His Cure

~One Year Later.~

“Happy birthday, love.”Gregory murmured against Beatrice’s neck as he gave her love bites.

“Thank you. Gosh, can’t believe I’m a year older again.”she beamed.

He nuzzled her neck before looking at her from the mirror before them.

“You look younger to me each passing day.”he circled his two hands around her, placing his jaw on her shoulder.

He watched as she blushed.

She fixed her earrings in her ears.

“Why don’t you just stay home today, huh?. It’s your birthday.”he licked her cheek.

Beatrice sighed abd swirled around to face him, still in his grasp.

“No. I need to go to work today.”she refused.

“Even when you’re the CEO and you can make any decision?”he scoffed as he took his mouth closer to hers.

He took her bottom lip in his mouth and pulled it.

Beatrice tried to break away from him but he chuckled.

“Uh-huh. I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”he left her lip.

“So.. we don’t get to celebrate your birthday?. You just go to work and?..”

“And work!”she chirped.

“I’ll follow you to your workplace then.”he slides his hand inside her top and fondled with her right boob.

“Gregory..”she moaned out with a frown.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“What?. I am not the one that told you to put on a crop top and a short skirt on your birthday.”he smiled.

He touched her other boob before bringing his hand down from her top and hugged her to himself.

Beatrice rubbed her head on his chest with a smile.

“I know you’re going to mi–”she was cut off when she felt his fingers crawling up into her skirt.

“Gregory!”she raised her head up and jabbed his chest.

He staggered back with a smirk.

“I was wondering why you chose to hug me.”she snorted.

“All you need is a hug?. Come here, then.”he opened his arms, widely.

Beatrice narrowed her gaze.

“I promise, I won’t do anything.”he shrugs.

She moved into his arms and he closed his arms around her.

“Don’t you think you’re being too workaholic?. Today is a special day. Why don’t you stay here with me so we can celebrate it together?”

Beatrice shook her head.

“I already reserved a place for us to–”

“No, Gregory.”she whispered.

“Having you hug me like this already made my day memorable. You are enough for me.”she looked up at him.

His face broke into a smile.

“Okay, I can’t let you to see me blush.”he covered her face.

She moved her head around but he still didn’t remove it.

She then bite his hand.

He quickly removed it.

“Today is your birthday, do you really have to give me that venom bite?”he glared at her, playfully.

“It’s a romantic bite, you know. The venom in there is filled with love and love doesn’t kill.”she grinned.

“You’re killing me already.”he hugged her tightly.

“I don’t wanna let you go.”he moots.

Beatrice’s eyes fell on the familiar bottle of a drug on the table beside the bed.

“Didn’t you throw the drugs away?”her brows furrowed up.

She disentangled the hug to have a look at him.

He glanced back at it.

Damn. He forgot to hide that after taking it that morning.

“I..”he bats his lashes.

“Don’t lie to me, Greg. I want the truth, only. Look at me.”she uttered.

He gazed at her.

“I’ve.. been using it. Not everytime though! Just.. just sometimes.”he faltered.

Beatrice sighed.

“This drugs won’t help you. You should go see a therapist.”

“You’re my best therapy. Didn’t you noticed that I’ve changed a lot?”his eyes brightened.

“I’ve gotten over my nightmares.”he said.

His dad apologized for beating his mom in the past and told him truthfully that she did fell and died that day.

“Completely?”Beatrice asked.

“If won’t be easy to get over them completely.”he shook his head.

He grabbed her hand and interlocked it with his’s.

“With you by my side, I can assure you that I would get rid of it, gradually then completely.”he kissed her palm.

“Don’t break your promise.”she grinned.

“I won’t.”he smiled.

“Alright, I gotta go to work now.”she stated.

“Not so fast.”he pushed her to his body.

“You have to give me a kiss first.”he teased his nose on hers.

Beatrice shook her head.

“You always want kiss every second.”

“Of course, that’s my new cure.”he smiled and rubbed her lips with his thumb.

“Three minutes.”she lifts three of her fingers up.

“Make it times ten. That’s thirty.”he kissed her eyes before moving his mouth down to her lips.

**

Beatrice walked out of her workplace – A mall, the biggest in the whole city, and found Gregory leaning against his car in front of the building.

She rolled her eyes and started walking towards him.

“Miss me?”he opened his arms.

“At all.”she shook her head and he chuckled.

She hopped inside the front seat and he entered then drove off.

They got to the mansion and as they got down, Beatrice said to him,

“Let’s break up, Gregory.”

He stared at her, silently before laughing out.

“Don’t prank me. You are just trying to get revenge on me for pulling a prank on you last year, aren’t you?”

“Heeyyyyy.. I guess that didn’t worked.”Beatrice laughed too.

They entered the house and Beatrice stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the sight before her.

Gregory gazed at her, lovingly.

She stepped closer to it.

The space below the staircase were filled with books and at its sides were litted up candles.

Her eyes shone in excitement.

“I pondered hard on what to do to make you happy,”he started and came to stand beside her.

“I realized you always like simple things–juat like me. However, books always make both of us feel on top of the moon.”he continued.

“I picked out my favorite books in your catalogue when this is supposed to be your birthday. But, I guess we are one, so, what I like, you like it also. And, what you like, I like it too.”he held both her hands.

Tears glistened in Beatrice’s eyes.

This is the best birthday gift ever.

“I already cooked some delicacies for you too.”he rubbed her hand.

“You like my gift, right?”he stared down at her hands as he rubbed them with his thumbs.

“I love it!”Beatrice tear up and embraced him.

“You’re the best, hubby.”she sniffed.

He placed his jaw on her head.

“I am glad you like it.”he smiled.

“I have something else too,”he broke the hug gently.

He went to the table and came back with a big brown envelope.

He proffered it to her.

She collected it from him, gently and opened it.

She brought out the files in it.

He bought a mansion in her name.

Three car keys were in the envelope too.

She didn’t bothered to check the contents in the other files.

She looked up at him.

“I don’t need all these.”she returned the files to him.

“I only want you.”she cooed.

“We’ve signed a new contract, remember?”she tugged at his hand.

He shook his head, cluelessly.

“We’ve signed a new contract in our hearts. This contract doesn’t require you to pay me.”

“I am not paying you–”

“I know. But, I still don’t want all these. Why not continue giving me the care you’ve always been giving me?.”she touched his face.

He nodded with a smile.

“Always.”he took her closer to his body.

“There’s a gift for you too.”she whispered on his face.

“Really?. What do you have for me, wifey?”he twirled her around.

“I have a mini US in me.”she touched her stomach.

Gregory’s eyes illuminated in euphoria.

He swept her off the floor, swiftly.

“You’re pregnant?!”

“Yes!!”