JORDAN
The mansion suddenly had this empty, void feeling to it. And the maids who were always running to and fro from Genesis room to the kitchen and back to her room were no longer in sight like I didn't have one staff inside the house. It was quiet like no one else was in the house and I never realized that the sudden silence had left a terrible feeling in my troubled heart.
"Margaret...." I yelled uncomfortable at the way things were. I never realized how I had gotten used to seeing the staff with her in the kitchen or the dining. I was used to knowing she was in that house whenever I see staff going to her room because they liked her and for a strange reason, like to be around the woman I wedded. Unlike Samantha, who they always ran away from. I never realized that the atmosphere would change so much in her absence.
"Margaret..." I yelled again but this time, I turned to the st
GENESISLooking out the window, I watched as the sun rose and our car passed the buildings and houses that made the city. We were back in the familiar serene, quiet trail that led to the beautiful mansion of Jordan Chase. Yes, you heard me. I was officially going back to Jordan and it didn't leave a good feeling inside of me.After Jordan's words the previous day, my father had asked him to leave, he wanted to speak to me. It was hard, but he left reluctantly and I had breathed a sigh of relief after.I turned to my father and he once again pulled me into a hug. I settled in them, for it was the protection I needed, it was exactly what I needed at that point and I was really happy that they were there. The warmth of his embrace reminded me that I had someone who loved me, someone who would shield me, someone who would do anything for me. I was still his daughter, his baby girl and
********GENESISI heard noises in my room and quickly opened my eyes. I wasn't so deep in sleep and I spent the whole night rolling over and stressing over the decision I made. I wasn't so sure I did the right thing and I didn't want to end up regretting it. Coming back to Jordan was never a good idea from the start and the dreadful feeling in my stomach made my uneasiness worse.I thought about it for so long till I decided to relax. I had made my decision, I had done what I had to do, thinking or worrying about what the future held for me wasn't going to change anything at all. So I decided to let it all go and fortunately, that was the exact moment I felt like sleeping.I looked around my room to be sure of the noises I heard when I saw Margaret and Anna and realized it was morning already. I relaxed at the sight of them and took a deep breath
GENESISI gaped at Jordan and watched as he walked away and shut the door behind him. His words were shocking and the tone he used was even more shocking to me. But I was reminded of that Jordan that he was instantly. Caring, loving, funny, and free. The Jordan I had so many long calls with, that was a different Jordan that I had wished was the man I married, but he wasn't. He was a different person and once again he was different. The thought of having that same man changing again was almost a sweet sound to my heart. Just almost.I shrugged the feeling away and turned back to the mirror, then my phone beeped and I checked it. A message from Tiffany, asking me to join them on a shopping spree. I quickly told her I would be coming over and went ahead to apply lotion. My skin was all dried up already and it was all because of him. I quickly applied lotion, then I took out what Margaret had broug
JORDANTime passed by quickly and just as I had been doing the previous days, I got lost in my thoughts and missed all I had to do concerning work.My mind and thought had not wrapped around the thought of being with Genesis instead of Samantha. The woman with whom my heart belonged to. Yet I still couldn't believe she would do that to me. I had sacrificed so much for her. I had ignored my pending dilema and I had even accepted my fate but I waited for her. She said no to me once before and I waited for her, I refused every other woman and spent my precious time and days waiting for the day she would be mine. My love for her made me leave my wedding and go in search of her. My love for her made me bring her to the home which was supposed to be hers. I gave her all she ever demanded for. Money, care, attention and understanding. Most importantly I gave her my heart. I was ready to hurt someone else just to ke
GENSISTiana stared at me with wide eyes as I walked into the house while Jordan made his way to where ever he was going to. She looked like she had seen a ghost or probably seen something she shouldn’t have seen. Her mouth fell wide open and she was almost drooling all over the floor. I walked past her into the department and sat down on the closest couch I found. Then Tiffany came out of the room all dressed and excited for the day.“You took too long to get here,” she chided when she saw me. I sighed remembering all Jordan had done and how annoying it was and I found myself getting angry all over again especially when I remembered the way he had held me earlier. His words replayed in my held like a pest, a bee that has refused to buzz away from my ears. They were annoying words of course and they only got me angrier. But calling me his wife was one thing, saying he wanted to be a good husband and making me
