Angela's POV

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"Hey baby."

I looked away from the catalogue I was going through and eyed the man approaching me. A delightful smile spread over my face. He was dressed in a pair of blue suit and black, shiny shoes and a single rose was in his right hand.

"Eros. Hi." I all but crooned delightfully as he settled himself beside me and pecked my forehead, handing me the rose.

"This is yours. Now give daddy a kiss." He murmured and kissed me sweetly on the lips while I caressed the tips of the rose petals gently. I chuckled against his lips, earning me a frown from him as he pulled away.

"What's funny?"

"The fact that you just said give daddy a kiss." I smelled the rose and shrugged. "Thanks, it's lovely."

He wiggled his brows. "Aren't I a daddy?"

I burst into laughter while he took the rose from my outstretched hand and placed it on the table. "That just sounded so freaking wrong. I mean, who says 'give daddy a kiss?"

Eros's frown deepened further and it was a funny sight because right now he looked genuinely confused. "Oh, fine baby. What am I supposed to say exactly?"

"You'll say 'give your baby a kiss."

He mouthed an 'o' and nodded. "Give your baby a kiss then." He was already inching closer. I giggled, pushing his head away.

"You already had it."

"I want it again." He pouted, which was a funny sight. Only love could make mature, sophisticated men do priceless things!

"Stop being childish." I tapped his forehead.

"Just for you baby." He sighed and pecked my forehead, leaning into the chair once again. "How are you doing today?"

"I'm better. I took my walk as usual. I'm feeling even much better than before this whole accident happened."

"You've been really great this past month, baby."

I laughed softly, blushing from the endearing expression in his eyes. "Thanks. That'll be all thanks to nurse Lucy."

"Hm hmm." He shook his head. "Maybe you didn't know but I actually have a camera on you. And I can say I'm genuinely proud of your performance these past five weeks and nurse Lucy alone shouldn't get all the credits."

"Awnn. Thank you. I've been in this military hospital for two and half months Eros. That's more than enough motivation anyone would need to work on themselves. If Nana wasn't helping me with breakfast and dinners, I'd be here eating hospital food since you think they're better. You know that's another form of punishment, right?"

Eros threw his head back as he burst into soft laughter. His eyes crinkled and the sight blew my mind away. If I had the chance, I'd caress his neck right now and pepper small kisses all over his face. I'd missed doing that greatly.

I craved it.

I was getting better by day and I could now do every normal thing an individual did on a daily basis myself. But my fiance wouldn't have that, and he'd insisted on me being on observation for one more week.

So I knew I had to give it all I could, take all my meds on time and leave this place as soon as possible. No more waking up to stare at 'get well soon' balloons on the wall. There was a new one hung there every damn week!

Then a thought struck and I blinked.

"Wait, you said you have a camera watching me all day?" I asked in incredulity. The first month after I got conscious, Eros worked from the hospital. And he had continued this way for two whole weeks until I begged him to consider going to work from time to time since he still ran the company. Still, he made sure to check on me every morning before heading to work and would come straight to the hospital from work.

So to find out he had a camera watching me was all the more surprising.

"Hmm. I got one fixed." Eros picked my hand and started tracing random patterns inside my palm, making the spots tingle.

"That's intrusion of privacy." I argued.

"Not when my woman's life was once on the line. No." He told me softly like I shouldn't even be arguing it with him.

"I'm fine no-"

"No baby. It's for your benefit. And...I just want to make sure you're okay. I need to make sure you're okay at all times, please.." He trailed off and I knew his mind was slowly going back to the time when I'd been kidnapped by Pedro.

I tried to lighten the mood. "What if I wanted some privacy?" I smirked.

"From...?"

"Maybe I wanted to, you know, rub myself or something." I feigned anger, pouting.

"Rub what? What does that even mean?" He didn't look at me as he asked these questions with an oblivious tone and I couldn't say if he was pretending not to know what I was talking about or not.

"Stop it! You're not playing fair!" I whined like a little girl and Eros chuckled, finally looking my way. His eyes shone with playfulness.

"What? I really don't know what you're talking about." He confessed.

"Okay. What I mean is, what if I wanted to make use of my dildo? You know, get down and dirt-"

In one swift moment, Eros had me pinned down on the bed and kissed me with sudden passion that shocked me to the core. I pulled away after a minute or two, panting. Eros's eyes were wide as he eyed me incredulously.

"Dil what? I'm more than capable of pleasing my woman, Angela. That word shouldn't even be heard in this relationship. It's an insult to my manhood, which by the way is very much functional." He told me seriously. I swallowed and bit my upper lip, trying to hide my smile since he was obviously jealous of an object. An invisible one at that.

