"Just shut up and listen!" I scold angrily and she shuts up. "Is that how low you think of me?"
"What do you expect me to think?, You didn't show up at our lunch date, didn't take your calls and now you are back home looking all shabby and missing some clothes, tell me what do you expect me to think?"
"Anything but cheating Sophia, anything but that" I say calmly and she bows down her head in guilt as she plays with her fingers. "All of this has to do with a girl though" I confess and looks up at me abruptly.
"You mean you were with a girl all day?"
"Yeah"
"Can you please tell me what's going on?"
"Remember that high school reunion party you missed?"
"Yeah, I traveled to Paris for a photoshoot"
"We had a misunderstanding and took a break"
"Yeah we did"
"So I met this girl at the party and we shared a drink in my car, one thing led to the other and we ended up spending the night together"
"As in you two had
"Ace what is this I'm hearing?" My mother asks furiously the moment I walk into the living room. I was awoken this morning by her phone call ordering me to come home immediately. Sophia must have exaggerated when telling her about Luna and the pregnancy. She is seated right between our mothers putting on the most pathetic expression and I find it extremely annoying.She is such a drama queen."Mum let me explain""Sophia already told us everything" Sophia's mother spits out angrily."That's her own side of the story, I've got mine""What cock and bull story do you want to feed us with?, how could you get some random girl pregnant?, do you have any idea how scandalous that is?, what if it reaches the press, the entire city and why not the country. It will be the talk of the town!" She laments furiously and I gently rub my forehead with my palm.Mum is always blowing things out of proportion."Mum i honestly do not care what the press or
"Josh you can excuse us""Thank you Mr. Ace" He exists the office and I get up from my chair and walk closer to Seven with a smile plastered on my face. He isn't smiling though."What a pleasant surprise, you are welcome to Heritage Empire" I say extending my hand for a handshake not even expecting him to accept it but surprisingly, he does and we both shake hands. "Nice to meet you again after all these years""I can't say the same for you" He says with a frown and I just keep smiling."Still cool, please make yourself comfortable" I say gesturing him to take a seat on any of the sofas."That won't be necessary, this is going to be a brief talk""Alright then" I say as I make myself comfortable on the nearest sofa and carefully cross my right leg over the left. "So what brings you here?""The fact that you cheated on my cousin with my girlfriend. What exactly does that make you?""First, you have no idea how all this happened
Once I get into Luna’s ward, I find her sleeping on the bed with Asher seated by her side. For some reason I’m relieved that she doesn’t have weird tubes connected to her body. I just pray she is alright.“Asher” I call and he looks up at me.“You’re here”“Yeah, what happened?” I ask panicking.“I found her lying unconscious in her bathroom when I went to check on her, she must have tripped”“Is she alright?... I mean, did she sustain any injuries?”“None, but I have requested for an ultrasound to be done we can know how the baby is doing”“Has it been done already?” I ask eager.“No, that’s why I called. You are the one who’s supposed to be here with her to carry out the ultrasound. It’s your baby after all” He explains and I go mute. I’m amazed. Asher is indeed a gentleman.&l
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN“Hello babe” Sophia’s voice comes through, “Why did you cut me off?”“Something came up”“Whatever, I’m at your office right now and you are nowhere to be found, where are you?”“I’m with Luna at the hospital, she had an accident and was rushed here. I had come and see her”“Oh…okay, so how is she?”“She is alright, everything is cool”“Good then. That means you will soon be in your way back right?”“I’m not sure”“You are not sure?, Babe what about lunch?”“Sophia we didn’t plan on having lunch together today”“I know but I want us to have lunch together, I already made a reservation for us at our favorite restaurant&rdq
SOPHIA’S POVI’m still trying to process the fact that Ace hung up on me. He has never done that before. I totally dislike the turn things seem to be taking these days and I despise that Luna of a girl. Of all the men in the world, she just had to get pregnant for my fiancé, of all the guys who were present at that reunion party, she just had to have sex with my fiancé and now she is carrying his child. The situation is so annoying that I don’t think I will refrain myself from choking her if I ever get to set eyes on her. I will choke her to death or better still hit her tummy so hard that she has a miscarriage.Yeah, think of me as evil, I don’t care. Maybe if you were in my shoes, you will understand what I am going through. Ace promised that nothing was going to change between us, that he only wanted to be there for his child but the way things are unfolding, that’s not what is going to happen. He is already getting too at
