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Will I be happy after marrying him?

I keep looking at his sleeping face. I suddenly remember what the nurse said to me about him. He had taken the whole hospital on his head so the doctor could attend to me first. It made my cheeks blush remembering when the nurse called him my husband. It hit differently inside me. I peered more at his sleeping tired face. 

I know he is so tired after taking care of me. He is sleeping peacefully like a baby. Well, he is a big baby and I still can't believe how he was able to take care of me in my unconscious state. His behavior makes me very confused. Every time I feel like things are becoming clear in front of my fogged eyes and I'm getting a better idea of what is happening to me but then he behaves differently and changes every assumption every perception I made about him. 

At this point, I don't even know what to do with him. 

He has mastered bewilderment and he knows how to use it on me. I don't know which side of him is true. The side where he says he hates me and I'm the ugliest girl in his life or the side when he doesn't want to let me go as if I'm the only thing that keeps him sane. It's so hard to understand what goes in his mind. Sometimes he is so rude to me by showing the hate he has for me. He doesn't let a single chance show me that I don't matter to him. All he wants is to marry me because he wants the whole company's possession. 

And at the same time, he behaves as if I only matter to him most in his world. And that stuff he does show me that he is the only one for me does something to my heart. I'm at the stage where I can't even deny the feeling I feel for him when he comes near me to consume me in his arms. His small actions are pushing me to my downfall. His all possessive kisses when I'm busy working to distract me or the way he plays with my long hair while I'm talking on serious topics with him about some business projects or the way he looks at me when I'm cooking for him in the kitchen. 

It makes my heart beat fast. 

Even though I thought it was wrong of me to feel that way, I still felt those small gestures making strong walls break around me. They were slowly turning from thick brick walls to wax walls which just needed one more strike and I will putty in his hands to mold him in any way he desires. This thought makes me want to hide in his embrace so I feel protected but at the same time, I feel I'm putting myself in the most vulnerable situation. It feels like he is my sanctum and the cause of my destruction at the same time. And this feeling makes me so afraid. 

Till now I have lived my life thinking he was supposed to marry Amelia but after he showed me those papers it was so hard for me to process them. How can the truth I have been living with all my life change in just a split of seconds? How should I accept something which changed my life one-eighty degrees? I felt like I was in a big delusion and my bubble of the fallacy was busted most harshly. My body was not able to take that shock and I fainted. I'm still not able to believe that I was supposed to marry him from the start. 

How can mom decide something like that when I was still in her womb? Why didn't she wait for us to grow up? 

Maybe because she sensed she won't be able to live after giving birth to me. She knew from stating that she won't be able to make it still she carried me. Dad told me her body was weak and that she couldn't bear the pain of giving birth but still, she sustained the pain till my first cry was heard by her. Dad told me she immediately asked the Doctor to hand me to her. She wanted to see me first. And the first thing she did to me after taking in her arms was to kiss my forehead. As soon as she took me in her arms happy tears slipped from her tired eyes. She looked at dad and told him I was the most beautiful baby she had seen and her last words were 

"Every single second of pain I went through to see her is so worth it" with happy tears falling from. her eyes. 

And saying that life left her body while her eyes were still fixed on me. A tear slipped from my eyes as I logged so much for her. I have never seen her but only the affection towards me I heard from dad and Amelia makes me want to meet her so bad. I was already dealing with the loss of my mother. I felt so lonely when my mom was not present in my life. I missed her even more at my school at my sports meet or parents' meeting. Even if dad was present at every function of mine I still logged for her. Every child's mother was present on the ground screaming on top of her lungs to cheer their child. Dad did the same thing for me but that log inside me was still there but everyone changes on that day. 

It was mothers day and my school had organized an all-mothers race. I remember I didn't want to go to school on that day. Even if I try hard not to show sadness on my face, it will come and I didn't want to make sad the only parent I had because dad did everything for us to his capability. He never neglected or even missed a single function of us. Even after he was working hard for us he showed at every event. So I said to dad that I was not feeling well and I don't want to go to school but Amelia saw right through me because she felt the thing I was feeling. She took hold of my hand and in her firm grip and took me to my school. 

My fourteen-year-old sister participated in my mother's day race. She ran with all the mothers and won the race for me. I was so happy and at that moment and in that moment I realized I always had a mother in my elder sister's form. She always did things for me which a mother would do for her child. But I was so late to realize that thing. 

Sometimes we are so late in our lives to appreciate some important things in our life we should cherish the most. 

