INSANE (Book one)

Chapter 13

Leah Knight

The blinding sunlight hits my closed eyes and I scrunched up my face in annoyance. I opened one eye a little and I was hit hard by it. Ugh Summer. Sometimes irritating and sometimes fun. But at that time, it was kinda sweet. Because I had my lover there with me. Ares's arm was draped over my waist, my back against his chest, his breath fanning my neck and tickling my skin. I smiled and little before I carefully turned around to see his sleeping face. When Ares sleeps, it was like he wasn't that complicated. His long dark eyelashes framed his alabaster cheekbones, his hair fell over his forehead. He had countless scars and no matter how hard I pretended not to care, I was dying to know what he did that makes him feel like a bad person. And his scars clarifies the fact that he never really liked his past. Whenever he talks about, his eyes were hollow and distant, completely unpredictable. But what I definitely knew was that his scars made him stronger and darker. The most visible ones of his scars was the one that came from his forehead down to his left eyebrow. But from afar, you'd think it was only his eyebrow. Then the one from his shoulder all the down to the location of his heart. But when I looked closely and observed his face, he had many of them. Underneath his eyelids, his jawlines, his bicep and his left earlobe was another like a half. I never really noticed them until now. He had one that ran from his chin down to his throat. Images ran through my mind as I thought of possible events that might've led to this. My eyes began to water as I stared at his face. How couldn't I have noticed it before? It was unbelievable.

Ares began to store awake and I quickly blinked back the tears before he could open his eyes. And as he was slowly fluttering his eyes open, my smile grew into a loving one. The man that I love was right there, and nothing else mattered anymore at that moment. He smiled sleepily at me.

"good morning, beautiful" he greeted, touching my cheek.

"morning" I replied, smiling. I sat up right on the bed while the grey silk was over my chest. Moments later, Ares copied my position. He used his hand to brush away the hair on my shoulder before he planted a soft kiss on my skin.

"what time is it?" he asked, his voice raspy from sleep. I glanced at the bedside alarm clock before throwing a smile over my shoulder when he hugged me from behind.

"7:30. You gotta get ready for office" I said as he drew patterns on my bare skin with his fingers.

"Hm. Shower with me?" he asked, kissing my shoulder again. I giggled.

"sure" I replied.

We both got off the bed and walked straight to the bathroom. Ares opened the cupboard while I switched on the shower head.

"hey Leah?" Ares called. I turned around to look at him.

"yeah?". He rose up two containers of body wash.

"vanilla or peppermint?" he asked. I put a finger on my chin and thought for a while.

"vanilla" I said.

"okay" he replied, putting the peppermint body wash back in the cupboard.

"Ares, help me grab my avocado shampoo, Shea butter conditioner and strawberry body wash" I said, opening the cubicle.

"nah. You're going with vanilla body wash also"

"excuse me? I didn't tell you to choose for me" I glared.

"well I did anyway". I rolled my eyes and entered the cubicle that had steamed glass walls.

"control freak" I grumbled.

"what was that, Babe?"

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I helped Are's fix his suit jacket while he fixed his hair in the mirror. I was very proud of myself for choosing Ares's outfit. He looked much more like himself, rather than a confirmed businessman which partly who he was. He wore a black tee-shirt, a pair of black jeans and brown Timbaland boots with a touch of business to compliment his casual attire: A black suit jacket. He had no meeting today, so it was worth it.

"your briefcase is in the car" I informed him as I gave him his watch.

"which one of them?" he asked. Just then, my phone beeped with a text and I left him in front of the mirror. I picked up the phone and saw that it was a text from Troy.

"Range Rover" I answered Ares's question.

"okay, Thanks. I really like this side of you, so wife material" he chuckled, ready to leave the room.

"Hey, you forgot something" I said, finally looking up from my phone when I texted Troy back. Ares turned around and I tossed him a pack of gum. He smiled thankfully. I followed him out of the room and downstairs to the living room. Bianca was on the couch with Reina inside her baby carrier, her black doe eyes staring up at Ares in admiration.

"goodbye my angel" he says, leaving a kiss on her rosy cheeks. She let out a squeal like she usually does when Ares talks to her. Ares smiled and he dragged me down the corridor so that I could escort him to the door.

"goodbye, Ares" I said when he opened the door. He turned around and pressed a soft kiss to my lips. Then he rested his forehead against mine.

"goodbye, beautiful" he says before smiling and getting off the porch. He walked towards his car and jumped in before rolling down the tinted glass to say goodbye. I waved him off and he reversed out of the lawn. Just then, another message popped up my screen. I looked at it.

Troy: good morning, princess:)

me: morning, Troy

Troy: you wanna hang out today? I have tacos in mind

I looked back at Ares's car and saw him drive out the gate. A little hang out with a friend wouldn't cause any harm, right?

me: yeah, sure. Where's the place?

Troy: don't blew up the surprise now, princess. I'll come pick you up, yeah?

me: okay then. See 'ya

Troy: Real soon ;)

I was still holding up my phone when I walked back into the house. I picked Reina up from her baby carrier and collected the feeding bottle from Bianca.

"uh Bianca, I'll be going out with a friend. Do you mind looking after Reina for a while? I won't be long" I said. Bianca smiled at me.

"it's okay, Mrs Knight" she replied.

"thank you" I smiled.

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After having Tacos in a new Mexican restaurant that opened just a few blocks away, Troy decides to drop me off at home. In the car, he switched on the radio and some old Conga song started streaming. Troy started moving his head to the beat and tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. I glanced at him in disbelief.

"how do you take to enjoy this song? What are you, 78?" I laughed. Troy smiled slyly but didn't even spare me a glance because his eyes were trained on the road.

"it was my dad's favorite song. He used to play it everytime in his home office" he replied.

"oh, no wonder" I giggled.

By the time the song finished, Troy pulled over by the sidewalk of the house.

"wait" he says when I wanted to go out. I looked at him expectantly before he reached for something at the backseat. He then handed me a fluffy pink teddy bear that had the heart-shaped embossment with a: Baby Girl imprint inside.

"for Reina" he smiled. I looked at him in awe before hugging him.

"Awwwnnn, thank you" I squealed. He smiled and I smiled back before getting out of the car. I held the teddy bear close to my chest before I ducked my head down the window and waved.

"today was fun, Troy. Thank you" I thanked. He gave me a two-fingered wave.

"that's what friends do" he shrugged. I smiled and straightened back up and as he was about to leave, I ducked down my head again.

"I was wondering though, you wanna come inside?" I asked politely.

"Nah it's okay. Your husband wouldn't like me there" he shook his head.

"oh C'mon. He's not home. Besides, I could show you around a bit. You could even see Reina" I insisted. He then thought for a while.

"okay then. But help me dig my grave just in case Mr Boss comes back" he joked, stucking out his tongue. I laughed it off and walked us into the compound..............