Charlotte McCartneyThe tone of Josh's voice and the look on his face was really frightening. “I don't think he has ever been as mad as this with me”, I said to myself. Turning to Josh, I said, after taking a deep breath, “he was saying a lot of things to me that were necessary, unbelievable and equally annoying”, I said, wondering if I should really give Josh the full details. “But if I don't explain it all to him in detail, he would not believe that I did not have a hand in this, so it's best to tell him everything”, I thought deeply. “Unnecessary things like what Charlotte?” Josh asked, just as I was about to tell him about it all.“Unnecessary things like talking about my family. Things that he didn't know. For instance, he was telling me that my grandfather left the company to me and that my mother had been managing it on my behalf because I wasn't old enough to manage it. Meanwhile that's not the truth. Mom has been managing the company on her own not because I couldn't manage
Josh Xavier What Ron said had not left my head since I discharged Charlotte. “It's a good thing she told me”, I mused. “That fool, that bastard wants to take my wife from me. He wants to take my woman from me. When I was in the hospital he succeeded in seducing Whitney. Now that I'm out, he still thinks he can take Charlotte back. He won with Whitney only because I was in a coma. He dares to steal Charlotte from me now? Now that my eyes are open? Now that I can talk? He dares undermine me because of this wheelchair?” I said to myself,deep in thought.“He’s not going to know what hit him. I'll show him. I will show that bastard what it's like when you joke with the wrong person. I thought it was my wife's family trying to deceive me, but Ashley may be a horrible mother but she at least knows to not mess with the wrong people. I'm sure that's why she sent Charlotte to fill in Whitney's position after she dumped me for that imbecile. She of all people must know that you don't joke with
Charlotte McCartney “Mommy do you like flying too?” Kelcie asked, curiously.“I don't know, baby. I've never gone flying before. I don't know if I would like it from up there and I can't tell if I will not like it either. I've heard so many things about flying so I don't know if I would really like it or if I may be a little scared of the distance from the sky to ground level”, I replied, saying even more than I would have said. “I don't know what's been up with me lately, I've been saying more things than necessary”, I said to myself.“What! You have never gone flying? you've never flown anywhere? You have not gone anywhere by air Charlotte?” Josh asked in disbelief and I shook my head. “You spoke about this idea like it was some childish desire of Kelcie's, or some unnecessary expense or should I say irrelevant experience that your little girl was craving. Meanwhile it's something that you yourself haven't even experienced”, Josh said, gazing at me in shock. Kelcie on the other ha
Charlotte McCartney “Hey! Stop there! Where are you going with that bouquet of flowers and box of candy?” The receptionist at the hospital where Josh Xavier had been admitted held my arm.Her grip jolted me to reality. I had been too immersed in my thoughts that I had forgotten to sign in at the entrance.“Oh I'm sorry. My name is Charlotte. I have been here before. I am looking for one of the patients. He was brought in here some weeks ago. The accident victim. His name is Josh Xavier. I brought him these gifts”, I raised the bouquet of flowers as well as the box of candy so she could see it.“And who are you supposed to be?” She examined the flower.“I’m just a friend. My sister is his ex-girlfriend”, I smiled.“So what are you doing here? Please leave here! Don't you know he has been discharged?”She looked ready for a quarrel.TCHHHHHHH!I heard her hissing loudly as I turned to leave. I felt very stupid as I walked away. Why did she have to be so rude? I was there to see a pati
Charlotte McCartneyTired and drowsy, I started the engine of my car and headed home. It had been more than one week since I walked in on my boyfriend Ron and my sister Whitney kissing in the sitting room, and I had still not gotten over the fact that my sister had stolen my boyfriend.I had also not gotten over mom’s reaction when I explained the situation and the stinging slap she gave me for getting angry and making a big deal over Whitney’s relationship with my boyfriend Ron.So everyday for the next one week, I lived like a ghost, avoiding everyone in the house. Luckily I had my job to escape to and my daughter Elsie to distract me. Still Whitney always found a way to rub their relationship in my face. She took Ron everywhere around the house kissing and fondling each other.For some reason Ron was visiting too frequently. I hoped he would have the decency to stay away for a little while but he did not. He and Whitney were constantly acting like two lovebirds, smiling, laughing a
Untitled documentChapter TwoCharlotte McCartneyCharlotte McCartney For your information, in case you are looking for your money, you will not be able to find the money. Your sister and I have removed it from the safe and moved it somewhere else. You can search if you want. You will never find it”, mom said looking at me devilishly.My heart skipped when I heard mom make this shocking revelation. That was all the money I had. The money in my safe which mom and Whitney found and claimed to have kept was not a small amount like mom had said. That was my nine months savings“How did they find the safe? I made sure it was well hidden”, I asked myself feeling very uneasy and my face did nothing to hide my feelings especially with my mouth hanging open as it was.“Why do you look surprised? You didn't think we would find out that you were planning to run away did you?” Whitney asked and laughed like a little demon.“I was not planning to run away with the money. I only hid it there to pr
