We all are listening to Spencer as he explains. His voice cracks a bit as he does this and I gulp to try to get rid of the growing knot in my throat.“Henry is a bitch,” Spencer insults his father. “He had been cheating on her the moment I was born, and on top of that, he was being physically abusive to her. The anger that I show now is a small glimpse of my pain and trauma,” He explains and I can really relate to him.I too was raised in a lot of pain and trauma too. It creates so much anger, and all you want for yourself is freedom. I thought I got mine from killing my parents' killer, but I did not. Freedom never came, I only just experienced it when I met Robert.Robert changed the whole trajectory of my life, he is the best mistake I have ever made.“I am sorry that I taunted you earlier,” I apologize to him and he smiles softly.“It’s okay, and I am also sorry that I almost hit you. I am glad Robert stopped me because if he had not, I would have just the same as my father, an a
I love how my relationship with Robert is, I am so grateful I met this playboy. We both are good for each other, we bring out the best versions of each other.“The doctor also said that the cause of my bleeding may be us having sex. He had a medical explanation that I can not quite remember,” I explain to him and he rolls his eyes.“Oh, so because I tricked you, you want to try to do the same to me? I won’t fall for it, sweetheart,” Robert chuckles.“No, I am being serious, you can ask the doctor if you want,” I say seriously and he squints his eyes at me in suspicion.“So we can’t have sex until you have the baby?” He inquires and I nod.“Oof,” He says and I smile.“Can’t be that hard, can it? Just a couple of months without sex,” I shrug as I say this.After a few hours, the doctor informs us that I would be free to go home the next morning. I am some medicines to take with me when I go home, and also a small list of light exercises that I can do to stay healthy.I spend the night w
In some minutes, we reach the house and James drives us into the compound when the automated gates open. Though I have my suspicions about Cara, I certainly don’t have proof, so I best keep my opinions to myself.James brings the car to a stop as he parks it and we all exit. Carlos and the others enter the house, leaving Robert and me. We take our time walking to the entrance of the house.“So how do you feel?” He asks me and a hint of worry covers his face.“I feel fine, Robert, and the baby is. All I have to do is have no sex to avoid bleeding for now, and take my medicines, and vitamins, and take care of my body.” I tell him and he smiles.“Then that is exactly what you will be doing,” He says to me, giving me a small smile. He reaches for my hand and I gladly give it to him. We walk with our hands intertwined together and then we enter the mansion.***Eight Months Later***The morning air is sweet, and the light breeze swirling is heavenly. The sun is up and the day is warm, I hav
“Are you sure?” Cara asks me and I resist the urge to cuss her out. What kind of question is this? I am in literal pain and she is hearing my groans and me breathing heavily.“Call Robert,” I manage to say as I try to stand on my feet. I do so without problem with the help of Cara. Her eyes are dancing with nervousness, she really doesn’t know what to do, and neither do I. This is the first time for me to be having a baby.My goal right now is just to get to the clinic or the closest hospital. The pain in my abdomen keeps getting unbearable by the minute even though I am taking steady inhales of air while exhaling the same way.I watch Cara take the phone out of her pocket hurriedly and then she dials a number that I presume is Robert’s.“He’s not picking,” She says after s few rings.“Help me get downstairs, and then we will try to call again,” I reply to her and she nods. Cara soon helps me to go downstairs and out in the yard. As soon as I am out, a few security guards hurry towar
At first, I was able to talk and breathe somehow normally, but now it feels much harder to do.“Labor is complete, now she can begin to push,” I hear the doctor say, he seems relaxed and he is not really doing anything. He is watching and telling the nurses what to do. Chad is not very far from him and a look of nervousness and fear is plastered on his face.They don’t even have to tell me to push, I can already feel an overwhelming urge to do so. I can also feel a burning and stretching sensation in my vaginal area and something tells me that the baby head is emergingGosh, all my emotions are on high alert.Where the hell is Robert?!“Very good, I can see your baby’s head, you’re doing great,” The nurse encourages me.The door suddenly opens and Robert and Cara dash through. The doctor stops them both and Cara explains to him that Robert is actually the father of the baby. With a nod of acknowledgment, he gives Robert permission to approach me.Tears are streaming from my eyes and I
“Jake is going to be so spoiled, bro.” I hear a familiar voice as I stir from sleep. I believe that it is Chad talking to another person, but I don't know who.“You have no idea, I can’t believe that I am a dad,” I hear another voice and I know that voice all too well, it’s Robert.I clear my throat as I stretch lightly in the bed, I feel like I just took the bed nap in my life. I can’t tell, but I am guessing that I slept for hours. “She’s awake,” Chad says and I smile. My vision is not as blurry as it was before when I just woke up, it’s now clear and everything now looks vivid.“Good morning, the mother of my son,” Robert says and he leans down to give me a kiss on my forehead. His lips are soft and close my eyes when they make contact with my head,“Good morning,” I manage to say, my voice still sounding hoarse.“How are you feeling?” Chad asks me and he has a huge smile on his face that is just contagious, I can’t help but smile too.“I feel...I feel rested,” I say honestly and
