Four days have passed since Tatum came bearing gifts but everyday for those four days, Leia finds herself staring at the house opposite her whenever she comes out from or goes into her house, wondering when he’s going to spring up on her again but fortunately he has never shown up. She really doesn’t want to see him again and hopes he will take the hint and stay away from her and their child, no. Her child. “Mama, why can’t I go with you?” Amara asks Leila as Leila touches her face with some light makeup at her dresser. It’s the first day of her mother’s case in court and she cannot take Amara with her. Three days ago, her mother was moved from house arrest and placed under custody. She wants to think Tatum has nothing to do with it but then, it’s his pack that has accused an innocent woman of murdering her mate and husband. “Because….kids are not allowed where we are going,” Kelvin answers from behind Leila, sitting on her bed and going through his files. Amara frowns. “Well, c
How does he know that? Leila half sneers at him.“Did you like your doll house and have you built it?” Tatum turns to Amara with a broad smile on his lips.“Papa Kev has been busy and Mama can’t help with it,” Amara replies in a somewhat wry tone, her little face holding a look of disappointment.“Yeah…your mama has always been more brains than brawn, doesn’t care for all that physical stuff but tell you what, how about we build it together while I babysit you, like the idea?” Tatum smiles at her.“Really?!” Amara replies excitedly, “You’re awesome!”She hugs Tatum and he chuckles, softly rubbing down her back.Something tugs Leila’s heart seeing the seamless interaction between the both of them, just so natural and she feels her eyes becoming wet, so she looks away quickly, a stabbing pain she doesn’t want to feel striking her heart.This is what she wanted, this is what she saw, this…..Tatum being a good father to their kids, loving them, doting on them, it’s why she held on, why sh
“You were just leaving,” Leila replies coldly, sifting for other options in her mind. She doesn’t want her mother remaining in custody for even one more second but Tatum is not looking after her child. “She’ll be safe with him, we don’t have much time,” Kelvin says in a frantic tone, his grip tightening on his briefcase. “Mama….” Amara’s little voice coerces. Leila grits her teeth, her ego taking a punch as she says. “Fine, nothing better happen to my child.” “She’ll be as safe as safe can be, you have my word.” Leila scoffs as she walks closer to Tatum, handing him Amara, mindlinking him. ‘We both know you’re not a man of your word, so just look after my child and if I find out you have anything to do with Amanda not being here or the judge’s emergency, I’ll cut your balls out and feed it to you.’ ‘You’ve always liked to have your hands on my balls Leila, I guess old habits die hard,’ Tatum replies, winking at her. ‘Fuck off and I mean it,’ her voice comes colder, frowning at
“All rise,” the court clerk announces and they all stand to their feet as the judge comes inside.The court is divided into two rows by a single aisle, each row further divided into six columns in a linear sitting arrangement.The judge takes his seat at the podium and Kelvin turns back from his attorney’s desk to look at Leila sitting right behind him on the first row on the right column, giving her a reassuring nod before taking his seat and Leila does the same.Carmela smiles sinisterly at them from behind Leila. Trent never appeared in the courtroom after giving Carmela the necessary information that she needed.The clerk remains standing, announcing. “All those having business with this court plea, stand forward and Judge Bruce Tanner will hear you.”“Bring in the accused,” the judge says and immediately, the door opens up and Liana is led in by two guards with chains around her hands and feet, her eyes looking desolate and pale, her body visibly weak.Leila’s heart breaks with p
Everyone files out of the courtroom after the session, Kelvin goes to do the paperwork for Liana’s release so she can go home with them while Leila sits on the bench just outside the courtroom waiting for them to return. She takes out her phone and calls the house phone to check on Amara. Surprisingly she doesn’t feel as anxious as she thought she would, leaving Amara in Tatum’s care. Maybe because he’s her father or probably because a part of her knows that somewhere inside Tatum’s cold and dead heart is affection and kindness, the same kindness he extended towards her when he married her after her house was attacked. He may say he did it out of selfish love which is an obvious lie because that man doesn’t have an ounce of love for her in his heart but looking back at that event, her becoming Luna was the only thing that could have saved her from the onslaught. No one takes the call, she tries again and gets the same result. A sense of panic slowly begins to rise inside her to com
Leila scoffs, a smile on her lips as she pulls back to look at Carmela in the eyes, her gaze dripping with smugness.It’s obvious Carmela believes she wants Tatum back and thinks the news of the pregnancy is supposed to make her jealous but who cares?Coming back here, she had a lot of theories in her head, one of them being that they would be a loving family, Tatum, Carmela and one or two pups but Carmela doesn’t even live with him.“Do you know who my new neighbour is?” Leila smirks smugly and Carmela frowns, giving Leila the answer she needs.“That’s right, even if you’re pregnant with his child, he still wants to wake up and see me. I’ll probably invite him over for dinner one night, you never know what a good meal, a couple glasses of strong wine, a hot dress and the right conversation can lead to?” Leila flicks her brows suggestively, a cocky smirk perfectly etched on her lips.Carmela clenches her fist, her head turning red in frustration and she sneers at Leila, her chest risi
Yes she is, she’s telling him everything but her words that she wants to be with him and he’s smart enough to see that. If only she knows how much he wants to have her, how he wants to taste those small pout lips of hers and kiss them dry of moisture, how he wants to run his tongue over every inch of her body, the many times he’s imagined being intimate with her in plenty different ways but imagination is all it will ever remain. He doesn’t want to take advantage of her. Does she really love him or is she trying to move on from who she loves using him? What if she realises it too late? He shouldn’t care about that, the other guy messed up, big time, but everytime in the last four years that he wants to make a move on her, he just finds that he cannot. He has loved this woman since he was a little boy and he wants nothing more than to be by her side for a lifetime. As a boy, he would pray daily to the goddess that she would be his mate, the one made specially for him. Nothing i
“Leila, seriously wait,” Kelvin rushes to the side of Leila’s car window as she revs up the car.She doesn’t listen, doesn’t even take a glance at him as she slams her foot down and takes off into the night, her vision blur with tears, her heart full of sorrow and pain.Maybe love isn’t meant for her. Maybe she isn’t meant to be happy with a man in her life.The man she loved with all of her heart and soul betrayed her and spat on her love and the one person who has been there for her, who she has been trying to see if things can work between them because she may have feelings for him keeps pushing her away.What else does she have to do? How else can she show him that she desires to be with him? She has said it in between words, used body language, everything.Kelvin is not clueless, she sees the look in his eyes, how he looks at her, the sensuality hidden in his gaze, the passion behind it, he has feelings for her too but why does he refuse to act on it, why does he turn down her ad