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The Thrill Of It All II:

Feelings Of The Past

Tiana made sure to spend a little extra time on her appearance the following morning. The dress she wore was a favourite of Jacques because unlike the modern flapper dresses she wore, this particular dress hugged all of her curves and knew that it would please Naveen's attentive eyes as well. Her hair wasn't cut short like every other woman, she kept her hair longer due to Jacques' preference but styled it where it didn't look too different from the trend.

"You look very good this morning, darling," Jacques complimented, giving her a kiss on the neck and dressed to go himself. "Last night was quite amazing. Compromising in the sheets is always my favourite."

"It was," Tiana said, she wasn't guilty to have thought of Naveen while sleeping with her husband.

"Mmm," he continued kissing her neck, rubbing his hand over her tummy. "I look forward to feeling this full with our daughter or son."

Tiana didn't want to go further so she put her hand over his "We really need to get going,"

"That danmed meeting. Are you sure that you want Daniel there?"

"Florence and my assistant Melissa will be there. And the meeting won't be long."

"Good. I don't want you on your feet for long."

Tiana rolled her eyes.. "Not this again-

"You made it known last night of how much you wanted this and I agreed so be happy about that," he reminded her

"Alright," Tiana turned to face him who in return smirked.

"You're beautiful," he looked at her hungrily.

Tiana pressed her lips to his hoping to distract him and pulled away. "We should head on down stairs."

Jacques smiled. "You really know how to make a man feel special. Come on."

She linked her arm with his as they left the room together.

()()()()

"...but will it help?" asked a teenage girl.

"It sure does Rosiland. It will help because as a young woman you have to protect yourself while maintaining your home, children, husband, and job, if you choose to work," Tiana said.

"My wife will have no other choice but to take care of the house and me!" bragged Trent, an over confident, macho 17 year old Montriuel. He was a young version of Jacques also happened to be his cousin.

Tiana suppressed an eyeroll. "Really Trent, not all men will follow your route and you should respect your wife, whomever she'll end up being," She knew she was speaking to deaf ears as the boy completely ignored her.

"Loretta Nelson will marry me," he winked at the girl who in return rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, anymore questions as we wrap up?" Tiana asked.

"I have one!" Naveen said, walking in.

Tiana and the students all looked over at the handsome king. While the girls swooned, the boys continued watching with curiosity.

"Everyone this is Naveen-

"King of Maldonia!" A girl name Anna said excitedly.

Loretta sighed. "He is very handsome." while Glenda blushed.

"Don't get too interested, Loretta," Trent warned.

But the girl ignored him.

"Alright," Tiana said as Naveen smiled her way. "Would you like something to drink?"

"I'm fine. What were you discussing?" he asked.

She smiled. "We were just wrapping up the importance of the role of women in society."

Trent and a few other boys laughed.

"Is there something funny Trent?" Tiana asked.

"So you're singling me out now?" Trent asked with a smirk, his friend laughing.

"I know that you're most likely the reason behind these other yong men snickering at whatever you had to add into the conversation,"

He looked her up and down. "You know what would make you less uptight Tiana? Getting your brains fucked out while lying under my cousin."

"How adult of you, Trent," Tiana said as the boys laughed hysterically.

Naveen found the boy's attitude towards Tiana extremely offensive and asked. "What are you boys laughing about?"

"First off I am not a boy," Trent said. "I am a man and second, there is no importance from women, other than taking care of their men." he smugly looked over at Loretta who turned away.

Naveen could see the resemblance and knew who he was related to. "You sound like a Montreiul."

"That I am." Trent said with cockiness in his presence.

"Then you know nothing of importance." Naveen spat. "Not now at least."

"Naveen," Tiana started as Trent fired back.

"I know more than you would! What are you? Three years older than me?"

"Is that all you got?" Naveen asked with a smirk.

Tiana raised a brow. "Trent you and your friends can leave and don't bother returning."

"I respect my cousin, but will never understand him letting you out of the house!" Trent said.

"You need to leave!" Tiana ordered with more force. "I'm the adult here and by the orders of your cousin and my husband you must respect whatever I tell you to do. Damned your Montreuil beliefs!"

