Raging Love

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Hello guys and welcome to the eighth chapter of this lovely series. I love you guys a lot and I thank you for your love and all your comments in the previous chapter. It shows that you guys really love this story a lot. I appreciate that. Get hooked with me even as we reach the grand finale. It's sad to say that we're almost at the end, just two or so chapters and we say goodbye to Travis' tale. Who'll he end up with?

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Falling in love feels so good but it has its consequences. As Travis is out to clear his name, does he still have feelings for his ex-husband? Find out as your favorite story continues.

Raging love, feel the passion...

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Antonio was coming down the stairs hurriedly with a stern look on his face while busy fixing his buttons on the shirt he was wearing that day. He was putting on a beautiful blue traditional attire with a long jacket like shirt and a trouser of the same color. He had sandals on his feet and he had a red band tied around his head. He wasn't really interested in the fast but his aunt had forced him just like she did in the last six years.

Even as he was coming down, he could see a lot of gifts in the living room and almost the entire place was decorated with beautiful flowers and expensive decors. And of course, he wasn't really surprised because his aunt always outdid herself to host the event. She was really, really passionate about the marital fast.

As Antonio reached down the stairs, he saw Steph rushing to him and she was looking really beautiful in a red traditional dress. He smiled brightly, knelt down and opened his arms where she rushed and he kissed her cheek.

"How's my princess doing?" He moaned softly.

"I am fine, uncle!" Steph said when she pulled away from the hug but had her little arms around Antonio's neck.

"Well, uncle is fine too. So tell me," He said as he played with her well combed hair. "Is my little princess fasting for me too?"

Antonio laughed when Stephanie abruptly nodded. "I am fasting for you and daddy so that you can love me more."

Antonio was happy when he heard those words from the little girl. "Hmmmm... I am jealous. Why are you fasting for daddy too? I thought it was only for me." He asked jokingly. "Daddy has mommy, you know."

"Because I love you both equally!" Stephanie said happily. "You both are my daddies."

Antonio got emotional when he heard those words from Stephanie. He pulled her into a hug, closing his eyes as he enjoyed her warm embrace. He had always wanted to have a child of his own and he thanked God for Stephanie every day. Ever since she had been born six years back, she had come with some ray of happiness for him. A part of his sadness had gone. But Antonio didn't see himself having a child of his own. He didn't think he was in his right frame of mind to raise a baby with all the anger in him.

"Wow! That's touching!" A voice spoke, followed by a chuckle. "What's going on here? Did I miss something?"

Antonio pulled away from the hug and saw his brother together with Ethan and they were both smiling and looked like they were teasing him. Ethan was dressed in a similar attire with Antonio but it was brown and Eduardo was putting on a green one. Both of them were looking really amazing.

"Nothing, you idiots!" He commented, followed by a laugh while lifted Stephanie into his arms. "By the way, Ethan, I didn't know you were here already."

"Yeah! You know I wouldn't miss a chance of you being weird on this day. I was only talking to Eduardo since he's fun to be around compared to you."

"Fuck you, Eth..."

"Hey!" Eduardo raised a finger, gesturing to Stephanie. "Careful now. We don't want her to grow up spoilt like you."

Antonio gasped, his mouth gaping. He couldn't believe his brother had just said that. And when the two men saw his reaction, they both laughed at him. It was really wonderful to see them laughing like that. Antonio couldn't remember the last time he had seen his brother like that. He was happy and he wished he could hug him.

"Hey, did I ever tell you that this boy was insulting as early as 4 years?" Eduardo laughed, patting on Ethan's shoulder.

"No way!" Ethan laughed, looking at Antonio. "I have always known he's a spoilt brat but I never knew he started that early."

Both of them laughed at the top of their voices. Although Antonio was happy the two men he loved most on earth were happy, he was also getting annoyed. It wasn't funny anymore that they were laughing at him.

"Look at his facial expression!" Ethan pointed, laughing really hard. "We're just lucky Celine isn't here otherwise, she'd have reprimanded us for making him look like that."

"What?"

The two men stopped laughing when they heard Celine's voice. Everyone turned and looked towards the entrance where Celine was coming with a really sexy, seductive smile, walking like she was on the run way. She was looking really amazing and captured her husband's heart right there.

