What Dreams Are Made Of: Episode 54
FINAL_Episode
“Not that I am complaining but there is one thing that I am still not clear of, Chrissy said while lying in Nikloi’s arms, back in his presidential suite’s bedroom.
“Hmmm..”, Nikloi said. He was still lost in sucking the small mole she had at her back, just below the left beauty bone.
They had left from Royal Le Swaroski and after a long shopping session at Bond Street where he wanted to shower her with the best of everything, had returned to Regency Place. They had spent the last hour in bed together but he was so not done. There was still so much he had to explore about her.
“Nikloi!
Chrissy pulled away and turned to face him, creating as much as space between them. “Listen to me!”
“Okay, I will but only if you come back here”, he said patting the space next to him.
Chrissy pouted and went back in his arms. She wanted to talk but she was more than happy to be back in his arms.
“You said I had broken your heart, then why did you give me job in your new hotel? You had left me alone for so long, ignoring me completely, then why didn’t you just let me continue here at Regency Palace?
“Oh you had broken my heart for sure. I was anguished and disappointed. You had hurt my pride. I loved you deeply but you had pushed me away. I had to nurse my grief-stricken heart. So I had run away from you and everyone else. My family, my work, everything. Steven was the only one who knew where I was.”
Chrissy remembered Steven telling her Nikloi had gone to his private resort in some unknown place and she had wondered if he was gone with Susan. How foolish she had been. She had no clue that he was hurting as much as she was. If only she had accepted her heart’s desires, she could have saved both of them so much of heartache. But maybe it was always meant to be liked this. She smiled to herself, coming closer in his embrace.
“When I could finally overcome my emotions, I returned but I had decided that I would stay away from you. That was the only way I could survive this unexpectedly painful realization that the one woman whom I had loved, didn’t want me. So, I had avoided you and that’s how I had planned to move on. But one
meeting with you when your mother was not well and I had known it was just my futile imagination. I was a lost cause already. There was nothing I could do to really move on.”
“So my darling I had come up with Mission Winning Christina. Asking you to work on this museum was all part of that mission. I needed to have you in front of me so that I could work on my mission. I had decided I would make you see my real feelings and get you accept me.”
“Yacht party had just triggered that plan into fast forward. Seeing you all wet and scared at the deck had awakened all my manly emotions. I wanted to immediately wipe off all the pains from your life and protect you forever. At the same time I also wanted to kiss you senseless. I wanted to make you mine in every way I could. I wanted you in every possible way a man wants a woman.”
“I had thought you were upset with me for creating such a fuss at the party”, Chrissy said dropping her head lowered. She could still feel the chills of that night.
“How could I be upset with you, Christina? If anyone, I was upset with myself for not taking care of you. For letting something so dreadful happen to you when you were clearly under my protection on that yacht.”
“You didn’t know”, Chrissy said softly and placed a sweet kiss on his chest.
“I wanted to protect you with my life. Keep you close to my heart always. The way you reacted to my touch, I knew you felt it too. I had hope you would return my feelings and I knew I was right. You had finally relented and I was the happiest person on this earth when you gave yourself to me completely.”
His hands automatically moved to touch her at her sensitive spots, turning them into tangle of hands and legs. Trying to catch her breath, she whispered, “You promised, we’ll talk.”
“Yes, but I didn’t say, we will only talk”, he replied suggestive
ly.
“mmhhh..”, Chrissy was losing the thread of their talk. But she had to get it out. “We should complete our discussion”, saying that she pulled the bed cover around her and moved against the head rest.
Seeing that she was serious, he sat upright too.
“I really wanted to make your first time pleasurable, unlike your first kiss.More interesting stories for you @ generalloaded.com.
More interesting stories for you @ generalloaded.com. That’s why I stopped myself in my office, though, it tested me to my core. I was myself surprised with my control.” He laughed off at his own words only to be sobered up immediately.
“But I messed it up the next day. I was on cloud number nine on the day of hotel launch. Both my dreams were coming true but Susan was much more cunning than I ever thought her to be. She had her own plans. She knew how important this project was for me.”
Stopping in between, he looked at her and said “I never told you why the Regiment Estate project was so important to me.” Chrissy was surprised with the sudden change in their discussion but she let him continue. He took a deep breath and continued, “It was my way of making up with my mother.” “Your mother?” Chrissy couldn’t understand the connection.
