I undress myself and imagine it was Riley pulIing down my gown and kissing me, I went to the shower and went to bed.I kept tossing around , I couldn’t sleep very well , I couldn’t get over our kisses, I raise my finger and stare at the diamond ring on my finger. I never thought I would be wearing a diamond ring not just anyone’s diamond ring, Riley’s Diamond ring on my finger.It took me a wile before I drifted to sleep.RILEY.I undress and went to bed, I lay in the bed imagining her undressing me and straddling me. I sit up in the bed then I walk out of my room, I walk to my office and started writing down my vow.I can wait to read the vow I just wrote down to her.I loved her so much. I began to draft down all the things I want to do for my future wife.I return to my bedroom and I didn’t know when I drifted into sleep.The following day.In the morning, I got a call from my grandparents so early that they are on their way to my place.I rush out of the bedroom, I climbed down t
“ Grandma, Riley calls out. I look towards what I was cooking it had gotten burnt, Riley turn of the stove, he held my hand and we walk together to her grandparents.We both greeted them both, she pull me into her embrace, my grandson told me so much abut you” his grandma says.His grand dad did the same. “ Are those my grand kids, she pointed at them close to the kitchen, she rushes to them and pull them into embrace.Not long the domestic workers arrived and prepare us some food, the food was served we all eat discuss our wedding date, his grand dad restore his post back at work,they talk about the lawsuit and his grand dad promise to work on it and he said he was also working on it.Evening they left and it was wonderful meeting them. After a long day we retire into our rooms.THe next day.We took the kids to school and he drove me to a flowershop. Our visit to the flower shop was like nothing I’d ever seen. Riley chose a fancy place up in the wide streets and green boulevards of
On my list I had no family member but my Tammy was part and I tried to contact Jessica even though she stays abroad.The big day eventually arrived, I dressed up in my wedding dress, I stood in front of the mirror with so much joy. My phone rang,it was video call, it was Riley.“ Hey”I said over the phone and my sons peeps out on the cellphone.I smile at them.“ You look pretty babe” He says.“Thanks love” I replied.“I have something I want to read to you” he said.“ Okay”.“ MY love, my joy, the theft of my heart, my queen, I want to say a big thank you for accepting to walk with me on this journey, I thought a day like this will never come between us, I love you girl and I can’t wait to welcome you to my world, I love you” He says with tears.I couldn’t hold my tears.“ I love you too”I said.“Waiting to put a ring on it in church” he says.“ I can’t wait to wear your ring on my fourth finger and add your name to my name” I said.I spoke with my kids for a while before hanging.I
So did Sara.My maid of honour.I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at until the tangle of ruffled silk and lace rustled and rolled over, and revealed Sara, looking crumpled in her dress on the floor of the limo. But I was utterly shocked when I saw who she’d just rolled off.“ZEKE?”Riley’s best man for the day sat up in the car, his carrot-top hair in a tangle. His cheeks were red, and the pair of them looked out of breath. He adjusted his tie and slipped his jacket on. “I…uh…sorry,” he said quickly, looking around in utter embarrassment.“It’s not what it looks like?” said Sara.“We, uh, just met,” said Zeke. “She was just…”I just carried on staring at them, not knowing what to say. Then, an enormous smile spread across my face.“I guess it really is true what they say about the best man and the maid of honor,” I said, giggling.“Please don’t tell ‘Lex,” said Zeke. “I’ll see you later, Sara,” he said, nodding towards her and smiling. “It was good to meet you.”“You too!” she sai
“You know where your fusebox is, Alex?”“Of course I do,” I replied. I could smell the smoke in my clothes. “It’s in an alcove on the ground floor.”“Right,” said the detective. “That’s where the fire started. I spoke to the Marshall half an hour ago. He told me there was no way it was a kitchen accident. Place went up in about ten minutes.”“So it didn’t start in the kitchen,” I said. “So what?”“We know you’re up for fraud,” said the other cop. “And we know someone got to that fusebox. Were you hoping you could claim for the insurance on it?”“ What? What Fraud? I asked.“ All the shares your investors invested most especially the one belonging to Miss Amanda Sam”I chuckle and knew where all this was coming from.it’s all Amanda's plan.But I simply looked at the floor.“You’d better start talking,” said one of the detectives.“You wouldn’t understand,” I said, and shook my head. I’d given up. At this point, they could do what they wanted. I’d lost everything, and I was feeling migh
“Yeah. I mean, it must be. He said he never signed it.”“How can we prove that?”“You can get a copy from my grand dad.”“ Are you aware there is also a forged shares document being used to get money from the company for the past twenty years?“ What?! I exclaimed.O’Rourke nodded. Then, he looked at me.“ That’s Fraud, I can’t believe this ?“ Trust me on this,I will do justice on this issue” O’Rouke says.“I want you to listen very carefully,” he said. “You are not safe in this city.”“What?” New York was my home. “That’s crazy. I can pay for whatever security I like.”“I want you to listen very carefully,” he said. “You are not safe in this city.”“What?” New York was my home. “That’s crazy. I can pay for whatever security I like.”“I don’t care. And I’m not going to go looking for this insurance policy. Not yet.“ Why?My voice was hoarse as I replied. “Because he forged my grand dad’s birth certificate.”“Allegedly, yes. And I need time to make Amanda move. And for that, I need y
I fell asleep for a while, letting the tiredness overtake me. But I kept waking up with the bumping of the car, and after a while, I resigned myself to sleeplessness.“Where is this place?” I said.“About an hour from Syracuse. It’s isolated. I got it a few years ago, but I don’t really come up here all that much.”“You don’t ever take a vacation, do you?” I said.“I think the last vacation I took was to Bali,” said Riley.But I didn’t want to think about the past. It was easier than thinking about the future, than thinking about what we were going to do when all this was over. How I’d untangle myself from the messy, murky world that Riley had brought me into.He needs me now, fake or true , he is my husband.I am angry for the whole mess we are in after the wedding, I guess it all happen because he married me. It feels like the wedding only worsen the situation. We just got into a danger and it’s all for me.I’d always felt like I was in control of my destiny before I met Riley. And
“A little. It’s fine,” I said.“I’ll light the fire,” he said, and bent down. From the cage next to the fireplace, he took out a couple of logs with some kindling and newspaper. With a firelighter on the mantelpiece, he lit a fire.“Can I go to bed now?” I said.Riley turned and looked at me.“You’re angry with me,” he said.No, I am angry at myself and I miss my kids?“they missed us too,” he said, he brings out his cellphone and called. A video call, they came on the screen and I could see my kids jumping up hapilly.“We flew helicopter, it was fun, the holiday house is beautiful?” Harry says“We all discussed before we finally hanged the call. I dry the corner of my eyes.“ I have never left them in my life” I said“ You are the best mom any child needs” he says pulling me into his embrace.“That’s maybe the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me,” I murmured. My eyes were drawn to the stray locks of hair which hung over Riley’s brow, while he tended the fire.He turned and looked a