🔪 BABYSITTING THE LITTLE MOBSTER🔪
🍧From nanny, to mummy… 🍧
📖📖 Chapter Thirty One.3️⃣1️⃣
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🍷THE UNCANNY BOYFRIEND🍷
GENRE: Dark romance & Thriller
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Setting: New York City 21st century
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***IN MALDIVES ***
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MALÉ CENTRE MOSQUE***
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Celia bought a Khimar to cover her hair and also bought one for Aria as well. She enjoyed her first experience learning how Islamic pray, carrying Lord Dom and Aria along.
After the long prayer, they take a long tour around the big mosque, taking pictures to create memories.
“I told you it’d be fun,” she said.
“Celia, do you pray often?” Aria asked.
“Not really. I only pray when I’m in danger, and I’m glad that He always answers me “
“Who’s he?” Aria asked.
“God,”
“Who’s God?” Asia asked again, and Celia looked at her— that was the first time she heard such a question.
“Hmmmm… to your knowledge, we can call him an anonymous man who answers prayers. You don’t know who he is but he knows you. He lives up in the sky,”
“That sounds like a fairytale,”
“Yeah, a beautiful one,”
“Daddy, I want that!” Aria shouted, and pointed at some kids on Jilbab, and Lord Dom let out a sigh.
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Aria got the Jilbab she desired and took many pictures.
“What are we doing after this?” Lord Dom asked, already exhausted.
“Relax. I’m your tour guard. I already have everything jotted out. Let’s go,” she winked, and he scoffed.
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***IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF NEW YORK***
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Emma went to a company’s dinner after work to celebrate one of thier colleagues that got promoted.
After a long night drinking, and a second round at the karaoke, they called it a day.
The others followed different route and she drunkly found her way yo the bus station with one of her colleague.
“Emma, are you sure you can take the bus? You should board a taxi,”
“I’m fine. I’ve a high tolerance. I’ll sober up before my bus arrives,”
“Ok then, my bus is here. See you tomorrow,” with that, she left.
Emma waved at the bus and started counting all the passing buses but none was heading to her destination.
“I can’t get a bus here, I should go to the next bus station,” she muttered, and wobbled her feet there but she fell on her way. She tried to get up but felt too weak to stand up.
“Help me… somebody help me up…” she whined but the passerby’s ignored her and pointing fingers at her.
She thought of who to call and scrolled through her phone but she couldn’t find the right person. Her eyes brightened the moment a thought crossed her mind then she reached out to her pocket to take Jake’s card, and she found herself failing his number. He picked up almost immediately and she gasped in disbelief.
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📲*Handsome lawyer…* she said
📞*Miss Emma, where are you? Are you alright?*
📲*I’m on the road… lying on the ground, unable to get up. And I’m not fine… I want ro go home…* she cried.
📞*You’re drunk,*
📲*No, I’ve a high tolerance,*
📞*You should find your way home,*
📲*Oh, it’s another man on mask,*
📞*What? Mask? Are anyone around?*
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Her phone fell off her hand before she could respond as she look at the man on face mask till he was out of sight and she eventually fell asleep there.
The police men patrolling the area saw her and took her to the police station. Jake called almost immediately, and they received it to tell him about. They explained the situation to him, and he arrived at the police station within few minutes.
“Oh… it’s the handsome lawyer,” she shouted when she saw him.
“Mr., are you her lawyer?” a police officer asked.
“Officers, I apologize for the troubles, I’ll take her with me,” he said, and went to Emma who extended her arms to him.
He helped her up dragging her to his car and she smiled cheerfully.
“The meat. Can you treat me to the meat now?” he asked, and she her face brightened up in a smile.
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They went to a restaurant to have beef broth and she let out a sigh after she emptied the bowl of soup.
“That hit the spot,” she muttered, and he rolled his eyes.
“I can see you’ve sobered up,” he said, and she blinked her lashes rapidly, trying to look away.
“Ermmmm… I’ll pay for the meal… we can say I’ve make it up to you,”
“Of course, you should pay because you ate everything!”
“What? What about you? Why didn’t you order?” she said, and he shot her a glare.
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FLASHBACK to few minutes ago***
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They both arrived at the restaurant and she happily ran to pull a chair.
“Thier food will be expensive here,” she whispered in his ear.
“This is a good spot to have beef broth, we should place our order,”
Is that so? Then let’s order!” she clapped and a waiter approached them.
They both ordered for a bowl of beef broth and she rapidly devoured hers before he could even grab his cutleries.
“Wow. It’s so good. Aren’t you eating? This will be a waste if you don’t eat it,” she said, and he looked at her, wordlessly, “Fancy restaurants like this barely give you doggie bags, they will save up the leftovers for themselves, and eat it all!” she whispered in his ear and be pushed her away.
“Do you want it?”
“Yes!” she shouted, and carried his plate, whilehe shook his head in disbelief.
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FLASHBACK ENDS***
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Emma adjusted her hair properly and looked away.
