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2023-03-03 02:52:07Hey precious reader, thank you so much for following me on the journey of Rhea and Estefan, it really means a lot to me.
I’m writing this to apologize for missing some updates recently. That is due to the fact that I’m feeling a bit under the weather and unable to write anything. I’m trying so hard to write and update but it’s difficult when you have a banging headache.When I fully recovered, I will update daily till the end of the book.The Goodnews is, the book is slowly coming to an end. If you enjoy the book so far, I will appreciate some votes and comments.Stay tuned to find out what becomes of Rhea, Leah and Estefan.Love you guys plenty ❤️❤️Related chapters
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RHEA'S POVWhen I woke up that morning, I thought I had dreamt about the night with Estefan, but the feeling of his bare skin on mine and the soreness between my legs was enough to prove that it wasn't.As much as I wanted to regret giving my body to him like that, I couldn't bring myself to because it felt so right with him. Still wrapped in my towel, I rummage through the closet, trying to look for an outfit that would hide all the love bites on my body, but I couldn't find any because they were all over my body. When I said all over my body, I meant all over.A pair of hands snaked around from behind and a deep voice whispered in my ear, "what are you doing?""I have no idea what to wear." I sighed, leaning into him."Your side of the closet is full of clothes that you haven't even touched once, so how come you don't know what to wear?" Estefan asked with confusion laced in his voice."It's because of you that I can't wear any of this." I turned to him with accusing eyes."How did
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RHEA'S POVOut of shock, I remained rooted on the dressing table, staring at Esmeralda with a bewildered look. I was waiting for her to laugh at my face and say it was a joke, but seconds turned to minutes and she was still sporting that serious expression on her face."Are you sure? Is it really Leah? As in my elder sister, Leah?" I questioned. "Yes, it's your sister." She rolled her eyes at my question. "She is waiting for you downstairs," she said before walking away.I blinked in confusion and turned to Estefan who clenched his jaws in anger. "Why do you think she's here?" "I don't know, but I'm sure there's a negative hidden agenda behind her visitation." He held my hands that were sitting lazily beside me. "She has already hurt you enough, I'm not going to sit here and let that happen again." His lips came in contact with my forehead before he moved to walk away.Holding him back with his hand, I asked, "What are going to do?""Kick her out," he replied without skipping a beat
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LEAH'S POVAfter what I found out, I wasted no time boarding the next available plane to Spain. It was easy to enter the palace since the guards recognized me as Rhea's elder sister. "What are you doing here?" Esmeralda attacked me the moment I stepped into the living room. "Are you here to hurt Rhea again?" "No, of course not." I shook my head as I stare at her parents with pleading eyes. "I know I've been horrible to my sister but I really need to speak with her, please." They stared at each other before Queen Carina ordered her daughter to get Rhea. I took my seat on the couch but I could feel the cold stares of the King and Queen on my skin. I knew I deserved it and I regretted everything I did to Rhea. She was innocent in all of this and yet, I blamed her for it. If only I had listened to my sister and stood by her, I could have saved her from the trap that Estefan had set for her but I didn't. Rhea didn't deserve what Estefan and I did her, so that was why I made it my missi
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ESTEFAN'S POV' I have my entire life to spend with you.' Rhea's words played in my head over and over again after she walked out of my study room. I wasn't hearing things, was I? She did say that. That means she no longer wants to get divorced. She has decided to stay and spend the rest of my life with me. Or was I jumping to a conclusion? Did she just say that without giving it any thought? "Damn." I ran my head through my hair. "What are doing to me, Rhea?" I needed to put myself out of this misery by finding time to talk to her about us. What was going to become of us after her dad's project is over? Are we going to part way like we planned to, or has she changed her mind? Left to me, I planned on staying by her side forever if she let me. We haven't been married for long but I couldn't imagine my life without her. My life would go back to drowning in darkness if she left and I didn't want that to happen. I liked the new person she has turned me into and I hoped to remain that
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RHEA'S POV"The truth about what?" I asked, looking back and forth between them.The colour on Estefan's face drained as he stared at me with wide eyes. "Rhea, what are you doing here? Do you need something?" He masked his shock with a smile as he came toward me."Don't try to change the topic, what were you guys talking about? Is there something I need to know?" I narrowed my eyes at him."It's nothing, just go back to our room and get some sleep." Estefan tried to stir me back toward the door.I shook his hand off him and moved closer to Leah. "What's going on? What are you guys hiding from me?" "Um, I.. We.." She kept looking behind me where Estefan was standing. "It's about the truth about why I'm here." "Why you are here?" I raised my eyebrow at her."This is supposed to be a surprise for you but I don't want you to misunderstand the situation, so I might have to ruin the surprise," she started. "We were planning to throw a surprise party for you on your birthday." "My birthda
