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2024-02-17 20:00:49"Mom, why don't you tell me the truth?" Kieran asked as he drove her home.
She looked better than when he had first seen her. It was as if life had suddenly returned to her. Her face looked brighter and she was getting better, she had calmed down and the tears ceased as well."What truth?" she asked looking out the window to avoid any form of eye contact they might have."About what happened""Nothing happened," she said trying her best to sound happy as possible. "I had not been exercising for a while now so I decided to just take a little walk around the neighbourhood""Nas you found yourself forty minutes away?""Yeah""Forty minutes drive away from the house?" he asked again."Yeah""If you were taking a walk why did you call me then?""Turns out I left my phone at home and could not figure out the way back home" She lied.Kieran could easily detect that lie, she was always
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"Everly," Ethan said as he saw her come down from the car. He did not know the direction to go to search for her so all he did was wait outside in the cold barefooted."Hey honey," she said and he was taken aback. She wanted to run away but she had to pretend in front of her child. He was not even young she wondered why she was doing all this for him."What?" he let out in a shriek. "You must have been worried" she said going to stand before him. "I got lost on my way out for a walk and I asked Kieran to come to get me, I guess I must be getting old seeing that I don't know how to tell directions again" Everly rambled."What are you doing?" Ethan asked with a fearful voice."Do you want Kieran to know what happened? Just play along" she said in a hushed whisper."Oh," he said with no voice as he nodded. He knew he was in the wrong but he had to make sure to keep this away from him.He wanted to apologize but he didn't s
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Hello dear readers Thank you for your wonderful support through this series I would not have gotten to this point without your help and I hate to do this but it’s essential I have no choice but to do it.I have a compulsory three weeks camp training that started on the day before yesterday. At first I thought I would be able to keep up with the daily updates but seeing the nature of the events slated here I barely have time to sleep and be with myself so this work would be suspended for three weeks and would resume as soon as I can go back to the comfort of my home.Also my birthday is in the twenty second of this month so please do leave wishes for me and share my book with your friends. Thank you for always my lovelies Signing out for nowZera
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Kieran took the meal his mom made and left the house after ensuring that she was fine. He knew something was wrong but he could not place his hands on them and since both his parents were hiding the truth from him, there was nothing he could do about it."Mom said I should give this to you" Kieran said dropping the bag of food on Arabella's table.Arabella looked up at him. His face was in his usual scowl as if he was just back from fighting a bear."What?" she asked. She did not understand what the bag was. They were only a few minutes to lunch break so why was he coming into the office with a food bag after storming out earlier?"I went home and Mom said I should give this to you" Kieran said gesturing to the bag."You went home?" she asked. "Yeah," he said nodding before awkwardly walking away."What's that?" Chole asked rolling her chair closer to Arabellea's table."Kieran's mom sent me lunch" Arabella res
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Kieran looked up from his desk to see Arabella working so intently on whatever it was that she was doing. He glanced at the clock on his desk. It was lunchtime so why was not eating? He stood up and took up the lunch box his mom had packed for him. He would heat the meal in the kitchenette and also try to invite Arabella to do so."If you had the opportunity, you would be a workaholic" Kieran said."Shit," Arabella said whipping around on her seat to Kieran with a shock on his face, her hand on his chest and her face as if she had just encountered a ghost."What?" he asked taking cautious steps down from his office stairs to the main floor."You scared me" she responded. She had decided to invest herself into the work that she had forgotten that she was left all alone with him in the office."Aren't you going to have lunch?" he asked and she nodded."You brought lunch from Everly for me, remember?" "I do remember, I just wanted to know the reason why you are yet to have it" he asked
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The sound of a cup hitting the ground made Kieran and Arabella pull their gaze away from each other to the door where the entire team was watching them.Arabella was still in Kieran's hand as he held her to himself. She struggled to get out of his grip when he reluctantly let her go."What's going on here?" Aurora asked bursting through the door into the office."I was about to fall and he caught me" Arabella said quickly. She was not going to spark up any rumours. Their earlier position was not good for her and she keeping quiet and refusing to explain anything would only put her in more harm."Oh," Aurora said. She had not been able to clearly see the position they were in. Arabella let out a sigh of relief as Aurora walked to her office. Kieran turned away without any word. The office workers watched him get into his office with his packed food still in his hands. Chole bent down to take the cup from the ground. She was lucky the cup did not spill open when it fell.Chole waited ti
