Opula and Kate found their way to the pent house where they chose to discuss in privacy. “I took you to the hospital and expected to hear something from you about your health but you never did. What is the reason for your throwing up? What does the test result say?”Kate queried.A contagious smile swept across Opula’s face as she rubbed on her stomach and later chortled hugely. She hummed and hesitated to speak.Kate’s suspicion churned her thought as she stared at Opula , “What does the test result say?” she asked yet further and added, “Are you pregnant, sister?” anxiety built up in her eyes.Opula lowered her gaze on her stomach and blushed, “Well permit me to inform you that I am one week pregnant!” she said excitedly and aloud.Kate gestured at her to bring down her voice, to avoid anyone form eavesdropping. But it was too late; at the time Opula mentioned her pregnancy, Salsa who was walking past, paused to gum her ears on the door and listen to their conversation.Salsa was dum
The moment Opula read the message from the family doctor, color flushed from her face and she was possessed by a heavy countenance. The ridges of frown were so much on her face that Kate noticed the inner war which was ongoing in her“What is it Opula? Is everything okay?” Kate asked and advanced to her to steal a glance at the message on her phone.Opula forced a smile on her face, “Um… yeah…um.” She stuttered and put her phone away, “Everything is alright … I… I just want to get some stuff in my chamber. I will be back, okay,” she lied to Kate.Kate gave an investigative look at her, wondering the chaos that was going on in her after reading the text on her phone. Kate wanted to query her further on the message she received but held back since nothing was hidden under the sun. Already Opula was gliding towards the door.“We will talk later okay. I got to get something,” Opula said while she whirled her way through the door and walked away.Kate dimmed her eyes thoughtfully and vowed
There was knocking of oxfords on the floor; it was none other than Rod who was walking furiously into the father’s mansion. He bumped into servants, gave them cold shoulders and never responded to pleasantries. The handwriting was already on the wall; servants knew whenever Rod gave them the cold shoulders someone had gotten on his nerves.James Benson was relaxed to his tray of beer at the pool side while he got a massage from one of his spar professionals.“Excuse us I need to discuss with my father,” Rod ordered the personnel and shot his frown at her, “And be fast about it,” he added as the lady hastened up and vanished out of sight.Gazing upon his son with aroused anger, James fumed. “Do you realize I paid for that massage? You can’t barge into my mansion and run down my activities just because you are unable to get a wife.”Rod placed the photos on his table, “This is what Melissa did to the gift items I bought for her. I spent thousands of dollars on gifts items as though I w
Upon hearing the question from Kate Opula went ice cold, stared around for onlookers before whispering to Kate, “Can we please talk in my chamber? I got awesome news for you.” she shot a lopsided smile at her.Dragging Opula by the arm, Kate and Opula paced into Opula’s chamber, “Tell me sister, who is responsible for it . I hope it is not who I think it is. I am not good at guessing so you can tell me straight away,” Kate demanded.Opula swallowed hard, “Your sister is pregnant for Rod Benson,” she lied and opened her arm for hug. They hugged engagingly before Opula said again, “This is my biggest achievement right now. I knew we were back for good but I never expected pregnancy now. I can’t wait to reveal it to dad and Rod.”Kate went ice cold, arms folded as she listened to Opula gabble about her pregnancy. Opula was forced to pause for one minute and query Kate’s countenance.“Why the look on your face, Kate? You don’t seem to be happy for me, don’t you?” Opula asked and shook Kat
Eva was more than a darling to me. Although my baby bump was yet to be pronounced I was already getting thicker on my arm and waist, and there was need to go shopping for dresses that could hide these pregnancy symptoms.I was financially crippled ever since Opula and Kate blocked the credit card Brian left for me and I was at the mercy of poverty if you should ask me.Earlier today Eva had hosted me to a warm breakfast of chicken and fried potato, which I least expected at the time and midway exploring the breakfast she took out her credit card.“Your dresses are getting tighter. I don’t want preying eyes to notice your pregnancy. You need to do some shopping. The pin is 1900. My credit card covers you,” she whispered to me and squeezed the credit card into my arms.I wanted to open my mouth and appreciate this diva but my trembling lips failed me and suddenly the only way I could appreciate her was to wink my moistened eyes at her. I raised my gaze to fight back tears.She squeezed
For over thirty minutes now I had been at the boutique down town, buying some nice dresses which Eva demanded I do. I really needed to know the balance on Eva’s credit card and the boutique’s cashier revealed to me it was fifty thousand dollars.“Oh my goose!” I exclaimed upon hearing that figure. I had to phone Eva to confirm if I was to spend all of that on dresses alone? To my amazement she responded in the positive and ordered me to spend all of it.I couldn’t believe it. Promptly an idea jumped into my mind to save part of it for rainy days; days I wouldn’t have a dime on me. Brian was still in coma and Fanny had stopped paying me my incentive. I needed to save for days of lack. As a pregnant woman I needed more money.“I will spend twenty thousand dollars on dresses,” I said within myself as I began to pick up some baggy gowns which could cover my pregnancy and thickness.Ina a few minutes, I was able to pick up twenty dresses which the twenty thousand dollars could afford. As I
“Melissa is biting more than she can chew and the only way to teach her a lesson is to withdraw all incentives and privileges from her. She is only entitled to food and shelter hence forth,” that was the voice of Fanny.He was seated with Eva who had come to query his decision about limiting my privileges.Eva shook her head, “Father that is too harsh. Don’t forget she is a woman and as a woman she needs money for her upkeep. If Brian were here he wouldn’t let her suffer. We need to be wise in our dealings with her.”Fanny sighed and his jaw sagged in wrath, “What are you insinuating, Eva?” he fumed and pulled out the blue documents, “This is the contract marriage documents. She has fulfilled her roles as a contract wife to your brother. Ordinarily, she is supposed to accept divorce and vacate this villa.”Eva interrupted him, “She has affirmed countless times that she is in love with Brian and obviously she is. Don’t forget the irreplaceable roles she played in the survival of Brian.
