That night, Jace didn't come home. He was broken and he sobbed. He went to a club and locked himself in. How can Arianna do this to him? First it was Clara and now, it's Arianna. He hadn't at any time loved his women less than he should have. Why is he suffering this kind of fate from women? It's not like he cannot be with numerous women at a time. He loves to be decent. He cannot have two women at a time, it's cheating and he doesn't like being filthy. But what does he get in return? Backstabbing and betrayals. He trusted Arianna to the depth of his soul. It turns out that she's no different from his dead fiance. Women are scum. Not men. He had been unfortunate to meet two women that are scum. Now, he would learn to treat women the way they should be treated. It took him years to recover from Clara's death and fall in love with Arianna. But now, he wouldn't do that anymore. He would deal with Arianna so much that she wouldn't forget his name in a hurry. He w
He just glared at Jace. Arianna had an abortion? Oh no…this should not be happening. He knows exactly how it was to lose an unborn baby, he also has been there before. And in this case, Jace's own was more complicated. He definitely wouldn't make love to her if he doesn't want her. And he knows how protective his brother was on his own things. He would have swirled Arianna around if he got to know that she was pregnant with his child. How can she do that to Jace, how can she do that to her fiance, someone who loves her so much. Chase sighed audibly. He was nothing to be compared to Jace in terms of decency, commitment to relationship and responsibilities. He had always known that he was a rascal back then when Rosalinda was pregnant. He even rejected the pregnancy and told her to have an abortion, a terrible attitude of his towards women. An action he regrets so much now. Yet when Rosalinda miscarried, he wished it never happened. He wished that she had the b
Chase Hudson knew that the best thing to do at that moment was calm Jace down. He is too pained over what his fiancee did. She's apologising for her wrong but his brother doesn't seem ready to let go. "Jace, please"Chase pleaded. He glanced at Arianna, saw her teary eyes and looked away. He's caught between the rock and a hard place. "What are you trying to please me on, Chase? You already know what Arianna did to me, right? What's the difference between her and Clara? Why do I always have to encounter the worst of women? I have always ensured that I do not hurt my women, and treat them with love and respect. But how do they treat me back?" Jace asked. Chase looked away, suddenly feeling as if his scalp itches him. Jace is right. He'd always been unlucky in relationships. But why him? Arianna sniffled. She knew what Clara did and how it took him time to love her and even share his body with her. Now, that he compared her to his late ex, he was remembering the pa
"Why were you trying to beg him? I know it was wrong that you had an abortion without his consent. And I also know that I flopped when I helped you achieve your aim. But you shouldn't beg him like you did. You made him play a super being or a demigod. He is unhappy, hurt and betrayed. But he will calm down eventually" Richard reprimanded his sister, walking her to the parking lot. "Jace is right to be mad and furious with me. I was wrong here. If he was the one, he wouldn't hesitate to apologise, Jace is good at that. And now, I am in love with him. I love Jace very much and it hurts me to see him unhappy. I wouldn't mind begging him over and over again to get his forgiveness" Arianna snapped at him and walked over to her car. When he had issues with Genesis, didn't he go and apologise to her? Wasn't he ready to turn the whole city upside down to get her back? So why couldn't she do the same thing and get her man back. Besides, they have a son. Jace has tactica
Arianna sniffled. She cleaned her tears and sat down. No matter what, she needs her father's help in some ways, especially now that he would become the number one citizen of Hilton City. "I need you to help me talk to Jace. He has issues with Richard as well. His practising licence has been revoked and can only get it back if he won the case in court. I was wrong and I tried apologising to him. He is not interested in listening to me. I cannot let anything happen to Richard's reputation in his profession and I also know what Jace was capable of doing. So will you help me dad?" Arianna requested. Senator Adrian Delmark kept his gaze on his daughter. He hates involving himself with things that are capable of staining his hard built reputation. "It really doesn't concern me with what happens to Richard. You should be able to talk things with Jace because you know him better than anyone else" Senator Adrian Delmark declared. "That serves Richard right. He got wha
"...it has never worked for me. I give love and never get it in return. Arianna and I are over, mom. Please don't poke my heart by mentioning her name anywhere me" Jace bellowed. Eli dropped his cutleries. His dad and mom are not getting married again? His dad hates his mom now. What did his mother do to hurt his dad this way? The atmosphere became condensed. Jace's words were uttered from a wounded heart. The young man is still hurting. Whatever might have been the reason for their break up, it really hits Jace in the place where it hurts badly. Jace was giving off a compressed aura. Why should his mom talk about love to him? That word had caused him so much pain already. That feeling has always left him broken, shattered and battered. How can he ever believe in it again? He doesn't want to hear that word again, it disgusts him. "Calm down Jace, the kids"Chase said and shrugged, indicating that the kids are there and he should put his temper to check.