Trent gave Tiana an angered look before storming out of the room.

Loretta and Glenda ran up to Tiana. "That was brave of you to do that Tiana."

"You don't think he'll tell Mr. Montreuil?" Loretta asked, fear in her voice.

"Let's not worry about that." She then saw Naveen. "Trent is always throwing a tantrum. Now you girls go on home and-

"Can we wait around? I mean, unless you have some business to take care of?" asked Loretta, seeing Naveen waiting by the window.

"Trent is bothering you again?" Tiana asked knowing her situation.

The girl nodded her head.

Tiana then turned to Naveen. "I'm going to drive the girls home. Are you able to meet me at the restaurant?" She asked Naveen.

"All right. We'll do that," Naveen agreed.

Thanks," she and the girls started out the door.

Naveen could clearly tell that Tiana was protecting the girls and admire her even more it. He would definitely bring it up when he see her again.

()()()()

"I'm glad we had the meeting here," Naveen said.

"Me too," Tiana was very proud of herself. Taking the time to help Loretta and Glenda really helped her think clearly on how to deal with Naveen when she saw him again. Not once did she show any sign of attraction for Naveen and remained professional. Though her heart still ached when he would smile or throw a playful joke at her.

"I'm sure you want to get back to your wife," she said.

"Fiancee," he corrected with a weak smile.

"Fiancee...?" she repeated with a small smile, hiding her jealousy but her so-called rational thinking flew out the window. "So you are about to get married." She rose up. "Well, I have to go see if Daniel-

"She isn't you," Naveen confessed.

Tiana looked back at him, "What did you just say?"

"My fiancee," Naveen stood up, walking over to her. "She will never be you."

She closed her eyes. "Naveen..."

"I know you're married and have your family but since you left Maldonia those three years ago I couldn't stop thinking about you," he confessed.

"Naveen you're engaged and I'm married. I have a commitment to honour."

"The same way Jacques is honouring his commitment to you?" Naveen pointed out. Well aware of the man infidelity.

"He loves his son," she added.

"I'm sure he does..." he said.

"He also loves me," she quickly interrupted.

Naveen studied her expression after she said that and knew that she didn't return the feelings, "But you don't love him?"

She shook her head, "Daniel needs his father."

Naveen walked over to take her hand. "Tiana I know that you're not happy…,"

"Why are you doing this?" She pulled her hand away while suppressing her tears, "I'm married to the wealthiest man in New Orleans. The most powerful man…just last year many of his white competitors who were politicians and business owners sold their businesses to him before fleeing Louisiana because they couldn't handle the economy. He made them all look like fools when he not only bought them out, but he tripled the profits of what they made."

"What does that have to do with your happiness?" Naveen asked, growing irritated. "Look, I will leave you alone if you will answer this question for me."

"Please don't do this…" she closed her eyes again. It was already hard enough for her to accept that he was engaged. What more could he want to know from her?

"Are you still inlove with me?" He asked.

"Oh Naveen of I still…" she sighed. Suddenly beginning to feel faint.

"Tiana…whoa!" He caught her before she fell onto the floor, "Are you all right?"

"I-I'm fine…" Tiana pushed herself from Naveen's arms and stood back up, "I've been up all night with Daniel. He's been having nightmares." She lied. "But to answer your question…it shouldn't matter either way how I feel about you. I'm still married. My feelings outside of my marriage shouldn't matter anymore."

"What a very cynical answer," said the Maldonian king.

"Well I apologize if it wasn't up to your standard." She said now feeling tired. "You can excuse yourself out of my office."

"I'll do just that…" Naveen opened the door and looked at her once more. "But when you're ready to be honest with yourself here's my card. I'm staying there," he placed it on her desk before leaving the room.

Tiana slowly picked up the card and read the information. It was the property he was staying in and could see that it was in another secluded location. She wanted to tear it up and disguard the information but didn't have the heart to so she stuffed it into her purse and took a seat at her desk. Her heart jumped when she felt wetness in between her legs and hurried to the bathroom to see what it was.

