“Oh my goodness, what do you mean catching feelings for him? I can’t believe you said that,” I said, slightly annoyed but very angry on the inside. I was rubbing my forehead with my hand, trying to calm my nerves down, but it wasn’t working. I swear, if he had said anything more to aggravate me, I would explode. Literally.“I’m just saying, women are never to be trusted, especially when it comes to relationships and stuff like that. And it’s not just a relationship. You were once married to this man,” he said. He looked at me with a cold and accusing stare. Even Rick couldn’t look at me like that, because he didn’t have a reason to. And I wasn’t going to take it from him, especially when we were in the middle of something and he probably had a hand in it.“Look, I am a woman. I am Jane. And I am delusional. I love you to stupor. I don’t care about any other relationship I had in the past with any man. I don’t care about any marriage I had in the past with any man. What I care about ri
He glared at me with anger and disbelief. “What do you mean you want to find our son? I want to find him as much as you do, or even more. Remember that I’ve never had kids before. This is my first child. I’m going to find him, okay? So you need to relax. We’re all agitated here. We’re all tired. We’re all stressed out. You need to calm down,” he said in a calm voice, but I could hear the edge in his tone.I smiled weakly, pretending to agree with him. But I was secretly determined to follow my own plan. I had to find out what was going on.“Listen to me, Henry. I’ve already told you that we should investigate your ex-husband Rick. I don’t know why you decided to bring up an issue about it, but it’s worthless. We need to go and pay him a visit, even if it’s just a visit, okay?” I asked, while he groaned.“Oh my goodness, Jane. Okay, fine. I’ve heard you. We’re going to pay him a visit, okay? But not today. Tomorrow morning,” he said.I shook my head emphatically. “No, no. My son cannot
“Oh no, Henry, you did not just do that to me,” I said to him angrily. He had just hung up the phone after talking to someone who claimed to have our son. He had refused to tell me who it was or where we were going.He rolled his eyes and sighed. Then he removed his hands from his chin and placed them on my lap. “Look, relax, okay? We’re going to meet your ex-husband, but this is the location they asked us to come to and that’s where we’re going,” he said.I breathed a sigh of relief. I thought he didn’t trust me. I guess I was being a little bit paranoid, but still, everyone around me was a suspect, including Henry. He was already acting a little bit shady and I didn’t want anything to happen to me before I could even get a chance to save my son. But the road that we were taking was not even the way to my ex-husband’s house, so that was what made me very confused.“Why did he change his location or something? I mean, he didn’t used to live around here before,” I said, looking around
“Alright, everyone, abort mission and reset,” Henry said into his earpiece. He looked at me with a serious expression. “What do you mean, abort mission? We’re going to do this thing today,” I shouted at him. He yelled back at me, “Stop it, just stop and listen to me for once in your life. Stop it and listen to me, okay? We’re not taking him by force. We’re going to negotiate and I have my reasons for doing so, okay? I don’t even know why I brought you here. I should’ve just gone with the rest of my team because we already had a plan before coming here. Come on, Jane, I’ve already told you the plan. All you have to do is follow it.” He shouted, making me flinch. I had to pause and listen to all that he had said. It made sense. I was just going to sit back and watch everything unfold. Hopefully, it was going to be a success.“Okay, fine, fine. It’s fine. I’ll be quiet, I promise,” I said calmly this time. Then he decided to lean on the car and rub his temples again to calm himself dow
“Do you know you’re wasting my time right here, Henry? I need to find my son. I haven’t sent him breastmilk in days. I really need to find my son. So can you please hurry up whatever it is you’re doing and just get to the chase and tell us who did it if you know? Or else I’ll just assume that you’re wasting my time and I’ll leave.” I said to him in a frustrated tone. I looked at him expectantly, but he just stood there with a blank expression. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t do anything. He just stared at me with his cold blue eyes. I felt that there were so many things he needed to settle with me, but I wasn’t even ready to start settling anything with anyone at that moment. So I had to tell him.“Hey, look, I know that you have so many things against me. I know you’re still holding a grudge for me taking you to court and everything that has happened along the line. But can you break it? It’s been months, probably close to a year or a year and a half. You’re supposed to get over i
He shouted after me as I marched into the car, fuming. “What the hell was that in there all about, Jane?” He was Henry, my husband, my new husband, the man who loved me and supported me. He had brought some of his men with him as backup. He had a plan to negotiate with Rick and get our son back.But I didn’t want to negotiate.I wanted to take him back by force.I didn’t even want to look back at him or even entertain any of the questions he was asking me. Obviously, he didn’t know exactly how I felt and he probably was doing all of this for his own selfish reasons. I don’t know, but I smelled a stinky fish. I smelled something very fishy. I couldn’t place my finger on it yet, but I knew I would in a matter of time. I didn’t have to give up my properties for that idiot.I got into the car and slammed the door. He soon joined me in the car and slammed it too. He glared at me with a very angry expression. His blue eyes were cold and hard. His jaw was clenched and his lips were thin. He
“Alright, whatever you say. I guess we’ll be heading back home now. Let me let my men know that we’re not coming back,” I said calmly. I could hear the defeat in his voice and a hint of something else. Maybe anger, maybe frustration, maybe disappointment. But at that point, I didn’t care enough to even ask him what was going on. I just knew that I had one thing in mind, which was not giving in to whatever it was Rick was going to say or come up with.“Is it me or you sound so cold?” I said finally, breaking the silence. We were in the car, driving away from Rick’s house.He just kissed his teeth and ignored me. He faced the other side of the car, looking out the window. He seemed to be lost in thoughts. Why wouldn’t he be lost in thoughts anyway? We were in the middle of a shit hole, in the middle of some crazy-ass bullshit. And I was already starting to feel that it was my fault.Why would you think it’s your fault? He asked me one of these days when I was at home, sitting in the kit
“You need to get some rest, hon. You’ve been out for a long time. Come, let me take your suitcase off and run you a warm bath,” I said, trying to divert his attention from what he had just asked me.Johnson was one of my investigators, one of the ones I hired secretly to look for my son. Henry had found a lead and called the police for a raid. But the police didn’t show up. They said they had orders from above not to interfere.And the orders came from me.But Henry didn’t know that.But of course, it was a futile attempt because I knew my husband way too well. He was not going to relent until he got an answer from me. He looked at me with suspicion and frustration in his eyes. His voice was tense and harsh.“Excuse me, do you want me to repeat myself or do you want to be in big trouble right now?” he asked me sternly as I looked at him with wide eyes. He had never threatened me that way before. To be in big trouble. This must have been very serious for him to speak to me this way. I