Eduardo felt his heart begin to race when he saw his wife cat-walking towards him. She was looking really lovely in a traditional attire, a beautiful, white, short sleeved, long flared dress that made her look amazing with a big ribbon at the back. Her hair was curled and she had beautiful white makeup on, her lips as red as blood, just inviting him to kiss them. She had beautiful sparkly jewelry on her and... damn, she took Santiago's breath away.

Celine came to her husband and she could tell that he was mesmerized by her beauty. She couldn't help but smile.

"Hey!" She kissed his cheek and tried to pull her away but he held her waist and brought her closer.

"With the way you're looking right now, we might just give Stephanie a brother." He whispered, licking her slightly on the ear.

Celine had to suppress her moan but she smiled. "You keep pushing. Maybe it might happen."

While the two were busy romancing, Antonio was in his world wondering whether it was a dream or his mind was playing tricks on him. But he could see Travis/Praveen coming to him with a beautiful smile on his face, blushing lovingly.

He was dressed in a beautiful traditional attire, different from what Antonio was wearing. It was a red traditional attire but the way it was made, the way it fit his beautiful sexy body and the way he had that long hair tied, revealing his gorgeous face, Antonio couldn't help but gulp as he felt his heart begin to race.

He was holding a player plate and he didn't even pay attention to what was there. His eyes on that beautiful face. The smile on it made Antonio to smile and he felt goosebumps all of a sudden. It was like someone had poured cold water on him. He was drooling. Shit!

Travis came to him, flipped his hair and bit his lip seductively. Antonio was now grinning like an idiot and he was getting closer, his eyes on those lips that he wanted to just suck on like a lollipop. Hmm... He felt like his heart was trying to tear through his chest.

"Hello, baby..."

And that was when everything turned sour. As soon as Antonio heard that voice, he came back to reality and found Bruce looking at him, giving him those 'come fuck me' eyes that he didn't like. Antonio lost the smile on his face, acting like a lost puppy. Bruce was wearing the same outfit that he had just day dreamed Travis in.

"Well, we just came from the temple for the Morning Prayer and the priest gave us a thread and some offerings."

He took the offering and carefully fed it to his husband, smiling like he'd won a lottery. Bruce was happy and he knew that luck had started that day. Andrea had been right. His husband had looked at him like he wanted to make love to him right there. Shit! He was horny.

"And this thread is to be worn for the rest of the day." He said as he tied the red thread around his husband's wrist. "It symbolizes my love for you and it will protect you from any evil eye." He took his husband's hand and rubbed on it. "I love you so much, Antonio. Nothing will ever stop that love."

Antonio smiled sheepishly and then leaned forward, kissing Bruce on the cheek. "Love you too."

He quickly turned and left with Ethan. Bruce remained standing there, holding his cheek while smiling hornily. His husband had just kissed his cheek. He felt a myriad of emotions and got frozen, staring at the hunk as he left with his husband.

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"What do you mean they left long ago?" Emma yelled, rubbing her forehead. "They're late and they're supposed to be here by now. They're supposed to be in the kitchen cooking because there's just a lot to cook. I don't want any last minute things because this is really important."

'I am very sorry, miss Gonzalez.' A woman apologized on the other end. 'Please, just give it some time. They'll be there very soon. And you shouldn't worry about anything. They'll be done before the event because they're very good.'

"You don't have to tell me if they're very good or not. I will be the one to see how good they are." She said rudely. "Now, if they don't alive here in the next minute, they shouldn't come at all because I'll hire people that are competent and punctual."

With those words, she cut the call and she was very angry. She had left for the temple together with everyone in the house who were praying for their husbands and had come back to find that the people she had hired from a catering company had not arrived. She was so mad.

Emma was dressed in a beautiful sky blue traditional dress with her hair tied in a bun, looking amazing and sexy with high heeled shoes. She had gotten the dress from a designer shop and she was gonna slay that day. She could already see people being envious at the event.

"Damn, stupid..."

"Ma'am!" Emma heard a weird voice behind her.