Only a year after I lost my beloved sister. God even took her away from me again leaving me as a motherless child. Everything was my fault only if I had not acted like a stubborn child everything would have been normal. She would have been between us now laughing and breathing with us. I saw Jack opening his eyes as if something pulled him out of his deep slumber. 

"Cupcake why are you crying? Are you feeling pain anywhere?" he asked in his worried voice as soon as he saw my crying face I did even realize I was sobbing silently now. I moved my head in denial as I wiped my warm tears from the back of my hand while still moving my head in no. He moved towards me if it was even possible while cupping my face. 

"What happened tell me? Should I call the doctor? '' he asked in his impatient worried voice as if my tears were making him feel the same pain I was feeling. Something was in his voice that made me feel like hugging him to comfort him and me too. 

"I--I miss her s--so much," I said in my heavy sobbing voice. And I swallowed the lump forming in my throat. He looked at me with a soft look in his eyes. He knew about whom I was talking and without thinking twice I hugged him hiding my face in his chest to find something I was logging for eternity. That feeling was unknown to me but I wanted to still feel it. He went stiff at my sudden embrace but he soon wrapped his hands around me. 

"We all miss her," he said hugging me tightly. "Don't cry like this or she will be sad seeing you crying like this because of her" he said while moving his hand in my hair to soothe me. 

I nodded my head lightly and agreed with him without thinking twice because he was saying right. She never liked it when I cried. She became sad whenever she saw my tears. I didn't want to make my sister sad anymore. He continued stroking his hand in my hair to calm me down. I hugged him tightly while closing my eyes as his nearness was making me feel steady. I don't know when I sleep while still sobbing silently. My heart too followed my instruction and normalized its space pushing me to my slumber. I don't know when I drifted to sleep while he kept comforting me. 

I opened my eyes in the morning when I felt the morning cold breeze touching my face. I took a deep breath and tried to cover my face but my hands were draped over something warm and I didn't want to lose contact with it. So I moved my face to bury into my warm source. What is keeping me so warm? I thought I was still feeling the warmness. I felt fingers moving away from my hair from my face and it made me open my eyes and look at it. Jack was looking at me as I saw his half-opened eyes. His face was just a few inches away from his as his light brown eyes looked into my soul. 

My whole body was entangled with him with close contact. We both tried to fit in the small bed of the hospital. I lowered my eyes and tried to move as he was still looking at me with his light brown eyes. They were filled with so much want and I could certainly see it in his eyes. He tugged my hair behind my ear and started moving his face near me making my heart palpated fast. His lips were just about to touch me when the door of the room was open and yesterday's nurse walked in making me flinch in my place. 

"Oh I'm sorry for disturbing you but I need to take your IV syringe as you are getting discharged today," she apologized as soon as she saw us. I moved away from him to sit up and he didn't like it but he didn't say anything and sat up with me. I cleared my throat as the nurse smiled looking at my red face. 

"It's fine. You can take it out," I said with a little red face. She came and started doing her work. After some time dad came with homemade breakfast and my changing clothes. Aunty too brought me breakfast and they all together made me eat everything. Even after I told them I was full they still made me finished as my body was still so weak in their eyes. I tried to give some to Jack but he in his life for the first time refused to eat food. It didn't leave any room for me to deny eating so I had to finish it on my own. I was almost done with my food when dada said. 

"I'm going to take Nina with me," he said while smiling a bit. I saw Jack stopped in the track of drinking juice. His glass was hovering above his lips as he looked at me with an alert look. 

"Didn't we already talk about it yesterday? I will take her with me" Jack said, refusing dad to let me go with him. 

"You can have her for a lifetime after your marriage but now I'm taking her home with me to spend some days together before her marriage. I want to make sure my child is healthy again before I entrust her health and safety in your hands" dad said, making him understand but his words only made him more agitated. 

"I will take care of her for you. You can come and meet her anytime you want" he said in his uneasy voice trying to change my dad's mind. 

"Jack let her go with David as you guys can't stay with each other until you say your vows. The groom and bride should stay away from each other before their marriage for a good life after they marry. So it's best if she stays with her dad" aunty Sam said, making him look at her with an uneasy look in his eyes. From his face, it was clear that he didn't like this suggestion a bit. He looked at me while telling from his eyes to say something but I chose to keep quiet. 

I didn't know what to say. 

"Mom people used to do those things in the stone age no one does it now, after all, it's all superstition," he said, not agreeing with her then he looked at me. 

