The moment their eyes met, Rita saw recognition in those eyes and also pain.
"Hello dear, I've been wanting to meet you" Rita said as she tried to sound as good as possible, as if Emma is nothing to her
"Me too, Rita, or should I call you mother already" Emma said, her eyes filled with unshed tears and cheek tainted in red
Carlo laughed and side hug Rita
"You two are already getting well acquainted but before all this, I know you are tired Emma so rest and relax to your room and the butler will call you when dinner is ready" Carlo said and Emma force a smile to her dad and nod at Rita
"Well then, I will be up in my room" Emma said and walk away
Rita can already feel the heated gaze Carlo is giving her
"Carlo, you better not!" Rita said but it was too late as Carlo already held her bridal style
"You smell good love" Carlo said as he starts prepping her neck in kisses as he started walking towards their room
"I just took a dip in the pool and now you're all over me" Rita chuckled
Carlo kissed her deeply and Rita returned the kiss, trying to drown the pain and sorrow she felt. When Carlo opened the door to their bedroom, she swears she can saw the door to the room next to theirs shut.
They started seeing each other, and Emma wanted nothing more than to take Rita away from that brothel and take her to states with her but she can't as she's a child herself still in school trying to uphold her father's expectation. She knows that she has no right to get jealous but she hates it, Rita is hers and hers only and she will work hard to get her out of the brothel
"What are you thinking, My love?" Rita asks as she lay in her arms, Emma smiles at her lovingly and kiss her lips
"I'm thinking of how I can' t gets enough of you" Rita moans as Emma caress her breast
"Then fuck me now, Emma" Rita said and look into her eyes
"Are you really ready for me? You won't find me disgusting?" Emma asks afraid to her the answer
Rita kisses her lips one more time and smiled lovingly" I will love you no matter what, Em-ma"
Emma smiles "I was born with a condition in my reproductive system" Rita listens carefully as Emma talk " I was born with a reproductive system of a man" she finish
"You mean, you have a dick?" Rita blatantly asks
Emma chuckle and nod "yes, I have a male appendage, a dick, a cock"
Rita then sits up and look at Emma hungrily "You, should have just told me from the beginning" Rita said as she started undressing her night dress
Emma followed Rita's actions and undress herself, and start prepping Rita with wet kisses, she then trails down to her lovers' erect nipples and capture it in between her teeth earning a gasp from Rita, Emma's hand started to trail down her core and Rita can feel herself getting wet by every second.
"This is my first time with anyone" Emma said breathless but Rita can't seem to think straight and answer as Emma's fingers found her clit
"I Em-ma ahh" Rita can't even form a sentence
Emma continued her torture on her clit and as she felt Rita was wet enough, she slips a finger inside earning a gasp of pleasure from Rita.
"More Em-ma" Rita moans out and Emma obliged adding a finger inside her cunt
"You're staring into space again cousin" Rita heard Izzy behind her, and Rita put a hand on her heart as she looks at her cousin
"Will you stop that?!" Rita snaps and took a sip out of her drink while now drinking by the pool, and it's already dark but the darkness keep her mind at peace
"I've been calling you for more than 5 minutes now and you've been dazed, what are you thinking anyway?" Izzy asks
"Just something else now stop pestering me and help the cook" Rita said
"I saw how you look at Carlo's daughter earlier" Izzy starts
"Izzy"
"You know her, don't you?" Izzy press on
"Izzy no, just forget it, will you? You're giving me a headache" Rita tried to dodge the glare she's giving her
"You may trick Carlo and all the people here but you cannot trick me, I know you and I know that eyes of yours" Izzy answered
Rita did not answer and just sigh "Please"
Izzy sighed at the word and look at Rita "Look I won't press on about this but whatever it is, stop and do not do something stupid, whatever happened between the two of you forget it, you are now married to a wealthy man that saved you, us from there, and get your ass to the dinner table already, dinners ready and your husband and stepdaughter is waiting for you" Izzy then walk away
Rita sighed and drink all her drink in one go before walking inside. She can already hear the chatter of Carlo and Emma's voices and she internally sighed as she walks towards the table, smiling at her husband and sitting on his left while Emma is on his right, sitting directly across Rita.
"Rita darling, so glad you're here now" Carlo acknowledges her and then went back to talking to Emma about school, business and basically life
Rita started eating while tuning out their voices but she can only hear Emma's angelic voice
"Rita"
"Rita"
"Rita!"
