Chapter 0001

AMAKA RICHARD:

“Fùck!” I moaned as Joseph thrust into me. This was my eighteenth birthday. I had just graduated from college, and Joseph was my boyfriend. He wouldn’t let me be, begging and disturbing me for us to have sex. I had told him that I wanted to wait until after our marriage, but Joseph refused. He claimed that I didn’t love him enough and that was why I didn’t want to sleep with him. I agreed, and here I was in a hotel room with him.

I am typically a shy blonde girl and very fair in complexion, but Joseph was the opposite of my complexion. He was dark, taller than me, and very handsome. He has full black hair, and I really love him very much. While Joseph Ericson came from a very rich family in Palazo town, where we were living, my parents were average workers, so we were considered not as well off as Joseph’s family.

Joseph promised to marry me. He was 21 years old and a business student at the university, while I was still preparing to gain admission to join him there. I had lied to my mother, telling her I was going to see my friend, just so I could prepare for my admission exam into the university. However, I snuck into this hotel to see Joseph, and here we are.

“Um! Ah fụck!” I moaned as Joseph drove into me faster and whispered in my ear, “Yes, babe. You are so sweet.” He reached his release and climaxed inside me.

“Joseph, it hurts,” I cried as he kissed me warmly and sat beside me on the hotel bed. “I am sorry, my love. I will forever cherish this,” he said, cupping my face as he kissed my forehead. “I cannot seem to get enough of you. I wish we could get married, and I wouldn’t leave you,” he said. I wiped my teary eyes and looked at his handsome face as we lay on the hotel bed.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked him, and he sighed. “Look, Amaka, I want you to know that I love you very much. But my family and I are moving to the city next week. You know that my father owns a big company there. He informed my siblings and me that he acquired a new mansion, which means that I will be moving with them, and we might not get to see each other again.”

My eyes welled up in tears as I heard Joseph say that to me.

“But you will still call me on the phone, right?” I asked him, trying to convince myself that Joseph wouldn’t get to the city and fall in love with another woman there. I love him very much. He is like the air that I breathe. My heart and soul wanted him.

“I promise you, I won’t forget about you. Anytime I am on vacation, I will come around to see you. Instead, I will lodge in the hotel, okay? You are my wife. Stop crying.” Joseph wiped my tears away and drew closer to me on the bed as he kissed me on my lips again.

I was crying and not in the mood to kiss him. “Why not take me home with you? Tell your parents that I am your girlfriend and that you wish to marry me. You have been hiding me all this time and not wanting to introduce me to your mother,” I told him. Knowing that whenever I told Joseph that I wanted to come and see him at home, at his family’s house, he would refuse. None of his siblings knew that we were dating, and I felt so awkward chatting with his younger brother online and introducing myself to him as Joseph's girlfriend.

*My elder brother is not in any relationship,* Aaron would say. Joseph practically kept me hidden, and I didn’t know how long he planned to continue doing that.

“No, Amy. I promise you, when the time is right, I will take you home and introduce you to my family. If I do that now, my parents will get annoyed and give my inheritance to my younger brother. I have to first get established, and after that, I promise you we will get married,” he said, wiping away my sobs. I wished I could believe him, but I had this lingering feeling that Joseph was lying to me.

Was he lying to me? Did he have another woman in his life? My heart became heavy as I realized I had just lost my virginity to him before considering all these. Joseph kissed me again and thrust into me before my mind could register to ask him. I moaned with each deep thrust, and there he took me to cloud nine with him...

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FOUR YEARS LATER:

AMAKA RICHARD:

“Mom, when are you taking me to school?” my three-year-old son asked me. He was so smart and intelligent compared to me.

“Jason, you are still a baby and not ready to go to school now,” I told him as I prepared for my new job interview.

“That’s a lie, Mom!” he shouted. I sighed, rolled my eyes, and stood by the vanity of my room, combing my long blonde hair and applying my orange perfume.

“Jason, why would Mommy lie to you? Have you seen a baby going to school? You have to stay at home with my friend,” I told him, and he frowned.

“Mommy…” Jason burst out crying hard, and my best friend, Maureen Austin, came into the room.

“What’s going on here, Amaka? What did you do to my small husband?” she asked me as she scooped Jason into her arms.

After I got pregnant, my parents chased me away and refused to sponsor my education. I tried calling Joseph then to tell him that I was pregnant. But guess what? He blocked my number and told me to get rid of it and that he wasn’t ready to father a child.

I couldn’t do that. I had to beg my friend for help. She’s a tailor and into blogging, so she pleaded with her mother, who was a single mother, and her mother allowed me to live with them.

Later, I started creating blogs too, as Maureen told me I could do it as a part-time job at home. With that, my page has millions of followers, as I created a baby page for my son and uploaded many cute photos of him.

Many fans love Jason. He has fair skin just like me, but while I had long blonde hair, he had short light brown hair.