THE GAME " You can do it, Markus, you're almost there," I shouted as I encouraged Markus who looked like wearing a baby diaper was equivalent to being in front of a battlefield. He has worn the diaper on the doll like five times and each time he was unsuccessful." How do people even do all these?" He groaned as he removed the diaper for the sixth time.Looking at all the men, Mark was the only one who got a hang of what he was doing so fast, the remaining men, well I didn't know if I could call that wearing a baby diaper or wrapping trash. It was a funny sight." You're running out of time guys," The instructor said as she looked at her wristwatch. I would have helped Markus but one of the rules was for us to sit and watch, and that was exactly what I did." This is ridiculous, how am I supposed to do this?" He sighed, dropping the doll and diaper." You seem to find enjoyment in watching me suffer," " How do you mean my dear? It's just a baby diaper," Markus finally focused on w
THE BABY IS COMING We just had a repeat of what the men did and to my surprise, some women didn't know how to change a baby diaper. The men used the opportunity to payback to the women for laughing at them, it was so much fun.When we were done with repeating what the men did the instructor came to give a final decision of who won." So guys, who do you think won? She asked as she looked between the men and women." Is it team dads or team moms?" She asked and the men shouted team dads while the women shouted team moms." Okay I'm gonna have to give this to the dads," She announced and the men shouted in victory, I'm sure she did that not to make them feel bad because seriously I didn't see what they did.The rest of the camp was fun with so many activities, we went to the beach, visited the mall and oh did I tell you that all this was in Paris. We learned a lot of things about parenting and I was grateful to Markus for bringing me here. I was too busy having fun to think of anyone
THE PAIN " It hurts, it hurts so much," Jane moaned in pain as I carried her as fast as I could down the stairs." Hold on, hold on I got you," I opened the car door and slowly put Jane inside the car. " Hurry! drive us to the hospital, quick!" I said to the driver as I got into the car staying behind with Jane. I needed to be beside her for this.The driver started the car and drove us out of the mansion heading for the hospital.As soon as we got to the hospital a stretcher was brought by the hospital team as they carried Jane and placed her on it then they took her into the labor ward with me following closely beside her.Jane was in pain and it wasn't the type I could share in. I could only watch her moan and groan in pain but could do nothing about it.Jane was put on the hospital bed and I tried my best not to show my worry, if I couldn't take away her pain I could at least show her that I was strong, she had my support.The atmosphere was thick with anticipation only that wha
END OF THE DEAL" What do you mean you'll have to cut her?" I asked the nurse, already getting angry. The current situation made me anxious, and I wouldn't tolerate anyone who tried to do anything that would annoy me further." Calm down Sir, this is the best option, we'll need to cut her because as a first-time mom, she's very tight which is preventing the child from coming out and causing her a lot of pain," The nurse tried to explain to me." We don't have time to explain this in detail to you but know that your wife isn't in danger," She said as she turned back to Jane, I looked at Jane who had her eyes tightly shut in pain, for God's sake this should be over already.Jane screamed as she threw her head back. I had to hold her so she didn't carelessly throw herself from the bed.". Just a few more darling, it wouldn't be long now," I just watched everything, time seemed to stretch as the intensity of the moment heightened. Beads of sweat glistened on Jane's forehead, I wanted thi
HIS TRUE COLOR" What do you mean by I'm glad you kept your end of the deal?" I asked Markus as my heart pounded in my ribcage, I didn't understand what he was trying to say." Did you forget you signed a contract?" Markus asked and suddenly the whole world became quiet, I didn't want to believe what I was hearing." Markus, what are you trying to say? if this is a joke you need to stop it." " Why would I want to joke? Do I look like a man who invests his time for nothing?" Markus asked with spite in his voice, suddenly going back to the old Markus I knew." Markus this isn't funny," I said as I folded my arms and glared at him." Funny?" He laughed as he stood up." Jane, you don't seem to understand me do you?" He asked as he brought out a paper from his pocket." Contract agreement between Jane Williams and Markus Arthur." He read and my heart stopped." Did you forget that you signed a contract to give me a child?" He asked with a smirk." But.. but.." I stammered not being able
