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"Ace!" A familiar voice echoed from behind.

Ace recognized the voice and turned to see her. It was Laura, standing near the car holding a carry bag in her hand. This was the very first time when Laura took Ace's name from her beautiful voice. Her soft and beautiful face holds calm and composure in them. The moment Ace saw her face, he sighed in relief and licked his dry lips in relaxation. He ran towards Laura and wrapped her in his big hands. He places one of his hands on her waist holding her tightly and the other hand grabs her wrist to pull her close to his chest.

He hugged her, "Where did you go, leaving me?" He tightens his hold pressing his chest to hers.

She breaks the hug as she widens her eyes in surprise, hearing him, "I went to buy these for you." She averted her eyes to the carry bag, she was holding.

Ace averts his eyes from her face to the carry bag, peeking inside it. The carry bag contains strip bandages, cotton, ointments, sterilizer, forceps, and thread to suture the wound.

"Your wound has not been sutured yet so, it will not heal easily. We need to suture the wound first." She stares at him innocently.

He curls up the corner of his lips by placing a proud smirk. He felt relief as he saw Laura caring about him. He was afraid that Laura would be upset because of what he told her about the marriage. The heart he opened to her conveys that he wants to continue this marriage as her husband. He was afraid that she would reject him and because of that she ran from here but seeing her worrying about him he was happy that she was starting to accept him.

"What happened?" She snaps her finger and thumb to bring him back from his thoughts as he continuously stares at him while smirking.

"Nothing, let's go home." He cups her face in between his hands.

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"Ace?"

The moment Ace and Laura entered the house was stopped by Ace's father who was standing at the door of his office near the living room.

Ace recognizes the voice and turns his face toward Laura, whispering, "You go to the room, I'll join you." He smiles at Laura as he pats her head slightly.

Laura nods her head as she rushes back to her room. Ace waits for Laura to reach the room and then he turns to face his father. He growls at him placing both his hands on his pocket and on the other side his father scowls at him in anger when he walks inside the office.

"You have decided that you will never listen to me in this life, Isn't it?" His father growls at him.

"Did you call me here to ask this?" He shrugs.

"A very big shipment is coming tomorrow and you are going to pick it up." His father shrugs as he sits on his chair.

"I am going out for some work tomorrow, so I can't go." He turns to leave the room.

"What's more important than the shipment?" His father questions him angrily.

Ace ignores what his father asked and continues to leave the room when "It's alright if you don't wanna go. I'll ask David to go there." The moment his father uttered those words, the rage started to build up in his veins to burst out.

His father curls up his lips corner and builds a smirk on it. He very well knew that the words he uttered were the best way to control his son. He knew that Ace would do anything but not let his brothers join the illegal business. The words did his work and Ace agreed to it, "I'll go." he turned and spoke softly controlling his anger by clenching his fist harder.

"You should have said that earlier." His father chuckles teasingly.

Ace turns again to silently walk out of the room when "Why didn't you listen to me and married her instead of letting her die?" His father frowns.

"Letting her die was the easy way to solve the issue." He adds to it and Ace stops, listening.

"You should've not allowed yourself to become a scapegoat." His father yells as Ace doesn't reply.

"According to you, what should I have done, let an innocent one die, just because of your business?" He snaps back rudely without turning back.

"Have you started to fall in love with her?" His father's words made Ace turn to his father.

Ace very well knew that his father would not be happy hearing that he had started to like her, that he had promised her to give a chance to their marriage.

"No!" He immediately replies to his father so that he doesn't doubt anything.

His father walks towards Ace, and they both make eye contact with each other. They both were trying to study each other's faces. Ace was lying to his father so that he doesn't hurt Laura and his father was trying to see if Ace was lying to him.

His father suddenly smiles when he gazes his eyes to Ace's neck, "Oh! So, you are having fun with her. I thought you loved her because you saved her from dying." His father chuckles softly in relief.

Ace arches up his eyebrows because he couldn't understand why his father was smiling and why he was relaxed regarding Laura? He notices his father staring at his neck and feeling proud.

Ace walks out of the room confusingly when he bumps into David.

"When did you come back, I didn't hear you?" David questions Ace as he stops from letting him go upstairs.

"Just a few minutes ago." He replied zoning out as he started to go upstairs.

David holds his elbow and stops him as he averts his eyes at Ace's neck.

David smiles, "It's been only a few days since your marriage and you have already started to control her." He slightly slides his finger to his Neck.

"What are you saying?" He jerks off his hand irritatingly.

He rushes to his room door while ignoring David. And, he on the other side stares at him rushing to the room and smiling at him.

