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Stefano slid his arm around Hailey as she said goodbye to her parents late Sunday afternoon. He knew she wasn’t entirely thrilled with their newly announced wedding date, but he was, honestly, he’d hoped their mother would choose late-May or early-June, but he’d keep his desire under control until the wedding arrived. There would be no annulment. He would do his absolute best to get into her bed that evening, potentially, plant his seed inside her. If she were to become pregnant with his child, she would never leave. He knew that as well as he knew his own desires.
“We’ll come up to town to find you a dress, get you a dress made,” Leann stated kissing her cheek. “Stefano, you take care of our girl, keep your word to her.”
“I will Mrs. Michaels,” Stefano said knowing his true promise would be his wedding vows of ‘till death do us part’; it would be the only way he’d ever leave her.
“Bye Mom, Dad, I’ll see you later,” Hailey added hoping to get to the car and home before she had to pretend, she loved Stefano, or not love him as it was now at least to him.
“We will most likely come down this next weekend,” Stefano told them keeping his arm around her, enjoying being able to touch and caress her as he pleased. Her parents were fully behind them and accepting to his demonstrative side when it came to her.
“Perhaps we can take a day visit to your place, look around it,” her mother suggested, and he nodded.
“I’d love to show you all, especially Hailey; I think she’ll love it,” he said, and she grinned up at him.
“As long as you’re there with me once we’re married, I wouldn’t care where we live,” she teased earning a kiss that sent her heart fluttering inside her chest. She would be ecstatic once they were married, and she would ensure that he took what she offered him. Her wedding dress would be the perfect start for it after all.
“Well since it seems we won’t have to put down any money on the facilities we plan to use, your mother and I wanted to offer to pay for your honeymoon,” Thomas said, and Stefano gave him a full smile shaking his head no.
“I have that one already covered, anything Hailey wants is fine with me when it comes to the wedding, but I insist on handling the honeymoon arrangements. I know exactly what will make her happiest for it,” he assured the man and he let out a light laugh.
“You’d better make her happy; that’s a husband’s first priority Stefano.”
“And I assure she will always be happy and loved,” Stefano said as the car arrived. He had to send it back to his parents’ place for her riding gear having decided to take her to the stables in the city on Wednesday morning before work instead of leaving it there. Riding always put her in a good mood and he knew the staff meeting would be trying for her that afternoon, after all everyone now knew they were engaged.
“Good, we’ll see you this weekend then, be safe my darling girl,” Thomas stated kissing her before letting them head to the car.
Hailey let out a quick breath trying to control her feelings to keep Stefano from discovering them as they reached the car.
Stefano pressed a kiss to her temple, opening the door for her to slide in first. He heard a quick intake of breath and slid in with her in worry.
“What’s wrong,pethi mou?” he questioned noticing the feet on the other side as his eyes adjusted.
“There was something sharp on the seat,” she said rubbing her hip where the pen had stuck her with its sharp angled tip.
“Sorry about that, I was wondering where my pen went to,” Demetrius said moving quickly to slide his hand along her thigh to find it.
“Sit down,” Stefano said giving him a glare as he moved to press the down button to speak to his driver. “What are you doing in our car? You have your own driver.”
“Kyra’s using him, and I know you wouldn’t want me to be late to work in the morning, right? You don’t mind giving me a ride to and from…I know Hailey won’t, will you beautiful?”
“We’ll drive you back to town but someone else will pick you up in the morning,” he said instructing Karl to head directly to Demetrius’ apartment. He slid his arm around Hailey, picking up the offending pen and tossed it to his brother with another glare.
“Are you alright my darling?” he questioned letting his fingers trail over her hip as he looked down into her eyes.
“I am now,” she said giving him a brighter smile not caring that Demetrius was in the car with them; after all, Stefano had to pretend to love her still with him there. “Would you please kiss me properly now that we’ve left our parents behind?”
“Not in front of my brother, you know I can’t resist you,pethi mou,” he stated, and she pouted her bottom lip at him slightly pulling a laugh from deep within him. “Ah my darling love…the things you do to me. If Demetrius weren’t here, I’d show you just how torturous the last few nights have been without you.”
“I thought Mother said you hadn’t slept with Hailey yet, that you’d agreed to some barbaric idea of waiting until after the wedding,” Demetrius said and Hailey let out a full smile, sliding her hand up behind Stefano’s head to play with the edge of his hair on his neck.
“And have my father hurt him when he learnt how quickly Stefano made me his? No, we shall play the demure card until after the wedding when it comes to them shan’t we, my love?” she said not letting her gaze leave Stefano for two reasons, one because she couldn’t look away from him, and two, to irritate Demetrius fully.
“You haven’t been staying overnight with him though,” Demetrius said determined to find a chink in their relationship.
“No, we haven’t, we’ve been ensuring no one discovered us before the takeover was complete and now, we won’t be because it’s entirely possible for Mother or Leann and Thomas to show up in surprise with wedding preparations for us to look over,” Stefano stated pulling her against him tightly. “Stop teasing me,pethi mou,” he added reaching up to grab her hands playfully as she sent shivers through him.
“Then kiss me my love…I’ve missed you desperately,” she said letting out that bottom lip and he knew it would kill him once they were married, she his entirely.
“No more than I’ve missed you my sweet, sweet, Hailey,” he stated lowering his lips to hers in a kiss that far exceeded the ones they’d shared in front of their families. He wanted Demetrius to see that she was his, she might not know or understand it, but Hailey was his, her body belonged to him, just as his did to her.