“My mother died while I was very young but even in that short life, she was never really happy. My father married her for her family, wealth and reputation. She never had a blissful married life. On the contrary, my father always controlled her, limited her. He never allowed her to do anything as per her wishes. She was a painter but my father never allowed her to paint after marriage. For him, art was a waste of time”, Nikloi said heavily. This was something not known to even closest of his friends.
Talking about it was not easy but he wanted Chrissy to know everything about him.
“Even after she was gone, my father resentment towards her was not over and he filled my brain with all his thoughts against my mother and women in general. He could never come to terms that she didn’t love him, even though he himself never loved her in the first place.”
“For years I lived with similar resentment towards my mother. For not being there for me, for leaving me all alone with my father, for not loving me. It was only after the death of my father, Aunt Martha was able to come close to me and made me realize who my mother really was. It was too late by then and the damage on my personality was already done but knowing that she really loved me was balm to my broken heart.”
“Then I came to know that many years back, my father was interested in this land for a new hotel project and my mother had dreamt of designing this hotel herself. My father had obviously rejected her idea stating she wasn’t capable enough. In fact he was so pissed off, he had dropped the idea of the hotel completely but that was one wish, my mother could never forget.
When I came to know of my mother’s wish I wanted to make it happen for her, in whichever way I could. That’s the reason I took up this project. I had to make this hotel with the best design, best interiors and the very best artwork in the whole world. My mother couldn’t design it herself but she would have been proud of the beauty of the place. It was a lost son’s repentance to his mother. My way of telling her wherever she is, that I love her.” Nikloi had tears in his eyes. Chrissy pulled him closer but he sniffled and continued.
“Susan knew the importance of this place for me and she could guess the way to turn me against you was to prove you were against this project. That is where she and Richard got together to play this ugly game and I fell into their trap. I was such a fool not to trust you but go by their false allegations.”
“The moment I saw those pictured of Richard and you together, I was raging mad. Richard and I had always had a peculiar association. We wer
e never best of pals but we knew the importance of each other. We had worked together for so long that when he used you to get to me, I could never see his deceit. Those pictures had coloured my judgement. I was so strongly involved with
you yet having no foundation of our relationship, I immediately reached the wrong conclusion.”
“I am so sorry, Christina. I caused you so much hurt. I was hurting deep and pushed all that negativity on to you. Will you be able to forgive me for my horrible..”
“Nikloi, you couldn’t have known of their plans. Those pictutes..”, Chrissy tried to pacify him but Nikloi was deep in his pains.
“Part of me had always wanted to believe that you were innocent but the beast in me who had always seen the worst of everyone, never let me trust you. Did you know in spite of my rejection, I had still not been able to stop myself from reaching out to you? I had called you at your home and to my utter pain, it was Richard who had answered your phone.”
“You had called me?” Chrissy asked fully surprised.
“Yes, and it only seemed to confirm my worst thoughts. I was so hurt and angry that I had immediately rushed to your place. But that had also only worked against me. My heart shattered to pieces all over again when I saw Richard and you in front of your house.”
“Oh! Richard had come to apologize to me. He wanted your hotel to fail and he had used me in the plan but in the end it was Susan who had used us all. He had been carried away in his competition against you but by the time he had realized his mistake it was too late”, Chrissy tried to clarify.
“He had come to meet me too but I had refused to even see him. I couldn’t stand the pain of knowing he had anything to do with you.”
“Nikloi, he was nothing to me. It was all a lie”, Chrissy said coming close to him, placing her palm against his heart.
“I know, Christina. I do”, he took her hand in his hands and kissed it softly. But because of my own fears at that time we lost so much time”, Nikloi said, his eyes full of regret.
“Forget all that. It’s all in the past. Think of all the time we are going to having ahead of us”, Chrissy said full of optimism.
“You are an angel, Christina. I am so glad I found you. And I will make up for all the injustice I have caused to you. I promise to love you and cherish you always”, Nikloi said with strongly felt emotions. Chrissy could see the love pouring out of his eyes.
“You have already fulfilled all my dreams by loving me, Nikloi. I never thought I had a future with you but you have made my dreams come true. Whatever we went through in the past has made our pact stronger. And whatever life has in store for me, I am ready to face it because I know I have you by my side. I love you, Nikloi”
“I love you, Christina. You are my dreams. You are my life.”
The two lovers were finally together and sealed their promise of love with a passionate kiss. They were in each other’s arms and that’s all that mattered to them.
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