A MOTHER'S PAIN " Markus!! Markus," I heard Jane call and I squeezed my eyes in annoyance, what more did she want?" Markus," She called again before my office door came open and she walked in.Her eyes looked red and swollen like she had been crying for hours, I couldn't care less, not even when my heart was squeezing at the sight, it was just a moment of weakness, I'd seen her face smiling for months I wasn't used to seeing her like this." What do you want Jane? More money?" At my question, she closed her eyes like she was in pain." I want to ask you this question and I want you to answer me truthfully,"" Go on I'm listening to you," I said as I dropped the pen I was holding and looked at her." Look me in the eyes and tell me everything was just fake to you, I need to hear you say that," What more did she want to hear?" Do you want to break your already broken heart? I asked her with a raised brow." Just do it," " Fine if you say so," I stood up from where I sat and turned a
LEAVING HER CHILD I took out just the things I came here with, I didn't want to touch anything Markus got for me, it would just serve as a painful reminder of what happened to me.I didn't want to leave, I was feeling so much pain in my heart, I felt like I was going to die.I didn't even know how to start fighting this type of battle, there was proof that I signed the surrogacy form and to add more pain to my already bleeding heart Markus had everything to fight me. Money, power.I didn't want this. Tears gathered in my eyes and I didn't even bother wiping them, I'd been crying for days, and I didn't think I had any tears left to cry.I zipped the bag and brought it down from the bed and I started dragging it to the door, with my inside feeling lifeless.As I reached the door, it came open to reveal Rena, who looked so sad that I wished I could force a smile on my face to encourage a smile of hers but I couldn't, I couldn't bring myself to smile." Are you sure you don't want me to
THE EMPTY FEELING The moment I stepped home, I felt like something was missing, I shouldn't be feeling like this, this was what I wanted right? Because it was the right thing to do.Women are all the same, they'll make you fall in love with them and then they'll abandon you. I don't want my dear Alexandra to go through the same thing I went through. First, my mother left me, and then the second woman in my life I gave my heart to. What was the guarantee that the third woman wouldn't do the same thing? I couldn't risk that. I didn't want to even find out again, I was better off without her, and so was my daughter.The first thing I did was go up to my daughter's room. I've missed her the whole day. I just wanted to be near her." Welcome sir," The nanny said as she saw me, standing up from where she was seated. I had instructed her to take good care of my daughter, she knew what I was capable of if anything happened to my girl." Hi princess," I smiled down at my little princess as I
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,"
DEATH " Please I'll do anything, just let me know where my daughter is," I said to her hoping she wouldn't end the call. I didn't recognize the voice of the lady speaking." Listen to me carefully," She said and I nodded then realizing she couldn't see me I spoke." Yes, I'm listening." " Don't you try any funny business, if you do, your daughter dies." I heard crying in the background as if they were trying to emphasize their point." I'll do whatever you say, as long as you give me my daughter," " Okay, I'm going to send you an address, make sure you come alone, no police, just you," " No funny business, I swear," I said, trying to plead with her." I'm glad we have an understanding, because I'm sure my tigers wouldn't mind munching on her little flesh," My heart skipped, I couldn't dare imagine the image of tigers feasting on my baby.The phone suddenly got disconnected at the same time Rena opened the door.I almost forgot I was warned not to tell anyone the information I had
THE STRANGE CALLERJane has refused to talk to anyone even after she woke up. We were now home. I had to call the doctor to come check up on her and he confirmed that she was okay. What was happening to her was all because of the shock.She has refused to eat, no matter how many times or what type of food was brought to her.The last thing she said was I want my baby. After that, she refused to speak.Now I was trying to get her into the house. She wouldn't listen, she had been sitting and waiting in front of the house." Jane, let's go inside, please this isn't going to help with finding Alexandra, I can't focus on you like this please," She finally listened as she grudgingly stood up and walked past me not uttering a single word.I sighed as I turned to go inside but stopped when I noticed someone walking towards the house." You've got to be kidding me," I muttered as my eyes shot daggers at him." What do you think you're doing here?" " I'm not here to see you, I'm here for my fr
KIDNAPPED The world around me became dark, everything around me was covered in darkness like I was being cast a spell. Alexandra wasn't in her room, she wasn't with Markus then where was she?" Ma'am, ma'am," I felt someone shaking me but my mind was too clouded. The person didn't stop which made me eventually come back to my senses." Alexandra, Alexandra," That was the first thing I said as soon as I realized myself and remembered my situation." Go! Go! Tell the security to search the whole house, search everywhere, my daughter is in this house," I said as the maid quickly kicked into action.If I found out Markus was playing some silly games with me I swear I was going to chop off his balls.I went to Alexandra's room to search for her, for all I knew she might be in her room.I opened the door and rushed to her bed but she wasn't there. Alexandra was still a baby, she couldn't sit or crawl, I would have concluded that she crawled from my room to hers but she couldn't. Even if sh
