Four months laterThe green field filled with green grass and beautiful flowers and a whole body of clear water that spanned the area.My view of nature from this angle was beautiful.The sun shone directly on the water, casting very perfect and pretty rays of light around us.My smile was full as I breathed the cool evening air and relaxed my body and my bare feet into the soft grass."Baby", Caine called, and I turned back to see he had already arranged our picnic setting, and he was standing on top of the mat with his hands outstretched, waiting for me to go into them.I caressed my small protruding belly as I walked back to him.“Come on” he said as I got closer and when he got in touch with me, he held my waist.“My pretty girl” he said and kissed my cheek before nuzzling my neck."You put your boys scout training into action today", I complimented the arrangement."Baby, any normal person can do this" he said, and he rubbed my belly gently."Well, not me. I can't do that" I sai

"You have a stubble coming on. How did I not notice that?" I touched his face lightly."I decided to let it grow out", he said, holding my hand."Ah. The daddy stubble" I said, and we both chuckled. It's been two days since I have been in the hospital with different tubes and wires in my body and all this while Caine never left my side for more than two minutes.Two days since, I had seen him genuinely laugh. He was either holding my hand and making me laugh or sitting and brooding when he thought I was not watching. I wanted us to go back to our normal and perfect life. The one where he would pick me up and run around the house with me in his arms.I looked down at the couch he had been lying on for the past two nights and my big stomach obstructed my view."I don't look sexy anymore" I said and wiggled my feet."Don't even say that. You are my perfect round ball", he said, and touched my stomach."You are calling me fat". I was cautiously laying a trap for him."Nope, I'm saying

The dead pack soldiers had been buried with tears and pain.Their families were compensated and taken care of, but we were not the same that week.Caine has not been himself since we left the hospital and was either working on his laptop or in the gym trying to get his leg to heal faster.The attacker had gotten him in the stomach and dug deeply into his right thigh, even though he was healing fast the leg was taking time to heal.I would wake up at night, and he would be grunting and huffing away with workouts.Or he was either in the garage or sneakily on a call or in a meeting with people I did not know when they arrived at the house.Everybody was trying to get to the root of the problem and being extra careful.He was trying to be sneaky about it, he did not want me to know anything about it.I had not seen Megan for a while now and David was not forthcoming with any information I asked about.Caine was still my sweet, loving husband, but he seemed a shadow of himself now and alw

I opened the door slowly and came face to face with a total replica of Caine.Caleb Kingston.The banished malevolent brother.He stood tall, with big green eyes and a chiseled jaw, and he was smiling at me, so I saw the one-sided dimple Caine also had. The only difference was his hair color. Caine was blonde, and he had long hair, but Caleb had short brown hair and also their body size. Caine was bigger than him."Hi" he greeted in the most calm husky voice.If I did not know who he was, I would have felt very comfortable with him."Who are you?" I asked, not wanting to out the fact that I know him and delay him till Caine came back since he said he was not going to take time.I expect him back any time soon."I would have loved to introduce myself, but judging by the silver weapon you have in your hand, you already know me and have been warned about me." He said, eyeing the knife I had tried to conceal.Since he had found me out, I brought it out from behind me into the open."What

“Here, drink this”. Caine handed me a cup of green tea.I forced a small smile before I collected it from him."Thank you. I needed this" I said. “You’ll feel alive in no time" he told me.I sighed and tried stretching my aching back. I had just gone through an unpleasant ordeal and my whole body was tired."It's two in the morning. I don't want to be alive, I want to be sleeping," I told him.He sighed and sat down."Well, look how we ended up. I'm sorry about this" he said, and I paused my motion to drink my tea."Why are you apologizing?" I asked quickly, coming off rude.His brow went up in confusion "Uh... it's a way of comforting you, I guess. You're not comfortable right now, and I feel bad about that" he said."Well you should" I muttered loud enough for him to hear before sipping my tea."O...kay?." He said, clearly not understanding my attitude.We sat in silence as I sipped my tea and he stared into space."I can't sleep" I said all of a sudden."Do you need me to massage