Chapter 35: Chapter 35

Triffany arrived home by seven o'clock in the evening, she went upstairs to the room and was surprised to see Carlos at home and asleep at this time.

She shrugged and went in to take her bath and changed her dress. When she came out she picked up her laptop and went through her emails.

There was the file Tommy sent her to for editing, she went through the first two lines wondering how she will go about it.

She looked over at Carlos who was still asleep and she wished he was awake to give her some hints.

This was also the first time she have seen him sleeping this early, she heard his phone ring and went close to see who it was.

She knitted her brow when she saw it was Kelsey, she sighed and look at Carlos who was still asleep. "Should I wake him or not? Well whatever." She muttered to herself and went back to the couch.

She picked her laptop again. "He has ears to hear his phone ringing." She looked at the file in her laptop again trying hard to concentrate but the phone was still ringing.

She bites her lower lips. "I should probably wake him to take his calls, he loves her." Triffany exhaled softly and walked over to the bed.

"Carlos." She called out softly. "Carlos, hey." She touched him when he did not respond and was surprised on how hot his body was.

He opened his eyes and look up at her. "What?" He asked as she took her hands off him.

She poi6at his phone that was ringing. "Your phone is ringing, it's from Kelsey."

Carlos looked at the phone and turned it off. "I told you never to check my phone."

Triffany scoffed. "I had to because your ringing phone was distracting me and you couldn't hear it even when it is so close to you."

Carlos sneezed. "Can you stop talking to me? Go away." He puts his hands over his eyes.

Triffany looked at him for a while. "Are you sick?" She touched his hand. "You're burning up."

Carlos pushed her hands away. "Get away from me." He ordered.

Triffany did not budge. "You have a high fever, you should go to the hospital."

"Can you please mind your business?"

Triffany rolled her eyes. "I thought you have a high IQ, you should know when to see a doctor and you're rich enough to pay your bill's."

Carlos closed his eyes. "I don't have the energy to talk to you so just go away."

Triffany exhaled softly, she don't know why he was acting this way but she knows that deep inside her was something she can't resist to do.

"I can't leave you like this." She went downstairs and put some cube of ice into a large bowl, she picked up a clean white towel and made a warm lime tea then heads upstairs with it.

"Hey." She called out softly and puts the lime tea on the stool next to him. "You should drink this." She told him as he opened his eyes.

Carlos looked at the lime tea in his front. "I don't want to."

"Do you want to die? Huh!" She asked in a loud voice that surprised Carlos. "Why are you being so stubborn when you are this sick." She poured some of the tea in a glass. "Drink this."

Carlos looked at her for a while. "You might have poisoned it."

Triffany signed. "You're lucky you're sick." She calmed herself down. "It's not poisoned."

Carlos looked at her and then sat up gently as she gave him the glass of warm lime tea. "Drink it all, it would help your cold." Carlos gently drink the lime tea and hands her the glass before he lay on the bed.

Triffany puts the ice cube into the white towel and gently placed it on his forehead. "This will reduce your high body temperature." She looked at him. "Have you eaten dinner?"

"I'm not hungry."

Triffany shakes her head, she thought he was wiser than this but he was just so stupid. "I will be right back."

She left the room and heads to the kitchen when she prepared a porridge for him, just like her mother does for her whenever she was sick.

She went upstairs with a plate of warm porridge. "Get up, you should eat something." She set the porridge down and helped him to sit up on his bed, supporting his back with some pillow.

"I'm not hungry." He told her again.

Triffany ignored him and lifts a spoonful of the porridge to his lips. "Here, eat up." Carlos looked at her knowing he can't stop her now, he began to eat as she feed him until he was satisfied. "Eat more." She urge him.

"I'm filled up now." He drank some water and lay his back down on his bed.

Triffany put away the plate. "I will go prepare a hot bath for you, wait up." She went into the bathroom and mixed the water in the bathtub, then came out.

"You should take your bath now, I have prepared your water, take off your shirt." She told him as she packed her hair.

Carlos looked at her as he sat up. "I can bath myself."

Triffany scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I'm not asking to bath you, this is as far as I can go. Take your bath and change into something warm."

She helped him up. "I will dress your bed before you come out." He went into take his bed as she dressed his bed.

After dressing it and putting the plates glass and bowls away, his phone began to ring again, she saw the call was from Kelsey, she turned to see Carlos who had just come out of the bathroom dressed in his robe.

"Are you sure you don't want to take that call?" She asked him, pointing at his ringing phone.

Carlos lay on his bed. "Is tour pride not hurt?" He asked her and Triffany looked at him surprised. "You're married to me and yet you still want me to take another lady's call. Don't you feel hurt or annoyed?"

"You love this lady, so what's wrong?" She furrowed her brow. "We are the only ones here so sto acting like a typical husband, we both know we don't love each other."

