The Maestri Amour (Wattys 2015) - ON HIATUS

TMA || 16

>>>ARETHA'S OUTFIT

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After exhausting my beautiful wife for the last time, we got ready to leave. It's safe to say that our friends and family weren't impressed with me for setting up the trip, and with my wife for agreeing to it, but they understood my paranoia.

I'd arranged for Sven to also fly to D.C with the girls. It's a surprise for my wife, but not only that, since I knew that they'd help me with my plan for Shelby- not that we were letting my wife in on it. She would stop us if she knew.

She slept the entire way to Washington, and I didn't blame her. I had truly worn her out, but I couldn't help it. With a wife that looks like her, any man would be crazy to resist her. The thought however, took me to a dark place.

Thinking about how she was abused, made me want to kill the son of a bastard. How dare he lay a hand on her, and even go as far as scarring her? I don't care about her scars because they don't add or take away from her appeal in my eyes, but to know that she went through such a traumatic experience had me wanting to go on a serious manhunt.

I was itching to get my PI on it, to find out who the bastard is, but I knew that I'd be crossing a boundary of trust between us. Now that we're married, I understand the value of the decisions I take, and that they shouldn't be taken lightly, especially if my wife is involved.

I looked over at her sleeping form and realized that her presence calms me. Before I met her, in a situation like this, I would've probably already fired a whole lot of people for no reason, but with her in my life, I'm able to sit down and make rational decisions.

"Are we there yet?" she mumbled, not bothering to open her eyes.

"We're landing in two hours," I chuckled.

"Kay," she sighed before falling back to sleep.

She's adorable like that.

I continued checking my emails as we made our way. When it was close to landing time, I woke my wife up and we went to buckle in. When we'd landed, I went to speak to my pilots before we left the jet. It was late morning and when Ari saw the girls waiting at the familiar SUV with Sven, she squealed before running to hug them.

"Hi mummy," they giggled.

"How are you guys here?" she asked them.

"Daddy knew you'd want us to tag along," they smiled. She turned to me with tears in her eyes before kissing me.

"I love you," she giggled.

"I love you too cara mia. Now, off we go to the hotel," I said.

"Wait! We're going now?" my wife scowled.

"Why not?" I asked.

"She wants to look better daddy," Calinda pointed out.

I looked to my wife. I didn't have a problem with the blouse and jeans she was wearing, if my arousal was anything to go by, but apparently she wanted to look like the wife of a billionaire- that's the explanation I was given by Caprice.

Since we already sold her grandmother's house, we could only go to Rhonda's place. The girls wanted to change too, and apparently me turning up in jeans and a t-shirt wouldn't suffice either. I will never understand women.

The girls were dressed in black jeans, black, red and white polka dot long sleeved shirts and red cardigans with black shoes. I was instructed to wear an all black suit with a black shirt and tie, which the girls had packed with them. My wife was given a white dress that has a red belt across the waist with a red blazer and red and black heels.