drained her energy talking with her friends from Alaska. They had been asking for baby news from her but she always disappoint them, after all, she was still recovering from her gunshot wound. The doctor told her that getting pregnant would totally stress her heart and that is a no-no since her wound needed years to recover before doing such delicate thing such as pregnancy. This made Chasen consulting an OB and insisted Natalie to take birth control pills. He was very firm with that circumstances even though his parents would love having their grand children now, but they understand her delicate health.

Her girlfriends bombarded her with excited news as Alice got engaged from her new boyfriend. This would be Alice's third attempt of getting engaged. Natalie hoped this is the one because Alice had been changing her mind in rapidity that made everyone off coarse whenever she felt the pressure of tying the notch. Secretly, Natalie suspected that her friend was into her husband ever since she visited Alaska. Alice could not help herself pointing out Chasen was so handsome and rich, a combination that made her desperate to catch his attention which end up in vain. He just ignored her attempt like she wasn't even there when she engaged in conversation. However, that brush off made Alice slightly cold at Natalie.

Once they signed off, she called her other friend from Ireland.

"Hey," Nate's accented tone greeted her.

"How are you?"

"I have been fine. I got to new flat mates, siblings from what they told me," he shared. "They are Columbians working as grape pickers in the vineyard. Anyway, so how are you and," Natalie heard him sneered on the phone, "your renewed husband? Did he ever-"

"Stop whatever you are going to say Nate," she snapped, "and for the record my husband had been amazing, sweet and harmless if that is what you wanted to hear."

"I'm sorry okay, it's just hard to believe he hurt you so gravely before and you end up marrying that...that mo-"

Nate wasn't supposed to know Natalie and Chasen very first meet and what happened next, unfortunately a lady soldier who had been crushing on Chasen happily recalled those events in a loud obnoxious vioce which captures numerous attention from the visitors, including the best man. That was an ugly confrontation from a very furious Nate who shouted his lungs off as guards drag him off away from the reception. 

"It was in the past. We cannot bring back that dreadful time but if ever that could be undone he would be the first to go back and prevent what I suffered."

"So you believe him wholeheartedly that he is a new person now?"

"Really Nate.... I love him and I trust him so much... He won't hurt me again, you won't believe the remorse he felt whenever the past is brought out to remind him....okay....and I never doubt him never....."

"I am just-"

"I know you are worried but trust me on this one, Chasen would catch a bullet for me if he had to-"

"I can do that to,"

"I know Nate...but save the heroic act to the one for you because this woman you are speaking right now is happily taken and she loves her husband so much even though he is too clingy," she chuckled.

She heard him grumbled something like 'I am better than him' but ignored commenting on it.

Deep inside Natalie, she knew no one would ever change her decision in giving Chasen a second chance and loving him too bits despite his flaws or his violent past. He had proven himself worthy of her forgiveness and love. She would defend her husband from people who tried murking his name. Everyone has a nasty past, but anyone had the decision to move on from it or stay and dwell and let it consume you forever. She decided to let it go because that's the only thing in her mind when she decided to help Chasen and release him from his shackle in that cave there in Brazil. That very action she had made turned her world into a new positive world, and she was thankful she had done it because Chasen is everything to her now.