CHAPTER 73: STORM RISING

When the guest bid farewell to the newlywed couple, Naomi was ready to drop dead in her bed. She was supposed to chat with Alpha Maxwell and bid him goodnight but she was so sleepy she would chat with him tomorrow morning.

She was already yawning when the last guest left.

"Darling, let’s go straight to bed for our wedding night," Edison whispered huskily in her ears, excited to consummate their first night together as husband and wife.

Naomi glared at him. "No. You are not going to sleep in my bed tonight. You will sleep in the guestroom!" She rushed to the staircase, climbed up and headed straight for her bedroom.

Edison was left alone in the living room, annoyed by his wife’s nasty behavior.

He went after her, knocking on her door. "Darling, open the door and let me in!" He demanded, tired and sleepy.

"Go away! Leave me alone!" Naomi yelled.

"Where do you want me to sleep?" he asked, leaning on the door, scanning the hallway.

"There are many rooms in this house. Just pick one!" Naomi replied, discarding her wedding dress and dumped them on the floor carelessly.

"Open the door! Let me in!" Edison shouted, banging on the door.

Briefly glancing at the door, Naomi ignored Edison’s noise and proceeded to the bathroom to brush her teeth. She was sleepy and tired. She wanted to jump into the bed and sleep right away, but she couldn’t sleep without brushing her teeth first.

A few minutes later, she emerged from the bathroom door, went to the closet and grabbed her pajamas.

"Open the door, dammit!" Edison demanded angrily.

"Get lost!" Naomi snapped. She went to bed and lay down, preparing to sleep.

After a while, Edison stopped knocking on the door. Naomi heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that he had already given up and gone to sleep in the guest room.

She shut her eyes ready for sleep. Tears of sadness flooded her face. She hid beneath the blanket, hoping the darkness would erase the sadness tormenting her heart.

She is now Mrs. Hill, no longer Mrs. Burke.

She married twice!

What a life!

After two hours, she still couldn’t sleep. She reached for her phone wanting to chat with Alpha Maxwell. She was planning to meet him in secret so she could see her beloved son. She was dying to hug baby Jacob even for a few minutes. She missed her son so much!

She sent him a message and waited for him to come online.

Outside her room...

Alpha Thomas and Luna Alicia can be seen talking to Edison in the living room.

"Son, I’m sorry about this... I didn’t expect my daughter to do this to you on your wedding night," Alpha Thomas apologized.

Edison smiled. "It’s no big deal, Dad. I’m fine. I will just sleep in the guest room. Maybe tomorrow, my wife will finally allow me into her room. She was drunk, and probably already sleeping right now, tired from the wedding activities earlier."

Alpha Thomas looked at his wife. "Give him the key to Naomi’s room," he ordered.

Luna Alicia handed over the keys to him and said, "You can enter her room using this key. Or you can sleep in the guest room tonight. It’s already clean and ready for you to sleep in. The choice is yours," she offered.

Edison looked at the key in his hand wearily. "Alright, I’ll just decide once I arrive at her room," he said, standing up. "I’m going to sleep now. Goodnight, Mom and Dad."

"Night night," the couple replied in chorus.

The couple were shaking their heads as they watched their son-in-law climb the stairs, heading to the second floor.

"I’m mad at my daughter right now!" Alpha Thomas growled, the scowl on his face deepening.

"Honey, calm down. Maybe the couple will settle their differences tomorrow when they wake up in the morning. Naomi was tired of wedding activities earlier," Luna Alicia reasoned.

" I don’t care if she is tired, she shouldn’t kick her husband out of her room. They’re already husband and wife!" Alpha Thomas retorted indignantly.

"I agree. Naomi’s behavior today is unacceptable. A big insult to her husband," Luna Alicia agreed.

"Alright, let’s just go to sleep. I’m already tired and sleepy," Alpha Thomas finally said.

"OK, let’s go to sleep," Luna Alicia agreed.

The couple finally retired to their bedroom.

