CHAPTER 5

Dylan walked towards their bed and saw the divorce papers on the headboard. He hadn't read it yet as it was two copies, and it was given to him when he was already leaving Rosie's house.

Dylan took one of the two divorce papers and glanced through it, as he put it down into his black briefcase and shut his briefcase closed, as he went into his bathroom to bathe.

Dylan decided to prepare for office work, as he thought to read the divorce paper in his office.

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Jessica rushed downstairs into the living room and saw her two kids sitting on the couch and eating the popcorn from the previous night that she had used to keep herself awake, while waiting for Dylan to return home.

Jessica saw the living room wall clock time was already 8:35 am, and she knew that her two kids were already very late for school.

"Mummy! Mummy!" Caleb and Nina both rushed up to hug her legs, as soon as she stepped down into the living room.

Caleb asked, "Mummy, aren't we going to school today?"

Jessica knew that her two kids were already late for school, and she knew if their former maid was around, the maid would have helped her to prepare her two kids for school, bathed them before she wakes up from sleep, and also prepare their breakfasts too.

The maid would even assisted Caleb and Nina in having their breakfasts too on the dining table, but now, Jessica has to do it all alone as Dylan is now strongly against them having any maid.

Jessica had thought that the young maid tried to seduce her husband in her absence, but after the maid left, Jessica didn't get any complaint or report from the maid's parent, and the housemaid was even crying to be sent away without doing anything wrongly to offend Jessica.

Jessica had to dash the young maid extra money as she told the maid that she would still be going to her school, and she wouldn't stop paying the maid's school fees, even as the maid wasn't under her care anymore.

The young maid was very smart and nice and does all her house chores alone even before Jessica would wake up from sleep or send the maid on an errand to do it.

Florence Gregson was a 15-year-old maid, and Jessica had seen how Florence cares for Caleb and Nina so much, and even helped them to do their homework like she was their real elder sister. Yet Florence was only a maid and not related to them.

"Time has gone for today, Caleb. Don't worry, I will try to wake up very early tomorrow morning to take you and Nina to school on time. Wait here, let me prepare something for you both to eat first, then I will go and prepare your bath afterwards," Jessica told her son, as she smiled at him and squatted to meet his height with her little daughter's height too.

Jessica finally stood up from squatting on the floor in front of her two kids, and went into the kitchen to prepare their breakfast.

Jessica wonders if Dylan was still serious about divorcing her, and she walked into the kitchen and towards her cupboards to check what she would prepare.

She resumed mopping the kitchen floor, since she didn't have any maid again.

After she was through with cleaning of the kitchen floor and cabinet top, she proceeds to preparing her kids' breakfasts, and she made noodles and fried eggs for them and stepped out to the dining table to serve their breakfasts.

The aroma of the fried eggs and delicious noodles that Jessica has prepared attracted her two kids' nostrils, and they rushed up to meet her, and in the dining table to take their respective seats.

Nina was too small and unable to climb the dining chair by herself, and she cried out and reached out to Jessica to carry her up. As Nina's third attempt to climb the dining chair by her little self, ended with her little bottom crashing to the tiled floor, and she cried out, "Mummy!"

"Wait, Nina, I'm coming," Jessica quickly rushed to carry Nina up in her arms, and she dusted her little daughter's bottom, and sat down with Nina on her thighs. And she placed Nina to sit on her thighs properly, and proceeded to feeding Nina to her small mouth.

Nina continued to stretch her small hand to collect the spoon away from Jessica's hand and to feed herself, but Jessica refused as she continued to feed her daughter.

Jessica knew that her two kids were happy children, and she didn't want them to become sad when growing up, and seeing that their parents were now quarreling, and no longer in love with each other.

"Mummy, why are you crying?" Caleb actually asked Jessica, as he noticed that Jessica was crying silently, as tears were freely rolling down from her eyes.

Nina tried to look up at her mother's face, as Nina was seated on Jessica's thighs and eating her noodles, as Jessica feeds her small mouth.

Nina tried to look up again at her mother's face to know if her mummy is truly crying, but just then, Jessica heard the footsteps from behind her back and she quickly sniffed and plastered a fake smile on her face, as she replied to Caleb, "I'm not crying, I'm just overwhelmed."

"Over what?" Caleb tried to ask as he didn't understand the big grammar that his mother had used to speak to him, but Dylan quickly cut the mother-to-son conversation short—with his deep, sharp voice and replied to his son, "That's enough, Caleb. Now, eat your food. You should know that talking isn't allowed when eating."

"Okay, dad," Caleb smiled at his father's words, and Dylan stood with a strict face as he already wore a black suit to leave for his company.

Dylan adjusted his black suit necktie properly, as he wore an inner white sleeve shirt.

Jessica stared backward at Dylan's face and saw the hardened expression on his face.

She wants to put Nina down on the next chair, for Nina to start eating by her little self. As she wants to stand up from the dining chair to go and prepare Dylan's breakfast for him, but Dylan quickly told her coldly, "There won't be any need for that as I cannot wait to eat again."

Jessica had already stood up from the dining table, and saw that Dylan didn't want to wait for his breakfast. As he finished adjusting his suit and inner white sleeve shirt. He placed some money on the center table for them and left the house.

"Mummy..." Nina cried out as she was unable to reach the dining table by herself. As her little hands couldn't reach to carry her spoon and take it out to feed herself.

Nina's crying snapped Jessica out from her trance, and she rushed back to her small daughter again after looking back at Nina that was crying and trying to feed her little self.

Jessica carried Nina back on her thighs, and she resumes feeding her little daughter in the dining table.

Jessica knew that Dylan wasn't joking about divorcing her truly, and she silently thought of what she would do to appease him as she continued to feed her daughter in her hands.

After Jessica was through with feeding Nina as Caleb was also through with his meal.

Jessica knew that Dylan only left the security man at the gate to lock and open the gate for him whenever he was leaving the house to his office in the morning, and returning home in the evening. As Dylan had sacked all the domestic staff.

Jessica heard the sound of Dylan's car started in their garage, and she gazed out the kitchen window and saw he drove out from their compound, knowing that he was just leaving for the office.

Jessica left the kitchen after dropping the dirty plates and went to her kids' room downstairs to prepare their bath. After she was through in bathing them, she wears them new clothes and finally brought Nina and Caleb back to the living room with their toys to be playing. As she switched on the television and put it to a cartoon channel for her kids to be watching, before she went back upstairs to her bedroom.