MISSING CHILDI have never pushed someone with so much force the way I just pushed Markus, I didn't know where the power came from." How dare you? What gave you the right to think you could touch me?!" I yelled in anger." What? Do you think you could just throw me and pick me however you want? I'm not your toy, the next time you think of ever touching me, know that you might lose an organ and I will not be held responsible." I was beyond angry and I needed to calm myself before I did something stupid.Markus was looking at me with shock in his eyes as if he couldn't believe what just happened, did he expect me to run into his arms like a woman in heat? He's got to be kidding me.Without sparing him another glance I ran upstairs. Did he think that just because he had the power to tell me not to see my daughter he could blackmail me and make me do whatever he wanted?I'm a changed woman, he changed me.I opened Alexandra's room and she was sleeping so I quietly walked to her. She had
ANGER KISS I stood in front of his house as I scanned my eyes around, well it was a beautiful building, I had no grudge against his house, I was just here for him.I rang the doorbell and not up to a minute the door came open. I was sure he wasn't expecting me, maybe Jane.The look on his face told me he would rather speak to pigs than spend a minute of his time talking to me." What are you doing here?" He asked with a hard voice, I didn't care if he was sad or happy to meet me." Well is that how you welcome the father of your friend's child?" His jaw ticked but he didn't say a word. I knew what I was doing. I wanted to let him know that whatever happy ending story he had about Jane in his head needed to be wiped. I had the upper hand here. I have the child Jane is in love with and it's just because I don't want her to hate me more than she already does I would have told her that my condition is for her to stop seeing this man." I didn't invite you here, so you might as well go b
NOT FRIENDS I looked at Markus like he had gone mad, he was looking for another way to hurt me. A few days ago Markus didn't want me near my child, so why did he want me back in the mansion? With what had happened between us I had to be very careful, he couldn't be trusted anymore because once bitten twice shy." How is this of benefit to you?" I asked because he definitely had a reason why he was doing this that he was not telling me." This is for my child, you were right, I shouldn't separate you from her just because I didn't want you, she should have her mom," Was I dreaming? Markus agreeing with me on something was something I never pictured even in a thousand years. This was all too good to be true." So what you're trying to say is I can see Alexandra whenever I want, like even right now?" I asked, if what he was saying was true I might as well go see my daughter now." Yes," I didn't need more convincing, I stood up, picked up my handbag, and left. As long as nobody was sto
ANOTHER DEAL Without thinking I rushed to him and threw a punch at him." Markus!" I heard Jane shout but I was ready with my second punch to land on his stupid face but fortunately for him someone stopped me." Fucking bastard, you've refused to stay out of my business," I said with anger boiling inside of me. Jane rushed to him as she took her kerchief from her bag to clean the blood that was on the side of his lips. The sight didn't sit well with me." Markus, what is wrong with you? Why do you want to hurt me so much? First my child, now you're hurting my friends too, what did I ever do to you?" Jane asked with tears forming in her eyes." Jane it's okay, there's no need to cry I'm okay there's nothing to worry about," I watched in agony as the Hardin guy brought his hand to clean Jane's tears. I fisted my hands trying to control myself or else I was going to start punching him till his face was covered in blood.I promised Jane that I would always wipe her tears, I didn't like h
THE COURTROOM I was standing in front of the courtroom dreading going inside, stepping into this room meant I had officially given them the power to decide over my daughter, I didn't know what decision they were going to make. But I was scared.With all the willpower I had I opened the door and stepped in. Hardin wanted to come with me but I told him not to, he didn't like the idea but for my sake, he just had to agree.As I entered the courtroom surprisingly Markus was already in the room with my baby girl held in his arms. Our eyes locked for a moment before I broke the contact. I didn't want to look at him, it was just a painful reminder of what had happened between us, what he made happen.I took my seat as we awaited the case to start.Soon enough I was asked to move to the front where I would stand to answer some questions, if necessary. The judge entered the courtroom and everyone rose. My heartbeat increased and my palm started sweating, this was really happening." This cou