LUNA’S POV“So when are you moving in with Kyle?” Ace asks as we walk to the door. We just arrived at my house and I feel very bloated. He made sure I finished my dinner and drank a good amount of water. I’m sure I have gained about five extra pounds today.“Anytime he returns from his business trip”“Are you sure you’ll be fine living all alone?”“Yes Ace, I will be just fine”“Alright then, but I still have one favor to ask”“And what could that be?”“Allow me to stay and tuck you in bed”“No Ace, I can’t accept that. I’m sorry”“Please Luna, I’m not going to spend the night, I just want to have you fall asleep in my arms. That’s all.” He pleads and I just shake my head.“Ace this wrong, you have ignored Sophia all day, don’t you think it’s time for you to go see her?”“Luna I know that okay, but I have my way of handling things. Leave Sophia to me. Please just let me spend some quality time with you”
MRS. COLE’S POVI have never and till now, still not understood men. The slightest things completely draw their attention. Way back in high school I used to date a guy named Bernard Angelis who happens to be Luna’s father now. We used to be so much in love until Luna’s mother, Diana Ross showed up. I lost Angelis to Diana within the twinkle of an eye and till today they are still happily married.Angelis and I had gone quite a long way in our relationship but when Diana came, he forgot all what we had shared and decided to be with her. He dumped me for her and now their daughter is pregnant for my son. She is trying to snatch my son away from his fiancé, Sophia just the way her mother snatched her father from me.That is not going to happen on my watch. First, I love Sophia very much. I have watched that young woman metamorphose from a new born to a toddler, a teenager and now an adult. I know her flaws and perfections and I love her all
LUNA’S POV.I decided to show up at work today and I have sworn never to absent from work the way I did these past days. I’ve been working since morning, preparing financial records and audits. Right now my head is just cramped and heavy. I’m tired and hungry and above all sleepy. I’m going to go home immediately when I’m done with what I am doing. I will do the rest of the work at home.My office door opens and l my breath seizes when I see my mum walk in. She is the last person I want to see right now. I have been avoiding her calls and refusing to go home for visits because I don’t want her insisting to know who is responsible for my pregnancy. She is going to scold me severely if she finds out that Ace is the one responsible for it.“Seriously Luna?, A one night stand with an engaged man?!”BAAM!Mum asks furiously as she throws her handbag on the couch and stands akimbo waiting for me to say some
CHAPTER SIXTY- NINEACE’S POV. THREE MONTHS LATER.Sophia didn’t survive the surgery, but she brought forth the most beautiful baby girl I have ever seen in my entire life and we are all doing a great looking after her.Luna moved in with me, so the baby spends most of the time with us since Luna is her mother. Once in a while, she spends the night with Asher and Alora.So far, everything is moving smoothly, even though we all wish that Sophia was alive to complete the circle.Sophia wasn’t bad at all, the only thing that made her the way she was, was her obsession with me. When she was pregnant and lived at Asher’s house, I saw a total different person in Sophia and I was impressed.Asher brought the good girl in her and I wish she was here with us.Anyway, we love her, but God l
CHAPTER SIXTY- EIGHTASHER’S POV“Breakfast is ready” Alora announces as I walk into the diner.“Good morning Princess”“Good morning”“Where is Luna?”“In the kitchen” I go over to the kitchen where are fine Luna washing dishes in the sink and when she turns and sees me, she acts like she hasn’t and concentrates on her plate.“Good morning Luna” I greet calmly as I approach her.“Good morning” she greets back not even sparing me a glance.“Alora must have told you what happened yesterday”“Yes, she did”“Luna, all of this was sudden, I don’t even know how it got to this level, Sophie and I…&
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN“What the actual hell is doing on here?” Alora asks astonished the moment I walk into in the living room with Sophia cuddled up in my arms.Seven soon left the hospital for an urgent business deal and there was no one else with her and I couldn’t just leave her there.My house was the best option at that moment.“Not now Alora”“I don’t want her here!” Alora screams furiously and I look at her in awe. The feud between them runs deeper than I thought“Look, there was no one at the hospital to look after her or better still take her home, I couldn’t just leave her there”“Yes you could?, I won’t care if she rots there!”“Alora she is carrying your niece or nephew, you need to be a bit considerate towards her rig
CHAPTER SIXTY-SIXACE’S POVVarieties of beautiful flowers are blooming in the entire hall, expensive decorations that have got everyone gushing.Everything looks posh and I’m impressed. Our mothers did a great job organizing this wedding. It’s indeed the talk of the town.The flock of journalists aligned outside with their myriad of cameras makes it look more of a red carpet show than a wedding.I scan the mighty hall that is actually filled with people and everyone is so quiet and elegantly dressed. I spot a few of my uncles and cousins who keep making funny faces at me every time our eyes meet. I’m going to get properly laughed at , after this ceremony.I always bragged to them about being the last person who is going to get married among them, but here I am, about to get married the first.RIP Ace. 