Charlotte McCartney The morning that I moved to Josh Xavier's mansion marked the beginning of our marriage. I used to have dreams of my wedding to my prince charming when I was a little girl. I would imagine my wedding dress to be as beautiful as Cinderella’s wedding dress and my husband prince charming. But that was before I got pregnant. It was a long, long time before I gave birth to my daughter Kelcie. Even though I loved her and could not imagine life without her, I knew that my life took a new turn when I got pregnant. I could no longer marry Prince Charming or a billionaire. Mom made sure she sang it to me every day. “No billionaire will marry you after what you have done to yourself. Which billionaire wants a woman as trashy as an Afterone?” Mom constantly repeated, referring to me as an Afterone, a name she used to describe women who gave birth to children for men who refused to marry them. In my case, though, I did not know the father of my child, so it seemed worse.Meet
Josh Xavier“Many times bad things happen to us and everyone expects us to get over it quickly and move on with our lives. But it's not always so easy to get over things, nor is it so easy to move on. And it's stupid of anyone to expect that”, I said to myself angrily the morning Charlotte and her daughter, Kelcie arrived.My life was different from what it used to be. Three months ago I was involved in a fatal car accident which changed the course of my life. Everyone who has come to visit me since the accident has expressed how lucky I am to have survived the accident. “But what is the use of being alive if I can never walk again? What sort of man have I become? A handicap? I, Josh Xavier a disabled person ", I said and angrily flung the teacup I was holding out of my hand, smashing it against the wall.I hated my life many times I attempted to kill myself but even that I didn't have the balls to do. “Not this Josh Xavier anyway, the former Josh Xavier though. That one had the ball
Charlotte McCartney “Mommy do you like flying too?” Kelcie asked, curiously.“I don't know, baby. I've never gone flying before. I don't know if I would like it from up there and I can't tell if I will not like it either. I've heard so many things about flying so I don't know if I would really like it or if I may be a little scared of the distance from the sky to ground level”, I replied, saying even more than I would have said. “I don't know what's been up with me lately, I've been saying more things than necessary”, I said to myself.“What! You have never gone flying? you've never flown anywhere? You have not gone anywhere by air Charlotte?” Josh asked in disbelief and I shook my head. “You spoke about this idea like it was some childish desire of Kelcie's, or some unnecessary expense or should I say irrelevant experience that your little girl was craving. Meanwhile it's something that you yourself haven't even experienced”, Josh said, gazing at me in shock. Kelcie on the other ha
Josh Xavier What Ron said had not left my head since I discharged Charlotte. “It's a good thing she told me”, I mused. “That fool, that bastard wants to take my wife from me. He wants to take my woman from me. When I was in the hospital he succeeded in seducing Whitney. Now that I'm out, he still thinks he can take Charlotte back. He won with Whitney only because I was in a coma. He dares to steal Charlotte from me now? Now that my eyes are open? Now that I can talk? He dares undermine me because of this wheelchair?” I said to myself,deep in thought.“He’s not going to know what hit him. I'll show him. I will show that bastard what it's like when you joke with the wrong person. I thought it was my wife's family trying to deceive me, but Ashley may be a horrible mother but she at least knows to not mess with the wrong people. I'm sure that's why she sent Charlotte to fill in Whitney's position after she dumped me for that imbecile. She of all people must know that you don't joke with
Charlotte McCartneyThe tone of Josh's voice and the look on his face was really frightening. “I don't think he has ever been as mad as this with me”, I said to myself. Turning to Josh, I said, after taking a deep breath, “he was saying a lot of things to me that were necessary, unbelievable and equally annoying”, I said, wondering if I should really give Josh the full details. “But if I don't explain it all to him in detail, he would not believe that I did not have a hand in this, so it's best to tell him everything”, I thought deeply. “Unnecessary things like what Charlotte?” Josh asked, just as I was about to tell him about it all.“Unnecessary things like talking about my family. Things that he didn't know. For instance, he was telling me that my grandfather left the company to me and that my mother had been managing it on my behalf because I wasn't old enough to manage it. Meanwhile that's not the truth. Mom has been managing the company on her own not because I couldn't manage
