Xavier pov
We unpacked and the maids served us dinner, I have already introduced Jessica to them as their madam and new owner, due to jet lag we retired early for the day, we have a lot of time to explore tomorrow and the next.
“This place is quite beautiful Xavier ”
“Am glad you like it”
“How did Mike even let go of these place?”
“You see these place used to be an oil mill before, but they went bankrupt and mike bought it with all his money both saving and loans, when I won the bet, we shared it into two, I paid for mine but not in full because he lost”
“That quite harsh”
“No it wasn’t, the place he has as his portion is more than enough to get him his remaining money times three, and I have gotten mine by building houses and renting them out ”
“What about him?”
“Him too”
“Oh then no one lost”
“Well he was being greedy about this place and I like the location so I used what I had to get it”
“It is his so I think you are the one being conniving about it”
“I bought something similar to this and he liked it too and I sold half to him but he refuses to sell to me so who is cheating who”
“Well one thing I have learned from you two is to not mind you if you are quarreling because you get over it ”
“That’s not fair, baby you are supposed to be on my side”
“Am not supporting anyone at all, you two do you ”
We talked till sleep snatched us away and we slept off.
The next morning, we got up and had breakfast after freshening up we left to sightsee, I have already informed the driver, we will be going to a museum first, Jessica said it’s a must and fun for her because I don’t know what fun is there to catch when viewing ancient stuff, skeleton and what not that shouldn’t have been dug up before but human being human dug it up and went as far as putting it in a display.
We walked around the museum with Jessica hopping about like an excited bunny, her excitement was infectious and it was rubbing off on me, I smiled occasionally at her because of her laughter.
After the museum we went out for lunch and ate heartily before going to watch water tower that was popular around there, it wasn’t a tower but a tower made with ice, I don’t know what type of machine they use in making it maintain it’s structure, it looks like that frozen girl’s house, I see people going in and out of it wearing a skater.
After Jessica insisted on going to see too, I agreed, we got our own skater and went in, the structure was strong, I touched the wall and nearly had a frostbite, on entering inside I now know why it’s able to stand till now irrespective of the sun, it’s was freezing in here, I dragged Jessica out , she was already shivering just two minutes we went in, I got a hot coffee and tons of sweater and thick clothes for ourselves, now I know why others are wearing that.
We dressed up like a himbo and went in again, it’s still cold but not as before, the structure was thick and strong, I think a metal like pipe was used in making the skeleton, as the water fountain surrounding it pours on it, it freezes immediately solidifying the ice was, that’s how it’s able to maintain that perfect structure and not mangled like a sand castle made by a toddler at the beach.
“Xavier come see, a tiny room”
“Okay”
I approached her and it was exactly as she said, a room too was there, it was decorated in a typical fairytale room for girls and it looks really beautiful, if we have a daughter am definitely doing this, I took pictures of it and of Jessica as she was inside, we then explored the frozen castle, it had a library and a studio with paintings, a stable, servant quarters and so forth.
I won’t deny it, the place looks really beautiful and nice, a good fairy tale come to life, we soon left there and went to a drive in theatre to watch some movies, the driver had already gone home, we sat at the car booth to watch movies, it was an 90s romance movie, it was good because I almost cried, keyword ALMOST but I didn’t I thought the movie “Titanic” is the only movie capable of making me sad but guess I was wrong.
Once we were tired we went home, after stuffing ourselves with snacks we couldn’t eat anything anymore, we just freshened up and went straight to bed.
Once she was asleep, I went downstairs and joined the maids in preparing for the surprise tomorrow, I cooked the foods myself, prepared the wine from a scratch, didn’t want us feeling intoxicated to do anything, I helped in setting the whole place up and placing the necessary things, I wanted us to enjoy the trip as an officially married people, not doing it after the whole vacation is almost ending.
By the time I was done it was eleven am and she hasn’t woken up yet, thank God, my eyes were heavy, but it was worth it, I took a cup of coffee and went upstairs just as she was waking up.
“Xavier, you went to get coffee ”
“Yes, I did good morning beautiful ”
“Good morning handsome ”
“Here is you dose of wake up drink”
“Oh, thank you ”
Once I took the coffee, my body woke up immediately and I smiled, I will make this proposal worth it.
I convinced her to stay in bed more as we talked about yesterday, I showed her the picture I took from yesterday, once it was time I spoke up.
“Jessica go prepare, we are have a dinner date”