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVELUNA’S POVWords cannot begin to describe the way I feel about myself right now.I’m nothing but a looser.Just within the twinkle of an eye, I lost my baby and the love of my life and in a few days time, he’s going to get married to someone else.This is worse than nemesis.No matter how much I try, it doesn’t seem to me like I will ever be able to get over them. The thought of loosing Ace to Sophia stabs my heart every time I think of it.How I wish things could be different.I lost the son, it’s so unfair that I have to lose the father too. I wish I could just snap my finger and everything turns out the way I want them to be.I just want to be with Ace.A knock on the door snaps me out of my thoughts and I go to open it.
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR“Oh boy!” Alora exclaims.“Thank you very much Mr. Clarkson”“You’re welcome”I quickly hang up and hand the phone over to Alora. I don’t know why but I’m suddenly very hot. I quickly take off my tux jacket and toss it aside. This can’t be. This totally can’t be.I had a one night stand with Sophia?“She is officially a whore to me now” Alora condemns.“Do you think she knows it was me?”“I don’t know Ash, I really don’t know”“If Ace finds out about this, nothing will stop him from calling of that wedding”“Yeah, even the fact that she’s pregnant…” she suddenly stops and gasps loudly.&ld
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREEASHER’S POVI park my car in the garage and alight from it. I walk to the front door and ring the bell. Just Alora and I live here now. Luna’s parents insisted on taking her home after the miscarriage and there was nothing I could do.I miss her.I miss her dearly.Her sweet melodious voice that always caused blood to sing in my veins anytime she spoke, her charming smile that lightens my entire day.She’s my perfect queen.I’m going to spend the night in her bedroom, that’s what I’ve been doing these past weeks.I miss cuddling her, kissing her forehead and preparing her breakfast every morning before going go to work.I miss her so much that it hurts.The front door is opened by Alora and the moment she sees me, her face lights up. I wonder why.
CHAPTER SIXTY TWOACE’S POVI can’t feel anything, I can’t hear anything, I can’t see anything. Everything seems blurry, the voices around me sound like I’m in a distant world away from every one else.This all feels like thirty different kinds of wrong.This is worst than a nightmare, it’s a nemesis.My unborn child is dead and his mother is there fighting for her life.Like damn! I can’t loose both of them. If the baby is gone, God should at least save Luna for me. I’d go crazy if anything should happen to her.That girl has got my heart.All of it and I love her from here to the moon and back.Right now every one is impatiently waiting for the doctor. The news of the accident spread like wild fire. Her mother has been wailing ever since she got he
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONEKYLE’S POVI finally get Alora to sleep after several minutes of her wailing and cursing. I clearly understand her pain. Alora and Luna are more than just best friends, more of twin sisters who have got a special connection. They met in junior high school and since then, they have been inseparable.I don’t just see her as my sister’s best friend, she is my baby sister too and I love her to bits. I’m so happy that she’s alright, I don’t know what I would have done if both of them had to be in that same critical condition. Now that she’s here, I feel like everything is going to be alright.“Sweet dreams sweetheart” I say as I plant a gentle kiss on her forehead and exit the ward. I walk to the outpatient ward where I find Ace sitting helplessly on the floor. He’s not crying, he just has on a very blank expression and I can&rs