Oreo came out running to her from the kitchen door, thinking she was going to take him out for a walk as she did on days when she wasn't at work.
"Oreo! My cutie pie. I'll miss you a LOT! Come to FaceTime when grandma talks to me, okay?"
He woofed and scampered around her car and ran back to her with another woof.
"Good boy! Say bye to that lazy bum brother of yours too. He must also be sulking like Rafael."
More people appeared to emerge out from the sky when she was about to open her car door.
"Who are all these people?" Ruhi asked Antonio when she saw almost half a dozen women.
"Two maids, one gardener, a cook, and a housekeeper to overlook the rest and to go get groceries."
"I think only one person can do that all, dad. My place is really small, and I'd like to do my own cooking and gardening."
"They won't be in your way. They all have a place there. One of the two maids will only show up
Rafael stuck to his word and didn't ask her again about coming back. He texted her only once the next day to ask if she was doing okay. She waited until midnight to see if he would call her.'What was I even expecting? He would rather die than call me. Maybe I should call andsee if he's awake and thinking about me.'She checked her phone for the hundredth time and finally wrote a text. But she stopped before hitting send. She thought it would look desperate if he wasn't actually thinking about her. If he already went to bed and she was the only one tossing and turning, sending textsat 12.30 AM, it would be terrible.'I'd also rather die than call or text him. Why can't I sleep if he can?' She put her phone away and closed her eyes forcefully.Hearing a beep, she jumped out of her bed to reach for the phone at lightning speed, hoping it wasn't one of her cousins from India. It wasn't. It was from Rafael just as she prayed. The air of loneliness
He couldn'tstop kissing her and was amazed at how her body responded to his touch. She melted into his arms, and when his hands reached under her shirt,he could feel her breasts swelling in anticipation of his caressing mouth. Her nipples were so sensitive to his touch, he turned hardwhile feeling them between his fingers.She pulled at his tie, struggling to undo it because his hands weren't letting her focus. Hehelped her loosen the knot and slipped his hand down below her belly as she started unbuttoning his shirt.The moment she rubbed his boner over his pants, he picked her up and carried her to the bedroom. Restraining her hands with his, he led a trail of kissesdown to her thighs and pressedthe tip of his tongue against her nub from over her moist panties.Pleasure flooded her veins instantly, and her moans made him stop licking her and pull her panties down and out of the way before resuming thewicked
"Why is he like this, dad? I thought we were doing fine... we were doing fantastic actually. I was waiting for him to ask me to move back to the mansion. Then why... why would he go look for his Kimmienow?" "That's not the case, Ruhi. He didn't go around looking for her today. He has been looking for her for years. Today happens to be the day the men we hired found her." "Does he... he---" Ruhi started sobbing. "They found her with the kid, didn't they? So now Rafael doesn't want me anymore." "She was a few weekspregnant when she ran away, so yes, they found her with the kid. We weren't sure she would keep the baby, but she did.But that doesn't and shouldn't change things between you and Rafael." Ruhi dropped the car keys on the ground and left the door open absent mindedly. "I guess he doesn't want to see me anymore. So he just decided to ignore my texts and calls. How is that fair to me?" "Stop using this 
"So when was the last visit?""Tuesday," Harry replied as he started his car to follow Ruhi and the others.'Oh shit!' Rafael realized she wanted him to go with her to the gynecologist's office when she asked him to free his 3 PM on Friday. 'For a surprise.'A rush of excitement surged through him instantly. Running to the elevator and pushing three employees out of there, he used the master key to go straight to the basement leading to his private garage and was out on the road in a few minutes. It was already 2.40 PM and Ruhi chose a gynecologist quite far from his downtown office.By the time he veered through the heavy, bumper to bumper traffic and got out of the city center, it was 3 PM. For the first time, he felt his fastest car wasn't fast enough.Pulling into the parking lot ten minutes later, hecalled Ruhi.'She must bewith the doctor.' He dropped the idea of calling Harry and dashedthrough the buildi
"Ruhi, your mom's been calling you while we were asleep." Rafael checked the time and woke her up. He couldn't believe he fell asleep in the middle of a busy Friday afternoon without notifying his PA.With half-opened eyes, Ruhireached for her phone and switched it off."Your mommust be worried. Don't ignore her calls. Didshe already know you were going for the checkup today?"Ruhi didn't care to answer him. She wasn't prepared to relay the bad news to her mom and cry some more.Rafael knew he would do anything to have his mom call him, even if only for thirty seconds. He didn't have her around for long enough to take her existence for granted. A tight feeling grew in his chest as he watchedRuhi turn her face away and look out of the window at the setting sun.It wasn't too long ago when she was in his room wearing this same whiteshirt, giggling and wrestling with him when he got mad at her for sleeping in his room. Th
Ruhi went down to the home gym in the basement. What she expected was a single room with lots of fancy equipment. She was taken by surprise when she saw that it was bigger than the most popular gym she used to go to in Florida. There were several rooms and every one of them was occupied by the bodyguards who were training hard.Harry greeted her and offered his sympathieswhen he saw her looking around."Most of these are for heavy exercise. It may not be a good time for you to exert so much right now.""Oh, I'm just looking for Rafael. But there are so many rooms here. I feel lost."The number of different basements the house came with never ceased to amaze her. There was space to park Rafael'sdozen cars and another half a dozen of the bodyguard vehicles, hold people as hostages with dangerous men guarding and torturing them, and still have enough space to build such a sophisticated gym. She wondered what else lay buried and which part of the
"So, where are we going?" Ruhi buckled up and put her sunglasses on as Rafael chose his Rolls Royce Dawn to take her for a ride in.He watched her in amusement whileshe applied sunscreen and checked her face in the mirror. She had tucked all her dyed hair inside a colorful silk wrap."Does it look soo bad?" He commented, pointing to her head and laughing.She threw the lotion cap at him. "Oh, shut up! It looks awesome. I don't want the sun to bleach it or the wind to ruin it and grow split ends. You men never think about our hair when you drive fast in your fancy convertibles.""Right! When you said, 'away from people and traffic,'Ithought you wanted open skies and the sea views. How else will you see them if not from a convertible?""Normal people roll their windows down and drive slo--- Oh my! What is that?!" She was excited to look at Harry pass on a bag to him that smelled mouthwatering."You wanted this, didn't y
FLASHBACK| SEVEN YEARS AGO"What the hell is this piece of shit?!" Rafael was baffled when he saw that his dad tookaway his fancy Lamborghini Spider and replaced it with a Subaru Forester.Antonio had just finished signing a hefty check as a donation to Rafael's college while Rafael stormed into his dad's study. Every time Rafael messed something up, his dadwrote checks to shut people up. The scholarship amount he offered every year in his wife's name for the last fifteen years is also the largest among all contributors and patrons."You don't need a 400,000 dollar car for gallivanting all over the town.""Yes, I do... Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to drive an SUV as if I have a child in the back seat? I need my supercar back! Else, I'm dropping out of college right now.""There's no need. It's the third time this year the Dean warned me he will kick you out. Go talk to him and explain what happened. Give an officia