“I love you Laura.” King confessed, for the umpteenth time that day.“Hmmm..” Laura smiled with her cheeks all out as she leaned forward and kissed him.It had been over a month and Laura was still yet to say those words to King. He wanted to hear her say them. But not just that, he wanted to know that she felt them as well. Laura always saw the look on his face when she didn’t reply back with an I love you. She noticed his eyes dimming a bit. And the side of his lips turning downward. If only she could just bring herself to expressing her feelings for him. It was as if there was something holding her throat from opening.Fear!“But I think you love this baby more than me already.” Laura whined against their kiss, when King but her lower lip a small moan escaped her mouth. She pulled away immediately. Not wanting to feel embarrassed in the presence of Andre.“You’re jealous of your own baby girl?” King chuckled as he pulled her onto his lap.“She’s taking all your time and attention
The room went quiet for a couple of minutes.Everyone stated at her as if waiting for her to explain further.“Mum?…” Anne spoke quietly, her long lashes falling to cover her eyes as her brows twisted.“Did you just mention fiancé? You are getting married?” Anne asked further. Her voice not depicting any emotions. But it was clear that she was perplexed.Lana took her seat, grabbing Oliver’s hands and placing a kiss on it smiling before she offered to speak.“Oh my!! Congrats mum!” Anne squealed as she stood up to go embrace her mum.Lana already had tears in her eyes as she spoke “We met over a year ago in one of my gallery exhibitions. Funny thing? He came with his son and I had thought they were brothers. That was the beginning of our story. Fast forward to last month, he asked me to be his wife and I accepted. We’re engaged, but no we’re not getting married soon. I thought it best to inform y’all first.” She explained. Expressively happy.“I’m happy to finally meet everyone. I an
The bullet passed beside her ear.A warning from Grem.King rushed her to the hospital. The sight of the blood coming out of her legs had scared the hell out of him. He promised Greg a slow death. And he meant it.Maddie was the only one in the room with her at the moment, King had followed the doctor to his office so they could better.Dave was still out of the state, he heard of the incident and called King immediately complaining bitterly of how his daughter hasn’t known peace since she decided to be with him.It was the next day after they got to the hospital, Laura had cried all night and lost her voice. Her ear still rang. King slept with her on the bed holding her tight as she whimpered all night. This was after the doctors had stopped her bleeding and checked her ears and her general physic.Thankfully she did not loose the baby.Dr. Liam explained how she had a small problem with her placenta. What is medically known as Placenta Previa. It had increased the chances of the bl
“How are you feeling Lu? You sure you can stay till we close for the day?” Maddie asked Laura with utmost concern. Laura chuckled a bit to herself before replying “I’m okay Madds. I just have to put all this in order before Mrs. Georgia comes to pick them up.” “You know I would have helped if I knew half of what you knew in baking and cooking in general.” Maddie offered with a warm smile. “I know honey. But you can always keep me company.” Laura winked. “What? I’ve got customers to serve! And what is that wink? Maddie feigned ignorance, holding back her laugh. “Madds! When are we going to talk about you and Dr. Liam! You’ve been avoiding the topic for the longest of time. I’m dying to hear all about it! Come one now Madds!” Laura sulked a little as she arranged the box of cupcakes in order of their flavors. “Alright when we get home. No more hiding!” Maddie deadpanned. Laura shot her a knowing look. “No! Girl I know you in and out. And I know for a fact you won’t be coming ho
Laura had tried everything possible in trying to reach him but it was futile. Had King suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth? It was now a new day and Laura was back at the cafe, gloomy. She didn’t want to pay attention to the photos and messages accompanied with threatening voice notes that had been sent to her phone the previous day. But it taunted her. She tossed and tossed on her bed all Night. Thank goodness Maddie was there for her. She thought by ignoring the messages that it might just be a bad dream. But it felt as though her little act had angered the conspirators the more. Stacey was livid! She was pissed! Laura had ignored the threats and heart wrenching photos she sent to Laura’s phone. She knew Laura had seen them! Why hadn’t she yet reacted. She wanted Laura to run nuts! Since Laura did not respond, Stacey decided to send more threats and photoshopped pictures of King in bed with two different ladies. The first set of pictures were also King in compromi
It had been a week at the safe house.. Still no King. King had somehow found out about Stacey’s dirty stunt. He knew for certain that Laura would be thrown off balance. And that was the last thing he needed for her at this point. He needed to settle things in Las Vegas before coming back to her. Things weren’t as he thought when he got there. He was ambushed and caught off guard. A meeting that was supposed to last a day or two had ended up running into amother week. Andre brought to his notice that Laura was extremely worried about him. Not like he planned to want to keep her in the dark. But that was what he needed to do. To cut contacts with her for the main time. There were rivals, there was also Greg trying to get hold of Laura. He knew his phone calls and devices were being monitored even by the FBI. Detective Marshal had also revealed to him that the mole in his company causing havoc with their investors and tarnishing their image was actually operating from outside the
