Realizing just how close they were to each other, Arialla jerked back but that was a mistake on her part because she stepped on her dress with her high heels and stumbled backward. Her eyes widened in horror and her hands shot out to look for something to grab and she ended up grabbing the lapels of his jacket at the same time his hand wrapped around her waist and he drew her to her former position. Only this time she was closer. The only space between them was the one created by her baby bump.Kelvin brought his head down until his lips were closed to her ear, “What are you trying to do? You were going to hurt yourself. Why are you running away?” Her hot breath fanned her ear and she could not help but shiver.“I’m not running away,” her voice was low and less audible“Could have fooled me,” his mouth brushed her against her ear as he spoke and Kelvin could not resist the urge to close his teeth around the soft flesh.Ariella’s hold on his jacket tightened as his sharp teeth sank i
Why did he even bother to even bring her out to dinner if he was going to forget about her existence? She thought that the pressing of his phone would stop once they got down from the car but she was mistaken because he continued to do so even after they were seated and had placed their orders.She peered at him from under her lashes and her anger spiked up when she realized that he was now on a call. His food has gone cold by now.Arialla wanted to snap at him, tell him to drop his phone and have the dinner he invited her for but she reasoned that what he was doing might be a business that was more important to him than having dinner with her . The food was good and it smelled nice, she did not feel like throwing up or anything. I’m fact, she was enjoying herself. Ariella had nothing to complain about except for the behavior of the man sitting opposite her.She wished he would drop his phone and focus on dinner, talk and tease her like he did in her room before they got here. She h
“No,” Kelvin shook his head, “I’m not hooking up with her,” Though he did not think she would still insist on an answer, he did not hold back from responding. She was cool headed now and if things were going to work out between them, they had to live in peace and get along well. There would be no getting along if she thought that Hannah was in the picture. He also felt like he owed it to her to give an explanation. God, he was doing so many things he has never done before and it was all because of her.“Really?” She asked as she reached for her glass of juice again. She took a sip before she peered at him over the glass, “So how come the both of you decided to hop on a plane and land at the same time?” Until he gave her a believable story, she was not going to take his word for it.“It was a coincidence,”“Well, I do not believe in coincidence and I’m not a fool. I was there for a long time and you never cared to visit. All of a sudden, you appeared at the door, then I saw your ex-gi
“Oh my God, what are you doing here?” Arialla asked, her eyes sparkling with excitement as she gazed up with Steven. He was a man with blonde hair and his eyes were the color of blue skies.“I came for dinner with my…” Steven trailed off as he glanced at the woman who was hanging on his arm, “Beautiful friend,Amy,”“Nice to meet you, Amy,” Ariella stretched out her hand to the woman with a wide smile. She realized only too late that she should not have done that because the other woman just stared at her hand in disgust and refused to take it. The smile on Ariella’s face froze and everything became awkward.Amy looked a little familiar but for the life of her, she could not place where she had seen her.“Amy,” Steven called with a red face as he poked the other woman’s side.“Oh, yeah, that’s right. It is really nice to meet you, Ariella,” Amy said with a wide smile that did not touch her eyes as she grabbed Ariella’s hand that she left hanging. She squeezed tightly, causing Ariella
Gladys was crying outside the room Ariella was locked in with the doctors and Kelvin was trying his best to console her. Their private doctors had been waiting in front of the house with a gurney when Jude drove inside the compound. They quickly took her away into the underground room that served as a hospital room in his house. The doctors had been in there for a few hours and Kelvin was beginning to panic but he knew that he needed to be strong for his mother.“How could this happen again? What if something happens to her or the baby?” Gladys cried into Kelvin’s chest, “I don’t think she will ever recover if anything was to happen to her child. This is wrong in so many ways.”“Shhh, mom, we cannot think the worst right now. She will be fine. She is a fighter,” Kelvin did not know if he was consoling himself or his mother. Maybe he was consoling the both of them.“Your father and I should have taken care of this years ago but we couldn’t. I’m so sorry Kelvin, I’m so sorry,” Gladys c
Amy was sitting anxiously in a private room in hotel De La Cruz as she waited for the person that sent her a message attached with an incriminating video of her.Amy had turned white and nearly threw up when she got the first video and the message. She was being blackmailed. First, she panicked but then the panic disappeared only to be replaced by anger. She could not understand how this person got hold of this video Did this person know who she was? How dare the person try to blackmail her? Once she knew who this person was, she wouldn't hesitate to put him or her in the ground.She immediately asked who the person was and what they wanted but all she received was a message to meet up here. She wasn't expecting that person would want to meet up. She was expecting the person to demand that she send money. Seems like she had a stupid person on her hand.She asked her personal investigator to search up the phone number but it was untraceable so she carried herself to the hotel.This