Her heart raced when she saw the blood. That could be part of reason for her lightheartedness. Or the rough advances from Jacques last night. She quickly cleaned herself before leaving the office, not paying any attention to the waiters and manager's concerning questions.

When she was finally out of the building two men approached her,

"Are you Jacques Montreuil's wife?" one asked.

Tiana stopped walking to look at the men. Whose appearance answered her unasked question. They looked like they worked for gangsters.

"Are you the wife of Jacques Montreuil?" the other man repeated.

"Yes…?" she wasn't sure whether to answer the question but had no time to think on it as one of the men grabbed a hold of her arm.

"He owe us a lot of money!"

Her heart raced, "Please sir, I don't have any money on me."

"This necklace looks good enough." The first man said, ripping it from her neck."

"That bracelet looks good, too!" said the second man as he ripped the bracelet from her wrist before letting her go.

The first man looked her up and down in lust, "I wonder how much you worth cher…" He stepped over to her.

Tiana backed up against the wall. "No…please…"

"Marvin we were instructed not to touch the girl." The second man reminded the first.

"What the boss doesn't know won't hurt him, Buddy." said the man.

"Marvin!"

"Dammit!" the first man exclaimed. "Get out of here!"

Tiana's breathing increased as the dizziness returned.

"What's the problem here?" asked an officer.

"Nothing sir," said both men. "Let's get out of here." The hurried down the street.

"Ma'am…?" the office asked. "Are you all right?"

Tiana shook her head before fainting into the officer's arms

()()()()

Tiana woke up in the hospital to the face of her doctor, Dr. Martin who looked to be closing a smaller bottle before putting it back into his jacket pocket. "Good you're awake."

Confused and dazed, she asked, "Huh? What happened?"

"You fainted outside of your restaurant," answered the doctor. "But I do have some bad news on the status of your pregnancy"

"Status of my pregnancy?" she asked, confused.

"Yes, it seems as if you've never been pregnant to begin with," The doctor confirmed.

Tiana's heart literally stopped. "What did you just say?"

"I'm sorry to tell you that you're not pregnant. I've got the test results and they were negative. I did another examination on you and everything was fine, but no sign of pregnacy or bleeding. It happens," the doctor said with a shrug.

Tiana was never as confused as she was at that moment. "Is that all I'm going to get from you?"

"You're not pregnant," Dr. Martin said it as if his error was Tiana's fault. "Your husband is in the waiting room. Would you like to share this with him-

"No," she said shaking her head. "I would really be comfortable if you were the one to tell him."

"Then I will bring him in." the doctor left the room.

Tiana put her hand on her stomach feeling as if she did lose a child. As much as she didn't want to be pregnant the news was disappointing. She had dreams of holding a baby girl in her arms.

"God dammit! You have got to be lying!" Jacques burst into the room looking furious. He glared at Tiana who was staring back at him. "So you're not pregnant?"

She shook her head. "No I'm not."

He punched into the wall before leaving the room, slamming the door behind him.

Dr. Martin shook his head. "I'll have a nurse bring you your discharge papers."

"I can go home today?" Tiana was surprised she was leaving so soon. "If I'm not pregnant then where did the dizziness and fainting came about?"

"The dizziness and fainting could've been due to the humidity or exhaustion but otherwise you are a perfectly healthy very young lady," explained the doctor. "Your clothes are in the closet and hopefully God will bless you with more children in the future."

Tiana closed her eyes as tears left her eyes right after the doctor left and for the first time in a long time, she was afraid to face her husband. She took the covers from over her lap and changed out of her hospital gown and back into her dress.

A few minutes later, a knock was heard at the door.

"Come in," she expected to see her husband but instead their driver came into the room.

"Where's Jacques?" she asked him.

"He wanted to be alone, so I dropped him off at Steve's."

"Steve's?" Tiana raised a brow before rolling her eyes. Steve's is a gentleman's club. "Of course he would go there."

The driver didn't say another word as he carried her things down to the car. Tiana remained quiet and looked forward to seeing her son Daniel. At least he wouldn't be going anywhere for a while.

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