She furiously turned and almost bumped into a weird and ugly guy. First she looked at him from head to toe and then up again. Damn, he was really ugly and disgusting.

The guy was a bit tall with big, weird and cheap looking black spectacles. He was wearing a smile and those braces in his teeth were so cheap looking and disgusting, making him look a cheap local, teen from a dirty village.

He was wearing dirty looking clothes, a green cheap t-shirt, a black cheap skinny jean and cream white dirty looking snickers. Everything about him was cheap and when she looked at his head, she nearly cursed. His hair was in brit pop mop, those fringe and sideburns looking like they'd seen their life flash before them. He was an ugly looking thing and if that expression on her face didn't show it, then nothing was gonna. And when he smiled, she almost puked.

"Yes!" She said rudely. "Who are you and what do you want?"

The man chuckled happily. "Well, ma'am, my name is Rodrigo but my friends call me Rodrigito." He said in a Spanish accent that Emma found really annoying. "...and I am the head of the caterers that you hired for this event."

That was when Emma saw about 8 people behind him with big pots and whatever they had. She didn't care. They were all dressed in white uniforms and they looked far much better than the idiot that was talking to her.

"So ma'am, you can call me Rodrigito too since..."

"Whatever!" She gestured, raising her hand to point to the kitchen. "That's the kitchen. You can start cooking right now since you're late. And I sure hope your food is not as ugly as you."

Rodrigo bowed slowly but he didn't lose the smile on his face. "You will not be disappointed, ma'am. I can assure that you'll never taste food as delicious as ours and you'll hire us for all your events. Your friends and family..."

"Enough!" She snapped, getting closer to the man. Surprisingly, he was still smiling. "Now you listen, don't think that just because I hired you to work here means that you can just talk anyhow or that you and I are of the same class. Take a very good look at this house very well and yourself. You're not even worthy to step here but I'll let it pass just this once. All the food items you need are in the kitchen and let me not lose anything here.

If I lose even a spoon, I'll take down that company of yours together with you. Do you understand?"

Rodrigo nodded but he was still smiling.

"Understood, ma'am."

"Now get the hell out of here and get to work!" She yelled.

Rodrigo gasped and started rushing to the kitchen together with his crew. He was looking around as he entered and couldn't help but admire the mansion. It was really beautiful.

"Annoying, little beotch!" Emma muttered, clenching her fists.

Then she went out of the living room to check out how other preparations were coming.

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Andrea was standing in front of a huge mirror, checking herself out. She was wearing a beautiful, seductive smile while checking how sexy she looked in the attire she was wearing. She was putting on a pink, beautiful flared dressed that almost touched her feet. The dress was see-through from the waist up and she had a red bra inside that made her look even sexy. She had her hair curled with beautiful jewelry on her and beautiful pink makeup. She also had high heels on her feet.

"Wow! Someone looks sexy today. What's going on?"

Andrea glanced at her friend through the mirror and blushed, acting like a professional whore. Then she started humming 'perfect' by Ed Sheeran which surprised Bruce. He started getting closer with a raised eyebrow.

"Hmm, which reminds me. You followed us at the temple today this morning and I heard your prayer too." He put his hand on his hairless chin, rubbing on it. "Are you fasting? And for who?"

Andrea slowly turned and put her hands on her chest, acting like a teenage in love.

"Who else but the love of my life, Ethan!" She giggled, biting her bottom lip while getting lost in thought. "I am fasting for our love which is about to bloom tonight."

"What? Shut the front door!" He rushed to her and held her hands. "You bitch, how long have you been hiding this from me? I thought you were gonna talk to Antonio about it."

"And I plan to." She breathed in the air of love. "But tonight, I am gonna try my luck. I will seduce Ethan and he'll have no choice but tonight..." She breathed in through her teeth, making it sound like she was moaning. "...I wanna have him to myself. I want to taste those lips and feel him inside of me right there." She gestured to the bed. "I want us to be one."

Bruce was shocked with what he was hearing. But knowing Andrea, he knew she was gonna execute what she had planned.

"And how do you plan on doing that? If you're fasting for a man and he's still alive, to make your love stronger..." He paused and chuckled. "...he needs to break your fast by giving you water from his hands, just like Antonio will tonight."

