Hot Chocolate For Two 💕

Chapter 43: Shut Up, and Kiss Me

Chapter 43: Shut Up, and Kiss Me

Lesedi

I woke up to a warm light grazing my eyelids. Where was I? A feeling of incoherence spread through me as I slowly opened one eye. It was daylight and Kara, was sitting opposite me. Was it all a dream? Rodwick...the kidnapping...the police...Liam? Did all of that really happen?

"Happy Birthday, baby", I heard Aiden whisper as he pecked my forehead. I was sleeping on his shoulder.

I sat up and looked at him confused.

Wait...rewind...rewind...rewind...

We were on the train to Amsterdam! Yes, we came to the train station directly after I gave my statement to the police. Rodwick was in custody – all of it really did happen – it wasn't a dream.

I spoke to him after he got arrested – it was something I needed to do. I walked up to the jail cell he was in, with no second thoughts, no fear holding me back, because it was important he knew – knew what he had done to me, knew how he had scarred me, knew that I was rid of the demons he had instilled in me. He was but a speck of memory that did not haunt me anymore. I had finally gotten the closure I needed. I was free.

"Thank you", I smiled as I leaned in to kiss his lips. "I love you", I said softly, "I'm sorry we fought about having kids. It's just that I hate when you leave for long periods of time, it downright sucks having to say goodbye", I confessed.

"Shh – I know, Lessie. Well, you won't have to anymore – at least, not for a while", he smirked.

"What do you mean?", I asked curiously.

"You know, I thought I lost you. It was – it was excruciating. There was no backup plan. Life without you, just seemed...pointless", he paused. I spoke to Logan about this. We're thinking about expanding, just not in another country, yet. We're going to create a homegrown foreign sector office to handle all our outbound work. He'll take care of the outbound work and I'll take care of the inbound. So, you'll just have to get used to me sticking to you like gum, from now on.", he grinned.

"Oh", I said trying my best to downplay the fireworks inside me. "Well, I think this is cause to celebrate, don't you think?", I asked mischievously.

"What did you have in mind?", he smiled.

"Well...we don't have champagne, so we'll just have to go with the next best thing", I replied suggestively as I directed him quietly from his seat to the nearest toilet.

Aiden

Cramped up make-up celebratory sex – Yes!

Luckily for us, Kara and Liam who were sitting in front of us, as well as Logan and Thomas who was sitting next to us on the other side of the aisle were still fast asleep. So, we scooted past them as discreetly as possible and made our way to the toilet.

Click! The door closed behind us.

I hurriedly removed my clothes until I was only in my boxer shorts and then gingerly removed her t-shirt and shorts. For the first time since the incident, I looked at her bare skin. There was subtle bruising around her stomach and her thighs. She bruised easily but for her to have any sort of redness on her skin meant that fucker had touched her. I took a step back, not removing my gaze from the markings.

"What did he do to you, Lessie?", I asked feeling my blood boil.

"He didn't rape me...but – ", she began meekly.