Chapter 48~ A cruise date
“Did you guys notice anything? Are you doing your jobs correctly? Tessa said she was being followed. How come you couldn’t detect the danger around her?” Aaron snapped at his bodyguards.
Tessa grabbed his arm and stopped him, saying, “Don’t be so hard on them. Whoever is sending those messages is good at staying hidden.”
It had been a few days since Tessa started receiving texts from the restricted number. At first, she thought it was one of Aaron’s admirers who somehow got a hold of her number and began to text her to scare her.
She thought it was just a crazy fan making some pranks on her, so she had ignored it.
However, it became too much and that’s how she knew it wasn’t a prank. She constantly felt like she was being watched. The text she received after she knocked off from work that day made alarm bells go off in her head.
It read, [I heard you have three kids. It will destroy you if something happens to them, right?]
The text made her stomach twist and turn. She couldn’t keep quiet about it any longer and showed Aaron the messages she had been receiving. He became livid and began to scold Tessa’s bodyguards, thinking they weren’t doing a good job.
They were in the hallway outside Tessa’s house because they didn’t want to worry Elena.
“No. I’m still blaming them. Their job is to ensure your safety but they failed. Josh, Andrew, you
two are my best men. What happened?” Aaron said and directed his last question to the two
bodyguards.
“We didn’t notice anything, Sir. We were not careful enough. I’ll have the team do a thorough investigation,” Josh answered.
Aaron pinched the bridge of his nose. He glanced at Tessa and sighed, presenting, “I’ll give the inspector a call. The police have to be involved in this matter as well. We need all the help we can get.”
“Who would do this though?” Tessa asked.
It was strange that an enemy would pop out of nowhere and target her. Was it someone she knew?
“I have no idea. Probably my business rivals. I have a lot of enemies, Tessa. This is why I wanted you and the kids to move in with me. I can only be at peace if I know you are safe,” Aaron replied with furrowed eyebrows.
He lacked his brain to try and figure out which one of his enemies would do such a thing but he came up with blanks. The only ones that he knew were either in jail, presumably dead or out of the Country.
Tessa sighed. She glanced at Aaron and uttered, “I’m not ready to move in with you, Aaron. We already discussed this ”
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Chapter 48-A cruise date
Aaron ran a hand through his hair. He pulled at his tie, feeling frustrated and then his eyes landed on the door of the apartment next to Tessa’s.
A thought occurred to him at that moment. He took out his phone and called Enock, his assistant.
“Find out who the apartment next to Tessa’s belongs to. I want to buy it. Offer them double the price,” he ordered.
Tessa’s eyes widened at his words. She looked at Aaron incredulously and questioned, “Are you crazy, why would you buy the apartment next door?”
Aaron shrugged. He put his phone back into his pocket and replied. “Since you’re not ready to live with me. I’ll move in next door so that I can protect you and our kids properly.”
Tessa’s heart fluttered. She shook her head and said, “That’s not necessary. Don’t waste money like that. Let’s do this, you can hire more bodyguards if that will make you feel at ease.”
Aaron nodded, “Ok. I’ll do that.”
He went back into the house to say bye to the kids
“Reagan, Nia and Willa, I won’t be able to put you to sleep tonight. I have something to do,” he said.
The three children’s smiles dropped immediately. Reagan frowned and asked, “Why can’t you just live with us? I miss that time when we all stayed in the big mansion with Grandpa.”
“Daddy, are you still fighting with Mommy?” It was Willa who asked this time.
Tessa didn’t know how to respond so Aaron stepped closer to the kids and went down on his haunches. He looked at his three kids and said, “No, Mommy and I are not fighting. We are just working on something and then we will live together once it’s sorted, ok?”
The kids nodded and he smiled at them, saying, “I love you all so much.”
“We love you too, Daddy,” the kids said in unison and glanced at their mother. “Mommy, we love you too.”
“I love you all so so much,” Tessa replied with watery eyes.
She was touched that Aaron was there to answer some of the kids’ difficult questions.
An hour later, Tessa’s mouth was almost reaching the ground when twenty bodyguards showed up at her apartment.
Five would be stationed outside the door and five would be inside. The remaining ten would be downstairs, patrolling and keeping watch..
She took out her phone and dialled Aaron’s number
“I didn’t mean you should fill up my house with bodyguards, Aaron,” she complained whilst in her bedroom.
“I can’t take the risk, Tessa I’m so worried. How can I sleep peacefully knowing my family is out. there alone with a threat looming over us? This is the only way I can be sure you will be safe. But I’m not a hundred percent sure. Please, agree to live with me,” Aaron said on the phone.
