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Marcus has decided to enjoy his stay as her prisoner and he planned to seduce his wife. By all means, he would make her fall in love with him, then he would dump her like a hot potato! Soon, the woman would have a taste of her own medicine and she would learn that it wasn’t good to toy with innocent people.
While in the shower, Marcus contemplated Daniella’s possible reaction when he would go out of the bathroom with just a towel or nothing. She would be surprised, for sure. After he cleaned himself, he wiped the water on his body with the towel that Daniella gave her, then went outside without troubling himself to cover his nudity. Like a model of an underwear, he strutted his way toward the bed. He used to be a playboy and seducing any woman would be child’s play for Marcus.
“What the hell?” he cursed when he discovered Daniella’s position in the center of the bed.
How could she sleep soundly with arms and legs wide open to the point that she occupied the entire bed? The woman didn’t even bother to change something for sleep like pajamas or nighties.
With the same floral dress that she wore when he arrived this morning, she went to bed. Arghhh, it’s so
gross! And she snored too! Then his eyes caught something dark…in her underarms. Goodness, he closed his eyes and walked away.
He would never sleep in the same bed with Daniella. No wonder she needed to go somewhere far away to
look for someone like him. But then, she could afford underarm whitening with all the money she has in
her bank account or maybe, it was true that she was not fond of making herself presentable.
Marcus was used to sleeping naked but tonight, he covered himself from head to toe. He would never give his wife another chance to see his naked form to prevent himself from being her target once more!
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Daniella tittered as she watched how Marcus covered his eyes when he saw her dark underarms. He
must be one of those people who found it gross. But then, it served him right for insinuating to sleep with
her!
The nerve!
It was easy to apply a dark eyeshadow on her underarm and she made sure that it would be visible to
him. The man was comical to look at as he tried to hide his adorable form from her vision. Daniella
changed her position before she stopped snoring.
She was supposed to talk about it tomorrow but she couldn’t wait any longer. She was excited to learn if he has a wife waiting for him…then it would mean that their marriage was null and void.
“Marcus, are you still awake?”
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“Yes, why?” he answered with a question.
When she heard him speak, Daniella got up from bed and walked towards him. “I just want to know if you have a wife,” she asked.
“Of course I have,” he replied but wondered why she needed to come close just to ask her stupid question.
Upon hearing his answer, a new hope surged inside her heart. Yes! She was glad that she didn’t wait until
the following day to ask him that. “Then, we don’t have to annul our marriage.” She said,
“Why not?” He sat up when she mentioned not proceeding with the annulment she mentioned after the
ceremony.
“You said you have a wife, so that means our marriage was null and void from the beginning!” There was
excitement in her voice as she imagined Paloma’s reaction when she heard it.
“Oh, the wife? It’s you…silly!” He rolled his eyes and went back to his sleeping position.
Daniella was disheartened that she got excited about nothing! “It’s uncomfortable to sleep on the sofa,” she told him and was about to offer the guest room next to hers, but the man didn’t want to hear it.
“I’ll be fine,” he answered and signaled his hand to leave him alone.
Daniella nodded and dragged her feet back to the bed. She was not scared of Marcus because she knew that he was a good man. No, she should stop thinking about him! She closed her eyes to sleep.
But even while sleeping, Marcus was present in her dreams. Or she should call it a nightmare! She rubbed her eyes and glanced at the clock. It was almost five in the morning. Counting the hours of her sleep, she had enough, but why was she still tired?
She got up from bed and found out that the sofa was empty. Where’s Marcus? She listened if he was in the bathroom but she couldn’t hear anything. It was too quiet. Or maybe he found a way to leave her. Well, good for him and she wished him luck in his endeavor.
Daniella went downstairs and walked towards the kitchen to prepare something to eat for breakfast. She was craving chocolate porridge. Then, she was almost in the kitchen when she smelled garlic. She continued to walk and there, in front of the stove, was her husband. She walked over to him and immediately turned off the fire.
“What are you doing, Dani? Can’t you see that I’m cooking?” Marcus was furious when she turned off the fire without warning him when he was in the middle of preparing breakfast. His wife didn’t cook anything last night and made him eat with bread only and he was starving already. He was sautéing garlic and onions in the skillet for the corned beef omelet that he wanted to eat. The rice was already
done in the rice cooker and black coffee was also ready.
“I hate everything with garlic. If you really want to have that corned beef, just heat it on the pan, anyway,
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it’s ready to eat.” She told him.
“You’re just overreacting Dani. If you don’t like to smell it, then go away. Go back to your room and sleep a little more.” He answered, but immediately regretted his words. The woman must have come to the kitchen because she was also hungry and she was pregnant.
Daniella refused to go back to her room and prepared the ingredients for her porridge when Marcus came up to her and carried her to the dining table.
“Hey, put me down, asshole!”
He put her down on one of the dining chairs and told her to wait while he prepared for their breakfast. “Don’t worry, I know how to prepare the chocolate porridge. Was it your favorite?” When the woman
nodded, he went back to the stove and turned it on.
So, she didn’t like to smell the scent of garlic. An idea lit up in his head and Marcus smiled. It was the first time that he enjoyed sautéing the garlic and onions to the extent that he overcooked the spices and had to discard it. Then he peeled another head of onion and garlic. He enjoyed tormenting the woman with the garlic scent that he was startled when Daniella ran towards the lavatory and threw up.
“Are you okay?” He felt sorry for the woman while she continued to retch with her saliva. He went to the cupboard and got a cup and poured it with hot water and gave it to Daniella. “Here, drink it.” He said and gently massaged her back as she was still bent in the lavatory.
“Thank you,” she was grateful for the hot water but she was aware that Marcus intentionally prepared another set of spices to torture her. She would make him pay…soon.
“No problem. I think you better take a bath now. You stink, Dani.” He jested about her bad odor, but taking a shower would make her feel better and refreshed. “Go now while I’m cooking,” he ordered.
If he didn’t like her smell, then he could cover his nose! “But it’s not yet my schedule to take a bath today. That will be next week, and I don’t want to ruin my health just because you don’t like my body odor,” she
remarked.
“Are you serious?” He asked because he assumed that the woman was just kidding about her bathing
schedule.
“Yeah. So, are you done cooking your breakfast? You can have it on the veranda. Go now,” she helped him
put his food on a serving tray.
“We should eat together,” he answered and took out the plates from the tray and put it back on the table.
“As husband and wife…” he added.
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