lost. We fucking lost. After all the hard work we did, I let my team down.

I couldn't even hit a six. How hard was that?

The noise of the crowd around me fades into a buzzing sound. My teammates gather around me, dejected but they seemed to care about me more.

"It's okay, Thea. We tried our best, that's what matters." Cassie assured me and pulled me up to my feet.

When I didn't respond, she grabbed my shoulders and shook me slightly. "Thea?"

I came out of whatever daze I was in and realised how loud it was there with thousands of people shouting and cheering for India. "Y-yeah..."

And I realised that everything was looking slightly blurry and I pressed my finger to my eyes. "My contact lenses...?"

"You are crying, Thea. It must have fell down. C'mon, I'll buy you a new one."

Later, when the post match presentation was done and I somehow managed to answer all their questions including how was my injury which to be honest, wasn't hurting that much, we all stood nearby and watch India lift the World Cup for the first time.

I am not a jealous type so I clapped for them. Yes, we lost but I can't do anything much now.

Someone tapped my shoulder. "Althea?"

I turned around and saw dad standing there and I instantly hugged him as tears once again made their way out of my eyes. Dad gently rubbed my back. "It's okay... it's okay..." He kept repeating.

I cried for a minute in his embrace before sniffing back my tears and pulling back. Dad gave me an assuring smile and kissed my forehead. "We are all proud of you. You did your best, okay?"

I nodded slowly and he wiped away my tears and I asked, "Where's Calix?"

Dad gestured over his shoulder and I saw Calix standing behind the boundary, his hands stuffed in his pockets and eyes on us and his jaw clenched. Is he...angry?

"What's wrong with him?" I questioned dad.

He frowned and flung a look at him. "I don't know...he looked just fine earlier."

Leaving dad, I walked to him and his gaze softened and I was pulled into his arms. I sighed breathing in his comforting smell, burying my face in his chest.

He pressed his lips to my hair, breathing heavily. "How much is it hurting?"

"Um...I...feel devastated--"

"The World Cup can go fuck itself, Althea. I am asking about your injury." His voice wasn't the usual loving one, he seemed to be controlling his anger. And I have no freaking idea why.

"It's okay..."

He hummed in response and held me tighter and said nothing more. What's wrong with him?

I lifted my head and glanced up at him. "Calix--"

His jaw ticked and he cupped my cheek. "Meet me at the hotel."

And for a second he caressed my cheek and then stepped back. Baffled, I nodded slowly and left as someone called me for a group photo.

He is angry. He didn't kiss me, he didn't call me Al or baby. Just Althea. Which means he is pissed off with me but what for? I didn't even do anything...is he mad that we lost? But he just said he didn't care about the World Cup.

I somehow pushed back his thoughts and focused on the post match press conference and other stuffs.

.

.

.

It was late when I reached the hotel with my team and bidding them goodnight, I went to my room or our room.

I had a spare room key with me and I opened the door and went inside and dumped my cricket kit.

Calix was standing there with his back to me, gazing out of the floor to ceiling windows. He had already changed his clothes and was just in a pair of sweatpants.

"Calix?" I called softly walking further into the room.

And when he turned around, I almost gasped at the look of anger on his face. All directed at me.

"W-what did I do...?" I whispered. "Why are you so pissed off?"

"What did you do?" His voice was dangerously low. "Who the fuck told you to come out to play again? Why the fuck did you do that?"

"You are angry about that? Are you serious?"

He ignored me and stalked to me, stopping a few inches away from me. "Whose decision was it? The coach?"

I gulped. "It was...my decision."

He took a step forward making me step back and he backed me up against a wall and slammed his fist beside my head making me flinch. "Fucking hell, Althea! Why would you do that?! You got hit at such a sensitive spot, you went fucking unconscious on the field, gave me a goddamn heart attack and then you walked back out again! Why the fuck would you do that?"

Tears welled up in my eyes. "My team needed me!"

"I need you more!" He yelled and for a second, the anger slipped from his face to reveal pure vulnerability. "I thought I fucking lost you!"

A lump formed in my throat. He has never been so mad at me. Never. And this is scary. I have never seen him like this. "B-but I am...okay..."

"You should be grateful that you are or that bowler would have been dead till now."

"It's not her mistake... I got distracted..."

"Shut up."

