(He married me
But loves me not )
Eva
“A shooting range?”
“Yeah”
Why did he bring me… does he think I can handle a gun?
“But I’m not gonna teach you how shoot a gun”
Phew! Thank goodness, I don’t think I have a heart to shoot anyone.
“At least not today” I frown and stare at him. “Not until you know some basic fights moves”
“Why do you wanna teach me how shoot?”
“It’s for self defense, bae”
“Self defense? You just said you wanna teach me some fight moves, I can defend myself if I can fight”
“No. Eva, in the mafia you can’t defend yourself with just fighting skills”
“Ah?”
“What if your attacker is holding a gun? Do you think he’ll let you get close to him to land a punch on his face without using his gun?”
Hmm, he does make a lot of sense. But I don’t want to stain my hands with blood.
“Fred, I really can’t learn shooting, I don’t want anything to do with guns and bloods”
Fred doesn’t say anything for a moment, he just takes his jacket off and pants.
His body full on display, I feel my face turning red.
His body is so hot, his strong abs on display and his tan skin glitters. I can’t believe I’m drooling over my husband.
“Take a picture, bae, it last longer” I roll my eyes.
“So, what do you say, I don’t wanna learn shooting guns”
He wears his training clothes and sighs.
“Fine. I’ll teach you hand to hand combat, it’ll do for now”
I grin. I look down at my clothes, then back to him.
“Don’t you think I’m over dressed for training?”
“Yeah, but I have you covered”
He opens a bag and take out a set of female sports wear and hand it to me.
“Ok, where can I go to change?”
He looks at me as if I’ve grown two heads.
“You can change right here, like I just did”
“What?”
“What’s what?”
“You want me to change in front of you?”
“Yeah?” He chuckles. “There’s nothing to be shy about, I’ve seen all of you last night” takes the clothes from me. “Come on, I’ll help you change”
Right, I shouldn’t be shy in front of my husband.
I nod, Fred helped me take off my clothes and I put on the short bra and short sport short that is about two inches away from my butts.
Fred takes a step back and does a wolf whistle.
“Damn! You look hot in these”
I roll my eyes.
“Don’t be a perverted instructor, or I might get someone else to train me”
“Don’t even think of that!”
I laugh.
“Ok, for today I’ll teach you groin kick and elbow strike”
I grin as he mentions groin strike, I suddenly remembers how I kick Jason on his groin that day at the hospital.
Fred claps his hands in front of me and I stop laughing.
“Why were you laughing?” Mirroring my expression.
“Nothing, I just remembered how I kick Jason on his groin that day”
He frowns.
“You kicked Jason on his groin? Why?”
Uh-oh, I wasn’t supposed to say that, I said I’d keep what happened that day to myself.
“Nothing” I replied.
“Nothing? You just kicked him for no reason?”
“W-we were fooling around that day, we do that all the time”
He narrows his eyes at me as if he doesn’t believe me but he didn’t push the topic any further.
“So back to training, on this training ground, I’m not your husband but your instructor”
I nod.
“You must pay attention and do everything I ask you correctly, you have to….” I tone whatever he’s saying off as I listen to his voice.
His tone change as he speaks, he’s no longer the Fred I know at home, the Fred before is the real definition of a Mafia Prince. He speaks with authority.
I find this side of him extremely hot, instinctively I bite my lower lip.
I don’t know if I can blame this on my menstruation, but I’m suddenly turn on.
“Mrs Russell? Are you listening to me?”
“Yeah” I reply absentmindedly.
“Eva, come back to planet earth!!” He snaps his fingers in front of my eyes.
I blink rapidly and wake up from my fantasy world.
“What were you saying?”
He sighs.
“Come on, I’ll just show you how it’s done” he stands behind me. “According to you, you already know how to groin kick, so what I’m about to show you is elbow strike”
He pulls me closer, my back slams on his chest and he traps me in a deadlock with his arms.
“If your attacker is in a close range and you are unable to get enough momentum to throw a punch or kick, use your elbows” he said, his hot breath tickling my neck. “You must ensure to bend your arm at the elbow” he bend my arm to demonstrate. “Shift your weight forward and strike your elbow into your attacker’s neck, chin or tempo, as the case may be. It’ll cause your attacker to loose their grip, allowing you to run” he loose his grip on me as demonstration.
Hmm, based on his explanation I think it’s quite easy.
“Do you understand everything I said?” He asked me.
“Yeah”
“Good. Now I want you to show me how it’s done”
“Wait, like right now?”
“Yeah, I’ll pretend to be your attacker and you’ll try to defend yourself”
I sigh and nod.
He moves away from me.
“Get ready to defend yourself in 3, 2, 1”
He comes at me and grips me from behind very tightly, I could hardly move, I grunts and try to break free from his grip but it seems to be impossible.
“Eva, defend yourself!”
I bend my right arm, shifts my weight forward a little and strikes him on his chin and he lets go almost immediately.
I turn around and see him rubbing his chin.
“Fred, are you alright?”
“I’m fine. You did great but your strike isn’t powerful enough, I’d still be holding you if I was your real attacker. So, you are gonna give it one more try”
“But it’s gonna hurt you”
“Eva, I told you, on this training ground I’m not your husband, so don’t care if I’m hurt or not”
“But….. ”
“Do it one more time”
“Ok!”
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“Fred, I’m tired, can we take a break?” I grumbled.
I sit on the ground and breath heavily.
Fred and I have been training for 4hours straight, he didn’t let me have even a drop of water.
“Eva, don’t be lazy, you’re almost there”
I shake my head.
“No, no! I can’t go any further or I’ll collapse”
He laughs.
He pick two cans of water and hands one to me. I quickly open the cover and gulp it down my throat. I sigh, water is life.
“I’m never coming here with you again”
“You have to”
“Never!”
“It’s not up for arguments, bae”
I huff. My phone beep, I reach for it and see it’s a message from Bianca.
*Are you up for starbucks?*
I think starbucks is exactly what I need now. I sent her a quick reply.
*Yeah. Give me ten minutes*
“Fred, I’ll have to leave now, Bianca is waiting for me at starbucks”
“Ok, freshen up and I’ll drop you off”
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“Bianca, thank you for inviting me or Fred would’ve killed me”
She starts laughing.
“Like seriously you are gonna be thankful to him soon”
“I’m so exhausted, I swear I can sleep a whole day”
“Come on, I bet training with Fred isn’t that bad”
Yeah, she’s right. Fred kinda made it easy and fun.
“So Eva are you a wonder woman now?” Roy ask.
“No, not yet”
“Pity, I wanna be a power ranger when I grow up and I’ll marry a wonder woman” he said.
Kids. They all think power rangers and those superheroes do exist in real life. I wish.
“Well, good luck with that” I told him.
We are talking and laughing, when we suddenly hear a loud crash and soon there’s smoke everywhere, everything becomes foggy.
The quiet restaurant suddenly turn into a noisy classroom, people coughing and chairs loud screeching sounds filled the air.
“Roy, Eva, cover your nose” Bianca yells over the noise.
I cover my nose and pull Roy closer to me.
Not up to 10minutes everywhere clears up and it was silence, I stand up from my chair and look around.
Everyone’s head rest on their tables. Confusion took over my face, what just happened??
“Eva? Where’s my Mom?” Roy ask me.
“Your Mom’s right…..” I trail off as I points to Bianca’s direction.
She’s not there. I quickly look around but still didn’t find her.
“Bianca! Bianca!”
Where did she go?
T. B. C.