Contract Marriage starring Love and Revenge
Chapter 40. Rey Grand

Chapter 40: 40. Rey Grand

Snow bath, in some places, it’s a tradition, where little children are bathed in snow. They say it makes the child stronger, giving him or her a strong immune system to battle any kind of sickness. All in all, it’s said to bring good health.

That’s what Google will tell you.

I know, I looked it up too.

But for these folks, these people... It’s a tradition, yes, but not a tradition to build up a stronger immune system.

No... Far from it.

For them, it’s a tradition just for Duke, the Christmas baby. It’s a birthday tradition. A tradition where more than bathing, there’s snow smashing, snow slapping, snow dipping and burying; where they pin him down to the cold snow and try to bury him before he can escape.

All in all, there’s less snow bathing and more snow mania.

"Duke, watch out! Behind you!!!" I scream from behind the window as he’s holding off Alan, but Fredrick is coming up from behind him.

"Haha! Look at daddy has forwin down. HAHAHA." Shelly points and laughs hysterically, causing Renny to laugh too.

All four of us, Myself, Shelly, Renny and Emily have taken positions in front of the window, with the twins kneeling on the head of the sofa that’s resting on the windows walls. Staring at the craziness going on outside, too wary of the cold to actually step out.

"You boys are gonna give my baby a brain freeze!" Emily yells as once again, Alan and Fredrick pin down Duke. Somehow, Duke meanders through their hold and he’s running toward the house.

"Faster! Faster Daddy faster!!" The twins are happily chanting for their father like cheerleaders.

"Don’t jump there, you’ll fall." I say to them as I can see them already bouncing with happiness. Then I turn my attention back to my husband who seems to be running as fast as he can but the snow is hindering his movement.

"Duke," I scream too. I don’t even know when I let it out. "Come on, you’re almost there! You can make it!!"

"Yes Dukey, you can’t keep getting beat up in front of your kids! Run."

"Faster daddy. Faster!! Daddy!! GO, RUN RUN RUN!!!"

All of a sudden, right before our eyes, something runs into Duke from the side, and he goes crashing back into the snow with the thing that just ran into him.

Or was it a person?

All our laughs and screams instantly die down as if we’re all waiting for something. Who is that? Who could that be and where the heck did he come from?

And why did he do that to Duke?

"W_who is that? What is he doing?" I mutter to myself as I turn to stare at Emily behind me. And weirdly while I’m having a worried look on my face, she has a weird smile on hers.

Why?

Why is she smiling?

"Where do you think you’re going, birthday boy?" An unknown voice that I haven’t heard since I got here. And I turn around to see everyone outside laughing. Even Duke with is head resting on the cold snow is grinning with a palm over his eyes.

"Guess who caught the birthday boy?" The person finally turns his head toward our direction with a big grin upon his face and oh my gosh, was there a male version of Emily?!!

"UNCLE WAY!!!" The twins suddenly scream, sliding down from the chair in such a haste that I fear they might fall. "Uncle way! Uncle way! Uncle way!" They are chanting with so much zeal.

With the same enthusiasm, they rush towards the door only to halt there and their hands can’t reach the doorknob. These little dwarfs, hah.

I’m confused... Uncle way? They probably mean Ray, right?

Emily walks towards the door and generously helps them open it.

As she opens the door, the twins, not minding that they are barefooted, run outside, giggling and running altogether.

"My precious little footballs!!" He says, finally letting go of Duke to accept the very zealous hug of the twins.

He picks the two of them off the ground, "I’m so hungry I’m gonna eat you both now!" He says and pretends to be gulping them both up. Fake-biting their ears and arms, causing them to wiggle and giggle non-stop.

Standing behind Emily who’s just standing by the door with her hands folded on her chest and a smile on her face, I can’t stop staring and smiling at the scene in front of me. The twins’ laugh is quite contagious.

"Momma," He says while walking towards Emily who can’t seem to contain the smile that’s growing wider and wider on her lips.

Carefully, he sets down the twins at the doorstep and wraps Emily in a big hug. She hugs him back. And they sway in each other’s arms laughing and breathing in each other.

"I missed you momma." He says and she scoffs.

"Says the child who never wants to come home." She says.

He laughs and I flinch as he suddenly lifts his lashes and our eyes meet. He smiles at me, a very charming smile I must say. He looks so much like Emily!

He’s calling her mom, the twins are calling him uncle so that must only mean that he’s their son. Which also means, Duke’s brother. Older or younger? I can’t tell.

"You damn mama’s boy. You bypassed your father to hug your mother first!" I hear Fredrick saying from behind him and at that moment, our eye contact breaks as he turns around to face Fredrick.

He shrugs, "She cherishes me more." and he gives Fredrick a hug too. "Oh old man, I missed you too." He says, giving his father a harder squeeze.

Fredrick scoffs, "I am only fifty-five, I’m still young." Huh!!! He’s fifty-five! He doesn’t look it at all. He still looks quite young. At most mid-forties.

Wait, now that I think about it, how old is Duke?

"Man, it’s so annoying that you get more good looking every time you return." Says the blond man who is equally good looking.

"There’s the last kid of the house! Alan, my boy! How are you doing?" He says as he moves from Fredrick to Alan, placing his arm over his shoulder and putting him in a sudden headlock.

"Stop it, I am twenty-eight for goodness sake, not twelve!" Alan tries to shove him off but the man is taller and bulkier than he is. I think he’s taller than Duke too.

But wait, did he just call Alan the last kid of the house? What does that mean?

...

"Hi," He says to me, with an outstretched hand.

"Hello." I say in turn, taking his handshake.

"I’m Rey. That’s Rey with an ’E’ not an ’A’," damn he is fine. "It means King in Spanish." Why am I not surprised? There’s already a Duke. It won’t make sense if there is no King.

But he really is as fine as Emily. Duke looks like his father, taking just the black hair color from his mother, while this man, this man is the spitting image of his mother, only he took his father’s brown hair and blue eyes.

He takes my hand to his lips and places a kiss there, "Uh, no! No, no, no! That’s your brother’s wife! You will not flirt with her!" Fredrick suddenly rushes between us and takes my hand from him.

"Stay away from this one dear, he is not normal. He is the bad son." Fredrick says and I can’t believe he just said something like that to his son’s face. Well the man in question doesn’t seem to mind being called the bad soon.

"Duke! Hey Duke! Better come down quick, Rey is trying to steal your wife!" Alan yells.

"Rey!! Get away from Pagne now!!" I hear Duke bellow from within the room. I have never heard him shout so loud before.

"Pagne, it’s nice to finally meet you." He says.

"Actually, it’s Champagne, only Duke calls me Pagne." I don’t know why I said that, but I just said that.

"I see. Well, you are as beautiful as—"

"Rey!!" Duke screams coming down from the stairs like something is chasing him.

"She is out of bounds. She has been taken, there is no changing it. She is mine!" For some reason, that fierce declaration makes me blush. The way his hand pulls me behind him and his voice that’s sounding so out of breath, I just like it all.

"I know. I was only saying hello." He shrugs. "Although, it’s a shame you snatched up such a beauty."

Beauty? Where? Who? Me?!! Does he mean me? I think the men of this house have some sort of eye problem they don’t know of yet. How can he effortlessly calm me beautiful?

"Rey,"

"Alright, alright. I give up." He lifts his hands up in the air and winks at me. He’s a mischievous fellow, and I’m not a good judge of character, my previous relationships can attest to that. But for some reason, I think he’s okay.

"Let me introduce myself properly this time. I am Rey Grand. The handsome other twin half of your husband."

Huh!!!

T_twin!!! "You’re twins!" I am in shock!

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