The room was quiet as Kelvin stepped to the side to make a call and Arialla knew that he was going to call Mariam. How did he get her friend’s number? She wondered if Mariam met this man when she was brought to the hospital after her accident. After talking on the phone for a few minutes, the man turned to look at her, “Mariam is on her way.” “Okay,” “Before Mariam arrives I will like to introduce myself and my mother to you,” “Okay,” Ariella’s eyes were glinting with curiosity. She was going to finally find out who the handsome man was. “I am Kelvin Patrick and this is my mother Gladys Patrick,” Kelvin pushed and stared at her inquisitively. It was as if he was waiting for a reaction from her. The curiosity in Ariella’s eyes died and she frowned. Why did the two names sound familiar? Thinking about it now, she felt like she knew this man and the woman but she could not understand why she felt this way when she knew that she had never met them before. “Why does it feel like we h
Ariella peered at Kelvin under her lashes. He was here, sleeping on a chair when she woke up in the middle of the night and he was still here in the morning. He had changed out of the clothes he had been wearing in the middle of the night and was working on his laptop while sipping coffee in between. Ariella wished she could ask for a cup too, she could use a strong cup of coffee right now, but she knew that she wouldn’t be getting one if she asked. Sick people do not drink coffee. She knew that because of her mother. Ariella could not understand why he was here and even working from here. What was their relationship with each other? He wasn't her boyfriend, was he? It was not a bad idea, but he has not said anything about his relationship with her. Yesterday, when she first woke up, she thought either him or his mother was driving the car that knocked her down but then when she realized that she must have known but had forgotten about them, she did not know what to think again.
“So how was it?” Mariam's excited voice came from the other end of the phone. “How did the dinner go?”“Uhm, everything went well,” There was a voice in Ariella’s head asking her to tell Mariam everything that happened during the dinner with Kelvin’s family but another voice was asking her to say nothing. Mariam would hate Kelvin and since Marin was someone who hated pretending, Kelvin would begin to suspect that something was wrong. She did not want him to know that she knew everything he was doing. Her first thought in the toilet after Jade spilled everything to her had been to run away but she has neither the energy nor the resources to run off and stay hidden. Kelvin will find her within a day. She could not disappear without telling Mariam too and Mariam will be the first person Kelvin will go to if she goes missing. She won’t be putting her friend in such a position. She will have to think of another plan.After much struggle, she went with the most dominant voice which was th
Ariella has been staring at Kelvin’s card that was lying in the middle of her bed since forever. She was contemplating if she should do what was on her mind or if she should try to find a new hobby so she won’t be bored out of her mind.Being home and alone have made her thoughts run wild. She realized that there was nothing she liked doing in her free time and that was mostly because she’s never had free time since her father died.When her father was alive, she hung out with her friends but the said friends now wanted nothing to do with her, not after they nearly got in trouble a couple of times because of her.She could not really blame them. It was not fun to be chased around by loan sharks because you were friends with a girl whose father could not borrow from the banks so he decided to go to loan sharks instead.Ariella has never liked reading but that was okay, she could start now that she was free. She knew how to draw a little, maybe she could buy a sketchbook and pencil cray
Kelvin shoved his hand inside the breast pocket of his suit and produced a black card which he stretched out to her. “What? What’s that?” Ariana croaked out, staring at the black card that was lying on his palm as if she did not know what it was. “It is my card. You can use it to get anything you want while I’m away,” “I can leave the house?” Arielle asked, still staring at the card. “Why?” Kelvin asked in surprise, “I’ve never stopped you before,” “But…” Yeah, right. He has never stopped her from going out before but she would like to think that he would stop her now after that accident. Was he not supposed to be scared that something bad could happen to both her and the baby? Seems like she was deluding herself when she thought that he cared about the baby. Maybe… no, she was not going to think about anything. “But what?” He asked with raised brows. “Uhn… nothing,” Arielle shook her head. Kelvin stared at her for a few minutes as if hoping she would change her mind and
