Chapter 20 - Marrying Off His First Born - A Dream

Theodore wanted an immediate wedding before their child would be born.

"You have your required papers to get a marriage certificate?" Leonor asked Theodore.

"It was in the brown envelop I gave you five months ago." He informed her.

"Darling, Did Nanny give you a brown envelop?"

Lizbeth was confused as she did not remember about it.

"Sweetheart, before I left this home that day, I asked nanny to give that brown envelop to you." Leonor reminded her.

"It was the day after my overnight here, honey." Theodore seconded Leonor.

"Honey your ass. Don't you honey honey me!" She glared at him.

"Cute!" Theodore praised her.

She was about to hit him with her slipper by picking it up but her mother reminded her that she was already a professional woman and she was no longer a teenager.

She left for her bedroom as it was already sleeping time. She was advised by her ob-gyne to always complete her

Number of sleeping hours.

Without talking, Kenneth instructed Theodore through his eyes to follow after Lizbeth in her bedroom.

Aware that there was a padlock inside her bedroom, he ran swiftly like a jet plane.

He was so swift that he was able

to get inside her room before she could have closed and padlocked it.

"I'll help you look for the brown envelop. The required papers for me to get a marriage certificate were there."

Lizbeth was reticent who went to

the rest room to pee and take a bath before sleeping.

Theodore who was left alone went to the couch where he seated. He was admiring Lizbeth's bedroom that spectacularly manifest her prudence.

After looking around his eyes were

on a small table in front of the couch with books on it.

There he saw the small books about child care.

He got one of it and started reading while he was lying down. Not long after he fell asleep because of his lack of rest and sleep the previous night.

A knock from her door made Lizbeth opened it. Outside it, her father

had the travelling bag and her mother had the backpack of Theodore.

Glum and peeved, she turned her back from them and went to her closet

for her pajama.

They saw their soon to be son-in - law sleeping on the couch.

"Anak, cover his body with a blanket."

Kenneth quipped.

When she gave the blanket to his father, he blanketed the body of the sleeping man who was so obsessive to be their daughter's husband.

With a smile he whispered to his wife. "Thanks God He sent an abled husband to our daughter.".

Leonor nodded to show her agreement for it was their wish to

marry off their eldest child to a responsible, loving, caring, understanding, God-fearing and hard-working faithful life partner.

These husband and wife knew

love struck him the first time his sight

was on their daughter.

Only that the oceans across their countries gave him difficulty to win her

daughter's heart.

Soon, Lizbeth was flat on her bed covered with her quilt closing her already drooping eyes to drowsiness.

They were standing there with a

joyful face. Kenneth had his left arm over Leonor's shoulder with his hand pulling her while Leonor's right arm was on his waist with her hand pulling him.

After watching them to their heart' s content they left switching on the night light and locked the door for their daughter was also in deep sleep like Theodore.

Around two at dawn, Theodore woke up to pee in the bathroom. When his eyes wandered, he saw his bags below the couch he was sleeping on.

He was relieved that he wouldn't

be leaving the bedroom to get it from the living room downstairs.

Before going to the rest room he got his robe from his travelling bag.

Lizbeth was still deeply asleep who was unaware that he slipped inside her quilt and embraced her closest to his body.

He was tempted to give in to his

sensuality but he didn't want Lizbeth to

despise him more.

Although he knew that the woman was so sensitive to his touch, still, he held himself from doing it.

He had to wait until she would be ready to accept him wholeheartedly.

"Why would I be in a hurry when I have my life time with her?" He reminded himself.

What he did instead was to ponder and to retrospect that the first time he set his eyes on this woman his intuition urged him to pursue her to be her one & forever lover.

In his thought he was overwhelmed with elation as he knew that he was his first and only man.

By the time he insisted his love making with her, he could still recall

how this woman wanted to reject him

but her body wouldn't.

He knew his magnetic effect on her

whereby this woman of his life was trying to control herself but to no avail.

Without knowing it, he was caressing her belly while kissing her on her head.

He was back to sleep once more when the pregnant woman dashed off to pee in the rest room.

