Savannah climbed up the small ladder to run through the cabinet for some stuffs she might needed for a special cheese-spread omelet fries and wedges. She found the Shield's cabinet to be by far the biggest she ever had to go through. While she got too carried away with her search, she tripped on the ladder and almost fall down. Luckily, Christian caught her right on time before she smashed her lovely head. He helped her back to her feet and scowled, "You don't need to push it. We can eat what we have here. I don't really mind.," Christian commented. She sighed and sank herself to the chair, glancing around the kitchen to search for something she needed and will come in handy later.
"All right, I found the ingredients I need here!Can you help me chop those herbs?"she handed the herbs and vegetables to Christian along with a knife. Christian took the knife from her hand and did exactly what being told and he did it like a experienced chef. Again, Savi looked at him with awe. "You didn't failed to amaze me all the time, where did you learn to do that?"
Christian raised his head and smiled, "So what, you think a bachelor can't find his way around the kitchen." He sounded offended and it made him even more appealing to her. But he was too good to be true, with his sleeves rolled up showing his well-developed masculine hands and the way he chopped the vegetables. Maybe she had just found her dream man, turned out she didn't had to look so far.
While cutting, Christian unintentionally stared at Savi's curvy ass and he swallowed at the sight he'd been waiting for. Seeing her body swayed as she did her household chorus really brought him an uncontrollable desire to ravish her right there in the kitchen. At that moment, he accidentally cut his fingers and grimaced, "Ouch!Shit!" Savi turned to him and noticed trickled of blood on one of his fingers. She turned off the stove and torn the washcloth and immediately wrapped the cut.
Christian just stared at her admiringly, watching her cleansed the wound and wrapped it with a bandage. Soon as their eyes met, a jolt of electricity sparked between them and they blushed furiously. Christian slowly glanced at her and he could still feel his heart beating like crazy and they were just few inches from each other mouth. "Thank you for this, I'm not very good at handling kitchen," Christian finally said before he returned to the living room to check on the kids.
Savi followed him there and sat next to him, "I want to thank you for staying here with me. I'm not really good at babysitting kids at night. I'm a bit jumpy if you know what I mean." She adjust the skirt of her dress and it rode high showing her thighs, which made him shuddered. She looked back at him and noticed his eyes directed to her thigh. He might had noticed it too, he adjusted his sitting position and looked away.
Instead, he started off his conversation with her by asking more professional related questions, "So, what did you do for living?Darien told me you were an editor or translator or something." Savi took pride on most of her work and she smiled at his question.
She leaned on the couch and inhaled deeply, "Well for the start, I worked at my family editorial services downtown. My area of expertise would be translations to French, Japanese, Arabian, Chinese, Italian & Gaelic." She glanced at the stirring kid that Christian struggling to put back to sleep. He looked fascinated with her introduction.
"Translator, interesting job I guess. I having a rough time dealing with the Asian market lately. None of my employees are fluent in either languages so I might as well hire you soon," he explained. Christian looked very much worried about that and she also thought that working with Christian was not such a bad idea after all. He sighed and rubbed his chin as if he was thinking hard on something. "So, would you like to work for me?We'll go through the procedures tomorrow morning. Besides I don't like to wait!"
Savi widened her eyes, "Terrific then, I'll bring my stuffs and we signed few papers and that's all. I'm looking forward for the opportunity to work with you."
After setting the light into dim mode, both settled themselves on the couch and suddenly when Christian was talking about his relationship with Darien since college, he noticed that Savi already had fallen asleep. He pulled her closer to him so her head rested on his shoulder and he pulled up the blanket that covered his foot and wrapped themselves in it. Throughout the night, Christian felt restless and nervous with Savi by his side, he was driven to kiss her but thought again before he forgotten his attention to savor her. Her skin felt warm against him and her hair had the delightful winter rainstorm scent that drove him over the edge all night long. He edged himself away from her, not wanting to wake her up and carried each of the kids to their bedroom upstairs.
Darien had specified two guestrooms upstairs where Christian bent over the couch to lift Savi from there and carried her to the first guestroom. When he put her down slowly on the bed, she caught his wrist and pulled her down with her. Trembling, he tried to escape her grip but feared that he might stirred her so he continued lying next to her. The sight of her sleeping next to him peacefully almost turned him into a monster, the need in him want to ravish her right here, right now pressed against her tight body. But his saner part wanted him to take it slow and treasured her while he can. He brushed a strand of hair from her face and planted a kiss on her forehead. After a few seconds, without warning she threw her arm across him and there she lied with hand and leg draped over him, her head now on his shoulder and he took a few deep breathes. Whenever her body moved against him, he struggled to stifle a groan as he finally got a boner to prove how intoxicating to have Savi next to him in such close proximity.
