"Did you just say that she is your ex girlfriend?" I asked him. Even if the young man was lying to me, I would not have known but still, I wanted to hear those words come out from his mouth in a way that will prove to me that I wasn't actually losing my mind. And then maybe, just maybe I would remember that this guy actually had body movements that I could observe and maybe detect if he was lying or not. But I could not see anything of that sort and the more I thought about it, the harder it became for me to actually assure myself that I would see anything. It didn't take too long before I noticed that his eyebrows were arched, his eyes were filled with confusion and he took a bold Stance."Yes she is my ex girlfriend and I am guessing from the surprised look on your face, she didn't mention anything like that to you, now did she?" I asked. "No, she didn't mention anything like that." I agreed, not wanting to play a game of hide and seek with him. "And I am also guessing that beca
I watched as he sat there, not knowing what to say to me and his head was in his hand. I knew he was regretting the fact that he did not pay Sandra to keep shut and in that moment, I was happy that Sandra was a grown woman with her own money so he could not even do that no matter how much he wanted to. It was obvious that he never wanted me to know because now that I knew what he was hiding, I would be more than careful around him and I would not even allow him to touch me at all. It would be simpler now and I knew exactly what I was going to do to prevent him from having the last laugh. "You really are not going to say a thing are you?" I asked him and he lifted his head up. I saw regret and sorrows in his eyes or maybe I was just being misled once again by this man. If he could lie about his life in the manner that he did, I wondered what else he could lie about without even bathing an eyelid. "Liv,.." "Do not call me that! That name is reserved for only family and friends and
Daniel stood up speedily and walked up to me as I stood still and looked at him. My heart was pounding in my chest and I had goosebumps all over my body. I didn't know what the plan was but I could tell that he wanted to look into my eyes and say his next words, hoping that it will have some impact on me. "What the actual hell is going on here? Why do you always chose to never believe any words that comes out of my mouth. I have told you over and over again that I love you. Please believe me because I won't lie to you about this." I arched an eyebrow at him and he sighed knowing what he had done. "Okay fine. I have told you twice but in my book that still counts as over and over again." And then he chuckled, trying to lighten the mood and I looked at him and smiled. "Okay fine. I should not be making jokes right now but you need to understand that I won't keep saying this if it wasn't true. My plan was never to fall in love with my own sister or anyone that I may have family relat
As Daniel spoke, I could see the regret he had about those incidents in his eyes. I know that he did not like the fact that such things were actually happening to him. Sandra didn't tell the story like this and I wondered why. Could it be that she did it on purpose or could it be that she did it because we didn't have enough time to talk? "I know that I messed up and that I should have done the right thing and given them money or better still, I should not have allowed them to go through with that abortion but you have to understand me, these women only wanted my money. They never really loved me and they wanted to trap me with pregnancy.""Dad and I did what we had to do to protect our reputation because we know very well that if we ever meet a woman like that and allow her into our family, she will not hesitate to take everything that belongs to us and do whatever she please with it. Dad was trying to avoid trouble and so am I." "Liv, please say something. Your silence is killing
I struggled to believe what Daniel told me to be the truth. Nothing about what he said sounded right to me and I wondered if how could it be actually possible. I looked at him and wondered if he could still be lying to me. I knew admist everything that there was just one person that would actually tell me the truth and no matter what, I had to go meet that person. "Daniel, if you can notice now, I am honestly not in the mood for anything that you are saying. I don't believe you because I know you very well and I know that you have lied to me before." "So because I have lied in the past, that is why you don't believe me?" He asked pained that I was not falling for his tricks this time. It didn't bother me that much. I had tried my very best to be the calm one and try to reason or meet him somewhere in the middle but every single time he made it known to me that he didn't really care and I had to think about myself for once and consider what would make me happy. "Daniel, please let
"What do you mean if I am sure about what I saying Lexi? I am telling you that I am sure. I am finally going to get married to him." My mother and went mute. "Of course I told you it was going to work. Do you really think I will let Jared go like that? He is a rich man. I had to do what I had to do to secure the future of myself and my daughter," she said again and went mute again. "Look I understand that but right now the only problem I have is that his stupid ex wife is back. You know it's because of me that Jared divorced her and I thought I was slick with my actions but seriously, I don't know how these people were able to discover that I am the one behind this. I don't know how she was able to notice that I am the one who actually did all of these things to her. I thought I was very slick about this." She kept talking. "Look I am worried okay. Because now that this woman is back, it can only mean one thing really. It can only mean that she knows about what I did and she wants
