Gabe wanted to call Mia’s name, but out of respect for her, he knocked on the door just once.“Who is it?” she asked.“Your loving husband,” Gabe cleared his throat and answered.Moments later, the door opened, and Mia was staring at him with her brows raised high. “Seriously, it’s time you stop being overly husband-like.”“But this will make your family jealous of us,” Gabe reasoned.“I don’t want to make them jealous. I want them to believe that we’re married,” Mia hissed in a low voice. “I want them to feel discomfort because of your presence and the new atmosphere you set here. I want them to stand on their own feet.”“Ho…” Gabe was surprised. “So you’ve been thinking about what to do from here onward.”“Yeah, come on in,” Mia let him inside before shutting the door. She then gave him a diary.“What’s this?”“I’ve written four pages on how you should act,” she said. “Read them and tell me what you think.”“Alright.” Gabe was sitting down on her bed, but she pointed at the couch.P
The next morning.Everyone except Mia and Gabe were enjoying breakfast at the dining table. Bertha herself cooked today, and Bart loved the food.“No one can beat you in cooking, Mom,” he praised her.Bertha smiled. “But, Son, what happened to your jaw? Why are you eating slowly with the spoon?”“T-That’s a long story,” Bart’s shoulders slumped. “I’d rather not talk about it.”“Did you fall from forward and hit your chin, Uncle?” Draco asked in a self-altered sweet voice.“No.”“Did someone punch you in the face or something?” Draco asked again.Bart kept staring at Draco without answering.“Haha, who could hurt your uncle?” William chortled. “He’s capable of taking down professional boxers with a single punch, so who can land their fist on his face? I don’t think such a man exists.”Freddy was silently eating. Carrie kept nudging him because they had talked about asking Bart to give Freddy a job in his company. Though Freddy had told her he was planning to work elsewhere, Carrie was
Romantic lovers would say, an unplanned kiss is the best.The kiss between Mia and Gabe also fell in this category.Was it breathtaking? Was it comforting? Was it captivating? Was it stirring? Was it beautiful?Whether it had all those experiences imbued in it or not, one thing was clear.It was short.Short it may be, it was steamy yet sophisticated in the sense that it imparted knowledge onto the two souls involved in the kiss.It was not a slippery kiss, but it had this gorgeous mix of coy and crudeness burgeoning as their four lips firmly connected and exchanged a lot of information from the scent and senses to their breaths and feelings.Gabe looked star-struck as if he appeared as if he had tasted something heavenly, and his heart blossomed like a flower.Mia, on the other hand, had an opposite reaction. She wiped her lips and frowned in anger.Seeing the negative expression on Mia, Gabe was forced to bring his emotions and expression back under control. He immediately lowered h
“Are you alright, darling?” Gabe was quick to give a glass of water to Mia after she started coughing wildly.She took a few sips slowly, and that helped her breathe better. Of course, she was not looking at Gabe’s body. She was doing her best to not look at it.“What’s for breakfast today?” Gabe sat down and acted like everything was normal.“Poor Uncle, why aren’t you wearing a shirt?” Draco asked. “Didn’t you buy clothes yesterday along with others?”“Ah, I think clothes restrict me from eating freely,” Gabe casually replied while putting food on the plate so much the entire plate filled up, and he still kept going until the food rose to the level of his chest, shocking everyone. Gabe began to scoop out of that mountain of food as if it was a large piece of cheese.Bertha felt disgusted and openly said, “This is what happens when you marry someone whose standards are way below us.” She looked at Mia. “Do you want me to feel bad because he came to the table shirtless, or do you want
After Gabe lost, Draco started saying that he also wanted to compete with Gabe. Everyone told him that he would lose, but he said he wanted to fight. Gabe agreed to compete with him, and they did. Mia didn’t tell Gabe anything because she wanted to see how he’d deal with a child. And Gabe gave Draco just enough trouble to make him use all of his strength. In the end, Gabe lost almost similarly to how he lost against Bart. Draco jumped in delight after victory, but it was like sending another slap at Bart. When Mia thanked Gabe for letting the kid win, Bart felt another invisible slap bruising his ego. He still refused to believe that Gabe intentionally lost in the arm-wrestling match as otherwise, it would mean that Gabe was significantly stronger than him. Eventually, Bart brought ice creams for everyone. In fact, he gave two ice creams to Mia when Gabe wasn’t around and told her, “I’m sorry for everything. I know a simple apology wouldn’t cover the mistakes I’ve done, so I’ll be
Gabe came to a local grocery store where things weren’t going well. The store was owned by his friend, Monroe.“This is the third time this week that things were stolen from my store,” Monroe was telling all his worries to Gabe. Having seen Gabe drive a Lambo, he no longer considered Gabe as poor and undependable.“What are the police doing?” Gabe asks, sipping on almond milk from a bottle, which he bought using the twenty dollars that Mia had given him instead of giving a protein powder packet.“I complained to them, but they are more interested in taking products from my store for free instead of solving the case,” Monroe sounded quite frustrated. “The police have taken things worth over 2000 dollars in the past six days. I regret filing a complaint.”“This is pure harassment,” Gabe hissed. “Shouldn’t you consult a lawyer or something?”“Why? To feed the lawyer, too?” Monroe’s shoulder slumped. “These days, you can’t trust anyone. People who have no morals go to high places, but idi
After having brunch with Irene, Mia left the restaurant.Someone else came and sat at Irene’s table. It was her husband. “You chatted for a long time. What did you two talk about?”“Something that men wouldn’t understand,” Irene replied, making him smile. “She might need our help in the future, so if that time comes, I don’t want you to think about it.”He calmly nodded.“Thanks,” Irene said.“You’re not the type to care for your friends,” he said. “Why do you care about this particular friend? Did she help you in the past or something?”“Nothing like that. During our marriage, I realized that I don’t have many friends, so… I thought I should invest some time and effort into making some good friends.”“You think she’s worth your time and effort?” he asked.“I hope so,” Irene replied. “She’s definitely not like Keira or Natasha, but we’ll see.”In Draco’s school.Draco was playing mobile games during class hours using Nicole’s mobile. During recess, Draco put the mobile in his bag and
In Tuna Waves restaurant.After seeing her talent, Nicole was given the role of innovating the dishes by the head chef. She worked for the entire day and prepared seven dishes and made the chefs taste.What Nicole didn’t know was that this was a test. If she were to get approved by more than half the chefs, then she’d be promoted from an intern to a chef.When the chefs tasted her seven dishes, some of them raised complaints that most of these dishes were not weather-friendly or customer-friendly and so on.Nicole didn’t keep all these things in her mind. So, she asked them to give her one more chance before they even gave her the result.The seven dishes she made were definitely good, but most of them had too much spice, which would scare many customers away, and that wouldn’t do good business. These dishes were perfect for home but not for hotels.The head chef told her she could come tomorrow and try again.Nicole, however, said it was alright and worked for four more hours to prep