My eyes flung open wider as I sat up on the chair, my hands unconsciously reached for my eyes and I rubbed it slowly, I peered back into my phone partially expecting that it was just an hallucination, maybe I prayed too much for a miracle and now I’m starting to see things, my gaze hit my phone again and the message was still there, as boldly as ever.Without trying to draw my dad’s attention, I gently stood up from the chair and made my way outside, where exactly could this message come from, I haven’t told anyone of our desperate need for money asides Peter and Angela, or could it be one of them?! I couldn’t help but think of the possibility but I discarded it almost immediately, with what I saw and heard earlier, they definitely can’t be the one to help.As I made the way down the stairs, the more I thought about the text, the more baffled I became, why would a stranger want to help me in return for marriage, why me?! I know it’s common practice among rich people to find people w
Janelle.Next day …..8:00am ….I slowly walked into my office expecting the very worst, nobody suddenly ghosts work like that despite several calls from the big boss herself and goes scot free.My grip on my handbag tightened as I took further steps into the office, Every other staff greeted me excitedly, clearly happy to see me again after a long while, I forced a smile in return also, but nobody was really saying what I wanted to hear, would I lose my job or not?!.After the whole pleasantries with them I slowly turned around and made my way towards Diane’s office, as I approached her office, my heart was beating out of my chest but I still managed to hold my self in place. As soon as I got to her office, I placed a small knock on her door before pushing the door open and walking in.She was seated behind her laptop, her gaze slowly shifted from the laptop as she looked up at the door, I gently closed the door and took slow cautionary steps towards her, as soon as she saw it was m
"Either I'm incredibly fascinating or there's something on my face - care to share which one it is?" I heard his voice again, this time more cool and smooth.I held my lips close as I rolled my eyes, turned around and walked back to the small platform infront of the mirror.It was the very rude guy I bumped into at the hospital, even if I couldn’t recognize his face very well, his voice isn’t something I would forget in an hurry, although I remember his face quite well.“Are you stalking me?!” I asked as I stood on the platform and the lady attending to me came to adjust the dress on my body as usual, I lifted my gaze and looked at him through the window, the corner of his lips was curled in a small smile.“You look like you could use my help and some company,” He said, I rolled my eyes to the back of my head as I turned to look at the lady, she was now done and she stood back to hear my thoughts about the gown.“Is this how you allow strangers walk in on your customers rudely?!” I a
Saturday Morning Court Wedding day …Janelle.“Your man is here,” The makeup artist said to me with a beaming smile, I looked up at her a small smile at the corner of my lips trying to be Atleast half as excited as she was, as I should be, ofcourse it was my wedding day.She held my hands and assisted me with standing up, I flashed her a small smile trying to get a grip on myself, my man is here?! If only she knew that I had never set eyes on my man, I didn’t even know his name.I scoffed inwardly as I began to take slow and steady stride out of the room, I really couldn’t wait to see what manner of guy he was, she helped pick up the extension on my dress behind me as I walked out of the hotel room he lodged me in, My heartbeat accelerated as I walked into the elevator and we began our journey down, as soon as we got to the ground floor the door went open and I saw him, immediately I set my eyes on a man standing in the lobby facing the other way, I just knew it was him, he was very
“You know him?!” Adil asked turning to look at me, I nodded slowly my gaze still fixed on Enzo as he approached us.“Kind of,” I added in a whisper, immediately Enzo got to where we were his smile deepened as he stared at me.“Meant to be, is it not?!” He muttered his gaze fixed on me, as we stared at each other, Adil cleared his throat in an attempt to stop the intense staring, Enzo’s smile suddenly changed to a taunting one as he turned to look at Adil.“How does she look?! Does she look beautiful in the dress I chose for her?!” He asked, Adil’s eyes dimmed as he stared at him, I could feel anger oozing out of his members.“I know you to be emotionless about a lot of things, but leaving your wife to shop for her wedding dress alone?! That’s the peak!” He added, Adil’s nose flared and he suddenly step forward and closed the distance between them.“You have no right to speak to me like that! And stay the hell away from my wife,” Adil growled,“Ohh, you actually don’t feed me, so you
Adil.My grip on the steering tightened as I drove to the office.Never have I seen someone asides me stare at Tehilla so tenderly, it’s part of the reason I never hired a stay at home nanny for her and I took pain to bring her up myself, because I just felt like nobody would actually look after her the way I would.But with Janelle it was different, they might be strangers to each other but I just had a deep feeling of security, that my daughter was safe with her.The image of the both of them together earlier flashed through my eyes again, I felt bad for lying to her, but I still choose to take care of that in the future.My Phone began to ring, rudely intercepting my thoughts, I diverted my gaze to the phone holder in front of me, it was the only person I’ve had as a friend almost all my life, I gently swiped on the receiver and his voice came through.“Is this how we do it now?! You had a wedding and failed to invite me for it,” he said, I rolled my eyes to the back of my head as
