Marvin woke up in my arms. We were both naked. He stood up from the bed to wash his face and I followed him.

“You are awake too,” he said.

“You woke me up, you are too lousy and noisy,” I said.

“Says who?” he asked, laughing, walking toward the bathroom trying to tiptoe his way there.

“Says the dream goddess who I met in my dream. The dream you cut short because you could not be quiet,” I said, tip-toeing too and both of us laughing.

“Can I meet her, she must be as beautiful as you,” Marvin said.

“I killed her because she was beginning to like you,” I said.

“Oh, I see just like you are going to kill Lisandro,” he said.

There was a sudden quietness in the room at the mention of Lisandro. I do not know how much of my conversation with Sancho he heard last night, but obviously, he had not forgotten about Lisandro. I did not know what to reply and I could not tell him anything about the Martinez Gang.

It is better he does not know. He looked at me expecting an answer and I looked at him as if I was confused.

“When did you start eavesdropping on me? That’s not fair. I had a life before I met you,” I said.

“I did not. I walked in while you were on the call, your door was open and I had to wait for you to finish making the call or should I have rudely interrupted the call?” Marvin said, he was still smiling, maybe he thought this was all a joke.

If he was waiting for me to finish the call, then he must have heard a lot. I have to be certain how much he heard. I do not want him to involve himself with the Martinez Gang.

“So what and what did you hear, Mr. Marvins?” I asked.

“Me! Mr. Marvins! Oh common! Cass, I love you and am always looking out for you,” Marvin said.

“Okay. Mr. Lover, what did you hear?” I turned to him, we were still in the bathroom naked.

“If you love someone, Cass, you don’t go about keeping things from them. I have told you all about me that you need to know. There are so many blank parts of your life and you need to fill in the gaps,” Marvin said.

“Is there anything you wish to know Marvin?” I asked.

“Who is Lisandro?” He asked again.

“Lisandro is the man I am going to kill next for bugging me like you are right now,” I said as I finished brushing my teeth and returned to bed.

“Then Ken must be in trouble because he is the chief bug at the office,” he said, smiling.

I sometimes feel I don’t understand Marvin, as he can be very playful with some serious things. Though sometimes it helps me and keeps him from me at a certain distance, I like it.

He does not want to get involved in my business and most times his concern was about my safety. For his sake, I wish he could find a wife and let me just do the killings.

“Cass, I love you and want to trust you,” Marvin said.

“Then trust me, it is just that simple instead of sniffing around,’ I said.

“You are not making it easy to trust you. I still feel there is a lot about you that will harm me in the future that you are yet to reveal,” Marvin said, as he lay beside me on the bed, placing his hands on my navel, and that sent some shivers down my body.

“But I trust you,” I said, as I moved my hand over his head to play with his short curly hair.

Marvin’s hand moved gradually to my public area, he was now scratching the area very gently as I moaned and adjusted my body. I spread my legs apart to give his hands room to play in between them.

“Marvin, I did not trust you because you let me into your life. I rarely trust people and that was why I never gave in to your demand for sex until recently.”

“Mmm,” I moaned. He played with the top of my clit. “Argh, I - - I - - I, trust you because I love you and I know you are looking out for me,” I said, this time I was quivering all over as his middle finger was inside me.

Marvin was always sweet and gentle with me. I begged him not to stop as his hands went in and out, gently brushing the tip of my clit while coming out and gently massaging my G-spot while inside. He was simultaneously sucking my breasts.

I adjusted so that I could play with his di*k, and we were in that mood for some time. He stopped, looked at me in the face, and said

“I love you and I trust you,” as he planted a kiss on my forehead.

We caressed each other's bodies as we made love that morning. It was sweet, it was gentle, it was nice. We both trusted each other with our bodies and should now.

I thought to myself, with all the money and connections Marvin got, he could be one of my strongest allies. I need that call from the Contractor, making me number one.

We lay in bed for some time after the great sex. I felt that we should just stay that way and not go to work, but Marvin, I know, would never miss a day at work, even if he was dying.

“Marvin, you have exactly three months to the deadline for your inheritance to move to Uncle Jonah. It seems like he is winning and you don’t give a damn,” I said.

“I have you, we can get married today, if you want,” Marvin said.

“Marvin, there are a lot of things that would make that impossible, at least not now. I want to have you for the rest of my life but I cannot do it now,” I said.

“So can you do it in three months' time?” He asked.

“That would be late,” I said,

“Then we may have to lose the inheritance and the company. My Uncle would be so pleased,” he said.

“What if we don’t have to lose the inheritance? What if there is another way?” I said, looking at his face. The way he was looking at me wanted to make me laugh, but this was serious stuff.

“What are you thinking?” He asked.

“We get you a lady and have you do a contract marriage with her,” I said.

“What does that even mean and what sort of lady would want that,” Marvin asked me.

“Let me bother about that, please. The contract would be for two years and in those two years I want to be your bodyguard,” I said.

“Then get me a wife, but you are going to sign a contract so that you are not leaving my side,” Marvin said.

“I already did. I did that today with my heart,” I said.

Marvin looked at me in a way that I had never seen him do. I do not know whether he was proud of himself or he was proud of me. But in this web of deception, we are either fooling ourselves or getting into something we may need a lot of thinking and planning to untie.

For now, let's enjoy how the frequency is moving us. I loved it and I am sure he loves it too.

“We need to see Uncle Jonah today so that it does not look like we planned his alleged attack,” I said.

‘So you do not think he was attacked?” Marvin asked.

“He definitely made that up,” I said.

“Wow! How you think as I do is amazing. You see we deserve each other. I wonder why Officer Page thinks otherwise,” Marvin said.

“I wonder how Uncle Jonah would react when you tell him that you were getting married,” I said.

“I am never telling him that, but if you want that contract marriage to happen, you’ve got a search in your hands, We don’t have the luxury of time,” Marvin said.