OLIVIA“I didn’t mean to hurt your mother; you have got to believe that. we spent weeks scouting and learning that man’s routine. Your mother was never with him, he was always alone. We thought he was alone that day as well, but your mother was with him.” he tried to explain but my head was buzzing and the pain I felt in my heart was unimaginable.He claimed to love her and yet, he killed her. “Why did you want to kill the poor man in the first place? He did nothing to you!” I yelled in anger. “He was not as innocent as you think, he did nothing to me, but he was abusing your mother. The bastard hit her, and I was not going to sit back and let it happen. The plan was to get rid of him and take you both into hiding so the Don won’t find you.”I chuckled. “How did that work out for you, huh?” he averted his gaze from me and looked back out the window. “It didn’t work out as you know, the love of my life died because of me.” that was all he could think about. What about me? I suffered af
MARCUSAs soon as I was told about what Jones was doing. I asked my people to make sure my money was safe, I didn’t care about the businesses he was targeting, they only represented a fraction of what I owned. The man didn’t know who I was, he thought he was dealing with an ordinary man, but I was far from it.I was raised by my mother until I was sixteen when big men in luxurious cars showed up one day. I didn’t know who they were or why they were there. Their auras scared me, I was after all just a poor boy living with his mother, such cars I only saw on tv at a friend’s house as we didn’t have any at home.There was just something about them I couldn’t put my finger on. Something familiar especially about the one who seemed like he was the boss and yet, I had never met the man. My mother called me that day and told me that the man who came was my uncle.I thought mom didn’t have family, but she told me he was not from her side but my father’s side, my blood boiled when I heard tha
OLIVIAAfter staying in my room for hours with Lupita comforting me. I ended up falling asleep. I don’t know when Lupita left my room but when I woke up this morning. She was nowhere to be found but Samuel was next to me watching me. A smile formed on my lips. “Morning baby how are you?” he giggled burying his face on my chest.My heart warmed, in whatever happens in my life, I would never be alone, and I have unconditional love from this little boy. I am blessed. “Food mama.” I smiled getting up then picking him up going to the front. Breakfast was already there; grandma was already eating. “You are here, good. I thought I will have to come and get you two.”I placed Samuel on his seat and took mine. “Mmm, everything looks so good.” As if on que my stomach rumbled. Samuel laughed. “Mama is hungry boy.” I was since yesterday but when I got back, I was too sad to eat or even think about food.“Turn on the tv Lupita, I want to watch the news or at least listen to them.” grandma said, he
OLIVIAI didn’t know if I heard right or if I was hearing things, but I just stood there waiting for him to repeat himself. “Talk to me.” he said, and I opened my mouth to say something, but nothing came out. “Am not sure what am supposed to say.”“It’s a simple answer that I am looking for, a yes or a no.” oh, Lord, he did ask me to marry him. oh God. I never thought I would get married again and I was fine with that. also, Marcus and I just started dating. “You don’t know me that well to be asking me to marry you and besides, we have a lot of work to do. Nick is attacking you and that means his attacking me too. Let’s focus on that.”He said nothing and just looked at me. I didn’t know what else to say, so, I took a seat and looked out the window. “Look at me, Olivia.” I turned to look at him. “Do I look like I am worried about what Nick is doing?” he didn’t look worried at all. It was like those businesses meant nothing to him.“No and why is that. why are you not worried about wh
NICKMy feet felt heavy as I walked out of the room, I felt empty inside as I was leaving my heart behind. She did not want me anymore and she was ready to marry someone else. Why couldn’t she see me, why couldn’t she see that I was there, trying to make things right between us. Why won’t she give me a few minutes of her time to explain what I had been doing?It hurt me to see her cry like that, for the first time since she got out, I saw how hurt she was by my actions. I wished I could tell her how much I regretted everything, how sorry I was and to tell her that I had fixed grandma’s grave. That I had sent Sandra up stairs and had her locked up in there. That she was never going to hurt her or us again.To tell her that everything was going to be okay, that I didn’t care if Samuel was not my son or that she slept with Marcus, I didn’t care about any of that. I just wanted her back. I needed her back. Tension gathered on my shoulders, and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I went to the
NICKEthan liked exaggerating things, what could a small-time businessman do to me? I am Nick Jones, and I have more wealth than he did. Why would I fear him? Ethan shoved his hands in his pockets and gave me a look like I was the biggest moron who ever lived. “What?” he chuckled dryly. Opened his mouth to say something but closed it again.I knew what was happening when he was like that. he was trying to tell me whatever it was in the most respectable way possible to avoid swearing the shit out of me. “You know how my company is mostly into information gathering?” I nodded like a five-year-old.“Do you think I would have let anyone near Olivia without doing a little research on them?” I shook my head again, maybe I was the biggest moron who ever lived. Why didn’t I think of that, why didn’t I ask him to look into Marcus? I think it was because she knew him from back in high school that I never thought he was a threat.What a moron I was, that was how I lost her in the first place. No
