/Meelah’s POV/I continue to eat my breakfast, pretending to be interested in the food, while I am low key freaking out that I have to do do thing that is not my forte for the whole family to prove myself when I know that cooking is not one of my very strong points. “Wouldn’t it have been better to keep quiet she allow Brian to do the talking instead of trying to act like the alpha female?” The voice in my head scolds. “It is too late to cry over split milk….” I console myself as I brace myself up to get up from the dinner table because I am just so done with the pretense. “I am full” I mutter as I dab my mouth with the serviette. “Me too” Brian says as he does the same. “You guys are starting to be in sync after being married for just two weeks” Elva remarks and I just chuckle because it is obvious that Brain and I are trying to get ourselves out of the uncomfortable situation, but here she is making it sound like what it is not. “Maybe if you get yourself in a relationship , y
/Meelah’s POV/ “We are all victims of moms ego here, so instead of us fighting each other, we are supposed to team up to beat her at her own game” she goes to her brother to explain while pulling the hem of his shirt. “Are you trying to scatter my dressing just because you want me to engage in an activity that is totally uncalled for?” He fires back. “Chill out boss, nobody is fighting with you so can you just respond in the same calm manner that someone is talking to you with” she says nudging him with her shoulder. “What do you mean by responding in a calm manner” he retaliates “You are expecting me to enter the kitchen on a weekend that I am supposed to be resting when we have half of the work force of kings treat present at the resort to do the cooking just to prove a point to our mom” he complains and she nods with puppy eyes. “….it doesn’t make sense at all ” he expresses “We both know that cooking is your forte, but I can’t say the same for myself or sister in law beca
/Meelah’s POV/After Elva left the room, Brian came back from the bathroom and by the time he got out, he already changed into something comfortable and he climbed the bed to sleep. I thought of what to do while I was waiting for Brain to wake up because something in my head told me that I was going to be strong enough to wait for Brain so that we could take turns in sleeping, but my body was saying something entirely different because I barely slept this morning due to the virtual girls night session that I was having with my girls. The thought of changing into something comfortable so that I could sleep well crossed my mind, but at that point in time the definition of what was going to make me feel comfortable in my head was to remain fully clothed, so I just took off my bra and got into the bed because I did not want focusing my energy on something as stressful as feeling body conscious. It was kinda difficult to fall asleep easily because I had a grown ass man beside me, and a
/Meelah’s POV/My heart starts to thump loudly in the rib cage of my chest, faster than it’s normal pace, and all of a suddenly I start to feel the whole roll closing in on me like I don’t have enough breathing space. I try to pull myself together and not make it obvious that something is wrong with me because this dinner is supposed to be a ceremony is supposed to be for the family members to officially welcome me into the family and the last thing I will want to do right now is to mess it up. I cant but wonder what the man that calls himself my father is doing at the kings family dinner while he is talking to me because I am a 100 percent sure that Mr kings didn’t invite him, but the question now is who did? Mr environment starts to spin and it is difficult to keep my eyes open while still on heels till I realize that I was already tripping and it is Brian’s firm grip around my shoulders that is keeping me from crumpling on the floor like. Used tissue.“My wife is not feeling to
/ Meelah’s POV/“Can we get this dinner started already because I am starving and I can’t wait to taste the food that our dear meelah spent time and energy to cook” Eloise says getting my attention while I look around, waiting for go ahead from the adults so that I can signal the attendants to do the needful since they are more experienced. “Start serving” I instruct the attendants as soon as I interpret the go ahead signal from Mr kings. “Isn’t the daughter in law supposed to do the serving?” She asks looking around the table but no one says anything to answer her. “…..I was thinking that since the dinner coincides with her ceremony, it is only right for her to do the needful” she goes ahead with her stupid suggestion. “I agree with her” Mrs kings speaks up to Babi r her up. “This ceremony shouldn’t be about your cooking skills alone but your serving skills and presentation” Mrs kings adds so I get up from my seat to start serving. The table arrangement layout of the dining re
/Meelah’s POV/ The tension in the dinning is really high as everyone waits for somebody to say something to tone down the tension, but everywhere is just oddly quiet. My eyes snaps in MR kings direction because my only hope is on him so he just has to say something that will save my G mama from embarrassment. “Eloise…..please excuse us” Mr kings speaks up after clearing his throat and that makes me let out a sigh of relief. “Excuse you?” Mrs kings questions. “Are you asking my guest out for here?” She goes ahead to ask. “If we are to grade this by level of Importance, Eloise is just a guest, while Meelah’s grand mum is family and if there is anyone that should excuse us, it should be Eloise” Mr kings goes ahead to explain. “I disagree with you” Mrs kings objects. “It is left to you to decide to agree with me or not, the only thing I know is that you both planned this whole family get away thing without carrying anyone along, and you both were in charge of sending out invitati
/Meelah’s POV/“ I suddenly lost my appetite” Brian’s mom speaks up few minutes after G mama walked out of the dining, pushing her food away and walking out of the dining. “I need to use the bathroom” I politely excuse my self from the dining because it is taking everything in me from breaking down after G mama expresses how disappointed she was in me. “the last thing I will want to do is to break down in front of the man who call himself my father, his business wife, the torn in my flesh, or Brain’s obnoxious ex girlfriend so the best bet for me is to find a corner to hide myself then cry eyes out” I decide as I start to run as soon as I am out of sight. “Meelah….wait” I hear Elva calling out behind me and that gives me a bit of directional challenge because I am still yet to decide where I want to hide myself away from people on a resort that I am still yet to explore. “Should I just go to the garden or the swimming pool?” I question myself as soon as I step out of main door “I
/Brian’s POV/With Meelah and Elva’s perfectly laid out plan, the three of us were able to get the cooking process over and done with, prepared for the dinner and we were on our way to the dinner to revive the members of the kings family that were supposed to be meeting Meelah for the first time, only for Meelah’s father to suddenly show up and offset her balance. Initially I thought her family just decided to show up without an invite, but on a second thought I realized that there was no way they would have found out about the family get away and the resort so it was obvious that my mom and Eloise had something up their sleeves because the greater population of silver city is well aware that everything is not right between meelah and her father, but I didn’t expect that they were going to want to pry on her weakness like that. When I saw that Jayden connors presence was seriously affecting meelah, because of how she was struggling to breathe and trying to get a grip on her self, I