Mikayla woke up a little thrown off. She knew even before she woke up that she wasn't in her room or on her bed but she was in familiar surroundings. She popped open her eyes and saw that she was in her seldom used guest room.The events of the night before came rushing back to her. The evening which started on such a good note had taken such a drastic turn unexpectedly. Her mum, Michelle Wall, was here in her home for the first time and it was because her most recent billionaire boyfriend had thrown her out.This was a new low, even for Michelle. She often ran into confrontation of the wives of the men she was bedding. That was nothing new. But to be thrown out of the house she was living in by one of them? It just went to show that this new generation was a new breed.In the past, the wives of the men Michelle dated wouldn't dare to interfere in their husband's illicit affairs even if they knew about it. They would pretend not to know in front of him and accost Michelle behind
Mikayla's phone continued to ring on and on and on...She stared blankly at the screen of her ringing phone until it stopped. She wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone, least of all Cael. She knew it wasn't right and it wasn't fair. He hadn't done anything wrong.In fact, Cael had been near perfect so far. And that made her even sadder because in truth she had nothing to offer him. The only thing being part of his life would bring him was whispers and slander.And none of the people who engaged in that slander would be wrong. Michelle was her mum, and she was everything people said and worse. She was the child of a whore who would spread her legs to any man with money as long as he could fund her lifestyle. Michelle even carried the title of gold digger with pride.Mikayla always said that the one big regret of her life was being born to her mother. If she could somehow go back in time, she would find a way to prevent her entire existence from happening. Anything to save her f
Mikayla dragged herself out of the car, her trepidation mounting with each step that she took towards her front door. Her own front door. In her own house. It was insane. She'd built her home as a safe space for herself; a place specially designed for her comfort. Well not anymore. She was scared to even go home.She opened the door and peered in cautiously as though expecting a bomb to go off at any second. But that was not the case. She was greeted by the sight of Michelle and Abe sitting side by side on the floor, a book open in front of them. A pencil was jammed between in Abe's tiny hand."Oh, welcome, Mikayla. I didn't think you'd be home this early. Must be real easy being a doctor," she joked."I took the rest of the day off," she answered simply and folded herself wearily into the couch. "You see, you should have just stayed home like I said," Michelle pointed out.Mikayla rolled her eyes. "What are you doing?" She asked, changing the subject before it devolved into an a
Mikayla pulled up to Cael's estate. She leaned out the window and smiled at the security guard. "Hi, Tom" she greeted. They'd gotten to know each other quite well when she stayed with Cael."Hello, Mrs Wall," he greeted. "How are you today?" "I'm fine, thank you," she answered. "How's work?" She asked.The muscled bodyguard raised a brow to her. "Same Same," he answered. He took her card which Cael had given her and ran it through before letting her in. It didn't matter that he knew her and recognized her already, he would still run the card.She beeped her horn to bid him goodbye and took off. She entered Cael's house with her own key and went off to look for him. She looked all over the house but he was no where to be found. He was not in the living room or in the kitchen or in his bedroom.She finally went to look for him in the garage and found him there with another person. All she could see of the person was a butt in the air because their face was stuck under the hood o
Mikayla felt drained. Emotionally and physically. But it was the emotional stress that was affecting her body so she dragged herself up and off to work that morning. It was the third morning in a row that she'd come to work mentally checked out and cranky. So the moment she walked in and saw Rachel's face, she wasn't the least bit bothered. The girl had a right to be unhappy about her arrival given all that had happened in the past few days."Good morning," Kim called formally as usual, the only seemingly unperturbed by Mikayla's mood."Good morning," Mikayla replied grumpily and trudged on into her office. She'd closed the door behind her before remembering that one of the nurses would follow her in but she couldn't bring herself to reopen it. Instead, she started putting on her coat.There was a sharp knock at the door. "Come in," she called as she took her seat.Nurse Kim entered and shut the door behind her. Mikayla's eyebrows shot up. Usually it was Nurse Rachel who came i
By the time Mikayla drove back home after work, all her anger and fury had melted away and in it's place was heart wrenching guilt at the way she'd spoken to her mum. She'd snapped and just blindly spat words out without thinking.It was true that she tried to hide her relation with her mum as much as possible, but she wouldn't have chosen to say it in that way. For all her faults, Michelle had been a good mum to her.She took care of her growing up, made her food, cared for her, played with her. Up until her classmates caught wind of her mum's affairs and started making fun of her, she hadn't even known there was anything strange about having a different man around every couple of years.She'd learnt to stay out of her mother's way whenever one of her 'friends' were around and they never bothered her too. Some of them would even bring her expensive gifts. She lived in a big, nice house and went to a nice school.Michelle didn't deserve the things she'd said to her today. She wou
"Mikayla! Mikayla!"Mikayla came around slowly. The first thing that hit was the sound of loud wailing. She instinctively scrunched up her nose. Who was making that much fuss? It wounded like a baby. But why would there be a baby in her house? She instinctively knew she was at home and in her own bed.She opened her eyes a crack but everything was fuzzy. She forced her eyes open a little wider and Cael's face swam into focus. He carried a little boy in his arms who was screaming at the top of his lungs, his tiny face scrunched up in fury. Abe, she identified. That was her brother, Abe."What's going on?" She managed to ask. It barely came out as a whisper.Relief flooded Cael's face. "You're finally back. Good! I was getting worried there for a second. Can you see me? How many fingers am I holding up?" He held up two fingers on his free hand."Two," she whispered. "That's alright," another voice cut in. "Let's give her some time to stabilize." Anna? Anna was here too? She'd r
Mikayla was being shaken awake. She woke confused but immediately realized that it was Abe. A quick look at the clock showed that it was 6:30m. He'd fallen asleep early in the evening yesterday after which she carried him to her bedroom; her real bedroom, not the guest room. Now that Michelle was gone, it was hers again. She'd placed him in her bed because she wasn't sure three year olds could sleep alone yet. She was on one side and she blocked his other side with pillows so he wouldn't roll off the bed. She'd woken up about fifty times during the night checking that he was still asleep, that he hadn't rolled off the bed, that he was still breathing... it had been a very difficult night for her. Damn Michelle for thrusting her into this situation.But now, Abe was up and he wanted her up as well. "Okay, okay, I'm awake." Mikayla sat up. She ruffled his hair. "Good morning, Abe."He didn't respond. His attention was fully on trying to climb over the pillows she'd stacked in his