“The baby!” I said with a gasp and we started dressing up immediately and quickly.“I thought you just fed the baby!” He shouted while pulling up his pants. “He must have not had enough over all the stress you made me go through! And you’ve drank part of the baby’s milk already!” I yelled in frustration while he let out a loud cackle.“You think it’s funny?! You better hope it’s just poop!” I threatened angrily and dashed out of the study then bumped into Bianca on the way. She was already carrying the child, patting him on the back while looking at us with anger and teary eyes.Shit. She probably already knew what was up.“Has the baby pooped?” I asked, not minding whatever it was she was trying to pull off. All my attention was on the baby.“Yes. But its not my responsibility to dress him is it? As it’s your baby now,” she said glaring at Henry who looked hella guilty like he was set on a hot pot of soup.“Baby it’s not like that!” Henry said, rushing toward her while she held one
I ran out and ran into my mother-in-law’s room. She probably did know what was going on.“Hey, Nana! I need to tell you something!” I said excitedly while banging on her door violently.She opened the door soon after with a bitter expression on her face. She looked like Sha had just woken up from a beautiful nap and I started feeling bad for waking her up like that.“Hey, Nana! I have something to tell you! It’s great news!” I shouted the moment I saw her face while she rolled her eyes and groaned.“These kids! You never learn!” She said while kissing her teeth. She walked back into her room slowly leaving the door wide open so I walked in.Her room was majestic, very neat, and very very chilled. Little wonder why she fell asleep quickly. I always thought maybe it was an age thing. I never knew she had a better room than me in the house.When I moved in, I didn’t get a chance to choose. I was just quickly assigned a room by the formidable Bianca of course.I rolled my eyes with a groan
I woke up to the sound of my baby son’s cry. He was lying next to me on the bed, wrapped in a blue blanket. I looked at his tiny face and felt a surge of love and protectiveness. I had not given him a name yet, because I was still in a state of confusion and turmoil. The house was tense and hostile, as Bianca, the woman who claimed to be his mother, was trying to take him away from me.Bianca had hired me as a surrogate for her and her husband, Henry. She had given me a contract to sign, which stated that I would give up all rights to the child after birth. But I had not read the fine print, and I did not know that she had also inserted a clause that said I would have no contact with the child or the father. She had tricked me into signing away my son.But I was not going to let her have him. He was mine, and I loved him more than anything. I had carried him for nine months, felt his kicks and movements, endured the pain of labor and delivery. Bianca had not been there for any of it. S
“Please,” she said as I was about to walk away. She grabbed my hand and I yanked it out of her grasp. I turned back shortly to look at her with pity and contempt. “What did you say?” I asked mockingly.“I’m sorry, I don’t want this to get out to the public. OK? I will make sure that I leave, I will drop all charges against you both and I will just disappear. Just don’t let anyone know about this, please.” She pleaded with a trembling voice.My face formed into a wicked grin. “Of course, my love, that is all I wanted you to say. Anyways, I’ll see you in court and that is the last time I will see you.” I said with a smirk and walked away, knowing that I had won yet again.……..“No, really, Jane, I really need to thank you for all that you’ve done for me these past few days. I really thought that I was going to lose everything. Thank you so much. How did you do it?” Henry said while I was laughing as though it wasn’t anything serious. And I didn’t want to reveal my secrets to him, at lea
“Of course, I will marry you. Come on, Henry, you know I would. All these months, close to a year or two that I’ve known you, I’ve never dreamed of anything other than getting married to you, other than sealing the deal with you. Come on, you know I love you so much.” I said with conviction and he looked at me with such loved-up eyes and then we both kissed for a very long time. He was already starting to touch me in places that I loved to be touched when I remembered that we had a baby because the baby started crying.“Oh shoot! We still have a baby!” I shouted while he laughed.“Yeah it can be difficult getting the hang of it especially now that we are about to be a new couple,” he said giving me a kiss on my cheek while I blushed.“Yeah, I can’t wait to tell Mama,” he said excitedly while I giggled.Little did he know that his mother was the mastermind who engineered the entire plan. But the plan worked out faster and easier than we thought it would so it was a bonus for us that
“Jane, please. She’s still your mother. Don’t speak to her in that manner,” Henry said and I shot him a very stern glare.“And who do you think you are to tell me how to treat my mother?!” I asked him angrily and just then my baby woke up.“You see? This baby is supposed to be asleep but this witch of a woman just came here and destroyed everything! Who asked you to go to my baby’s room?!” I shouted at her and soon my baby started crying.“Agh!! Fuck you!” I shouted and stomped my feet all the way to the bedroom where my baby slept.I started rocking the child and started tearing up as well. I was extra emotional even after giving birth and now my mother was here to make things bad for me. Luckily, my child fell asleep fast and I carefully dropped him in his cradle and turned on his favorite sleep sound, and I watched him sleep for a couple of minutes. When I was satisfied, I walked carefully out the door and quietly shut the door before walking back to the living room where I saw m