Charlotte McCartney“Hold on baby, mommy needs to get something done really quickly”, I said, as Kelcie and I got into our bedroom.“Okay mommy. Will you be gone for long?” Kelcie asked. “No baby, I will not be long. I just want to get this done very quickly before it's too late”, I answered, flashing her a warm smile.“It's okay mommy I'll wait for you”, my baby said, smiling back at me. I left the room soon after. Leaving the room, I went directly to Josh's room. I wanted to get it to talk to him before he went into the bathroom, because I did not know how long it would take before he came out for breakfast. I did not want the awkwardness that had just occurred between us to happen again when we were having breakfast.“Kelcie is always watching me and she may just notice the silence and inquire about what is going on. I'm not sure I will know what to say to her if she asks about why we are giving each other this silent treatment. There is really no need for that display, so it's b
Charlotte McCartney Kelsey was yet to finish her milkshakes and I had not finished my coffee yet when I saw Josh Xavier through the window. “Does he come out this early every morning? Or is this just a coincidence?” I asked myself, shifting uncomfortably in my chair.“Mommy are you okay?" my Kelcie asked, noticing the discomfort in my face. “I'm fine, my baby. My coffee is just so hot that's why”, I said, lying. I tried to rush through my coffee but it actually turned out to be too hot. So I wasn't really lying anyway, I couldn't rush through my coffee. “I hope he doesn't come into the kitchen now that we are here” I prayed in my mind. Luckily I saw him wheel his chair towards the farm. “It's a good thing Josh isn't coming here I don't have to deal with him right now”, I said to myself, relaxing a little.“He's like that every morning”, Lydia said, following my eye out the window to where Josh had just been. We could still see him through the window. “I didn't know that Lydia was
Charlotte McCartney “Okay mommy the first thing to do when trying to be me is to stand up quietly from the bed so that you don't wake mommy up and quietly sneak out of the room”, Kelcie told me, beginning her lesson “But baby”, I said, “ mommy is awake now. Do we still need to sneak out?” I questioned. “I don't think we should sneak out anymore”, she responded, “because mommy is already awake. But mommy I'm confused now. What should we do?”, she added, looking perplexed.“Why don't we do the first thing we usually do when I wake up with you, then we'll do what you do next?” I asked suggestively. “Okay mommy”, she replied, smiling happily. “That's a good idea mommy. So what's the first thing to do, mommy?” She asked, looking confused again.“The first thing to do is to get off the bed and come give mommy a kiss on her forehead like I always do”, I said, smiling and teasing her. Kelcie responded by jumping off the bed and coming to kiss my forehead “The next thing to do is to go in
Charlotte McCartney I woke up earlier than usual. I'm not even sure I can say I had a proper sleep. My mind kept taking me back to the incident with Ron and how it had all ended. His mangled face gave me nightmares. It had been two days since the incident but it still troubled me. I could still feel his erect manhood on me pressing around my privates.“If not for Josh's timely intervention I don't know what would have happened”, I said to myself as I sat in the dark.“And Josh, after a heroic deed like that, he just had to end it all like a jerk. Why would he accuse me of having a hand in that? What was he trying to insinuate? Is he trying to say that I am cheating on him? why would he even say that?” I asked myself, confused by Josh's accusation. “I know I'm not supposed to be in love with him because of our type of marriage. But he's my husband and I cannot cheat on my husband. I cannot get involved in anything romantic with my ex”, I asserted to myself.“Why would I even do that
Josh Xavier She jumped off as the car stopped moving. She didn't even wait one minute extra, nor did she look in my direction. “What is she thinking about?” I asked myself, surprised. “Char…”, I started to call her name but I stopped. “There is something weird about the way she is behaving. Is she mad at me? Why would she be? If anything, it is I who should be mad at her. She left the hospital for hours only for us to find her and her ex in an awkward position. What am I supposed to think? How was he there anyway? And what for fuck sake was she doing so far away from the hospital?” I asked myself, over and over again.Jason brought my wheelchair to my side of the car and I helped myself out. As I wheeled to the front door, I saw her from a short distance walking fast or running, I could not tell which she was doing. She had entered the mansion so I could no longer see her.“Josh!” Her little girl Kelcie called me in that childish excitement she always had. “Hi Josh” she said, smilin
Josh Xavier “Let go of me. Let me go. Ron you're hurting me let go of me!” A female voice screamed from what seemed like a distance.“Why does that voice sound so familiar? And the name Ron, isn't that the name of that useless ex-boyfriend of my wife Charlotte?” I asked myself as we got closer to the park that the lady from the store talked about earlier. “Let me go Ron! What is the meaning of all these? Let me go!” I heard again, this time the voice was a lot louder. “This is definitely Charlotte's voice. But what is she doing with that degenerate? How are they together?” I asked myself, confused about what to think of what I was hearing.“Hurry Jason, that's Charlotte's voice I hear from a distance. I think she may need our help”, I said without stopping. Jason hastened up, soon they were in front of me. The two of them are in the most awkward position yet. Charlotte was leaning on the wall and Ron was pressing himself over her.“What is going on here?” I was this close to asking