WRITER’S POVLawrence stared at Veronica.Please just this one time, look at me.But she didn’t look at him.Instead, she turned and started back into the house.He went after her.“Where are you going to?” he asked when he caught up with her.She looked at him.Eyes that said so many words and mouth that looked like it wanted to say so many words but never spurt anything stared at him. Lawrence felt his heart ache, as if it had been pierced a thousand and one places at once. He knew he would go crazy if she wasn’t there with him. His calmness, his ability to still breath was because she saw her face every morning. It was because he felt her scent around him.She wanted to leave. Away from him, away from the excruciating hurt her heart felt. Yet as she looked at him, the words well formed in her head ready to be slapped to his face, she hesitated. She couldn’t bring herself to tell him, those words.And then she wondered why her heart hurt so much just by the thought of telling him th
WRITER'S POVLaurie sauntered back into the house and then Veronica’s eyes fell on Lawrence.Once their eyes met, she looked away quickly. For a split moment, she wondered for how long he had been standing there and how much he heard.Lawrence walked over to her.“Which trip was she speaking of?”“Just a work trip. You should have been briefed by your secretary about it,” Veronica said without glancing at him.“Oh.” Of course, his father had told him and they even had a meeting about it with some of the important figures of the Group. For a fact, his secretary had equally mentioned it to him as well. The site where Williams Group wanted to open another Williams Fashion company. He was happy about it, happy for himself and his father and for the entire Williams Group.But hearing it again suddenly made it news to him. Or was it because he just heard Veronica was going on the trip.“Do you really have to go... It can stretch into a month or more,” he said quietly.Veronica turned to f
WRITER'S POVThe bedside alarm clock clanged. Lawrence’s eyes fluttered open. He reached towards the bedside drawer and quickly shut the alarm off. He actually hadn't got a need for the alarm clock. His body knew when to wake up, at least he felt it was so the last months. But for some reason he hadn't found the chance to permanently turn it off. He blinked and rolled to the edge of the bed. And sighed. Same room and alone, again. It was already morning but for the first time in a long while, his body was reluctant to get on. Time was slower than it had ever been. It was past five months but it felt like it had been nothing short of a couple of years. Lawrence couldn't have been more certain that the universe was punishing him for his sins. Veronica was away. It was supposed to be a few months of being away but then it had stretched into more than months. He barely saw her the whole time. A few of the weekends she had dropped by but always left again. Work was going well b
WRITER'S POVThe hospital took Bianca from them as soon as they got to the hospital.Transfered her into a stretcher and wheeled her inside. Lawrence and Bianca followed after them. Bianca was grunting, yelling and gripping onto the stretcher. “I'm sorry, but we will have to take her to the second floor. The ward is filled up here.” One of the senior nurses reported. “What are you dimwits fuvking doing! Get my baby out already!!”Bianca growled and grabbed one of the nurses. “Quickly! Let's take the elevator. Clear the elevator immediately.”“Yes, senior nurse.”Bianca was wheeled into the elevator and taken to the labour room in the second floor. The door shut once they wheeled her in, Bianca's screams blocked by the walls, muffled. The senior nurse turned around. She glanced at Veronica and then focused on Lawrence. “You must be the husband. Would you like to be inside with your wife while she delivers or…”“It's okay. I will wait here,” Lawrence said. “Ah, alright then.”T
WRITER'S POV Lawrence's apprehension had hiked up a notch. He stood and walked around hoping one of the nurses or doctor came and explained the situation to him. Luckily one of the nurses came out. “What's going on, nurse? Is everything alright in there?” “Yes, Mr Lawrence. As a matter of fact, it is with great pleasure that I announce to you that your wife has given birth to a baby girl. You can see both your wife and your daughter now. Congratulations.” The nurse announced with a beam. Lawrence went still. Then sighed in relief. But then the nervousness came again. Now that Bianca was safe and had delivered safely, he had suddenly developed the cold feet to do anything. What if it really was his child… what if he had hated Bianca and paid no attention to her all these while because he believed she wasn't carrying his child… “Are you coming in, Mr Lawrence?” The nurse called out to him again. He snapped back and quickly followed the nurse into the room. There lay B
A DAY AFTER BIANCA'S CHILDBIRTH“So how long do I have to stay here?”Bianca asked the nurse as she finished administering an injection to her. “I'm sure you will leave soon. As soon as the doctor finds it safe for you to leave the hospital and our watch.”“Exactly when is the time? I am tired of eating this cheap trash you call food here. I wanna go home with my daughter and my husband.”“I'm sorry ma'am but I can't say that. Only the doctor can say for sure but I'm positive you will be leaving soon.”“Get out.” She ordered the nurse, irritated. She was dying to get home. If not for one reason but to flaunt her baby before Veronica. To establish her authority and put her in her place. She looked across where Lawrence was holding their little girl and looking out the window. He was holding her delicately. “Picture perfect…” she muttered. She felt happy and satisfied. “Stay faraway Charley, my child has the perfect father and I want it to remain this way.”Now she was more than
VERONICA’S POVMy phone screen was on when I stepped into my room. It had to be a new message or a phone call. Turned out I received a new message while I was out in the living room. Only that I regretted reading the content of the message once I opened it. It was from an unsaved number but I knew exactly who it was. “This is your last chance. End everything with that bastard and come back to me now. I know everything… his secret child and wife and the contract you are using to deceive everyone. What will happen if I release this to the media?”I slumped to the bed. Luckily it was nearby so I didn't have to collapse to the bare floor. “Oh Vincent, you sneaky devil from the pit of hell…”I knew Vincent. No, I thought I knew him. But it seemed I did not. Perhaps I would have downplayed this message from him if it was before but knowing how possessed he had become of recent, I knew I couldn't joke with his words. He was really going to release this to the public if I didn't do as he
WRITER'S POVBianca returned home. She was supposed to stay a few more days at the hospital but she desperately wanted to leave. The doctor had no choice but to send her back home with the necessary medications she needed. “Where are you going? We just got back home.” “I have work to do,” Lawrence said without glancing at her. “Work to do? Is that work more important than me and your daughter right now? I mean you work all day, do you really have to work today after bringing your family back home from the hospital? This is not fair Lawrence. This is not fair!” Bianca stomped. She carried her baby and raved into the room. Lawrence chuckled and shook his head. Until the end, she was going to keep acting innocent. “Go on and act as innocently as you want. And wait until I teach you a lesson you would never forget in a haste.” He clenched before he walked out of the house. As he was walking out, he stopped and briefly considered going over to Veronica's room to see her for a bit.