Chapter 39: Chapter 39

They ended the kiss by closing their eyes and resting their foreheads against each other. Inhaling as much air as possible to fill their oxygen-deprived lungs.

“Don’t ask for my heart, Rakia...,” Dashtan said after she gained the strength to speak.

“I won’t ask for it, I just want us to be honest with ourselves in this marriage.” Rakia tried to get the man to open up to her and go through this marriage without any pretense. Dashtan opened her eyes while Rakia immediately put some distance between them as she turned to the other side. She took a deep breath and then let it out regularly.

“I’ll try, but if I feel it’s beyond my limits, I’ll stop.”

That remark made Rakia look back at the man, then a small smile broke out on her face.

“That’s the spirit. Now, I have to eat and take my medicine, then we’ll talk about the excavation later,” Rakia said before getting up from the sofa and leaving Dashtan who was thinking about his decision again. He turned to Rakia who was hobbling out of his office at the moment. He had only known her for a month, all he knew about her was a sad story she had experienced not too long ago. Just like him, her fiancé actually married someone else behind her back, the difference is if Dalilah left with a goodbye, not what Rakia experienced. The Man was left without any words and suddenly she received the unpleasant news. Dashtan let out a long sigh after he turned away from the door that Rakia had closed on her way out. He was amazed and did not understand, why at a time like this the woman still expected something from a man, what she should have experienced was not being able to believe in a relationship and a man anymore. He and Rakia should be living this marriage relationship without expecting anything, but he didn’t expect that she would give him a chance not to be the man who had broken her heart.

Again, Dashtan let out a long sigh as he massaged the area between his forehead while closing his eyes. He didn’t expect that his relationship with Rakia would turn out like this, when the woman seemed to be trying to ask for his heart. He got up from the sofa and left his office to catch up with Rakia. When he was looking for her in the kitchen, he didn’t find her there. He asked Mrs. Hunt.

“Mrs. Hunt, do you know where my wife is?” he asked, somehow calling Rakia that instead of her name.

“I haven’t seen her either since she took her medicine a few minutes ago, sir,” replied the woman who had loyally worked with her for the past few years. Dashtan left the kitchen trying to guess where Rakia was. He went to the glass door that separated the living room and the pool and saw it open. Rakia was sitting on one of the sun loungers by the pool. Seeing her like that, Dashtan took the initiative to take the woman somewhere this morning. As he walked towards her, Rakia turned her head as she was about to arrive.

“Going somewhere this morning?” asked Dashtan who was greeted by Rakia with a confused and curious look.

“To the beach, while the sun isn’t stinging yet.” Dashtan said the destination and the woman nodded enthusiastically. He helped Rakia up but a second later he carried her in front of his body. Rakia let out a small cry as he lifted her up and carried her inside the house to her room.

“I’ll wait outside, don’t wear thin clothes or you’ll catch a cold,” Dashtan said as he turned to leave. But Rakia held him back intending to play a prank on him.

“You don’t want to wait for me to change here?”

Dashtan smiled and knew what the woman meant. He looked over one shoulder and said, “You want me to? Because if I do, maybe... I won’t let you out of this room and our plans for the beach will be canceled.”

That threat thrilled Rakia a little. She knew the man would be able to do it and she would be lulled into playing his game, but Rakia tried to make a bet with herself.

“Try it,” Rakia challenged which instantly made Dashtan turn his head fully to her. The man was staring at her with an intense, high-voltage gaze. Rakia gulped when she saw Dashtan in that mode. Exciting and terrifying at the same time, she tried to end the game.

“I was just joking, okay, you just wait outside I won’t be long,” Rakia said while giving a toothpaste ad smile. However, Dashtan remained in her code of silence and stare. Rakia became mischievous, then she got up from her seat as she sighed.

“Okay, fine. As you wish.” She walked past Dashtan to her wardrobe. Choosing the right clothes, when she chose the clothes Dashtan’s hug from behind her body made her surprised for a moment.

“Want to try it on with me?” Dashtan whispered in one of her ears. The invitation was like the devil’s whisper to Eve. Rakia smiled with a blush that the man could not see. Dashtan began to kiss the edge of her ear with a light peck but made Rakia feel like she was being caressed by a feather all over her body. Dashtan tightened his embrace on Rakia’s body and the woman instinctively gave Dashtan more access to her neck with kisses that quickly heightened her passion. Rakia brought both her hands to grab Dashtan’s hair at the back and gripped it lightly while she turned her head fully towards Dashtan. They stared at each other for a moment with eyes wide with passion.

“If we do that, then we have to cancel all the points of the agreement,” Rakia whispered.

“Unless we have to separate, because I can’t do it for now,” Dashtan said with the same intonation.

“Why, because of the inheritance?” Rakia caressed Dashtan’s face with her fingertips.

“One of them, but the main thing is... I want to live this with you for as long as we can.”

Rakia smiled then pulled Dashtan’s head so that their lips met and tasted each other, continuing the passion they wanted to complete. Rakia turned her body to face Dashtan fully after the man had removed the clothes she was wearing, so that the bra she wore was visible to Dashtan along with the shape of her breasts that followed the shape of the bra she wore. Dashtan lifted Rakia’s thighs so that he could pick her up and carry her to the bed. When Rakia’s body was under his body, Dashtan once again looked at the woman with a fixed gaze.

“Are you sure? Because after this everything will be different, you will fully be my wife and I will fully be your husband.” He once again asked for the woman’s reassurance. Rakia caressed Dashtan’s face, she was already halfway there if retreating now would not change anything. Rakia nodded with a look that inflamed her passion. Dashtan smiled then brought their foreheads together for a moment and played his nostrils against Rakia’s.

“You’ll regret it,” Dashtan said with a seductive smile. The smile infected Rakia.

“Make me regret it,” Rakia replied, which was the beginning of their hot romance that morning. As well as the beginning of their real marriage relationship.