“Wow. I can’t believe I finished all two plates,”
“Not just two, you ordered more,”
“What?” she shouted, and few people glanced at her, “I mean… you should’ve stopped me. Their food here is really expensive, I came here once when I wanted to treat myself for my birthday, and I left after using the restroom, I couldn’t even order,”
“What can I do? You won’t stop ordering and I can’t stop you either. I brought you here to sober up, now it’s done we should leave,”
“We should leave? Through the window?”
“Why would we leave through the windows?”
“I mean… we have to pay the bills,”
“And you will do just that,”
“Ok… I will, when I’m back from the restroom,” she muttered and grabbed her bag intending to leave but he held her back.
“After you pay the bills,”
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They went to the cashier and she gasped after seeing the bill.
“12,000$! How many plates is that?!” she exclaimed, and Jake scoffed, “Errrmmm… excuse me, can I pay on installment. I’ll pay 5,000$ now. No, 4,500$. Oh, my. I’ll be completely broke if I pay that. What do I do? I’ll pay…”
“We’ll pay with cash,” Jake said, and gave the cashier the cash.
“What… I… thank you,” she grumbled.
“It’s not for free,” he muttered, taking the exit and she followed behind him.
“Thank you,”
“It’s not for free,”
“I know. I can pay you 4,000$ now, and…”
“Keep your money,”
“So how do I I pay you?”
“Just stay out of danger and be careful. Always call me when something seem off or a suspicious person is following you. Just until Celia returns, I’ll keep my promise to you “
“What? Why? No, why are you so concerned? No, I mean…”
He let out a sigh and grabbed her phone from her. He put it to her face to unlock it and started scrolling through it.
“What are you doing?”
“I just installed an app on your phone, I can trace your location at any time, so always keep your phone with you,”
“What? Why’re you interested in me? No, I mean… you’re interested in me,”
“Emma!”he snapped.
“Why are you snapping at me? You suddenly confessed and installed an app for couples on my phone so what do you what me to think? Or… is my life in danger?” she grumbled, and gasped, “Is someone after my life?!”
“No, no one is after your life,”
“So why are you doing all this?”
“No reason,”
“It doesn’t seem that way to me. Do I need to get protection from the police?”
“I said it’s not like that! Fine, let’s say I’m interested in you, just until Celia returns… be safe,”
“Oh, I like your style. I’m interested in you too,” she said delightfully.
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***IN MALDIVES ***
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Celia, Lord Dom, and Aria left the Centre Mosque and headed to Sultan Park that is few minutes away, they had a lot of fun there and left there to the National Museum, before the sunset they went to the Republic Square and Celia insist that they call it a day at the fish market.
As they entered the market, the smell hit him, the smell of blood, salt, and something raw.
Knives flashed everything and everyone enjoyed what they were doing. That was new to him, back in New York the only smell of blo0d he was familiar with was human blo0d and knives flying around when there is war.
He looked around at the civilian trying to sell thier goods yo him, and he looked at Celia and Aria who were enjoying a blast
No one looked at them, no one spared him a glance that differ from others which was also new, and he started feeling the bliss of the break.
“Daddy, we should go over there!” Aria shouted, dragging him and Celia.
They bought few things at the market and returned home later at night.
Aria was already fast asleep on the boat so Lord Dom carried her to her room while Celia tried to prepare some fish dishes.
“What’re you doing?” Lord Dom asked, joining her.
“I’m trying to prepare Tuna Pasta. Tuna is the best fish in Maldives, I’m watching a video to prepare the Pasta,”
“Aria is asleep,”
“We can leave some for her and microwave it when she wakes up,”
“How do you go about it?”
“Since it’s my idea, I’m the supervisor here. Gut the fish while I prepare the sauce,” she said, and he chuckled.
They both took their time to prepare the Tuna Pasta together and Celia brought an idea for them to sit by the seaside to eat it, diluting it with wine.
“This is so nice. Having seafood by the seaside accompanied by a bottle of wine,” she cheered.
“Do you enjoy it that much?” he asked, and she nodded.
“This is my very first vacation. I have been busy all my life trying to make ends meet. I never even thought of a vacation. A girl going on a vacation alone is so rare. I don’t have a boyfriend, I don’t have any friends and Emma is more busy eating meats than to think of a break,” she said, and he chuckled.
“Are you always a talkative?”
“I tend to talk much when I have the chance, I always take all my chances. You can call me an opportunist,”
“Oh… that explains why you are so brave even though you’re timid,” he teased, and she looked at him.
“Now it’s my turn. What’s between us? Since we aren’t dating.. then are we flirting?”
“I don’t know, but I know that I don’t like the thought of spending the night out here. Let’s go in for another bottle of wine,”
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They both went in together and Celia trailed after him until they entered his room.
She took her y time to look around. There was nothing special or different from her room.
“Do you’ve a special cabin for wine in your room?” she asked, looking around.
“What do you think?” he whispered in her ear, getting her off guard with a hug from behind.
She chuckled softly, and he placed a kiss on her neck.
“I don’t know if it’s called fllrting, but can we just enjoy the moment without worrying about that?” he whispered.
She let out a soft m0an when he kissed her jawline.
They were already undressed on the bed when they heard gunshot from outside.
“Daddyyyy!” they heard Aria screamed out loud.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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