When she got home that night with sleeping Aria, Harry was in the lounge room watching soccer match on TV.
“Hey I was getting worried. Is she asleep?”
“Yeah she is, but I need to take her upstairs and I need to talk to you about something.”
“Okay let me take her upstairs to her room while you eat dinner than we can talk okay.”
“Yeah sure,” she said as she handed Aria over to harry. She was wondering what would harry be doing upstairs.She was about to head upstairs to find out when she bumped into Harry.
“Ouch.”
“I am sorry I didn’t see you there,” he said trying to keep her in balance.
“It’s okay so what took you so long?”
“Well I had to change Aria into her nightwear and I read a book to her before she fall back to sleep.”
“Oh I totally forgot about that.”
“Nah it fine I love watching her sleep but sometimes I wish it was you, so what do you want to talk about?”
“Well Lillian’s back in town,” she said.
Harry almost dropped his phone and gave her his full attention. “Oh? Did you kill her or just talk to her?”
“Nah we just talked,” she responded, collapsing next to Harry who was sitting in one of the couch.
“Oh are you okay?” he asked.
She shrugged. “Yeah.”
“Did you yell or argued?”
“A bit but not completely.”
“Oh why not?”
“Because I felt disloyal. If I’m mad at her it means that I’m hating my life with you and Aria and that’s not exactly true. And even if things are heading bad that just between you and me.”
Harry just nodded. “So what happened with her and the guy she run away with?”
“They split up.”
“Oh okay.”
“Does that bother you?” Mel asked swinging around to face him properly.
“Should it?”
“Well you were going to marry her till this other guy came between you.”
Harry leaned back in the couch and pinned her with his gaze. “Rose, if it wasn’t for this guy it would have been because Lilli got cold feet. Like ‘I don’t want to marry his because I don’t love him enough.Or because I don’t want to tie myself down for three years’.That why Lilli left with him.”
“Well she is back though,” Mel reminded him. “Do you want to...” she stopped unable to really express what she was asking him to do.
“Are you asking me to go back with Lillian? Or didn’t I have it wrong?”
“Well...”
“Well I prefer you over Lillian.”
“Well she’s my sister.She’s pretty and she’s sweet.”
“And?” he asked trying to hold his laugh.
“I’m serious, Harry. If you still want to get back together with her if fine by me and you came make it happen.”
“Why would I want that, Rose?” he asked, seeming to be genuine.
“Are you listening to me?”
“Yes I am. But I like you and our little family in our house together and what makes you think that I would want to throw all that away for your sister.” He said with a slight smile playing on his lips. His words had thrown her off balance before she could gather her thoughts enough to respond.
“Well that nice, but you and I know that I’m not exactly in Lilli’s league. But you and I could be friends, Harry.”
“Friends?”

Harry POV
“Friends?” he asked as his hands pulled Rose toward him as she leaned on his shoulder.
“Did you just say ‘Friends’? He asked again
“Yeah, friends.”
“For a smart lawyer like you, you really don’t get it do you?”
“Get what?”
“Lillian is not sweet like you. She’s cold and pessimistic like me.”
Rose was appalled. “She is not.”
“Me and Lilli could be friends. But you and I can’t be friends, because we are not friend’s material.”
He could see Rose as she tried to hide her reactions; he grasped her by the arms holding them stiff as she tried to pull it off.
“Damnit, Harry what are you doing now?”
“Showing you why we can’t be friends because we both attract each other and we have a daughter would be more affected in this mess.” And with that he moved his mouths to hers pressing her down on the couch. His lips angle hers while his tongue invaded her mouth. He kissed her with more passion and needs and with a sense of owner ship.

Mel POV
Mel realised that her hands were clutching the front of his shirt pulling his closer and into their kiss. As harry movedhis hands under her shirt that Mel realised that she needed to put an end to this, but she was finding it hard because he was making her feeling things that she wanted to feel badly. Harry as not just a man with ice but a man with fire and needs for her.
“Harry, wait,” as she managed to control her breathe but instead, he leaned down and asked softly, “After this Do you still think I should try to be with Lillian?”
“Um.” Mel couldn’t think straight, especially since Harry body was still pinning her down to the couch. And he was still touching her. “Or that you and I can just be friends?” he added. “Because it won’t work, Rose. It never would have been like that between us, but especially not now.”
“It would have been, Harry. There was nothing between us when we met. We’re like two fighters circling each other in a ring.”
“Then we shouldn’t retreat.”
“Then we’d kill probably kill each other.”
“You’re killing me, sweetheart.”
“Then the feeling is mutual,” she said looking up at him seriously.
He nodded reaching out a hand to run his knuckles over her cheek. “We’re going to need to deal with our feeling at some point, Rose.”
Mel moved away from him so that he was no longer touching her. She couldn’t think straight when he was been gentle toward her. “Harry pleases, I can’t do this to be your wife for three years and then quit when the contract ends. To be honest don’t ask me to do that.”
“Then, Rose what are you asking for?”
Mel looked into his eyes hoping to see a glint of sadness but she found nothing. She sighed and answered him.“Nothing. Really, Harry,” as she walked upstairs to her room trying to hold her emotions.

Harry POV
Harry watched her go, breathing deeply as he settled back down into the couch. He wanted Rose and he wanted her with no strings attached but with his wife there would be strings. With Lillian there would be nothing. The thought of his going out to lay with other woman after his three years married to Rose left him bitter. He wanted every chance that he got with his wife. It was Rose that he wants and not just any other woman but his wife. He had wanted her since the day he’d opened his door and find her waiting on him. He had decided that his uncle voting stock options wasn’t worth the hassle till Rose showed up after her sister got cold feet, he knew from then that he had to have her and rather than destroying the contract he’d used it to rope her in and he didn’t regretted it, not even when they fight. She made parts of him that feels dead come to live. Truth was if Lillian hadn’t left him when she did, he would have think of ways to ditch her and be with Rose.
Harry knew that Rose wanted him, physically but it was a start for his to break down her defences and he have three years to do just that. But the question that he had to answer was what would he do once he broke down her defences? Rose was the feisty woman that challenged him since he had met her. She wasn’t impressed by with wealth or fame or intimidated by his personality and she wasn’t frightened by her Aunty Claire. He had never considered a long-term relationship but he was willing to try with Rose and their daughter Aria.
Remembering his parents’ marriage, Harry grimaced. There weren’t many happy days in the household when he and Gwen were growing up, but Gwen turned out to be the optimism and normal than he would ever be.
In all his relationships, the women want money sex, power from him.Harry had wanted to prove his father wrong that he would build the family business to potential but he had lost his humanity as the same time just cold and heart less like his father. Maybe he needed more time to figure out his relationship with his wife and their daughter.

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