Chapter 22 - Chapter XXII

Veronica woke up around 2 AM and felt someone was snaking around her body. Then realization hits her, where she, just like five years ago is still the same, as making herself too readily available for the man beside her. It's not like he used a magical power to compelled her but she herself was more than willing to offer her body to him. 'I miss you.' She was feeling conflicted after remembering what he said last night. 'Do you? Why?' She silently asked. Veronica moved but found it very hard to as the beast was tightly snaking around her and she could only do a slow but sure effort to roll her body over to face him. She looked at his serene and calm sleeping face. Years had done him really good. He's more than handsome as she could remember him. 

Veronica moved her hand to gently caress his faced. It started on his forehaad then to his eyebrows. Still those bushy yet net brows. She carefully played with his brows before moving to his closed eyes. Beautiful deep seated eyes which she could imagine even if he's still sleeping. She continued on to his proud high bridged nose screaming royally,....and....and his thin pinkinsh lips....the same pair of sexy lips that ravaged not only her lips, but also her body. 'His sexy lips also did some naughty stuff down there.' The pervert in her added. She quickly removed her fingers off him as he stirred in his sleep.

Another conflicted emotions surged within her. And yes, same as four years ago, I am about to once again leave before he woke up just to save myself some pride and dignity. After all, men of Rawlf Sy's stature and power surely treats women as someone to satisfy their physical needs. There's no need to plant hope in her even if she's aware that he fathered her her twins. Just because he has children with me doesn't mean he'll also readily take me as his wife....or even as his woman. A woman for the night. 'For the record, two nights and a day in toto.' The pervert in her mind added. Veronica smirked.

She had long accepted this pervert side of her. Even before she met Rawlf years ago, she had long understand her own sexuality and that's why even if without experienced in all actuality, she knew right there and then that she felt an intense amount of sexual attraction for the man. Maybe for his magnanimous personality making him at the top of the food chain and her womanly instinct of course would naturally respond be attracted to someone with his kind. 

Veronica indulged herself more watching him for another minute before trying to once again move to get off from his tight embrace. She planned to go ahead and process the check out of the hotel suite until 12 noon which she believed, was enough for Rawlf to wake up and move out as well.

She decided to stay at the Bael Force HQ to slim down and if possible, zeroed the chances of her meeting Rawlf once again. She promised herself not to indulge with her own weakness and pleasure for him as she has to moved on and prioritize her growing force here in Country P and above all else, her children. Their children that won't be able to meet him, she half-hoped and is ironically half-sad with. She knew that despite her children being pampered by her and her family, Baelfire and Baelfair craved for a father that would spoil and pamper them with a fatherly love. But afterall, her twins were geniuses, they might lacked the love of a father but she'll make it sure that she as the only parent will do her best to be a good mother....and a father.

She's not trying to complicate things. It's the reality of everything around her that she needs to understand. Yes, she can simply told him that he fathered her not just one child but two, four years ago and then what? What then? The status qou is best as what it is. Let it stay that way, at least her children was safe at the haven of their highly and heavily guarden old castle in Country R. 

Being someone who was now a part of the underworld strengthened her as a woman and she believed she had achieved everything faster than she thought she could, but deep inside her, she's wailing as her humanity was crumbling into pieces day by day. But she needs not only to act but also wholly, be stronger, for her family and mostly, for her twins. That's what not only the incident in Country P but also what almost happened to her Country R had taught her. She shook her head as memories of what could have almost happened to her and her twins who were almost 6 months in her stomach. 

Just as Veronica was succesfull to removed herself off Rawlf and was about to sit right up, he suddenly pulled her back and embraced her tighter and with a dangerous voice said, 'Where do you think you are going?'