How do I feel? I have so many answers to this question right now. The baby that I almost died giving birth to has been kidnapped by someone who I thought was a friend, I am so confused. Why would she do such a thing?“Jen,” I hear a distant voice but I pay no heed to it.I had a feeling about Cara from the very beginning, but I was way too stubborn to pay attention to it. I knew something was not right about her, she just inserted herself into our lives and wanted to know everything about us. How was I so blind and oblivious? This is not my character, not at all.Why was I so stupid? And because of my stupidity, I just lost my baby. Maybe I am just blaming myself, but I won’t lie, there is some truth to it. I trusted Cara without Chad doing a background check on her or anything.I remember one time when I was still pregnant and Chad was adamant about doing a background check on Cara, he had his own suspicions. And being who we are, we are always on alert of who we meet and who we int
Have you ever been in a situation where it feels like you are dreaming? And not just any dream, but a nightmare. That is how it all feels right now, it all just feels like I could wake up anytime and still be pregnant, that would be epic; I would really love that.“She must be joking,” Robert’s voice pulls me from my thoughts and I look at him incredulously.“A joke?” I ask him in disbelief. “She has our child!” My voice fills the entire room, and everyone stares at me for a few seconds.“Jen, you know what I meant, this all just feels surreal,” Robert says to me and I hand him the phone.I did not mean to shout at him, I think I am just way too stressed right now. Robert stares at me as he takes the phone from me. He does not know what to do with it.“Call her again,” I instruct him and he hesitates.“Jen, I think we should take some time to think about all this,” James suggests and Robert and Carlos nod in agreement.“Call her,” I say stubbornly.I need to know whether my baby is o
My eyes widen and I immediately try to open the door of the moving car so I can jump out but all the doors are locked. Adrenaline floods every part of my body, it is like it is all happening so fast and I have no control.“What are you doing? Stop that! Do you want to get yourself killed?” Russell shouts as Usman increases the speed of the car so jumping out would seem more painful to me if I decide to do so.“Stay the hell away from me!” I reply to him aggressively when he tries to reach out to me and he raises his hands in surrender.“Okay, okay,” He says and then he settles back into his seat.“What the hell is going on?” I ask after a full minute of silence. I am much calmer right now, I was acting out of instinct when I realized that the person that was sitting next to the driver was Russell.How is that even possible? Was he not in an induced coma a few days ago? “Are you finished with trying to jump out of a speeding car just to avoid me?” Russell replies to me and I hear Usma
“Natalie is smart, I will give her that. She had all the video evidence cleared before we could get our hands on it,” Taylor explains and I at everything else in the room but her.“May I ask, who are you professionally?” I ask her, and she smiles lopsidedly.“I work with the police department in Russia, I am the police chief,” She informs me and I nod slowly. “As I was saying, Natalie made the investigation a lot more difficult for us. Her skills in covering evidence are impressive, but I believe that she got some inside help,” Taylor continues what she was explaining.“And?” I beckon her to explain more. If Natalie covered up our tracks so well, how does she know that Natalie did it? That she was the one that pulled the trigger and not me.“I know you want to know how I know that she was the one who pulled the trigger, and I am going to explain just that to you,” Taylor tells me.“Okay,” I drag the word as I wait for her to tell me what she knows.“I am Russell’s third wife and it h
What in the world is happening? Why am I even being arrested? Even if this is about Russell Marshall’s investigation, the person they should be arresting is Natalie, I was not the one that shot the man in the head.“This has to be a joke, right?” Chad laughs but when he sees that the military guys are not even smiling, he realizes that this is serious.I gave the piece of document that they handed to me, I read it quickly and it authorizes them to arrest me, but what I don’t see is the charge.“Your hands, please,” One of the military guards says a bit softly and I do as he says. I place my hands behind my head and I hear Chad scoff.“Do you want us to do something?” The guards that we have at the entrance ask me but I disagree by wagging my head. It would only make things worse, from experience, going peacefully with the authorities is always the best thing to do.“I am calling Robert, and then the lawyer. We would get this settled in no time,” Chad tries to comfort me as he makes a
