OLIVIAMy hands shook as I typed a reply. “Nick, I didn’t do this, you have to believe me.” my eyes were glued to the screen waiting for his reply. I didn’t want to get on Nick’s bad side like that. I wanted revenge yes but in business. I would never go after the family like that. I was not that kind of person.Also, why did he think I did this, what evidence did he have to think that I would do something like that? I stood and started pacing. Nick could be a hot head and there was no telling how he was going to retaliate. He already sent me to jail for something I didn’t do once, who knew what he would do this time.My head was spinning as I kept checking the phone and going to messages like one would magically appear. With him telling me that he understood or that he sent the text to the wrong person, that it was not meant for me. But nothing.“Olivia, what is wrong.” Marcus asked coming in. I handed my phone to him showing him the text. “I don’t know what kind of man this is, doesn
NICKTwo days later and the news about my dad and sister had not died down yet. I was sick of it and wanted it to be over already. But it seemed the reporters were not going to stop until they got the whole story. My parents refused to indulge them, they refused to give a statement again and give them the full story.I have been working from home because my office is crowded by those vultures. It didn’t help that my lawyer wanted me to let my son stay with Olivia. She said it was good for children to grow up with their mothers, but my concern was the kind of role model Olivia was going to be to my son. The woman was not who I thought she was.She went after my family, she might hate me, but she went after her son’s family. What was that? our son still has to know us; what did she think she was doing when she put something like that out in the world for all to see. Did she want our son to grow up thinking that our family was bad
NICKI was shocked, mother would never do something like that. “What are you talking about?” she ignored me and took her bag then headed to the door with me following behind. “I assume you parked at the back, yes?” I nodded and she walked forward.I couldn’t get what she said out of my mind. What did she mean mother chased her mother away? She didn’t seem angry that father found her, she was angrier that he didn’t tell her that he managed to find her. Would someone who chased her mother away back then do that? I didn’t think so.“Don’t think too much little brother, I understand where your mother was coming from. From what I have been told, her relationship with your father was still new when my mother went there with me. she must have felt threatened by her and me.” I said nothing. She sat next to me in the car and Given drove us home.Could it have been mother who warned
NICK“Dad, I…” he shook his head with a disappointed look in his face. “You took that boy from his mother, didn’t you?” I said nothing. “Damnit Nick, didn’t you learn anything from what is happening between me and your sister? Why would you do something like this?”“Because Olivia is not a good role model for my son.” Father scoffed. “And you are?” I kept quiet, at least I was better than Olivia. “Nick, this will further drive a wedge between you and the mother of your child. Is that what you want? For your son to be torn between you and his mother, what do you think he will say one day when his mother tells him that you kidnap him and took him away from her just because you could?”I still said nothing, but I knew one thing. Olivia brought all that to herself. “Do you think we don’t want a relationship with our grandson? We do but we were givi
OLIVIAI sat on the couch close to the window watching Samuel play ball with Lupita. It has been two days since Nick threatened me and I couldn’t take my eyes off my son. Not for a second. He was the only thing Nick could take from me that would destroy me.I was so paranoid that I jumped at every little thing and always looking around. I have been working from home afraid that if I left, It would be the last time I saw him and I would never see him again. Marcus was the one who was busy taking care of business the past two days.Sorting out the launch and dealing with the construction people rebuilding the warehouse. I was only dealing with the factory workers and doing paperwork. I placed the laptop on the coffee table and turned fully to the window and watched my son play.He was laughing and running around chasing the ball. He would try to kick it then end up being the one who falls. I liked how he always got up and tried again.
NICKShe was pissing me off big time. She knew nothing of what was going on between Olivia and I. yet, she insisted on poking her nose where it doesn’t belong. “Stay out of this, you don’t know what is going on here and being a Jones for all of two minutes, doesn’t give you the right to involve yourself in my business. Stay on your lane.”She laughed throwing her head back. “You are funny, little brother. I have not been a Jones for two minutes; I have been one all my life. Just because your mother prevented me from growing up as one doesn’t mean it just happened over night.”“What, what do you mean by that?” father asked looking shocked. Mother on the other hand was glaring at Faren, while she couldn’t care less about the trouble she just caused. “Faren, tell me what you mean by that.” father asked his daughter, but she didn’t even spare him a glance, her eyes were fixed on me.“Why don’t you ask your wife that.” she answered still looking at me. “I am not here for that, and you can
OLIVIAThe moment I heard that scream something in me moved. I knew something was wrong with my son and I had to go there and save him. By the time I got there, Nick’s sister was kneeling over him blowing air into his mouth. I pushed her aside and checked on my son. His breathing was laboured as if something was blocking his airway.I called Nick for him to call for help. Then they started fighting right in front of us. I didn’t care who did what at that time, all I needed was for my son to be alright. Everything else I could deal with after he was taken care of, and I knew he was alright.His sister might have done something to him, or it just happened. Children get sick all the time and we could not blame people for that. “Olivia, she was alone with him. Samuel was fine when she wasn’t here then all of a sudden, he is turning blue and struggling to breathe?”“Nick, I am warning you. stop.” That was his father, by this time his sister was crying. I was about to say something, but I h
NICKI was scared out of my mind when I saw him like that. Olivia was right, I shouldn’t have taken him away from her. He was not even with me for an hour and that happened. My son was not safe with me. As much as I wanted to be with him and take him away from his mother. I didn’t think it was a good time to do so.I did not trust the woman who claimed to be my sister. Father was too blind to see it, but I was not. She did something to my son and I was going to prove it. One way or another, I was going to prove that the woman had ill intensions towards us. Maybe she still held a grudge for what mother did to hers.But to take that out on my innocent boy was something I was not going to tolerate. She could do anything she wanted to me, mother or father but not my son. He had nothing to do with all this. Her anger should be directed at the people who wronged her not my son. I watched her finish her coffee and throw her empty cup into the trash.She turned a corner, and I left the others