Rawlf was apparently surprised yet at the same time, sighed in bliss having the woman back in his embrace.
The only thing that frustrates him is the fact that the woman is crying like it's the end of the world. And, like how he grew up with the habit of soothing her, he gently rubs her back while kissing the top of her head and ceremoniously, her forehead.
"Rawlf", Rawlf couldn't count the number of times where the woman uttered his name. Even though she's crying, it made Rawlf happy as the tone of her calling out his name was that of longing.
So he's not alone in this huh?
Before he started to get ahead of himself, Rawlf chose to tighten his embrace on the woman and inhaled her sweet vanilla scent. 'Pure bliss', he thought as inhaled her scent again.
The crying woman now ceased from crying and instead sob from time to time.
Rawlf loosened his embrace as he wanted to check on her after realizing that she just straightly jumped off from the bed yet the woman, as if afraid to lose him, clung her body to him even more and tightened her arms around him.
"Sweetheart, I'm not going anywhere. Just let me check you first", Rawlf gently said. To prove his earlier realization, the woman was barefoot on the cold floor.
At least for him, he was wearing a thick sock but she had been crying in his embrace for a good five minutes now.
Rawlf pulled Veronica up and carried her on the floor without saying anything. The woman was obediently clinging on his neck as her anchor while stealthily inhaling his scent from his chest in the process.
He made her lay on the bed gently and was about to turn to remove his socks when the woman pulled him from his slack's pocket. Sighing helplessly, Rawlf joined the woman in bed.
After settling himself on the bed, Veronica right away cuddled herself in his embrace. Rawlf on the other hand, couldn't ask for anything better than the present moment, to hug her tighter
and kiss her at the top of her head.
When she finally had her fair share in Rawlf's embrace, Veronica started. "I'm ready to tell you the truth now."
"I know. But we're both tired and sleepy. Let's have a talk tomorrow", Rawlf said dotingly.
"Hmmmm."
Rawlf kissed her once more at the top of her head as he was about to let his fatigue carry him to the dreamland.
Of course, if Veronica wasn't beside him now, he doubts that he could even feel or realize how tired he was.
To finally be beside her after the longest and slowest two days of his life, Rawlf finally felt comfortable inside.
"And it doesn't involve any man you were thinking of. I never was involved with any man after you...intimately", Veronica softly said, her voice laced with sleepiness and soon enough, her breath started to ease.
She's finally asleep.
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