Dr. Liam Kentucky seated in his office plotting his next line of actions.He swiveled the chair around, chewing on the head of his pen. Lost in thoughts.Maddie was once again an Angel in disguise that had saved him. Well not technically or directly. But his affiliation with her had brought to his quick notice the problem on ground.Laura and King discovering the wrong medications that may or may not have been the causes of Laura’s intermittent weakness and infections in her body. The baby too was at dire risk. Dr. Liam was already so certain that with the amount of poisonous substance he had pumped into Laura. That baby had no chance of surviving.He was just patiently waiting for the miscarriage. Or better still, Laura’s death.It happened that, after the encounter with the so called Dr. Sarah, the two couples had at first not suspected Dr. Liam for anything. They had not yet contacted him to hear from him. Until the lab results came out. They were shocked to see that Laura had been
Laura was back at the cafe doing what she knew how to do best. Bake. But this time around, Dave had entrusted the cafe’s financial activities to her. So she was extra busy.Dave’s exacts word’s were “You need to put your economic degree to use. You can start with me honey, for the next one year you will have to upscale the economic activities of this cafe.”Maddie was already making plans of turning the space at the back—Dr. Hakeem’s restaurant which King confiscated and bought in Dave’s name— to a fashion studio. Maddie was already setting it up for photo shoots, make up arts, modeling and even for art work exhibitions where Lucia could put up her works and sell.They were growing. The baby in Laura’s womb was also growing big. Almost seven months gone into the pregnancy. King had instructed that when Laura entered her third trimester then she would have to stop work at the cafe. But could be working remotely.Laura did not object. She also did not object when King decided that s
Investigations were still on going. Both couples were still shaken up a bit, but had themselves together. The pregnancy has stood the test of time. Will their love also survive the challenges?King on the other hand was thinking of accelerating the plans of bringing Laura officially in as the vice chair of the company. He was still yet to say a word. With all the events happening at the same time. He needed to settle them one at a time. For now. Her health was paramount, today was her first visit to the hospital after the attack two days ago. He wasn’t going with her but Andre would be taking her to the hospital instead. Just this morning her driver—David— had received an emergency call from his mom that his dad had a cardiac arrest in the early hours of the previous morning so he had to take an urgent leave of absence.King was set to leave the house headed first to the police station, then to work. Unfortunately, the third man who had escaped that night was still yet to be found a
The time was at exactly 9pm.King went along with the two bottles of water in the car as they moved towards the bush.After Laura had finished relieving herself, King helped wash her face and assisted with bringing her breathing back to normal.Two lovers.“I’m sorry baby.. I’m so sorry you feel so distressed. I should have never agreed for you to come with me.” He pulled her into a hug, gently rubbing her back.Laura still felt like throwing up. Hell! She felt like dying. Her legs were weak as it was and she just wanted to lie down. There was not even a single appetite to eat. And she needed to eat to take her night drugs.“I Uhmmm.. “ she immediately stopped herself from talking and moved away from King to throw up.“Babe..?” He worriedly called out.King helped her again get herself. When he was sure she was feeling better, they headed back to the car. Thankfully, Andre was already there waiting for them.Andre rushed to meet them with speed, worry etched on his face. “I was about
A day couldn’t have been so unpredictable. Laura thought to herself as she stood on the balcony of one of Oliver’s guest room upstairs. She had woken up from her sleep about an hour ago, but King was yet to be back. She kept looking out from the balcony. Hoping nothing had gone wrong.The view from the balcony that evening was so beautiful. The sun was setting. Cars were getting fewer on the streets. The street had a magnificent flowery arrangement. They even had their own security. Laura wondered how the goons were able to sneak their way in. It was already past 7pm and he was yet to be back. Neither him nor Andre were picking their calls again. If not that she and King has spoken several times during the day, she would have been extremely worried. King had her in mind the whole day, even though he wasn’t quite updating her on his and Greg’s movement, he made sure to pick all her calls and let her know he was fine. Just that, since when she woke up and have been calling he hadn’t a
