A Bride Worth Billions by Tiffany Morgan Read Free Book Online

another. With every single splash of the water she shouted the names of each of her parents, her heart was still aching for them. After she finished, she handed Dembe some stones and urged him to do the same. He also threw two each for his most recent losses, Tunde and Wanga. Aft that, they sat on the sand at the edge of the lake, their legs crossed and their backs straight, they sat in silence, contemplating, as they waited for the long-away dusk to swallow the day...
    The night crept in like a spell cast by an enchantress, earth to iron, water to stone emerald grass to frosty white. The hints of afternoon warmth slipped away, no traces of the kiss of the bested sun upon the earth. The hours pledged to pass gradually yet steadily steal away their body heat with lustful speed.
    Dembe and Lara stayed by the lake a little more as the night came whispering sweet nonsense, persuading heat from their tired muscles until they could not keep resting anymore. It cuddled their skin stealing the pink blush and replacing it with a bluish tone. They stared above the magnificence of the stars, the vibrant night giving chance for the scanty heat of the day to take off unobstructed. The only notion of illumination came from a full moon, and even so her light was more of an ice-cold silver beam.
    On the nights of the full moon, it was the hardest for Dembe to keep it together. It felt like someone or a strange power was pulling the werewolf out from within him and it also fought to come out, but thanks to the late Wanga, he was able to do it, sometimes Lara would notice his discomfort under the moon and wondered what was wrong.
    ‘‘It’s getting late..’’ Dembe said when he felt the full moon overwhelming him..
    ‘‘We should go..’’ he added as he held out his hand for her to take and Lara complied. They walked strolled into the woods for quite a distance and out of nowhere, Dembe brought her to his lips and placed a tender kiss upon her soft lips. Lara felt her entire visage flush warm and the hairs on her neck stood. Something quivered inside her stomach, his kisses always swept her off her feet and she always thought it a bizarre sensation, however, she always liked it. Dembe was fond of these types of surprises. In moments like this Lara knew that if she spoke, her words would definitely be inaudible fumbles and she would not be have the ability to make her regular amusing comments. Right there and then, both of them were at a loss for everything around them; no thoughts, no words, no breath. The only thing that came out of Lara’s frail lips at that moment was Dembe’s name, and even then it came out rather wobbly and quiet. For once in their lives, each of then had been taken away by a better half and it felt perfect. Dembe had never even dreamt of something like this...
    All of a sudden, Dembe could hear a rustling of leaves from afar and at first he thought it was just an animal…The shadows were already dissolved into the darkness of the night when they heard a footfall only two metres behind them and it dawned to Dembe that it must be an agent sent to confirm if he had died with Tunde in the crash. At the back of his mind, he had always felt that this day would come…It was the Black Ops agency’s routine to send someone.
    In the woods, the only person who could get that close to Dembe without detection would be an exceptionally adept agent who would possibly want him dead. But even so, he couldn’t fathom how close he had got before detection! Dembe held Lara, looked at her eyes and said
    ‘‘Run….run as first as you can’’ Lara looked at him with a startled expression and just nodded, then she took off…

‘‘I have to admit, you are quite resourceful’’ the agent said as he appeared from the shadows.
    ‘‘How the hell did you survive?’’ he asked.
    ‘‘You know that only one of us will walk away from this, right?’’ the agent continued, letting out a sneer.
    ‘‘I will give you a fair