Chapter 19

I didn't know he'd take such an initiative just because of what I said but he didn't seem to be joking either.

"What did you just say", I wanted him to repeat what he said in case I didn't hear well.

"Will you marry me? Will you be the mother of my children for life?", he repeated boldly.

"Are you serious?"

"Does it look like I'm ready to toy with your feelings, of course am being serious "

"Well… I'm sorry but I can't marry you", I said to him in a sorrowful tone.

"No.. Annie, you don't mean what you just said right?"

"Of course…, I don't mean, I will marry you Aikens "

"Gosh Annie, what was that for?", he said looking scared. "I love you Annie "

"I love you too", he hugged me so tightly after my confession that I could hardly breathe.

"Please release me, I can't breathe ", I finally found my voice to speak.

"Oh sorry, I was just too happy", he said releasing. I finally agreed to spend the night at his place since I didn't want to miss him so much. I slept so comfortably as never before simply because my heart was finally at peace. The morning was so beautiful when I woke up but I thought I was in dream land so I refused to get off the bed till a knock came through the door. I walked lazily to open the door, it was Jazzy.

"Good morning sister in law", she greeted with her bright smile.

"Stop being silly Jazzy", I chuckled "just address me by my name"

"I can't do that, you are part of our family now",

"Did Aikens tell you that?",

"Well all I know is you are part of our family so I need to treat you as one", she said ignoring my question.

"You don't need to do that Jazzy"

"And why can't she address you by your title… are you trying to go out to cheat on my?", Aikens interrupted our conversation. "Anyways, how was your night?", he inquired. Jazzy walked slowly in a teasing manner out of sight making us giggle.

"My night was as terrible as hell", I replied when Jazzy was finally out of sight.

"Didn't you like your room?", he asked concerned.

"How do you expect my night to be better when I had to sleep all alone making me miss your presence?", I hit his forehead slightly.

"Silly girl, I'd spend the night with you today "

"No need, I'd be going to my place today, I'm hungry, can we get moving now"

"You can stay a little longer, you'll be safe here", he tried to convince.

"I'm really hungry, I need something to eat or should I just pounce on you?", I said to him and left to the dining hall. I sat behind the dining table waiting for breakfast to be served but it never came. Jazzy came out of the kitchen to tell me Aikens asked her not to serve me breakfast. I stood up and walked straight to my room where I left him earlier but he wasn't there. I headed towards his room since I had no choice left. I knocked on the door several times but there was no answer so I decided to go in.

"Aikens!", I shouted his name when i got inside and he responded

"What did you tell Jazzy", I asked not knowing where he was even responding from.

"What did your lovely sister in law tell you?", he asked coming out of the bathroom with his chest bare and a towel tied around his waist. The water dripping from his hair made him look crazily sexy. I didn't want to be seduced by the guy in front of me so quickly turned to face the door.

"What are you doing?", he asked.

"Just checking something on the door"

"Turn around", his voice sounded commanding but I pretended not to have heard him.

"I asked you to turn around", he repeated.

"I don't want to", I replied still facing the door.

"Are you shy to look at me or…"

"Me? Shy? Never", I cut him off

"Then turn around"

I gathered some courage and counted up to three in my head. I turned around just to find him in a shirt and shorts sitting on the bed. He gave me a teasingly look and smirked at my behavior which made me feel like beating him up.

"What do you want in my room?", he finally asked.

"Why did you tell Jazzy not to serve me breakfast?

"Because you will leave after eating"

"You can't be serious "

"Don't you think it's not safe to be in my room?", he asked taking steps towards me.

"What.. what are you trying to say?"

" I mean anything can happen because we are alone and the door is also locked ", he said continually closing the gap between us. How the door got locked, I don't know.

"Aikens open the door before I shout", I threatened.

"You can shout all you want but no one will hear because Jazzy is out of the house too". I had to think of a way to deal with him since I knew he was just trying to tease me.

"Since there's no one around, why do we waste such an opportunity ", I played along .