OLIVIAI looked at the man before me and I couldn’t help but feel lucky and blessed. Not many would want a damage woman like me, but he knew everything, and he still wanted me. “Marcus, this means I can’t carry a child and…”“Does it also mean you don’t have eggs?” I frowned. “Olivia, you have everything we need to have a biological child if that is what we want in the future. We can get a surrogate to carry the baby for us. Also, we can adopt if that is what we want. You have no excuse to refuse to marry me, at least you can’t use that one.”I looked at him, he had everything in the world at his disposal, he had the money, the looks, the charm, everything! He could get any woman he wanted but he was choosing me. I didn’t understand. “Olivia, I love you, scratch that. I am in love with you. I always have been since high school.”He took my hand in his, giving me a tender look. “When I was away, I had people keeping an eye on you. I was still studying myself and had no access to my mon
NICK“Don’t you even think about it!” Ethan bellowed next to me. he might have seen my fists and thought I would go crazy again and punch the elevator doors this time. But that was not the case, I was angry seeing her wearing his ring, but I decided not to do anything. It hurt so badly that I was numb.I didn’t know what to do, all I wanted was to get home and drink myself to a stupor. “I was not going to do anything.” Ethan gave me a sceptical look, his hands that were in his pockets were now out and hanging on his sides. He was ready for anything, if only he knew that the only stupid thing, I wanted to do was to drink myself to death.Elevator doors opened revealing my mother. She looked shocked to see me but said nothing moving to the side for us to enter. We silently entered and stood there. “What happened to your hand?” I glanced at it. but said nothing, looking forward and waiting for the elevator doors to open so I could get the hell out of there.As if it heard me, it opened,
OLIVIA I didn't stay after asking that question to Marcus, I know that he doesn't know the answer to that question as well. I might be hurt by everything that is happening but I know he is hurting as well. He doesn't show it but he is a shadow of the man I married. I have my doubts some days, especially when he is enjoying himself too much with that woman. I pour myself a glass of warm milk trying to get myself to sleep. Just when i lift the glass to take a sip, a knock comes on the door. I glance at the wall clock and it's after ten. Who could it be at this time? The person knocked again. "Who is it?" I asked moving away from the door. If it was Ethan, he would have called first and he has a key.I moved back some more worried to death. "Olivia, open the door." I stop moving and frown. That sounded like my father, what could he be doing here at this time of the night? "Olivia! Open the door." I rush to the door and open. Indeed, it is him with Nick by his side. "What are you two d
MARCUSI should have never suggested we have a baby, it is all my fault that this is happening now. If I didn't suggested it, my wife wouldn't be suffering, she, Samuel and I would be happy now. Going to the park together, trips, movies, dinners. Doing everything a happy couple should be doing. But I got greedy, I wasn't conted with what I had and I wanted more. Why, why did i want more, why couldn't I be content with things the way they were? Was it because Samuel is not my biological son? No that's not it. It was because I was afraid I would lose him to his real father when the truth came out.I wanted to have a child of my own so that it wouldn't hurt much when he left. Basically, I wanted a consolation prize which I was not meant to have. Now I am stuck with that disgusting woman and hurting my wife. As if she has not been hurt enough, as if the pain Nick caused her wasn't enough. Why the fuck aren't humans ever content? Men to be specific. We always want more.More money, more s
NICKI sat on that jet with the image of Olivia's sunken face engraved in my mind. I wanted to talk to her, find out if she was alright but as soon as the pitch was over, she disappeared. I thought of going over to her house to find out what was going on. Use the excuse that she invited me over not so long ago. But I held back, if she still wanted to talk to me, then she would have done so at the hotel after the pitch. But instead she left, that meant she was not ready to talk yet. But the image of her walking around looking like the dead hurt me. What could have happened to her? It's only been two months since I last saw her and she was happy. "Sir, we are here." I looked out and saw that we were outside Luke's office. Did he know what was happening with his daughter? I doubt it, he would have been there for her if he knew. A sigh left me. Owen opened the door for me and I got out. When I got to his office, i knocked once and let myself in. "I knew it could only be you who would h