She froze when she saw me and I knew she could tell that I wasn't in the mood to be lied to but somehow, knowing that this woma had lied to me on so many different occasions, I knew that she could lie about this as well without blinking. The questions I came to ask her were already answered by her phone call but I wanted her to know that I had seen her and that I knew that mess that she was trying to create. I wanted her to know that I understood exactly what she was doing and that I was not going to take it lightly on her. Somehow, deep inside me I had expected her to tell me that it was all fake and that maybe, just maybe I was not in the right frame of mind as I stood there and that's why I could not hear everything properly. I yearned for her to tell me that I was just making things up and everything that I actually said happened never did but with everything that was happening, I looked at her and from the way she was shaking, I knew that I had made no mistake at all. Everythi
"Kpam" a slap came across my face as I spoke and I finally held my face in my hand trying to process the fact that my mother had just slapped me. I couldn't process it for a minute or two because it had been a while since the woman had laid her hands on me and I knew that I was the one to be angry and not her. I should be the one lashing out and not her. The more I thought about it, the more I tried to calm myself down and think about the different ways I could actually keep mute about it and not say anything that would trigger her the more "Look you may be upset with me but for fucks sakes I am still your mother and you will address me with respect. If you so much as try to do anything to push me to the wall again if you so much as try to insult me, I promise you I will not hesitate to slap you again. Do you understand?" She asked and I kept mute. I knew what she wanted. An apology. But it would be over my dead body before I apologize for saying the truth. Maybe she did not see th
I rushed over to the location she sent to me as fast as I could. Only for me to get there and see her standing by the road, waiting for me. As soon as she saw me highlighting from my car, she moved towards a restaurant and I followed her. But she didn't sit, instead she moved to the backroom and I wondered why they would just allow her to go in there. Doesn't one need some sort of punishment to get in there? I decided that I was not in the place to ask. After all, I had come there for something much more important. Finally, I was going to put an end to the madness that was happening because of those pictures. "Good afternoon ma, how may I help you today?" Stacy was stopped at the entrance to the backroom by a petite looking girl wearing a uniform. "I am here with this handsome man," she said and brought out a card and showed it to the woman. The woman nodded her head immediately and opened the door for her. "Would you be needing anything as you stay ma?" She asked. "No, I won't
I rushed over to the location she sent to me as fast as I could. Only for me to get there and see her standing by the road, waiting for me. As soon as she saw me highlighting from my car, she moved towards a restaurant and I followed her. But she didn't sit, instead she moved to the backroom and I wondered why they would just allow her to go in there. Doesn't one need some sort of punishment to get in there? I decided that I was not in the place to ask. After all, I had come there for something much more important. Finally, I was going to put an end to the madness that was happening because of those pictures. "Good afternoon ma, how may I help you today?" Stacy was stopped at the entrance to the backroom by a petite looking girl wearing a uniform. "I am here with this handsome man," she said and brought out a card and showed it to the woman. The woman nodded her head immediately and opened the door for her. "Would you be needing anything as you stay ma?" She asked. "No, I won't
"Liv, trust me when I tell you this, we will not get anyway if you keep lying to me like this. Just tell me what you know and we can work together to get you out of whatever mess you are in," I said calmly. I needed her to see me in the light of a big brother and I was desperate to get her to trust me. It was very obvious to me that she won't though and no matter what I tried, it won't get her to change her mind. But I hoped that it will. "You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Listen to me when I tell you this okay, I don't know or have any kind of information. I should even be the one asking you all these questions since you are the one who actually brought me out of my house to come here on such a short notice. Now can you please just tell me what you know so that I can go." "Liv." "Daniel, for fuck's sake, you said that I am in trouble! Now tell me what kind of trouble it is because I am really fighting hard now to believe that you did not just lie to me just t