King had suggested that Andre took a different and faster route, and since it was still early hours of the morning, they were able to leave upper east side Manhattan and got to Williamsburg— Brooklyn— in about fourth minutes. They were currently on the street leading to Oliver’s house. Andre had gone in an unsuspecting speed, but was still careful since Laura was with them in the car. King has sat with her st the back. Luckily for her, she was able to fall asleep on him.He was more than relieved.Before they left, he had called Brian and briefed him of the unfortunate happenings. And also to inform him that he wouldn’t he in the office that day. He also called to inform Maddie and Dave. As expected, Dave had a problem with Laura accompany him. But Laura wouldn’t hear any of it.The plan was to get to the house, check on his mum and follow up with the current situation, then strategize with Greg on how to end the ‘Allen problem’ once and for all. It’s obvious that being in a correct
Lovers falling asleep on each other remains top tier romance— king thought to himself as he stared down at his beautiful baby girl. It was about 4:45am, just fifteen minutes left for King to wake up and officially begin his day. He woke up by 5am regularly, being the busy man that he was he couldn’t afford to joke with his carefully scheduled timing. Laura had been tossing uncomfortably on the bed, throughout the night, she barely slept— They barely slept— King had wanted to wait till morning so they could go to the hospital, but Laura declined saying she was just feeling weird for the time been. King did not buy that. He still had the intentions of taking her to the hospital. “Babe? Laura? Are you okay?” King shook her a little, holding her in his arms. “Yh.. I just.. I think the room is really hot. Babe can you lay in bed longer? I won’t be able to sleep once I’m not on you.” Laura whined. The room wasn’t hot. King was cold and was practically freezing! This was the sam
Laura has dreamt of this moment severalTimes. Reminiscing on their sexual encounter in his office. She wanted him more than anything right now.And the baby? Oouuuuu, it brings more spice to the touch.She steeled herself, ready to gamble. All or nothing.“Why are you touching me like this Mr McGorrith?” She giggled.King’s fingers found a spot between her thighs and kept rubbing lightly. “Tell me about your day baby.” “I.. I ermm.” She stifled her moan“Breath baby. Breathe.”“Can we leave the talking for later?” She whispered into him. Causing King to raise a questioning eyebrow.Then she got up from his lap, laughing like a teenager and pushed some paperwork aside on his desk and sat down, spreading her legs so her could see right up between her thighs.King’s mouth gaped open as he stared up her skirt, but he didn’t say anything or move away.‘‘I miss you,’’ she said, her voice still husky, still yearning for the orgasm she’d been denied the previous night. ‘We can make this qui
Laura had left Dr. Liam’s office feeling more disturbed than she was when she walked in.Were they probably friends? Or it happened that she was just a patient?She checked the time and saw it was few minutes before 4pm.“You’re leaving already Miss McGorrith?” Nurse Vicky who was at the front desk, had called out.“Ohhh hi nurse Vick. Yes, I’m done with Dr. Liam for the day. Everything is alright. Our little beanie is doing just fine.” Laura replied politely.“Good need for today. It was so good seeing you again.. I’ve missed your cookies you know..” nurse Vicky joked.Laura laughed at her statement. Of course—she thought.Nurse Vicky was among her favorite nurses. They were ‘clinical friends’ as Dr. Liam always referred to them.Speaking of Dr. Liam, Laura suddenly felt the need to confide in Nurse Vicky about Stacey. She might probably know something.“Thanks Vicky.. uhmmm please can I ask you something.?”“Yes. Go on? Anything the matter?” The nurse serious expression matched
“Mrs McGorrith, would you like for us to stop at the cafe before heading to St. Clement’s hospital?” The new driver—David— asked softly as Laura settled st the hack of the car.“Oh..erhhh no not at all. And we aren’t going to Dr. Manuel today. Please take me to see Dr. Liam.” Laura replied with courtesy.The young British man who was about 27 years of age was always so polite with her. He never spoke unnecessarily or made unethical comments. Laura felt comfortable around him. She was sure King had given him an earful of warnings.David drove out of the mansion, tuning the radio toan old country music station. Getting to the hospital, Laura checked her watch and saw it was already past 2pm. And she knew Dr. Liam would soon step out for his lunch break. She hoped he was still in.“Hello. Dr. Liam around? I’m here to see him.” Laura politely asked the nurse on the front desk in a rush.“Hi Miss Ferguson! So nice to see you again. Yes yes Dr. Kentucky is in but I think there’s someone wi
Laura was in the toilet urinating when she heard her phone ringing. This was the third time the person was calling already. But Laura couldn’t rush out because of how she would have to be careful with her baby bump. She made a mental note to call the person once she got out.These days she consumed more water and was frequenting the toilet often. Either to urinate or to throw up. But she was glad her constant dizziness and weakness had stopped. Ever since she changed her drugs.After the court marriage, Laura and King had become inseparable. It was just a week. She loved the feeling. I meannnShe knew she was his fiancé. He called her his wife often. But it being official was another ball game entirely. King never failed to use the title on her. He loved it just as much. She had even changed her socials to ‘Mrs McGorrith’ many people who shamed her when they had gotten engaged began to praise her and hush over her.But there were still others who dragged her by her nipples. Many were