Chapter 32 Baby

KIA

He didn't really speak to me or ask how my day was when we came home, and he hardly even looked at me. What issue might he have? Maybe I really need to talk to him since it's bothering me a lot. But first, I need to take a shower. I felt like Vincent's hands were still in my body. I immediately went to the bathroom and did my thing.

While taking a shower, my mind was filled with random thoughts. They kept on running in my head even though I really didn't intentionally think about them. I also have a lot of questions in my mind. I was wondering why the people you love will destroy your trust and crave to gain your trust again when you are already healed or making progress with your life. Do they really enjoy destroying someone's peace of mind? How can they say that they love the person if they didn't even think about the things that would hurt them? Or maybe he really didn't love me but he loved to make me suffer and didn't want me to see someone else.

I don't know... there are a lot of things going on in my mind.

While scrubbing my body, I noticed the bracelet that I bought last time. I feel guilty for thinking of someone else while Ares is here for me through ups and downs. I didn't need to beg the bare minimum because he is giving me the things that I deserve. He really is the standard.

I just wonder, do I really deserve him? Do I really deserve a guy who will make you feel special and will always put you on his first priority list? Will I regret it if I continue to be apart from him after living for two years and acting like a real husband and wife? Is he really honest about his actions and not just acting as my husband because of the agreement we have?

I feel like while the time is running, day by day I fell harder and harder towards him... but I don't want to hurt myself again. I'm scared to confess my feelings. I don't want to experience that kind of pain again...

I took a deep breath and continued scrubbing my skin. After taking a bath, I could hear a chopping sound coming from the kitchen. Is he making dinner?

I slowly went to the kitchen to see what he was doing. When I look at him from behind, I can see him being very serious. Is he really chopping an onion or chopping a human body? Is he still mad about the thing that happened earlier? I'd better explain to him.

I slowly approach him and call his name, "Ares... Ares?"

He looked at me with tears in his eyes. "What's up?" he asked while wiping off his tears.

I simply cannot close my eyes as they remain open, feeling as though the world is collapsing around me. I didn't even move. There, I was completely paralyzed. And in just one snap, I can feel myself again. I immediately approached him and wiped his tears.

“I am so sorry, hon. I know you are angry about my ex-fiance but... but you don’t need to cry, okay? Baby, don’t cry...” I said as I was hugging him so tight. My eyes welled with tears as I tried to hold them back.

“Hon…”

“I know... I know, I am so sorry, hon—”

“I am not crying because of your ex-fiance! Also, it’s not because of the gossip between you and Nathan Zac Ramirez! The onion makes my eyes sting! I am not angry!” He screamed like a baby having tantrums.

“Oh! I thought... Okay, nevermind.” I was so embarrassed by what I said and decided to escape this horrible scene, but he suddenly grabbed my hand.

“Did you just call me baby?” he curiously asked.

“Did I? I don’t know… Oh yeah, I did, because I thought you were crying about those things.” I sighed deeply as he was staring at me intensely. What is his problem?

“....Mhm… But our endearment is hon. Who is baby?”

Oh crap! What is happening in this world? Can somebody save me from this kind of question?

“Who else? Of course, it’s you!” I answered.

As he raised his eyebrows, it appeared that he wasn't satisfied with my answer, “But you haven't called me baby since we decided to live together. This is the first time in the history of our relationship. You always addressed me with hon or Ares but not baby! Do you seeing someone else? Don’t you like me anymore? I thought I am your type in guys… I want to hear it more!”

“What?”

“I said, say it one more time!” he added, pouting like a real baby.

This cuteness is too irresistible for me to resist. I smiled as I looked at him begging for me to say it again, “Okay! Fine, fine, I will say it again, baby.”

“One more, please!”

"Later, if you cook delicious food tonight—”

“No! I want to hear it! Say it, hon, please….”

I took a deep breath and poked his forehead, “Baby… Okay, done! Now, are you still angry?”

“Yes! Humph! My eyes are swollen and you didn’t even ask earlier why I am acting different. You waited for me to cry! Bad, Kianna!” he turned his head in a different direction while still pouting his lips.

His cuteness is beyond words!

I held his face and faced it on mine. We are literally face to face right now. I can hear him breathing so deeply. Is he nervous? I don’t know why, but his face was slowly turning red, like he was having a bad fever. As we made eye contact, I closed my eyes and kissed him. He almost made me miss it when I looked away since his lips were slightly to the left and his nose brushed up against mine. Despite the fact that his eyes were closed, he was still able to hear the crinkling of my smile as I moved my mouth into place and cocked my head to allow our lips to finally touch firmly and joyfully. Each time I exhaled, I was breathing straight into his nose, tickling the hairs in his nostrils, making him laugh, which made me laugh as well. I nibbled on the tip of his nose and kissed it as he drew back sheepishly, and when his eyes opened to see me, they were aglow.

“Hon, how about taking a bath with me?” he asked, while his eyes were like wolves who were ready to devour my body into pieces.

“Ah— But I just took a bath. I can’t—”

“I am not easy to calm down. You have to make it up to me."

“But we still haven't eaten dinner!”

He slowly inserted his hand into my back and unhooked my bra using just one hand. “Ares! Stop it!”

“Make me…” he whispered through my ear.