Janelle.“Bella, I need you to look into this message that I got,” I muttered as forwarded the message and all of it details to her, she nodded slowly as her IPad beeped signalling that she had received the message.“I’m very aware that it would be a burner account, but there should be more, I need you to look into it very well, take your time please,” I said to her and she nodded slowly, I gently stood up from my seat walked up to the murderboard and pulled it out, I used a thumb pin to hold the printed copy of the message to the board, I turned to look at the rest of the team and I began my observation.We are four in number, including myself and It was our first team meeting after the whole drama that happened with my life, and if there’s no future cases of anymore drama, I’m back fully!.“They actually use market bombings to actually perpetrate bigger attrocities,” I muttered as I picked up my pencil, she nodded slowly staring at me with rapt attention, I pointed towards the board
I watched him as he gently bend to her level and picked her up, he swirled her around generating light giggles form her, and was that a smile I saw on his lips?! My God! I swallowed my spit hard as I stared at him, his Adam’s apple moved up and down in his throat as he chuckled lightly at whatever Tehilla was saying to him.I have never seen him smile so genuinely even on the media, and honestly I had no idea that he had the ability, the smile lifted his face and countenance so perfectly and I couldn’t help but swallow my spit harder again.“Her bags,” I heard her teacher behind me, I shook slowly as I turned to look at her with a wide smile, and took the bags from her, Adil slowly looked away from me and turned to look at me and her teacher.“Congratulations sir, you’re such a beautiful family,” she said to him and he acknowledged her with a small nod, I muttered a thank you to her as I began to take slow strides towards Adil and Tehilla.“Let’s go,” I muttered to him and we turned
Janelle.Thirteen years later.12:00pm …“Do you really think that works?” I muttered and slowly turned to look at Adil beside me, he adjusted his glasses and his lips slowly stretched into a smile as he stared at me.“Come on now Adil, I’m being serious,” I grumbled as I slowly let go of the keypad, leaned against the chair and turned fully to face him.He reached out slowly and gently caressed my hair his eyes twinkling in admiration,“Thirteen years down the line and you’re even more beautiful than when we first met,” he muttered, I chuckled lightly and slowly arched closer to him.It’s actually being thirteen years down the line, I wouldn’t say those thirteen years have been bed of roses but it has been the most perfect years because I have my family around me.Tehilla is now nineteen years and ten years ago we birthed our second child- Hazel, she’s the cutest and sweetest and we love her so much, we love both our children so much, and I actually won’t prefer doing life without my
Adil.Next day…“Careful,” Janelle muttered for the umpteenth time as we walked into the house, I told her that I could walk myself but she insisted on holding me, my hands was around her neck and her hands around my waist as she assisted me inside.“Welcome home!” Everyone yelled excitedly as I walked into the living room, the living room was decorated with small welcome home posters and balloons, it wasn’t too much of a decoration but it was cute.“Welcome home dada,” Tehilla squealed as she ran towards me with a bouquet of flower.“She insisted on getting you flowers,” Janelle whispered to me as she gently let go of me and Anna Tehilla nanny came up to take the shoulder bag she was carrying from her.I looked around and all our intimate family and friends were present except Janelle’s parents, I turned to face her and just as I wanted to ask her, Laura walked up to us,“Big Man! You’re back!” She teased, I furrowed my brows at her and moved closer to her as if trying to examine so
One month Later.I sat by Adil’s bed with my hands folded across my chest, after all the bullets from Enzo he went into coma and it’s been four weeks.Four weeks of everyone of us praying and hoping that he would come awake, four weeks of me crying every night just because I could not bear to lose him just when everything is starting to look bright, I don’t know what I would do if he remains asleep for longer than this.I slowly reached out and placed my hands in his hair rubbing it slowly,“Adil please, it’s okay now, you’ve rested enough, come back to me please,” I whispered tears starting to fall off my eyes and I just let them fall freely.One month back, I got the shocker of my life, Diane was Enzo’s Sister?! I definitely did not see that one coming and then I just came to realize that what we just conquered is a carefully well thought about plan that took years, the positioning of everyone Enzo used was very strategic, No wonder all the investigators before me never got anywhere
Enzo.“Hello, you don’t have any other option,” I said and with that I removed the phone from my ear and ended the call.I exhaled deeply with a sigh as I turned to the corner where Tehilla sat playing with toys absolutely caught up in her own world, Too bad that she’s about to be caught up in the world her parent created.“Uncle Enzo,” she called and slowly turned to look at me, I dipped my phone in my pocket and turned to look at her with a small sneer at the corner of my lips.“What of Dada and Mama, when will they be here,” She asked, I rolled my eyes to the back of my head as I picked up my car keys, about to head out of the house, the door opened and Diane walked in, I paused in my tracks and slowly turned to look at her close the door behind her and walk in, after her outburst yesterday, I did not expect to see her here again so soon.She slowly walked in and looked around, her eyes went wide immediately she saw Tehilla in the room, she blinked rapidly and slowly turned to me.
