NICKI walked out of my ward with mother calling my name. I bumped into father outside. “Son, I thought you just had a heart attack. Was your mother just scaring me to get me here?” he looked so worried. “Apparently, I did have a heart attack, and I just discharged myself.” I walked past him. “Nick, where the hell do you think you are going then?”“To find out who did that to my wife using my name.” father said nothing else, I believe that he too knew what I was talking about. I was the only moron who didn’t know and kept causing her pain on top of everything else. I went to the third floor where ICU was. When I got there Marcus was still there. He didn’t say a word to me.I went and opened Olivia’s room. Ethan sat on a wheelchair by her side with a bandage on his head. What the hell happened to him? he let go of her hand when I got inside. “What happened to you?” I asked. “I was in the same car she was in.” what the hell was he doing with her?“We were coming from dinner when the acci
NICKA week past and Olivia had not woken up. It was driving me crazy. I had tried everything I could think of to get her to wake up. I have asked the nanny to bring Samuel to the hospital to see and talk to her. hoping that she would wake up, but she didn’t. I even let Marcus go into her room and talk to her. mother and father tried as well but my beautiful wife remained sleeping.Ethan was discharged four days ago, but he too lived in the hospital same as me. I would work during the day then at night I would be at the hospital with my wife. Marcus and Ethan rotated the day shift when I was at work. They would be at the hospital keeping an eye on her. We were working on the theory that if that person who ran them off the road wanted her dead, then he was going to try again.For the sake of Olivia, we all put our differences aside and worked together to protect her. In the past week I had seen how much my wife was loved and cared for. The two men I thought had different motives towards
NICKI thought Ethan has something to do with my men at the prison disappearing but after what I had witnessed with mother, father and the man. I was beginning to think that whoever they were afraid of was the one responsible. I hit the wall repeatedly feeling angry and helpless.With all the fucking money I had, I couldn’t do anything to find that person or protect my wife from him. just who the hell was he? “Woah! The wall did nothing to you man.” Ethan said stopping me from hitting the wall. My knuckles were raw and bleeding. My hand throbbed but the pain was nothing compared to the pain and anger I was feeling inside.“Did something happen?” I wished everyone could stop asking me that question and assuming the worst about my wife. “Mother knows who did this, or at least I think she does, but she is too afraid of him to even say his name.” Ethan’s jaw tightened.“Then we find him ourselves, he didn’t go after Olivia alone. I was also in that car; I could have been killed.”“I was wa
NICKMy whole body shook in anger, and I pushed myself off the wall. “I am going to fucking kill HER!” I pushed right past Ethan and just as I rounded a corner my sister appeared out of nowhere. “Woah, where is the fire?” I glared at her, the sight of her made my stomach churn. “Get the fuck out of my way!” my voice was dangerously low and threatening.“Okay, jeez!” she moved aside, I took one step, but Ethan held my arm stopping me. “Why didn’t you tell me this before? I could have told you the truth and prevented you from making the biggest mistake of your life.”“She fucking convinced me not to! I believed her and her doctor confirmed everything! What was I supposed to think?”“Tell me the name of the doctor, I will go there. I want to know why he lied.” The damn thing was a web of lies and even her doctor was involved. I remember that day I wanted to bring her here, but she refused and said she wanted her doctor.The man has a practice close to the mall and I took her there. I told
ETHANSomething clicked in me when Nick told me that, “Let me call you back Nick.” I cut the call and rushed to my car. “Go back to the hospital.” The drive back to the hospital felt very long and it didn’t help that I was on the edge of my seat with worry. My stomach twisted painfully at the thoughts I was having.I hoped it wasn’t true, but it would be the only thing that made sense in all of this. “Step on it or find back roads, I don’t care, just get me there and fast.” My driver swerved and started overtaking cars careful not to hit anyone. We got to the hospital in record time, and I rushed to the third floor.Those few minutes in the elevator felt like hours, why didn’t they make those things a little faster than they were. Getting there I looked around and couldn’t spot the person I was looking for. Instead, I saw Marcus in the waiting room reading something in the newspaper. “Where is she?”He placed the news paper aside with a frown on his face, I didn’t like the guy, I knew
NICKI saw red when she threatened my family like that. In a second, I had my hands wrapped around her neck and squeezing. I was ready to kill her right there and then and prevent her from laying a finger on my family. “Why are you not stopping him from strangling her?” asked Ethan on the side.Marcus shrugged. “They are siblings and siblings fight.” Those morons! “You kill me, you never know who did all those things to Olivia.” I let go of her neck as if it burned me. Ethan was all up in her face in seconds as I stepped back. She coughed uncontrollably and then the evil woman smirked.“You are so easy to fool Nick, did you really think I was going to tell you?” she shook her head as if she pitied me, me, Nick Jones. “I will tell you this though, this whole accident brought you and Olivia close. Or it brought you closer to her because she is out and might not feel the same when she comes to. At least you got to spend two weeks with her, so I guess that’s something.”She continued to sm
NICKWhile we were busy glaring at each other, doctors ran past us going to the direction of Olivia’s room. As if we planned it. All three of us ran there as well, my heart was already beating fast worried that something might have happened to her while we were busy arguing out there. When we got there, we stood by the door and watched as the doctor took out the tubes from her mouth.Her eyes were closed and for a minute there I thought she was dead. My heart sank to the bottom of my stomach and my knees grew weak. That was until she coughed that my world lit up again. I walked forward and she frowned looking at me. I stopped in my tracks remembering that we were not on the best of terms.My sister was right, I was the one getting close to Olivia and she was not there with me. she didn’t even know what was happening the past two weeks. “Water.” Her voice was scratchy, and Ethan jumped and poured water for her and helped her drink. My sister was right about him too. My best friend had f
OLIVIAI listened as Marcus and Ethan told me everything that happened over the past two weeks. I couldn’t believe I missed so much. I didn’t care that Nick claimed our divorce was not final and that I was still his wife. I cared about the fact that he did what was best for me and made sure I got the best care. On that one he was thinking like the Nick I once knew not he monster he became later.“Thank you, guys, for taking care of me and making sure that my son was safe.” Before any of them could answer, the door opened, and Samuel walked in first followed by Lupita and Grandma Susan. “Mama!” he rushed to my bed, Ethan helped him up and he gave me the biggest hug. He must have missed me, my poor son.“How are you baby?” he gave me a thumbs up and a smile. “Thank you for bringing him, Lupita, how are you grandma?” she waved her hand sitting on the chair next to my bed. “I should be the one asking you that, you gave us quite a scare Olivia.”“Am sorry grandma.” She stood taking somethin
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.