THE DEAL: Novel

by Bvlgari, M. F.

  Getting near her hugging and kissing her. She was in shock she was white and was without any reaction, she expected him to say he wanted to go ahead with the divorce, but now he was only giving her the best news she always wanted to hear, he wants to give her the world, she feels loved.

  But a family?!

  Now he wants to start a family, did he hit his head? We are both 43 years old and he wants to have children now?

  Carolina never crossed her mind again to have more children but she never considered that could be an option much less now with 43 years old. She had to sit down, she needed a glass of water she was feeling dizzy, her stomach was grappling again, fetched a bottle of water and drank as she went to go sitting on the couch. When she was about to sit on the couch and had enough water, she asked him again to confirm whether she heard correctly:

  "Do you want children now at 43?"

  "Yes, I do and you haven’t much time so we'd better start now"

  He told her very enthusiastic when he sat besides her kissing her on the face, lips, neck.

  "Can you at least think a little bit about it?"

  Trying to convince her to have his kids.

  He was surprised by her response, she noticed that he was serious about it, and she didn’t had any answer for him now, she needed to think carefully about that, and said to him in an attempt to calm him down:

  "As you know I have two sons already, they are young adults by now and they can live without my presence most of the time already.

  After my divorce, I never had a relation enough serious to introduce to my boys, I stop thinking about having kids if I couldn’t have even a serious relationship, I kind of blocked it from my mind and from my life, I never thought about the possibility of having children again.

  I'm just surprised with your request I never imagined it was so important for you to have children. While my age was advancing I stop thinking about that possibility. You got me completely by surprise that's all."

  "For me it is important to have children"

  "But you already have a daughter"

  "Who lives with the her mother full-time"

  "Why don’t you split time to be with her?"

  "It was never an option, believe or not, it’s not worth the fighting.

  When she became pregnant we were already separated, she became pregnant thinking I would return because of the baby, of course I didn’t returned. I love my daughter to pieces, but the mother will never let me alone with her of fear that I could take my daughter."

  "Were you able to take your daughter away from her mother?"

  "Never crossed my mind, I recognize that I could never give the attention she deserves all by myself, it is the mother who was always with her and takes good care of her. She is an excellent mother. Of course I gave her a house and she has a monthly allowance, she doesn’t need to worry about anything in life but to take care of my daughter. That's why I want to sell everything I have, to have time to enjoy a family with someone I love, I want to appreciate in full all moments with my kids and their mother, I want a normal family, the one I never had that"

  If Carolina were standing, she would have fallen on the floor right now.

  Did he just say that he loves me?!

  Surely he didn’t mean it in the terms that she was thinking, but it was remarkable. She ended up saying:

  "Let me think for a week, at the end of a week I'll give you the answer"

  "Can’t you give it now? It is very important to me."

  Insisting on an answer right away.

  "I don’t understand, did you woke up today with the desire to be a father?!"

  "I want to have a family for a long time, but never had the opportunity like I'm having now with you, and today I realized that I want to have children you with, I want you to be the mother of my kids, I want to raise a family, travel the world, I give you everything, I will treat you always like a princess, that's why I say that you don’t need to work because you don’t really need to. What I'm trying to tell you...is...that...I love you...maybe I love you for longer than I know and I want to be with you forever"

  Carolina still sitting was in shock, never thought hearing these words come out of his mouth, she was overjoyed, beaming, and she was over the moon. She began to cry, but it was tears of happiness. Embracing him crying, kissing him saying:

  "I love you too, I love you from the first moment I met you"

  "I was so stupid and I lost so much time without seeing the obvious. Please forgive me"

  He looks at her, he puts his hands on her face holding her gently kissing her, giving her the most passionate and intense kiss Carolina ever felt in her life from any man.

  "I can give you the answer now, I want to have children with you, and if it’s important to you it’s important to me"

  As soon as he hears the words from her mouth, he gets up, comes near her and lifts her in the air whirling her with joy, kissing her on the lips, on the face, neck with a crazy passion for her. They were in ecstasy of happiness since they had finally discovered the truth love for each other. After the initial impact has passed, they decided to go to dinner together. In the kitchen Carolina began to make dinner with JP’s help, she decided while doing dinner to make a cake to celebrate, she had the ingredients and went to work, she made a very simple cake, and it was just adding the ingredients and put in the oven.

  JP was enthusiastic about the cake experience, he had never made a cake before, but the most interesting part was being able to hug her from behind and give her kisses on her neck trying to distracting Carolina in her task. He loved confound her, feeling her body slowly surrendering to him, making him feel the happiest man in the world right now. In an attempt to achieve the cake finalized she throws with a little bit of flour to his face, to try to dissuade him to grabbing her, he catch a little bit and throws flour to her also, in no time the kitchen became one pitched battle flour and got full of flour on their faces and clothes, the flour was all over the place, it was on the floor and everywhere in the kitchen, it was a total confusion.