Ace couldn't help but be forced to think about what was wrong with everyone. Why are they all asking him questions related to his and Laura's relationship? Why is everyone thinking that something has happened between us? And, why the hell are they staring at his neck as if they haven't seen anyone's neck before?

Ace opens the room door and walks inside. He notices that Laura is taking a shower in the washroom he can hear the noise of the shower. He moves forward near the bed and removes his blazer while his mind is flooded with the questions that are disturbing him. He turns to look at himself in the mirror. He takes a few good seconds to scan his reflection in the mirror from toe to head to check what exactly was the issue.

"Is it my clothes?" He whispers as low as he can.

"Nah!" He scans his clothes.

"Is it my hairstyle?" He placed his hands on the hair and started creasing them.

"Nope, it's not my hair." He nods his head scanning his reflection.

"Then, is it my face?" He asks himself to glance at his reflection.

He tilts his face right and left with his finger and thumb in between his chin.

"Wait! What is that?" He sighs as he notices his neck.

"A hickey!" He snaps loudly in surprise.

The closer he steps forward towards the mirror, the closer he gets to look at the hickey. He smiles profusely as his teeth can be seen. He was confused yet happy. He was trying to remember when exactly Laura planted this beautiful love bite. It was very obvious that he spent the whole day with Laura, so it must be her giving him a hickey. But the question was, when?

"Wait a second!" He whispers as low as he can to himself.

"I was taking a nap in the car when she was meeting with her family and later I felt a pain in my neck and I woke up." He widens his eyes open.

"Yeah, that must be the moment when she gave me this." He tries to remember that vision.

"That means, she took advantage of me when I was sleeping." He scoffs in disbelief that she could even do this to him.

He heard the noise of the shower stopping, then he walked towards the door of the washroom and leaned himself against the wall beside the washroom.

He crosses his arms to rest them on his stomach and starts to smile profusely, showing off his teeth. He couldn't hold his smile as he remembered he even let out a loud moan when she bit him on the neck.

He had many questions regarding the action Laura took but he had no option but to wait for her to come out from the washroom. He was desperate as his heart was throbbing against his chest. The goosebumps arose in every one of his veins. He unlocks his arms and later taps his finger against the wall impatiently.

The moment he hears the doorknob clutched, he clears his throat and straightens his shirt to make himself ready. Laura came outside in a bathrobe and closed the door behind them as she dried her hair with the towel.

Ace grabs her wrist in no moment and he pulls her close against the wall. He makes sure to place his other palm on the wall to not let Laura hurt her head before pushing her against the wall. Laura slightly tilts her head to look at his palm against her head. Ace's actions didn't let Laura think much as it all happened in no time. He slowly removes his palm from the back of her head and slides it down to her face. He makes Laura's face move upward lightly and slides his palm down to her neck. He removes a few strands of her hair from shoulder to back. The moment his eyes touched her bare neck, a cold shiver ran down her spine. Her bare neck was visible to him and had a few drops of water lingering down to her barely visible cleavage.

"What the hell.." Laura sighs sensually as she is cut by Ace when he leans forward his face to her crook of the neck.

He plants a soft kiss on her neck which leads Laura to sigh heavily. She swallows hard down her dry throat when Ace stares at her breaking the kiss.

"Aren't you, my wife?" He leans to one of her ears to whisper. Her chest pounding heavily as she struggles to breathe.

He then brushes his lips to her lips while deliberately moving his face to the other side of the ear.

"Have I not asked to give our marriage a chance? Shouldn't you fulfill your duty as my wife?" He chuckles teasingly.

She snaps his shoulder with her free hand, pushing him slightly back to make him take a few steps backward, "When did I agree to it?" She utters curiously. "And, why the hell are you being horny?" She snaps rudely.

"Horny?" He scoffs in shock. He leaves her hand freely, moving a few more steps back.

"Am I being horny?" He asks again with an irritating face while pointing at himself.

"Aren't you being horny, seducing me?" She moves forward to him while placing her crossed hands above her chest to rest.

"You are the one being horny and you are the one seducing me?" He forcefully grabs her wrist and bends her arm to the back side of her waist in a hurting manner. He then, with his free hand holds her other arm and bends her as well to the back side of her waist. With a single hand, he holds her both arms on the back side of her waist. He places his finger and the thumb of his free hand, in-between her chin in a forced way that she shook her head to resist his touch.

"You are being delusional?" She sighs furiously.

"Am I? Then, what is this?" He removes his hand from her chin to point towards the hickey on his neck.

To be continued...