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.