Something about you...

It was so hot; everything was hot, and she felt miserable since she had gotten out of bed. She had made the boys breakfast, but she hadn’t been able to get anything down herself. She had even made their favorites chunky pancakes with chocolate pieces in them. But as soon as she had taken one bite, she had pushed the plate away and run out to throw up. It hadn’t been like this at all with the boys, besides she had such a hard time controlling her emotions that her doctor had written a note that she was to be released from duty until she got back from maternity leave. Which hadn’t really gone down well with the chief, but what could they do? She was a danger if they put her out on the field, so she had been stuck with ordinary paperwork. At least there was one good thing about today, she was finally going to see Dion’s new house. And as her mother had come and picked up the boys’ she could finally take the time to get ready, with a long cold shower.

When she finally shut the door to her car and drove off towards Aston she could feel how she was feeling more and more like herself, and a smile started to form on her lips. As far away from home with Leony started to play over the radio she cranked up the sound and started singing along, by a red light a person holding next to her gave her a weird look and she just winked and gassed up as the light turned green again. Maybe this would be a good day after all.

When she finally pulled up at the house, she could feel the butterflies form in her stomach, after they had had the talk of her being pregnant with their child and she had just let go that night. It had been like something had changed between them, and now it was rare that he wasn’t on her mind. And every time that he was, a smile formed on her lips. She got out of the car and grabbed her purse, holy cow this was a house. Even as it was quite down scaled from his other house her house could fit in this once at least twice. After looking in awe she started walking towards the door and knocked on it, it didn’t take long before the door opened, and she was greeted with a kiss on the lips. She could get used to that “Hello charmer” she said with a soft giggle and looked around the entrance “Wow” she whistled and then the scent of pizza caught her nose “Oh, you are an absolute godsend” she winked as it was exactly what he was, but right now it was even more so. “I haven’t been able to eat all day, and I’m starving!” she turned around putting a hand behind his neck and gave him another kiss “You really are the best” she said after pulling away.

She let him guide her through the house and didn’t even hid the fact how curious she was as she looked around. “Wow, it looks so good” she said and gave him a quick smile and looked a little around as he let go to walk over the oven and take out the pizza’s. It smelled even better than it had before, a small questioning sound left her as he asked her something before it clicked “Oh, outside! I’m really uncomfortable wherever, but no way I’m missing out on the sun” she said with a big smile and walked over to him seeing if there was anything she could do. “Can I take something?” she asked, only to follow his instructions and walked with him outside.

As they came outside, she took of her sunglasses, two pools? “You got, two pools?” she turned around and looked at him with a goofy grin on her lips. “And a fence around the pool?” she started walking towards the seating area “It’s really great, I can see a lot of great parties being held here” she said and sat down looking around again it was really nice all of this. “Are you happy with it?” she asked looking at him again with a smile on her lips, she knew this had been his choice, she just really didn’t want him doing anything or pushing him towards something that wasn’t what he wanted. Baby steps as they had said, but this house, that was a big commitment.

She had put down the paper towels that he had instructed her to find and just looked at him as he explained to her everything he had taken into consideration. She could feel she was getting choked up and had somehow managed to divert her own attention to ask him if he was happy with it all, what came next it just hit her like a train going of rails. She had not expected this, how happy he looked, like he was given a new route in life that could give him the best of both worlds. She sucked in her lower lip and bit down on it as he then told her that he had made some nice adjustments upstairs that he hoped she would like.
But what kicked the curveball was that he had brough dessert. Then the tears started roll down her cheeks and she started crying full on “I’m so sorry” she said trying to wipe them away, and a small laugh left her lips as she took the pizza and took a big bite shaking her head that he had to wait “It’s, I’m not sad” she said chewing and chuckled “these last few days in particularly I’ve been so emotional, and I just, love everything you’ve done” she got out, now it was her time to do the rambling. “I’m really not making a lot of sense these days” she sighed and took another bite “And this is so good!” she started crying again.