"Yes?" Rita looks at her husband who is looking at her worriedly and well she can't even look at the green eyes looking at her worriedly
"Are you okay dear? Your pretty out of it tonight" Carlo asks worriedly
"I'm fine just, tired maybe" Rita answered
"Well, you should rest Rita, you don't have to hear my boring stories" Emma said chuckling a little bit and Rita swear that she feels a flutter in her stomach
"Do you want to rest now Rita?" Carlo asks and from the corner of her eye Rita can see how Carlo clicks his tongue
"No, I'm fine don't mind me and continue dear" Rita said
Carlo smiled and continue to talk while Emma look at her way once in a while
"So, Emma, Any interesting partner lately?" Carlo asks and that got Rita's attention
"Dad, nooo, you know me and I am not that popular anyway" Emma answered her eyes finding Rita's direction
"Really no one? Not even back in states?" Carlo asks
"No, well there was someone in the past but whatever we have must have been an illusion because she's already move on" Emma said and Rita knows exactly who that someone is
"What about you Rita? What do you do? I mean dad married you so he must have met you somewhere and you are quite a beauty dads' type is totally like you, and I apologize I didn't attend the wedding ceremony, I was in England then and still busy with my study" Emma then looks at Rita
"I…"
"We meet in a nearby coffee shop in the city, she was sitting there looking so beautifully reading a book while waiting for somebody and well, guess my charm works because a few months and dates later she's mine" Carlo answered for Rita and she didn't even speak another word and just let Carlo do the talking
Still the same man I know, still a prick Emma thought
The dinner went smoothly after that and Emma tried her best to make small talk to Rita even though it hurts just looking at her smiling at her own father. As the dinner finishes Emma went back to her room and tried to sink into her mind what's happening.
Rita, her Rita is her new stepmother, Rita married her father, what a fucking coincidence! What if it was not a coincidence? What if Rita knows who her father is? Yes, yes, she knows, she had hurt Rita but this is beyond petty
When she got the new that her father was marrying a woman way younger than her father, she knows what the woman wants, money that's why she didn't bother to read the content and the name of the woman and just burned the letter, she was still heart broken for leaving Rita and she was not in a nice place.
As Emma remembered the night, she left Rita her heart breaks and she knows it's all her fault for being a coward, letting her father manipulate her and listening to her friends, of thinking about the consequences of her actions
After the mind-blowing sex she had with Rita, like she always has, she slowly slips her clothes and started changing, her father wanted her to go to England by tomorrow or else, he will cut off any relations he has with her, sometimes she just hates her father, claiming that he loves her and his favorite but he would do something like hurt Emma, or manipulate her.
"I will be back my love, and I will get you out of here as soon as possible, I don't have much assets right now that is why I'm doing this" Emma said and kiss Rita's forehead, leaving their favorite book and her scarf
"I love you Rita" Emma then slips out the door leaving Rita alone
In the other room where a naked Rita is reminiscing the memory of waking up without your lover, the woman who promised everything and waiting for her every day in their favorite café just in hopes that she will be back someday
Rita was sitting in that same spot they love to sat where they would read their favorite book together, where they would promise each other love and everything.
Izzy already arrive and now ushering her to go back and start working, because the clients are looking for her.
"She's gone cousin, let's just move on and stay strong, just like we always do, okay?" Rita can feel herself cracking up but she's not going to cry, no , she's not crying, she's done crying
Rita looks at the ceiling and start debating on what to do, ignore Emma and pretend that she was nothing to her or talk to her? Rita looks at Carlo sleeping peacefully after they're love making. Although, she's grateful to Carlo for saving her from that hell, she always hates it when Carlo would not let her shine on her own and have the choice to answer and do anything just like earlier when Emma asks her
Emma
Emma
Emma
Why can't she get her out of her freaking mind?!
Morning came and Carlo left early for work, and well the owner but today he has a big deal that's why his up and early before the sun. Rita now having fun cooking in the kitchen with the chef and maids fussing over her, as Carlo doesn't like her to get burned or anything, He must keep her trophy wife shiny anyway
"Madam, please let us do our work, the master would fire us" the chef said as he looks at Rita
"After this batch, I promise, it's been a long since I cook my own meal and I want to treat all of you too" Rita said as she smiled at them
Unknown to Rita, Emma was watching the entire thing and can't help but smile, gone the timid, guarded and submissive Rita to her husband and now back to her confident self. She made her presence known and Emma saw Rita stiffen
"Good morning" Emma greet and all of the help and chef greeted her
"Good morning" Rita mumbled softly
"I didn't know you cook" Emma said trying to have a conversation, trying to gulp down the pain and betrayal she feels
"I just tried and well, it came out good, Izzy bring out some plates and food for the young mistress, will you?" Rita ordered
Emma wanted to spin her around, have her look at her eyes and ask her why she married her father, why her father? Why Rita didn't wait, why she keeps pretending that they're nothing more than strangers and now step family. When Rita finishes, Emma was about to corner her when the butler came and told Rita that the ladies are now waiting for her in a restaurant downtown when Rita was about to go, Emma grab her hand not so softly
"Can I go with you?" Emma asks and Rita about to refuse but Emma cut her off by dashing to the door and getting inside the car
Emma flash her a dangerous smile "You coming, Rita?"