  JP grabs Carolina's waist, takes his hand to her neck pulling her to him, kissed her in a passionate kiss, hot, sweet and long that gradually was becoming needy for more. He grabs with his hands Carolina hips, takes his hands underneath her dress, with his hands up until he finds Carolina’s underwear, grabbing them and pulling them away. Holding Carolina by her waist, he lifted her up sitting her on the kitchen counter, and sliding with his hands her legs slowly apart setting the stage for the fate of the next few minutes. Carolina loves when he plays with his magic hands waking up all her ending nerves, she loves when his kisses cover her body leaving her the desire burning for him, he always has that inexplicable power over her when their bodies approach each other and intertwined mixing the essence of each other.

  She loves to run her fingers through his hair, his three days soft beard, his muscular shoulders and down his hairy chest. At this time he plays only enough with her to get inside of her all at once, he loves to fills her with just one stroke, sometimes it’s almost savagely but both enjoyed it, he knows she likes and is always prepared to receive him this way. It doesn’t take long to reach an orgasm together. When they recomposed they looked at each other admiring the state of the kitchen, bursting out laughing.

  "Who is going to clean this up?"

  Carolina looked at JP inviting him to clean it up.

  "The maid in the morning"

  "I will clean up most of it after finish dinner and the cake"

  Said Carolina while she discovers a small wireless vacuum cleaner in the pantry next to the kitchen, and handing it to him. He looks at the vacuum bemused he never dealt with a vacuum cleaner before, he begins to suck all around for fun, getting it up towards her sucking her clothes and hair. When they finally are going to eat it was already late, after dinner they only raised the table and left the kitchen to be cleaned in the morning by the maid who was there every day. The maid wouldn’t be very pleased to see
all that mess, but there is what she was for.

  Before going to bed they took a shower together in JP’s suite, he said to Carolina he asked the maid in the morning to bring everything from Carolina to his room, because now on it would be their bedroom. The hot water dripped taking the day's fatigue and the flour pitched battle from the kitchen away, as the bodies were being cleaned, like a magnet they became increasingly close together, until they touch each other. The water ran over them, there was no way to resist the temptation again because they felt like two teens making love and enjoy every time a new sexual experience, always ready to repeat the pleasure they had from being with each other.

  Snuggled up in bed as always spooning, he puts his arm around her, preparing to sleep feeling the body heat from one another.

  In the following day he was ready to return inside her, but she needed to get up and go to work.

  JP was about starting the same conversation as always:

  "You know you don’t need work..."

  "I know that"

  Interrupted Carolina leaving the room to go to the kitchen for breakfast and rush out, she went to the fridge to eat anything, but saw nothing that pleased her. In fact she felt no appetite. She drank just a coffee and left.

  By mid-morning at work, she didn’t know if it was the stress she had accumulated in her body from the last weeks, but felt her stomach grappling again, a headache followed by a buzz and she fainted falling into the carpeted office floor. When her colleague notices, she was already lying on the floor unconscious, the poor fellow didn’t know what to do or what was happening, he called an ambulance and Carolina went to the hospital still unconscious and only returned to wake up already in the hospital, she asked what was happening with her, and the doctors who assisted her said they were waiting for some tests results and analysis they made, but she shouldn’t worry much, because she was fine now.

  She calls JP informing him that she was in the hospital, but she said he shouldn’t worry that it should be just a low blood pressure issue, she had it before, but it was very rare to faint. JP rushed out of in a middle of a meeting and went to the hospital to see Carolina he needed to know what’s really going on, first he went to her room to make sure she was okay and then he went to talk with the doctor who had assisted her to know what was happening with his wife. The doctor said he had just received all the tests results they made to Carolina.

  "Mr. Bennett”

  The doctor said looking at him seriously, making JP extremely nervous.

  “There's nothing to worry about, everything is just fine. After the first tests we made, we double check everything just to be sure and we have only good news, congratulations Mr. Bennett you will be father of twins. Your wife is well and the babies are too. She isn’t in risk or the babies. She just needs some rest"

  The doctor told him shaking his hand to congratulate him. JP opens his mouth in happy shock, this was the best news he could ever receive right now in his life. He really made it, his life was complete. Full of joy he was speechless, when he is able to recover and talk again he said:

  "How far is my wife doctor?"

  "Almost seven weeks. Generally when a woman becomes pregnant her body has huge changes such as blood flow, blood pressure, which is perfectly normal, as it is generating a new life inside her.

  In Carolina’s case she has two lives. When a woman gets pregnant and especially from twins sometimes causes sudden blood pressure drops in the first trimester which can lead to unconsciousness especially if the mother has already low blood pressure, which is Carolina’s case."

  JP couldn’t hide the thrill of knowing he was going to be a father, it seemed to him that the doctor had told him he had won the Euro millions first prize, he was beyond himself he was completely euphoric of joy. The doctor smiled with delight seeing a father so happy and continued:

  "There are a few precautions for Carolina during the pregnancy, such as avoiding high-temperature environments, sudden movement’s changes and she can’t drink alcohol, fizzy drinks or coffee.