She bites her lower lips in anger. "We're only in this marriage because of your company, you're free to take any calls you want to and from whoever."

Carlos looked at her and scoffed. "Are you done?" He rolled his eyes and turned his back at her.

Triffany grits her teeth. "Seeing you have this much energy to make me angry I'm sure you are okay now." She groaned.

"I'm so tired." She stretched her body as Carlos looked at her. "All I get from you was an earful."

She touched his forehead to feel his body temperature and smile. "Your fever have reduced, next time please visit the doctor, because nursing you is so unbearable."

Carlos pushed her hands away from his forehead. "You know what? You should just go and sleep. You're so loud." He closed his eyes.

Triffany sighed. "That's the Thanks I get." She went back to her couch and lay down as she turned off the lights. She was already tired so she slept off immediately.

Carlos looked at his phone and there were fifteen missed calls from Kelsey, he tossed his phone after putting it on silent before he slept off.

The next morning Triffany woke up from the couch, she went over to the bed where Carlos was still asleep, she touched his forehead as he opened his eyes.

"What are you doing?" He looked at her.

She immediately removed her hand. "I was checking your body temperature." She smiled. "I think you're okay now."

Carlos sat up." I'm fine." He removed the quilt.

"Okay then." She turned to leave but he held her hands and whirled her around to face him but she slipped from the sudden movement and hugged him.

They stay that way for a moment surprised to be in such position before Triffany pulled away. "What's your problem?" She shouted.

"I...I.. .you.." Carlos stammered. "Why did you whirl around?" He asked her finding words at last.

Triffany scoffed. "You held my hands and pulled me to you." She pointed at her hands that he had held. "Now you're blaming me for whirling around."

Carlos touched the back of his hair and looked away. "I'm hungry." He said softly.

Triffany looked at him. "Then prepare breakfast for yourself or order the make to fix you something."

"I'm still sick." He looked at her blinking his cute eyes.

Triffany scoffed. "You're okay, you can pre9a meal for yourself." She walked back to the couch and pat her shoulders. "Why do I feel pain around my body?" She thought out loud to herself, Carlos heard it and look at her.

He picked up his phone. "How was your interview?"

"Huh!" Triffany looked at him surprised that he asked unlike him.

"Did you pass?" He asked looking directly at her with his penetrating eyes.

"Yes." She nods.

Carlos stood up and went over to the sofa opposite her couch. "Congratulation." Triffany stared at his face with a wide eyes.

She wonder why he was acting nice all of a sudden, she shakes her head not sure about him being nice, just yesterday her said rude things to her and today he is saying congratulations, she wonder what he was trying to do now.

"Hey, why are you staring at me?" He asked when he noticed her staring.

Triffany shakes her head. "Nothing." She picked up her laptop to go through some file.

"What's that?" He asked her when he saw how focused she was.

"This." She looked at him. "I was asked to edit a file sent to me."

"Can you do it?" He asked.

"I can try, though I haven't done it before." She had read the first chap and had seen few errors and she have been looking some words up to fit in.

"Then how are you going to do it?" He puts his phone away and crossed his legs.

She rubs her face. "Like I said I will try." She put down her laptop. "Can you edit a book?"

"Yes." Carlos answered and Triffany smiled and he paused. "What?"

"Then help me." She blinks.

"Why should I?" He said indifferently.

Triffany looked down at her laptop. "I'm sure you can't do it." She tried this other way in other to get him to help her.

Carlos stood up. "I can but right now I'm hungry and have to attend to work."

Triffany lay down on her couch. "I knew it." She pouts.

Carlos looked at her. "What? Knew what?"

"It's difficult." She muttered.

Carlos rolls his eyes. "Come with me." Triffany looked up at him . "Huh!"

Carlos held her hands and pulled her up, still holding her hands to her surprise he lead her downstairs to an office filled with books as he closed the door.

"Why are we here?" Triffany asked looking around. This was a place she have never entered before.

He left her hand. "These were books I edited and published when I was younger." Triffany's mouth parted in surprise.

"All these?"

"Not all of them, but a few, you can check the name of the author, editor and publisher if you wish, you will find my name written in them."

Triffany looked up a few and was surprised, she look at Carlos and was a little bit impressed, what Nick and Gabby said was true, Carlos was really good in many things.

"To publish a book is easy, you need to learn the craft of fiction writing and learning the craft doesn't only require reading, you should attend conferences and listening to webcasts."

"It's easy to say in words." She went close to him.

"I know editing a book is a job that's hard to come by but you can still do it, just take yourself as the reader and break it down to the way you can understand." Carlos explains and Triffany couldn't help but smile.

This was actually Carlos helping her out and not the other one telling her to space around the room like som errands girl, he was admirable now.

"You're a genius." The words came out of her mouth before she stopped it.

Carlos smiled proudly. "I told you it was simple, you should try it out, chapter by chapters."

Triffany smile, Carlos today was really different from the one of the other days.