Four

LIAM'S POV:

I just stared on at the commotion going on right in front of me.

I heard my mom ask Mateo who threatened him to pronounce me impotent. Mateo didn't talk at first, but after persuasion, he finally let the cat out of the bag.

"I was threatened by Mrs Riley Macdonald to declare Mr Liam impotent." I heard him say as he lowered his head in shame.

I froze in shock as soon as I heard his words. Is it the same Riley that I married?

"I must have heard wrong with all this going on. Riley can't do this to me, right? Or is Mateo just using heaping the blame on her so that he can go Scott free?" I asked myself as I fumed in anger.

"What, Liam's wife?" I heard my mom yell as she slumped to the floor in shock.

"You motherfucker, how dare you accuse my wife of plotting against me. Do you think that I will seriously believe you over my wife? You must be joking to think that" I yelled as I grabbed him by the collar.

"I'm seriously telling the truth here. Your wife isn't who you think she is. She threat…"

I didn't let him finish his words as I landed a heavy punch on his face making him to have a nosebleed.

I slowly advanced at him to land more heavy punches at him when he spoke up.

"I have evidence. I can prove to you that I'm not lying against your wife" he said while forcing himself to stand on his feet.

"What are you going that with?" I heard my mom say, finally speaking up after slumping to the floor.

Mateo walked over to his desk and brought out a pen.

"With this," he said as he raised the pen for everyone to see.

I laughed out loud as I looked at him ridiculously. He must finally be losing it after my punch.

"Oh really? You are gonna prove that my wife is behind this with a pen?" I asked as I raised a brow.

"This is not just any pen, it is also a recorder. Every doctor in this hospital has one of these for emergencies such as this one. We only use it to record important things" he explained as he stared directly at my eyes.

"So, you are trying to say that you recorded your conversations with Liam's wife in this pen?" my mom asked as she narrowed her eyes at Mateo while slowly standing on her feet.

"Yes, and I can prove it by playing the audio." Mateo further said.

"Then what are you waiting for? Play the audio let's all listen to it" my mom said.

Mateo quickly pressed a button that we didn't notice was on the Pen.

Just then, I heard my wife's voice asking for a favor from Mateo. Mateo replied that he would grant any favor to her. She then asked Mateo to fake the result of the lab test. Mateo strongly rejected the offer saying that I trusted him so much that it would be backstabbing if he faked the result. 

"Well then, you will have no choice but to do it after speaking with your family." We heard Riley say.

"Don't you dare touch my family" we heard Mateo warn.

Everyone went quiet for a while before we heard Riley's laughter coupled with the crying of a little kid.

"Daddy please save us" we heard the kid say along with the muffled cries of an elderly woman who seemed to be Mateo's wife.

We heard Mateo demanding that Riley should free his wife and kids, but Riley said that she wouldn't free them unless Mateo did what he asked.

"Tell me, why do you want me to fake the result so much to the extent of kidnapping my wife and kid?" we heard Mateo ask.

"I just don't want to get pregnant now and ruin my perfect body and shape. You know, I'm a model and I've seen a lot of women with perfect curves get pregnant. But after giving birth, their beauty and curves disappear without a trace. I don't want that to be the case for me. I can't let pregnancy tarnish my career, okay?" we heard Riley say in one breath.

"So because of your career, you want me to declare your husband impotent so that he will think that he is the reason for your inability to give birth?"

"Correct. You are smarter than you look, Mateo. So, will you help me or should I get rid of your family?" we heard her ask.

"I will help you, but you should know that nothing stays hidden forever and I'm doing this for my family".

"Great! I like how obedient you are. Oh, and why we are at it, you should supply me with some birth control pills so that there will be low chances of me getting pregnant." we heard her say as the recorder turned off.

I glanced at my mom whose mouth was agape as she stared wide-eyed at the recorder.

So all this has been going on behind my back without my knowledge. Riley was the one behind my misery. 

"How could she do this to me? Wasn't she the one who told me that she couldn't wait to get pregnant with my child? So what's all this" I thought to myself as tears escaped my eyes.

I turned and stared at Mia who had tears in her eyes as she gave me a pitiful look.

I walked towards her and engulfed her in a tight hug surprising her.

She slowly broke the hug and looked at me with a questioning gaze.

Honestly, if not for her sudden appearance in my life, I would still be in the dark and oblivious of what was happening.

I engulfed her in a hug once again and I could see our parents smiling through the corner of my eyes. 

I broke the hug this time as I gazed into her beautiful emerald eyes.

"Are you really pregnant with my child?" I asked as I gazed at her tummy and she gave me an unsure look before slowly nodding her head.

"Gosh, I'm so happy for that. You are proof that I'm a man." I exclaimed happily as I carried her and twirled her around the office, thereby making a scream erupt from her mouth.

Though I haven't figured out how she got pregnant for me, I'm still happy that I'm going to be called a father very soon by a woman who values than my selfish wife.

Just then, an idea popped into my head. I slowly let her down as I held her delicate hands. I slowly got down on one knee and proposed to her.

"Will you marry me, Mia?"