"What-"

"I'm so serious baby. You should've told me you were horny. That's why I'm here. To please my woman." His hand went under my dress, making me suck in a deep breath and I squirmed, tightening my legs.

I blushed and looked up at him, eyeing him bashfully. "You would've broken my bones again if not for this strong bed. Calm down hot shot."

"I had you moved here for a reason. And I definitely had the bed changed for this purpose especially." He smirked, caressing me down there.

"Oh you don't!" I gasped, realizing it sounded more like a moan. "Ohhh, yeah."

He chuckled, looking down at me and my eyes suddenly flew open. I pushed him off me immediately.

"You're so not getting anything from me. Not even a kiss. You chauvinistic man. You were tricking me, weren't you?"

Eros laughed and got off me. "Call me a chauvinist or whatever but you're my woman and I can't allow you think of finding pleasure elsewhere when I'm right here. And you know I can take care of your needs." His expression softened.

"It's been so long." I told him truthfully. We'd never done it. Even making out had been greatly reduced.

He sighed. "I'll make it up to you soon baby, I promise. You don't even have to ask before I fulfill your sexual desires."

I smiled wide at him and sat up. "I'm ready now."

"But you're-"

"Shh." I rolled my eyes and lazily crawled towards him. I'd been hearing that line for the past two months. No more.

My index finger came to rest on his lips as I stood before him in this hospital dress I so much hated.

"Not another word from you. In fact, I'd like you to go on a date with me Eros."

His hands rested on my waist as I alighted the bed. "But you aren't-"

"And don't worry, I already had everything planned and prepared myself, mainly because I knew you'd never agree to this."

Eros sighed. "Who planned this with you? Because they did a really good job of not getting my notice while at it. Was it my sister?" He shook his head, "No. She's too giddy most of the time and I'd have noticed it from her behavior. Then was it my mom? Did she whisper it in your ears like the sneaky old woman she is-"

"Hey! My mother-in-law isn't old. She's pretty and even looks far younger than you!" I told him strictly and paced around.

Eros caressed his chin, eyeing my every movement. "Really? Maybe I should get that anti-aging cream my brother mentioned the other day."

"Yeah yeah. You need it more than mother does. By the way, how is the pregnant girl? And what's her name?"

"What pregnant girl?" He asked flatly, probably still upset because I called him old and even supported the idea of him getting an anti-aging cream.

"The one your younger brother knocked up."

"Oh..she's fine. Things are going smoother than I expected. The girl took a vacation with my grandma to the Bahamas, they should be back soon. Geronimo was actually scared and didn't want to accept the pregnancy but the girl came to the military house and saw my grandma. That was her ticket into the family. Moreover, she follows Geronimo around the house like a puppy. I think she really likes him."

"Oh, wow. That's cool." I told him truthfully but now I couldn't get the picture of his grandmother and the girl out of my head. I also wanted to go somewhere fun and leave this hole. "I want to go there soon too. Take me to the Bahamas." I whined.

"Really?" He smiled. It was a beautiful sight.

I nodded vigorously and played with my fingers.

"We'll go there soon baby. We'll do whatever you want. Just rest more. I love you."

I looked his way and smiled. "I love you too Eros."

He chuckled and moved his hands to caress my backside.

"There's this issue I've been meaning to discuss with you." I started, trying to calm my heart to beat at the usual rate was a little bit hard to do because I knew how sensitive this topic was. But I needed to bring it up and I needed to get this out of the way.

I pulled from his hold and sat, watching him to th same.

"Oh. What's that?" He sat straight, suddenly looking serious.

"It's about... Pedro Denaro." I raised my hands up when he was about to object. His jaws were already clenching and his eyes going hard. "No, I need to speak and you need to listen to me Eros. We can't keep acting as if this never happened. It's the reason I'm here."

"I know baby. And that's why severe measures are-"

"No Eros! I think I have a say in this too. That man needs help, urgent medical help. He has personality disorder and it isn't something one should get punished for. He didn't ask to be abused as a child and he didn't ask to be special among millions of other people." I ended softly, shrugging for good measures.

Eros chuckled. "This is ridiculous, Angela. If you think I'm going to sit here and watch you praise the man that made you attempt suicide, then you have something coming on. It'll soon be time for your evening walk but I should head back to the office. I love you baby. Take care." He pecked my forehead and I watched him walk out of the room and away from my pleas.

I shook my head. If he proved to be stubborn, then I would make sure he got to know that he was equally dealing with a stubborn person.

I won't stop trying to make him see things from my perspective.