"Calix--"

He was breathing heavily, eyes blazing with rage. "Shut up, Althea."

"But--"

He didn't let me complete as his lips captured mine in a harsh, punishing kiss making me gasp in surprise.

It wasn't a kiss but a punishment. He didn't even let me kiss him back, he just plundered my mouth with his tongue, kissing me hard and desperately.

But God, I loved it.

I lifted my hand to touch his face but he grabbed them and held both the wrists together above my head firmly.

I moaned into the kiss and he bit my lower lip and sucked on it and wrenched his lips away from mine.

His fingers held my chin and he tilted my head and his head dipped down and very tenderly, his lips grazed the area where I got hit. He placed a feathery kiss there and then with the same gentleness his tongue darted out to lick it making me whimper softly.

And then he dropped his forehead on my shoulder and stayed like that for a minute and said, "I can't lose you, please." He pleaded with not a hint of anger in his tone anymore. "You are too precious to me. I can never ever lose you. Don't do that ever again."

I sighed in relief knowing he won't be shouting at me anymore and I placed my arms around his shoulder. "I'm sorry, Calix. I...I was just desperate to win this match..."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

In return, he pressed a kiss to my shoulder and continued pressing gentle kisses up to my neck.

His fingers slowly slid inside my team t-shirt and rubbed circles over my waist.

When his lips reached my jaw, he paused. And very slowly pulled back. "Go to sleep, Al. You must be tired."

He can't be serious. After turning me on he can't possibly tell me to go sleep.

"Calix..." I whispered huskily. "I want you, please."

His eyes darkened and he pressed a lingering kiss on my lips. "You are tired and hurt, baby. Go to sleep."

"I am not hurt, I am okay now."

"You have concussion, Al. You need to rest."

I shook my head. "It's not that bad. Just a slight one. I will be okay."

His lips twitched with amusement and he flicked my forehead playfully. "You made me wait for years for you, can't you wait for a day for me now?"

"Calix! Come on, please."

He grabbed my hand and dragging me to the bathroom, gently pushed me in and closed the door. "Freshen up and then go to sleep."

I groaned in frustration but I got freshened up anyway and took a short shower and wrapped a towel around myself before walking out just like that.

He was sitting on the bed against the headboard and when his eyes fell on me, his body tensed and lust was etched over his face. "What are you doing?"

I shrugged and took out a pair of shorts and a crop top and without thinking twice, I dropped the towel leaving myself bare infront of him.

He just groaned and shut his eyes firmly. "Don't provoke me, baby. I'm trying really hard to control myself."

"You don't have to. Please..."

When he didn't open his eyes, I picked up the clothes and wore them. "Fine, your loss. I am not going to force myself on you."

Grumbling I laid down on the bed and turned my back to him. A moment later, he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me to his chest, burying his face in my neck. "Goodnight, baby."

I grumbled in response which made him chuckle and he planted a kiss on my neck.

Minutes passed by but I didn't feel like sleeping, I was still very very horny and with his hips pressed into my ass, it wasn't helping.

I tried to wiggle away but he tightened his hold around me. "Stop moving."

But I didn't listen to him and when I moved again, I felt something dig into my ass and I almost gasped.

He was hard. So very hard.

Very slowly, I arched my ass against his front and rocked and he hissed slowly and I felt him grow harder every second.

Wetness pooled between my legs as I continued rubbing myself against his hardness and he started to breath heavily but didn't make any efforts to stop me for which I was grateful.

For a minute we stayed like that, rubbing against each other, not saying anything until his hand slowly moved down from my waist and unbottoned my shorts and his hand slipped inside and I bit my lips.

He groaned finding that I wasn't wearing anything underneath the shorts and he cupped me making me moan. "Calix..."

His finger parted my folds and slid inside and I gasped softly.

"So fucking drenched for me, baby." He groaned and bit down on my neck.

Soon another finger joined, stretching me deliciously and I moaned loudly. "Calix, please."

He placed hot, open mouthed kisses all over my neck, sucking and biting making me moan and whimper with pleasure, my toes curling.

"Did you ever touch yourself to my thought?" His lips brushed my ear.

I was too high on lust to even think twice about what he asked and I answered in a moan, "Yes."

He slowly started to thrust his fingers. "Yeah?"

