"You could catch a cold," he was pulling his jacket off with his free hand and handing it to me. "Take it."
"I'm already wet, I'll just soak it regardless." I sighed."Where are you headed?" He asked."Home but the bus isn't here snd I'm just trying to find somewhere warm to wait by. I wanted to ask him why he was here or what he was doing but I decided against it, not wanting to come off as too inquisitive."I can take you to my place." It seemed he had figured I did not want him knowing where I stayed. On the one hand, it was a good idea to get me warm and out of this hell of a place but on the other hand, I was trying to heal from him not add salt to my wounds.He took my hand before I could respond, "You're coming with me, you're not going to fall sick under my watch." If only he knew what holding my hand was doing to my body, he would refrain from so doing.I didn't bother to argue, I just went with him, craving for warmth mIt wasn't a dream when I woke up tge next day.Frank planted a gentle kiss on my forehead and it felt like the past two months had not even happened. It was when my phone beeped where it was on the bed that I snapped to my feet.It was Ed."Where on earth are you?" He called."Good that you care now, even though I was literally gone the whole night." I rolled my eyes."I tried to call you but it wouldn't connect. I was worried but glad to hear that you're fine." He said and clicked his tongue."I'll be home in the matter of a few minutes, make breakfast for me." I called into the phone and then hung up."Is that a new boyfriend?" Frank said from where he was sitting beside me."Maybe," I decided to tease him, "why would you care?""I don't." He shrugged one shoulder, "we are nothing but friends with benefits, at this point, we are not even friends. Just with benefits."That caused my heart to s
I didn't stop to think as I left the house, driving on full speed to the hospital. I kept glancing at my phone to see if I had missed any calls that could tell me she had been identified, and was alive."Sir!" A nurse called behind me as I ran towards the emergency room of the hospital. She was coming after me but I didn't care. All I wanted was to see Jane safe.She was backed up by two security men that managed to catch up with me. "Sir you can't go in there." Ohe of them held my sleeve."You don't get it, I need to find out if she is okay! Let me go you motherfuckers." I was panting heavily, fear overwhelming me."I'll deal with it on your behalf." The nurse assured me. I tried my best to stay calm. I didn't want to be sent away from the hospital and not be able to see her."Okay fine, I just want to know if she's fine. Her name is Jane..." I paused, realising that I never bothered to ask her what her last name ever was and then I'd
Jane On the drive to my place, Frank would not stop peaking at me every chance he got. It was like he was expecting me to have disappeared."Frank if you don't pay attention to the road, you might as well get us involved in another accident." I said, actually worried. The accident had done to me things I didn't think I was ever going to overcome. "I'm sorry, I just wanted to be sure that you were doing fine." He said. I had inputed my address so he knew where to drive to.Ed was home when we got there and he looked between Frank and I and his eyes went wide when he finally noticed what condition I seemed to be in."What happened to you?" He opened the door wider, moving aside so we could go in. Frank looked around, taking the place in."Did you not watch the news at all?" I rolled my eyes. I hated the times when Ed seemed so disconnected from the world."I did but what does that have to do with you?" He blinked, still
My jaw dropped. His eyes were fixed on me and I couldn't help but look at everything else in the room except from Frank. He was waiting for me to say something and it wasn't that I don't like Frank, of course I do but his question threw me away. Being a girlfriend meant being fully committed to the relationship. I didn't have a problem with it but I wasn't sure if I was ready and we still had a lot to know about each other."Jane?" Frank called, causing me to flinch out of my thoughts. "I'm sorry if that was so impromptu, fuck me, now isn't a good time to ask, you just had the accident and I didn't even let you heal, I..." he was blabbing on when I cut him short with a kiss.He closed his eyes, held my chin and drew his body closer to mine, sucking on my upper lip as delicately as possible. We pulled away with a simultaneous sigh of relief."That felt so good." I nodded, "yes Frank I'll be your girlfriend."And just like that, once more, I was of
"Funny I bump into you here." She chuckled as I let go of her, "thanks for saving me." She said and put her hair up in a rough ponytail. "What are you doing here?""I'm here for an interview, what are you doing here?" I raised an eyebrow, certain she wasn't into construction."You are? My brother owns the firm," she shrugged, "I'm not a full time therapist anyway so I come here most of the time and just hang out until I'm called upon again." Jamie informed me."Oh wow, that's interesting." I nodded. "What job are you here for anyway? I could put in a few words for you, a thank you for saving my life." She winked at me, "I didn't get your name yet.""Frank. And that would be really appreciated." He wanted more construction wirkers and was going to pay eight thousand a month, that was four thousand biweekly and I could really use that. Bee would move back in and Jane wouldn't feel so bad about what had happened with Neil."Alright
