Chapter 195: Chapter 195

“As much as I want to have a naughty breakfast moment with you, I am afraid we have some issues to deal with,” Brianna answered with a playful smile. “I might have to reserve my ideas about that for later. I suppose the food is still in the kitchen, right?”

Lucien’s cheerful face turned even more bright and shiny.

“I like the sound of that!” Lucien eagerly answered. “Naughty breakfast moment… Sounds like a different side of you, babe. But I love it!”

Brianna started walking; the control room was opposite the kitchen, the farthest corner hidden behind an entire ceiling-to-floor length of the two-way glass wall. Unless one knew about the room, it was not noticeable. It looked like an interior design to make the room look wider as the reflection appears broad.

“And yeah, the food is in the kitchen. I hope they pass on your tastebuds….” Lucien added as he walked right beside Brianna with his right arm embracing the woman close to him.

“I guess I might have to endure a lifetime of your cooking if you don’t get better with it. I don’t want anyone else in the house to do things like house chores. It will be you and me, so I guess I will have to train you with many things,” Brianna playfully snorted, teasing Lucien even more.

But instead of fear, Lucien felt even more excited to hear his Anna say such words. It made him feel like a future with her was no longer just his fantasy; that he was not just dreaming right at this moment. He had waited for this day to come. And while everything he had hoped for was taking place, Lucien could also feel like it was not real with how fast things were going through.

“What…?”

Brianna asked because she felt Lucien’s hold on her shoulder tighten as if telling her to take a halt in their tracks to the dining area. Brianna wanted to turn her head to see the man’s face, but before she could, Lucien pulled her to a front embrace, their tummies to each other. Then Lucien held her chin to meet gazes with Brianna.

“Please, tell me I am not just dreaming,” he softly begged. “Tell me this is not just one of my silly daydreams to be with you….”

Brianna rolled her eyes at the man. She cannot believe he would not get to detect which is a dream or reality.

“How much have you fantasized about being with me, Michaelson, huh?” Brianna asked with a frown.

“A lot!” Lucien answered readily, his voice spoke undeniable sincerity, and it made Brianna’s eyes widen in disbelief.

“A lot, huh?” she sneered.

“I swear, there had never been any day I do not long to stay by your side more than work. There are no nights I never wished I was next to you when you go to sleep and see your lovely face as soon as I wake up the next day….” Lucien spoke softly as his eyes roamed around her tiny face.

The man seemed to be scanning her face to make sure she wasn’t just an illusion his crazy thoughts had created. Then he added with a crystal clear plea. “Please, please tell me, this is real…?”

Brianna wanted to say that Lucien was being too cheesy and she might vomit if he kept his silly antics, but as she stared at the man, Brianna could tell he was indeed sincere. Instead of breaking his illusive sentiments, Brianna showed her sweetest smile, a smile she had never tried all her life after losing her family, not really sure how she would look like. Still, Brianna smiled the way she imagined she would look sweet in Lucien’s eyes.

However, what Brianna did made Lucien even more worried.

“If this is a dream, I don’t wanna wake up….”

Lucien stared at Brianna’s face with so much longing while Brianna was holding back her laughter, making her eyes sparkle even more enchantingly in Lucien’s gaze.

“I love you so much; it hurts to know you are so near yet so far… You are always in my mind, but I don’t know how to get into your heart….” Lucien passionately confessed the yearnings of his heart. He embraced Brianna tightly in his arms; he held her so close as if he feared losing her at any moment.

“Do you wanna choke me? Because I can’t breathe with how tight you are gripping me in your arms,” Brianna whispered and tapped on Lucien’s back.

Only then did Lucien seem to loosen his embrace on Brianna, and the latter got the chance to create a distance between their chests and look at Lucien straight into his eyes. Brianna noticed he was still doubtful and wary, still unable to believe that this was indeed a reality.

“If it will convince you to say I still feel sore after a wild bed adventure we have shared last night, then I don’t know how else to convince you this is not just a dream….” Brianna snapped at the guy and started to walk away from him. “I told you I am starving, yet here you are, muddled with the confusion of whether this is a reality or one of your silly illusions. I can’t believe you, Michaelson! I really can’t!”

Brianna had been telling her mind that the soreness she had was bearable. She did not want to let it show as she walked, worrying Lucien might get bothered about it, but when she felt annoyed that this man didn’t seem to recall everything that happened last night, she ignored the pain and walked briskly away from Lucien, furious and irritated.

“Babe…” Lucien hurriedly ran after Brianna and scooped her in his arms. “I’m sorry… I’m so stupid. Please forgive me… But to be honest, I have made love with you many times in my dreams, and I couldn’t believe things were really happening the way I wished them to. I had a moment of doubt. Please forgive me… please…?”

“Hmmph!” Brianna did not resist Lucien carrying her to the kitchen, but she was still peeved.

Brianna realized it was not easy to be annoyed when the culprit was this man, Lucien Michaelson. Had it been anyone else, her way of expressing anger would have been more lucid and brutal. She wouldn’t care how the person would feel or how they would end up. That had been among her rules all her life, and so no one dared to provoke her, intentionally or not, just like Lucien did. But with Lucien, Brianna could not be so ruthless, but her mind does not agree with leniency either. All she could do was groan in frustration because as the man annoys and angers her, this man also makes her happy. Besides, Brianna seemed to have sealed the vow in her heart to take this man as her lifetime companion. Married or not yet, they will go there one day soon, and she will have to be responsible for him as he will also be for her.