"Your lips are the sweetest I have ever tasted," the man whispered at her ears and she took it as a compliment even though it was almost as if he was boasting of his experience.
"Thank you. Yours is the best I've ever tasted as well," she deliberately said and the man's eyes narrowed at her provocative statement.
She was praising him but at the same time saying that she had also had her taste of others just as he was. She bit her lower lip to stop herself from laughing when he was clearly triggered that he suddenly seemed even more determined to prove that he was the best no matter how many she had tasted before.
* * *
Anna Beatrice Lee just turned twenty-nine a few days ago. And she had a major problem. Her grandparents had been pressuring her for grandchildren.
Her parents married late so she was an only child. And so her grandparents had no one else to pressure. Due to their age, her parents had a difficult time conceiving and almost gave up on having a child of their own. They almost opted for adoption but they were finally blessed when her mother got pregnant and had her.
Thus, since she was sixteen, her grandparents had allowed Anna to have a boyfriend. And when she was twenty, they were already permitting her to get married regardless of what her parents said about it.
But Anna never did despite how many times her grandparents set her up with marriage prospects.
And now, she was twenty-nine. A lot of her classmates in grade school and high school had already gotten married and had children. But here she was, all alone in her apartment.
She didn't want to get married but she wanted a child of her own. Since she was twenty, her grandparents kept bugging her to get married early but she always ignored them.
When she reached twenty-seven, they gave up on the idea of marriage due to how she loathed it. But they still insisted on her having her own kids no matter how she acquired them.
Now that she was twenty-nine, they were literally begging her for grandchildren every single day. They kept telling her that based on their experience, it would be hard to conceive after thirty so she should have at least one child before her age passes the calendar days.
It gave her so much headache and disturbance at work since they kept calling her.
But if she was being honest with herself, she did want a child of her own. She always felt envious when she watched her friends cuddle their cute little kids. The children were always adorable but the husbands were always evil incarnates making her friends suffer.
She had helped five of her friends get a divorce and win custody over the children. Anna knew from helping her friends what bloody hell divorce was. She had gone as far as helping a friend hide from her husband for years until the divorce was finally approved. One of her friends even experienced having their kids abducted by her ex-husband.
Anna had had a messy life and a twisted view of marriage and husbands since she was a child due to her own father who seemed to have made cheating a habit. And she did not understand why her mother endured it all.
She flinched when her phone rang. It was her grandmother. She already knew what the call would be about before she even answered it.
"Yes, Grandma, what is it?" she asked in an overly sweet voice that dripped off with her exasperation.
"My friend introduced me to her grandson a while ago. Who would have thought he was a hunk. I'm sure you'd like the guy. Why won't you have dinner with him on Saturday?" her Grandma said full of hope and excitement.
Anna sighed deeply before answering.
"Grandma, I told you to stop setting me up. I'm busy right now. I won't have time on Saturday either. Please stop bothering me already," she cruelly shut down the idea.
"Anna, I'm just worried about your future. Your Grandpa and I won't be able to rest in peace until we at least get to meet our grandchildren," her Grandma pretended to cry. She always used that tactic on her.
"Fine. Fine. I'll find myself a man and make some babies. Stop setting me up. I'll catch a stud myself," she said to stop her Grandma's melodramatic acting.
But a few days later, her Grandma was suddenly hospitalized. Her Grandma had to stay in the hospital to recuperate. And when Anna visited, her Grandma said her goodbyes and even wrote a will leaving all her assets to her. Her Grandpa did as well and also left all his assets to her and her future children.
Anna was scandalized and scared as she realized that her grandparents were indeed old and may be approaching the end of their lives. They may have been pressuring her since they felt that the end of their journey was approaching.
She was teary-eyed as she resolved that it was time to stop procrastinating. Her grandparents had been good to her. She would not deny them of their last wish.
And so, on a fateful Friday night, she dolled herself up and headed to the most popular club in the city to look for a man with good genes and get herself a baby to make her grandparents happy.
Anna did not know that that decision would lead her into a life she never expected and cage her in the marriage that she loathed so much.
"Hi, I'm Anna Beatrice," she fearlessly approached a hot stud that clearly had good genes he could pass on. The man looked a bit scary but he was tall, handsome, and had a good body. His facial features were also perfect. And through conversing with him, it was clear he was bright.
'Make me pregnant Mr. Good Genes,' she said in her mind as she seduced the guy.