“Who’s unto you?” I asked because I was already a little bit concerned about her and I knew how dangerous those people were.She looked terrified as she was narrating it. She didn’t want to leave my house. She kept looking around as though someone was truly following her. Her attitude was already making me scared to my bones. “Talk to me! Who the fuck is unto you?!” I thundered grabbing her by the arm. I was already fully agitated and very angry that I was sure Henry had never seen me that way before in his life.I could see him at the corner of my eye trying to calm me down but I wasn’t going to hear it.“Listen to me! You can’t just bring trouble to my door and expect me not to get mad! Or expect me to let you go like that!” I thundered making her flinch but she wasn’t even budging.“I’m so sorry Jane, I didn’t mean to!” She pleaded crying and that was when I heard a glass shatter and the sound was coming from my baby’s room.My heart skipped two beats as I dashed right into the ro
The next few days were hell for me as I kept dreaming terrible dreams and I missed my baby so much!Henry on his own was all night every night having countless sleepless nights just in a bid to find the kidnappers.My mind often wondered and raced to who would actually want to do that to me. My actual family members wouldn’t want that and from my history with people, my gym instructor may want me dead because he lied to me about having childrenMy mind often wondered about Rick and how he was caring. I had no idea because he never reached out to me. I tried to pick up my phone many times just to tell him that I was not okay and my child was missing but Henry insisted that we had no phones and no internet connection at certain times in the housesIn the house, you may ask? I moved into one of my proprieties with Henry and it has been hell for me.I didn’t seem to like anything about the house from the door handle to the furniture to the stupid wall gecko in the kitchen! I couldn’t han
“Well! Now, we’re going to have to make a new round of chicken,” I said, groaning angrily while he chuckled and pointed toward the store room.“At least we have a whole island of them,” he joked and I nodded, slightly feeling guilty about wasting food.I had grown up to know that wasting food was not an option and here I was, abusing the gift of abundance. I needed to retrace my steps.“Why don’t we just order takeout?” I suggested and he pondered a while over it before he shrugged and looked me in the eyes.“What?” I asked and he shrugged. “Well, why do you want takeout?” He asked and I rolled my eyes. He was literally impossible.“Don’t give me that look! I just want to know why. I can cook the food if that is what it’s about,” he pressured but I was already having a headache as he kept going on and on.“I didn't know men talk a lot,” I spat and he looked at me with a surprised expression.“Okay, I’m only talking this much because I want you to be comfortable with me. I don’t want
“Oh, I see. Well, it is hard for a guy to pass by you and not stare at you with his eyes or even make a passing comment. But that’s not what we’re trying to talk about here,” he said, noticing my uncomfortable look. “I’m sorry, okay? I just want to keep letting you know how beautiful you are and how lucky I feel to have you over. How lucky I feel that both of us are sharing the same house at the moment. How lucky I feel that I’m helping you with whatever it is that you need, okay? I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable near me. I want you to feel very comfortable because it’s going to be a long ride in the long run. But I need to remind you once in a while how crazy you drive me,” he said and I blushed again.“Okay, I’ve heard you. I’ve heard everything you said. Now, I guess it’s time to go and have dinner. Maybe. I’m starving,” I said to him as he nodded in agreement. “Of course, yeah, dinner. I didn’t even realize how much time had passed since I stayed with you. You make time go
“Alright then, we can drive there right now,” David said with a mischievous grin. I looked outside and saw that it was already getting dark. I just wanted to smile and relax and wait, because obviously he couldn’t penetrate that safe. And I made sure that it was a high-quality safe that I laid my hands on while I was at UNI. You know, that woman who first gave me those original documents? She also gave me that safe. Nobody could crack it open, not even the best programmer in the world. It couldn’t even be blown up by a bomb. It was just a safe, just the way it was. So I was less bothered about that, but what I was a little bit bothered about was the fact that he would go in there and probably start taking all the furniture and all his clothes and all that.“Don’t worry, there’s no rush. Revenge, especially the sweet ones, take time. We’re going to go tomorrow. It’s already getting late. We should make something to eat and go to bed,” I said to him with a smile. He smiled back
