One minute she was meditating in the warm water that had now gone cold and the next minute she was snapped out of it by a knock on the door. Ariella landed on her bottom with a splash, and she screamed when her leg twisted at the wrong angle and hot pain shot through her. “Ariella, I’m coming in now,” Kelvin said as he twisted the door handle. Even with the painful feeling in her leg, Ariella’s eyes widened in fear as she looked at the door, “No, please don’t come in. I’m fine,” even her voice betrayed her pain. Kelvin ignored her words and opened the door, “No, you are not fine,” he said as he stepped into the bathroom and hurried over to the bathtub. “It’s just my leg. Allow me to come out by myself,” “Let me help you,” Without even thinking twice Kelvin shoved his hand inside the tub and pulled her out into his arms then he hurried out to sit her on the bed in the room. Kelvin knelt in front of her and lifted one of her legs, “Which one of them is twisted?” “Not the one you
“I…” he cleared his throat awkwardly, avoiding her eyes. “I'll get something in the closet for you to wear.” He didn't even wait for a reason before rushing over to the closet.Ariella watched him with an amused expression. He scampered through the wardrobe, shaking his head with incoherent complaints. Deciding to ease his stress, Ariella wrapped the sheets around her body and pushed herself out of bed. A small cuss fell off her lips as soon as her feet touched the ground. She sucked it in and walked towards the closet to pick something to wear.“What do you think you're doing? Go back to bed, I'll pick something for you,” he tried to shoo her away. “You're not exactly doing a great job, Kelvin. If I leave you to it, my legs would be all swollen by the time you're done and even then, we will never make it to the hospital because you will still be deciding if it suits my skin tone,” she stated. A frown settled on his face and she sensed a protest coming up. Surprisingly, he said n
She had been so focused on leaving that she didn't remember that Hannah knew her body very well and would tell her was pregnant if she looked closely. Her baby bump was not very big and she had baggies on, but she had been friends with Hannah for so long. The woman could tell if there was a slight change in her body. Coupled with the fact that she had her hand on her stomach when she came out. Ariella's eyes drifted to the door as she calculated how to escape, but as if Hannah read her mind, she grabbed her hand. “Answer me, Ariella. Who got you pregnant?!” She demanded. Ariella panicked and struggled to free her hand, all to no avail.“Let go of me!” Ariella cried, but Hannah’s grip only tightened. “You are not leaving until you tell me who put that thing in you!” Hannah told her with a hard look.“It’s none of your goddamn business. Leave me alone.” Ariella gritted out.As much as Ariella wanted to yell at Hannah, she knew that Kelvin was outside so she brought her voice down.
Ariella expected to see Kelvin still standing outside but he was nowhere around the area. She could not help the feeling of relief that washed through her. Even though she had been ready to damn the consequences during the confrontation with Hannah, she was glad it didn't result in her fear for the past few months.Hannah was a very malicious person and with what she had just told her about using Kelvin, Hannah would go to any length to ruin them if she knew that she was pregnant with Kelvin’s child because it would ruin her plans.Ariella hurried back to the private room and spotted him at the table, sitting with his back to her. As she rushed to him, she realised he was on a phone call. In any other cases, she would have let him finish but not today. She tapped him and he looked at her and gestured that he was on the phone. She ignored his action, “We need to leave now!” Ariella insisted, pulling his arm. “A minute, it's important,” he told her with a deep frown etched on his h
“I met Hannah,” Ariella repeated.“Did she…?” Mariam licked her lips and gave a nervous laugh, “Did she see the both of you together?”“No. Thankfully, she didn’t. My legs were swollen this morning, so Kelvin was worried and would not listen when I said it was just pregnancy and all its troubles. He decided to take me to the hospital. We had to stop by a restaurant because I was hungry, but all the food there smelled bad, and I felt like throwing up. I rushed into the female bathroom, not knowing she was in the one next to me. We bumped into each other when we were coming out to wash our hands.”“Nah, that was so wrong,” Mariam groaned, “What did she say? What did she do? I know she would never let you leave without saying anything. That bitch,”Ariella narrated the whole event to her, and by the time she was done, Miriam was vibrating with anger on her behalf. “The audacity of that woman! Why didn't you break those skinny bones of hers when she grabbed you?” Mariam gritted through c
Hannah sat with her hands clasped in her laps and with a dark look in her eyes as she watched her personal bodyguard approach her with a dull look.She already knew what that look means. There was bad news and Hannah was unsure if she was prepared to hear it because something told her it would not only ruin her day, but it would ruin all her future plans and would make all the hard work of the past look like a failure.“Miss Bailey,” her guard, Jordan called as he came to a halt in front of her. “I…” he trailed off as he took in a deep breath.“It’s that bad, huh?” Hannah asked him with her face wrinkled in a frown. “It is really bad, Miss Bailey,”Hannah shut her eyes for a moment as she prepared her heart for what was to come, “Shoot,”“As you feared, Ariella is really pregnant with Mr. Patrick’s child.”Hannah could hear the sound of her heart dropping from her chest to hee stomach and then down and splattering on the floor in shattered pieces.“I’m so sorry, Miss Bailey,” Jordan
“Kelvin wants us to return with him,” Ariella said two days later while she and Mariam were having breakfast after Kelvin had left for wherever he went every morning. “And before you start complaining, he said we can come back anytime we want. Well, after I have given birth.”“Great,” Mariam dropped her fork and placed her hands on the table before clasping it together, “He was the one who wanted you to stay longer, and I was beginning to think that he was trying to get rid of you. His behavior since two days ago says otherwise. It showed that he actually cares about you and…”“Mariam,” Arialla shot her a dirty look.Mariam ignored her and continued to speak like Ariella did not try to stop her, “Did you ask him why he suddenly wants you to go back?”“I did not ask him, but I think it has something to do with me bumping into Hannah at the restaurant two days ago,”“Yeah, right. That bitch. She is the reason we’ve been indoors for two days. She just had to appear everywhere we are and
Ariella felt her throat close up, and she swallowed thickly and folded her arms across her chest, “Alright, shoot,”“Don’t you think you need to sit first? Don’t want you to fall and blame your miscarriage on me,”“Are you cursing her?” Mariam growled in anger.“Take it as you like, but I won’t say anything unless the both of you are seated,” Hannah also folded her hand across her chest as she watched Mariam and Ariella look at each other. Ariella nodded at Mariam before the both of them sat on the couch opposite Hannah’s.“We are both seated. Now talk,” Mariam said.“Hmm,” Hannah bit her bottom lip, “I am not here for any reason. Just came to visit my dear pregnant friend,”A deep scowl appeared on Mariam’s face, “Don’t okay with us. Say what’s on your mind or make use of the door,”Hannah turned to look at Ariella, completely ignoring Mariam, “I asked you the other day in the bathroom, but you refused to answer me. I’m here to ask you again and for the last time. Who got you pregnan