SECOND CONTRACT

Soon it was an impeccable morning. Misty rays of sunlight shone incandescently in the bedroom where Alex and May were sleeping. Alex churned awake from his sleep. He glanced over at the clock. 6:30 am.

He looked at the woman sleeping soundly and sighed. His arms under her head had sprained a bit but he made sure to feel nothing. His wife looked like a peerless mild carefree child who assuringly had nothing to fear in the world.

But he sensed those frowns on her forehead. His short time of admiring and loving her seemed shaken. His eyes darkened visibly but he forced himself to smile. He kissed away the deep lines off her forehead. Being wholly careful not to wake the beauty up, he took his other hand and lifted her head from his sprained arm. Benignly, he retreated his hand from beneath her head and groaned deep down from the pain.

He made sure to adjust the pillow below her head, by the side, and rose from the bed.

Inaudibly, he took himself to the bathroom. 

Half an hour later, the woman on the bed sat on the bed and rubbed her eyes with both hands. She vaguely was subliminal in her environment. She felt insipid and torpid. Just as she sort to get up from the bed, the door to the bathroom opened. Her foggy expression changed from lazy to thunderstruck as her eyes landed on the figure retreating from the washroom. The man was back facing her and was unable to see his face.

'Brother Xavier' Her drab face deepened. The man's back resembled that of Xavier's. For a moment there, her heart skipped and she was elated. She wanted to call his name but her voice got stuck in her throat and furthermore, the man had left for the closet.

May unhurried waited for his presence and rubbed her head from the throbbing pain. The room was unfamiliar.

Did Xavier buy another house? She mused.

Just momentarily, the man came back wearing a white shirt and black pants, the sleeves folded up to his elbows while his hands tucked into his pant pockets. His shirt was undone as the first buttons were opened showing his timbre torso.

His features were steep with his poised pointed nose, dainty set of blue-grey eyes, substantial brawny jawline, and attenuated irresistible lips. For a man who was in his thirties, his skin was fair, fine and luminescent, probably because of the refreshing bath he had taken. The room was filled with the amiable scent residing from his body.

His damp black hair hung above his eyes. His face was emotionless as he adjusted the arms of his shirt.

May hadn't seen his face properly and called "Brother Xavier, it is you?" and waited for a response.

The man's eyes rounded in shock.

"Thank God, you finally found me....brother Xavier, I don't want to ever leave you again....you and I are forever to be"

She confessed, her dark eyes still on him, but in just a moment, those beautiful flawless eyes narrowed widely as she recognised those set of grey-blue eyes.

Alex scoffed at her reaction. He deliberately raised his head and looked at her but her sudden reaction made his heart churn. He clenched his jaws and forced a smile.

"How was your sleep?" He asked

May was still beyond surprised but was quick to compose herself "You are in no right to ask that from me" 

"I wasn't talking about you, I was speaking of my baby" His eyes shifted from hers to her flat stomach. He continued "I have something to say to you" 

May was speechless.

"The baby? He hasn't been developed yet and you ask about him first....and me? I am the one carrying the baby, you could have asked for my sleep first" She feigned anger.

A glimmer of hope was shed in Alex's eyes by her response but he remained his stoic expression "You want me to ask?" His look was too intimidating that May had to break the contact. She bit on her lower lip with a frustrated sigh. A while ago she was happy but now, this sadistic man ruined it. She was feeling jaundiced.

Alex strode towards her and sat by the edge of the bed. He leaned closer to her and put his hand on the back of her head. He pulled her in close proximity to himself and taken off guard, his lips had touched hers. It was a simple peck but it meant everything to him. He wanted more from just a peck, he had to stop if he didn't want a tactful conflict early in the morning. He reluctantly released her and sort her eyes.

"That's how I ask if a sleep is nice?" He stridently told.

Meanwhile, May rapidly blinked her eyes in disbelief.

He kissed her when she hadn't brushed!!!! 

She wanted to cry.

Alex noticed her shaken look "You want more...let me tell you, I want to do a lot with you. I want to kiss you senseless but as a fatherly instinct, I won't let you hurt my child. Our child" He left the bed and the room giving space to the woman.