“Jane, Jane, relax.” David said, as he rushed towards me. He tried to hold my shoulders, because I looked like I was going crazy. Like I was going mad. And he was probably very afraid at that point, because I was acting batshit crazy. That I was going to injure myself or him. So he held me firmly in his arms and made me look at his eyes. His caring eyes.I said to him, with tears in my eyes, “All the assets, everything I worked my ass off for, everything is gone. I have searched everywhere. I have checked everything. Maybe I misplaced it. But no. Henry has betrayed me.” I said in the most heartbreaking voice you could ever imagine.I was so heartbroken, because I never would have done the same to Henry. But why did he do this to me? He had stolen from me. And I would not stop until I had stolen back from him.“I always knew Henry was shady for that thing he did. Of course, it had nothing to do with getting married to you or you being a terrible person to get married to. There were alw
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I said, with a very nervous chuckle, as I tucked my hair behind my ears and faced forward, avoiding his gaze. But deep down, I knew he was right about what he was saying. I was just very afraid to admit the truth. He asked again, “Jane, look at me. We need all the information we can get if we’re going to get to the bottom of this. You don’t have to be afraid to release any information. You don’t have to be reluctant to do that, OK? I’m here, standing by your side. I’m always by your side and I will forever be by your side. Right now, we need all the information we can get. You’re the only one who can give us that information. Do you understand, Jane?” He asked, looking at me intently. I shook my head, feeling overwhelmed by emotions. I didn’t know how to feel at that point, because he was right. I knew so many things that could have made Henry make this decision of his. Or whatever it was. I knew quite a few things about why he may have lef
“OK, so I have some detective friends who could also help out in your case, but I need your consent with everything. I promise you it’s not an affiliation with anybody, not your ex-husband, not your fiancé. You know I just really want to help, just in case you need backup. Is that OK with you?” He asked, his voice gentle and reassuring.I looked at him, feeling a surge of gratitude and affection.His eyes met mine, and I saw a flicker of something else in them. Something warm and tender, something that made my heart skip a beat.I almost wanted to jump up and hug him, but I had to comport myself because I was a lady. Oh, fuck it, I thought, and jumped up and hugged him tightly. He wrapped his arms around me, holding me close.“What was that for?” He asked, sounding surprised but pleased.I smiled shyly and pulled away slightly. “Well, you care about me more than anyone else cared about me ever since I lost my child. So I think you deserve more than that.” I said softly.He took my ja
“Why don’t you call them to know what’s up?” He asked, looking at me with concern. I shook my head.“No, no, no, no. We already spoke about this. We discussed it. It’s OK. They will have to be the one to call me after the mission is complete. I can’t call them now. It would be destroying something in the mission.” I said, biting my lip nervously. I was already tapping my feet fast on the ground and grinding my teeth anxiously. Just remembering everything already brought a knot to my stomach and a lump to my throat. And I guess he noticed, because he reached out to my hands and took them in his. He rubbed them gently and gave me a reassuring smile.“It’s OK. I’m sure you’re going to get the text soon. But I need to ask you some questions. I don’t know if it will be OK for you to answer them for me.” He said and I looked at him. I hesitated a little bit, because I didn’t say I was going to trust anyone with the information that I had. But I was willing to give him a small chance. May
“Oh, not so fast, David,” I said, holding up my hand. “Not so fast. You have to take it easy with all this flattery. I’m very quick to fall in love, haven’t you noticed that?” I teased him and he looked at me with a twinkle in his eyes. His smile matched his eyes, bright and warm. It was one of the most brilliant features about him. Was I falling in love again? I had just promised myself that I wouldn’t fall in love so quickly, but I couldn’t help it. This man was amazing. So good looking… Even more good looking than Henry and Rick combined. And I had a very high affinity for very good looking men. And to be honest, at that point, I didn’t really care. I just felt that I should live life and just be who I wanted to be, when I wanted to be, and how I wanted to be.“Oh, I have noticed,” he said, leaning closer to me. “We did have quite the chemistry there when I first walked into the room. When I got coffee with you, you know… I felt it. It was kind of obvious. But I didn’t think anyth
I felt dizzy for a while because I was so confused. I was usually the one who said I love you first in all my relationships. I was usually the one who made the first move, probably because of my desperation. I hoped so much that this man wouldn’t see through my desperation, that he wouldn’t see how desperate I was to find somebody to love. But obviously, I was wrong because he saw it. Why would a man be telling me that he loved me on the very first day we met? And given the circumstances surrounding it, it was a big lie, at least in my ears. What did he mean by love at first sight?“Jane, Jane, did you hear what I said?” David’s voice woke me up from my little mini trance right there. I didn’t even realize that I had drifted off from the normal conversation that we were having. But in truth, I didn’t know what to reply to that because obviously, I didn’t love him. But I did have a little bit of liking for him. And if there’s anything I’ve learned over the past few months, it’