A FAMILY " Dad! Dad! save me Mom is going to kill me," Alexandra shouted as she ran up the stairs to her father like she always does." I've warned you several times not to touch the cookies until it was time to serve them" Each time I baked cookies she always found a way to sneak into the kitchen and disappear with one, she was just like her father. They were a team at taking cookies from the kitchen." Have you seen Alexandra?" I asked Markus who was seated on the bed pretending like he didn't hear me, without even getting his answer I could already see Alexandra hiding behind her father's back." No, I haven't seen her, Why?" Like always, he'll cover for her." So there's no one behind you?" I asked as I started walking slowly to where she was hiding behind her father." So who's this?" I started tickling her through the sheet that she had covering her. She broke into a fit of giggling." Mom stop," " Will you pick cookies again?" " No Mom, Dad save me already," " Okay, okay,"
THE CONTRACTI looked at the contract in front of me thinking about what I was about to sign, to any other person this would have been normal but this was me, I wasn't that type of girl, and this wasn't something I would do, but I didn't have a choice, this was the only way out. I was holding a contract that would sign away all my rights to my child, the child I was yet to conceive. It looked easy when a sexy mouth-watering billionaire presented this idea to me, it was easy, get pregnant, bear him a child, and be on my way. But looking at this contract in front of me I just couldn't bring myself to sign it. It was like giving a life for a life. It was hard. I would have to live for the rest of my life knowing I have a child but not being able to go near him or her, the thought of it was causing me pain, I couldn't bear the thought of my child hating me in the future, he or she would think I abandoned them they wouldn't even know my reason. This was so hard for me to do. With shaky ha
THE HOLLOW FEELING I didn't even wait for the doctor to reach me, I rushed to him. " Doctor, how was it? Is my mom okay? Is she going to be fine now?" I just kept bombarding him with questions, until he told me to calm down. I did my best to, breathing in and out. When I was able to calm down I focused on the doctor now being calm waiting for his feedback. "Miss, for now, everything seems under control, your mother will be under observation until we can promise you that her life is no longer in danger." Not giving me the opportunity to ask more questions he excused himself going back into the surgery room. What did he mean by for now? Is he trying to say he didn't even know if my mom was going to be okay? I couldn't dwell on that, my mom was going to be fine and I know that.My mom was brought out from the surgery room back to her room and the sight of her made me want to cry, she had so many machines on her I couldn't even name, some stuck to her wrist, her mouth, it wasn't a plea
SURROUNDED BUT ALONE"We tried all we could." I didn't want to jump to conclusion when he said that, I wanted to be very sure. "Yes, you tried all you could and?" I asked with my last thread of hope hanging. " Am sorry ma'am, we tried all we could, but she didn't make it, the reports were looking fine until this morning, she lost too much blood and we just couldn't find a match, your blood donation wasn't enough, am very sorry." He said before walking off like he was used to this kind of thing happening. Of course, he was used to it, he was a doctor after all. I collapsed to the floor, thinking of how alone I was in this world. I couldn't accept the fact that she was gone, it was hard for me, I did so much, and I tried my best. Why didn't everything work out in the end, did I do someone wrong? was I paying for that crime?This was all much. I broke out In a sob as the door to the surgery room opened up with the bed that carried my mom alive bringing her out lifeless. Life was cruel. I
MOVING INWhen we got to the house, I opened my door and stepped out. At that moment I wanted to be alone, not to cry, I was strong, and I kept repeating that to myself. "Please show me my room." It was stated in the contract that we weren't engaged in any romantic affair, I wasn't to expect anything like we were in some sort of relationship, our relationship was strictly based on whatever was contained in the document, one of which was that I shouldn't expect that we share a room. We weren't married, he didn't want a wife."Show her to her room." He said to one of the maids who came out as soon as our vehicle came to a stop. She just nodded and told me to follow her which I did without any complaint. When we stopped at a door she opened it for me and asked if I needed any other thing which I told her no that I wanted to be alone. I got into the room and noticed that my things were already settled there and some things that didn't look like mine but fit well in the room, I guess they
NO STRINGS ATTACHEDI shouldn't be feeling how I felt but I couldn't help it. Markus made it clear that we weren't in any kind of relationship, but I couldn't help but feel stupid, he could do what he wanted and I couldn't till I had given him a child. Watching him lay with another woman moved strings in my heart that weren't supposed to move. This is why he didn't even care to come to me, he was having his way with other women, he didn't care if I was sulking or not, he just knew I would always be there when he liked because I didn't have a choice.I picked up whatever dignity I had left and rushed back to my room. As soon as I got in, I locked the door and got myself into my bed. I don't know why I am acting like a woman who just caught her husband cheating. Markus isn't my husband, I have no rights over him. I finally fell asleep after much turning and tossing.When I woke up the next morning I felt like a ghost so I needed something to brighten up my day and that was baking. It wa
The bitchy guest I threw the whole coffee on her, I didn't care that it was hot, my temper was beyond hot. To say she was shocked was an understatement, was she really expecting me to drink that coffee? Something she spat in, she must be high on something if she thought I would do that." You bitch! Do you want to burn my skin?" She asked in anger as she stood up and made an attempt to grab me but I held her hand to stop her…" Don't you even dare, if you touch me, you'll have more than coffee dripping down your body, mark my words." She groaned in pain as she turned to Markus to come save her, I totally forgot he was in the room." Let her go." That just made me more angry as I let go of her without her knowledge and she landed on the chair and almost toppled over. I looked at them one last time in disgust before I walked out on themI got into my room and locked the door, I didn't want to be disturbed. They didn't even let me settle into my bed before I heard the door knob twist bu
Not ready" What are you doing here?" I asked him as I quickly tried to close the door but he blocked me and welcomed himself into my room. " Are you forgetting this is my house?" He slurred as he walked further into the room. He was drunk? Did I even need to ask, he wasn't steady on his feet. What if he did something to me? Or worse, force himself on me." This is your house but you've given me this part as my room which means this section is mine and I decide who enters." I tried to reason with him. " Come here my sweetheart, come let me get you pregnant." I shouldn't care about the endearment but I felt my heart soften when he called me sweetheart. He was a drunk man and didn't even know what he was doing. If he was in his normal sense he would never be doing what he was doing." You're drunk, you need to leave."" Don't fucking tell me what to do!" He suddenly roared in anger as he stood up from where he sat on my bed making his way towards me, I was suddenly engulfed in fear, t