GENESISTheir words cut deep like a knife and it made me feel completely overwhelmed with the memories and circumstances that led to my marriage. The questions thrown at me were no longer questions reporters usually asked. They were aggressive and loud and with the way they surrounded me, I quickly realize that a little birdy might have told them about Samantha. She was the only one who believed I stole something from her from the beginning. But their questions as well was not my biggest problem at all. Tiana and Tiffany blocked me away from them but from where I stood, I was still exposed to reporters that were behind me. And when that stone had hit, I grew suspicious of the people that surrounded me. Normal reporters were never supposed to do something so horrible to someone like me, but as I thought about this, I felt someone yank my hair forcefully in an attempt to pull my hair away from my skull. I yelped and turned around bu
GENESISI stared at his back and wondered what suddenly went wrong with him. I did absolutely nothing but try to help, I didn’t understand why he was suddenly so jumpy and hostile towards me.“Jordan...” I called out softly, believing that there had to be a reasonable explanation for his change of tone and attitude. He said absolutely nothing to me neither did he attempt to sit down or turn around so I could look at him.“I am sorry if I did something wrong, I was simply trying to help,” I added, though I was not understanding myself or why I was acting nice and apologizing to him when I had done nothing wrong so far. I heard him sigh after that and watched him run his hand through his head.“It’s nothing, and it isn’t you.” He finally voiced out and I breathed a sigh of relief myself. The harshness he had spoken with earlier had disappeared and his voice was clearer than it
GENESISAnnoyed at myself and the way I had handled the issue concerning Jordan, I stormed back to the left wing, where I rightfully belonged and straight way to my room. Anna came in the moment I sat down and she gave me a warm smile. I picked up my phone and spoke to Tiana and Tiffany for a while just to make sure they were doing alright.“I heard that you were attacked again,” Anna spoke up once I was done with the call. I said nothing and simply gave her a faint nod of my head. The reminder of my attack suddenly reminded me of the pain I had been inflicted with. I sighed heavily and thought back to how one minute I was surrounded by reporters and the next, I had thugs all around me, throwing bricks, stones and even whipping me with something. I slumped my back, and felt a sting that made me hiss out loudly.“Don’t move so much,” Anna came rushing in.“You have
My phone rang again and I smiled as I picked up my husband call this time. “Miss me yet, wife,” he teased immediately and I groaned. “No, but the kids want you home.” “Too bad. My flight got delayed.” He sighed. “What?” I jerked up from where I sat. He chuckled. “Easy their wife. I just got to town and would be home soon,” he entered and I sighed. “Bye…” I ended the call abruptly, feeling angry at such expensive joke. I had everything ready already. After two hours, I was perfectly ready and had stepped out of the room and back down only to find out that I was a late host. Everyone was present. My parents, my sister, Tiana, Nate, Tiffany and her fiancée, Jordan’s cousins, their girlfriends, his mom, my p.a and Margaret. Yes her. she was a huge part of Jordan’s life for long and we could not let her to keep being a staff here so we freed her with a lot of money, a house, something to keep her going and a family. “I told you that she might be painting,” Julian’s loud mouth entere
FOUR YEARS AFTERI ran down the stairs, feeling completely exhausted and disheveled, not to add, disorganized and slightly angry. With my robe on, I decided to check if everything was set and ready. I couldn’t help it, it had to be perfect, it all had to be or I might lose it. Anna strolled into the house at that particular moment, and she stared at me with a wary look as I made my way to the kitchen.“Is everything alright?” she asked in her very sweet voice.“Go change and rest up,” I reprimanded. She had only just returned from college and shouldn’t be concerned by things like that, yet she was ever so humble and would in fact start on chores the moment she returns from college which was slight annoying. We made her go to college for a good reason, to better her life and not to turn out like a staff her entire life, yet she looked so dedicated to being one.“I would the moment you tell me what is wrong,” she followed behind me with dedication and became a nag that I didn’t want at
GENESISEven in my unconsciousness, I could feel that emptiness inside of me. I could feel the hole, the empty, painful hole that was once filled with life, I could feel the vacuum there. I knew that something was different and I feared what it was. When I opened my eyes, the first sight I wanted to behold was my beloved husband. His scent was the first thing I wanted to caress my nostrils, his warmth the next feel I wanted to feel against my cold skin. But he wasn’t there as I had hoped. And that had shattered whatever was left inside of me. He had threatened to leave me, maybe he did.The fear of such possibility had made me fear and panic especially when I didn’t see him around me. It scared me but the familiar faces gave me a little bit of comfort. They were family and ones I loved. They had such effect on me. Not till I recalled what happened, how I fell. My hands had voluntarily found its way to my stomach where I wanted to feel the life inside of me. I was in a hospital for sur