At the time Opula was eavesdropping on Fanny’s conversation with Eva, Opula had decided to remain at the door and listened to what Eva had to reveal to Fanny.“What do you have to tell me?” Fanny asked anxiously and pointed Eva to a chair close by, “Please do make yourself comfortable,” he said warmly.He had to make Eva comfortable because she was sweating profusely on the face and neck. He wondered why she was sweating in winter. Unknown to Fanny Eva was battling within herself whether or not to reveal my pregnancy to him.I had warned Eva, likewise Salsa never to reveal my pregnancy to anyone for whatever reason. Revealing my pregnancy would be the worst thing that had ever happened to me at the Fanny villa. Such news could go down well with Fanny but not with Opula and Kate.Those two evil sisters could go at any length to hunt for any life because they knew what I stood to gain if I shouldn’t get pregnant for Brian. In fact I stood to gain more from my pregnancy than from divorce
Kate watched as the family doctor, Doctor Bernard, treated Frank and dressed his skull of the bottle I burst on his head.“I guess the hoodlums that attacked you don’t know the family you belong.” Kate said in fury as she paced up and down the ward, “How could they do this to you for Christ sake?”Frank writhed in pain and clenched his teeth as the doctor tended to his wound. “I guess they know. That is the very reason they attacked me. They wanted to steal from me and when I struggled with them they unleashed their anger on my head. ,” he kept lying and wouldn’t tell them the truth behind the injury on his skull.“I am going to get the police involved in this,” Kate threatened and brought out her phone to dial the police, “Whether they are hoodlums or not, I don’t give a damn, they will regret ever harming a member of the Fannies. What arrant nonsense!”Frank protested, “No, don’t do that sweetie,” he gestured at her, “I have told you let us leave it to God. There is no need gettin
Opula was gradually regaining vigor after the transfusion of blood and when she heard the door creak and saw the doctor, she thought it was time for her to be discharged.“I guess I am fit to leave this drugs-smelling hospital now. The nurses showed me the state of my pregnancy and I am doing perfectly well,” Opula said to the family doctor who had the most unpredictable look on his face.“Perhaps you may want to tell me more about Rod Benson being responsible for the pregnancy,” Doctor Bernard intoned and sucked a huge grin when Opula scowled thoughtfully.Opula who had laid in bed all this while sat up and got burnt in her guts upon hearing that; she knew she couldn’t deny the fact that the doctor knew all about Ken testing positive to the paternity test result.“Listen up, doctor. I know you did the test and very much aware of the truth but please just pretend you know nothing and let Rod take responsibility for it. I have divorced ken. It is Rod that I love and perhaps you may
“Come on, sounds hilarious, but anytime I will always be there for you, the only thing you must do for me is to ensure no one sees the food.” Eva said.She was still in my chamber at the time.I shook my head in the negative, “Definitely no one will see them. Once again I appreciate for this loyalty and support.” I hugged her and sobbed on her shoulders.“It is okay, Melissa. Wipe your tears. Everything is going to be fine,” she said calmly.“How are Opula and her pregnancy? I hope she is fine now. I just wish nothing happened to her pregnancy,” I said expectantly.It was obvious it didn’t go down well with Eva because those eyes of hers rolled at me nastily.“She should have lost that pregnancy or better still be in the condition of your husband so that she can see the pains of being in a coma.”“Stop this Eva!” I rebuked her, “It is the wish of every pregnant woman to carry their babies. I am pregnant and I can tell you it is not easy to watch a suckling in your womb die miserably.”
