Arranged Marriage: To Hear Your Voice

Veronica woke up and wince on the pain on her body but she can manage. She sniffle at the familiar scent of the room. She open her eyes and found him sitting on the sofa facing her. He look awake the whole night. He pointed towards the water and the pill on the side table close to her.

”Drink.” He demanded. She glance at it and frown. ”Drink that, now.” He sound angry. Yet she did as she was told. After she’s done drinking, he stood from his seat and rip the PJ top open. ”Explain this.”

She cover herself and pushes him.

”I don’t have anything to explain.” She said and start buttoning it again. He took the glass and throw it across the wall.

”Then give me names! Give me the fucking names of who did that to you.” Tony was furious. Veronica never saw him furious in her life.

”What the fuck?!” She scowl at him. He pull his hair in frustration and rip her clothes open and pull her up from the bed and took her to the mirror.

”Did you see those bruises?” His voice was dangerous. She look at her naked body and the bruises that he’s talking about. ”Now tell me, who did this to you. So I could kill them.” He wasn’t kidding and he wasn’t just angry. He will surely kill someone who lay a hand on her.

Veronica exhales. She was still calm and his raging was nothing to her.

”I never lay a hand on you, Veronica. But someone did. Now tell me, who they are.” His voice was darker than the night. Tony’s eyes was like someone going to kill.

”Tony.” She said calmly.

”Did you badly want to get hurt because I just call a damn name while we are having sex? Did you badly want yourself to hurt like this?” His voice was deeper and deeper and dangerous.

”This is nothing! Okay?” She turn to him. ”And if that fucking name is still an issue—well, you can’t go back to her until I am done with you.” She said it. Tony’s eyes soften. He caress her face.

”Veronica, I love you. Vivien is just messing up. I already block her and I will never see her if that’s what you want.” He caress her hair. ”Now, give me names.”

Veronica just can’t give names of EPUA agents. She’ll be damned.

”I was in a sparring session.” She said truthfully. ”Getting hurt like this is usual to me. Okay?” She scoop his face to calm him. ”Calm down.”

Tony shove his face on her neck and hug her tightly.

”How can I calm down when I saw those bruises on your body?” His voice broke. Veronica’s eyes dilated as she felt warm tears on her neck. Instantly, her heart breaks. Was it too much? Did she overdo it? This man actually have an Achilles heel.

This man sound so broken that it pain her as well. Damn it. This was the first time she saw a man crying.

”Don’t leave me, okay?”

”Okay.” She mutter unconsciously. Maybe because he was vulnerable that she also feel that she was vulnerable.

”I will never go for another woman, Veronica. I do love you.”

”Okay.” She mutter and her eyes heated up.

Tony pick her up and brought her to bed. Veronica wrapped her legs around him and she wipe the big man’s tears and kisses his face. He shove his face between her breasts and they stay lying on bed wrapped around at each other for long until Tony doesn’t want to cuddle but to make love with her.

Tony’s head wasn’t on straight. He was still thinking on the man or the person who hurt her. So he didn’t give let her have her climax until she get frustrated.

”Tony!” She scream at him in frustration.

”Names.” He mutter.

”There are no names!” She pushes him and started punching his chest. ”I told you, it was sparring!”

”Sparring?” he scoff. ”You won’t get your orgasm until you tell me the names of those who hurt you.”

”Fuck you Tony!” She said in frustration and tears started forming in her eyes because of anger.

”You just have to say their names. That’s all.”

”I told you! It’s just sparring and if I tell you their names, you will kill them and probably torture them. That’s not what I am worried about. They can beat up your men so stop asking me names. They are my sparring mates!”

”I will let go this time.” He spread her legs and he lean closer as he wipe her tears. ”I’ll give it to you now.” She smack his chest hard. ”Now you feel how frustrated I am when I pick you up and nurse you all night and saw those bruises?” He became aggressive as both of them did until they reach their heaven.

Tony cuddle her hair lovingly and he was calmer. He didn’t force her to give him names.

She almost forgot that she have to go to work.

”I told them that you aren’t feeling well.” He said. His eyes gaze on her bruises. It still hurt him seeing those bruises. ”Work tomorrow. Stay here with me.”

Veronica thought a little. She would miss few things if she didn’t go to work. He went to his wardrobe and took a shirt and put it on her. He hate seeing bruises on her. She has a flawless skin, fair and healthy. He didn’t want any bruises on it. He never lay a hand on her but someone did and he won’t forget who it was. He hold grudges. But how is he going to make her talk?

”What do you mean by they can beat up my men?”

”They aren’t just any men. They are part of an organization.” She sat up. ”Don’t ask any more questions. It’s annoying.”

He put some shorts on and follow her to the kitchen for her to cook. He sat down on the barstool and watch her make pancakes and brewed coffee. She finish few pancakes when he pull her and bring her to the empty table. He make her sit there and they are now face to face. Staring at each other’s eyes.

”Not on the table.” She warn him.

”I want to do it here right now.” He argued back.

”Damn you!” She didn’t have anything under her so it was easy for him to make love to her. She didn’t restrain herself because she wanted it. She needed it like an oasis in the desert.

”Veronica…” He murmur. ”I love you.” He kiss her and kiss her again. ”Let’s get married soon.”

Then Veronica’s thought flew into the words that Sabrina said. ”Just marry the man.” She knew that Sabrina wanted someone to protect her. And Tony was suited on it.

”Let’s wait for a while.” She told him.

”If I get impatient, I’ll drag you in front of the church.” He warn her. He caress her hair lovingly. ”I love you, Veronica. Only you and no one else.” He told her so she won’t think that he still love Vivien.

Would he still love her if he knows everything about her?