She watched him sleep admiring his handsome face before she compacted herself beside him but her back was facing him.

She felt so comfortable sleeping beside this man. To be honest to herself

she was longing for his touch but... she

could not just disregard his connivance with her parents.

She felt wronged and mad, feeling as though she was a commodity traded to this persistent father of the infant in her womb.

Again she woke up feeling that her bladder was about to burst so she ran and she skidded right to the toilet bowl inside her bathroom unaware of Theodore who was already taking a bath.

Theodore, on the other hand, saw her seated on the bowl to pee, turned his front view to her under the shower stand while rubbing himself with a soap.

The sound of the swishing water had fully awaken her.

She was baffled that the shower was out of order and it may cause a flood not only in her bathroom but also in her bedroom.

When she turned her eyes toward it her body seemed shaken by the naked man beneath it.

She quickly averted her eyes away

from that scandalous view by looking down at the tiled floor.

She couldn't yet leave as it was not only a liquid waste that she was discarding out from her body but she was also discharging her solid waste.

The man smirked and flirtatiously declared; "It was not your first time to see this. You've even felt it inside you."

"Please... Leave... Now!" She gritted her teeth while requesting him to be out of the rest room.

"Wait, I'd just rinse myself." After he rinsed he left the shower stand and straddled in front of Lizbeth without even wrapping his nakedness with the towel.

He was so shameless that he even

stopped in front of her... facing his front view to the woman who was seated on the bowl... went back to the towel rack near the shower stand... walked toward her... stopped once again facing her and started drying his hair before slowly wrapping his hips with it.

Wrapped with the towel, he bent down his head, held Lizbeth's face with his two hands and kissed her warmly on her lips with a 'mmuuwwaa' sound.

"Good morning my queen. I love you!" Then he went out laughing as Lizbeth hit his back with a soap.

When he got out of the rest room

he heard someone Knocking at the door so he hurriedly wore his robe and opened it.

It was his soon to be mother-in-law who apologized for her early disturbance. She politely told him to look for his brown envelop at the drawers of the night stand.

So, he did and was able to find it.

He immediately handed it to Leonor who

rashed going back to their bedroom.

Kenneth who was about to leave for

his work dialed his phone to a friend who would assist Theodore to apply

for his and his daughter's marriage license.

On the day Kenneth was back home, his first born child to Leonor was wedded to a church where Leonor's cousin was one of its parish priests.

It was a two-week semestral break and Theodore's leave was a day over it.

Lizbeth gave in to be with him for his work in his country.

Without telling Lizbeth to surprise her, he filed an application for a job in the Philippines. It was in the aircraft liner

where Kenneth Allen Lacandula was one of the best pilot captains.

As soon as they arrived at Theodore's parents' home, Lizbeth was most welcomed by them. They were

so easy to get along with.

While Theodore was busy in his job,

Lizbeth was also busy exploring the wonderful places she had not yet seen.

Her mother-in-law served as her very attentive and thoughtful tourist guide as she knew that she was pregnant with her first grandchild to her

only child, Theodore.

Theodore's parents was aware of their son's situation with a wife who was just forced to get married to him through

his connivance with her very understanding and concerned parents.

That awareness made them very

gentle to Lizbeth and was helping their son to be wholeheartedly accepted by the latter.

If Theodore wooed Lizbeth's parents, that time his parents wooed

Lizbeth for him.

They coddled and cosseted her more that her own parents had done.

She was really pampered that they would never allow her to cook for them.

However, with her insistence, they gave in and was happy to know that she had the potential to be a great chef.

They were very glad telling their son about the qualities they had found out even after a short while staying with them.

Guilty of the Royal treatment endowed to her by Theodore's parents, she initiated to greet Theodore a peck on his lips upon his arrival at home from his work.

At the dining table, Theodore informed them that he was hired as a pilot in the Philippines.

He assured his parents that once he

would be a resident of Lizbeth's country, they would be visiting them twice a year.

Therefore, after two weeks of their stay in his country, they went back home to Lizbeth's country to start building a family of their own.