Sasha walked down the stairs the next morning, she could hear Chris babbling and knew he was already up, she made her way to the kitchen where his voice was coming from only to hear a squeal. She looked up at Hannah who was crying and smiling at the same time, “you are back ma’am, at last.”
“How are you Hannah?” Sasha asked softly.
“I’m fine now ma’am, Chris has missed you.”
Sasha smiled and bent to her son who was already reaching out to her, there was a big smile on his face and her eyes watered, she had missed him, oh God she has but she always hold herself anytime she wanted to give in to going home and see him. Vanessa had brought him to her last week, a day before Michael returned, she had said that he was calling out for his mother even though he couldn’t speak clearly.
She picked him up and kissed his head, breathing in his scent, the scent that always leave her refreshed, “oh my da
NOTICE: I carried out a lot of research for this chapter even before I started the story but I know it might not be enough, so if you find any loopholes do bear with me and don’t hesitate to let me know and give me your corrections, I will appreciate any gotten from you. Thank you for reading.____________________________“What?” Sasha screamed when she heard the detectives, “you can’t be serious.”“I am very serious ma’am, Mr. Newton has awakened and he testified to your husband being the one that shot him,” Hale answered while Miller was cuffing Michael’s
It’s been a month since the issue with the police. Malcolm didn’t let Craig’s issue go neither did Michael and he ended up being sentenced to eight years in prison for rape, three years for blackmailing and four years for threat. That was a total of fifteen years in prison.Everything was back to normal except for Sasha’s and Michael’s relationship, although it wasn’t as bad as their first marriage but it wasn’t good either. Michael was yet to start talking freely with her, although he joins her for breakfast in the morning and dinner at night, but it was always strained. She had resumed work a week after the case to keep herself busy in order to avoid thinking too much and harming her baby. Deep inside her heart, she knew she was still hiding something from Michael and that fact was reminded to her every time she looks at her growing belly. She was four months pregnant and the thought that the baby could not be her husband’s still gives her sleepless nights and she doesn’t know how t
“If you don’t hurry up, we are going to be late honey,” Michael said, pushing open the door, he paused and stared at the woman in front of him in appraisal, “my my, what a nice touch up you have there honey,” he smiled, loving what he was seeing.Sasha turned from the mirror to look at him, she sighed and pouted, “you are just saying that to make me feel better. Just take a look at me, my cheeks are so fat, I don’t even have a nice shape in this lovely gown of mine and to make it worse, you don’t even allow me to wear stilettos.”Michael marched closer to her, he cupped her cheeks in his hands and placed a light feathered kiss on her lips, “you look perfect, no woman is going to amount to you today, you will see.”“You are only saying that to make…”“No I’m not,” he interrupted, “you are beautiful honey. Besides you are pregnant, nine months gone actually, and still looking as sexy as ever. I don’t want you to stand on heels because I don’t want you to hurt yourself. We have gone over
ExcerptMichael,I don’t know how you are going to take this but I will have to say it. I have been unhappy, very unhappy. I don’t know what I did or where I went wrong but you have been hurting me. I try to live with it, like it is all a phase and it would stop soon, it would go away soon but it just keep getting worse. Why won’t you trust me? Why are you finding it hard to believe a word I say? I know I hurt you by lying to you five years ago but that was then Michael, I vowed not to do that again but it seemed that even though you have said that you have forgiven me, you haven’t actually forgotten and you judge me by my past mistake and it’s hurting me, Michael, it’s depressing me.I have been seeing a therapist and she advised me to do this, said it will help us both. I am not leaving you Michael, but I am going away for a while. If you can’t handle the kids please take them to any of our mothers, I will only be gone for a while. I figure we both need a break, especially you; you
Michael drove into his property and parked in front of his garage, not in the mood of driving in. He watched from his rearview mirror how the automatic gate closes and sighed. It was such a tiring day at work and he could feel his head exploding with the news Gary just provided him with and the question was still eating him up, who is responsible, who could it be? He groaned softly and ran his fingers in his head tiredly before reaching for his briefcase and stepping down from the car. He locked the car with the remote and walked to the front porch, climbing up the stairs tiredly. In front of his front door, he heaved a deep sigh and put on a smiling face for his family before pushing open the door to see his daughter running up the stairs and turned at the sound of the door opening.“Daddy’s home,” Sapphire shouted running back down the stairs and Michael placed his briefcase on the floor and squatted down with his arms open wide for her to run into. He picked her up with a little la
Days passed and Sasha would be a liar if she said she doesn’t notice the change in Michael. And even though she tries not to let it affect her, she was really afraid of him going back to how he was three years ago. It had been hard to get Michael to stop worrying about her after the Craig incident, he was always in doubt of where she was going and always believe that she was lying to him. It hurt her because she knew she was responsible and that she broke him with her lies, she could still remember their last encounter in his family house that finally got him to change.Three years ago:Michael parked in front of his parents mansion, Sasha was sitting beside him but she had said nothing all through the ride. He sighed and asked again for the tenth time, “are you okay?” and as always, she responded with a nod which was a clear sign that she was not okay. They both climbed out of the car and entered the house. Vanessa was smiling while holding the twenty months old Sapphire.“You are he
Sasha parked in front of the Blues, she started contemplating if she had done the right thing, maybe she should have called the girls and tell them she can’t make it. The last thing she wants is to give Michael more reasons not to trust her and to think that tonight was so similar to the night it all started, the night everything changed. She had lied going to a girls night out that night and tonight she went on a girls night out but for real this time. Will she blame Michael if he thinks she is lying? But she had been going out with her girls before so why would tonight be different? Except for Michael going back to how he was three years ago, things were perfectly normal.What did she do wrong that cracked him up again? What could she have said? She knows she had not gone out on a date without him around or without her friends or even their parents, so what exactly went wrong? The blaring of her ringtone woke her up from her thoughts and she sighed and brought out her phone from her
Sasha stopped in front of a newspaper stand and bought the morning papers, scanning through the front page, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing, when did it happen? How come she doesn’t know of this? She glanced at the date and found out that it has been on the news for the past two weeks, the date struck her. That was the period Michael started acting up and then within a few short seconds, she finally figured it out after putting two and two together. No wonder he changed, no wonder he went back to stalking her, doubting her. It turned out this was the news and he didn’t tell her? He hid it from her and he punished her in the process.Anger boiled inside her and she couldn’t take it as she started her car and drove with one destination in mind: Brown’s Empire.As she drove into the building, she parked at the lot and grabbing the morning papers, she climbed out of the car. She stepped into the reception and all eyes turned on her before, “Good afternoon, Mrs. Brown,” started ra