Andrea smiled. "Of course, I know all that. Why would I venture into something that I didn't plan thoroughly. Leave that to me. Ethan will break my fast and our love will blossom."

Bruce clapped, wrapping his hands around her. "I know you'll do it. And I trust that you two will become a couple and as soon as we get rid of all our problems, we'll go abroad for a double honeymoon. What do you think?"

"What do I think?" Andrea chuckled. "Of course, we're going."

"And tonight is our night. Antonio will be mine forever after tonight. He'll never think about anyone else."

"Hmm, and how do you plan on doing that?" Andrea asked. "I don't suppose you want to kill my brother."

"Kill him with pleasure, you mean!"

The both of them laughed at the top of their voices. Their happiness had reached its peak that day. They had planned a lot and nothing was gonna go wrong. Everything was gonna go according to their plan.

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Emilia entered the kitchen slowly and she got really emotional when she saw how busy it was. There were different foods being cooked while other foods were being packed. She had no idea why she was always got emotional at events like that.

She could very well remember how she had seen her son kissing Bruce when she had entered the house as soon as she came from the temple. She was very happy and although her husband was dead, she was fasting like she always did even after her husband's death and on such a day, she missed him terribly.

Emilia was wearing a red traditional flared dress and she looked really beautiful with her hair loose. Though she wasn't putting on any makeup, she was really beautiful though not as before. Her pain and anguish had made her a bit thin.

Emilia was so lost in thought that she didn't even realize that she had tears going down her cheeks.

"Are you okay, ma'am?"

Emilia got out of her thoughts and saw a young man staring at her with concern on his face. She quickly rubbed her tears and tried to smile.

"I am sorry!" The man apologized in a strong Spanish accent. "I know I shouldn't be interfering but I saw tears and I thought..."

"Tears of joy!" Emilia chuckled nervously. "A mother's joy always comes when her family gets together and forgets about their sorrows. Even if it is just once, a mother feels like all the burden has been lifted and all she wishes is to see her children happy."

Rodrigo nodded, smiling sheepishly. Emilia chuckled when she looked at him. He was looking like a poor boy but she could see through him. He was really handsome and he had beautiful, light blue eyes. But she didn't wanna comment on that.

"You're absolutely right, ma'am."

Emilia smiled, nodding. "When your children are too busy, it is only during events like these than you get to spend time with them without even having to worry about anything. I am sure that you mother also feels like that."

Rodrigo shook his head though he was still wearing a smile. "No, ma'am. My mother is late. It is just me and my father."

"Oh!" She lost the smile on her face. "I am so sorry. That must have been really tough for you. You look so young and I am sure that your father is really lucky to have you. You know..." She paused and chuckled. "...as a mother, I really love seeing my children happy. They're all now settled and I can see that they're finally getting the happiness they deserve."

Rodrigo nodded softly.

"And you too, I am sure that very soon, you'll find a really beautiful girl who will love you." She said, resting her hand on his shoulder. "She'll make you really happy and you'll forget about all the pain that you've gone through. She'll fast for your happiness and long life at events like these. And when you have children, you'll experience the most joy."

Rodrigo just nodded without saying anything but he was still smiling.

"Excuse me!" Emilia chuckled. "You may continue with your work. I don't wanna disturb you."

With a smile, Emilia left the kitchen, leaving Rodrigo standing there. He lost the smile on his face and just stared at the woman as she left. He had no idea why what she had said made him emotional. What was going on?

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Bruce came out of the bathroom, busy wiping his hands clean. It was already evening and the sensations he felt as he stared at the bed almost made him moan. He could picture Antonio making sweet, hot love to him on that bed that very night and he couldn't wait. He couldn't wait to feel that beautiful cock driving him crazy with pleasure and lust. He knew it was gonna happen and he had a perfect plan for it. After that, Antonio was gonna want to be with no one else but him. They were gonna be making love, fucking everywhere like dogs. Shit! Thinking about it was actually making him super hard.

"Calm down, Bruce!" He muttered, wiping the sweat off his forehead. "All in good time. You need to get ready to go downstairs because the event has probably started."