If she says those words to Jace, hopefully, he will be a little soften. Hopefully he would take her back and things would go as usual between them. Heaven knows if he was the one, he would forgive her but lock her up and fuck the living day out of her everyday until she gets pregnant again. "I wish I could, but he doesn't answer his phone when I call. How can I tell him that I want to be with him again and not do anything to hurt him if he doesn't answer his phone?" Arianna complained. She's now ready to be his woman,his wife and have babies with him. Anything Jace wants, she is ready to accept it gladly. Career or professionalism, none of it matters to her at the moment. This one day away from him seems like a year to her. She's restless and couldn't concentrate on anything else. Her mind and thoughts are all about Jace and her son, Eli. Now, she wants him more than anything else. She cannot afford to lose him to another woman. "The only thing I can do f
Genesis' cheerful expression went sour. She glanced at Richard and he locked eyes with her. He gently moved his face away from her and went to get the phone. "Answer the phone," Richard said, offering her his cellphone. This Tessa Thompson is a terrible woman,a witch if he must say. But Genesis wouldn't collect the phone and he decided to answer it, placing it on speaker "What do you want, Tessa" Richard demanded "Nothing. I'm just informing you that I would be relocating to France and I'm not coming back any moment soon" Tessa responded. Richard is unhappy with her. She hadn't spoken to him in a while and now, he snapped at her from the other end as if they were enemies. No matter what happens between them, they were lovers at a time. They fuck each other, satisfied each other and slept in each other's arms in their nudity on the same bed under the same quilt. He can't hate her that much. That smelly girl must have won him back to herself. She cam
When the couple alighted, Chase held Rosalinda's hand, intertwining his fingers ders with hers. They drew closer, and a few securities walked over to their boss. When Chase walked over he turned and glared at the securities in hostility "the next time you opened that gate to some unwanted guests, your job in this house is ended!" He thundered. "We are not unwanted guests Mr Hudson. We are law enforcement agencies with a search warrant…" One of the police officers was saying when Chase snapped at him. "If you have a search warrant, do you also have a gate pass?" He asked, his usual arrogant personality taking over the calmness he portrayed at the orphanage. For a few seconds, none could say a word until the man next to Amanda Smith introduced himself "I am Barr. Clifford,Miss Amanda Smith's lawyer" he said, dissipating the awkwardness in the air. "We have a search warrant from the head office to search your mansion for Miss Bella Smith, a girl you adopted fr
How dare he say she needs the advice the most when he was the one who hurt her and rejected the baby? How can he refer to himself as Bella's father after ordering her to have an abortion back then. If she had gone ahead, she would have flushed Bella away. Now, he brought his face before her and said he is Bella's father? She's not afraid of him anymore. What she wants is her daughter and nothing else. "Amanda, I know that you are hurt. I also know that I made you hurt. But please, I'm begging you let's talk about our daughter please" Chase pleaded. "Yes, Miss Amanda. Just give him a chance and talk to him. This mother is pleading with you as a mother, listen to Chase" Rosalinda coaxed. "I don't have anything to talk to him about. You wanted me to have an abortion back then. You paid for it and told me not to come before you again. And I didn't, I never came to find you ever again. And today you call yourself my daughter's father? How is that possible?