She swallowed what she had in her mouth and looked at him with a small smile, while feeling how the tears glided silently down her cheeks. She turned her hand as he reached out after it, the small squeeze was funnily enough to make the tears stop and she took in a deep breath while looking at him. His warmth was almost radiant and glided through her as a safety blanket and it felt like she could breathe again. Dion was right. "Thank you" she said and matched his warm smile with her own. Though she thought of all of this as annoying and inconvenient. He was right, it was still alright to not have control as hormones and feelings would be hard to control. Even as her boss wasn’t very happy with it. But what could she do?

“Still didn’t have any of these problems with the boys” she took her hand back as he removed his and placed it on the small bump that was now showing, almost three months now. How time passed them by. “So, I’m guessing this peanut is going to have some kind of ability that matches yours” a small smile formed on her lips as she watched how he took a sip of what looked like normal water. “What, no alcohol?” she asked and removed the last of the tears and started eating a little more like she normally would.

“Mix?” she looked at him a little weirded out, she knew that people had talked about her possessing something of calming aura. But she had always just thought as its personality trait that she could get people to calm down. But that it was an ability, not that it really mattered. She had never felt the effect of whatever it was she had.
Maybe it was also one of the things that did she could be around Dion without being overly affected by his powers, other than she knew lately that she felt much more comfortable about them washing over her when she was near him. “I do? Huh, never really thought about it other than being my dashing personality that everybody loved” she said with a laugh, and then laughed at his next comment about not needing alcohol to live a functional life “But wine sure helps” she said and took a sip of the lemon water, the mood she had been in before was quickly forgotten. Such as fast as they had surfaced, just as quick where they to disappear again. This was going to be one hell of a ride.

“It’s perfect” she said with a soft smile as she put down the glass again, her hands placed themselves on the stomach that was barely showing that she was with child.
We should have a pool party – just for close friends
I want to meet your friends.

The loved that washed over her eyes as she looked towards him, she wasn’t sure it could be described, but the bubbled through her, and she slowly stood up from her stool and walked over to him and placed herself in his lap instead. Arms around his neck.
“I would love that, just as long as there will be no drama like at Howie’s party” she joked. Her hand placed on his cheek and she slowly let her finger glide over his prominent cheekbone. “I know I shouldn’t tell you, because your ego is already way to big, but you are fantastic” she whispered as she leaned down and placed a soft kiss on his lips.

“Lies” she whispered with a small underlying laugh in her voice. If someone had told her she would be sitting here, with a man like Dion, and planning to throw a small party for their friends because they both wanted to meet the people in the other person’s life that was important to them. She would have said to them they were crazy. But here she was, in an undefined relationship with the man that was father to the peanut growing inside of her. And she couldn’t be happier, even if nothing in the future was set in stone.

As his lips melted towards hers, she could feel the thousand small goosebumps form all over her back, down her arms out to her fingertips. It was always a wild experience kissing Dion, and she could understand why one would become addicted to it. She let her glide even closer to him and felt his breath on her lips as he pulled away to tell her that she was amazing too. She was just about to say something, as he pressed his lips back at hers and it was all it took for her to completely melt into him. She totally forgot about their surroundings, the food or why she had even come. All she felt was him and his warmth that always seemed to comfort her and drive her crazy at the same time.

She finally broke away, breathlessly, and opened her eyes. Her thump glided over his lightly swollen lips. “Gorgeous” she teased and blinked before pulling a little away. “So before I become totally mesmerised by you, maybe you could show me the rest of the house? I’m dying with excitement with what else you have been working on” she said but didn’t really move away from his lap right away. “Maybe I should move, so you could actually show me” she mumbled at herself, and a bright smile formed over her lips before she finally shifted and got back on her feet. Not that she really wanted to, but she was also dying from curiosity.

She quickly followed him back into the house, very curious with what all the secretively had been about. As they walked up to the second floor, she looked at the small common area. A master bedroom and a room for their little bean. She liked the nude colours, Garret had always been very set on boy and girl colours were she herself never had seen the reason. Being so fluid in her own sexuality she didn’t care. It really should have been one of the biggest red flags, but apparently when you fall in love with a narcissist, all logic went out the door and you didn’t see all the warning signs. Which also was one of the biggest thing for her, Dion already treated her better and he wasn’t obligated too.

