I love you!

Chapter 53

The morning breeze was not soothing at all.

Even though it was,q Ashley could not find it soothing.

She had woken up a few minutes past six.

After taking her bath and washing the bowl she had used to feed her little puppies..she made a delicious meal for them and then for the rest of the people that cared to eat as well.

"Ma'am." She looked up and it was Rob.

"What can I do for you, Rob? Are you okay?" She asked, seeing a small cut on his lips.

"I am fine. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Laura asked me to send her greetings. What do you want right now.."

"I'm not dead Rob, I'm perfectly fine. Look how my skin is glowing. I am fine, not dead, I just watched something I was not supposed to watch..okay?" She shrugged turning to the entrance where three more guards had lined up.

Then she heard footsteps coming down and she looked up.

Her shoulders slumped and she walked to stand near the door of the kitchen.

"Ashley."

"Are we going to do that this morning? I think it's not necessary please, just leave me alone."

Rob and the other guard had walked out already.

"Ashley."

"What?"

"Can you just listen to me for once? For once in your life, Ashley listen to me. I'm begging you for Pete's sake!" He half yelled and she laughed.

"Seriously Mikhail? Oh wait..let me begin what I revised all through the night. You slept with her, fucked her so well that you were so into it that you were being videoed and you didn't even know. How sweet." She chuckled and threw him a deadly glare.

"I would never do that to you and let you see it."

"So you were going to just hide it? If the video had not been out.. you'd have hidden it forever. What I'm I even saying? It isn't forever...I mean we're both going to pathways soon enough right?" She shrugged.

"You're not listening to me, Ashley.'

"You're not talking okay? I have been listening to you for the past hours and you have not been saying a thing. Tell me why you decided..... you promised me. Although this charade of marriage is fake, you promised me that you would never sleep with another woman!" She yelled.

The tears that had long gone had begun to fall again.

"You lied to me Mikhail, you hurt me so badly. Watching you do that with another woman, knowing that you're enjoying it so much that you..."

"I never enjoy it, Ashley, fuck it..this was the very reason I had come to you the day before. Cause I was supposed to be with her that night.."

"So you decide to come fuck the wife as a sorry note and then went ahead to go to the what? business pleasurer?"

"Ashley."

"Please leave me alone."

"Why are you so hurt because of this?! I know I hurt you a lot by going back on my word but this? Why are you so concerned..."

"Because I love you!" It tore out of her throat before she could even realize it.

Her eyes widened knowing what she had just said and she sniffed before chuckling.

"Are you going to tell me that you didn't know that?" She laughed again, rubbing her forehead.

"Yes..go ahead Mikhail, go ahead and laugh at the girl who loved too easily. Rub it on her face and tell her that she should have never loved you in the first place cause she's nothing more. Just a Surrogate that would birth your child." She mumbled, her voice cooutfielddfled due to the cries.

She shifted back when he tried to come forward and just as she was about to turn and be the room he grabbed her arm and pulled her forward.

She gasped, moving forward so suddenly and quickly before falling into his arms.

"What are you doing?" She sniffed and he shook her head.

"You're making a mistake Ashley, I never enjoyed that. It was horrible. I had to do that to keep my father's territory together. would never try to hurt you in that way."

"She wasn't good? Or maybe she was too big and you fit in just too well."

He laughed.

A low chuckle that Ashley felt was just too sweet for her ears.

If only he had not done that.

"You're the only one that can make it fit, it wasn't at all sweet and I had used protection." He mumbled and she shook her head.

"This isn't right Mikhail...."

"You're the only woman I have fucked with nothing wrapping my cock Ashley..you will never understand." He muttered, wrapping his arms around her as if she would disappear if he were to make a step.

Ashley raised her head and looked at him.

First of all..she had never expected Mikhail Mazza to apologize to her.

It was so unexpected and he was looking so miserable as if he had fought with himself for a long time.

"But..." She began to talk again and he sank to his knees.

Her eyes widened and she went back.

"What the fuck are you doing?"

"Asking my wife for forgiveness. I hope she forgives me." He mumbled as if he were a little pupil talking to his aunt in school.

"Babe?"

"I..., I don't want to lose you, Ashley Mazza. Baby, I'm so so sorry." He begged.

She walked to him, her eyes still wide open as she stared at him to figure out what was wrong with him.

He didn't look sick, and neither did he look like someone that was going mad.

Why did he kneel then?

"Get up already, someone might see." She tried to help him up, but damn he timed her size.

"Only if you forgive me, I Will call my boys to come here right now if you don't say yes." He mumbled and she frowned.

Was he threatening her now?

"Are you threatening me?"

"Rob? Max? Boys?" He called and in a few minutes as if they had been waiting for the call ran into the Mansion only to gasp.

"Mikhail stop this and get the fuck up," Ashley mumbled, kneeling as well to get him up.

She looked up and she could see the disbelief the men had on their faces.

Maybe it was probably the first time their Boss was kneeling in front of someone.

There was no way Mikhail had knelt for someone before.

Then why was he kneeling to her?

Did he perhaps know and feel how much he had hurt her?

Was that the reason?

Then what about the contract? He'd be forgeting the things he wrote down for her to obey?

"Rob come help me here." She mumbled but Rob blinked and moved back.

It was a shock to see their Boss on the floor, kneeling in front of a woman.

The very same man that had made devils and monsters kneel in front of him was kneeling in front of a woman that looked like she was seeing the devil kneel.

And this very same woman had asked him to come to help the man up?

There was no way he could ever do that.

Their Boss seemed perfectly fine and he could get up by himself.

"You come anywhere close to the place and I'll cut off your balls and feed them to Hero." He said, and the man moved back again.

"I...I forgive you." Ashley finally mumbled, her lips parting up to see him smile.

"I'm really sorry Ashley and it will never happen again." He said, and she nodded.

"Can you all go?" She turned to the guards and they nodded before leaving the room one after the other.

"You're not supposed to be kneeling on the floor. Do you want me dead? Is this some other kind of trick so you'd kill me?" She asked and he frowned.

"What other trick Ashley?"

"Don't you know that when people see a King kneeling to a woman, it instantly stirs up the atmosphere and suddenly they'll begin to think that I'm using magic to keep you with me and soon enough many people will come searching and, then I'll be used as a bait to catch you and then.."

He laughed, smiling as he did.

"What? It's the truth. People usually get mad when things like this happen. Imagine how their faces were when they saw you kneeling." She said, and he nodded.

There was no denying what he had felt.

He couldn't even imagine it.

Everything had happened at once and he found himself kneeling in front of a woman.

Thinking back on it..he knew how stupid it would look in front of his guard but it didn't even matter anymore.

Ashley was finally talking and smiling as if she weren't the same woman that had been crying and cussing him.

If only he knew kneeling would solve the problem, then he would have knelt earlier than now.

"Have you forgiven me?"

She nodded, cleaning her eyes.

"Yes."

TBC