Bought For A Baby, Kept For A Lifetime-Chapter 149: Waiting For Her

Soon as that thought appeared in her mind, Anne shook her head pressing it down.

She was overthinking, how could he possibly care about her?

"No." She suddenly blurted her reply, quickly moving back from him.

Being so close to him felt so warm, it made tingles drizzle over her body and flutters erupt in her stomach that she needed distance to make those sensations stop.

Her feelings for him were starting to get out of hand, she knew what these feelings were but she wouldn’t tolerate them...she shouldn’t, if she didn’t want to risk her heart shattering into pieces.

"I really have to go now." In her haste, she missed the dimness that appeared over his black eyes the moment she forcefully put some distance between them.

For that single moment, he looked like something important had been wrenched out of his fingers.

He didn’t react as he watched her hurry away as if she truly didn’t want to be in his presence.

A sudden feeling of loss engulfed him, hitting him at once like a bulldozer.

Such feeling of loss...he wasn’t used to it at all.

It had already happened to him a few times before, and it was all because of her but the more he felt that loss, the more he hated it.

The more he pushed her away and tried not to keep her close, the more he burned from deep inside with an intense ache that constantly threatened to rip him apart.

He wasn’t just restless without her, he was severed, incomplete until he’d see her smile, until she was anywhere near him, until he got to touch even a fraction of her.

What was this constant ache, this constant desire, this constant restlessness that plagued him?

What was this chaotic feeling in his chest, stronger than any self control or discipline he’d cultivated in himself, stronger than the cold ice that froze his heart for years, stronger than his own will?

What was this feeling he could never run away from no matter how hard he tried?

What was this feeling that made her someone he didn’t want to stay away from, that made him feel like his very breath was snatched away from him if he didn’t have her near?

This feeling...he suddenly realized.

She’d taught him how to feel.

Annelise Thompson, taught him how to feel.

And what this feeling was... It had a name, but it was the very feeling he’d been running away from all his life.

... 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The day went by really fast, Anne visited Kristen at the hospital, spending a few hours with him.

As always she poured her heart out to him, even as she knew he couldn’t hear her.

The doctors had good news for her, his brain was recovering faster than expected, and there was a good chance that he would soon be back to normal again.

By the time she left the hospital, it was already very late at night. Looking down at her watch she realized it was several minutes past eleven. She didn’t realize she’d been out this long.

Taking a cab, Anne headed back to a place she had to get used to considering home now.

Sitting in the cab, she felt the cold wind of the night blow against her face and her eyes suddenly began to prickle with emotions whose origins she had no idea about.

Maybe her hormones due to pregnancy would contribute to her feeling things in a more exaggerated amount than she was supposed to.

But the ache she was feeling in her heart slowly seemed to accumulate into tears that flowed down her face. Without even knowing why she was crying, she let herself silently shed the tears that fell down her face.

Immediately she reached the manor, butler Jones was standing outside as if he’d been waiting for someone.

"Thank goodness you’re back, master has been waiting for you."

Greeted by this news she was taken aback.

Why would he be waiting for her?

"He’s waiting for me?" She asked and the butler nodded.

"The two of you were supposed to visit the estate tonight, old master had something to discuss with you both."

Anne suddenly realized the butler had indeed told her of something similar before she’d left home this morning.

"I’m so sorry, I completely forgot about that."

Butler Jones smiled warmly, "Please do not apologize to me in the future, I’m merely your employee and you are the first mistress of the Sterling family. My job is to see to all your needs and make sure you’re absolutely comfortable. Old master must have retired by now, he called to inform me that you both could come over to the estate tomorrow morning."

Anne knew that the Sterling family had a lot of rules, especially because they were treated like modern day royalty wherever they went.

The rules that came with living in their home were something she planned to keep in mind just to make her time being married to Andrew Sterling go smoothly, but she wouldn’t be a jerk to people because of it.

"Regardless, I still hope I didn’t put you in a difficult position with elder Sterl...I mean, grandfather for not coming home on time."

"Not at all, mistress. Please do go inside and get some rest, it is getting late, but before that master asked me to inform you that he wanted to see you before you go to bed so please stop by his room on your way."

The butler still couldn’t understand why they would be staying in separate rooms.

His master, tough and rigid as he was evidently wanted the woman. Shouldn’t he just keep her by his side then?

What was the need for separate rooms?

Though the butler knew these things would happen gradually, he couldn’t help but want to speed up the process a little bit, that was why he informed Anne to stop by and see the master before heading to her room.

It was true that he’d asked to see her, but then butler Jones was sure that it would just be for a few minutes of conversation and she would eventually come out of the room and head to hers.

If they would keep on like this, how would things develop between them.

That was why butler Jones clutched the spare key to the master bedroom tightly in his hands.

He quietly followed as Anne entered the house, asking her if she had dinner yet conversationally to which she replied by saying she’d eaten something at the office cafeteria.

’Wonderful.’ the butler thought with a sly smile on his face.

He didn’t want to make it too obvious that he was following Anne so he kept his distance, but once she would go into the master bedroom, the butler would make sure she wouldn’t be coming out again at least for the rest of the night.

A man and a woman spending a whole night in the same room, surely something passionate would happen right?