Tessa sighed. She looked out the window. There was a full moon that night and it made the night sky look bright. She loved the late-night phone conversations she had with Aaron every night.
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For now, she wanted them to continue dating like this. They never really enjoyed dating back
then.
“I want us to be like this for a while. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. Every time that we are apart, we will yearn to be with each other and miss each other’s presence. That way we will appreciate each other more,” she proposed.
There was a brief silence from the other side of the phone. Aaron dragged in a sharp breath and agreed, “I understand. I’ll be patient and wait for you. In the meantime, let’s date like never
before.”
The two of them chatted for a whole two hours like teenagers who just developed crushes on each other. They talked about their future plans, business-wise. They discussed the kids and how they
were going to raise them.
Aaron didn’t forget to flirt and tease Tessa, making her blush despite the distance. It was already past midnight when they decided to call it a night.
“Goodnight, Tessa. I love you, sweet dreams.”
“Goodnight, Aaron.”
“And?”
“And what?”
“Are you not going to say you love me too?”
Tessa chuckled and replied, “That word won’t come that easily, Mr Wentworth. Sleep tight.”
When she cut the call, Tessa went to the children’s room to check up on them. She covered them properly and pecked their foreheads before going back to her bedroom.
She had just gotten into bed when her phone rang. Her lips curved upwards into a smile as she picked the phone up, thinking it was Aaron.
“Miss me already?”
However, her smile got wiped off her face when she heard a disguised creepy voice coming through the phone.
“Hello, Tessa.”
Tessa’s heart jumped to her throat. She sat up straight, her stomach twisting.
“Who are you? What the hell do you want?” She questioned.
The disguised voice chuckled darkly, sending an eerie chill down Tessa’s spine.
“That’s for me to know and you to find out. I’m coming for you, Tessa.”
“What the fuck do you want?!” Tessa was so enraged that she ended up cussing.
Receiving threats from a restricted number had stressed her out. She was worried sick about her
family.
The disguised villainy voice laughed and then said, “Revenge, Tessa. I want revenge. Tell your man I said, game on.”
Chap3⁄4) 48– A cruise date
The next day was a Friday. Tessa was out of it as she sat in her office. She had called Aaron the moment the mysterious caller hung up and he rushed back to her apartment where he spent the night on the couch.
He later engaged police and military protection for Tessa, the kids and Elena in addition to the professionally trained bodyguards.
Even though the police and the military were on the case, Tessa couldn’t help but feel uneasy. ‘Who could it be?’ she thought silently.
Her mind drifted to someone but she shook her head, saying, “It can’t be. He jumped off the cliff.”
However, she just couldn’t figure out who would go to such an extent of stalking and sending creepy messages to her.
Michelle knocked on her door and invited herself in. She had a huge white box in her hands that she placed on Tessa’s table. Tessa arched an eyebrow at her, asking, “What is this?”
Michelle shrugged and responded, “I don’t know. Why don’t you open it and see for yourself.”
“Where did it come from?” Tessa inquired. “Someone gave it to me on my way up. He said it was a delivery for you,” Michelle replied and sighed.
“I’m sure it’s from your billionaire baby daddy. At least he’s trying his best to make you smile. While the man who left me after two days of hot sex is ignoring me.”
Tessa had managed to get Graham’s number from Aaron. At first, Aaron refused because he thought Tessa had a crush on Graham. He was so jealous. But when she explained why she was asking for his line, he finally gave it to her.
“He didn’t pick up your call?” Tessa asked. Michelle shook her head and replied, “No. Not only that, he switched off his phone. I left him a message but there’s been no response yet.”
“You know how it is in the military. Maybe he’s on a mission or something,” Tessa consoled.
“Yeah that’s why I’m upset with myself right now. Why did I have drinks with him? Now I can’t stop thinking about him and he’s nowhere to be found,” Michelle sighed and turned to leave, “I’m just going to bury myself in work. I’m probably just infatuated. The crush will be gone after a few days and I’ll find someone else to crush on ”
When Tessa was left alone, she got to her feet and opened the box. She gasped when she saw a dazzling champagne rose gown in it. There was a pair of embellished heels and diamond earrings with another diamond necklace. A pink one this time.
Her lips curved into a warm smile, knowing the box was from Aaron She couldn’t help the butterflies that went wild in her stomach.
She picked up the note in the box, her heart raced as she read the words that were written on it in Aaron’s cursive handwriting.
[Join me for a weekend away in the middle of the ocean. Let’s go on a cruise date.]
