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I was absolutely stunned. I might be dreaming. Surely, it must be that I was sleep walking perhaps. Perhaps this was just some lucid, hallucinating dream that people had. It felt like the only believable explanation.

How on earth did he know?

My fingers felt the velvet of the box brush against it as I held the box in my hand. My eyes were entirely fixated on it and I couldn’t think of any thing else except the contents of the box in my hand.

It sparkled beneath the lighting in the kitchen sending a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours bouncing of the ceiling as the light caught each precise cut of the string of diamonds set against the white gold band.

It was the very same tennis bracelet that I had fallen in love with at the jewellery store earlier today. My eyes widened once I snapped out of my surprise and I immediately brushed my fingers over the diamonds like I wanted to make sure it was actually real and not some holographic image that was some how in my hold.

My finger felt ever prong, ever smoothened polished cravice of the diamonds cut, and the coolness of the metal. It was more beautiful now than it had even looked in the store and that was when I recalled the price tag.

“Dante, this is- I can’t, it is too much.” I shook my head closing the box but I didn’t put it back on the counter yet..

Dante shrugged like this was nothing. Like he hadn’t just dropped a large sum of money to buy me the exact bracelet that had caught my eye.

“It’s a gift, Soph. He called me by that nickname with no much of familiarity. You can’t refuse a gift.” He threw me a disapproving look but I still shook my head.

“I can. This is too much and there isn’t a reason for me to be gifted this.” I fought against him and he inhaled deeply like he was trying to keep his calm.

“Why must every thing be a struggle with you?” He ran a hand through his hair as his question hung in the air. “I do not need a reason to buy the mother of my child a gift. Consider it a very delayed push present.” Dante spoke gently looking at me with this relaxed softness in his eyes.

“Dante, but- I began to protest again.

“Please, Soph, it’s just a gift. Stop making such a fuss over it.” He said sounding exhausted and I couldn’t tell if it was from the day or from me.

“Fine. I accept it as a push present. I reasoned feeling less guilty for taking it as opposed to if he had bought it for me without reason.

Sure, it was still lavish but maybe in his head he was repaying me in some way for giving him a child and not for any other reason.

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His shoulders relaxed and the corners of his l*ps lifted. “See, that wasn’t so hard. He said sarcastically and I rolled my eyes at him.

“But what made you choose this bracelet?” I asked curios to know how he had managed to choose the same one I wanted. Was it truly a freaky coincidence?

was no coincidence. “Just a strong guess.” He replied vaguely and I knew that there was more to it but he was

thumb against the box still in my hand feeling a small smile over take my l*ps that I could not

Dante was already standing right in front of me. His one hand cupped my fave gentle and his other moved to hold my eye open. He did a quick inspection before he inhaled then blew in to my

feeling nothing there any more but my eye teared and Dante’s thumb

were now entirely engrossed with mine and I felt myself slowly begin to get lost in his deep, yearning gaze until I was frozen in time with him. It might have been seconds or

Dante that I had married long ago. The Dante that I had a good life with. The Dante

with. The one who had been a part of my every day. The one who would

was a heavy whisper.

moved to utter the single word and I could almost feel it brush against

I begged breathless. I needed to k*ss him in that

all and obliged my wish. His l*ps met mine in the soften most sweetest k*ss we had ever shared. It was patient. It was consuming. It was

then again but the third time his l*ps did not break away from mine. I k*ssed him just as gently as he had k*ssed me and felt him

with a smile if my own toying about my l*ps. I was all too consumed by this moment and how giddy it had made me feel. Suddenly, I was not a mature woman

felt so different to every other k*ss that we

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nothing expectant about it. It

No. No.

some distance between out bodies. Dante didn’t stop me and continued looking at me like I was the air that breathed. It was so… new. He never looked at me that way iebhad my giddiness lead me to believe otherwise

bed. My voice was small and sounded foreign to even my

crease formed between his brows. “Didn’t you just wake

nodded then opened my mouth to make an excuse to leave but he

much

use a drink about now. It would help put me to sleep and ease my mind but I had to be sure

two glasses before leading me over to the front porch. The nights air was fresh and the island amply

the same in one next to mine. He handed me a glass before he poured

just sat there sipping slowly on our drinks, admiring the view, and the sound of the many crickets in the greenery surrounding us. Despite the comfort that settled over us, my mind still lingered on that k*ss that transpired inside.

innocent maybe even a thank you k*ss but I couldn’t let it sl*p in to nothingness because it felt like it was more. My inner self battled with what I felt and what I had

away?” Dante’s question disturbed the silence but it had also caught me

much as Hayley though. I

knowing that he had given Hayley a week vacation that she would never forget any time soon. I could only prepare myself to hear about

father or having a family but in the rare instances that I did

it would be easier to raise a boy being one myself. You know,

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than any son I could imagine having. She is smart and witty and utterly entertaining.” He

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