Michael let his armor down the moment Carmen told him sweetly, “Here, Daddy, I’ll blow on the mosquito bites for you.” He had planned to sneak out at midnight so that he could secretly return all her newfound pets to their rightful owners, but he was so moved by his daughter’s warm gestures that he found himself relenting instead.

Michael certainly had not expected Carmen to bring a lamb into the courtyard while he was doing the dishes.

“Daddy, can I—”

Michael faltered and screamed inwardly, No, you can’t. You can’t!

He quickly began to dissuade her but alas, his painstaking attempt to do so had convinced Carmen that she wanted two lambs instead.

Once again, Michael was at a loss for words.

By the end of the day, two baby lambs were added to Carmen’s collection of farm animals and Michael let out a dry sob as he heard the lambs bleating in the yard.

But the moment he turned to see his little girl snuggled up against him, he felt all his resentment and frustration dissipate into nothing.

It had been a long day. Flipping over, Michael pulled his sweetheart into his arms and fell asleep shortly after.

At midnight, a few people showed up outside of Michael’s house.

 

“Alright; Dan has already led the guards away. Wait for me here. I’ll be back before you know it!” Sophia instructed quietly as she went over to where Dimon and the others were standing. There was a large bag slung over her shoulder.

Dimon watched as she dashed over to the courtyard, looking clumsy with the heavy bag in tow.

 

Sophia had scoped out the landscape during the day and had taken note of the camera that was positioned by the front entrance. She avoided it and headed over to a hidden part of the courtyard, where she knew the dog hole would be.

When she came upon this dog hole during her stake out earlier that day, Sophia had made sure that she would be able to squeeze through it without being captured by the camera.

Dimon watched as Sophia found the hole and crawled through it. Once she had managed that, she reached out an arm and said, “Dimon, give me the bag.”

Cringing, he handed the bag over to her.

how Cooper’s actions had forced Michael into crawling through a dog hole once upon

seeing as Sophia was now doing the

Sophia slung the bag over her shoulder and sneaked into the

but the same would not apply to the one in the courtyard. She carefully navigated her

was cool by nightfall and instead of using refrigerators, the villagers would store their food in a little

the meager supply that had been stored into the cellar. There was nothing left but a quarter of a lotus root, a couple of eggs, tomatoes, and a lonely cob of corn; the melons were gone and

cooked that

on the floor next to her. She made sure that it still cast its light into the cellar while she rummaged through her

brought lollipops, jellies, chocolates, a packet of cigarettes and chewing gum. Then, she lowered a

the fruits after sunset so they would be fresh

Sophia emptied its contents into the cellar. As she did so, she felt relieved knowing that Michael and Carmen wouldn’t

even noticed when, at some point, a figure appeared behind her. He stayed

happily piled junk

stock up the cellar, which was already

packet of pig feed on top of

as she crouched by the cellar. She was a study in enigma, like a rare flower whose heady perfume aroused Michael

was a deep hunger within him that he could no

moment, he could feel the blood coursing through his body in heated passion and he only had one thing on

testosterone-driven, Michael grabbed Sophia and pinned her against the

been shaking her empty bag when someone suddenly swept her up and pinned himself against her. A large pair of hands clasped over

Michael whispered softly into her ear, his breath stirring her hair in a familiar

relaxed upon realizing that

reaching

could only cling onto Michael by reaching

throat before he hungrily kissed her cheeks and earlobes. Sophia could feel her body giving in to his kisses as she melted into the strength of his

the stove. He had removed all the firewood after cooking and the heat of the stove had since died down, so he knew it wouldn’t scorch Sophia if she were to

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