Chapter 159 JEALOUS WIFE
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"Yeah, Lilian. Sure… And how's everything?" I ask Lillian and just then unexpectedly my wife storms into my office, her face shows anger. Why?
"Husband, You said you are coming in five minutes. I have been waiting for you in our room." She folds her arms over her chest and stares at me for an explanation.
What explanation? Is she jealous?
I look at her in disbelief and then at Lillian who is staring at me suspiciously, "Who is it, Andy?"
"Lilian, meet my wife Tessa," I stretch my hand for her to take and then pull her closer to me, introducing her to Lillian.
She scans Lillian's profile and then looks at me confusingly. Yeah, she is not my type.
"This is Lilian, she manages the work in my absence. My PA, Manager, she is everything." I explain.
"Oh, he is just exaggerating things. Andy is a very hardworking man, and he has always made me feel like his family. So we don't have the formalities of Sir and Madam, we call each other by the names." Lillian starts to chat. Oh, she loves talking.
Tessa shrugs her shoulders looking embarrassed and then tries to slide away from me, not so easily, Tessa. Thankfully, it was Lillian with me if it were someone else Ann would have never let her go without punishing her.
She is forgetting that our marriage has not been announced publicly yet.
I caught her arm on time pulling her closer to me, "Wife, aren't you complaining just now about me leaving you. Sit here, I am done with Lilian. Right, Lilian?" I ask, my gaze fixed on Tessa.
"Oh, yeah, Andy. We can discuss the details later. You take a rest now, after all, you're back home after a long time. Your wife must be missing you a lot." Lillian says understandingly.
"Yeah, a lot," I said in sarcasm and Tessa look down in embarrassment.
"Bye, Andy, Bye Tessa. It was nice meeting you. Andy had missed you a lot while we were stuck in the hurricane. He really loves you. Take care of him and Congrats on the pregnancy." Lillian reveals all the things before ending the call.
God, someone put a tape on her mouth, she just doesn't know where to stop.
"Your stupid act wasn't necessary at all," I tell Tessa in displeasure.
"You were talking with a woman, how am I supposed to react?" She says righteously.
Woah, I knew she was jealous.
"So… You are jealous?" I ask when I could already see the jealousy on her face.
"Why shouldn't I be?" She asks back, making me amused.
Always so unbelievable.
I laugh out loud, she looks so cute when she gets jealous even her face turns red from anger and her hair is giving a good effect overall.
"I miss your laugh…" She murmurs in a low voice as her gaze stays on my face, she looks mesmerized.
Damn, her eyes.
"And me?" I ask, and she looks at me, shy. Not answering my question she tries to leave but my grip is firm on her. "I have asked a question, Tessy."
And finally, she nods, "So, then why didn't you wait, huh?" I ask, that feeling of disappointment was so so terrible I can't explain, and neither do I ever want to experience it again.
"I… I… didn't know that you were coming." She stuttered and I felt amazed by her confession.
Ann told me she did tell her about my return…
"Are you not happy about my pregnancy?" She asks, breaking my trance and completely changing the subject. I take a deep sigh before I speak, "It's not like that… I am happy, but isn't it too early, Tessy?"
"Yes, it is but it makes Ann happy," She says, her loyalty to Ann seems more important to her.
"And what about you? Are you happy with this?" I ask as my gaze stays on her face trying to scan her real emotions.
"I am very much happy as long as my husband is with me I am happy with anything…" She says and for a moment, I feel lost. Oh, Tessy, this kid could separate us both forever.
You have no idea of anything.
But if she is happy with this kid, then I should also stay normal with this pregnancy instead of making her anxious.
"As long as you are happy, Tessy. Everything is fine with me." I hug her in my arms.
F**k, it's been too long since I have hugged her. I feel an ultimate calmness in my heart after hugging her. Her scent fills my nostrils and I start to feel calm and refreshed.
This is what I need, she is all I need. She is my home.
"I am sorry, I didn't want to disappoint you." She apologized while I was satisfying my yearning for her, I smiled, satisfied. "What have you done to your hair?"
"I have colored them blonde, didn't you like it?" She touched her hair looking nervous.
"The color is good but I like the long length of your hair," I reveal, her long hair is always satisfying to watch.
"I didn't know about it, next time I would be careful." She says, back to my obedient wife, that I had left three weeks ago here, in the mansion.
"Very good. Now, where is my kiss?" I ask leaning down on her when she suddenly puts her hand on my mouth, "I didn't take a bath today." and I roll my eyes. When did I complain to her??
"You're still fragrant," I tell her, just now her scent has lifted up my spirits and she laughs thinking of it as a joke. But, it's not.
"Still, I need a bath first," She says stubbornly getting up from my lap enveloping me with coldness. But as her feet touch the ground, I pick her up, playfully.
"Hubby…" She gasps.
"What? Can't I take a bath with my wife?" I say innocently.
"Yes, why not." She replies with a wide smile, brightening my dull mood and my heart.
*****
In the washroom, I fill a bathtub for us and then we indulge in each other's warmth. I didn't realize when I lost my posture when suddenly Tessa asked me, "Hubby, are you ok?"
I was on the verge of blurting out the truth to her when I stopped myself warning her, "Don't ask, Tessy… Not now…"
I kiss her again, trying to not focus on other things that worry me. This moment is for us. I had been missing her for three weeks, I can't ruin our precious moment because of my worries. She intoxicates me and gradually I calm down as we make love.
"So it seems like I am finally forgiven," She murmurs against my mouth, once we both found our delicious release.
"Indeed, yes." My lips curl.
"You intoxicate me, yet calm me, I don't know how you're capable of doing this to me, Tessy." I kiss her forehead and then pull her to the tub.
"Oww…" She squeals from the hot water and I grin, "It's only a little hot water."
This night, she too sleeps like a log but in my arms nuzzling into my chest, I look down at her peaceful sleepy face, and then unknowingly my hand reaches for her stomach. Tessa has my child in her belly, she is going to give me a family.
I want a huge family from her not just one and I hope this pregnancy won't harm her health in any way. She is still too young.
I caress her hair for a long time and finally close my eyes to sleep.
****
I am sitting on the edge of my bed looking around nervously.
I hear a baby crying from afar.
I look at the door and Ann enters with a baby wrapped in a small sheet.
Her smile brightens, her eyes beaming with extreme joy.
"Our child." She says taking steps closer to me.
"Where is Tessa?" I ask, anxiously as I look behind her.
"She is gone." She replies and I feel like the land slides beneath my legs as I stagger and then like a crazy man I start shouting, "NO."
I start searching for Tessa in the whole mansion but she was nowhere to be found at all.
Tessa…!!
*****
I open my eyes in a jolt, my breath haggard, I stretch my hand and realize that it was a dream. Tilting my head I see Tessa's half-face in the dark, she has curled into a ball, too small, too fragile.
Rubbing my thumb over her cheek, I finally calm down and then leave my bed for my morning run.
"It's just a nightmare.
She won't go anywhere.
I won't let her go."
I keep repeating those sentences during my run because somehow my mind keeps going back to that nightmare and the fear has started to envelop my heart.
No, I shouldn't be scared at this moment, I have to be calm and strong. I need to think of a way to keep her. I have nine months with her, in those nine months I have to make sure to shower her with so much love that even after knowing the truth she won't agree to leave me.
She would stay and ask for an explanation. I will explain all the things to her but she has to stay with me at any cost instead of leaving me with unanswered questions.
Oh please Tessy, you have to trust me.