After a while the doctor invited the Fannies into his office for some briefing. “Um my lab scientists have conducted some toxicity tests on the foods and there is no trace of poison in it, and you may have to applaud the chef for ever giving you the best of food with good hygiene. The foods are pure,” the doctor said.Salsa who had left earlier was smiling ear to ear as she eavesdropped at the door.No one would be able to trace the food poison she added to abort Opula’s pregnancy. Earlier when she got a phone call from Fanny to bring the samples of food to the hospital, she had brought freshly made food and not the ones they left at the dining.“You are lucky to have survived this Opula,” Salsa said in her mind, “I am not done with you. You must lose that baby. You can’t have that child for Rod. It is either you lose the baby or you die with it,” she threatened yet further in her mind.Inside the office the doctor had just told the Fannies there was urgent need for blood transfusion
“You escaped this ABORTION. You are not going to escape the next one; you can’t have this child for Rod Benson. Rod belongs to me. You had an opportunity to foster a sweet affair with him but you ruined it because he was poor. Now he is rich you want to snatch him away from me. I love Rod and not even you or that thing in your womb can deny me this happiness,” salsa said in her mind as she wept for Opula who was lying in the sick bed at the hospital.Salsa was a slow poison and a moving unpredictable time bomb. She had history of avenging her offenders and Opula might be battling with an unknown closer enemy.The Fanny’s had surrounded Opula and sympathized with her. Opula couldn’t stop shedding tears and she never knew mere sight of her pregnancy was making Salsa seethe and she was plotting yet another attack on her mind, one that would be more disastrous than the former.“Perk up, ma’am,” Salsa said in pretense as she wailed bitterly, and even louder than everyone else. “Most pertin
Fanny had given out an order to Salsa to bring samples of the recipes Opula had consumed at the banquet, so Salsa was on her way to the hospital when a salon car double-crossed her cab.“What is happening?” Salsa gasped, and turned to the cab driver who was as perplexed as she was. Salsa’s eyes darted and gazed upon a young man who was alighting from the salon car. If she hadn’t watched closely she wouldn’t have noticed it was Ken Patrick.“Okay just stay put. I will figure it out,” Salsa said to the driver, who was beginning to sweat nervously on his brow thinking they were in danger. Promptly, Salsa alighted and shot her thunderous frown at Ken, who came to a halt upon seeing her. Except, Ken that forced a smile, Salsa kept to her frown and noticed that Ken had lost some pounds and unshaven.It was obvious poverty was taking its pound of flesh on him since he got divorced by Opula and left the villa.“You know how busy I can be, Ken Patrick. Why have you decided to disrupt my moveme
At dusk the villa was calm and quiet, most especially in the absence of Fanny and Kate who were still at the hospital. Salsa had gone to visit her sick mother at the hospital after she got a bizarre phone call from the doctor.Eva had told me earlier she would be having extensive road walk and would be back at late hour. And more than a handful of security and aides had accompanied Fanny and Kate to the hospital.Later Tony, Eva’s husband had decided to join Fanny and Kate at the hospital. And since Fanny had denied me privileges of a family member, I had learnt to mark my boundaries and to see what fate had for me.These days I rarely got water supply into my chamber and I believed it was part of the strategies to frustrate me. I couldn’t recall the last time I washed myself in the mini pool in my chamber. Indeed, the Fannies were out to fuel frustration into me.Whenever water supply got into my chamber it was like Halloween to me. On such a day I would use water to my satisfaction
I knew Salsa could do the nastiest of things but not the most destructive of things. Who could have believed that Salsa had poisoned Opula with ancestral herbs that could abort the unborn child in Opula’s womb?Upon seeing the doctor walk out of the emergency unit, Fanny and Kate hastened to him, with their eyes filled with anxiety and uncertainty.“Doctor! Doctor!” they called indistinctly and shot longing gaze at him, “How is Opula, doing? How is she doing doctor?”The family doctor gestured at them to cheer up, “Please can we see in my office briefly?” he said and led them into an exquisite office with polished woods and ocean view sight.“Talk to me, doctor,” Fanny said coldly, with so much fear dominating his tone, “What happened to my daughter. I wonder what could have happened to her during an exciting banquet held in honor of her pregnancy.”Kate asked hastily, “Is she okay, doctor? What about her unborn child? I hope the baby is fine.”The doctor snorted and sucked an uneasy
Rod had visited Rio Hondo in his usual manner and phoned Salsa to come over and brief him on how she had convinced me to give him a chance to prove that he was a better lover than Brian.Whenever he visited Rio Hondo for such a cause, he usually invited Salsa to his private jet, waited in his jet until Salsa visited him to brief him on my accepting his proposal.Although Salsa had planned not to mention Opula’s pregnancy to Rod yet she had decided to teach Rod the lesson of his life.Right now Salsa was like an ocean and she wasn’t going to lose her salinity without causing destruction. Since she was going to lose, she wasn’t going to lose alone.Upon arrival, Rod had phoned Salsa to fix him some French fries and steak, which she would bring along when coming to visit him in his private jet.Salsa was done preparing, the French fries and steak and with eyes shut she picked up some portion of her killer poison to spread on the steak so that as soon as Rod ate it, he would throw up and