  Please make her drink lots of water to stay hydrated and always make her walk with a small salt package in her handbag, so when she starts to feel the buzz alerting her from low blood pressure she needs to put the salt in her mouth, which helps stabilize and avoid fainting. Otherwise everything is fine, don’t worry"

  He was radiant in life, as soon JP ended the conversation with the doctor he went back to see Carolina in her room to talk to her, he needed to give her the best news he ever had received. When he reached the room, he enters with a smile from ear to ear, he grabbed her hand, sitting on the edge of the bed he wanted to start talking but he was too overwhelmed of joy. She looks at him with a suspicious look and confused, starting to be serious worried.

  Why is he with an idiot smile, if I'm in a bed in the hospital?

  She thought already starting to be offended.

  "My love, I just spoke to the doctor who already knows the results of your tests, oh boy I have news..."

  He needed to stop for a second to create suspense. And finally he said:

  "We will be PARENTS!!!"

  He exclaims unable to contain the excitement, put on his knees beside her bed, holding Carolina’s hands taking her hands to his mouth kissing them repeatedly. Carolina looked at him confused.

  "How am I already pregnant if yesterday we agreed to have children?!"

  "I only know that you are almost seven weeks pregnant, I know it’s very soon and many things can happen, but do you know where we were six/seven weeks ago?!”

  She takes a second to think.

  "We were on the island..."

  She said shocked to remember how everything had changed since then.

  If they hadn’t understood each other and if they were separated and she would found out that she was pregnant, he would think she had gotten pregnant on purpose.

  Carolina didn’t even want to think about that hypothesis anymore. She was happy and shocked at the same time because she had everything she wanted in life.

  "But there's more ..."

  He was preparing her for the final shock, winking his eye, kissing her on the lips, kissing her hands without containing his obvious silly smile continuing his euphoria state.

  "What do you mean there's more? Is everything okay with the baby?!"

  She asks nervously.

  "Everything is fine with the babies, we are having twins. Isn’t that wonderful? We did a fine job!"

  He told her with a fulfilled grin from ear to ear.

  "Thank you my love, you make me feel the happiest man in the world"

  Said to her tenderly, taking her hand to his mouth kissing softly. Carolina couldn’t stop smiling either, she just couldn’t believe it, just yesterday they were planning to have children and now they discover she is pregnant from twins. She extends her arms, he looks at her laying his head on her chest, hugging her, and she hugged him affectionately back, kissing his hair caressing his face with his soft beard.

  "You make me feel the happiest woman in the world. I love you for being the man you are. I really do"

  In the evening after Carolina have been hydrated and be medicated for her new state of grace, she was highly instructed to rest for the next 24 hours. Carolina calls her boys to invite them to go lunch during the weekend with her and JP, they have news they want to share with them. But they shouldn’t worry is nothing to be concerned about.

  Reaching Happiness

  Carolina decides to stay home to rest, although she felt good with the pregnancy, she knew she had to control the blood pressure and have the usual medication for pregnancy. She couldn’t stop thinking, with 43 years and carrying a normal twin’s pregnancy wouldn’t be an easy task, she couldn’t help it but feel a very lucky woman.

  JP decides to sell the companies to be able to give attention to the family that he always wanted as he was in the final stages of negotiations with an international group to sell his companies very soon. Carolina gives in to JP’s r
equest to stay home to rest and enjoy the term of the pregnancy without any complications and to adapt to their new married life and future parents, giving up her job. Perhaps follow JP’s request would be the most wise thing to do, although she loved working, but she needed to think about her new life and her new condition, and the best option would be to stay at home for now. If she thinks about it in a very cold way, over the years she always worried with her career and live from what she earned, because she wanted too, she was one of the few people who could had the privilege of not having to work and not have to prove anything to anyone, and most importantly, she didn’t need to prove anything to herself, because she knew she achieved everything she ever wanted in her life and what she didn’t achieved she earned from her mother.

  At this stage Carolina's knew what her priority to be happy was.

  Sometimes in life you need to give up a few things up earning others.

  The weekend was at the door and Carolina is looking forward receiving the boys and tells them the latest news.

  On Sunday Carolina’s boys would finally see her new home, where their mother will live and she was filled with longing for them. She found herself feeling a bit worried, she wasn’t sure how they would react to the news of the twins. JP saw that she was concerned to give them the news, thought it would be best to find a way to distract her and decides to make her a surprise. Puts her in his Range Rover, out of London into the countryside, they stopped in a pub for lunch and after lunch following destination although he doesn’t want to say where they are going because he wants to make her a surprise.

  The day was great, the sun dawned light though it was not too hot, but it was still nice. Finally they arrived at the destination that JP had set for them. He stopped the jeep along a hillside on the beach, on the rocks, he goes out the jeep and goes to Carolina’s door and opens the door to help her out, hugging her and kissing her while they walk to the beach.

  They embraced for a walk along the beach.

  "I know this is nothing compared to the island where we were, but I would walk a little seaside with you. Have you noticed how much has changed since the last time we walk together along the beach? It’s crazy how we were able to get here, isn’t it?"