Total pages in book: 25
Estimated words: 23247 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 116(@200wpm)___ 93(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 23247 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 116(@200wpm)___ 93(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
Lukas finally handed her the contract, and she almost dropped the pen she was holding when she realized that the document was a legal request for the court to change D's name.
"I only found out why you kept calling him D when I settled his bill at the daycare."
Dhirt Vhagg.
That was their son's legal name, and just the memory of it had his fists clenching against his sides.
"D's father took care of the paperwork when I gave birth to D," Betsy revealed painfully. "I was just so grateful that he was footing the bill even though we had already broken up, it didn't even occur to me to ask what name he had written down. I...figured that whatever it was, it should be okay. By the time I realized what he had done, it was too late, and I didn't have enough money to request the court for a name change."
Lukas' jaw clenched when Betsy then shared how she had confronted their son's biological father about it, and how the latter had only said it was a joke.
It had Lukas imagine planting his fist on the other man's face and saying afterward that this, too, was a joke. Maybe then, the guy would understand—-
"This isn't what I came here for."
His gaze swung sharply to his wife at her whispered words. "It wasn't?"
Betsy's eyes were beginning to blur. "N-No."
"Then what—-"
His wife burst into tears, and it took him a few moments to understand what she was sobbing out.
P-prenup...
She had come here to sign a prenup?
Even Lydia, whose own inheritance was not to be scoffed at, had at first resented the fact that he wanted her to sign a prenup. And yet Betsy, who had not a penny to her name, had come to his office willingly to sign one.
Lukas crouched down on one knee and waited patiently until Betsy lifted her tearful gaze to his.
"Why do you want a prenup, Betsy?"
R-rumors...r-relatives...trust...
Her reason still wasn't completely clear, but he understood enough that it was a challenge to suppress his smile. "One last thing..."
"W-What?"
"You are aware that prenups only apply to couples who have yet to marry?"
"You know what I mean," she sniffed out. "And j-just so you know, y-you're not being fair."
"I'm not?"
"You s-say you d-don't want me to l-love you, but you k-keep doing things that make me love you more."
He immediately rose to his feet, saying, "I'll have legal draw up a postnup contract right now."
"I'm serious."
"So am I." But Lukas' teasing mood turned wary when his wife suddenly stood up with a determined look on her face. "What is it?"
"I'm thinking that I love you so much—-"
Lukas did his best not to wince at the words.
"—-that I just need you to take me now."
His head shot up.
"Please?"
A shaken laugh escaped her as Lukas came back to her side in a flash, but she ceased to think at all when he had her flat on his desk the next moment, and she heard the distinct sound of her husband unzipping himself.
Aaaah!
Her dress was up around her waist and her underwear dangling from one ankle when her husband thrust inside of her, and she started seeing stars as she did her best to accommodate his throbbing length.
He started rubbing her clit as his body set a furious rhythm, and her body immediately started to tighten with pleasure. There was just something about making love with most of their clothes still on that got to her, and with her husband pleasuring her with both his fingers and his length—-
It was just too much!
His mouth swallowed her cries as she came, but her husband also lost his control as soon as she started sucking on his tongue. His fingers dug into the sides of her hips as he came inside of her, and as she looked up and saw the passion etched on the chiseled features of his gorgeous face—-
Am I dreaming?
Or was that truly love she saw in her husband's eyes?
Chapter Twenty
THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED were beyond everything Betsy could've imagined. Lukas hosted a huge party in their home, and her husband had proudly introduced their son - now named David - to all of his relatives.
And contrary to her fears of being rejected or regarded with disdain, everyone had instead been warm and welcoming, and they treated David like he was also their flesh and blood.
To help Betsy with her new role as his spouse, Lukas had also introduced her to his friend's wife Polly, and the two of them had become fast friends. And since Polly, like her, was quite the optimist, when the other woman declared it was only a matter of time before Greek society would embrace Betsy as one of them, she had happily believed it would be so.
And perhaps it could and should have been so, if not for a tabloid article once again turning her and Lukas into Athens' most controversial couple.