David noticed how uneasy Sylvia looked so he grabbed her by the hand and began leading her toward the house.They made their way to his chamber and after slamming the door behind them, David turned to her with his arms folded across his chest.“Speak!”Sylvia sighed and cleared her throat loudly. “I think she's a spy.”David arched a brow.Sylvia slapped her thighs and began to pace. “I know you won't believe me. Who is going to believe me anyway I trust my instincts and I know what I heard but forget it. It’s useless saying this and….She was still speaking when she felt David’s arms wrapped around her waist. Sylvia stopped to wonder when David had gone behind her. She smiled.“I believe you!” David whispered into her left ear. Sylvia felt a sense of calmness envelop her. David slowly pulled his hands around her waist and placed them on her shoulders. She turned around to face him.“You were saying something about Giselle,” he said looking straight into her eyes.In his eyes, Sylvi
At that point, Sylvia couldn't control the rate at which her entire body was quivering.It turns out that Leonard and David weren't the culprits. It was Cathrina’s lover, the one she had never gotten a glimpse at.“You know what? I'm feeling dizzy from standing here to talk to you. I need to go before someone finds out that I'm not in my room.” Cathrina said.“Fine but think about your choices Cathrina. You come home with my son or I show up in that houseand wreak havoc,” he warned.Cathrina curled her lips in irritation and pushed the car door open.Sylvia was lost until she heard the car door getting slammed. Denim started the car. She quickly went back to the trunk and buried her face in her hands.Sylvia wanted to scream. She wanted to yell out all her pain and frustration but she had to keep her voice down, to keep her cover. She felt the car wheeling away and she knew they were headed towards the mansion. With trembling lips, Sylvia kept fighting to hold her tears.Cathrina turn
June was about to hit the bathtub when she got a call from Giselle. She curled her lips in irritation wondering why the nurse was calling after threatening to cut ties with her. “What do you want?” she spat after responding to the call.“You should go online.”“What the fuck are you talking about? I don't want to access my socials anyway.” June retorted.“Perhaps you should check out the image I'll send to you right now,” Giselle said and hung up.June sighed and lowered the phone to her chest. A few moments later, she got a notification. She quickly checked the message.Her eyes widened in horror.The image Giselle sent to her was a poster with the caption wanted for attempted murder by the New York police. There was her picture taking a large part of the poster with her details underneath.She stormed out to meet her Godfather.He wasn't in the living room so June headed straight to his chamber. Without knocking on his door, she barged in and met him sipping from a glass of wine in
The Wells mansion was decorated with the finest Christmas lights. In the compound, round tables, chairs, plastic poles, and other mind-blowing settings were in place.Leonard hired experts to do the job, ridding all the servants of their tasks that day.A renowned event planning company was hired and tonight, they'll be handling everything at the End of year party. This is the time of the year when the servants are treated as VIPS. All the servants had gone home the previous day. They were to reunite at 7 pm sharp that evening. Also, the security team was not spared. Leonard had spoken to the sheriff so about thirty mems were deployed to the mansion that evening. Leonard wanted more security guards apart from the needed fifteen because Cathrina’s lover might show up and try to create a scene. By 6 pm, all structures were in place and the event planning team was on standby, waiting for the night’s guests. David and Leonard were out to supervise the arrangements while Cathrina was i
A man dressed in a white tuxedo stepped out from one of the black vans that had pulled over in front of the Wells mansion. He adjusted his bulletproof vest. It was the captain.He stormed the Wells mansion with his security experts consisting of snipers, assassins, and trained men. They arrived in five black vans and before the police officers at the gate could reinforce, they threw a grenade into the house that shook its foundation.While the police officers and the captain’s men were engaged in a heated gun battle, he was led by a group of armed men into the house. Leonard and David were in their respective chambers when the blast happened. Eleanor and Fred, together with the rest of the servants were in the party scene when the ground shook, causing the tables and decorations to tremble, creating a mess.Some of the servants had sustained injuries from the unexpected fall. At Maurice’s command, they hurried toward the house and headed to the security rooms created in the mansion
Sylvia crawled into the tunnel while David followed her. Having him crawl behind her gave Sylvia the courage to crawl faster.About five minutes later, they came out through the other end of the tunnel. Sylvia fell to the ground and was soon gasping for breath. When she rolled her eyes around her surrounding, it dawned on her that they were in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by shrubs and grasses.David felt his pocket but his phone wasn't there. “I must have lost it while crawling,” he told Sylvia. “Stay right here. I'll get in there and find my phone.”Sylvia abruptly stood up and grabbed his shirt with all her might. “You can't leave me alone in this dark forest, David.He sighed. “Look, Sylvia. We are not in any dark forest. This wood is behind the mansion. I guess we made it to the back of the house. I need to get my phone and place a call to my father so that they can come and get us out of here.”Sylvia gave repeated nods and freed David.David squatted and was about to head
