GENESISUnable to resist the smile that had splashed my lips for the umpteenth time, I turned my eyes to the other direction and finally looked at the man who had made me the happiest woman in the world. He was on his phone, dialing furiously into it, but when he felt my gaze, he turned around and stared at me. A smile appeared at his lips as well as it revealed the perfect set of teeth he had, not to add to the glossiness of his lips.“Where exactly are you taking me to?” I finally asked, still not finding it funny that we have both been riding for thirty minutes and we were still unable to arrive at our destination.“Are you tired of being in the car with me already?” he asked as a devilishly grin plastered his face.“Of course not, I would never choose to be outside when I can be in a car sit with my husband who picks his phone over me,” I whined, even when I was not meaning to. His grin deepened and his eyes sparkled, my cheeks heated up and I realized how clingy I sounded and loo
He grinned at me, flashing me his perfect set of teeth and I quickly realize that he played me. And he could only do that because he could tell what I was feeling and how I was needing him. Angry at myself other than him, I pushed him away and the elevator came to a halt. He grinned even more at me, not minding that he had pissed me off. He brought out the card, swiped it through the elevator, then the door opened. I walked out first, too embarrassed and angry to even be with him. I froze when I found a lot of people in there, each sketching, drawing, typing, and moving about. It was a literal mess in there with how much papers were flying and how much people were in there, all working and going crazy. No one took note of me, though I could see their eyes linger on me and look away like I was not even there. Then I perceived Jordan’s perfume behind me and the entire room came to a halt and went silent like a ghost had just walked through. My heart clenched when I realized that they sa
“I still can’t believe you did that.” Jordan smiled pulled me closer to him and I flashed him a glare. I felt really guilty for going to such an extent, but she had caused it.“If you had only stopped her, I wouldn’t have hurt her,” I snapped.“I actually like that you did that. Damn, no one would dare come close to me again if you do that to them,” he felt really proud of what I did and I didn’t understand.“She might go to the reporters to say something bad and tarnish your image again.”“She wouldn’t there. I’m have a major share in that company, no one would dare upset me. More over my cousins would make her life a living hell if she goes to such length.” He explained.“Still, I shouldn’t have hurt her,” I sighed.“Well, she shouldn’t have upset you.” He retorted, not helping matters at all.“You have this strength about you, a hidden one that only bust out when you are angry or hurt.” He added. I thought about it for a while and understood what he was saying. I had always been th
JORDANI glanced at my watch and gritted my teeth as I saw how late it had gotten. It was never my intention to end up missing dinner and definitely not a plan of mine to not pick Genesis up. I had just got caught up with work again and had lost track of time. I thought of how pissed she must be, I was supposed to pick her up from the studio and instead I had missed it, and even missed dinner all together. My head was racking and I was already thinking of an apology, a speech I would give to make it all perfect again. It was perfect all day, and I had to ruin it.My thoughts were still restless and my heart was beating loudly inside my chest. My uneasiness over missing her and missing dinner was much, too much in fact but I thought nothing of it, not till my phone rang and I found that it was one of the security men I had kept with her earlier. My throat went dry and for a strange reason my hands became sweaty. They had no reason at all to call, not unless something had gone terribly
“Sir,”“A man claiming to be your cousin is here and had refused to go away,” Marcus said to me.“Let him in,” my voice came dry, out of life and full of pain and rage. The door opened and soon enough, a man dressed in suit sat beside me.“Jordan,” he called out to me in a worried tone. I slowly turned to him, my eyes heavy and tears clouding them already.“She was a virgin,” they came flowing down my cheek.“She was a fucking virgin and he took it away like that, in such a horrible way,” I banged my hand against a chair and allowed the tears flow. The colors on his face disappeared immediately and he could only gape at me for a while.“He did it over and over and over again till she passed out. No need waiting for that c4 to kill her. she is dead already. He had taken her life with his action and…”“Wait Jordan,” Aiden entered and I turned to him. He stared at me for a while, his eyes reflecting my pain.“Let’s think for a while,”“You only made plans to get Genesis here, minutes aft
JORDANMy knees grew weak and my legs buckled underneath me as I heard those words. Relief flooded my heart and tears clouded my eyes in an instance. I relaxed into the wall and shut my eyes to shut the pain I had felt before, then I allowed my heart to dance for a little bit. There was no scenario I had not thought of. Genesis was going to wake up and hate me for life, she was going to hate her life and the beautiful smile she had always had on her face would disappear into nothingness, and I would disappear along with it. If she would not be able to smile, what would be left of my miserable life? I had brought nothing but bad news to her, nothing but bad to her and countless times she had been put in danger because of all this. Guilt had taken over me and my chest was beginning to hurt at the thought of rubbing ill luck on her but just now, the doctor had changed it all with just this one news.“It must have been hard to have heard the kidnapper say something like that,” the doctor
GENESISSlowly, I felt more conscious and heard a faint sound coming from around me. I groaned slightly and opened my eyes, but the light blinded me and I immediately shut them back. I groaned again and rolled to a different side, then I opened my eyes slowly, this time and allowed it adjust to the light. I turned and laid on my back and the first thing I saw was the familiar dark walls of Jordan’s room filled with stars and paintings of the night. For a strange reason, I felt warm opening my eyes to that familiar room, that familiar scent. I remained there for a few seconds with nothing in my head, no thoughts, no words just the warmth and scent of him.Then it came crashing down on me. My dance tutors. The memory came in a flash and I jumped up from where I had been lying down.“Whoa…whoa…. whoa” Jordan’s voice came as he sat beside me and pressed me back to the bed, gently.“Jordan…Roman,” I panicked.“Shhhhh,” he placed his fingers in my mouth.“Take a deep breath, wife,” his voic
I gulped hard, the question itself frightening me to my very bones. But when I saw the serious look on their faces, I knew that they meant it. Samantha deserved death, but not just death, torment, pain and fear before death. But she was a human being just as much as I was, and I don’t think I wanted to wish someone else dead. Their blood might be on me and I didn’t want it. Taking her to the station and filing a law suit against her would do the trick. But after remembering the last time and how she had escaped and also since she was a Brandon, I doubted that a cell would contain her for too long. I could not let her go free though, she would not stop scheming till I was out of the way and I was not going to give her that satisfaction. In fact, I wanted to rub it in her face.“Nothing,” my response came.“You can’t be serious,” Jordan responded coldly from behind me.“But it’s okay. We can still handle her ourself,” Alden entered and my head snapped to him.“Don’t do anything to her,”
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