I could hear my baby crying in my ears. Screaming in pain and asking me why I did what I did. I could imagine the judging, hateful look those blue eyes would give to me once she opens her eyes and the pain that would show itself in those eyes of hers. The pain was enough to consume me, to burn me, to torment me. With heaviness in my chest, I looked away from her unconscious body, lying on the bed with families around her. I could not bare to look at her, I could not dare to even think of going close to her, not what after I had done.I should have been more patient, more careful, more tolerant, I should have attempted to listen to her. But I didn’t. It was not her fault and I would have accepted my own child. She came at a time that our world was dark and I was about to lose my life, she came way before I decided that I didn’t want to have a baby, and like a miracle, she survived. How I snuffed the life out of her.I would forever live with this pain, wouldn’t I? This guilt, the memor
JORDANThe scream….The screams…The scream of my wife and the staff was what it took me to stop. Fear engulfed me and swallowed me whole, leaving every anger, betrayal and pain I felt earlier. I snapped my gaze back to the direction I had come from, knowing that her scream came from there.“No…” I screamed, seeing her rolling down the stairs. I could feel life leaving me at the sight of her. My legs started towards her as fast as I could just as everyone else. She came to a halt at the edge of the step and my heart died at her position. Then the blood.“Oh God! No…no…no….”“Get the car,” I screamed, feeling tears burn my eyes while I slowly placed her head on my thighs. She was bleeding and still fucking naked with just that robe.“Get the car,” I cried at the top of my lungs, fearing for the worse. I immediately checked for her pulse, praying, hoping, wishing that it would not come to that. I might as well die if it did.We rushed her to the hospital and the doctors immediately plac
GENESISI took a longer time in the bathroom this time around. The heat and steam of the shower had become my comfort and I was scared of leaving it. I would only return to our bedroom that had turned to a hunting ground for me. Each place and thing smelt of my husband and with the feel of him reminded me of the anger he had against me and the secret I had adamantly been keeping away from him.I missed him, each part of me missed him. It was almost like life was leaving me slowly and gently, yet I couldn’t stop it. Not that I couldn’t, I still didn’t know how to. I looked down on my tummy to notice the slight bump that showed the life growing inside of me. It was still so small and with my present choice of clothing, no one could notice. But how long? He deserved to know, I had to tell him and explain to him how it all happened. I had to before I completely ruin our marriage.I sighed heavily, feeling a familiar burn in my chest area while my hand ran in a circular motion around my s
JORDANI ended the meeting and shook the hands of the Russian investors. In a polite tone and a business manner, I thanked them and watched them leave the restaurant before I left. I got to the car and thought of what was left for me to do before I returned home.The thought of home made me smile, yet it made my heart ache. I had been away for five days and things had still not changed between Genesis and I. she was hiding something from me and I was losing my mind. I picked up my phone and stared at my wallpaper for a while. It was a picture of her, sleeping, and it was the most beautiful I had seen her. But again, she was beautiful in all ways, especially when she had her blue eyes opened. My heart ached and still longed for her.Just in the nick of time, she called and my heart leaped inside my chest. I picked it up quickly because I had missed her, I missed her voice, her face, her warmth, I missed being close to her. I simply missed her.“When are you coming home?” her whinny voi
“What happened?” Tiffany pulled me into a hug the moment I walked into the house and once again, I broke down before her. She took me to the sitting room where I sat down and cried my eyes out while she soothed my hair and simply allowed me cry.I recalled the pain in my husband’s eyes when I told him that I could not tell him the truth. I recalled the hurt, the pain, the fear I saw within those gazes, it burned my chest. I had looked him in the face and told him that I could not tell him the truth. What kind of wife was I? I was breaking all the promises we made to each other and keeping this, this preciousness away from him.“What happened to her?” I heard Tiana voice as her footsteps followed too.“She came in this way,” Tiffany answered and rubbed my back gently. None of them said a thing and simply comforted me while I cried till, I could no longer do that anymore.I drank a cup of water after which and I relaxed into the couch with the heaviness of the world on me.“I still can’
Days went by with nothing much happening. Jordan was constantly busy with work or simply being a loving husband while I grew lazier by the day. It was a good thing I had subordinates to handle my business, I would have totally been thrown into the dust with the rate at which my laziness grew. I slept more, ate more, slept more again, ate even more. My taste buds were also acting different, making me want something entirely different and hating things I love too. Margaret would usually get me what I want no matter how it got and she paid even closer attention to me now.I suspect she knew exactly what was going on with me, but had not said a thing, so I was happy about it and relaxed with her. However, I tried to sleep less and control myself when my beloved husband was available.It was burdening and aching my heart as the day goes by. But what was I supposed to do? I still hadn’t found a way to tell him what it was that was going on and I still didn’t have the boldness to speak out l