She looks fragile

In not more than a minute,he was kneeling beaide the girl who had now closed her eyes lightly.

She had collapsed.

"Hey...?"he called giving her a little shake on her shoulder.

"Calista..."he called again with a small reflection of panic and fear in his voice.

The next minute,Calista was in Maverick's arms as he ran towards the house entrance.

Liz was left out of words when she saw Maverick running upstairs with the new wife in his arms.

She now understood why he ran outside as though he had seen a demon inside there.

She followed behind,worry and anxiety having taken the better of her.She had never seen her boss that worried before,atleast not because of a woman,apart from his mother, sisters and Addison.

Maverick got to Calista's room after a while of taking the stairs.He laid her on the bed and reached for his phone in his pocket.

He hurriedly went through his phone book before landing on the number he wanted.

"I need you at my house, ASAP!"he spoke when the person on the other line received the phone.

Done with talking to the phone, Maverick returned the phone in his pocket.He sat beside Calista who was lying still on the bed.

He was afraid... afraid of anything happening to Calista at anytime.His gaze fell on her hand that was lying on her side.It looked very soft and tempting him to touch it.

He could not hold back his urge as his own hand slowly went for hers, sandwiching it.Her palms were soft and touchable.He knowingly took the hand to his face and sniffed on it.

He was not sure of that smell...He was not sure if it was perfume or oil or it was her natural scent.

He did not drop her hand after sniffing it but it remained there as he continued sniffing,his eyes closed.

"Vanilla?...cinnamon?"he wondered silently as he continued his sniffing.

His action was cut short when the door to Calista's room opened,ushering a very beautiful lady in.

She was in a short black dress that greatly matched her very light skin complexion.Her long deep brown hair was tied into a neat pony tail and her dark red lipstick went well with her.

She walked towards the bed in a formal way.

"Hello Mave..."she greeted with a small smile on...a smile that was much more trying to say something.The lady's gaze fell on Maverick's hands that were still sandwiching Calista's.Maverick dropped Calista's hand carefully and stood from the bed, acting as if he did not know what she was trying to do.

"You like her texture?"she asked as she took seat on the bed.

"Crap! No way...get to work..."he responded his voice as calm and cold as it always was.

"What happened to her..."she asked as put on her gloves.

Maverick did not know what happened to her and that's what he responded.

"No idea..."Maverick shrugged his shoulders abit as he answered.Only he himself knew how he was worried about the girl and there,the doctor kept on asking irrelevant question.

"You sure you were not to hard on her?...she looks fragile!"the doctor teased some more but on a serious tone as she checked her heartbeat and blood flow.

A very heavy frown settled on Maverick's forehead when he heard what she said.Ofcourse his body had been reacting differently towards her and he constantly wanted her which was very abnormal for him but what she said sounded very inappropriate...

"Kim..just do your job for heaven sake.What's wrong with you?"he asked irritatedly before adding,"I found her lying down at the garden, unconscious so I do not know what was hard on her."

At that time, Kimberly noticed the strange color of Calista's face...she was abit red.

"Is this her normal complexion?"she asked out of curiosity but again, Maverick just shrugged.

How on earth was he supposed to know her complexion when he was seeing her on bright light for the first time.

"You are always weird Mave...how do you not know your wife's complexion?"she asked curiously.

Albert Clarke has been a family doctor for the Atlas family.When Maverick moved out of his parents house six years ago,he employed Kimberly Clarke,Albert's daughter to be his personal doctor. The two had known each other since childhood and she was a friend...a very good friend for that matter and so he knew he could trust her with the Secret he was about to unveil that was known by him and his girlfriend.

"Yeah she is but I did not even know her name until yesternight and I had not seen her till now..."he confessed.

Kimberly was out of words and thoughts.She did some tests on her without any other word.Maverick also kept silent as he waited for her to talk.The results proved that she had an allergy with flowers.The allergy made her sneeze and she could not breathe after a while of suffocation and dizziness and so she collapsed.

When she was done with a her diagnosis,she gave her an injection then turned and looked at Maverick.She had been trying to digest what Maverick had just said and it was not adding up to her.

"What does that mean Maverick?..."she finally asked looking directly at his deep black eyes.

"I mean this marriage is nothing but just business,no strings attached,"he spoke calmly as if it was the best thing one could ever say.

Kimberly could not understand what that meant.She shifted her gaze to the girl on the bed then to Maverick again.She knew that he could be hard but she never knew him to be cruel.

"You know I could not understand how and when you broke up with that bitch you call a girlfriend and when you decided to get married but I knew something was off..."she began.Maverick interfered when she called Addison a bitch.He did not know why everyone hated her. She was very harsh and full of herself and had many of undesirable qualities but he took that as her principles.

"She is not a bitch Kim...she is my girlfriend and I won't keep on listening to you people calling her names.."he spoke but his voice was really pitched.He was angry.Whenever anyone called Addison names,he felt like he was steaming.

"I have always known you so I will not argue with you over that but keep in mind that that Addison girl is not right for you and this girl right here does not seem too strong for your games...you do not love her then let her go but do not ruin her life for no reason..."she spoke.

Maverick kept silent.

He hated people telling him what to do and correcting him every time but he could not bring himself to disagree with what Kimberly said.

It was all very true...but he was doing it for Addison or so he thought.

He knew how Addison was..the only daughter to Mr Leon Atticus,the CEO of Atticus Cooperation.She had a brother,Ethan Atticus but he decided to be a model and so Addison was the next CEO of A.C.

Kimberly saw how silent he was and decided to walk away.She left the room and walked downstairs.She met Liz and explained what happened to her madam and how to prevent such from happening again,by keeping all flowers away from her.

She also gave her her pills and asked her to make sure that she took them always.

After Liz assured her that, Kimberly left the house and went away...she felt for Calista.

She looked innocent and did not deserve the drama her life was giving her to.

Back at the room, Maverick's gaze fell on Calista's face..she was damn beautiful.

Maverick was always harsh but never cruel unless to his enemies which he had lots of them.Somehow,he felt that Kim was right.He was going to endanger Calista with this game he was playing.

But that was not his huge worry,his worry was,what if she fell in love with him?..he was sure he could not return such a feeling.He could not let her go either.

He had just known her the other night but it felt like he had always known her and had another feeling towards her he could not tell...

He gulped when his gaze fell on her cherry red lips then back to her eyes..so innocent looking.Without knowing why,he swore to himself to keep her safe and protect her.

If he could not let her go for whatever reason he had then he could atleast protect her.

Maverick's gaze was still on her when she stirred in her sleep then slowly opened her eyes.He got alert and walked towards the bed.

He could not tell why his heart had skipped in joy when she finally woke up.He was happy to see her eyes open...those green forests that he got lost in any time he stated into them.

Calista tried hard to sit when she saw Maverick in the room.Her struggle to sit did not skip his eyes and he stood and helped her sit. Her beautiful scent hit his nostrils again since she was too close to him.

He closed his eyes as he let the scent sink deep in his sense if smell.

She smelt very good...more like vanilla.

My dear readers,a hearty apology for failing to update chapters for some days due to some reasons.Am hoping you are enjoying the book.

Big love to you all.