Kiss From A Rose
Happy Birthday
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Sorry, I now I wanted to post last week, but I just couldn’t write
anything. My muse seems to be in some extra-long summer holiday…
I’m just going to say a quick THANK YOU to everyone who reviewed this
time, since you already had to wait so long for the update.
style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Chapter 12
style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Happy Birthday
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style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Angelina was lying on her
stomach, the blanket just covering her bottom, leaving her legs and back free.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She felt something soft
touching her neck, then her shoulder – the left one and then the right one –
and then her back, slowly moving down.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Angelina opened her eyes
lazily and looked at
EN-GB'>’s chest.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Finally
awake?” she heard him ask before he kissed her back once again.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“What
time is it?” she tried to stifle a yawn and turned around to lie on her back.
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EN-GB'>“Almost
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EN-GB'>Adrian
replied and stroke with his fingertips over her stomach.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“How
about we spent the rest of the week right here, in bed?” he asked when she
shivered under his hand.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Didn’t
Sophia tell you to show me the town?”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Yes,
but she will go and show it to your sister anyway when they come over at the
end of the week and then we could just go with them. And until then, we could
try for that baby…”
EN-GB'>’s mouth closed around her nipple, his eyes looking at her face while he
sucked gently.
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EN-GB'>Adrian
Angelina gasped while his hand left her stomach to wander underneath the
blanket and moved between her open legs. She took his head in her hands and
pulled him away from her breasts.
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about a compromise then… I’ll take you to
EN-GB'>Lucca
for dinner. But until then…” his lips met hers and he heard her murmur an
approval before his tongue conquered her mouth. Angelina let her hands fall
from his face and brought them to his chest.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She
ran her hands over his body, feeling his muscles tighten underneath them. Her
foot moved slowly over his leg, trying to coax him to lie between her legs.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“And
I almost believed you that you’d rather go to
EN-GB'>Lucca
EN-GB'> murmured as her hands reached his hips, her fingertips tracing small
patterns on his skin.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You’re
talking too much…” She said against his lips, but
EN-GB'>Adrian
only touched hers lightly before he kissed his way over her cheek and to her
ear.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“And
I thought you like it when I talk…”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> moaned, not sure whether it was of his words or the contact his body
finally made with hers.
EN-GB'>’s lips glided over her neck and he pulled her sensitive skin between
his teeth when he finally sank into her.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>She
EN-GB'> threw her head back and arched her back; her hands on his shoulders;
her legs wrapped themselves around him trying to get even closer to him, to be
one with him.
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seemed to sink deeper and deeper into her with each single thrust. Each touch
their lips share seems to weave their souls together. And each single kiss of
his hands on her body and her hands on his body seems to burn their bodies and
create a new one – a single body – out of their two.
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in this rare moment of time, as their hearts beat together in the same rhythm,
as their souls united and their bodies melted together, the life that was
within her feed from this union, became stronger and stronger, and grew;
prepared itself to live it’s own life more and more.
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One week ago:
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minutes.”
send their keeper while he walked back to his office.
“Well,
we did find it odd for him to accept you seeing his wife every now and
then so easy.” One of the chasers said
silently as they watched Oliver walking inside the building. He walked into the
office and closed the door behind him wordlessly.
“I
don’t like you seeing Angelina so often…”
“And
I don’t like you being married to her, but that’s nothing either of us can
change, is it?” Oliver interrupted Adrian, his head held
high, his eyes full of his will to fight.
eyebrows before he glared at the quidditch player.
“Actually I could change what I don’t like but that is
not the reason I wanted to speak to you.”
“Then what is the reason I’m here?” Oliver asked
bewildered.
“As much as I hate to admit it, I need your help.”
“Why?”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Sometime during the afternoon,
EN-US'> had taken Angelina to the small town his grandmother loved so much.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>He had shown her the old town
wall – the longest in Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall – which was
overgrown with grass, the Guinigi-tower with its
trees on top, the former amphitheatre which was now home to several families
and of course some of the churches in Lucca.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Now they were sitting at a
table in a romantic restaurant in
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handed
EN-GB'> the menu cards.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“You
look surprised.”
EN-GB'> said smiling to Angelina when they were left alone.
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have to admit that I’m surprised that we actually made it into the town.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“It’s
not as though you complained when it took us a bit longer to come into the
town.” He replied grinning and Angelina looked down at her card to hide the
blush that she felt rising in her cheeks.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Oddly
enough she didn’t feel like a married woman having dinner with her husband. As
the waiter brought their wine and dinner she felt more like a teenager at the
very first date – on a very expensive first date but a first date nonetheless.
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“Your
parents and Angelina’s were good friends, weren’t they?”
even more confused.
“Yes, they were, but I still don’t see what you want
from me.”
“Not much, just a favour – for Angelina’s sake.”
“And what would that be?”
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Probably due to the amount of time Angelinastyle='font-size:13.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> and
spent in bed – not that she was about to complain – She had enjoyed every
second of it.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> opened her eyes slowly and stretched. It was way too early to be up
already. Silently she wondered when she had started to become so lazy.
EN-GB'>noon
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heartily.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Good
Morning.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> turned around to see
EN-GB'>Adrian
– very much awake – smiling at her.
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EN-GB'>“And happy birthday.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> frowned slightly at this.
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didn’t think you’d know.”
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EN-GB'>Adrian
shrugged and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“There’s
a present for you lying on the nightstand.” He said silently and watched her as
she sat up, the cover held against her chest, and took the package from the
nightstand. She unwrapped the bow and took the lid off
of the box. A thin paper laid over the actual gift and
EN-US'>Angelina
she took the folding three-way-picture frame in her hands.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She
gasped when she saw the three pictures it contained. She looked at each single
one of them and then back at
EN-GB'>Adrian
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“How…
how did you…”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“I
asked Wood. I figured when his parents and yours were close he might have some
pictures of them.”
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> felt tears gathering in her eyes when her gaze fell on the pictures
again. She didn’t know what touched her more about the present, the fact that
he had thought of giving her something to remember her of her parents, or the
fact that he had asked Oliver for a favour for her.
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you like them?”
EN-GB'> asked and ran his thumb over her cheek, brushing the tear that had
emerged her eye away from her skin.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> smiled and nodded silently as she looked at the pictures. The one in
the middle was from her parent’s wedding. Her mother looked so beautiful in her
wedding dress, and they both looked so very much in love.
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picture in the right frame had been taken only a few years later. Her mother
sitting in an armchair, her father on the armrest and herself, only a few weeks
old then, lying in her mother’s arms.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But
the one she loved most was the one on the left side. This one, she could
actually remember being taken. She had just left Hogwarts and instead of going
home she had gone to the hospital immediately after she left the train. Her
sister had been born that day and the picture showed all four
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Angelina
EN-GB'> turned her head to look at her husband.
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“Thank
you.” She said and pulled his head towards her own.
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don’t know what this means to me.” She whispered just before their lips
touched.
EN-GB'> gently pushed her back onto the bed and carefully put the picture frame
and the box it had been in on the nightstand before he covered
EN-US'>Angelina’s upper body with his own.
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Where are you?”
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EN-US'>Adrian
groaned against her mouth when they heard Julia calling her sister.
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thank you tonight.” Angelina promised when they let go of each other and left
the bed to get dressed and have lunch with Sophia and Julia in the town.