She looked up as he started explaining he had taken notes from spending time with her boys. To what? Then she looked into the first room. It screamed Cayden. Very sophisticated, nothing was out of place, and it was filled with some of his favourite genres of books. She looked at the train track model she had tried to get a hold of, but every story had been unsuccessfully. Both because it was a special limit addition and every store she had went to had been sold out. “How, I don’t” understand. Then he turned and walked to Theo’s room. After the zoo trip he had been obsessed with animals in every kind they came in. She felt how her nose started to sting again. “Yeah” she whispered and tried to keep the tears at bay, she couldn’t keep crying like this. But, then again, this was her boys, and she wanted the best for them. It had been hard with the divorce and Garret fighting her at every turn, not paying his child support. There had been times where she hadn’t known how to pay rent the next month and had to take extra shifts to make by. Only worsen the situation about keeping them.

“It’s perfect” she finally chocked out and turned towards him with a small smile. “They will absolutely adore it” but Theo had also taken such a big liking towards Dion. Always following him around when he had come over. The best thing when Dion had fallen asleep in the couch and Theo had crawled up and snuggled under his arm. Even Cayden had warmed up to him, which almost never happened.

“I-“ she swallowed her words, why was it so hard to say those words out loud? It wasn’t because those three words couldn’t mean something else, or told to other people than ones lover. She loved Cecilia, she told her regularly. She loved Mono and wouldn’t trade him for anything in the world. But the love she felt right now, scared her so much. “I really love it; how did you get that train and track for it?” she changed the subject removing the few tears that had threatened to glide down her cheeks.

She let out a slow chuckle as he told her he knew the right people. She still had to get used to that, for even behind all that bravado she had seen a man that didn’t really care about the material things. As he had told her, that he liked being there for people. Giving them that breath of fresh air, and new energy. Being the one that helped them through a tough workweek by giving them a party to let loose and become what they desired they were.
That had been the moment she had fallen for him, crashing through the glass hopelessly flailing around not knowing what to do and how she could stop it. Before she knew it, she didn’t want it to stop. She wanted to be consumed, but she was so afraid that he would get bored or she could restrict him in some way that would later make him resent her.

“On a cloud?” she turned her attention back to him from the room and lifted one of her brows. He looked like he was about to say something bad, and she could feel her heart beating hard in her chest. In the few seconds she waited, she pictured all kinds of scenarios. Mainly him telling her that he had found another that he wanted to spend his time with. Which would be okay, but not really.

I love you.

“What?” she breathed and looked at him not understanding. I absolutely love you and its kind of freaking me out, but it also isn’t. Her mouth hung open as she did not fully understand what he was telling her, mostly because she had thought about so many other things he could say at that very moment. If you want me.
“Yes” she mumbled, and her fingers grabbed his t-shirt and pulled him towards her so her lips could crash down on his “yes!” she laughed and put her arms around his neck and pulled him even closer. “By the gods, I love you too” she giggled and felt how the tears glided down her cheeks again.

She couldn’t breathe. Everything was spinning in her head; he was going to take the kids. He was going to take the kids away from her, them. She had finally found someone that not only took care of her, but also of her boys, more and better than Garret had ever done. He only wanted them, when he knew it would hurt Evelina the most. Like on her birthday, where he had surprised them all. He just popped over and started talking about taking them to the waterpark. They had been so excited that she hadn’t been able to tell them no. And that way she had ended up alone, crying, until Cecilia had come with wine and food to cheer her up. At least she had always had her. But now, she had so much more than just that. She had a boyfriend. The coming father of their child. And now Garret had officially lost his mind.

She had tried to explain while she drove, Theo was crying in the back as he didn’t understand why his mother had been shouting and crying at the same time. Cayden had been completely quiet. Being the age where you actually understood what was going on, other than just being sad when your parents where sad. She hated it, she hated that he had grown up so fast.

They finally arrived at his house and Dion greeted them. Cayden took Theo that was still sobbing and walked to their room, clearly already understanding that the grown-ups needed to talk. She turned to him as he opened the car door. Tears streaming down her face. “His taking them” she found the letter that she had gotten from his attorney. “His taking the boys” she bellowed not able to keep the sorrow in. She curled together on the seat placing her head in her hands. She couldn’t help it; her whole body was hurting, and she couldn’t breathe. What if she could fight hard enough this time? “His using my work against me, spinning lies about why I can’t work and is sent on maternity leave” she finally got out “telling I’m unstable, and as a single mother getting a third child, I’m not capable giving them proper care” she wasn’t even sure her words made sense as it came out as sniffle. Incohesive.