Janelle.Next day, 2:00pm …I pushed the door into my parents house opened and walked in, I closed the door behind me and made my way inside the living room.“Ohh you’re here, we weren’t just about to have lunch,” Dad said to me immediately he saw me walk into the living room, he raised his head and flashed me a smile, shortly after mom stepped out of the kitchen, our eyes met and she wordlessly walked up to the dinning table and dropped the jar of water she was carrying on the dinning table. She gently turned around and walked up to me.“You finally came to see your father,” she muttered, ignoring her, I dipped my hands into my bag and took out the paper I found yesterday.“Actually I came to see you both,” I replied in a whisper, Adil’s voice begging me to calm down and listen to whatever explanation they had ringing in my ears. I just could not fathom why he is still being calm and nice after everything they have put us through, I slowly looked up at her locked gazes with her and
Janelle.I picked up my coat at the entrance and put it over my pyjamas, Adil rushed towards me immediately and grabbed my hands, he gently turned me around to face him and pulled me closer.“Relax, “ he whispered, “He has been bugging to see me all these days well I’m ready now,” I grunted, he slowly raised his hands to my hair and patted it gently, he caressed my hair slowly and gently cupped my cheeks in his hands, he stepped closer to me and stared down in my eyes.“You’re not honey, Don’t go there tonight and ruin your already bad relationship with your mother,”“I don’t plan to mending the relationship,” I replied stubbornly, his lips stretched into a small smile as he gently placed his palm protectively around the back of my head and pulled me into his chest in a hug.He patted my hair gently and I instinctively wrapped my hands around his waist.“Go to your parent tomorrow Morning instead, take tonight to collect your feelings, so you don’t end up saying things you don’t mean
Five days Later ….9:00pm Thursday….“I’ll stay with Tehilla,” I muttered as I walked towards the bed, picked up a pillow and duvet and headed out of the room, Adil stood up from where he sat immediately, grabbed my hands and pulled me back to face him, “Don’t worry, I’ll leave the room for you, Be comfortable,” he whispered and with that he let go of my hands and took the pillow and duvet from me,“Sleep well,” he whispered, I slowly turned to him as I watched his retreating figure walk out of the room, it’s been five days days since he came back home and I’ve always slept crouched beside Tehilla on her bed.Although I was still chairwoman on Paper, Adil had returned back to his office and has taken over his project once a again, it wasn’t difficult for him to get back because he was proven to be innocent, he was apologized to for Tarnished image and everything has returned to normal, except that we still weren’t on talking terms and I’ve managed to still ignore my parents, and I
Janelle.“Why?!”I slowly held my mouth close and turned back to face the policeman as soon as Adil got to us. He stood up straight immediately and bowed to Adil slightly,“I’m sorry sir, Miss Diane informed us this morning that she’s no longer in charge of the case,” He explain, I sighed rolling my eyes to the back of my head,“And so?!”“So I came to see my mother you won’t allow me in also?!” He said and I slowly turned to look up at him, he just called Becky his mother like it was nothing.“I’m sorry sir,” the policeman apologized bowing again, “Good, now let us in, My wife and I would be going to see my mother, don’t we have right to visit?!” He said and the police man nodded continuously.“You do, you do sir, this way,” He muttered.“I’ll just stay here,” Bella said and I turned to her, I winked at her desperate begging her to not leave me alone with Adil but she didn’t meet my gaze intentionally and she nodded with a small firm smile.“Please go ahead,” she muttered, Adil sl
Janelle.2:00pm …“After all the evidences presented by the court, the Marriage of Peter Castillo and Angela Williams has been therefore Annuled and dissolved by the high court of law,”“Mr Peter is expected to part with Fifty percent of every of his assets and these assets be bequeathed to Miss Angela for all the damages caused, Mr Peter as requested by Miss Angela has also lost Custody of the unborn child and right to visit,” The Judge ruled, he lifted up his gravel and slammed it softly against the table finalizing his judgment.I slowly turned to look at Peter in the prosecution box where he stood, his hands gripping the box tightly, I could see the veins pop out in his neck, even while we were still together he had always felt like because he had money he could get away with anything and I am happy that I’m finally able to prove to him that even with his money, he’s still a piece of trash that I could easily stomp on. I used all of the anger from Enzo and Adil to deal with him a