::: Chapter 14 :::

"Ugh….oh….what the fuck happened last night?' Bella whispered to herself as she finally decided to get up and be ready for the day. Her body had been aching all over and there was a horrible throbbing pain at the back of her head. As she stared at her haggard face in the mirror, she tried to think over what had happened the night before.

'Oh fuck,' she cursed under her breath. 'I must have pissed him off. Oh my god….I almost said I wished the baby would look like….oh my god…oh my god."

Crack!

"Bella,' Voldemort appeared behind her. 'I was worried about you. I was waiting for you at the breakfast table."

"Oh…I'm sorry, my Lord,' she replied after recovering from the shock of him suddenly appearing behind her. 'I…I've been….not well." She tried to find the right words to describe what she was feeling but all she could say was, 'not well'.

"Of course, I understand. In your condition you're bound to have experience mornings like this. All you need is a little fortification. Come on downstairs with me." He held her hand and apparated them both down to the breakfast table.

The apparition made her want to vomit as the bile crept up in her throat. But she didn't want to spoil the morning by bolting to the kitchen when he is being so nice to her and he was such a gentleman as he pulled out her chair for her. She had never felt so bad in her life about what she had done to him. While she ate her cereal, she was thinking up ways to apologize to him.

I was such a bitch, forgive me my Lord.

You are so kind to me…I was such an ingrate…

Oh…I remember now….he crucio-ed me. Oh, that explains the aches…

Oh….the baby…is it ok? Oh…my god….is the baby ok?

She lowered her hand to her stomach to feel the baby but she couldn't feel a thing.

"The baby is fine, Bellatrix. There is nothing to worry about.' Voldemort said to her calmly.

Bella could hardly believe her own ears. He knew exactly what he had done and how could he sit there, enjoying his breakfast so calmly when he knows what could have happened to the baby. She suddenly found herself thinking twice about apologizing to him. She glanced up at him for a second, then turned to her attention to her food. She never spoke a word to him that day.

The next afternoon…..

"Bella will you pass me that book.' Voldemort called out to her from across the room, pointing at the book that she had been reading which is now lying on the floor. He watched as she moved to pick up the book and walking over to him with it, all the while not saying a word.

She stood across his table and held out the book in her hand to him which he did not take. Instead, he gently took hold of her hand, urging her to come to him. She obliged as she moved over to the other side of the table and stood before him.

"You're becoming more like me everyday, my sweet,' he said as he held both her hands in his. 'I don't know what you're thinking because I can't seem to read your mind….you have it well guarded and your face, is void of expression leaving me clueless as to what you are feeling."

She didn't say a word as she just looked down at him.

He smiled at her. "Oh come now, Bella. Are you still going to go on with this routine? Rebelling against me by not talking to me?"

Still she kept silent.

"Alright…I admit. I was wrong to have done that to you. I could have caused us to lose the baby and for that…..' he paused a while, looking up to Bella as if hoping that she would cut in before he went on to the next thing that comes naturally to normal people who have realized their mistake and willing to own up, but, to the Dark Lord, this is something that is second only to Death itself. 'I apologize."

The moment he had said that, Bella's lips curved into a smile as she beamed at him.

"Thank you, my Lord."

She had noticed that his hands actually squeezed hers a little tighter than usual when he had said those two words and she realized how much it took for him to say that. It was at this moment that she decided she truly belonged to him. He would never have offered his apologies to anyone else but her. As she bent down to kiss him gently on the lips, she vowed to never allow anything like this to happen ever again. Her body and soul belonged to him and only to him.

She gave a soft cry when he pulled her down onto his lap as she clung tightly onto his robes. Their kiss grew into a passionate one that sent tingles down her spine. His lips began to move down to her neck, biting down gently on her smooth skin. She braced herself for what was about to happen right here, right at that moment, in the solitude of the den.

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It's a short chapter I know but the next one would be a little longer. Next chapter, Bella would already have the baby and well…things will happen which I can't say. You will have to wait till my next update.

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