She would have kept sitting in the car, sobbing till there were no tears left to cry. But Dion didn’t really let her sink that far into her self-pity as he slowly guided her out of the car. Her brown eyes looked into his as he told her to listen to him. She nodded slowly but couldn’t keep the tears at bay as they kept streaming down her swollen and red cheeks. She put her arms around her waist, and for the first time after she had seen the letter, she breathed out. She could breathe again. He was like a breath of fresh air, like an anchor in a stormy weather keeping her grounded. What would she do without him?  She never wanted to find out, as she pulled herself even closer to him taking in his scent and aura making sure that the heaviness of her heart slowly dispersed.

Her breath made a hitch as he pulled her back and locked his eyes back with hers. His words meant so much to her, but what if it wasn’t enough. What if this time, Garret actually got his way? “It’s my fault” she quacked, how this man could turn this strong independent woman to a sniffling apologetic nothing, at times as these. It always amazed her after the storm had passed.
“I told him, to keep away, that I didn’t want him coming around anymore. And told him that I had someone else now" she drew in a hard breath "he got so mad” she had been so afraid, but again something had clicked in her head, and she had just hid away not wanting to share her troubles with anyone. She had put it past her, and just thought he would stop trying to pursue her at this point. But now, he would destroy her, and he knew just how. Take away something she cherished more than her own life.
“I never meant for this to affect you too” she hissed, her throat was closing, and she could almost feel a panic attack trying to throw her off. “I need to sit” she suddenly said, grabbing on to Dion so she would collapse in his arms.

She felt it, the dose of happiness as he picked her up and started carrying her towards the house. Her eyes shut close, and she leaned even closer towards him. A deep breath was taken as she snuggled closer. Normally she wouldn’t want him to use his abilites on her, mostly because she could feel content and happy just being around him as a person. She had already tried how it had been just being around him without having to feel is affect at all. The night Cassian had been over with some bottle of wines and cooked with Dion. The stories that man could tell. She had felt so happy that night, and more so when she knew that Dion’s powers had nothing to do with how she felt about him. She just loved is spirit. His soul.

She pulled one of the cushions towards her as he placed her in the couch. “Some water would be really nice” she got out and a small smile formed on her lips. It was clear that whatever he had done had helped and she felt much more relaxed than she had done before. More at peace. Grateful that she was here with him, and he could help her.
Anything I can do?. Evelina took a deep breath; “Know a good lawyer?” she finally asked and made a small laugh “Because I think I need a bloody good one to get out of this, as he is using the very fact that he is more settled than I am” he only had the bigger house, the bigger paycheck. Parents that also still helped about the boys. That they had turned on her in this, she couldn’t believe she had ever trusted them. What a fool she had been.

She couldn’t really keep the laugh back as she saw how he almost ran towards the kitchen. Evelina looked at him with gratitude in her eyes as she took the flask of cold water and didn’t waste much time to unscrew the cap and drink.  “Why wouldn’t I need a lawyer?” she asked a little baffled and looked at him, he quickly revealed why. Just like as he had told her that he loved her, a small what left her lips. He couldn’t be serious, could he? But he said it again, if you marry me.
Eve sat up the couch and looked at him as he kept on talking, or more explaining to her why it was a good idea to do it. Well, she had tried to marry for love once, look where that had gotten her. So, marring someone for a higher purpose, was that better?

“Hey” she tried to get his attention with a soft voice and caught his hand and pulled him down in the sofa with her. “I love you” she started and placed a soft kiss towards his lips, nestling towards the side of his body. Her hands started gliding over his hair. “You have no idea how much it means you doing so much” she really meant that, the very fact that he would just marry her like that to make sure Garret wouldn’t take the kids? But; “We only started being together as a couple, and I know this is all new territory for you” she licked he lips and let her dark eyes glide over his face “I don’t want you to do something, just because it helps me out”