I swear I know nothing…

Martha couldn’t express the joy of seeing the two babies in their crib. Even though the baby girl had a touch of red hair mixed with her black and green eyes, she still saw her son in her face.

“They both look so much like Harden,” Martha said closing her mouth in excitement.

“Yes ma’am,” Simon said sighing.

“By morning, we will introduce them to their father, he will be upset but you don’t know anything. You are clueless” Martha looks at Simon who nods his head.

“Take the girl to the hospital, deposit her funds,” Martha said as she smiled at her twin's grandkids.

She sighs as she looks at the maids.

“Bring them along, let’s introduce them to their father,” She said walking away for the maids to carry the two babies and follow her.

Adele's unconscious body was cleaned up and transferred to the hospital, Simon carried an envelope of money and a hospital address to Adele and Grace's little apartment.

It was dawn, Grace heard a knock on their door in the early hours of the day which made her frown.

She walked towards the door quietly and looked through the review mirror but saw no one. Quietly she opened the door to see a huge envelope on the doorstep. She frowned and bent to pick it up and immediately she opened it she screamed.

She covered her mouth before closing the door and rushed towards their center table to pour out the cash in the envelope.

“Goodness,” she screamed looking at the money in her front when saw a little envelope which she opened and saw a hospital address with Adele's name on it.

She frowns looking at the money and then the envelope.

“Adele?” She questionably called before arranging the money and took it to their room. She locked the money in their wardrobe and rushed to wear her clothes before rushing out to visit the hospital address and room number on the letter.

It was morning, Harden woke up at his usual time and got dressed for work as he was to meet with their new investors.

Harden walked downstairs looking at his iPad, immediately he stepped on the floor of his sitting room he frowned seeing his mother, Simon, and two babies crib.

“What’s this?” He asked for Simon to carry his boss's iPad and left the mother and son.

“Your babies,” Martha said for Harden to scoff. He didn’t say anything to her or look at the crib as he faced the door and walked away. Martha immediately rushed towards her son and stopped him.

“Honey look,” she said giving him an envelope.

“Mom, I have work to do. I’m not playing this…

“You should look at it, Harden,” she said for Harden to open the envelope and the paper read.

His name, genetic makers, Alleles, probability matches, and conclusion with the laboratory information.

Harden frowns before he scoffs.

“Mom, I didn’t pay anyone for surrogacy or had an intimate…

“You do. The girl from the hotel” Martha said for Harden to frown as he looked at his mother.

“Where’s she?” He asks Martha to sadly sigh.

“She’s dead,” she said for Harden to walk towards the crib.

“Where’s she, mom?” He asked knowing it might be possible if she was the one because he knew she was the only one he had ever had sex with without protection.

“She came to me a few months before her due month and asked I promise to not tell you she kept the babies. I promised her to not say anything until she delivered and unfortunately, she died during the process. Thou she asked for money which I promise to give her after the twins are born” Martha lied for Harden to scoff in disbelief.

“I don’t believe you. Simon!” He screamed out for the babies to start crying and that’s when he looked at them. A shocked look appeared on Harden's face seeing how much the babies looked like him. The girl had red mixed-black hair which made him have a flashed image of that night.

“The red hair” he whispered covering his face.

“Don’t scream close to a baby Harden, they don’t like it” Martha said for Harden to bow his head.

“Take them upstairs, prepare their room immediately,” Harden said as he didn’t even need a DNA test for approval because the babies looked just like him.

“Mom, say the truth” Harden turned to his mother before Simon who just rushed in.

“Where’s she?” He asked Simon who immediately responded.

“ I don’t know boss, the chairwoman called me this morning and informed me about the kids. I asked to see the baby's mother but she told me she died giving birth to them, she took me to see the corpse before we came here.” He said for Harden to scoff.

“How much did my mother pay you to betray me?” He asked for Simon to immediately shake his head.

“I swear boss, I swear I know nothing.” Simon immediately said in fear.

“Take me to see her corpse. Now!” Harden demanded and walked out of the mansion for Simon and Martha to sigh.

Simon immediately followed Harden from behind with Martha who was about to open the door and joined her son.

“You aren’t coming. I haven’t accepted what you did Mom.” He said for Martha to sigh as Simon drove his boss away. She smiles knowing everything has been prepared, she turns and walks back into the mansion.

She called her son Butler to prepare the mansion as their grandmother would be coming to visit the babies.

Martha sighed as she walked towards the baby's room where the maids were keeping them to sleep, she’s so excited that they took after her son and not the red-haired girl.

Inside the car driving to a different hospital from the one they took Adele to, Harden's mood for the day has spoilt to an expressionless mood. He doesn’t know if he should be excited his one-night stand brought him those two beautiful gifts or if he should be sad that it took away a woman who saved him that night without him knowing her.

“ I still don’t believe you and my mother Simon. Don’t let me rage on you so say the truth” Harden said to Simon who kept driving.

“Boss I will never betray you, I swear, I know nothing. We’ve searched for her for months as requested but found nothing until today your mother called me” he said diverting to the hospital route.

“So is it my mother’s doing, she kept a pregnant woman captive and killed her after she birth to the babies?” He said in a questionable tone.

“I already called the team to find out boss,” he said hardened to hit his fingers in his lap in mixed reactions of anger and frustration.

“If my mother killed her and took away the babies, I swear. I will bridge our relationship. She has gotten too far” he said for Simon to swallow hard.

“I don’t think the chairwoman will go that far to hurt her only child boss,” Simon said for Harden to scoff resting his head.

“You know nothing, Simon,” he said and the car slowly stopped moving as it packed at the hospital garage.

Simon opened the car for Harden who stepped out arranging his suit before they walked into the hospital and straight to the morgue ward.

“Welcome Mr Simon” the doctor at the morgue section greeted them as he took them to a cabinet where he dragged it out and a pale red hair came into view. Her body was covered in a white cloth leaving only her face to view.

Harden couldn’t remember the face but the hair color was one thing he was sure of.

“Cause of death?” He coldly ask for the doctor to look at Simon before he swallowed hard and responded.

“Excess Bleeding after birth. We weren’t able to control and stop it so she gave up” he said for Harden to scoff.

“Have you informed her family?” He asked for Simon to respond.

“She has no family record boss, she was an orphan who left the orphanage home at age eighteen. She has no family” he said for Harden to look at him.

“You know all this and you didn’t tell me?” He asked for Simon to swallow hard.

“We’ve checked her background after her death boss. I’m sorry for slacking” he quickly apologized to Harden rubbing his hair frustratedly.

“What’s her name?” He asked for Simon to quickly speak.

“Gabriella,” he said because that was the name of the corpse in their front.

“She deserves a good funeral. She gave her life to birth to a twin to a man she doesn’t know anything about.” Harden finally said for Simon to nod his head.

“Yes boss,” he said for Harden to walk away and Simon nodded at the doctor who pushed the corpse back into the cabinet.

Immediately they entered the car, Harden looked at the window and sighed.

“I still don’t believe that she’s the one in that cabinet.” He said for Simon to fall into silence.

“As long as Martha is involved, everything will be as she wants it but I don’t believe it. Take me back home and reschedule the meeting for another day” he said for Simon to nod as he hit on the accelerator…