OLIVIA
The next day, Marcus treated me like a queen. He had breakfast brought up and ran me a bath. Then he asked if I still wanted to go to our honeymoon as planned. He said we can call it a pre-honeymoon or just a vacation then go on our honeymoon when the wedding finally happens. Obviously, I refused and told him I wanted to sort this thing with Nick out and we can have our wedding then go on honeymoon.
Of course, he agreed. Even offered to take me to my meeting with him but I told him I wanted to do it on my own. Now I was standing in front of a mirror after finishing getting ready and not sure if I wanted to go. I should have let him accompany me. it’s just that this meeting could go either way because with Nick, you never know what to expect.
“You can do this, Olivia. Remember, that man who claims to be your father can hear everything and will be there should something go wrong, not that it would but just in case.” I gave
NICKWhen she told me that she forgave me, my heart danced. I was so grateful to her for that and even saw our future together. That was until she told me that she didn’t want me back and that the only thing she wanted was for me to sign the divorce papers and set her free. I couldn’t help the tears; I knew there were people around, but I didn’t care.I let my tears fall feeling my heart break in half. Olivia, do you know how much you are hurting me? I didn’t think she knew for if she did, she would not have done it so carelessly. She would not have just left me like that.Olivia, do you know that without you my life has no meaning?I didn’t think she did because to her, I was just the man who hurt her. I was heartless and yet. She was the one who had my heart. She left me at the restaurant, and I didn’t have the energy to leave. My head was still lowered, and my tears were flowing like a river.“Fuck! Man, come on, let’s go.” Oh, she must have called Ethan because he was the one who
OLIVIATwo days have passed and there has been no sign of Nick. His phone was not going through and Ethan had sent out Owen and others of Nick’s men to go looking for him. He has also been everywhere looking for him in the places that they usually go to, but he was not there. Everyone was getting worried, and I couldn’t help but blame myself for his disappearance.I saw he was not alright that day and I shouldn’t have left him like that. Maybe I should have made sure he was fine before leaving. “Where the hell is Olivia? Olivia!” I sighed, there we go, it has been long overdue. I knew one of these days she was going to come and blame me for everything.“Olivia, just when I thought I could give you the benefit of the doubt you go and do something like this.”“I told you that Olivia did nothing wrong. She called me that day to be with Nick when she saw he wasn’t alright. I am the one who let him drive off on his own not Olivia. If you want someone to blame, then blame me.” Ethan said c
OLIVIAI have been treated badly before by police and that was because Nick ordered them to. I thought this time would be different, but I think it was worse. When we got to the station, mine and Marcus’s lawyers were already there. We were both taken into interrogation. I thought we would be separated but no.Firstly, the detective said we were his number one suspects when we got there which our lawyers protested to and demanded evidence. That was when we were taken into interrogation. “Let us begin, I will start with you Mrs Jones. Tell me, where did you go after leaving the restaurant where you were meeting your husband?”“Stop calling him her husband.” Detective Rogers just glanced at Marcus then looked back at me. My lawyer nodded; I had nothing to hide anyway. “I went to the shops then home.” He nodded. “What did you buy, and do you have the receipts?”“Yes, I do. I can get them for you.” he nodded. “Now tell me, how did you feel after your husband stopped your wedding?” I sighe
OLIVIAI was about to protest and ask him to let us try on our own, but he had already cut the call. Great! Another thing for Nick’s mother to blame me for. She will think that I asked Luke to help and wanted to get her son into trouble. But then again, both Nick and Luke were grown men. Nothing I say or do was going to change who they were or what they wanted to do.If Nick was hurt, he should have found a way to call and tell people where he was. Not unless he couldn’t for some reason. Also, when he gave his car away then he would or could have given that lady some kind of a message to indicate that he needed help. Or was giving the car away the indication of him wanting help?No one could know what was going through that man’s mind when he did what he did, and I didn’t know why I was being blamed for his stupidity. “What is the matter?” I sighed feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders. “Luke,” Marcus gave my hand a little squeeze.“Tell me.”“He is going to look for Nick.”
OLIVIAYou know when the world has turned against you, when nothing you do seems to go well. Everything you try seems to fall apart. That is what is happening to me right now. Nothing in my life is going well. Back when I was arrested, I thought if I had money like my husband did then things would have been better.Now, I have the money and the support but for the life of me. nothing is going well. It’s been a week and Nick Jones is still missing. The police are on my back about the whole thing, watching my every move as if I will lead them to where the man is. My hope, Luke. ended when the third day came and gone with no word from him.Right now, all the evidence the police have points to me having something to do with his disappearance. Ethan and Marcus gave them the phone and they found all the texts and calls nothing more. But they still feel like I am hiding something. Marcus was right, Nick Jones always finds a way to fuck up my life.Marcus might love me, but no man will stand
OLIVIAWe all turned and there stood Luke. Anger visible on his face, hands clenched into fists. “Who are you?” detective Rogers asked. “I said shut the fuck up and get your fucking hands off my daughter before I cut them off!” I cringed at the anger and the man didn’t look like he was joking. The two policemen with Rogers’s hands went to their guns holding them and waiting.Luke glanced at them then back at Rogers. “Tell your dogs to keep their hands off those guns if they know what is good for them.” detective Rogers glared at Luke and closed the distance between them. I wanted to stop him, he didn’t know what or who he was dealing with, and I didn’t want my house to turn into a crime scene.I quite loved the house. “I don’t know who you are, but I am an officer of the law, and you are interfering with the law here. I suggest you let me do my job if you know what is good for you and stop threatening me.” Luke chuckled, slightly shaking his head.The man stood tall then the chuckle d
NICKAfter I left, I didn’t care about a phone because I wanted some peace and quiet. I didn’t think of the mess my disappearance would cause back there. When Luke and his men showed up at the cabin, I was busy chopping wood. He didn’t ask questions when he saw me. the man rained punches on me then threw me in the trunk of his car and drove me back here.That was why I looked the way I did. Coming back and finding Olivia about to be arrested, I understood Luke’s anger. His daughter was about to be arrested again because of me. that made me angry not only at the detective for doing a poor job but at myself for putting her through that again. She was right not to come back to me.I couldn’t protect her, the only thing I seem to be good at doing was causing her pain and sending her to jail. The way she looked was like she lost weight; my heart sank. I really have messed up her life and it was enough. I had to let her go and find her peace and happiness. But I must say, having her shoutin
OLIVIAI slept well that night, so well that I even slept in. I had no worry that it could be my last night as a free woman and sleeping on a comfortable bed. I didn’t sleep well since Nick disappeared because the detective was on my case threatening me about jail. I would stay up at night unable to sleep thinking about different scenarios of me in prison.I didn’t know what I was going to be like this time around, but I knew enough about prison to know that it was not going to be a walk on the park. I also, know that this time. It was going to be many years before I could see the sun again. The thought of my son visiting me in jail killed me. I wouldn’t sleep after that.Even though Marcus was not talking to me, he would wake up and take me into his arms without saying a word. I think that was his way of telling me that he was there for me and that I was safe. That I had nothing to worry about.I woke up and sat there looking at the ceiling and thinking about how fucked up my life al
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.