Chapter 4 Chapter 4

Celine's POV:

After Jace and I finished two bottles of champagne in the car, we arrived at a magnificent white house.

I felt intoxicated and mumbled words that made no sense.

Jace wasn't drunk, so he carried me. I heard him whisper in my ear, "This is so unlike you, babe. You got drunk on just two bottles, and you normally finish up to five bottles in a day without getting drunk."

"What?!" I gasped in his arms, laughing, and I reminded myself to behave well without realizing I said it out loud. "I have to be my sister, you know, trying to mimic her now that she is not around. I miss her so much."

Jace looked at my face as he brought me into the house that he wanted us to use for our honeymoon.

"Why not take me to a hotel?" I asked him, and he smiled.

"We are home already. Seems like you drank too much. We are in our house. My room, which is now our bedroom." Jace gently placed me on the bed. I thought he was taking me to a hotel for our honeymoon.

"I thought," I hiccupped, "I thought you were taking me to a hotel for us to have our honeymoon."

I lay on the bed, too dizzy to sit up.

Jace rose and stripped off his white shirt as I tried to sober up.

"Yes," he said, taking off his black trousers. "We had our reception there at the hotel. But you know that I am a titled man and a politician, which I told you about. So I cannot camp there as you wish. I love to have my privacy, and that's why I brought you home." Jace sat on the bed and helped me take off my shoes.

I could feel the soft touches of his palms on my feet as he gently removed my shoes and spoke to me softly.

"It's our wedding night, Clara. I know how much you have wanted this night to arrive." Jace's excited voice filled my ears as he dropped my shoes aside.

Seriously, I had no idea what my sister and her fiancé had done. Had they been intimate before? I couldn't remember, and I felt nervous about it.

"Clara," Jace brought his face closer to mine, and I inhaled his earthy scent that made me feel relaxed and gave me the assurance that I was safe.

"What are you thinking about? Are you asleep? You don't have to fall asleep yet, as the night is just getting started. Wait, let me prepare your bath and help you out of this wedding dress." Jace rose from the bed, and I grew nervous.

Help me out of my wedding dress? I wondered as it dawned on me what might happen next.

"Wait. I can do it myself." I tried to sit up, but my intoxicated self rolled away on the bed like a leaf that had lost its value.

I couldn't even sit, and I blamed myself for drinking so much alcohol when I could have told Jace that I didn't like wine, not to mention champagne.

I had tasted it before when I saw my twin sister using it like a bottle of water on most celebration days. She popped several bottles of wine and drank them like it was water, and yet I couldn't withstand two glasses.

"There you are," Jace's voice reached me, and I felt his hand move to my back to strip off my white dress.

"Jace, can we not have sex tonight?" I asked him, and he froze as he heard my question.

"Why? But you have always wanted us to have sex. Why not tonight?" Jace sounded so disappointed, and I swallowed hard.

Should I tell him that I am not Clara, his real wife?

"I don't know. I am just shy," I told him. Honestly, I hadn't had sex. I was too decent and waiting for the right time, as I was mostly busy with my bakery shop. I had kissed Martin Enzo and engaged in several foreplays with him, but we hadn't had sex.

"Clara, I don't know why you're so anxious tonight. You have always wanted me to sleep with you, and now that it's the right time for us to do it, you want us to take a break. Well, no, because we have to make babies, and I am not getting any younger. It wouldn't affect your modeling career, okay? Since Celine, your twin sister, has traveled to help you, don't you think now is the right time for you and me to have a baby?" Jace kissed my lips as he questioned me, and I was speechless.

"No, Martin. I mean, Jace..."

Jace's face darkened in rage, and he asked, "Who is Martin? Are you cheating on me, Clara? Is that why you wanted us to postpone the wedding? Because you have another man?"

Jace moved away from me on the bed, sounding hurt, and I immediately told him, "No, Jace. Please, don't get me wrong. I am sorry. It was a slip of the tongue. You know I am drunk."

Jace sighed and came back to me. "Fine. Just relax. Let me help you have your bath."

I stayed silent, watching Jace help me undress. Then he carried me up from the bed and took me to the bathroom to wash me up.

"Jace," I called his name while intoxicated, and he replied hoarsely, "Yes, my love."

"You can call me honey. When did you start calling me by my name?" Jace asked as he rubbed the soap and wet sponge over my unclad body.

"Huh?" I felt the water splash on my head. My eyes subtly widened, and I looked at him in shock, seeing him in only his black shorts.

I swiftly looked away, and Jace laughed and said, "Honestly, Clara. You are getting me confused by your behavior. Haven't you seen me naked several times? Why are you acting so shy?"

"Oh no." I knew that Jace would find out once he discovered that I wasn't the woman he married.

"You got me surprised today. First, with your behavior. Second, with your body."

"My body?" I asked him nervously as he bathed my hands and looked at my face.

"Yeah. You seem more chubby, and your breasts look bigger and fuller. Or are my eyes deceiving me? I cannot wait to suck on them," Jace said, and I looked away from him as my face flushed.

Jace helped me finish my bath and switched on the shower.

Once he was done, he carefully assisted me in getting out of the bathtub and said, "Wait for me on the bed. I cannot wait to ravish you tonight."