Ariella’s eyes were darting around as she struggled to get up from the wheelchair. Kelvin did not give her the opportunity, he clamped his hands on her shoulders and gently shoved her back into the wheelchair before circling to kneel in front of her. “Hey, Ariella, look at me,” he called her in a soft voice, but she ignored him and continued to look around, her body stiff with panic. “Ariella,” he called again, his voice higher this time as he placed his hands on her cheeks to guide her face so she was strong at him. “We were actually in an underground hospital or no, something that looks like a hospital. Where am I? Where is Mariam?” Ariella asked, her shaky voice betraying her fear. “Why did you not take me to a real hospital? Why do you have an underground hospital? What is it for?” “You have to calm down and hear me out. You do not have to be scared. We actually placed you there because you needed protection.” “Protection? Protection from whom?” Ariella snapped but when Kelvin
“Take out your phone and search who Hannah’s boyfriend is,” Kelvin told Ariella after a few minutes of silence between them. A frown appeared on Ariella’s face, “Why? What has Hannah’s boyfriend got to do with you telling me about the memory of two years that I lost?” “Just do it. You wanted an explanation for all of this? This is me giving you the explanation,” Even if Ariella did not know where he was going with what he was asking her to do, she opened her phone, turned on her data and quickly searched for who Hannah’s boyfriend was. Her eyes widened in shock when instead of another man, Kelvin’s picture came up on the search. She thought maybe she was seeing things so she clicked on a video there and watched it. The video was of Kelvin walking with Hannah on a red carpet. Her fans began to chant for them to kiss, and they stopped in the middle of the red carpet and gave themselves a deep kiss to the excitement of their shippers. The phone dropped from Ariella’s hand to the bed
“You did not come to my room that night because you wanted to or because you were trying to snatch me from Hannah. You came to me that night not knowing who I was and because Hannah sent you,”Okay, now her head was blank. “Please explain what you mean,”“You were having a shoot that day and your mothers doctor called to say that your mother’s condition was critical and you needed to bring the money for the surgery and if you delayed, your mother might die. You did not have the money completely so you went to Hannah since she was your friend and was richer than you. You asked her to lend you the money but she gave you some excuses about how her bank was not working properly that day. Then she told you that since you needed the money urgently and your mother’s life was on the line, she had a job you could do, a job that would give you the money you want that night.”“What job could that possibly be?” What job would give her a huge amount of money to pay for her mother’s surgery quickl
Ariella felt like she was hearing things. Her eyes betrayed her disbelief, “What did you just say?”“We are husband and wife, Ariella. We got married," Kelvin said slowly this time so that his words would sink into her head.Ariella was shaking her head before he was done, “Hell no, you do not mean that. Mariam said you are my boyfriend,” He must be joking right? He was trying to pull her legs and make light of the situation.“And she also said that I was more than just your boyfriend,”“And that means that you are my baby’s daddy. The father of my child,” Ariella told him in a firm voice.Kelvin gave her a small teasing smile as he released his hold on her hand and stood up from the bed. Kelvin could not understand why he was enjoying her reaction to the fact he just told her about them being married. She looked adorable with her fierce gaze as she argued.“Give me a few minutes. I need to pick something from my room,” Kelvin told her once he was at the door.“What is that?” Ariell
When Ariella woke up hours later, it was late already and just as he had promised, Kelvin was in the room with her.He was standing and staring out of the window with his hands shoved in the pocket of his blue washed out jeans.“Hey,” Ariella called as she slowly rose to a sitting position on the bed. She pushed her hair out of her face in annoyance, but it immediately came back to block her eyes. Ariella growled in anger as she stood up and went in search of a band to hold her hair in a high ponytail.When she was done, she sighed and looked back at Kelvin who was still lost in thought and had not heard when she called out to him. Ariella walked up to stand beside him as she folded her arms on her chest to stare out of the window too so that she could see what was so interesting that he was staring at with rapt attention, but apart from an open piece of concrete floor with some flower vases arranged in order on them, she saw nothing else. Ariella wrinkled her face in a frown before
“Sorry about that,” Kelvin apologized as he cleared his throat and tore his eyes away from the tempting sight in front of him.“Are you sure you are okay? You are acting weird,” Ariella told him as she moved to clean herself and rummage around in her closet for something comfortable to change into.“I’m good. It is just some business deal I’m trying to close,” Kelvin lied through his teeth. He could not possibly tell her that it was because of her he was acting the way he was. First, it was how to tell her that her mother was gone forever. He was not even done with that, she walked out in a towel.“It is a very important deal, huh?” She called from inside the closet, her voice was muffled.“Yeah,”“You can leave to attend to it since it is very important,”“It is important but don’t worry about it, Jerome will be attending to it until I need to go to work tomorrow,”“Alright, if you say so,” Ariella was relieved when she woke up and saw that he was still in the room with her. She was
“I’m relieved,” Gladys said with a smile, “My only fear now is her mother. How do we brooch the topic with her because very soon she will—” Gladys was interrupted when Ariella strode out of the kitchen with a plate of food and Mariam screaming curses inside the kitchen.Ariella gave Kelvin and Gladys a cheeky smile as she walked past them and headed for the running table.Gladys gave her a wide smile in return and both mother and son kept on watching as Ariella walked away from them.As Kelvin watched Ariella drop on a chair with a carefree expression, he did not know when he said, “She’s changed,”Gladys looked at him with questions in her eyes, “Changed? How so?”“She is no longer the shy girl I used to know. She is now very free,” “It is a good thing right?” “It is, but I keep wondering how long it will last,” Kelvin mused. “Don’t worry, with time everything will be fine,” “I hope so,”***“I’m really sorry about the Hannah stuff,” Ariella started when they were in the middle
Ariella was staring at the wall in front of her with an unseeing gaze. She’s been like that since forever. After overhearing Mariam and Kelvin’s argument and also discovering that her mother was dead and gone from this work, Ariana collapsed and when she woke up a day later, she woke up with her memory completely. Arielle did not know if she should be grateful that she got her memory back as she wished or if she should have remained the way she was. Her memory came back with the pain of losing her mother and so many other things she wanted to forget. The few weeks she spent without her memory were happy and blissful. She did not have any worry in the world and accepted things the way they were. Why couldn’t things just remain that way? Why did she have to go off to find Mariam in the kitchen, and why did she have to overhear them and get her memory back? Now, her life was back to its complicated state. She wanted to run away, but how could she run away from herself? How was that