Bound by Tension
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"Who is Samantha?" I asked again, soaked in a pool of worry.

"I trusted you to not mention her name. Please leave." Hames drew his lips into a snarl.

"So you're sending me out of your house? Wow." Amamda snorted, glared at him from head to toe then angrily left the terrace.

"Hames, tell me who Samantha is right now." I ordered.

He gazed at me, anger was still burning in his eyes. Without another word, he walked away and left the terrace, letting my mouth drop to the ground.

I tried to let the fact that he was hiding a woman's identity sink into my head before leaving the terrace too.

Was Hames cheating on me? Was it because I wasn't fulfilling his sexual desires? Oh no, I was going to die if he left me alone for another woman. There was no way he had stopped loving me when I was already feeling this way for him.

I was still having an argument with myself whether or not I could tag this unique feeling and attraction as love. If not love, then what was called love? It had to be it but how was I ever going to say it to his face that I love him?

I returned to Lila and Nikita who were gazing at Hames as he stormed up the stairs.

"What's going on?" Lila asked.

"Did you have a fight?" Nikita asked too.

"No. Why would you think we had a fight?" I chuckled nervously and sat, hugging a throw pillow to my chest.

"Firstly, Amanda stormed out of the house then Hames angrily left, and you look like you have just seen a ghost." Nikita explained.

"Uh... it's nothing, really."

"Are you sure?" Lila drew her eyes in askance.

"Of course, it's really nothing." I forced a smile.

They both leaned back in their seats.

"You're so lucky to have a man like Hames in your life." Nikita chuckled. "It was so fun to remind you of your promise."

"You're so crazy. I felt like hitting your head with my fists." I balled my hands.

"You don't break your promises, remember?" Lila reminded me while I rolled my eyes. "You can roll your eyes all you want but you must have no other option than to fulfill your promise else you want him to leave you for another woman." I gulped at her words, silently praying that it wasn't happening already.

"Wait." Nikita leaned forward, squinting her eyes at me. "Don't tell me nothing has happened between you and Hames since you've been married."

"I don't feel comfortable discussing this part of my marital life with you." I folded my arms across my chest and turned my head away.

"It's actually a normal thing to have sex with your partner in marriage, you should know that." Lila stated matter of factly.

"What happened to the days of sleeping around with at least one new guy everyday?" Nikita asked.

"That's you, not me." I glared at her.

"Oh..." she looked heavenwards like realization just hit her. "I thought we were in it together."

"Please don't harm my baby's mind and keep your nonsense past and present lifestyle to yourself." Lila rolled her eyes while Nikita laughed.

"Okay, back to the topic of discussion. You're living in the same house, sleeping in the same room, on the same bed. Are you trying to be Jesus' mother?"

"Please, this is really annoying. I don't feel comfortable discussing this with you and let it remain that way. Jeez..."

"Okay, sorry sorry. We won't interfere in your 'personal' issues." Nikita waved it off. "Should we watch a movie?"

"I think that's fine." I said.

"Sure, thing." Lila added.

***

"It's late. We should all go to bed." I yawned, rising to my feet.

"Yeah, I have to work tomorrow."

"Me too." Nikita also yawned.

"Work tomorrow." Lila frowned. "That place might be where I'll die."

"Why would you say that?"

"Stupid Briggs is still so obsessed with me and frustrating my life and there's the boss' insane girlfriend, Jovi, who is probably aiming to kill me, for some unknown reasons." Lila rolled her eyes. "Drama." Nikita chuckled.

"Yeah, Jovi has always been and will always be a problem to that company." I waved a hand dismissively. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight, my love." Lila yawned too.

I left their room and went to my room.

Hames was sleeping on the bed and was still frowning in his sleep, shooting an arrow of fear and hurt into my heart.

I tiptoed to the bathroom for my night routine then wore a see through gown before slowly slipping into bed beside Hames.

I laid on my side with my elbow on a pillow and the side of my head on my palm, watching him sleep with a smile plastered on my face.

