Kiss Me Not

Inside the car, Brione was busy thinking how she would coax her husband into telling her what was inside his private room. She was really curious to find out what was inside.

They finally arrived back home. Gavin eventually noticed how quiet Brione was, she looked like she was in deep thought during their travel.

"You're a bit quiet, sweetheart?" Gavin whispered as he hugged her from behind as soon as they arrived inside their bedroom. "Are things at the company tiring?"

"Not really, darling. It's great. Well, it may be a bit tiring but it's also very satisfying. Mitch and Berry are happily helping me. Anyway, I will clean up first," Brione whispered instead and hurriedly walked inside the bathroom. 

She decided to perform a striptease even though she was not sure it would be effective in finding out what she wanted from her husband since her husband already saw her body from head to toe. Well, aside from that, a strip tease was something she did not try on her husband yet so she wanted to try it this time.

A playful smile curved on her lips as her face reddened. She never thought that she would be trying to do wild stuff like that in her married life. She was a performer but then, strip teasing was indeed very different! It would test how good she was given that it would be her first time so she would just follow her instincts in doing it.

She grabbed some of her enticing nightgowns and hurriedly cleaned up herself inside the bathroom. She got out of the bathroom all prepared but her forehead creased when she ended up seeing an empty room. Gavin was nowhere to be found. She thought he would be on their bed, waiting for her to finish cleaning up.

"Huh? Where is he?!" she muttered with a crumpled look on her face. He was nowhere inside so she decided to go out of their bedroom to look for him. He was nowhere around so she walked straight to his library where he must have been hiding again inside his secret room.

And as she expected, Gavin was really inside the library.

"Sweetheart, I just wrapped up some things inside," Gavin said as an excuse, he flashed her a smile as he approached her. His wife looked so enticing with her wet hair and he could even smell her intoxicating scent filling the room.

Brione crossed her arms, with a brow raised, she demanded, "open it! I want to see what's inside that secret room!"

She was supposed to play cute with him but she was not in the mood anymore! Striptease no more!!!

Gavin was surprised seeing how deep her frown was but then he already saw this coming given the nature of his wife. He knew Brione would not let it all slide this easily. He heaved a sigh. He finally decided to show her the secret room so she would be put at ease. There was nothing so alarming inside anyway.

He pulled a book on the shelves and the wall moved.

"Come," he whispered, offering his hand to Brione as he led her down the staircase.

Brione was elated that Gavin did not insist on keeping the secret room from her. She immediately grabbed his hand and let him lead her inside. It had a staircase leading down. There was another door at the end and Gavin opened it with his biometrics.

Brione's eyes widened upon seeing the chaotic space. There were so many papers and what was worse was, Gavin looked like he had a zoo inside! There were birds, butterflies… animals hanging around!

"What's this? Where did they come from?!" she burst, totally shocked.

Gavin scratched his head and whispered, "Ah just some company. They will leave soon. Shooo!!!" Gavin shoo them away and in that instant, everything was gone!

"Is this room connected to the garden?!" Brione assumed with lifted eyebrows. "I never knew you like animals this much!" Brione added as she looked around.

"I never know too…" Gavin helplessly whispered. He wished he could explain things to Brione but then it would only complicate things.

"See, I'm not hiding anything, sweetheart. Can we go back to our bedroom now? I will fix this mess tomorrow." Gavin said with a smile, hoping his wife would not worry so much now that she had seen his private space. He wondered though, how would she look at him once she witnessed how he worked like a possessed man while writing all the scenes about Mirage? He bet it was a big turn-off since he would look so really weird!

He pulled Brione out of the room and the two stayed in the kitchen where he poured hot milk and chocolate to cool his wife down a bit. Brione loved sweets like these at night.

"I remembered something…" Gavin suddenly whispered.

"What?" Brione curiously asked.

"The first time I saw you… You asked me to make you a hot chocolate like this. You're so adorable for a five-year-old girl. That's your first visit to our house when father Damiel and I moved in. I just realized you were so bossy to me." Gavin chuckled.

"Hmp? I'm not bossy. It's me being fond of you!" Brione defended.

"Sweetheart…" Gavin whispered, staring directly at Brione.

"What?" Brione asked, they were at the kitchen counter, drinking hot milk and chocolate while staring at each other.

"I'm curious… What do you like most about me?" 

Brione was surprised to hear her husband ask such a question. She smiled at him and replied, "What do I like most about you? Everything of course!!! I like everything that I can't think of anything I don't like at all!"

Gavin pouted his lips and whispered, "just one in particular…"

"But there's nothing in particular! I like all of you!"

"Come now and let's hurry up and finish this. I prepared a striptease for you but I think I don't need to perform it now that I already saw your private space," Brione said with a seductive smile.

Gavin suddenly pulled the glass from her hand and carried her quickly to their bedroom saying, "you should have said it earlier! I wanna see my wife strip teasing in front of me!!!"