The both of them stared at each other in shock. Chase remembered the dream. Everything played fresh in his memory and he was afraid of the rest of the dream becoming a reality. Amanda Smith glared at him. She was thinking about him without knowing he was standing next to her. What is going on here? She remembered the past. How she was involved with Chase and became pregnant. How he urged and persuaded her for an abortion. He transferred a large sum of money into her account and told her not to come before him again or return someday with some damn baby to blackmail him. He is a Hudson. A billionaire and has power. But she's a nobody. She had to hide away and carried her baby in her belly and gave birth to her without his knowledge. She doesn't have the ability or the name to fight him. Now, after a few years she met with him again. But she hopes he's not the man who adopted her daughter? From the words of the matron, she hopes her daughter hasn't found h
Chase kept his gaze on her confused facial expression. He chuckled softly and said "No. She's my daughter by adoption. And now, the orphanage wants to see me along with her" Rosalinda shook her head in disapproval. She'd always thought she's his daughter for real, that is, by blood connection. And she didn't bother asking him about the girl's Mom. And the resemblance, how come about it then? She takes after Chase 50% in appearance. Her eyes looked a lot like Eli and his dad. "But Bella looks like you and your family…" Rosalinda interjected. This is unbelievable. If Chase hadn't told her himself, she wouldn't have believed it if someone else told her. "It's a coincidence. We're not related by blood" Chase replied, smiling. Somehow the girl looks like the Hudson's. That's one other reason he insisted he would adopt her. She would fit perfectly into the family. "Are you sure none of your ex…"Rosalinda trailed off. It's enough. If Chase said she's his daughter by
The matron nodded and smiled. The only kid in the orphanage that goes by the name Bella was the one adopted a few months ago. "Can we get the information about your daughter and the legal documentation you signed? Amanda smiled and brought out all the necessary documents and placed them before the matron. After glancing over it and comparing it with the copies in the orphanage. She realised that it's her daughter indeed that has been given off in adoption. "We waited for you for many years. Other parents returned to get their kids and many were adopted except Bella…"the matron trailed off. They couldn't reach her. She changed her address and her contacts were forever switched off. Since there was no information about her, they couldn't inform her that her daughter had been adopted. "I'm sorry about that ma'am. Life was unfair to me so I decided to go away for a few years. But I'm back now. I have a job and I've returned to fetch my daughter" Amanda Smith
Jace couldn't curtail the excitement surging in him. Arianna is pregnant again, it only means he's eventually going to be a father again. "Thank you" Jace chimed. He smiled broadly. Richard smiled too. He can't wait for the day when he will also receive such good news as an expectant father. "Watch her diet Jace, if you can. Especially the intake of alcohol is not good for the baby" Richard advised. "Yeah, sure" Jace nodded. He glanced at the direction where the ladies went and felt like going after her and hugging her affectionately. She's carrying his child, Eli will have his request granted in a couple of months. They had hardly finished the party when Jace had Arianna come upstairs. There's a kind of excitement in him that she hasn't seen before. He almost was going to spoon-feed her. This deep expression of love, she doesn't know what she'd done to deserve it. Anyways she accompanied him. "You'll have to do a test. I bought five different brands
Her heartbeat almost skipped. She stood gazing at the two people she least expected to come and see her. Is she dreaming or hallucinating? She blinked her eyes and opened them again, but they remained at the same spot, smiling broadly at her. She turned and glanced at Chase,the latter shrugged. Chase went to see them, is that why she didn't wake up to find him next to her? She swallowed hard and wanted to say something but her words choked in her throat. Chase has impressed her over and over with his ability to reconcile people together. "Congratulations baby" Pricillia Black was the first to make an utterance. She opened her arms and walked towards Rosalinda. The latter mumbled "mummy" and her eyes went cloudy with tears. She got into her mom's arms and hugged her. Her tears gave way and for some seconds, they both couldn't say anything but remained in each other's arms. "Mummy,I missed you," Rosalinda confessed. She sniffled and swallowed hard. Her mom's t
"... I'm sorry . I know I have been stupid in the past. I trespassed. I bruised your ego and I said demeaning words to you, but I sincerely apologise to you and I seek nothing but your forgiveness. Even if you don't want to forgive me, for your daughter's sake, forgive me. Rosalinda is broken and unhappy. For the rest of yesterday, she's sobbing secretly. Do you want your daughter to be unhappy? No mother or brother ever wishes so for their daughter and sister. I humbly request you to forgive me for her sake. Rosalinda loves me a lot. She hadn't stop loving me for once. I fell in love with her after she miscarried my baby. I swear that I regretted my actions. I tried to apologise, but you both didn't give me a chance. I am a different person now. I love your daughter more than anything else in this world. Please give us your blessings, dear mother inlaw…" Chase pleaded. Pricillia Black was speechless. She doesn't know if she's to be angry or just walk away. Bu
She had been unexceptionally quiet all the way from the registry. After her encounter with her family, her excitement went down and she had only been forcing herself to appear happy. But Chase wouldn't forfeit the pleasure of his wedding night simply because the bride wasn't looking cheerful. He has to take his conjugal right. Rosalinda was not giving him the expected cooperation. She wasn't in the slightest mood or interested to consummate her wedding. If Chase can just spare her that night. Before the next day, she would have been able to put her emotions together and willingly give herself to him. And she cannot tell Chase about it. And the latter refused to interpret the attitude she was giving him. Chase just doesn't want to understand at all. "What's happening Rosa? Don't you want me to make love to you?" Chase asked, feeling annoyed already. He had to undress her and despite that, she was stiffening her body. He suspected that she doesn't want to cons