When Ava Leon stepped out, she saw Adrian standing with his hands in his pants pocket, staring at her icily with disdain and resentment. At that moment, she loses hope that he has come to bail her or has her good in mind for coming. She folded her arms and like him, didn't sit down. Anyways courtesy demands that she says hello to him. And having been without food for three days,she felt her eyes dizzy and she shivered, almost bumping headlong into Adrian. But the latter gently steps aside, avoiding her completely. Ava Leon was only prevented from falling by the table before her. Her eyes, suddenly dark and she groped about with her hand until she found the chair and sat down. Thank goodness she didn't fall down, otherwise, Adrian would have still stood towering over her with the hatred on his face. She closed her eyes temporarily and calmed herself before opening them again. She has a headache and still throws every morning in the police station. But this
Ava waited but Adrian's hands never descended on her chin. Eventually when she opened them, he was glaring at her and he turned abruptly and was about to leave. “Hurt me as you want, but don't touch my parents” she requested. Just what kind of a man is Adrian Lester? Good looks, but bad heart. “You're not in any position to tell me what I will do. As long as my grandfather lies on that hospital bed, your lives will be miserable” he declared and walked away. That made Ava sad and she sobbed. Adrian Lester is going to hurt her parents. Her dad was already feeling so sickly and his heart is almost failing completely and he wants to hurt him and hasten his death? He could vent his anger on her, she'll take it. One day grandfather will be fine again and he will be able to tell everyone what happened exactly. Her hope is hinged on grandfather's quick recovery, thank goodness that he was not dead. Meanwhile Sam Leon's health had greatly deteriorated. The doctor s
Clara sighed softly and came back to her husband. “It appears Ava no longer lives in the Lester family. Anna said so” Clara informed. She cannot tell him that she equally added that her daughter is a criminal. “Where else could she be? She's not there and she's not here either?” Sam demanded, feeling his heart was beating fast with great difficulty. He was feeling very weak now more than before. “Calm down. It's late now. Tomorrow morning, I'll be at the Lester family and request to know where Ava has been to. Adrian Lester is her husband, he should be able to give a distinct explanation” Clara assured her husband. “No, I'll go with you. Even if I'm so sick,provided I'm still breathing, I'll go with you” Sam insisted. They raised Ava with so much discipline and love and she wouldn't leave her matrimonial home without telling someone where she's headed. “If you insist on that,Sam,” Clara shrugged. She doesn't want him to go because Anna said something like being a
“My baby!…” Nancy Blake blurted. Her eyes were moist and the tears were threatening to trickle down her cheeks. She was confused. What happened? Babies swapped? Simon now also was on his feet and he went to hold his wife. Everyone knows what happened on that day to the last child of Simon and Nancy Blake. Their baby was still born and Nancy had refuted it over the years that she felt as if her daughter was still alive when she birthed her. But Simon has gotten the dead baby and gone to bury her. He tried to convince Nancy that she was indeed dead and had been buried. But hearing the breaking news, Nancy felt like she would fly over the ceiling and get to the hospital. “Simon, could my daughter have been swapped? I heard her cry when she was born and later I was told it's a stillbirth. Maybe that dead baby was not mine after all…” Nancy blurted. “It's alright, Nancy. We'll get to the bottom of this. But I need you to stay calm. I'll make my findings at o
Adrian Lester stood in his night robe and stared at Alice with an icy gaze. Why was she looking around like someone who was about doing something sinful? “Ms. Alice, you should know your place in this mansion and stick to your duties. I don't like people who are supposed to be elders and yet, have no brain in their skull” Adrian bellowed. He has thought her grey hair meant that she's wise and reasonable. What the hell is she doing with these good for nothing poor scumbags? “This is Mr Leon and his wife, Ava's parents…” Alice was trying to explain when he interrupted her. “Like I care who the fuck they are? They can be whoever's parents, what do I care? Get out of my sight and don't let me disrespect you in any way further“ Sam Leon and his wife exchanged glances. He had watched this boy grow before him and he had always been reserved and doesn't interact with anyone. But he didn't expect that he would now become so ruthless and disrespectful. Isn't
“I have no past with your family and you haven't done us a single favour. What do you have to offer my family? We are wealthy and out of our generosity we hired you as our gardener. So what past are you talking about? Ava Leon will die in that jail for what she'd done to father. She'll suffer a worse fate than death and I will not let this go, at all. She can't kill a flea nor can he step on an Ant but she attempted to murder my father” Anna Lester declared, spat on the floor and went away. Sam felt he was running out of breath. He was now very weak. His heart pained him, not because of the news that Ava is in jail but because Anna said they have done them no favours. How can she say that, how can she betray him and Clara? How can she forget that they have no biological child today and it's all because of the help they rendered them. How can she say to him that Ava would die in jail. The only child he now has by adoption, was going to die too in the hands of
Simon blinked his eyes a few times, trying to hold back. She was swapped at birth. Nancy said it, she said her baby was born alive and she heard her cry. She insisted that he should investigate it but he shoved it aside. He felt she's getting worked up unnecessarily because she cannot accept the reality that her months of expectations would end up with nothing. But he should have listened to her. He should have investigated it back then and who knows, they might have known that fact many years ago and forgotten about the emotions that now clouded their hearts. For twenty years, Nancy had secretly mourned the death of a child that did not die. How can their daughter accept them as her parents? How can she suddenly be found and be told that the parents she'd known all these years are not her real parents? Who knows the kind of life she now lives? All these thoughts crossed Simon Blake's heart within seconds that he pulled his wife into a hug to console her. T
She was sweating profusely and shivering. Tears trickled down her cheeks uncomfortably. She didn't know how loud her scream had been and that the inmate with her had been woken up. “Hi little girl. Is your guts on fire?” She yelled at her, her gaze filled with annoyance. How dare this girl interrupt her sleep? She's the President of that cell. “No..no…please..my Papa..” Ava couldn't say more than that. She ran towards the entrance,but it was shut. Oh goodness, she was shivering. Something has happened to her Papa. “Hey, relax. You can't see your Papa. And don't disturb my sleep otherwise I will crush you at once” she threatened and hissed aloud. These baby girls raised with silver spoons are like that. A minute away from their parents, they start crying like a moron. Nonsense. Ava didn't care about the threatening, she kept crying aloud “Oh Papa, don't die, Wait for me to get back…Papa” she was sobbing profusely. She stood by the entrance, hitting t