Bound by Tension
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"Lucky man." Faith added.

"Yeah," Lila chuckled.

"All three of you can never be sensible!" I yelled without looking back and they laughed again.

I left for the kitchen and decided to cook Nikita's favorite meal since it was her promise I was fulfilling. How much I hated cooking. I was so lucky to have such a rich husband that could provide maids for me to help me out with cooking. After serving the meal to four trays, I called for four maids to help me take the trays to the room.

We all agreed to eat on the floors.

After eating, with them endlessly raining praises of how great my cooking was, I called for a maid to return our trays.

Faith cleaned the floor we ate on, because she insisted, claiming that she was still my Maid and I wasn't letting her do her job by refusing.

We watched a few movies and chatted for hours, till it was very late and they were sleepy but I wasn't.

"We aren't sleeping here in your room?" Nikita frowned playfully.

"There are about a billion guest rooms here, why would you sleep in my matrimonial bedroom?"

"She can't miss a night without being with her husband so let's let her be. You can all sleep in my room. It's one of the biggest Maid's rooms, and it's in the house, not outside." Faith offered.

"Sure, why not!" Nikita curled an arm around Faith's neck and they left the room while talking about something I wasn't interested in.

I noticed Lila was still standing here, smirking.

"What's up with you? You insist on sleeping here?"

"I'm glad you're happy with Hames. Your honeymoon has definitely made you love him back. You've clearly been thinking of him."

"Thinking of him? Of course I'm worried, he hasn't returned yet, it's late."

"Aw, she misses her husband so much. I can smell so much love." She said in a sing-song manner.

"Of course I'm starting to have feelings for him but it can't be tagged as love yet. He isn't as terrible as I thought he was, though he should've let me fall in love with him first before marriage."

"I'm sure you'll accept that you love him soon. I'm so happy for you. You should call him to let him know his wife misses him so much. She can't wait to kiss the hell out of him, cuddle him, and many more."

That wasn't a lie so I didn't bother to argue against it. "Goodnight. You all made tonight super fun for me."

"Goodnight." With a smile, she hugged me before dashing out of sight.

I shut the door, hurriedly took my phone then called Hames. What wasn't he home yet? It was really late at night.

There was no answer to my call. I called him multiple times but it kept going straight to voicemail.

After so many attempts to call him, it started saying his phone was switched off.

Worry instantly filled me and my heart and head were throbbing in fear.

"Hames, where are you?" I panted, scared as hell.

My phone started to ring; an unknown number was calling.

I answered the call immediately. "Hello, Hames?"

"So you're worried about him?" Gosh, this was crazy, the voice sounded like that of a man, as well as a woman, and a child's voice all together. "I fooled you and it was a lot of fun. I'm definitely not in Paris and made you return. You've made my work easier. Sorry for your loss but I hope you accept the fact that you're now a fucking widow." The call ended while I dropped to the floor, letting the words of the person sink into my head. There was no way my Hames was dead.

***

"What? Who the hell is this?" I exhaled in fear, trying to call the person again but it wasn't possible.

My head started throbbing, my hands began to quiver, my heart left my body completely due to its excessive palpitation.

"H-Hames? Dead? Widow?" I huffed, shaking my head. "No way!" I bounced to my feet and ran out of the room while calling Hames' phone again, but it was still switched off. The thought that Hames was dead struck me so bad and tears immediately started rolling down my face really fast. I was going breathless and feeling like I was about to faint. I ran to Faith's room, banging my fists on the door really hard.

In a jiffy, the door flung open and Faith stood there looking annoyed.

"Why" she stopped, her expression transformed to worry. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

"Hames. Someone just called to let me know Hames is dead."

"What?!" They all exclaimed.

"Someone, please call his phone. He might... I don't know..." I cried.

"How on Earth did it happen?" Lila asked and they both rushed to us.

"Someone threatened me previously that he's on a mission to kill Hames, then now this call to let me know..." I trailed off, sobbing.

"You shouldn't cry. How can you be certain?" Nikita said.

"It's past midnight but he isn't back yet." I screamed. "I have no idea where he could be." I rumpled my shirt in my hands really tight and started running from the room. "Where are you going?" Faith yelled behind me and I heard footsteps behind me as I ran down the stairs and out of the house.

"Imogen!" Lila shouted.

I ran to the Drivers' house and started hitting the door.

Soon enough, a tired-looking man that was clearly a driver opened the door and came out.

"What brings you here, Mrs. Hendrix? Do you have to go somewhere?" He yawned.

"Which driver drove Hames out? Can I have his phone number?" I asked while breathing heavily.

"Actually, the boss drove himself. Is anything wrong?"

"Drove himself?!"

"Yes."

"Oh God,"

"Imogen, please calm down." Lila attempted to hold me but I started running again with three of them running behind me, and into the house, then to my bedroom.

I picked my phone and called Kade's phone number but it was also switched off, increasing my fear.

I could no longer breathe properly. How could my Hames be dead?

I spent the next hour crying, using up tissues and doing everything I possibly could to get in touch with Hames but to no avail.

I dropped to the floor and started wailing. Three of them crouched beside me, uttering consoling words to me.

"It's okay. I'm sure something's wrong somewhere. He's fine by God's grace." Lila hugged my head to her chest, caressing my back.

"I'll get more tissues and water for you." Faith rose to her feet while Nikita knelt beside me.

"How can Hames die? This isn't possible. After finally having feelings for him and can't do anything then he thinks he can leave me?" My voice broke at every word. "He desperately wanted to be a father but I didn't give him the chance." My eyes had leaked a sea of tears by now.

"It'll definitely be fine." Lila sounded really sad too.

"Is it because I didn't love him?" I raised my head to lock my eyes with hers. "I promise to love him if he returns to him. It's true that you never realize the worth of someone till you lose them. I need Hames to not be dead; I need him. I promise to give him children and grant him everything he wants but he has to return." I sniffled, sounding like a rat and feeling the need to faint.

"It'll be fine, I'm sure. At least you'll have enough from his money to make you happy and replace someone new. Maybe that Tyler guy." Nikita shrugged.

I glared at her with every form of rage burning in my eyes. "Nikita, just shut the hell up!" I hollered. "This has nothing to do with money, okay? I just got married, he's my husband, and now I received a stupid call that he's dead. What do I do now? Celebrate that I still have billions of dollars and forget that someone who clearly loves me with his whole heart just died?"

"No, I didn't..." she trailed off.

"Okay, we can't—"

"Imogen!" Faith exclaimed, cutting Lila off.

I lazily rolled my eyes to her, awaiting what she had to say next but didn't pay attention to her anymore after Hames strolled in behind her with his suit coat hanging over his shoulder.

I jumped to my feet and ran to him. I was more than shocked to see him. Was this a dream or something?

"What's wrong?" He asked, handing his suit coat over to Faith.

I hugged him really tight, still unable to believe that he was really here.

"What's happening?"

I tried to reply to him but couldn't due to my endless sobbing.

He finger-combed my hair, rubbing my back soothingly.

"Will anyone tell me what's happening? Firstly, Faith saw me and started running away. Imogen is crying and you all look so shocked to see me like I'm a ghost or something."