CH 34 ~ Sleep Together [Bonus Chapter]

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The person beside Rennie frowned as no matter how many times he called her, she didn't responded.

Alex took a deep breath before he whispered in her ears in a deep voice.

"Rennieeh..."

"HUH?"

Rennie became stunt because of the sudden whisper and came out from her daze, as she looked at Alex, whose face was too close to hers.

'When did he came?'

Rennie was lost in thoughts so deeply that she didn't noticed him at all.

Even the food is already served in the table and she blinked a few times to get back to her senses again.

"Are you alright?"

"What was you thinking about? I kept calling you for a long time."

Alex spoke as he moved away as he took a seat infront of her and Rennie felt unease after seeing his somewhat worried face.

"I-I'm fine... nothing serious,"

Rennie spoke guilty and Alex sighed as he decided to let go of this matter, despite knowing she was lying again.

"Forget it, You must be hungry after waiting so long. Let's eat."

Only the Rennie realized that he was an hour late and she felt more bad after seeing him dropping the matter.

Both of them started to eat quitely as none of them spoke first.

As the atmosphere between them turned awkward again, Alex decided to break it first by asking her about the recent events.

"Ren,"

"Hmm?"

Rennie looked up as Alex called her, but he became silent again and kept staring at her.

It's weird for everything to be a coincidence, as he knows what she is capable off.

Their kissing pictures were taken down instantly when a few passerby had taken it and uploaded, but her picture with Tristian is on trending.

'Does she hates being seen with me on public?'

"What?"

Rennie asked as he didn't spoke about anything after calling her name and Alex's thin lips parted to speak.

"From the moment we got married, i have never asked you anything and respected your wishes for staying low."

Rennie stopped eating and kept spinning the spoon on the bowl of her soup, as she quietly listened to him.

She recalled the time when she asked him to keep their marriage a secret from the public as she had decided to give up on everything and stay with him.

And he had agreed without even asking why.

'I can guess why he had agreed now...'

Alex took another deep breath before he started to speak again.

"I know at that time i mostly agreed because of the contract between us... and it will be hard for you to believe if i say i never had the thought of separation with you, while i tried my best to annul this contract between your father and me."

"I just wanted to get rid of the contract, which felt like a shackle to me... and ended up hurting you because of my pride to not being looked down."

"I felt inferior to you during our marriage... and i wanted to be equal. I always felt like you were trying to make me feel special to make up for forcing me into this marriage."

Alex spoke with a lot of difficulties as it was hard for an prideful man like him to accept his own mistakes and present his thoughts like this.

Where Rennie's grip over the spoon became more tighter, as she felt hurt while recalling the past.

'So my sincerity and love made him feel inferior? Where i gave up on my revenge and pride to be with him?'

'I acted out of my character, stopped fighting and going to the Organization, I learnt cooking for him and always reached out first- only to know he had embraced me with the thought to knock me up so that he can get a divorce earlier?'

Rennie took the wine bottle with those thoughts running in her mind and started to fill their glass slowly.

"What's the use of saying this all now?"

She tried to spoke calmly, as she put down the wine bottol back on the table again.

"Tell me one thing, how would you feel if you learn that the girl you loved only got married to you because of benefit?"

"She treated you coldly, while you tried your best to make an effort and improve the relationship between you two- only to know that everything was just a lie?"

Rennie paused on her words as she picked up her wine glass and gulped down all the wine in one go.

She looked at Alex coldly, Where he just stayed silent and listened to her with a guilty heart.

Alex felt like his heart was being hammered with every words she spoke, but he knew he deserved it all.

His pride was the one to blame for everything.

If he had just discussed about it with her beforehand, instead of keeping everything in his heart and treat her coldly- then they wouldn't be like this now.

"I know it was my father's fault, I know there are many things i hide from you, lied to you- but was my love and sincerity was a joke to you?"

"You never asked me anything, because you wasn't curious about me at all!!!"

"I know you were forced to marry me because of my father! Then why don't you just embrace me like you used to do and try to knock me up, so that we both can become free from this unwanted marriage?!"

"!!!"

This time, Alex furrowed his brows as he looked at Rennie angrily, but she just ignored him and also frowned.

Rennie gulped down another glass of wine in frustration and her face had already turned red as her alcohol tolerance is really low.

"Watch your words, Ren... I told you that there will be no divorce ever happening between us."

"And- And why is that?"

Rennie scoffed as she tried to look at Alex while her eyelids started to feel heavy.

Her voice became lower, unlike how aggressive she had sounded before.

"W-Why don't you..want- want a divorce now?"

Rennie asked as she stood up from her seat and tried to approach Alex with her unsteady steps.

"R-Ren,"

Alex called her name as she bent down to meet his blue eyes, trapping him between her arms.

"Didn't you only embrace me so that... Reenieeh would b-become *hiccup* pregnant according to that damn t-thing?"

Her one hand was above the head of the chair he was sitting, where the other one was resting on the table.

Alex's adam apple throbbed as he swallowed his saliva and looked away, while Rennie frowned as she felt rejected.

'She is already drunk... i can't let her get drunk infront of anyone else- she looks innocently seductive after getting drunk,'

Alex felt the cold atmosphere between them turning hot all of a sudden and his throat felt dry.

He took his wine glass and gulped down all the wine to wet his dry throat, but then her next words made him choke on the wine.

"Tonight... Let's sleep together,"