Upstairs on the second floor, Edison stood outside the door of Naomi’s room, hesitating for a moment. Would he enter her room now without her permission? He already had the key in his hands and was given permission by his father-in-law.

The guest room was waiting for him as well. He could sleep there without a problem. But after some thinking, he finally decided to sleep in Naomi’s room. After all they were already a married couple.

He inserted the key into the doorknob and opened the door slowly, testing if she was still awake. He switched on the light and saw her lying on the bed, her body covered with a blanket, her eyes closed. She had fallen asleep soundly. Good!

He closed the door without a sound, careful not to awaken her.

He turned off the lights, discarded his clothes and got onto the bed slowly and carefully. He lay down beside her and waited for her to open her eyes and kick him out of the bed angrily, but it didn’t happen. She was already in a deep sleep.

He grinned and closed his eyes. Getting intimate with his wife can wait for tomorrow. Right now he just wants to sleep. He drifted into a slumber a few moments later.

...

The following day, Naomi woke up early to a new day. She was shocked by the sight of Edison lying beside her on the bed, naked.

She was puzzled about how he managed to enter the room?

She knew that the only way to open the door was to use a spare key. Her stepmother must have given the key to him on her father’s order!

GRRR! Annoyed that he still forced his way into the room without her permission, she pushed him out of the bed with all her might.

Edison held his spot. "Stop pushing me out of bed, darling! We are already married. You can no longer push me out of your life as if I’m some kind of garbage!" He growled, annoyed.

"I told you not to enter my room. This is my room, my private space. I don’t want to share it with anybody! Why can’t you understand?" she yelled, enraged.

"But we are already a married couple. We should stay in one room to strengthen our bond as a couple. How can we have children if you refuse to sleep with me?" He asked indignantly.

"I don’t want to have children with you! I only marry you at my father’s order! I no longer love you. Do you understand?" she screamed into his face, hoping she could get her message across his thick skull.

"But you are willing to get pregnant with that guy you met when you were kidnapped? So unfair. You are like a whore opening your legs to any random stranger! How dare you deny me entry into your body when I’m already your husband? Whore!" he snarled angrily.

She glared at him, her eyes blazing with fury. "Don’t you dare call me a whore! I’m not like that! I only open my legs to the person I love. You can’t have my heart—that’s the truth!" she replied in defiance.

Edison smirked. "You have no choice anymore. We are married now and I have rights to your body whether you like it or not. You might not submit yourself to me as your husband because you are still mad that you were forced by your father to marry me—but later on you will eventually surrender your body and soul to me! I will wait for that moment. From now on I will stay in this room with you. This is no longer your room exclusively. This is our room now as a couple!" he declared authoritatively.

"Get out of my room! You are not welcome here!" she shouted angrily into his face, ready to give him a hard time.

"I said this is our room now, it both belongs to us—you must obey me because I’m your husband, do you understand?" He stated firmly, his voice imposing. If she wants this silly war to keep going for the rest of the day... then he is willing to indulge her until she caves in and fulfills her duty as his wife.

Livid with anger, annoyed that he refused to leave her room. She kicked him out of the bed. "Get out! Get lost! You are not welcome in my room! I don’t need you!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Just shout all you want, you can’t get me out of your room! I have all the rights to stay here as your husband!" He retaliated in an irked tone.

Naomi was already reduced to tears. "But you already agreed that we would have separate rooms. Why are you acting like a bastard now?" she lamented in agony.

"I never agreed with your demands, so just give up and stop being a bitch!" He snapped angrily.

Naomi was about to open her mouth to say something but the loud knocking on the door stopped her.

"Open the door!" Alpha Thomas ordered loudly.

Naomi gave her husband a death stare and got off the bed, heading to the door to open it.

"What are those loud noises we heard coming from your room? Are you guys arguing early in the morning?" Alpha Thomas asked, entering the room to investigate.

Naomi inhaled sharply, trying to calm the rage rising in her heart.