During the period of her accident, Maria’s younger sister was sick so Kelvin let her leave to take care of her sister. Maria took just a few weeks off but her sister did not recover, Kelvin then asked her to stay with her sister until anytime she recovers. Maria was not back until now.With Mariam who had traveled to another state to walk the runway, Gladys and Kelvin who had gone back to bury themselves in work, Ariella was left to her own devices.Before Kelvin left for work this morning, he went to Ariella’s room in search of her. His lips widened in a smile when he met her still buried under the covers with only her face out but with her eyes wide open.“Not ready to get up yet?” He asked as he dropped on the bed and reached out a hand to push her hair back from her face.Ariella grumbled something unintelligible under her breath as she turned her face into his hand that was now cupping her cheek. Her action made the smile on Kelvin’s face increase.It did not use to be like this
“So how was it?” Mariam's excited voice came from the other end of the phone. “How did the dinner go?”“Uhm, everything went well,” There was a voice in Ariella’s head asking her to tell Mariam everything that happened during the dinner with Kelvin’s family but another voice was asking her to say nothing. Mariam would hate Kelvin and since Marin was someone who hated pretending, Kelvin would begin to suspect that something was wrong. She did not want him to know that she knew everything he was doing. Her first thought in the toilet after Jade spilled everything to her had been to run away but she has neither the energy nor the resources to run off and stay hidden. Kelvin will find her within a day. She could not disappear without telling Mariam too and Mariam will be the first person Kelvin will go to if she goes missing. She won’t be putting her friend in such a position. She will have to think of another plan.After much struggle, she went with the most dominant voice which was th
After Jade said her piece and walked out, Arielle felt so shaky she had to walk back into the toilet and sit on the toilet seat because she felt like if she remained standing for even a second more, she would drop to the floor in a heap.Arielle massaged her forehead with her hand, she could feel an oncoming headache. Who was it that anytime she thought the worse has passed, more will come?When Judy had said she shouldn’t be called if news about her pregnancy got out,Arielle did not take it to heart because she’d already told herself that she was ready for anything and everything that would happen. She was not going to hide anymore because it won’t help her in the long run. She could not live all her life in hiding because of something she never wanted to happen. Hannah was the one who is supposed to go into hiding and not her.Arielle thought that everything was moving well now but Jade telling her all these things made her know that she was living in a fantasy she created with he
After using the toilet which was a little hard for Ariella to find even after the whole directions Gladys gave to her, she sighed in relief and stepped out to wash her hand. She has been holding back her pee since she got here and the whole issue from Judy and Jade just made everything worse.As she was washing her hand, she heard the bathroom door opening and raised her head and stared into the mirror to see who was behind her. She cursed in her head when she saw who was walking inside and she immediately had a flashback of when she was in the bathroom of that hotel abroad and Hannah walked in. She just knew that Jade being here was bad.Ariella looked down and washed her hand properly before reaching out to wipe her hand with toilet paper.“You know, Kelvin would never fall in love with you,” Jade said as she came to stand beside Ariella. “I do not care about how you managed to climb onto his bed and get yourself pregnant but Kelvin will never settle for someone like you when he onc
The way everybody’s character was taking a three sixty degrees turn was giving Ariella a whiplash. First it was Judy who was acting nice then later turning into a vicious snake and now, it was Kelvin who had been acting like he was not there but was now defending her.“I asked you to get out, Jade,” Kelvin said again, his voice was calm but Ariella could hear the underlying anger.“You can’t send her away,” Judy snapped.“Oh yes, I can and I’m asking her to leave now,” Kelvin took his eyes from Judy and placed them on Jade who flinched and ducked her head in fear.She reached out with shaky hands and clutched her mother’s hand, “Mommy,” Judy turned to Alexander, her face red with anger, “Dad, better do something,”“Jade should leave. This meeting was supposed to be for the adults only but I let her stay because I thought she would be reasonable and would comport herself, I thought wrong.” “What is wrong in what she has said? She is just trying to make us know the type of person we
“So how far along are you, Ariella?” Alexander, Kelvin’s grandfather asked once they were all seated and ready to have dinner.“Ehh, six months,” Ariella answered with a small smile on her face.Alexander beamed at her, “That’s wonderful. In a few more months we will be getting a mini version of Kelvin. How I wish that my son, Kelvin’s father, Hunter was here to see his first grandchild but no, someone just had to kill him off at such a young age,”If Ariella noticed the way Gladys and Kelvin stiffened beside her, she said nothing and acted like she did not notice anything.Everything was moving well so far. Kelvin’s family was cool. His two uncles and his auntie were here and they have been nice to her so far. Kelvin’s aunty’s first daughter, Jade was here too but she has not said a word. No matter how her mother poked her to greet Ariella, she stubbornly refused and kept her mouth shut. She kept glaring at Ariella.Alexander showed his excitement about having a great grandchild but