A beautiful lady come in holding paper bags. A windfall of his life. His eyes sparkle glaring at her. A glare full of love and adorable being delightful. An angel came down from heaven to enchant and melt his stone-like heart.

A lady he first falls in love with except her mom and changes him for a better one. Willing to be with him on storms of life he goes by. A girl that is destined for him, only for him. No one else was allowed to get her from him, over his dead body.
“Hi Hubby” she greeted him with a wide smile plastered to her tempting lips. It invites him to devour it, ravish it to be exact.
“Hello, my beautiful Wife.” Lyn comes near him and sits on his lap, teasing him. Axiel understands what she wants to do but he let her. Willing to be teased but he will punish her later, a rough one in bed. As if he could do that because she is carrying their little bean.
“Your handsome Hubby” she slides her hands on his free chest. He unbuttoned it before because he's been exhausted from work. By just her touch, his desire lit up. His lowered abdomen tightened. He groans.
“Let's eat baby,” she stands up and prepares the food she buys. Not minding him being pissed at her action. She awakens his desire and now she suddenly leaves? What a wrong move.
“What is your game Wife? Are you trying me?” his voice seems a little bit angry. This is the first time that she seduce him like this over their two years of marriage.
Plus the confidence she has. It looks like planned.

“What are you talking about Hubby? I'm not doing anything?” she said innocently. She even shrugged her shoulder off to add to her acting. Don't care about his reaction. Honestly, it's her first time seducing a man in her entire life.
She knew that it was because of her pregnancy hormones. It gave her the courage to do it. She did some research on their way to the company. It gives her an idea of what to do but she hopes it will succeed.
“Come and let's eat Hubby. The food will be cold.” she changed the topic to lessen the bad atmosphere inside the office. Axiel got up and come near her wearing his pissed face.
“You mean what you're doing Wife?” his arms claim her tin waist and say it.
“Hey, what you're doing hmmm Hubby ahhhh?” she moans but was able to say what she wants to say. Axiel is kissing and licking her neck which tickles her.
“Continuing what you started Wife. Don't play games with me when you can finish it, understood? It's hard to calm down when the beast inside us wakes up. I guess you mean this. Let's eat and I will punish you for being a naughty girl. Bad girls are punished.” he let go of her after giving her a French kiss. Lyn blushed red after realizing what she did. Reality hits her. Indeed Axiel teases her.
“You didn't have the right to blush Wife. You seek for it so stand for it.”
******
“I hate you!” Lyn punches him while crying. Their lovemaking ends and Lyn is exhausted to death. She can't even lift her fingers. Axiel works on his contentment and it lasts for two hours. The devil smiles at her and even laughs at her reaction.
“You ask for it Wifey. Stop crying and take a rest. I will wake you up when we are going home. Sorry for being rough. Our little bean inside you will scold me when she/he knew it.” Lyn felt sleepy after he said it. He said was true and she promise herself not to do it again. She can't hold his stamina after all.
“Take a rest and we will go to the supermarket before heading home later Wife. Let's buy your strawberries.”
Upon hearing strawberries, her eyes spark and immediately wipe her tears away. She wants strawberries and she will behave to have them.
‘It's my favorite.’
‘She wants them now.’
‘Is he using her weakness to manipulate her?’
‘He is mean!’
“What's the problem Wife? Your face is sour,” he asks with concern.
‘Did he say something wrong?’
‘Did she make her unhappy?’
“Are you manipulating me with my strawberries huh?” directly ask while frowning. She asks what she realized. Being pregnant is not easy and boys need to know. They didn't even what a pregnant woman feels over the nine months of carrying a fetus until it forms and delivers like her.
She admitted that she becomes mean sometimes but what can she do, their little bean inside makes it hard for her. She can't blame their child because she is happy to have her/him. She's ready to sacrifice just to have him/her.
“No Wife, it isn't what you think. You tell me to buy it for you but you're here so let's buy it for our little bean. Don't think too much and sleep Wife.” she sighs for relief and falls asleep.
Believing in her husband makes her not think twice, she trusts him.
*****
Looking at her sleeping makes him smile. Being blessed to have her. He cleans her with a wet towel and changes her into comfortable clothes before tucking her with the blanket and leaving the room. He needs to sign some proposals on his table while waiting for her to wake up.