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"Kieran?" she said again as he came to a stop in front of her."What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you run off on your own and then proceed to walk off in the wrong direction when you don't even know your way around here?" Kieran asked.She watched his face as he spoke, his words made no sound in her ears because she was busy watching his face and how much the worry filled it. "Thank you" she said throwing her arms around his neck with a sigh of relief. His body froze under her arms. Why was she on him? Why did he like the feeling? "I was so afraid of what would have become of me" she whispered still holding on to him.His hands went up against his will and began to gently and silently stroke her back. She must have been so terrified if she ignored his shouting spree. She just went in for a hug instead, who knows what was going through her mind.Both of them stood there in each other's arms as Kieran tried his best to somewhat comfort her in the way he knew best. After a while
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"I am so happy for you," Ava said as she stood with Kieran and Arabella; they had just got married, and it was truly a joyous day. Kieran had been so quick with the preparations that it took them barely two months to put everything together. "I just couldn't believe that my little one had found love," she added, tears welling in here again."Mom, you need to stop crying; seeing you cry makes me cry as well," Arabella said, blinking back the tears. Her make-up artist had retouched her make-up multiple times because she knew she was getting annoying already, but she could not control the burst of emotions flowing from her body. "Mom," Seraphina said, coming from behind and putting her hand over the shoulders of her mother. "It is a happy day; why do you keep crying? Someone, I mistake you to be mourning." "I am just thinking of how proud your father would have been to witness today.""I am sure he is watching over us from above," Arabella said, holding her mom's hand tightly."Mom, let
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"A trip?" Arabella asked, taking up the blanket and covering herself. "Yes, a couple's trip," he said, dropping the phone back on the table and walking to her. "What about work? Aren't you going to work again?" she asked. "Are you afraid that you would live broke?" he asked in a teasing tone."Of course I am," Arabella said before tilting her head. "I am jobless now; at least one of us needs to work so we can live a happy life," she added."You know that I do not mind you still thinking with us," Kieran said. After the trial, Arabella decided to stop working there even though Aurora was no longer there. How could she work there after everything that happened? She would be able to face her co-workers if that were the case. "I am sure I will get an offer soon from one of those companies," she said, and he sat beside her. "And you know you do not need to work again; I can take care of you and as many children as you want to have," he said with a wink. "Children?" she said flustered
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"Somewhere, like where?" she asked shyly, dropping her head so their eyes would not meet. "You would see," he said, lifting her head gently. "But we have to make sure that the ride ends first," he said, looking around. He had thought that they were going to have a moment there, but seeing how things turned out, he could not wait to be out of there. Finally, the ride was over, and he drove out of the amusement park to a hotel. "You brought me to a hotel?" she asked in shock as they drove into the underground parking lot. "Why?" she asked now that her tone was in a hushed whisper. "I told you we should come somewhere, and you agreed," he said as he drove by the cars looking for a place to park. "That was because I thought you said that we should go someplace nice," she muttered, looking around like they were sneaking around. "Why are you looking around like we are committing a sin?" he asked, noticing how uncomfortable she got. "It is not that...""Am I being clueless? Am I jumpin
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"Do you want to explain why you are here?" Kieran asked. Arabella had expected him to scream his lungs out, but he was wrong. Myabe's drive down has calmed him down. "It is a stupid reason; I don't want to tell you," Arabella murmured to herself. She had wanted to hear an apology so much that it felt like her self-worth depended on it. She turned her head to the side so she was looking out the window. "Look at me," Kieran said softly. "Look at me," he said again, this time turning her head with his hand gently. "I am so ashamed of myself; I don't know what I was thinking," Arabella said again. Seeing Kieran had somehow triggered something in her. It was like judging her actions without even saying anything. "Tell me, I want to know why you dressed up and left the house to come here when you should be resting.""Okay," she said as she heaved a sigh. "I wanted an apology so bad." "What?" "See, I knew you would judge me.""Ara, I am not judging you. I just want to understand what y
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"Why are you laughing?" Arabella was shocked. That was not the expression she was expecting from her. "Dearest Arabella, you must think the world revolves around you," she said, leaning in that she was seated at the edge of her seat. "Why do you think I would apologize to you? I did what I did, and I would do it again and again if need be.""You are not sorry for kidnapping and assaulting me even though you ended up here?" Arabella asked. "Of course, if I had the chance to, I would do it again. Can you imagine how hard I worked? I worked hard on Kieran, and you swooped in from nowhere and decided you wanted to take him from me. Oh, please, like you deserve him," Aurora said, leaning into the chair. "If you are here to ask me for an apology, I am afraid that you have to go back without one today and that you need not expect one from me," she said, looking at her nails like she had gotten a fresh set of nails. "Arabella, I think one of the problems you have is that you seem to overra
