“You know what is worse than fear?” He asked me, his eyes pinned on mine while I looked down at him in the wheelchair he sat in rather comfortably. I shook my head and he breathed out. “Me.” “I will help you ruin everyone who brought tears to your eyes. I will bring them to your feet. I will make them cry, and plead for your forgiveness.” “A… and… what do I do in return?” I sniffed back the tears that laced in my eyes. “Marry me.” === Just when I thought life could not get worse after my husband divorced me after I miscarried our child, a sniper was sent to unalive me and while I ran for my dear life that midnight, a car bumped into me. Leaving a marriage and getting into another one almost immediately was one I had never hoped for, not especially when I thought I would be free again. But still, I accepted his proposal. And I married this crippled billionaire, but on our wedding night, he stood up.
View MoreNicholas couldn't miss the change in his friend’s facial expression after he dropped the call and then wheeled his chair.“Who is that?”“She just called,” he answered as he wheeled the chair to the door.Nicholas stood up, and hurried after his friend, adjusting his lab coat. “Who?”Lorenzo smacked his tongue as he wheeled out and then stopped for a moment, grabbing his phone.Nicholas waited while he dialed a number and when the person picked up, he said, “Find her. She is in trouble.”“Who is in trouble, Enzo?”Lorenzo raised his head to look at his friend and then tilted his head. “My fiance.”“N… no way?”“She has agreed to marry me,” he answered, and thenWheeled to the elevator.After Lorenzo had left Leilani’s ward about an hour ago, he had been in his friend’s office since then.Nicholas Cooper was his best friend and then the CEO of the hospital that he had brought Leilani to.While they had been friends for almost two decades, the man knew of every secret that he had been h
Leilani watched as the man pressed a button from his wheelchair, and then it wheeled him back gently.“Where…” she trailed off when he wheeled to the door.“I will be expecting your answer, Leilani,” he said, and the door opened.She opened her mouth, wondering what had just happened, and then tilted her head.He was expecting her answer.She was definitely not going to accept his proposal but if by chance she wanted to, how the hell was she going to reach him?She had no phone with her and looking around the room, there was no contact card that the man might have left for her so she could reach him.“Very… weird,” she tilted her head and then adjusted gently.After a while of laying in the bed, with her eyes closed, the door slid open and she sprang up in alert as the unfamiliar, unfriendly-looking man trailed in.“Who…” she swallowed when he stopped by her bedside.“Boss asked me to give this to you,” he said and then dropped the box on the drawer beside her bed.He gave her a short
Leilani leaned back, chuckling dryly as she stared at the man, hoping that he would laugh at his own joke too.But, he was unfazed.His lips didn’t even move.His eyes scrutinized her face like he was reading every detail on it, and his hands were clasped together on his thighs.“Y… you’re serious,” she stated when there was still no change in his facial expression.“Marry you?!” She widened her eyes and he only shrugged his shoulders off.“You have no idea what you’re talking about,”She shook her head.And he probably does not.First, he was asking a total stranger to marry him! Second, she was just getting the fuck out of a fucking marriage!“I mean every word of mine, Leilani. Marry me, and I will help you enact punishment on everyone who has hurt you. I will…”“What punishment?” she cut him short, frowning.“F… for someone who is meeting me for the first time, you seem too informed about me. You sound as though you know me and everything that I have been through, but you don’t!