Yes, we certainly need to talk. I put Jake down from my arms and he protests that he wants to tell me secretly. James, Natalie, and Cara watch my exchange with him with smiles on their faces.“Okay, what is it?” I ask him as he gets close to my ear.“I love you,” He whispers in my ear and I can not help but smile. Some people say having kids is a nightmare, and the truth is that it is at times, but most of the time, it is the greatest joy anyone could have.“Mommy heats you right back,” I reply to him in a whisper, and he giggles before he runs onto James.I stand upright and I bid James and Jake goodbye as I join Natalie and Cara in the living room.“We have a serious hiccup in our plans,” Cara begins when we have all sat down on the couch.“I know,” I reply to her, and Natalie chuckles but I can hear the worry in her voice.“Of course you do, it is all over the news,” She tells me and I stay quiet, not knowing exactly what to say.“So what are doing?” Cara asks no one in particular
“What do you mean that he’s alive?” I ask Robert as he stands to his feet, he looks worried but that is in no way compared to how I feel right now. Gosh, does Natalie know this? I need more information.“Which news channel did you learn that from?” I fire another question at Robert, not giving him the chance to answer the first. “Here, take a look, it is all over social media, and all the big news broadcasters are airing it,” Robert says as he hands his phone to me. The last time I held it was when I found out that he was partially cheating on me.I can not say that he was actually cheating because he did not sleep with Amanda, but he did receive nudes from her and whatnot. In my book, that is cheating, but I am just going to call it partially cheating in light of what Robert and Amanda explained to me.But that is not the issue at hand right now, we have a huge freaking problem. I need to get dressed and let Natalie and Cara know what has happened.I take the phone from Robert and I
Some might say that we are moving a bit too fast, but I have known Robert for close to a year now. Still, it seems like such a limited amount of time to decide to spend your entire life with someone, but why wait any longer?Robert and I have had our fair share of storms and problems, but we have weathered everyone one of them, plus we have a great support system. Chad, James, Carlos, and Jake are sure to be there for us if we happen to begin to feel the storms of life raging again, and of course, we will.The amount of crazy that I have been through individually is insane, my entire life has been far from normal and I am starting to stop wanting normal. Besides, normal is a bit overrated. Marrying someone you have known for only almost a year is not very expected, or should I say, normal? But that is the thing, I am not normal and do not even want to be anymore.“Well?” Robert asks me as I drag my body off the unmade bed. He suggested that we should get married next week after I ment
I can not believe that this just happened, Robert proposed to me! This is amazing and I feel so good, but I also feel like this is too good and I don’t deserve it. But I am just going to sum that up as insecurity trying to present itself in the form of me not being worth it enough to get proposed to.After I said yes, I think Jake was more excited than everyone else. Chad and the others came out soon after and I have a strong feeling that they somehow knew that Robert was going to propose. Robert placed a very expensive ring on my finger and he rose from his kneeling, I placed Jake in the chair where I was sitting and Robert and I embraced. We then shared a kiss and everyone joined Jake as he clapped. As soon as the applause died, the rain ceased gradually and the sun began to shine through the dark clouds. It seemed too perfect that I literally had to pinch myself two times to make sure that I was not dreaming. Good thing I was not, because I would have been so mad at myself.We e
It is usually sunny here, but today is different, and besides, it is a Saturday. I think the weather chose the best time to be like this, I don’t have to drive Jake to school and I get to spend the entire day with him.Yesterday was so eventful, I had to explain all that happened to me in Russia to Robert, James, Carlos, and Chad about three times before they finally could grasp it all. I also had the responsibility of explaining why I have suddenly decided to trust and forgive someone that caused me so much trauma, Cara was quiet when I took my time to make them all understand that I have finally decided to bury the hatchet concerning what she did.I am not going to pretend like I don’t feel a stab of emotional pain when I look at her, but I am going to try my best to move on. I am currently sitting on the porch alone while listening to the beating of the rain on the ground and roof, it is very soothing and I have never felt so relaxed in my life. Everybody else is in the house and
I open the door of the house and I walk in as Cara follows behind me slowly and tentatively. We are out of Russia and in Cyprus, though only Cara came along. Natalie took a later flight because she wanted to come with Susan, her grandmother.It took us a couple of hours to fly from Russia to Cyprus, especially because I did not have my passport on me. Cara had to pull some strings and call in some favors at airport security, and to my pleasant surprise, it all worked out smoothly.“Are you sure that they would want to see me?” I hear Cara’s voice as we walk further into the house. Everything looks pretty much the same, but I don’t see anyone here. “Where is everyone?” I say to myself in a low tone as I continue to explore the house.Suddenly I hear heavy footsteps and I look toward the source, someone is walking down the stairs. As soon as the person's eyes meet mine, they stop in their tracks.“Whoa, am I tripping, or am I seeing Jen Davis?” Chad asks me and he continues his descent