Sylvia felt her forehead with the back of her palm. She was burning all over. She pressed her eyes against each other and slowly opened them.She shut her eyes again and began to have flashes.In her vision, she was eavesdropping on Cathrina and June when a blast shook the house. David rescued her and they ran into the woods.“David!” she screamed and flew out of the spring bed.She rolled her eyes around her surrounding. She was no longer in the woods. She was in a house, seated on a bed.David and a woman were sitting by the local furnace when Sylvia screamed his name. David rushed to Sylvia and immersed her in a hug. “Thank Goodness you are okay.”Sylvia pulled away and rubbed her eyes with the edge of her palms repeatedly.“Where are we? What time of the day is it?” Sylvia demanded. She turned to the woman towering above her with a quirked brow. “David, who is she?”The grey-haired woman was in her late 70s. She smiled and sat by the edge of the bed. “I'm Penelope. I found you guy
June wanted to run but the police officer pointed the gun at her leg and pulled the trigger before she could take to her heels. He shot her. She fell to the ground and groaned in pain as blood kept gushing from her leg. Soon, the sheriff and other police officers formed a barricade around her. When Sylvia and David arrived at the scene, they were dumbfounded. Sylvia rushed to Penelope’s lifeless body and began to wail. “She shot her!” the officer who caught June supplied. The Sherriff sighed in relief and turned to David. “I'm so thankful that we found you, Mr. Wells. We've been scouting this damned forest for the past 30 hours.” David wasn't listening to the police officer. He kept staring at June with a clenched jaw. June broke out laughing. “I shot her! I killed her right? It should have been Sylvia right? Right David?” She was about to rise when two police officers caught her. They handcuffed her. She began to laugh maniacally and that was when David suspected that she had
"Come in!” Leonard responded from the inside.Sylvia exhaled sharply before reaching for the doorknob. She opened the door and stepped into the chamber feeling quite nervous.For the past two days, she had spent time with Leonard at the table. They had spoken about the future and other things and she was starting to grow comfortable around him and now, he had just summoned her to his room that morning.When she got into his room, he invited her to sit on the sofa adjacent to his bed. While rubbing her palms against each other tenderly, Sylvia sat and cast her gaze to the floor.Leonard cleared his throat loudly and threw his back against his chair.“David told me everything.” he began. He then took a deep breath. “I'm sorry!”Sylvia finally looked up at him.“I'm sorry for lying to you. When the autopsy report came and it was revealed that Ben was strangled, I was lost.” Leonard said.Sylvia sighed.“The thing about influential people is that sometimes, you can't differentiate your fr
Flashback!“What if I can't do it?” she said with trembling lips.The man sighed and walked up to her. He slowly reached for her hand. He then opened her palm and placed two pills inside.“We’ve talked about this over and over again June. You are not a baby. You can pull this off so go out there and show Daddy that you're a smart ass.” he said and patted her hand tenderly.June opened her palm and stared at the pills. Then, she slipped them inside her purse and took a deep breath.“I've done a lot for you child and I'm not asking you to pay me but if you can pull this one trick off, I'll be the happiest man in the world. I won’t ask for another favor other than this but if only she knew that it was just the beginning of his endless demands.She shut her eyes and felt a sense of calmness beginning to envelop her as he continued motivating her. He thenmoved closer to her and grabbed her arm like he was going to hug her.Then he began to whisper into her left ear.“If you want to make it
“You said we were only visiting June. You didn't tell me we were also going to see Cathrina.” Sylvia lamented as they traced their way towards David’s car.“If we are bent on making things right then we have to leave no stone unturned,” David replied. When they got to the car, Sylvia threw her back against the vehicle and heaved a deep sigh. David moved closer to her. He tilted her jaw with two fingers. “As long as you're with me, you don't have to worry about anything.”She threw her arms around him. “I love you, David.”“I love you most.”They got into the car and drove away. After driving for about twenty minutes, they made it to the detention center. As usual, Cathrina was informed of her visitors and she granted them an audience. The moment Sylvia and David walked hand in hand, Cathrina became emotional. She sniffled as tears began to well up in her eyes. The duo settled on the bench facing her. “You know what Sylvia? I used to think you were one of those gold diggers who