Jane and I jerked away from each other as though whoever was knocking had managed to come in. Jane jumped down from the counter while I picked my pants off the floor, "did you order something?" I asked her with a raised eyebrow because I wasn't expecting anyone."No." She shook her head, casually returning to her cooking while I went to answer the door for whoever it was."Who is it?" I wondered."Jamie." She called back. Jane and I exchanged confused looks but I proceeded to open the door."I didn't know we had a therapy session today." Jane came forward, "you said to call you if I needed you." She said."Yeah that was supposed to be the case but we had news that one of our clients did something to harm herself especially after assuring her therapist multiple times that she was doing fine so we were all given orders to check up on the patients, so here I am." Jamie explained herself putting her bag on the couch."Oh, well you r
Jane didn't even waste time thinking about it, she just turned on her heels and was ready to leave. I pushed Jamie, not caring that she fell and hit her head. I went after Jane who was leaving the house. I held her wrist, yanking her back and holding her shoulders tight, "Jane no." I shook my head fast, "you know I wouldn't.""That's the thing, I don't know, I don't know you that well Frank, fuck, why would I let this happen to me?" She looked away fron my eyes and my heart sunk when I saw that her eyes were filled with tears she was trying so hard to hold back.She brushed herself away from my grip and left the room.I wanted to go after her but then I saw Jamie trying to get up after somehow managing to recover herself. With clenched fists, I went to her side, knowing it would be hard to control myself from hurting this homewrecker.Why would you fucking kiss me? What was that supposed to be about? This would rid you of your license when I repo
JaneI blinked, trying to process his words but I couldn't make sense of it. My heartbeat escalated, "I don't understand." This was his chance to laugh and play it off and say it was nothing but a joke but he wore that smile again, the one where you coild tell that there was definitely something wrong."I have some stupid stuff called emphysma, don't worry I'm not dying anytime soon." He chuckled, "we will grow old and gray together." He held my hands to assure me, "i just want someone who will be a grandmother to Bianca's children for me. Come on, don't look so worried, you might have gotten bored of me before we are that old." I knew he was trying to make me feel better but it wasn't doing anything to make me feel better."What's that mean?" I referred to the condition he had said."It's a lung disease that doesn't go away." He shrugged."And what are you doing to treat it?""Health care isn't free in America, babe.""
I reread the same line over again, waiting for something to change. It wasn't possible that I was pregnant. I wanted to scream but I couldn't find my voice and I didn't even feel as bothered as I thought I'd feel.For some reason it felt like fate had intentionally played this card. Now I felt like I had another purpose. I never thought I'd be ready to carry a child but I felt satisfied even knowing it belonged to Frank. I had someone of my own to raise and love the way I wanted to.This meant that I needed to plan my life out as best as I could and as quickly as possible.I needed to hire my team and grow the millions I had in my bank account. If I spent too long, I would end up exhausting all that cash without making anything from it.Suddenly all my headache was gone and nothing mattered to me except Frank, I didn't want to bump into him at any time soon. I wanted him far away from my life and I couldn't even trust anyone at this point.I was going to work on leaving the country, s
Getting to the ground floor and not minding all the stares that came with me running through the hallway, I waved the driver over. I knew it would take a good while before the elevator got to him again and he surely wouldn't want to embarrass himself by running after me in nothing but his boxers, knowing how well news spread like wild fire especially since everyone was interested in knowing what was happening to the Marcello brand after his death."Just take me home." I directed the driver. My head was fuming hot and a terrible headache had formed where my thoughts had been surrounded by what had just happened."Can you fucking drive any faster?" I groaned when I realised how slow he was being."Yes ma'am." He nodded and increased the speed. In this moment, I couldn't think about anything or anyone, not even Bianca even though at the back of my mind, I wished I could have taken her with me, she must have been so scarred to witness what had just occurred.I didn't wait for the driver t
When Frank left for work I decided to check on Bianca in her room where I knew she would be sitting on the bed with her iPad and her messy hair."Hey baby what's up?" I called after knocking and going in, closing the door behind me."Don't you have work to be at?" She rolled her eyes at me barely looking up from her iPad.I sat beside her on the edge of the bed, look baby girl I know you're upset but trust me dad is only trying to do what is best for us for you especially and on the bright side I decided to take today off working just so we could spend some time together so why don't you get yourself cleaned up and you and I just have some girl time." I spoke in an excited tone with hope that she would match my energy.I heaved a sigh, "Bianca you can't stop talking to me, OK what do you want to do?""I just want attention from my father is that too much to ask for, I'm just a child and he spends every single day of his life working and he doesn't listen to anything I want he thinks th
