I wanted to tell her I loved her before I drove off. But then when I thought of my actions of recent, I decided that it would sound like a lie to her ears. I replayed our conversation in my mind every now and then. She said she would leave if I cheated and I promised I would tell her if I ever did something stupid. What that meant was that I was going to be the cause of my own undoing. If there was anything I feared, it was the thought of losing Ariana. It scared me more than the thought of losing my own life. At least if I died she would have a more peaceful life despite how heartbroken she would be. Why did this have to be so hard? ~~~ How a couple of weeks rolled into a couple of months, I would never understand. It all happened so fast. The kids had adjusted to spending two weeks in the mansion and the other two in Ariana's apartment. When they came home, I would hear them pray with her over FaceTime. Sometimes they prayed on their own before bed. I didn't stop them. They wer
"Hey guys!" Cheryl said as she walked in while we were unpacking. "Boys say hi-" I was saying. They already ran into her arms before I could even complete my sentence. Sometimes I wondered if they loved her because she was nice or because she's Leni's mom. "You look good. The hair cut suits you." She complimented me. I grinned, "Thanks. Damien said the same thing." "Oh he's complimenting you now?" She sounded surprised but I could understand. "I was as shocked as you are." I said, biting back a smile as I remembered our little moment. "I can bet on my last penny that there's more and you're gonna tell me about it." She was already eager for me to spill. "There's nothing to tell." I denied. "Ariana you're blushing." She pointed out. "Am I?" "Yes!" "I don't know what you're talking about." I denied quickly and rushed inside before she could make me spill. Even as I went about my routine chores, I could not stop thinking about our kiss. I felt like a teenager again for just k
While they battled for a sense of clarity, plots were hatched behind their backs to ruin a lot more than their union. To bring down and take everything that had taken years of hard work to build. Claire was utterly frustrated with how things were going with this man. She had tried in a lot of ways to win him over but he kept proving to be difficult. Who would have thought that the speculated billionaire playboy would be such a responsible married man who would not want to do anything to jeopardize his union and image no matter how much she tried to seduce him. She thought she had succeeded when she managed to get into his head after her mini birthday party that night. Damien had opened up to her a little after she had 'concernedly' probed him for whatever had him in such a sour mood. Of course it was his wife. Ariana did not know the value of what she had, she had thought when singlehandedly convinced him to file for a separation, getting into his head with her words as he told her
It was the day of Ava's party. I was running all over the place to make sure everything was well put together. The planner had done a great job but the perfectionist in me just did not want to sit back and relax. We were expecting few guests although we had to take it from an indoor party to setting up a tent and using the lawn in the backyard for the celebrations because the decorations were a little over the top. It was pink everywhere! That morning I was awake at 12am, praying for my baby girl. At this time, a year before, on a beautiful day in July, I was about to bring such a beauty into this world, anxious about what her gender was going to be. I wanted a girl so bad but I was so nervous about finding out so I decided against having a gender reveal and just waited till when I gave birth to see for myself. God came through and I finally had someone that looked like me after being cheated by Damien in the gene pool for so long. "What a blessing," I sighed after plastering her ch
There was brewing chaos that morning. It had been a few days since Damien and I saw each other but we spoke over the phone all the time. A much needed improvement in our relationship was well on its way but there was a sinking feeling in my heart for no reason that day. I planned to go meet him up in his office at lunch hopefully after the board meeting his assistant told me about was over. Drew, his assistant had a pensive look when he came to my office hours before lunchtime to break the news to me. "He what?!!" I screamed. I rushed downstairs to see that there was an ambulance waiting there and Damien was being carried in. "What happened?!" I yelled my way through the small crowd that had gathered outside. "Who are you ma'am?" "I'm his wife." I shoved my phone in his face and showed him my wallpaper. "You can get in." He said. I hopped into the van and sat close to Damien's lifeless form laid on the stretcher. He was out cold. "Oh Jesus please help me," The drive to the
It was early the next morning. I had hardly slept a wink that night, worrying about the outcome of the procedure in between prayers and filling myself with hope from words of the bible.I was half asleep on the couch in Damien's hospital room with Fiona's head on my thighs when a nurse came in and called me to the doctor's office. I was sure Mom and the others were on the way so a part of me wanted them to be here before going to hear the update, at least for moral support. I let the nurse know this.She nodded, "I understand ma'am. I'd let the doctor know.""Thank you."Pacing the room while I read the text from Aiden and another from Jesse, they were close to the hospital. That was a relief, though momentary. In a matter of minutes, they were here and we made the fearful walk down to the doctor's office.Getting there, we briefly exchanged pleasantries with the doctor and I got seated while the men stood behind me. "So doctor, how was it?" Jesse asked when I was reluctant to form t
"Dada," Ava said, pointing at Damien's photo behind me as I changed her diaper. "Yes, dada." I said back to her. "Dada, dadada," she repeated over and over getting up on her own to try and touch the framed picture that her little arms could not reach just yet. I stepped back and watched her, letting my eyes meet his in the picture as he stared into the camera with a slight smile while he held on to me who was nervous at our wedding. Pictures like these were all over the house and they often made me reminisce on all of our moments. Moving on to the huge framed photo from our vow renewal, the love was finally obvious with the way we grinned so wide in the frame. I was finally happy after staying in loveless marriage with all the chaos for as long as we did. If anyone asked about when we got married, I usually fought the urge to mention the vow renewal's date cause that was when it felt like I had actually gotten married for the first time. The wedding buzz I didn't feel the first tim
Hello fam. I hope we're all doing good.So, I have this to say: Writing is not an easy task 😭I'm a student (just finished my exams btw), I work as a freelance writer and I also run a business. I have several responsibilities in church too so writer's block tends to hit me a lot. I have a trip next week and I'm not even going with my laptop so I would not be able to update for the whole week, I'm so sorry guys😭😭😭I don't believe in writing just to update, I put my emotions into this thing and sometimes I'm too drained to put anything down because of how tasking it can be. I believe strongly in excellence.I love you guys but please I need you to understand how hard this is for me. I promise to give updates back to back after I'm settled in when this busy season is over.Thanks for understanding. I'd be updating soon after properly editing the next chapter 🥰