As she turned away from him, he sighed. The temptation was too strong to pin her with his body and make love to her over and over again. He knew that he was wrong at first thought, Savi was not the woman he thought she was. She made him addicted and crazy in love in just a short time, so if Darien truly didn't want her, he'll accept her with open hand. He climbed out from bed and walked into the other guestroom, lying on the bed with regrets and frustrations.
Around 7:00 am in the morning, they all were back from their weekend getaway and Savi ignored Darien as much as she could. She looked for Christian and found a guestroom door ajar, she walked in and saw him lying on the bed. Looking pretty much exhausted, he still stunning as always. His unruly caramel blonde hair was a mess and his shirt was unbuttoned. Gah, there went her fantasy spreading himself in front of her. After glancing around and seeing everybody else all had gathered in the dining hall, Savi sat next to him. Without warning, he turned to face her and all his glory was facing her direction. She swallowed hard, trailing her gaze over his exposed muscular chest, glistening with his sweat down to his drool-worthy six-pack abs and further to his unbuttoned jeans. Then from nowhere, the thought of him getting off while watching her sleep crossed her mind. She quickly shook her head at the absurd thought. The sight of his chest rose up and down was too much for her, and she quickly covered it with his blanket.
Darien walked into the scene and quickly jumped on the bed, "Wake up pal, I'm not letting my lady served you at this state of undressed!" He nudged at him and Christian yawned, flexing his delicious muscles. At that moment, Savi stared blankly at him and as he started to button up his clothes Savi made her way out from the room, blushing furiously. Christian smacked Darien at the back of his head telling him what a jerk he was. It's the first time she caught you half-naked so it's about time you caught her spread naked on your bed. He intended to make that happened one day for sure.
Back at the dining room, after Darien's father recited a prayer for blessing during breakfast, everyone rejoiced at the aromatic cuisines prepared by his mother. Fine baked croissant and fruit tarts served along with American gooseberry pie and cherry dumplings. Christian stolen a few glances from across the table and Savi blushed heavily, playing with her food. Darien interrupted their moment by helping Savi with her pie where he took a slice and feed her mouth to mouth. A rush of annoyance overwhelmed Christian for a moment that he continued to put his concentration back at his breakfast.
"Christian, you want me to feed you too?" Darien offered teasingly.
"Back off. I'm not a child anymore!" He retained himself and quickly sipped his tea from the cup he taken inside the cabinet. He turned back to Darien who still feeding Savi, and she by the way, didn't look that interested with his action.
"Darien would you stop that!I'm not in the mood for baby feeding moment!I'm late as hell right now," she excused herself from the family members and headed to the front porch. Christian followed her from behind.
He turned to face Darien, "Don't worry about her. I'll send her there and be back safe and sound." He winked at him again and put on his sunglasses, climbed into the car and drove off with Savi.
Along the way, Christian noticed a sudden silence between them and eagerly he shut the engine and turned to face her, "Tell me what's wrong over there?" She turned to him at once and her eyes stared at his, causing this undeniable sparks that had caused them each other relationship at stakes. He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her closer. She was speechless and telling him won't do any good for him or Darien. "Is it because of last night? I won't tell him because it's not right to mess with your best friend's relationship."
Savi quickly cut him off, "But what if there isn't any relationship?You see over there, right?" She dashed her tears after it built up at the corner of her eyes. She tried to make her point, but to him it just rather useless. "A relationship must have a heart in it!But obviously we had none of it to make it works!"
He slumped himself back to his seat. This would never do any good for neither of them and he realized that this conversation was leading to nowhere. He started his engine back on and continued the ride. Savi still couldn't figure it out how much he wanted her right now. But his loyalty to his friend prevented him from any disrespectful action. He would try to help them mended their relationship back and even if it killed him slowly in the end, he knew that was the right thing which he supposed to do.
He dropped her at her office, telling her that he would meet her for the project discussion around 2:00 pm in the evening. She walked heading to the elevator and glanced back at him, smiling. He found that his heart skipped a beat. Is this what they said about love can either make or break people in certain circumstances?