"Morning babe." I stretched, sitting up in bed. It had been three months since Marcello died and that meant it had been three months since I'd been sleeping in this room every night but I was still yet to get used to the luxury of our bedroom. It still marveled me every single morning."Morning." Frank called back in a lazy voice, groaning as he said my name. He swung his arm around me as though we had nowhere to go.I gently slid his hand away and got to my feet, "come on babe, get up, we have places to be." I was attempting to move away when he held my wrist and forced me back down to the bed."Frank!" I chuckled at his behaviour.He opened his eyes and tried to settle himself on top of me. "Not even a little morning kiss.""Ew, your breath stinks." I said, dodging his kiss. When he leaned away from me, I planted a soft kiss on his lips and got to my feet, "you know we can't be lste for work." He groaned his disapproval and lazily got to his feet. I offered him a small smile, "come
"Frank!" I yelled on top of my voice knowing I should leave to go get help but also not wanting to leave a hurt mam by himself. There was no way Frank would hear me even if I kept screaming on top of my lungs.I tried to help Marcello sit on the floor. He was still coughing hard and his nose bleed was worsening. "Just sit right here, I'll be back in a second." My chest rose and fall as I turned to leave and get help.Frank and Bianca were laughing over something by the time I showed up. They turned to look at me and when they saw the panic on my face, Frank left her side to stand by me, "Hey, are you okay? Did he do something to you?" He ran his eyes all over me to find an anomaly. I wished that was honestly the case."No," I shook my head fast, "Marcello, he's hurt." I swallowed and left his side.Frank hurried with me to the room where Marcello was and by the time we got there, he was unconscious, sprawled across the floor with blood streaming dow
"Frank, what are we going to do?" I panicked internally. Frank was immediately stepping into action while I wondered what it was I could do to help. Two masked men had gotten into the car with us, "keep your hands where we can see them!" One of them bellowed on top of his voice.My only fear in that moment was Bianca. Although she was still asleep, I feared she would wake up to something that could possibly traumatise her for quite a while.Frank and I looked at each other and the men that had been helping us with driving and we were going to raise our hands when our driver suddenly pulled a gun out.My eyes went wide and he assured us with a scared look plastered on his face, "I'll handle this."The masked men seemed frightened in their countenance even though we could not see their reactions. My heart skipped knowing that these men had been driving with a gun this whole time but it did come off in handy now.It worked in our f
"How did that happen?" I panicked internally. I had not been settled when he had said he got that disturbing call and so soon she was gone."I don't know, I can't make any sense of it. I don't know if she went with someone but none of her teachers can place a knowledge of her whereabouts." Frank was starting to lose his breath. I feared that he would lose control and pass out. "Frank just calm down...""How can I? What's the poing of anything I'm doing then?" He snapped at me. I took no offense because I knew we were faced with a much deeper problem."Who else could have come for her?" I tried to see the positive to the situation rather than jumping to unhealthy conclusions."No one." His hands were trembling by now, no one else could have.""Not Celine?" I asked hopeful. "Not without asking me first." He shook his head."Come on let's ask her first." My heart was racing because I didn't know if she was actu
Frank and I took our seats and Frank didn't seem to notice the tension that was currently building between his supposed father and I."I know you were probably expecting me to come alone but sir, this is Jane." He pointed to me. I guessed he wasn't yet ready to use father son terms to regard him."Nice to meet you Jane." Marcello kept his composure but it was evident how uncomfortable he was with my presence. "Who is Jane to you?" He regarded Frank. I had not noticed that he was this man when I was browsing him through the Internet but seeing him in person certainly broke the crack."This is my girlfriend." Frank sounded proud of the fact and that was my first assurance. Frank knew what my background was and he had still stayed with me."Girlfriend?"Frank noticed now what was wrong. "Yes is there a problem?" He wondered. "I actually wanted to talk to you about a very disturbing call I received last night." He brought his phone out and sc
"Want me to make you some tea?" I asked Jane when it was night time and we had settled in. She was still gloomy and I didn't blame her."No thanks.""You haven't eaten all day, come on, you don't want to starve yourself do you?" I sighed. The Jane I knew would have celebrated what was happening wuth me in regards to Marcello but she didn't evenhen mention it once."What's the point of it, its not going to bring Ed back." She shook her head."Ed wouldn't have wanted this." I tried to pitch in an argument. "The Ed I know would not mind. He'd rather I suffered the consequences of my actions so I'd know not to do it next time, too bad he's gone." She laughed sarcastically. With a sigh, I gave her a gentle kiss on her forehead and exited the room "but if you need anything don't hesitate to fall."I joined Bianca in the ljving room."She's not joining in for Boys first?' She gave me a pitiful look and I shook my he