Running from Leo

EPILOGUE

"You are still not forgiven for today." I sighed.

"Hmm. You know I don't care."

A short laugh escaped from my lips and I smacked his bare chest. "You're so full of yourself."

"Technically, you are full of me."

"Oh God, shut up! Get that useless brain of yours out of the gutter before I kick you out of this room naked."

"Ha ha." He said flatly. "I'd like to see you try."

I kicked his leg. He remained unfazed. "You are provoking me a lot today, August-mini. Dont make me force you to sleep on the floor tonight. We both know your standards are a tad bit higher than that."

"I absolutely agree. We should definitely sleep together on the floor tonight."

I groaned in annoyance. Saying anything else to him is useless now. He'll change the conversation to some dirty intentions with me so I chose to stay silent and enjoy this moment with him.

"So what's next?" He asked for a moment of silence.

"Huh, what?" I was confused. What did he mean by that?

"You know... Next. You're getting a degree most probably by next month so what comes after that? What's your next plan?"

"I..." I opened my mouth to speak but no words came out of it. What's next? "I... I don't know. Do you know?"

He gave me a weird look and shook his head. "Why the hell would I know?"

"I don't know what to do next." I confessed. Hell, I have never been so clueless about my life before. "In these past years... I had never thought about my life after getting a degree. Even after finishing up my language class with Papa, I was engrossed in my college classes for days. But now, I have nothing to do. What should I do next, Leo?"

He started playing with my hair. "You can do anything. Maybe open that restaurant you used to talk about. What did you used to say about it again...? Seeing happy faces without burning or cooking anything? Was it something like that? You can do that. We can go look for some open property nearby someday and get it all kick started, hmm?"

My lips pursued into a bittersweet smile. "No. Some dreams are better left off as dreams."

"Fine. But you are not getting a job anywhere else except my company... if you want to. Turn that intership part of your amazing life story true."

I made a nasty expression. "And suffer the pain of you breathing down my neck 24/7? No thanks. You are forgetting that I am a self made multi millionaire, turning billionaire next month, business woman who is involved in dealing partnerships."

He laughed heartily. "A perfect way to summarise everything! Give it another year or half, you'll be only a few thousand euros behind Adrian's income or even less."

"Aw, that's so sweet of you." I cooed and gave him a giant smooch on his lips. I sniffed and cringed. "You stink. This room stinks."

"You say so?" I squealed when he flipped me and my back touched the mattress of my bed with him towering over me, his face buried in the crook of my neck. He inhaled deeply. "It's called the smell of wild sex, Amy. I thought I had taught you everything over these past months. Did you forget everything, hmm?"

I laughed shamelessly. "Leonardo... enough. Spare me my afternoon and go take a shower. We can continue later tonight, on the floor."

He hummed against my skin. "Naughty Amy. I took a leave today only for this and you dare defy me? I should punish you for being such a naughty girl."

"Only for this? You idiot, I asked you to take a leave to see my results and be with me for an entire day. You haven't even said a simple 'good job, Amelia!' or 'congratulations, Amelia! I'm proud of you' to me."

"Good job, Amelia. Congratulations. I'm proud of you." He groaned in my ears and slowly started rubbing his tip in-between my folds, preparing me for round two.

Of course I was expecting this from him. I knew him so damn well.

"Leo," I warned. "I mean it when I say later tonight. I'll let you sleep back on our bed instead of a chair. I still have a few things left to do a-and... oh." He sunk inside of me and pulled out, leaving just the tip in me.

"How about we celebrate your graduation in shower?" He purred seductively in my ears.

I let out a puff breath. "How about you go and celebrate my graduation alone in shower?"

Three cheers for me keeping my mind sane and straight.

He stopped kissing me neck and finally pulled away from me. "You are a very bad girl, you know that? You're leaving me in pain."

"I did learn how to pick locks. Do you want me to go badder than that?" I asked amusedly. Let's ignore the part where I have been trying to break into his locker in our closet for months to see a certain glinting circle he had told me about a long time ago. "Just go and shower, will you? I'll just write up a small mail that I'm coming to Rome with you next month and will get my degree physically."

"Fine." He grumbled. "I'll leave the door open for you as always, if you ever change your mind."

"Okay. Now go." I chuckled and shook my head in amusement as he walked inside my bathroom, leaving the door open in hope.

So what now?

To be honest, this question has been lingering in my mind for quite a long time now. I sighed as I sat up straight on my bed and picked up my laptop from my nightstand – which was something I managed to keep away during our little heat-y moment before we pounced onto the bed after doing some tumbling on the wall – turned it on and smiled to myself when I saw 'PASS' printed on the screen after a series of numbers.

So what now? Goddamnit! What now? How can I not know or plan what to do next in my life after getting a degree?

Feeling frustrated over these simple words, I shut my laptop down and opened a drawer to search a packet. One two mornings ago... Not this morning... Tomorrow morning... I sighed in relief when I finally found a packet of morning pills.

Ha. Funny thing about these. Been popping them as if my life depended on it after that little scare I had a year and half ago. There were slight internal complications at first but got over it. Filled a glass of water through a jar, popped open one pill from the packet and brought it close to my mouth.

I heard the shower turn on.

I stopped when a simple thought crossed my mind. I laughed at myself silently for even thinking about it but then I remembered something and remembered how right it felt but at the wrong timing.

Change of my non existent life plans. I definitely know what's next.

Without any hesitation, I got up and threw my morning pills into the bin, my heart pounding in my chest and followed the sound of running water, where the man who turned everything in my life upside down the moment I landed on him, the love of my life was patiently waiting for me. I stepped into the shower.

"On a second thought... Let's celebrate."

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A/N: Introducing Bad Boy Baby #1