He turned to his side and placed an arm over my body.

I flinched at first then my smile widened. "Thank you for being in my life." I shifted closer to him, slowly brushing his black hair with my fingers. "I have never felt this attracted to anyone in my entire life and I can't bear to lose you to anything or anyone. I don't understand what sort of thing this is but my heart feels the need to explode at your touch, your smile, your hug, your support, you wonderful kiss with those angelic lips," I chuckled. "Everything about you makes me want you more and more everyday."

"Thinking about you not being by my side makes my head hurt. I don't know who the hell Samantha is but I hope you're not cheating on me with her." I felt a pang in my heart at the possibility that that could be the truth. "Please don't stop loving me. I know I've never felt this way to any man, not even my favorite ex-boyfriends but I think it's love, a unique type of love. After so much thought, I don't know how, but I think I'm starting to fall madly in love with you, this feeling is definitely love and nothing else. If you leave me, I don't think I can bear to live without you, my dear husband. You are still an asshole most of the time but this attraction is undeniable."

I kissed his cheek. Maybe because that wasn't enough, I kissed his neck. Still wasn't enough, I kissed his nose, then his lips.

How could someone be sleeping so hard and not realize someone was kissing him? I wanted him to wake up. I missed his attention, I wanted to see those beautiful eyes of his again, to hear his breathtaking deep voice.

Just to disturb him, I started tracing my fingers along his face. He squeezed his face with his nose wrinkled. It was a funny expression so I chuckled and continued tracing lines on his beautiful face.

After continuously doing that, moving my finger faster to disturb him, he groaned and tried to turn around but I stopped him.

"Imogen, stop." He held my hand.

His grip was free, I took my hand from it and continued disturbing his face with my fingers.

He growled, held my hand tightly, snapped his eyes open and frowned.

I giggled, lying on my back. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight? So you want to sleep after disturbing me? You should know I won't be able to sleep again after this disturbing wife drew me out of my sleep."

"Oh, I'm so sorry. It was accidental. Goodnight." I poked his nose with my free hand.

He growled again, held my second hand then jumped on top of me, straddling my waist and locked both my hands by my sides.

"Okay, I'm sorry for disturbing you. I have to sleep now. Goodnight." I tried to push him off but he wouldn't budge.

"I don't accept apologies so quickly." He smirked and leaned his face closer to mine.

I turned my face away so his lips touched my neck. Of course he planted a kiss on it. "Just so you know," he whispered into my ear, "I was awake during your confession earlier." He confessed.

My eyes popped out of their sockets and I forcefully pushed him. Surprisingly, it made him roll off me to sit on the bed.

"Wh-what? Why- why didn't you... let me... know?" I stuttered, jerking upwards to sit up straight as well.

"I woke up after hearing the sound of the bathroom door slamming hard, then I tried to sleep again but felt your body on the bed and started hearing your angelic voice, then you were kissing all over my face. Is that really how much you take advantage of me in my sleep?" He raised an eyebrow.

My heart started pounding in fast motion. I couldn't believe my ears, this was definitely a dream.

"Why do you look like you just saw a 2-year-old swallow an entire building?"

"How could you have heard?"

"So you were never going to confess that you love me too in front of me? How did you expect me to know? By magically reading your mind?"

"N-No." My breathing became faster.

"There's no need to panic about it, sweetheart. You need to know how much joy you've filled me with right now. I think I'm going to explode very soon."

I was still so shocked to know that he heard me. How could I have taken such a risk?

He curled an arm around my waist to pull me closer to him. "One thing you should know is that I'd rather die than cheat on my wife." He smacked his lips against mine before I could ask any question about Samantha.

Every thought of who the hell Samantha was flushed away from my brain after realizing the pleasure of his wonderful lips against mine.

With my arms around his neck and my body so close to his, I made the kiss hungrier, pouring more passion into it and sucked on his bottom lip really hard.