OLIVIAI have tried, the Lord knows, I have tried. I have tried to keep the promise i made to my husband for the sake of our child. I have tried to be brave, to endure but it's too difficult. Each day I see less and less of my husband. Each day i lose a part of me, a part of my marriage, my happiness. I feel like I was never meant to be happy in this world. At least not with someone by myside, maybe my destiny is to remain alone, rasing my kids and working to make a life for them. One that will be way better than the one I had. Maybe I should just give up on love and focus on those who need me the most. My kids.I have desperately tried to love, first it was Nick, I gave him my all and he betrayed me. Now Marcus, the man is doing the most for the woman who came into my home as a nobody, just carrier for my child but now seems to own my home. My house no longer feels like home and I find myself not wanting to go back at the end of the day.I used to look forward to going home but now
OLIVIAMy blood boiled, “Excuse me, what did you just say?” Lupita was right, the woman did think she was the madame of the house. Where the hell did, she get the audacity to say something like that to me and in my own house. Treating my son like that in his home, she was the guest, and she seemed to forget that.“I asked what are you going to do if I call him a brat?” she repeated herself and I closed the distance between us. Marcus was quick to pull me aside. “Let us all calm down here,” he turned to Jennifer. “I know you are emotional, and little thing might upset you, but Samuel is a child. You don’t treat him like that.”She laughed as if she was a crazy woman. “Then what am I carrying Marcus? Is it not your child that I am carrying and trying to protect? Why would you even reprimand me and not this boy for being so careless? I could have been holding hot tea and it would have spil
OLIVIAI trusted my husband, besides our recent disagreements about Jennifer. I felt like there was something else going on. I didn’t want to think he was cheating on me with her, he was not that kind of man. Well, I also thought Nick was not that kind of man.He said he never cheated as well, that nothing ever happened between him and Sandra. But in my opinion, what he did with her was far worse than cheating. He neglected me, trusted her over me and even sent me to jail. I had a criminal record under my name because of him.Then there was my current husband, he looked hurt when he said he would do better, when he said he thought he was better than only to find out that they were the same. Then he told me to always remember that I was his, that he loved me.That alone told me that something was going on with him, something that might make me doubt his love for me. I wished I knew what it was, I wished he would talk to me and tell m
MARCUSI was going crazy; it was like Jennifer was possessed. The way she was threatening me, it made me wonder what happened to her, the woman we met and interviewed. Or was the person she was showing me now the real her and the woman we interviewed was fake.Was it all a lie? I did say there was something with her that I couldn’t put my finger on. I guess this was it, she was a psychopath and a pathological liar. There was no way a normal person could act the way she did. I feared for my wife as she didn’t seem to like her much.I feared for my baby even though she seemed to think that it was hers and mine. Just what kind of psychological test did the do with these women in the clinic and how did they miss that Jennifer was fucking crazy!When I was done with her feet she was yawning. I left when she was about to get out of the bath. I didn’t know what to do. All I knew was that I needed to tell someone. My wife? No, i
JENNIFERI clenched my hands into fists. Olivia, what the fuck have you done now? Marcus was warming up to me and doing everything I wanted. Then you went and ruined it all. You are starting to piss me off and you don’t want me to be pissed off. there is a lot I can do to make your life a living hell.“Of course, I can run myself a bath.”“Do that then.” He was so cold to me, colder than I have ever seen him and it was all Olivia’s fault. That woman doesn’t like seeing other people happy, she thinks she is the only one who deserves happiness. He turned and started walking away.“She might be working all day, but I am the one growing a human inside me, your baby. I would think my job is more important than hers, not unless you don’t really want this baby then I will understand.” He stopped in his tracks and slowly turned to look at me.His face void of emotions and if looks
MARCUSI couldn’t believe what I was hearing, so, she decided to tell Nick about Samuel. She even called him her son’s real father, like I was nothing but a replacement. I saw how tired she was, and I went to call the masseuse, I had booked for her, Lupita, grandma and Jennifer.I wanted them to relax and be pampered. She and I had a long way to go when the baby arrived. I wanted to spoil her now before all our time was taken by the baby. I guess, she was eager for her and Nick to get back together. Maybe I was just wasting my time trying to show her that I only wanted to be with her.I turned back without saying a word going straight to our room. I laid down staring at the ceiling as if it was going to provide me with answers or great wisdom on how to deal with what was happening. I didn’t know how long I laid there for when the door opened.My beautiful wife walked in, and I could not help but take in the sight of her. she looks radiant but the look in her eyes was distant and sad.