"Take your time and come down for breakfast, I want to speak with you" was his last words before retreating from the room.

May fell to the bed and made audible gasps. 

"That hare-brained man....how dare he kiss me?" She forced herself to stand and ran straight to the bathroom. 

A colossal mirror was placed in front of the water sink. She felt disgusted with herself and began washing her lips harshly. Only her brother Xavier has the right to kiss her and touch her as much as he wanted. Who gave that incidental fool that right?

That went on for a long until she was tired and stripped the nightdress off her body. Of a sudden, she paused and stared hard at the straight linen. She didn't realise it before.

Who put this on her? Did he.....?

That sadistic.

She angrily soaked herself inside the already made bathtub.

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At the dining table.

The room was exceptionally huge, with a large table in the centre. A beautiful diamond chandelier hung in the centre of the table making the place look even more radiating and passing in the eyes.

But despite the robust place, silence filled the room.

A woman in her late forties noticed the unusual silence and approached May.

"Young Mistress, do you want more salmon steaks...you seem to enjoy it a lot?" The woman who was Nanny Janet inquired with a bright smile plastered on her face.

May shook her head and bit her lips with a frustrated sigh. She missed her family.

Focusing her mind on the soup, she gradually took the last spoon and drank it. Alex was observing her but didn't say anything.

"Young Mistress, you have to take this soup every day for the well-being and healthy growth of the little one....our young Mistress Is very pretty so the little one is bound to the handsome" She complimented but May was not at all flustered. She sighed and leaned against the chair with a dull expression.

Trying to brighten her up, the Nanny continued "Young Mistress is very lucky to have Master..."

"I am done" May dropped the bowl of soup and snorted in her heart. Lucky my foot!!!

Of a sudden, she became thoughtful "Can I ask a question?" 

Nanny Janet was very happy to hear that. She responded "Of course"

May stole a glimpse at the man sitting opposite her. Alex listened briskly to her but he didn't look at her. Half of his mind was on her while the other was on the company files.

"Do you perhaps have a knowledge of the foods that causes miscarriage...I might need them to be careful" Her words were sarcastic and were easily understood by all in the room

The room became imperturbable tranquil.

Getting no response from the Nanny, she frowned and looked at Butler Jung. Before she could even ask, the old man had turned around and pretended not to see her.

Frustrated, she looked at the man and that's when she noticed something strange and different. The man's veins seemed to have popped out of his body. Her sight could not betray her. His eyes had darkened to the blackest of black. For the first time in her reborn life, she felt scared of someone.

"OUT!!! GET OUT OF HERE ALL OF YOU!!" came his harsh and stilted cry. Within a second, the maids, Butler Jung and even Nanny Jenet all retreated from the room.

May stood up and turned to leave when a cold voice cried behind her "And where do you think you are going? To kill my child again.......I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOU AND YOUR ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR" 

May flinched out of fear and reluctantly sat back. She went stiff when the man rose from his seat and approached her. A folder was thrown at her.

"READ AND SIGN IT....NO QUESTIONS ASKED"

May looked at his icy look and then to the folder. She opened it and began reading slowly.

"You want to take my child away from me?" She opened her mouth to say. 

"Not like you want the child....like what is written in the contract paper. Give birth to my child and get your freedom. I will divorce you and have nothing to do with you anymore" This time he hardened his heart.

May threw to papers to the ground and glared at him "You betrayed me, got me pregnant and now you are trying to take my child away....you are such an asshole and a sadistic bastard. Blind fool!!!" She spat.

Not shaken, the man insipidly took the papers and placed them in front of her. "Sign this and get your freedom. Isn't this what you've been awaiting? What now? Do you regret it? Let me tell you....it's too late. Sign the damn papers and you get to be with that your so-called brother Xavier"

Haering his name, May bit her lips and collected the pen by her side. She opened the folder and signed her name until they had been completed. All through, Alex's blood was boiling. He was scared if he stayed there anymore, he was going to do something he would regret later. He turned around to leave but May was fast to hold his wrist.

"At least take the papers before you leave" She cried.

Alex collected the papers and left hurriedly.

Left alone, she covered her head "A second contract"

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AUTHOR NOTE

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