"Don't you agree with me Nina?" he asked, looking straight into my eyes as he knew I won't say anything on my own and that's why he asked me this question. Why is he behaving like this? I will be back at his place after marriage. I looked at everyone with a red face as they looked at me waiting for my answer. 

"Jack, stop acting like a stubborn kid we all know you can't stay away from her but stop giving her stress she is already so weak" uncle Richard came to my rescue as he saw my red face. 

"But" he tried to again put his point. 

"No it's final she will go with David" uncle Richard said in his dismissing tone making Jack shut his mouth. He looked at me with a sulking face. I chewed my inner cheeks from stopping myself from smiling. He stomped out of the room like a kid who didn't get his favorite car. Everyone moved their heads in amusement looking at his childish behavior. 

After some time the doctor did his final checkup on me and gave me a green signal. All the time the doctor was checking me. Jack was looking at me with mad eyes. I knew he wouldn't stop sulking until I went back with him. I came out of the bathroom after changing into jeans and a top. He was waiting in the room for me to come out. As soon as he saw me he stood up from a cough and walked towards me and hugged me getting me off-guard. 

"Tell your dad you want to come with me" he mumbled to me in his stubborn voice as he pressed a small kiss to my neck passing a shiver to my spine. God this man why is he making it hard for me. I bit my lower lip as I felt him nibbling my sensitive skin of the neck. 

"Jack," I said in my small voice trying to stop him as I knew where this would lead. He moved his face away from my neck and looked at me. His lips we're just an inch away from mine. But before he could do anything dad came to take me, making me move away from him. 

"Ready to go," dad asked as he looked at us. I nodded and followed him out not wanting to be in the same room as sulking Jack because I was afraid he had the power to convince me to go with him. 

He followed us out with the same expression that lasted on his face making me move my head in disbelief. When I was about to sit in dad's car he handed me my phone without saying a single word. Mumbled a small thank you to him then I sat in the car. He kept looking at me until the car completely vanished from in front of his eyes. I opened my phone to find so many missed calls from Jane and Hazel. So I decided to call them after I reached home. When I reached my bedroom I decided to call them together on the conference call. 

"Hello girls," I said as soon as our calls were connected. 

"Look who is calling us Nina Rogers or I should say soon-to-be Mrs. Miller" Jane taunted me as soon as she heard my voice. I knew she was angry with me because I didn't tell her about my engagement. After all, it was a big surprise for me too. 

"So can we know how soon-to-be Mrs. Miller is replying to our tons of calls today?" Hazel asked in the same tone as Jane. I knew they would be angry with me after knowing about my engagement from somewhere else. 

I explained everything to the informant that I got discharged from the hospital today. After listening about my health there anger vanished as if there was never there before. They were coming today to spend some time with me. I was feeling much better at their company in the evening. The next day dad had invited everyone to celebrate the good news about my marriage. Rogers, Milliers, and Adams's family were present to celebrate. Almost all people had come but he had still not come. 

I went to change my clothes and change into some party wear as I was done helping dad in cooking. He wanted me to rest all day but I refused and helped him instead. I got changed into a light pink satin dress which ended at my knees. It was a single strap and was hugging my frame showing all my curves. When I came down I found him with boys nursing a drink at the bar. He didn't even spare me a glance since it came down. I knew he had chosen to give me the silent treatment. After all, I didn't go with him. I feel his heated gaze on me many times but whenever I looked at him he was busy talking with boys. I felt a tug at my heart as he was ignoring me purposely. 

"Kitten please bring the jug of water," dad said as I was talking with the girls about our night stay plans. 

"Yes dad," I said as I told Jane and Hazel to go to the dining room. I went to the kitchen and took a water jar to fill it. I felt a presence behind me and I knew who it was. I tried to take the jug and go away but he stopped me not letting me turn by keeping his hand on mine which was on the jar. I felt his warm breath near my ear and it made my heart beat fast. 

"Run from me as much as you want to. Tease me as much as you want " he said in his dominating voice while tracing a line with his finger on my exposed neck to shoulders very slowly spreading tinglings on my bare skin. Just a small touch of his made my heart thump wildly. 

"But once you say I do. Don't expect any kind of mercy from me on our first night because I'm going to claim you in all possible ways so no one can take you away from me ever again," he said in his dominating voice making goosebumps form all over my body saying that he left. 

Now I'm more afraid of my first night with him than saying I do. 

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