I
The owner of the coffee shop grinned mysteriously as he read the note of their Cafe's beautiful customer a while ago.
The offer is in his hand. What would he do? The cafe owner the next day waited for the pretty customer to come again, but he waited in vain. So, before the night falls, he prepared his heart shape chocolate, cheesecake, and frappuccino.
"Guys, I will just go somewhere. Take care of our cafe," he said to his staff, who all nodded smiling.
"Yes, boss. Don't worry and enjoy," his appointed cafe supervisor, said with a tease.
He walked straight to Belladie's apartment and knocked on the door of Apartment number eight.
He then heard the sounds of steps walking slowly to the door. When the door opened, he was mesmerized by the beauty in front of him.
"You indeed came," she said softly but not surprised at all.
"Yes, I am here, and here are your favorites," the man smiled.
"Thank you. But before I let you enter my house, let me know your name first," the woman with long black hair said.
The man smiled widely. "I am Gabby ... Gabby Closh."
"Nice meeting you Gabby, I am Taara," the woman said as she extended her right hand to Gabby for a handshake.
When their hands clasped, they both felt the electricity that skidded into their veins.
" Please come inside, Gabby and have a seat," Taara said inviting the young man inside her apartment.
" Thank you, Taara."
And, so Gabby got inside Taara' s apartment and handed Taara the cake and frappuccino that he brought for her before he sat on the couch in her cute living room.
Gabby's eyes scan the interior decoration of Taara and he noticed that most of her hanging paintings are images of trees, flowers, and plants. She also has a few internal plants put in every corner of her house. Her apartment looks fresh and clean.
"Here, I brew my own tea. Please check if it is fine with you, Gabby," Taara came inside the living room from the kitchen, with a cup of hot tea in her hand.
Gabby got the tea smilingly. Since it is boiling hot, he blew it first before taking a small sip of it. He furrowed. This is the first time that he has tasted this kind of tea and it tastes good and refreshing.
"Taara, what is the brand of this tea? It really tastes good and this is the first time that I tasted a tea like this."
"It is my homemade tea, Gabby. You cannot have it in any cafeteria or grocery store." Taara replied with pride.
"Wow, really. So, I have no choice, Taara if I missed drinking this tea, I will come here." He winked at her and Taara smiled, with such mystery that only she, knew.
II
At the Cold Mountain Pack's packhouse, Draeko and Grazziena were already preparing for their travel back to Albaya. They will be leaving tomorrow. Although they still wanted to stay, Draeko is needed in his businesses and Grazziena will be starting to train in the finance department.
That night they had a bonfire nearby the beach, a few kilometers away from the packhouse.
They had food, and wine and they dipped it into the seawater. The good thing was, it was not yet snowtime, it was still summertime so, the wind was not that cold.
"If you have time again, I hope you will come back here again, Draeko and Grazziena." It was Leslie who spoke with a bit of melancholy in her voice.
Grazziena nodded. "Of course, we will return here, especially if Thutaara will finally continue her silence and stop her revenge against us."
"Thutaara had been silent the whole time that you were here. We are thinking about what happened to her. One of these days, we will try to visit her in her cave and try to befriend her." Alpha Lumaro stated that made them all agree with him.
The next day, Alpha Lumaro and Luna Leslie together with their son Leelum, were brought and dropped by Draeko and Grazziena at the airport. Leslie and Grazziena bade goodbye with tears in their eyes.
"Leelum, I hope to see you again. But maybe that time, you have grown up already." Grazziena said teary-eyed as she hugged Leelum, who kissed her cheeks in response.
"Draeko and Grazziena may you have a happy life and continue to love each other. Please inform me, once Grazziena became pregnant. We will visit you in Albaya to see your baby." Alpha Lumaro said smiling.
"Of course. It will be soon, I promise," Draeko said grinning and they all laughed.
"I am hoping, Sweety." Grazziena joined the fun.
Draeko and Grazziena's travel from Mt. Reveree back to the Albaya was smooth and they arrived in Albaya, safely.
They were fetched by their family driver and after a few minutes more, they were already inside their mansion.
"Oh, I missed our home, Sweety," Draeko said as he jumped and laid his body on their matrimonial bed.
"I missed here, too. We have been more than a week in Mt. Reveree," Grazziena said as she lay beside her husband.
"It is the 15th of the month already, right, Sweety?" Grazziena was furrowing. She remembered something.
"Yap. Why Sweety.?
"Oh, nothing. I just remembered something. Grazziena remembered that supposedly, she had her monthly menstrual cycle on the tenth day of the month, but it is already the fifteenth of the month and she did not have her monthly period yet. She looked at Draeko and smiled mysteriously. She will not tell him yet. She will check first if her guess was right. Unknowingly, she was already smiling from ear to ear and Draeko raised his eyebrow questioningly.
"What was that for?" Draeko asked with a narrowed forehead.
"What?"
"Your wide smile."
"Hmm, I just remembered something funny."
Draeko looked at his wife, not convinced by her alibi.
"Just relax, Sweety, I am just happy that we arrived safely." Grazziena tried to convince him.
"Hmm, let us open the television, we did not know what happened here since we went to Mt. Reverie." Draeko got the remote control of their big television and opened it. He looked for the usual provincial news, when suddenly, a flash report, got his attention.