"Daniel?" Tony called out but I was no longer interested in anything he had to say. I needed to get to Olivia. I had to tell her everything I knew. The sooner I did it, the better it would be for me"I will have to go now. I'll talk to you later, okay?" I said as I walked out Immediately I was outside, I placed a call across to her. Thankfully, she picked on the first ring"I don't care where you are right now but I need you to come meet me. I can't explain everything over the phone but I need to see you right now," I said and I could tell that I was scaring her"What's going on?" She asked but I was not about to answer her over the phone"Look, I really can't say much now and I can't talk over the phone but I need you to come meet me right now Liv.""You are seriously scaring me Daniel. What's going on?""I need to be sure that you are safe. Meet me at where we agreed. I will be there in like an hour time," I said. "You will be there right?" I heard hesitation in her voice before
Tony waited patiently till Reuben had left before he walked up to me and said, "You know you should have told him everything you know, right?" He said. "I did tell him everything I know man." I answered him as I walked to get a cup of water to drink. "Oh come on. You know you can lie to everyone else but you really can't lie to me, I know when you are not saying the truth. I have been your friend for an awfully long amount of time." "You sound like you are not so pleased about that. Could it be because I lied to your accomplice?" I asked as I poured the water into a glass and drank it whole. "What do you mean by that?" "I am not a fool Tony. I..." "Are you by any chance implying that I am working with Reuben to get rid of Olivia?" He was getting enraged and it was quiet visible but still, I wasn't going to allow his emotions to turn me away from the real questions I needed to ask him "How does this even make sense to you as you are saying it? Do you really think that I will s
"What do you mean by that? Of course I would want to know so that I can know what our next step will be." Reuben was quick to answer but he was skillful enough to not give a very conclusive answer. "Well how exactly do you mean? Who exactly is this we that you speak of?" He asked. "Look I don't know what you think you are trying to do now but you will need to stop it and actually start trusting me," he continued. "I never said that I don't trust you. I just said that I don't understand why you so badly needed the information. If I didn't trust you, I won't still be standing here and talking to you. You know this very well and so does your friend here." Tony didn't say a word after that. He could not understand what I was doing but he was not going to open his mouth and say something that would cause any kind of trouble with him and his friend. It made me wonder if he truly trusted the man like he said he does or if I should even trust the man the way I did. "Tony are you just go
"How am I supposed to know that?" I asked, being offended that they would actually say a thing like that to me. Was I supposed to know what was on her back? But then again I did have access to her back when we were always fooling around and I could remember perfectly well, the night that we actually did something together, she did have a mole on her back. I could remember it so vividly because I honestly thought that it was very weird that she would have a red mark that big and it didn't hurt her. I also could remember asking her about it but she didn't say anything to me, she didn't even try to hide the fact that she didn't know how it got there. "I honestly have no idea how that thing got there but I believe it's because of all these drama that is constantly going on around me. I may have been hurt there without knowing," she had said before. Before now, I have always thought that maybe, just maybe, she was kidding but the more I looked at it, the more I realized that she knew ex
"Wait, is this some type of joke? Please tell me that this is some type of joke? What exactly is going on here?" I asked him. Was he actually serious about everything he said or was everything he said just a means to get to me and get me to do something that I was definitely going to regret? Could he actually be serious? Because if he was serious then that simply meant that everyone that Olivia was surrounding herself with were bad news on a good day. All of them can easily hurt her and get away with it if they were really working with Billy.I immediately felt an urge to protect her some more, I could not allow anything to happen to her and now that I knew that no one around her was actually sincere or a good person, I could not sit back and allow her be with such people. "Is it the same Alexander as I one I showed you?" Tony asked him and Reuben nodded his head. I didn't like to be kept in the dark. "Which Alexander did you show him? Is it the same one that I know?" I asked Tony
"What?" The more Reuben spoke, the more I realized that I knew very little about the drama that was actually going on all these years. But now, it was beginning to make sense. The pieces of the puzzle were beginning to add up. "Yes. The woman was already pregnant and when Billy found out, he was very upset because he knew that even if he got Valerie, all of her attention would be on the child and not on him. His new plan was simple, get rid of the same kid and remove her from Valerie's life," Reuben said. "What?" Tony asked. "I mean, I know he can be very very evil but isn't this just supposed to be downright cruel. Why separate a mother from her child? Please tell me that he wasn't successful?" "Oh he was. However, he didn't do it alone. He found out how far gone Valerie was and during the time he found this out, she was about to give birth. That was when he paid Deborah to do the needful and take the baby away from the mother after birth." "And she did?" I asked, surprised that