“L… Lorenzo?” She stuttered, closed her eyes for a bit, and then opened it again.She struggled to sit up gently while the man watched her with nothing but amusement in his eyes.Or was it not?His lips tugged gently into a soft smirk. Very gently that she almost wouldn’t see that.“How long have I been out?”“Twelve hours,” he glanced at his wristwatch and answered.She breathed heavily as she finally sat up properly and looked around.She was in a very huge ward. A VIP room, as they would call it and she wondered if this was not much for just fainting.The man was still looking at her, and finally, he pressed a button on his wheelchair and it wheeled him over to her bed.Now, she was staring directly at him.He had very distinct, cold features, but all that she could think of was how a man as fine as him could be confined to a wheelchair.He had piercing eyes which bore into her each time he looked at her and a sharp chiseled jawline that seemed to have been carved from stone, not t
Tightening her grip around the traveling box that rested gently by her leg, Leilani swallowed hard as she bore her eyes into the gate, hoping that it would suddenly open and Jonathan would rush out and then usher her in while he begged her that he had made a terrible mistake.She could only dream, of course, but she wished.Tears streamed down her face, her sweaty palm fondled into a tight fist while the other held the handle of her box gently.After she had signed the document, forcefully, Maxwell, Jonathan’s sister had taken up the task to gather her loads and had surely made sure to leave out a lot of them, obviously.“The divorce will go through with or without you around. I have my way with it. You will get your alimony from my lawyer tomorrow,” he had said before his sister and mother walked her out of the house.Dumbfounded beyond comprehension, Leilani walked out of the house, trying as hard as she could to keep her tears in and not break down in front of these people.“Ugh, f
With shaky legs, Leilani staggered up the stairs, struggling to not burst into tears so those people laughing loudly behind her wouldn’t have leverage over her.Not like they didn’t already.It was as if the world she had known was crumbling away and it hurt more because there was absolutely nothing that she could do about it.Turning the knob of the door to her room, she breathed out and then entered.However, she had not entered fully before she caught the whiff of luggage settled in the corner of her room.Her matrimonial room.Their house had just three rooms, and her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were occupying two, leaving one for her and Jonathan.Even though she was aware of how the man was displeased with them sharing a room, they still had no other choice than to.He rarely comes home and sleeps in the bed with her anyway.“Her luggage is here… already,” she stated as if anyone was there to hear her.She dropped the document on the bed, walked to the bags, and then sniffed
She was trying her best not to look at the woman who sat on the couch, her hands on her belly, like she was announcing to her that she was indeed carrying a baby in her womb.But all of this was still confusing.She needed a proper explanation as to why her husband had brought another woman home and why her in-laws were not seeing any problem with it.Jonathan returned with a brown envelope in his hand and she swallowed hard when he stretched it at her.“What is…” she sniffed.“It is divorce documents, Leilani,” he said, confirming her doubts.He had settled beside the woman again and now the paper in the envelope was already in her hand and she was scanning through it with tears in her eyes.“W… why?” her voice broke.“Why?” Nancy, her mother-in-law answered instead and burst into laughter.Nancy might actually have been the root of everything that was going on in the house.She and Jonathan had started off pretty well.Although Nancy had never been in support of their union right fr
“I am sorry to inform you that we lost the baby.”......Silence ensued as Leilani tilted her head and stared at the doctor for a few minutes before he moved closer to her and shook her gently.“Are you okay, ma’am?”“I… I didn’t get you,” she shook her head.Did he intend to pass that news to someone else?“We are sorry. We tried our…”“Hold on. What baby?” She cut him short, her brows pulling together.“What?”“You said I lost my baby. I don’t understand you,” she let out a dry chuckle.“You… you didn’t know that you were pregnant?”Leilani stiffened and widened her eyes. Pregnant?She had never been pregnant for once since her four years in marriage, so how could she have miscarried a baby she didn’t even have?“You are mistaken,” she shook her head.“I'm sorry, ma’am.”“No! There is no way I was… pregnant!” She cried out.“You are wrong with the test result. Run it again.”Her eyes darted as she shook her head at the piece of information that she had just received.There was no
“I am sorry to inform you that we lost the baby.”......Silence ensued as Leilani tilted her head and stared at the doctor for a few minutes before he moved closer to her and shook her gently.“Are you okay, ma’am?”“I… I didn’t get you,” she shook her head.Did he intend to pass that news to someone else?“We are sorry. We tried our…”“Hold on. What baby?” She cut him short, her brows pulling together.“What?”“You said I lost my baby. I don’t understand you,” she let out a dry chuckle.“You… you didn’t know that you were pregnant?”Leilani stiffened and widened her eyes. Pregnant?She had never been pregnant for once since her four years in marriage, so how could she have miscarried a baby she didn’t even have?“You are mistaken,” she shook her head.“I'm sorry, ma’am.”“No! There is no way I was… pregnant!” She cried out.“You are wrong with the test result. Run it again.”Her eyes darted as she shook her head at the piece of information that she had just received.There was no...
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