Just a couple of hours, Lyn woke up from a deep sleep. Her body aches a bit but is bearable. Lovemaking is a part of marriage life. Husband and wife need to give and fulfill the needs of their partner to make this marriage work.
“Your awake Wife. Come and let's go home. It's already five in the afternoon.” Axiel said before coming into the room.
“Uhmmm” Lyn hums as an answer. She left the bed and go to the bathroom to take a quick shower before wearing a blue above-the-knee dress.
“Your gorgeous Wife. So beautiful,” Axiel praise her with a hug. Soft kisses are planted on her neck that tickle her.
“Hey, stop what you are doing Hubby. It tickles me.” she laughs while saying those words. Her neck is one of her sensitive spots, that's why.
“You smell so good, Wife. Just for me only, right?” he asks while continues giggling on her neck.
“Yes Hubby, only for you," Lyn assured him with a kiss. A businessman needs assurance like contracts so she gives it to him.
They leave the company after that and drop by the supermarket. Lyn needs to buy strawberries and all that she wants to eat. It's for their little bin after all. He/she wants those to eat through Lyn, the mother.
Axiel tells Lyn to buy everything she wants not minding the price of each item. After two hours, Lyn decided to stop and go to the counter. Axiel almost five thousand in total. Yes, she buys a lot of stuff, not just strawberries. Axiel asks out of curiosity,
“You will eat all of that?"
Lyn smiles sweetly and said, “Yes, it's for a week I guess?”
‘A week?’
‘She buys a lot and it's for a week only?’
‘Unbelievable!’
‘Is it how pregnant women eat?’
These are the questions in his mind. Yeah, it's new to him, probably all men when their wife or girlfriend was pregnant. From the morning sickness to the attitude, and also to the cravings.
It's easy to make but hard to manage. The husband will suffer if the wife is sensitive and hard to manage but all of the sacrifices will be paid if the child was born.
*****
On the other side of the story, Ezekiel sits in his swivel chair while scanning some files. Being the number one billionaire the whole world is busy with work. A lot of opportunities will come without you finding them. It's an advantage of being number one.
“Good afternoon Sir, Mr. Axiel Monteverde wants to see you. His secretary called me this morning and make an appointment to see you.” Maricel came in and said this important matter. Maricel Deguzman is his secretary. Beautiful girl at the age of twenty-five. She has a husband and a daughter.
“The second billionaire right?” he asks and glare at her.
Maricel answered immediately with a respect, “Yes Sir”
“Approved their appointment and say that I will gladly accept it,” he stated and continue signing files on his table. Just after Maricel left the office, he stop for a moment and think.
‘Why did he accept it?’
‘What if Axiel wants to see holes to dig in on his companies?’
‘Is it worthy to trust him?’
His heart agreed with his decision but his mind didn't. There is a part that pulls him to meet Axiel, the second billionaire and one of his competitors. He has a feeling that when he heard his name, he is excited to meet him with his wife. Yes, he knew that Axiel has a wife. No one didn't know that big news about his marriage. Their wedding photo is everywhere to see.
By staring at Axiel's wife, he feels something like they have a relationship. Not sure if they have but he feels. Maybe one of his cousins that he didn't meet, no one knows. His granddaughter's case was in investigation and until now those he hired didn't have findings on her.
His daughter Catherine died after giving birth to his granddaughter and know they didn't know where she is. A kidnapper kidnaps her before they come out of the hospital. The baby needs to stay there for one week to run some tests and observations because her mother died while giving birth to her. Doctors assumed that what if she inherit sickness or disease from her mother.
Just after Catherine died, Leonardo, her husband died on a mission. He is a soldier and on a mission when Catherine gave birth. He died without seeing his daughter. The only memories they left were taken away from them.
Ezekiel shed tears without knowing it. It is the saddest past they have and now that they are old and anytime they will leave the Earth too, their mission is to find their only granddaughter to inherit wealth. He wipe his tears and said,
“I promise my daughter that we will find your only daughter to inherit our family's wealth. I'm afraid to give it to your cousins because I know that they will not care for it. Help me to find her as soon as possible before we go there with you. Help us our only daughter. Daddy and mommy love you so much.”