Chapter 17

One more night

Cato POV

Today it was the day when Clove finally will be out of the hospital, after she woke up the doctors said that she was stable but they wanted to keep her in observation a few more days just to be completely sure that she was fine, so Enobaria, Alec and I have been like crazy all week taking turns to take care of the twins and Clove, it has been amazing to get to know them and spend time with them but I have not yet assimilated the fact that that they are mine, of course that I have been avoiding the subject with Clove because I don't want to discuss it until she is fully recovered but is hard to hide my feelings, sometimes when I'm watching them play or Cade learns something new or Claire kisses me good night it is impossible to forget the fact that I have missed to many things during their life; but I calm myself down and remind that I should wait till I talk with Clove and not prejudge her.

"Claire! Please sit down for a minute, mommy needs to rest!"- Enobaria said while she was helping Clove to sit down in the couch of her living room.

"But I want you to play with me mommy"- Now she was blackmailing her mother with a sad puppy face.

"She will play with you princess but later on after she rests a little ok?"- I said to my daughter and I lead her to the kitchen to give her a cookie, or anything that calms her down.

Caden on the other hand was quietly sitting next to Clove helping her to suit the pillows, those two are like water and oil, and they have so different personalities, needless to talk about their physical appearance, they are like a perfect genetic mix and match of Clove and I.

"So if mommy can't play with me can you?"- Claire told me and of course how I could say no to that cute face, she had me wrapped around her little finger immediately.

10 minutes later…

Mr. Bun, Sissy and I were sitting on the tea table while Miss. Claire was serving us raspberry tea and cookies; she was wearing a pink sparkling skirt and a diamond tiara while I was wearing a blue top hat and a red, also sparkling, bowtie. We played for a while with dolls and stuffed animals and when it was time for the afternoon lunch we started picking up all the toys.

While we were going downstairs I heard Brutus voice in the kitchen, when we entered everyone was sitting in the table, there was a jar full with coffee in the center but no one had touched it.

"Claire, take your cereal and go eat it at the living room with Cade ok? He is watching tangled"- Clove said to our daughter and she run off with her brother instantly.

"Cato today I received a visit from the Capitol in the training center, President Snow will be arriving tomorrow to the district and there will be a several events in which we all are going to have to go"- Brutus explained and he handed each one an elegant envelope with our names on it.

"God I hate this kind of stuffs"- Clove rolled her eyes, annoyed- "I haven't been in one of these events since the Victory Tour".

She suddenly shut up like she had said something bad, and in fact she had, Brutus and Enobaria were staring to see my reaction but I just ignored them and went to find something to open the envelope.

"Well I guess that we will have a lovely evening tomorrow night"- the four of us sight in resignation.

"And oh! Wait another lovely surprise, prep teams from Capitol will be also arriving tomorrow morning to help us get ready for the party"

How Great.

Clove POV

At 6 am next morning my former prep team arrived to my house, the twins were staying with Alec because Cato and I had decided to keep them away from the Capitol people.

So here I am being tortured with facials, wax, scrubs and lots of makeup, my hair was now straight and silky falling past my waist, my finger nails were manicured and painted in a sparkling golden color, the kind that my daughter would love; I was sitting in a chair complaining about the lingerie that they had made me wear, I had a black lacey lingerie set along with black hosiery and a garter with a tinny blue ribbon.

"It goes with the dress pretty"- Arianna said giving me a wink

While they were finishing my makeup, they were happily chatting and gossiping while I was trying my best to not listen them but then they took a black garment out of a suitcase and it caught my attention since it was probably my dress or tonight.

"Florala designed it specially for you, it took her almost two months Clove but I assure you is totally worth it"

They unzipped the bag and asked me to close my eyes until I had it on, I was expecting to feel a heavy fabric but it has soft and light instead, it felt tight around my waist and butt, Kasseri zipped it and I opened my eyes. It was the most beautiful dress that I had seen it was a deep bondi blue color all made with lace, a deep sweetheart neckline, it fits my butt and hips perfectly and from the knees down it was completely see- trough.

"It's gorgeous"- I did not found another word to describe it.

"You look stunning Clo"- Arianna finished my makeup and give me golden super high platforms to finish my outfit.

I felt truly beautiful and sexy walking downstairs to meet Cato, Brutus and Enobaria, and Cato's stunned look affirmed it, he and Brutus were wearing black tuxedos with blue and red bowtie respectively and Enobaria looked lovely in a shiny red gown dress.

"We shall be going now if we don't want to be late"- Cato said finally taking off his eyes from me.

The party was, as always, extremely boring, full of shallow people talking to me about things that I honestly don´t care, so for my own mental sake and others security I had a few more drinks than I should.

"If you excuse me a moment, I have to go to the toilette"- I said to an annoying Capitol man that was talking to me.

He kissed my hand and I gave him a fake smile, happy to be able to run off for a moment, I was a little tipsy so it was kind of hard for me to find the restroom, I was walking down a hall when I smashed my face against someone chest, a very strong and muscular chest I should say.

"I'm so sorry"- I looked up only to find Cato looking at me, next thing he lifted me in his arms and carried me to a room.

"Clove how many drinks have you had?"- He was talking to me like a little girl who has done something wrong.

"That's completely out of your business so if you excuse me"- I tried to push him away to get out but his arms hold me tighter.

I looked furiously at him and we stare at each other for a few minutes, suddenly at the same time we started to kiss, first it was with anger, it was like we were letting go off the feelings that we held for four years, then the kiss turned deeper, sweet and kind. I didn't even notice when Cato unzipped my dress but I was already unbuttoning his shirt.

"Nice lingerie Clovely"- he said to me and then started to kiss me again.

Please, please be good to me! I hope that you like this chapter because is like the first chapter that has something like that although I did not wanted to make it explicit, let me know what you think and I'll be updating soon because I am not going to school till Wednesday, pretty please read and review, let me know your thoughts and comments they are really important to me.

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marianeclover