VERONICA’S POVMy heart raced like it had never done before as I dashed into the house. I hurried into my room and two steps into my room, my feet turned numb. And then I stood at the spot and let my heaving chest heave.What should I do? I was still in my dazed state when a rap sounded on the door.“Veronica, please hear me out...” a raspy voice pleaded.I swallowed and faced the door.Veronica, you must choose one; open the door and talk things out with him or never open and never get the chance to hear what he had to say.Yes, I must choose either to hear what he had to say or not. I made my choice; never to hear what he had to say.“Please go away, Lawrence. Let’s not ruin things. You don’t want us ending things on a bad note.”“No, I won’t leave until you hear me out. Then, let me speak from here. You do not have to open the door but please listen to what I have to say...”I heard him say from outside the door. His voice was breathless and rushed. I literally felt the emotion i
LAWRENCE’S POVShe shut her eyes. I wasn’t expecting that. I only wanted to fix her seatbelt but seeing how innocent and pretty she looked had my little man acting up again. I felt my blood rush. I wanted to feel her lips; trail my fingers over them and kiss her badly. I was tempted to do it more than anything but I pulled myself back. I still hadn’t figured out why she was so mad about us having sex. I had no intentions of aggravating the situation.I fixed her seatbelt and relaxed back to my seat. I was still admiring her pretty face and all when she slowly opened her eyes. She was confused and when I explained to her how I fixed her seatbelt, I saw her face reddened. Then she wound down the glasses and stared out the window.Seeing how embarrassed she was made me almost giggle out but I held back myself.She is even cute when she is embarrassed...We didn’t say a word to each other afterwards. I would have tried perhaps but Veronica never spared another look my way after the incide
LAWRENCE’S POV“What child are you fuvking talking about??!”“Your child Lawrence, your child!” She retorted back at me.I looked at her. I couldn’t help but chuckle. Yes, she must be joking.“See Bianca, I understand you regret your actions towards me but you don’t have to stoop this low. I don’t appreciate jokes like this.”“I’m not joking either Lawrence. I am carrying your child!”Her words rang like a bell through my ear drums.“What did you just say?” It was until I heard this question behind me that it dawned on me Veronica was still there with me. I was weakened and felt my legs go unsteady.“Bianca this is not funny anymore. Leave my house right now...” I managed to say, barely managing to keep my anger under control. The more I saw her, the more the sight of her made me want to do something I feared I would regret.“Lawrence, what is going on here?” Veronica came forward.“I’m sorry Veronica but how about you go on, I will join you inside...” I tried to get Veronica to get o
WRITER’S POVLawrence drove for minutes, unsettled and unsure of which hospital to take Bianca to. He couldn’t take her to just any hospital for the fear of quacks but yet couldn’t take him to the best hospitals for the fear of the media finding out. Above all, his heart was almost in wrenches. He had wished to have a nice life with Veronica.Why has nothing ever worked in my favor...even once... His jaw tightened at his own thought.“You have literally been driving around town the entire time. There’s a hospital over there. You can just pull over there and we will get this done and over with. You don’t have to worry about me because seriously I don’t know any nurse or doctor in there.” Bianca said with annoyance. Lawrence indecisiveness was beginning to pick a nerve on her.Lawrence slowly brought the car to a pause in front of the hospital. The hospital was familiar. It was among one of the good ones in the country. But what he couldn’t say was how many people would be able to reco
WRITER’S POVBy the time Lawrence got back home with Bianca, Veronica was gone.Scared, he searched the whole house and called out to her but she was nowhere to be seen. He dashed to the wardrobe and found her clothes and bags still intact. Nothing that belonged to her was out. Just in case, he searched for his stuff too and also found none of it missing. He tried her line a number of times and it all said not reachable.Bianca hissed loudly and scoffed. She was sitting in the sitting room with legs crossed. She just couldn’t understand why Lawrence was making such a fuss over a minor thing.“She is an adult for hell sake!” She wanted to scream into Lawrence’s ears.So many thoughts ran through Lawrence head as to where Veronica had gone off to. His heart was racing as the fear of Veronica leaving the house crept into him.He dashed outside of the house to the servants’ quarters. Who knows she might be there. He hoped she was there but the servants around confirmed she never came to
VERONICA’S POVIt was the loud sound of my phone that woke me up that morning. As I made to reach for my phone, I landed on the ground.“Ouch!” I groaned and then cussed under my breathe the next second the instant I realized I had unintentionally rolled past the edge of the sofa thinking I was in the bed.Angry, I reached for my phone and without checking the caller I quickly turned the damned thing off.Poor phone, taking in all my frustration.Who else would I possibly pour it out on if not the poor innocent phone.“Oh shit...why do I feel so tired?” I groaned as I forced myself up and back on the sofa.Events of the previous weeks came rearing up in my head. A sigh escaped my lips.It had been hell for me as a woman but for Lawrence, it was worse.Bianca was almost driving him nuts. She was on the verge of turning him into a walking corpse.She would call him when he would be at work and demand for the most impossible things with the silliest reason.Lawrence couldn’t say no. How
VERONICA’S POVLawrence’s face edged closer towards me.I felt my shoulder stiffen and my breath held.Different contrasting thoughts bombarded my head in a matter of seconds.My heart wanted him but my head wouldn’t stop reminding me of the things I knew.To push him away, or to let him...I was still going too and forth with the thoughts in my head when I felt his lips claimed mine.For a brief moment, he just pressed it against my frozen one; probably waiting for me to give him the go ahead, waiting for my response.When I didn’t move, he started to straighten up. “I’m so...”I gripped his shirt and pulled him in again, claiming his lips myself and shutting off the words that were about to come out.At first, I kissed him but stopped after a moment. I had come to my senses and was just about to utter a quick apology and hurry out. Away from him and this... silly feelings inside me. But he took the lead, with his arms circling around my waist, he kissed me silly.After some moments,
VERONICA’S POVHow long has he been there? How much did he hear?These questions wouldn’t stop running in my head.I couldn’t believe I had done that; I mean, I couldn’t believe I said those words.Maybe I should have been an actress instead of studying management back in school. It was just an acting. I was just trying to defend Lawrence from that lousy entitled bitch. He deserved that much from his wife, well, even though I wasn’t really his wife.Those were the things I kept telling myself.When I got downstairs, the screen light of my phone had just gone off indicating I just had a call or a message.I had quickly picked up my phone from the sofa in the sitting room and headed for my room at once.Once inside the room, I pulled off my robe leaving only my mini skimpy light dress on and collapsed into the bed.Back in my room, I checked the caller. I had three different callers. One was an unknown number. I frowned a bit. I hated unknown numbers calling my line and I couldn’t rack