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ESTEFAN'S POVAll my brain cells died when I saw Rhea standing by the doorway with accusing eyes. I knew a lot of negative thoughts were going through her head but I couldn't think of anything to counter them.For the first time in seven years, I was grateful to Leah for managing to convince her and change the topic which raised another question in my mind."Is Rhea's birthday tomorrow?" I turned to Leah the moment Rhea walked out. "Yes. It's part of the reason I came here." She bobbed her head. "I've not been able to celebrate Rhea's birthday with her for a few years now because I always have something scheduled for that day, so celebrating her birthday with her is another way of apologizing for what I did." "How come she didn't even mention it once?" I raised my eyebrows at her. "Rhea always forgets her birthday. If I didn't come here, you would have ended up treating the day like every other day because the birthday celebrant doesn't even know it's her day," she explained. "She
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RHEA'S POVAfter I finished the breakfast Estefan made for me, he washed up and left saying he had to pick up something outside the palace. I went into the bathroom and stepped into the bathtub filled with water. As I sat inside the tub, I realized that I had never had a good memory of my birthday and that day was no different. My birthday was cursed to be a sad day for me. If not, why did I have to find out the truth about Estefan just a day before my birthday? Feeling depressed, I sunk my head into the water and remained still for almost minutes. When I could no longer hold my breath, I pushed my head out of the water, gasping for breath. I ended my bath session and stepped out of the bathtub. I went into my closet to get dressed before I made my way out of the room. Stepping out of the elevator on the first floor, I froze on my spot when I noticed all the decorations in the room. "I thought the birthday party was just a cover-up for their lies. Looks like they are going through
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ESTEFAN'S POVONE MONTH LATERI sat in my study lost in my thoughts that I didn't hear the door open. "Hey bro," Esteban's voice pulled me back into reality."Oh, you're back." I blinked my eyes. "How was your honeymoon?" "It was the best month of my life." He grinned as he perched on the edge. "So how was everything here without me? And how are things going with Rhea?" "Everything went well. Rhea is fine too." I shrugged as I tried to concentrate on the computer in front of me. Esteban took a good look at me and said, "What's wrong?" I knew I couldn't hide the fact that I wasn't okay from him no matter how I tried not to let it show.Deciding not to hide anything from him because I knew he always had a solution, I replied, "it's Rhea." "You guys were doing fine before we left, what happened?" "Nothing, that's the problem." I leaned into my chair as I ran my finger through my hair. "I thought we were doing fine too until I noticed she was drifting away from me. She avoids spend
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ESTEFAN'S POV “Estefan,” Rhea yelled from inside the room and I glanced at Mrs Dutchman who was standing with me in the kitchen, before leaving the pan on the burning stove and running to the room.“What's wrong?” I stepped into the room to see Rhea standing with her legs apart in front of the closet. “My water broke.” Her eyes widened as she stared at the water on the ground.“Okay, no need to panic,” I said but I was the one panicking because I had no idea what to do.“She'll go into labour soon, we need to get her to the hospital.” Mrs Dutchman walked past me who was standing at the entrance, looking confused. I shook my head and got myself together before moving close to Rhea. She placed one hand on her huge baby bump while I held the other hand and supported her back with my other arm as we walked out of the room.“Fuck!” She cried out and squeezed the hand that she was holding. “That hurts.” “I'm so sorry.” I caressed her back as she kept walking.“We need to hurry up, the
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LEAH'S POV “Asher, there's something I want to talk to you about,” I started as I sat next to him on the couch while he was busy typing away on his laptop. A few days ago, Asher brought up the topic of our wedding. He wanted to talk to my parents so that we could finalize the wedding date and start preparing for it. Like I told Rhea, I wanted to discuss the issue of not having babies yet before we proceeded. “Okay, but check this out first.” He placed his laptop on the table so that I could see what he was doing he was looking at.I raised my eyebrows when I saw that it was a picture of a house, a beautiful house at that. “What do you think about it?” He asked.“It's a beautiful house and I love the design too.” I nodded.“Would you love to live there someday?” He continued. My face scrunched in confusion. “Why are you asking me that?” He scratched the back of his head. “I'm thinking of buying the house for us. I don't want us to live in this apartment when we get married.” “
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RHEA'S POV ONE WEEK LATER.“Do you think we should go with the Spiderman theme for the nursery?” I asked as we drove to the hospital because Esteban was getting discharged.“Why would you want to use a Spiderman theme for a baby girl?” Estefan looked up from his phone with raised eyebrows.“It's not a girl, it's a boy. I know that because I'm the one carrying the child.” I folded my hands. “It's called mother's instinct.” “It doesn't work that way.” “It does.” I countered. “Why don't we ask Mom when we get to the hospital?” “Fine.” He averted his eyes from me and focused on his phone.The car stopped in the hospital parking lot. We stepped out and made our way inside, heading straight to Esteban’s room.Esteban was heading out of the room with Mom and Esmeralda when we got there. “I told you not to waste your time coming.” He rolled his eyes at us.He had insisted that we didn't make his discharge a big deal and just meet him in the palace later. But Estefan and I being the adaman