"Yes...what about you...?"

He chuckled deeply and huskily, his chest vibrating with laughter. "You don't wanna know, baby."

"Don't tell me you have been doing that for a very...very long time..."

"Maybe..."

"God, you are a pervert!"

He pressed the heel of his palm firmly over my clit and my mouth fell open. His teeth nibbled on my ear. "You sure you want to call me a pervert when I am about to make you come?"

I grabbed his wrist to make sure he doesn't remove his hand. "No. Please..."

But he pulled away his hand anyway and I groaned loudly in protest, on the verge of tears. "Calix!"

I felt his warmth disappear from behind me and he very gently made me lay on my back with him kneeling between my legs.

And with his eyes on me, he sucked his finger which was inside me and my thighs clenched.

And then he bent down and buried his face in between my legs and his tongue licked me from my entrance to my clit and I gripped his hair. "Oh God."

"You taste so fucking sweet, so mine." He groaned and his tongue slid inside me.

"Yes..." I panted. "Please..."

"What do you want, baby?"

"You. Inside me. Please." I begged.

"Beg for it." He pressed the gentlest of kiss on my clit.

"You idiot! I am not going to beg you."

"Okay..." And he pulled back with a smirk on his face, his mouth glistening with my arousal.

His smirk widened seeing the desperate look on my face and he cocked his head in amusement. "Ask nicely for it, baby and I might give it to you."

Instead of asking him, I leaned forward and grabbed him through his sweatpants and he moaned before he realised what was happening and he grabbed my wrist and removed my hand. "Nope."

"I am not going to beg you, Calix." I scowled.

He shrugged. "Okay. But I guess it's going to be a long night."

Giving him a deadly glare, I kicked off my shorts and took off my top and slid my own fingers inside myself and I fucking loved the way he watched me fuck myself.

My other hand gently kneaded my breast and soon I was on the verge of a climax especially because of the way Calix was watching me.

His jaw ticked and when he couldn't take it anymore, he grabbed my hands and pulled them harshly away from me.

"Fuck you!" I spat.

He chuckled. "Aren't you dying to do that."

He took my hand and sucked my arousal off my fingers. "I will be the only one to make my wife come."

"But you don't seem to be doing that." I complained, rolling my eyes.

"Yes because my wife is fucking stubborn." And he bent down took a nipple in his mouth making me cry out with pleasure.

I couldn't take it anymore. "Please, Calix. Please...just... please I beg you." And a tear rolled down my eyes. "Please."

He bit down on my nipple and soothed it with his tongue and pulled back. "That's more like it."

And he finally took off his sweatpants and I sighed in relief when he positioned himself between my legs.

"You sure?" He caressed my cheek.

"Yes, just fuck me."

He kissed my forehead lingeringly. "Oh, I am going to make love to you, baby."

My heart swelled with love for him but he didn't give me the time to respond as his lips crashed on mine.

He intertwined our fingers together and held our hands on either side of my body and finally thrusted inside me making me gasp into the kiss.

For a second we stopped kissing and Calix moaned loudly. "Fuck, baby."

And slowly he slid out and with the same slow pace slid back inside. "You feel like fucking heaven." And he kissed me.

I wrapped legs around his waist as he slowly thrusted in and out of me driving me crazy. "Oh God, Calix. Please."

He was busy peppering kisses all over my face but his slow pace was not enough to push me over the edge.

He was literally making love to me. God dammit, I love this man so much. I am never ever leaving him. Never.

"Faster, please." I moaned, kissing his neck. He gave me a hickey, it's only fair I also give him one.

"Yeah?"

"Yes, please."

And he buried his face in my neck before he picked up a fast pace that made me cry out.

I kept moaning his name as he fucked me into oblivion until I was on the edge, about to beg him to make me come already.

I clenched around him hard and he must have felt it because he grounded his pelvis against my clit and I screamed his name as I came.

He continued to thrust until he started to whimper and he bit neck before thrusting one last time and he came inside me.

We panted and breathed heavily as he rested his forehead on mine. "Did I hurt you, baby?"

I pecked his swollen lips. "No. I loved it."

He smiled against my lips and kissed me very softly. "I fucking loved it too."

And then he slowly pulled out of me making me wince and I realised that...he didn't use a condom and I wasn't on birth control.

Fuck.