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
Adrian Lester was furious. He got off his swivel chair and approached Patrick. He glared at him with a killing intent and the latter stared back at him in hostility. Why hadn't he known all these years that Adrian has this side of personality? For years, they've been friends and he didn't know he is so mean and senseless? “Your audacity, Patrick! How dare you walk into my office to lay curses on me, how dare you?” He thundered and pulled him by his collars. He said his tears would flow? He dared to say that to him, someone he had helped a few times in the past? A lowlife that he paid his tuition fee for once from his pocket money? Someone he employed in his branch company and gave good incentives? He cannot see anything right in all that he does that he dares to come into his office to curse him? Patrick Connor wouldn't let Adrian bully him as he pulled him by the collar as well and the two glared at each other in fury. Adrian gnashed his teeth. “There w
Ava's heart clenched in pain. Oh her Papa is dead. Did Adrian do it, did he frustrate them until Papa's weak heart couldn't take it, did he do it? She hates him now. Everything he'd done to her, she can let it go. She can close her eyes and assume none of it existed except in her imagination. He wrongly accused her and jailed her, she can let that go also. He fucked her and planted his seed in her belly, she can put that behind her. He called her parents many unpleasant names, qualifying them with disgusting adjectives, she can forget about it. But hurting her parents until Papa's weak heart packed up, that's an unpardonable offence. “Who's Adrian and which Lester family is he from, why would anyone want to hurt you by killing your father?” Luna asked. “Adrian,son of Richard and Anna Lester, the CEO of the Lester conglomerate is my husband” Ava announced and turned to glance at Luna with her reddened eyes and sore nose. Luna's eyes displaye