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ESTEFAN'S POV That morning, the doctor confirmed that my father had slipped into a coma and had no idea when he would be awake. Some of the court members visited the hospital to confirm it before they decided to proceed with their plans of making Prince Eugenio the ruling king.Princess Antonella contacted the officer and he told us the arrest warrant would be issued soon.I made Esmeralda and Mom stay in the hospital with Rhea and Esteban while I went to the appointment ceremony with Princess Antonella and her husband. We were sitting in the front row reserved for the member of the Royal family and the court members proceeded with the ceremony when everyone else was present.My feet bounced and I kept looking at the entrance of the palace Grand Hall, waiting for the police to walk in. “What's taking them so long?” Princess Antonella asked as Prince Eugenio was invited to the podium.“I have no idea.” “They have to arrest him before the ceremony is over or else he will be untouch
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ESTEFAN'S POV Esmeralda and I were standing in the hospital reception when medics rushed my father who was lying unconscious on the stretcher into the hospital. My heart stopped when I saw the blood all over his white shirt. “Mom, where is Esteban?” Esmeralda ran toward Mom who was following Dad's stretcher with tears rolling down her cheeks.Before she could reply, Esteban's stretcher was rolled in by the medics. He was still conscious and groaning in pain. “Esteban, hang in there. You're going to be fine.” I followed the nurses as they pushed him toward the emergency room.“Please, make sure Dad is okay.” He groaned in pain as he spoke.“Dad will be fine, just worry about yourself.” I stopped as they went into the emergency room.Mom broke down in Esmeralda's arm and they sank to the ground while I watched them, trying so hard to control my tears. We sat outside the waiting room, watching nurses going in and out. “Where is Estevan?” Princess Antonella shouted and she ran towa
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ESTEFAN'S POV“Go back there and check for the CCTV camera,” I ordered the bodyguards. “We need to find the people who left her there.” My bodyguards reported that they found Rhea lying in an alley. If I could get footage of the person who left her there and get him arrested, we might be able to get him to mention Prince Eugenio's name and add it to the list of his crimes. “Yes, Your Highness.” They bowed and left the room.Esmeralda walked into the hospital room with Mrs Dutchman who was holding a basket of food. I made her go back to the palace last night, even though she insisted on staying. I should have expected that she would be early the next morning. “Your Highness, I brought you some food.” Mrs Dutchman placed the basket on a small table and dragged me to sit on the chair in front of it. “I'm very sure you didn't get anything last night. Her Highness would get mad at you if she found out you have been starving yourself.” She was right. I didn't get anything to eat the wh
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ESTEFAN'S POV I drove like a maniac to the palace and rushed into the living room where everyone was sitting. “Where is she?” I asked, breathing heavily. My father stood up with a dejected look on his face. “Prince Eugenio has her, and he won't release her unless I announce him to the Crown Prince.” My heart dropped at the mention of Prince Eugenio's name, and my shoulders slumped in defeat. After everything I did to save my family’s legacy, everything was going to go down the drain because I couldn't protect Rhea. If only I had chosen to let that maid go and follow Rhea to the hospital. I pulled on my hair before I picked up a vase beside me and smashed it against the wall. “Fuck!” I yelled. “Estefan, calm down.” Esteban rushed to hold me. “How can I calm down? I don't know what that bastard is doing to her. She must be scared all by herself.” I cried as I spoke. “I should have gone with her to the hospital. This is all my fault.” Esteban wrapped his hands aroun
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ESTEFAN'S POV “Thanks for your help.” I walked toward the elevator with my bodyguards behind me. I took one of the regular elevators to the second floor. As if luck was on my side, the elevator stopped to reveal the kitchen maid holding two suitcases with her mother behind her. Her eyes widened upon seeing me, and she turned to make a run for it, but she stopped in her tracks when her eyes landed on her mother. I smirked, knowing she couldn't leave her mother behind to save herself. “Help them get in,” I ordered my bodyguards, and they stepped out of the elevator to usher them in. Gabriela shook in fear as she and her mother stood behind me in the elevator. The door closed, and I held the elevator before turning to her. “What's going on? Why isn't the elevator moving?” Her mother raised an alarm, looking at me and my bodyguards in fear. Gabriela kept her head down in fear, tugging on her mother's skirt. “What is it? Why are you quiet?” She turned to her daughter, e
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ESTEFAN'S POV “You have a phone call,” Rhea brought my phone to me in the bathroom. She answered it and put it on speaker since I couldn't answer it in the shower. “Good morning, Your Highness, its Doctor Enzo,” the caller said. “The DNA results are ready, you can come pick them up.” “Thank you, doctor,” I replied and he hung up. Rhea left the bathroom and I finished up before joining her in the room. She sat on the bed, typing away on her laptop while I got dressed.“I have an appointment with my obstetrician today, do you think you can come along?” She asked as she closed the laptop. “What time?” I stood in front of the mirror and buttoned my shirt. “11:30, can you make it?” She stood up to help me with my tie that I still haven't gotten the hang of. “I'm not sure, but I'll try.” I wrapped my hands around her.I had to get the test results and explain everything to my father before the meeting which I was informed was scheduled for 2pm.“If anything comes up and I can't make
