Flash Marriage: Shrewd Wife, Devious Husband
Chapter 228: Soaring High

Chapter 228: Soaring High

Days passed. Tony took the pledge and became the congressman. He was busy and at times he had to visit Washington D.C.

Marcella stayed in Olive Groove with the kids. She loved her life there. She visited the towns she used to visit whenever she could and got their feedback.

People joked that she was the first congressman who cared for them. Everyone treated her as the congressman and not as the spouse of the congressman. Even the party heads and people

Tony needed to win a lot more times before he could run for president. He needed to be well-known in the whole country if he wanted to win the presidential election. Tony was working on laying the foundation and she decided to help him in the little ways she could.

Marcella asked him to buy a place in Washington D.C. Saying in hotels each time he went there wouldn’t be optimal. Tony agreed to rent but Marcella called some people and, in the end, they owned a house in the capital. It was not as big as their house but it had enough space in the front and back and was in a quiet neighborhood.

Marcella thought Tony would sign on it without her, but he took them to the capital for the signing. He wanted to buy that house in her name but Marcella insisted that he bought it in his name. He didn’t own any property to his name to her knowledge and she didn’t like that. Also, he paid for it so it should be in his name.

She stayed there for a few days and helped him decorate the house. She decorated their bedroom like their home bedroom to make him feel less homesick and stocked the fridge to make sure he cooked. Joey loved the small playground at the back.

Although Marcella should have gotten used to the security arrangements around the house, she was not used to those Secret Service men in black.

"Do they even give secret service protection to any congressman?" Marcella asked. She didn’t think that was the case. Also, those men looked menacing with their clean-shaven faces and sharp glare on those faces with no smiles. Even when she tried to talk to them, they said nothing back and just stared at her. Her cookies weren’t that bad.

"Are you scared of them?" Tony asked, finding it funny.

He had noted that she was sticking closer to him whenever she saw those men. For someone who grew up with mafia members and was accustomed to people with face tattoos, she was too skittish around these men and he found it funny.

"Scared?" Marcella raised her brows. She blinked her eyes. "Wait... Are you in danger? Is that why they..." She got terrified for a moment but then she got relaxed as she thought about it.

Standing on her tiptoes, he whispered into his ears. "They are here to spy on you and report?"

Tony wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer. With a chuckle, he kissed her. "My smart wife is right. The president wanted me to have this protection for some time." Holding the back of her head, he tried to deepen the kiss.

"Tony!" Marcella hissed. Two six-foot tall men were standing by the door, right beside them. Then again, she shouldn’t be surprised; her husband was perverted.

"What?" Tony’s hungry eyes wandered around her face and reached below her neck.

After childbirth, she was a little chubby and soft. He loved her like that. But lately, she’d been losing weight. He tried to find out how she was losing weight but he couldn’t find out. She did not work out and was losing weight. He couldn’t believe how it was possible.

She was still breastfeeding and there was a silver lining. Her boobs had become fuller. Apart from the times that little bugger hogged her boobs, he thought he would take full ownership of them, but she was not letting him near them these days.

Since he was forbidden to get near there, he missed burying his head there.

"Tony!" Marcella twisted his ear.

Her husband had become more perverted these days. He was competing with the baby for the milk and she had forbidden him from getting anywhere near her boobs. He was not pleased with that.

She knew he would lose his calm one day and then... Well, she would cross that bridge when it happened.

"What?" Tony rubbed his ear that hurt. It appeared that he didn’t even have the right to even stare at them anymore. He did not like that development at all.

"I’m sorry," Marcella pouted and gave him a peck on his cheek.

That made his mood better.

"What happened to the magazine cover thing?" he asked.

She told him that one of the top fashion magazines in the country wanted her on their cover. He was ambivalent about it. That magazine usually had stars and models on their covers and he didn’t understand why they wanted his wife.

Sure, his wife was prettier than most women on the planet, but he didn’t like other men ogling his wife. He was young once and he remembered with guilt how he reacted to those women on the magazine covers.

His wife... on a cover... He didn’t know what to feel.

"Ah, I refused it," Marcella waved her hand. "They wanted me to lose weight before the photoshoot. I don’t know why, but I got offended. I had a baby just a month ago! How did they expect me to lose weight in a week? Starve?"

"Right!" Tony nodded. His wife was pretty even with her round belly. Who dared to call her fat? He wanted to end their life.

"But then another editor suggested that I wear a two-piece swimsuit. Me! I, the wife of a congressman should wear a two-piece suit showing my body. She thought it would be empowering to be photographed in my after-childbirth-body," Marcella’s lips curled with disgust. "I slammed the door in their faces. I don’t think they’ll ever come to me."

Tony laughed. "It probably would have been empowering. Wouldn’t women everywhere be assured that their weight gain after childbirth was natural and nothing to be ashamed of?" he asked.

Marcella looked at him as if he had three hollow heads. "I might be old-schooled, Tony. Maybe I am not forward. But I don’t think showing my skin for anyone to see is empowering. Fat or slim, I would never allow such a picture of me in public," she said.

Tony noticed the anger in her tone and he realized her anger was on him.

"Are you mad at me?" he asked reaching out his hand for her.

She slapped his hand and walked away. Tony chased her.