Erica:
After lunch with the kids I went ahead to help Lorenzo pack his things . He had an early morning
flight tomorrow and although I do not want him leaving, there’s also a part of me that needs him
to leave so I don’t feel this pain I feel.
I am a bad person, cheating on the man I am engaged to with the man I was mated to.
Coming to think of it, my meeting with Dante was not needed today. I folded the last cloth and
put it into his little suitcase.
“Is this all of your clothes?” I asked with my eyes wide open.
“Yes, is anything wrong ?” Lorenzo tried to close the bag but I stopped him.
“I mean you brought only three clothes?” I asked.
” If I was the one I would bring A whole bag filled with clothes.”
“Yes. It was just for two days.” He chuckled muttering “Women” at the end of what he said.
I watched him chuckle as I realized that I had not spent the least one hour with him since he
came.
“Thank you for coming to check on me, Lorenzo. You don’t know what this means to me.” I let go
of his little suitcase and went closer to him, wrapping both of my arms around his torso, I felt him
flinch at my touch.
“I’m sorry, I’ve made you feel uncomfortable.” I mouthed.
“No, that’s not it.” He mouthed. His eyes gazed at me.
“You don’t know what you do to me, Erica. You make me go crazy with thoughts. Whenever
you’re not around me I am not myself.” He pulled me towards himself, making my body inches
away from him.
“I cannot wait for you to be mine Erica. If you were mine you’d not walk for a week.” He pressed a
soft kiss on my lips and pulled away from me.
“For now let’s stay away from each other. We don’t want something wrong happening.” I nodded.
“Are you really going back tomorrow?” I asked picking my nails.
“Yes, I shouldn’t be here, I just wanted to see you. I have a lot of things I have to attend to. My
beta is already complaining.”
“Okay, I cannot wait to be back to my pack so we can bond together. We need time to ourselves.”
He smiled, kissed me on my forehead and then walked out of my room.
The day went by fast and I tried my best to think about Lorenzo and stop thinking about the offer
Dante had made to me.
During dinner, I noticed the triplets rushed their food and complained they were sleepy
afterwards. It was as though they were trying to avoid being in the same room with Lorenzo, I
had noticed it yesterday and it was the same today. Did this have to do with the man they met
the other day, they had said they didn’t like Lorenzo but I had thought it was a joke.
I let Clarissa who had been quiet throughout today tuck the kids to bed while I continued having
dinner with Lorenzo.
After dinner, we stayed up late watching a movie, trying to catch up on the time we had spent
apart.
“What did Dante want? You never got to tell me about it. Your dad also didn’t say anything to
me.”
“Oh. He didn’t want much cause I offered him a partnership in my father’s company, he couldn’t
resist.” I laughed like everything was okay.
“Has the gem Hazan wants been found? Hazan is known to be ruthless.” He asked and I
swallowed hard, Dante had told me not to tell anyone about his pack having the gem and I didn’t
want to but this is Lorenzo. I mean he’s my fiance.
“Uhm.. uhm we are trying to get a lead but what I do know is that we have started getting the
help we need.”
“That’s good.” He squeezed my hand and after a while, he pulled me into a warm hug and we
stayed that way until I fell asleep.
It was the next morning and I had promised to see Lorenzo off.
I looked around the room but couldn’t find him anywhere. I dragged myself out of bed about to
go find him when he came out of the bathroom with a towel tied around his waist.
I smiled at how he looked, he was freshly out of the shower.
“Like what you see?” He asked with a smirk and I rolled my eyes at him.
“You should get dressed so we can get going,”
“I’m sure we still have a little time,” he said as he walked up to me and grabbed me by the waist.
“For this,” he kissed me.
“Lorenzo…” I trailed off, my hands rounding his neck and pulling him closer.
I missed him but I felt guilty everytime he tried kissing me because of all that I had been doing
behind his back.
It wasn’t that I didn’t love Lorenzo anymore, it was that Dante was taking over my mind and I
hated it.
“Mmmh…” He groaned, his lips still on mine.
“Oh, how I want you my love.”
“Mommy!” Elsa’s voice caused us to separate from each other very quickly.
“Hey kiddo” Lorenzo said but Elsa, as usual ignored him and came to stand in front of me, her lips
pouting. I instantly knew she was about to ask for something.
“What Is it, baby?” I asked, crouching down to her level.
“Will you take us to the airport with you and uncle Lorenzo?”
Surprised by her request, I nodded.
“Of course,”
They’d been so distant with Lorenzo for a while now that I had already started to figure out a way
to get them closer but now that they were interested in saying goodbye, I was happy.
“Tell Clarissa to get you and your siblings ready and then we can all go to the airport together.”
I said to her and she jumped excitedly before running out of the room, screaming Clarissa’s
name.
I glanced at the walk in closet and Lorenzo was coming out with his pants already on and he’d
started to button up his shirt.
“That was fast,” I said and he just smiled at me.
Quickly, I jumped into the shower and washed up as fast as I could.
Done with showering, I got ready.
I wore a pink sun dress and a sun hat and wedge heels. It was out of style but I didn’t care. I loved
my wedged heels.
I carried a gray tote bag and came out of my room to meet Lorenzo talking on the phone.
The kids ran toward me, all showered and dressed up.
“You ready?” I asked and they all yelled yes excitedly.
“Thanks Clarissa,” I said to their nanny as soon as she came out of the kitchen and she smiled.
Lorenzo finally got off his phone and we all got into the car and instantly drove to the airport.
In the car, the kids kept bickering among each other about a recent cartoon they had just
watched.
Lorenzo and I talked mostly about his pack and then my pack and how things were going with
Dante.
I had tried avoiding questions concerning Dante. I didn’t want a reminder that I was cheating with
him.
I wanted to enjoy the car, just talking about everything with Lorenzo.
“We are here!”. I chirped as soon I drove into the airport parking lot.
“So we are,” Lorenzo said. I could tell by the deflection in his voice that he really didn’t want to go
but he didn’t have a choice…
“We’ll see each other soon,” I squeezed his hands reassuringly and he stretched to kiss me on my
lips.
“Ewww!” The kids exclaimed in disgust in the back seat and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Lorenzo joined in too.
I opened the car door and Lorenzo opened up the passenger side and the car.
We took our things from the backseat and we all went into the airport.
We were just in time for his plane to leave.
I kissed him passionately on his lips and he finally waved goodbye to me and the kids.
“Wait!” I yelled after him and he stopped to look at me. I ran up to him and kissed him on the
lips.
“Miss me already?” He asked.
“Just wanted to say I love you.”
“I love you too,” he said and hugged me tightly before finally letting go of me.
I stood for several minutes watching him till he disappeared into the plane.
I turned around to get the kids to follow me when I saw Dante walking towards me. For a
moment I froze in my spot.
That was close. He’d only been a minute away from meeting Lorenzo.
“What are you doing in the airport this fine morning?” Dante said in greeting, a huge smile on his
face.
I glanced around for the kids and couldn’t find them.
“I could ask you the same thing,” I rolled my eyes at him.
“Alpha, we have to go,” a voice came up from behind him and he turned around to look at his
Beta.
“Just a sec…” he said to him and turned around to look at me.
“You should come over tonight. I have something I’d like to discuss…”
He said in a knowing voice then walked past me but not before grabbing my ass discreetly.