“Did you just hear what Fred said?” Sylvia flung the question at David the moment they walked into his room. “We can't get married in ten days.”David crashed by the edge of his bed with a sigh.The restless Sylvia began to pace.“Come and sit with me,” David told her.She didn't. She kept pacing back and forth.David stood up and grabbed her by the hand. He then led her to the bed.“There’s a lot on our plate David. There’s June to deal with, there's Griffin, and now…“Do you trust me?” David interrupted.She turned to him. “You know I do.”David swallowed and took charge of her hands. “There’s something you need to know.”He was staring directly into her eyes. Sylvia felt a tingling in her eyeballs. “There’s something you need to know too.”David sighed and then cleared his throat loudly. “I'll go first.”Sylvia encouraged him with a nod.“I met June recently.”Her eyes widened in horror.David didn't take his eyes off her. “I left home the other day because I couldn't bring myself
“You have five minutes!”Sylvia shut her eyes and opened them immediately. “You can do this, Sylvie.” She muttered under her breath and began marching forward.After making breakfast that morning, she decided to visit Cathrina at the detention center. She had thought about it the whole night and was ready to face one of her demons.She walked up to cell 4 as instructed by the woman at the counter and before opening the door, she stopped to ponder.What if David rages mad at the idea that she went behind his back to confront Cathrina?She sighed and reminded herself that she was on a personal quest. She will only be at peace once the circumstances surrounding her father’s death were laid to rest and now that she was carrying David’s child, she wanted to be at peace with the Wells.Sylvia pushed the door open and when she stepped in, she met Cathrina looking at her straight in the face.“I was taken aback when the officer told me one Sylvia Baker came to see me.” Cathrina spat and motio
David pulled open the door to his chamber. He walked inside with a bright smile and traced his way to the mirror.“I'm going to be a father!” David muttered under his breath as goosebumps took charge of his body. He stared at his reflection with prestige. Amidst the chaos, David never thought that he could be this happy. He cupped his face with his hands and broke into a resounding laughter. He quickly moved to the table beside his bed and began to pull all the cabinets out. When he got to the last cabinet, he collected all the photos and dumped them on the floor.When David returned to New York, he had asked his agent to get him the pictures of all the curvy girls in town; The one's he found appealing to the eye and for the past few months, he had been exploring them.“No more!” David declared and seized the pictures.He grabbed a matchbox and dashed out. When he got to the backyard, he set the pictures ablaze and headed back to his room to continue his cleanup.He then collected
David was about to usher Sylvia into the car when Eleanor slipped out of her corner behind a grocery store. Immediately after David pulled up right in front of Sylvia, Eleanor stayed hidden.Sylvia wiped her tears with the edge of her palms and moved closer to Eleanor who was greeting her with open arms.They shared a warm embrace.“We have a new mummy on the block!” Eleanor spat.Sylvia broke off their embrace and stared at Eleanor with astonishment.Eleanor giggled and squeezed her hands.David faced the women. “Eleanor called me when she saw you walking into that store.”“How did you know the kind of pill I came for?” Sylvia threw the question at Ellie.Eleanor folded her arms across her chest. “Well, I followed you inside the pharmacy and when I saw you pick those abortion pills, I made my judgment and decided to get baby daddy.”Sylvia exhaled.“How could you even think of doing such a thing without informing me, Sylvia? I thought we were each other's rescue mate?” Ellie said and
Chapter 105Sylvia kept tossing from one edge of the bed to the other. She had settled for green tea that night because her stomach couldn't take anything. She had lost count of the times she had thrown up that night.It was past midnight yet she was unable to fall asleep. Her joints were aching and her head was hurting badly. She was just restless. She sighed and tried to sit up. The moment she threw her back against the wall, she felt her intestines tying into a knot. She groaned in agony. Sylvia couldn't wait for morning so she could hit the hospital. She had one thing in mind; food poisoning.***“Are you ready?” Maurice demanded after Sylvia stepped out.It was a few minutes past 9 am. Immediately after she woke up, she told Maurice that he was going to drive her to a hospital so immediately after breakfast, Sylvia got changed and then set out to meet him.“Yeah,” she replied and hurried after Maurice to the parking lot. He helped her get settled in front and after he was r
“You came to gloat? Go ahead son, it's what I deserve. Your father didn't make a mistake by keeping me here.” Cathrina said and hugged her knees with her chest.David moved closer to her and positioned his hands on his hips. “Did you say, my father? The last time I checked, you wanted to give me away to someone very easily.”She exhaled sharply and gave a smile but beneath her smile, David could see her pain.“You didn't care about how I felt or what I stood for. You just wanted to fulfill your selfish wish but I promise you, your lover will be apprehended and you guys might get to enjoy a little reunion before you end up in prison.” David said.“Leonard is a good man!”David chuckled. “Since when did you figure it out?”“I didn't just figure that out but I've always known from the start but to be honest, I have never been fair to him. I married him and never loved him.” she then look up at David. “When you meet someone you love, don't hesitate to spend the rest of your life with them