OLIVIAI watched as Marcus escorted her out of the house then sat down and continued eating. Lupita raised an eyebrow, but I paid her no mind. Marcus came back and looked at me funny as well. “What?” he shrugged. “I am just wondering if you are okay.” I shoved more food into my mouth and ate.“You should eat Lupita, bring my son back to eat as well.” Marcus furrowed his eyebrows. “You said you will take care of everything. I am deciding to trust you on that and live my life. I am tired of letting these people dictate my life, am tired of their threats and am tired of giving them my time and peace of mind.”A smile appeared on Marcus’s lips. He stood up and pulled me up from my chair. While I was still wondering what was going on, he smashed his lips on mine. My eyes widened in shock, but he didn’t stop kissing me. I then closed my eyes and let myself feel and enjoy the kiss. “Eewww!” we pulled apart laughing.Samual was standing there with his eyes covered, Lupita had a mischievous lo
OLIVIAI watched in horror as Marcus fell backwards, Ethan hiding behind the door and crawling away with Samuel. Grandma Susan falling next to Marcus and defining screams of Lupita. The door closed, I was not sure If I was the one who closed it, or Lupita did.Everything was happening so fast that I couldn’t register who was doing what. Ethan came back still with my son in his arms. “Let’s go around the back, come on!” he yelled but I couldn’t leave Marcus and Grandma Susan. I didn’t want them to burn to death. I couldn’t even tell if grandma was still alive, but Marcus was.But he was losing a lot of blood. He has too many holes on him that I didn’t know which one to put pressure on. It didn’t help that the fire was getting closer, smoke filled the house and the heat from the fire was unbearable. “Come on, Olivia, go get into the car and I will help Marcus.” Ethan shouted.I looked around, Lupita and grandma were no longer in the house. I didn’t know when they left, my focus was on M
OLIVIAWe sat there in silence waiting for his men to send the footage for us to see. I didn’t have to see it to know It was Sandra and Ethen kept telling me I should talk to that man. How was I going to do that when I didn’t even know how to contact him?“May I use your phone; I need to give Lupita feedback about her grandmother.” Ethan took out his phone and handed it to me. I took it and called the hotel, and they connected me to her room. I told her what the doctor told me, and I could hear the relief in her voice when she heard the news.I gave Ethan his phone back but not before looking at the time. It had been three hours since Marcus was sent for surgery, and we have not heard anything. It worried me to death. I needed to know how he was doing. “Nick, where are you going?” I lifted my head to see Nick about to pass the waiting room.He didn’t look good at all. He looked pale as if he was in a lot of pain. He was holding the side of his stomach and limping. “I have to go out th
NICKI glanced at Luke when Olivia said that. he looked as bad as I did. Hurt. He and I had something in common, we both loved Olivia, but she resented us for different reasons. She hated me for what I did to her and protecting Sandra now. But what she didn’t know was that I was doing it for her this time.Me sending Sandra to the psych ward was not to protect her but to punish her. I wanted her to suffer in there, for them to keep her so drugged up that she didn’t know if she was coming or going. If it was night or day.I wanted her to lose sight of reality that she would wake up five years later with no memory of who she was to begin with. But I couldn’t tell her that. I had to let her hate me then see for herself what she would have been like after I was done with her.But I didn’t count on Faren breaking her out, I didn’t even think of her when I sent Sandra there and I still didn’t know how she did
OLIVIAMy heart ached seeing all those tubes coming out of him. Just hours ago, we were having a nice dinner, and he was kissing me. Now he was laying on a hospital bed with tubes all over. We had a moment just one fleeting moment of peace and quiet before all went to hell again.I was beginning to think that Nick’s mother was right. I was a curse, because everyone who got close to me got hurt. Look at Grandma Susan and Lupita. They were fine living a peaceful life in Summer Strand before I came along.I brought them here and look what happened. Grandma almost died, Lupita too. Marcus was fighting for his life with no hope of waking up. It would have been fine if it were me who kept getting hurt but the people I cared about? It was too much.“Look at you, social climber. Now that you don’t have Nick, you are looking for another man with deep pockets to support you. when will you learn Olivia that you don’t belong i
OLIVIAThe frown on my face deepened, I didn’t know If he was a pathological liar or that he was good at playing people. Either way, I didn’t like it. “You never made contact with me, what are you talking about? What I am getting is that the man had me tortured because he could and for whatever reason he had that I will never get to know!”I was shaking in anger; he should have stayed away from me if he knew something like that would happen. He should have never made contact and just when did he make contact? “I didn’t make contact directly, but I had people keep an eye on you. When they informed me about your imprisonment, the Don found out and he didn’t like it.”He sighed running his hand through his hair. “He sent people to hurt you to teach me a lesson, that when he tells me something, I do it, no questions asked or there will be consequences.” He let out a dry chuckle. “As if I made contact physically, the man still went ahead and hurt you to punish me. I couldn’t let that slide
OLIVIAA small chuckle escaped my lips, he was awake and had taken out the tube in his mouth. His voice was scratchy from the tube. Wait! A frown replaced the smile I had. “Why did you take out the tube, you could have hurt yourself.” I reprimanded rushing to his side. He offered me a smile.“If bullets can’t hurt me then there is nothing this little tube could do to me. I am indestructible.” He joked. He was back. Oh, thank the Lord. Now it was time to do what I set out to do. “Let me get the doctor to check on you.” just as I turned to leave, he held my hand.“Not yet just give me water.” I poured him water from the jug next to his bed and helped him drink. I placed the cup back. He still held my hand. “Tell me, why were you crying?” I smiled at him. “It’s not important now.” He studied me but did not force the issue.“What is this I hear about you wanting to leave me.” I gave him a sad smile; he must have heard me talking to him earlier. “Do not focus on that now. Focus on getting
OLIVIAGuilt ate away at me, now that I knew that Nick wasn’t the one who sent those people to hurt me in prison. I felt guilty that I was doing all that to him. yes, he did his fair share of hurtful things to me, but I did not want him to die. One day Samuel was going to ask who his father is and why he wasn’t in his life.I want to be able to look my son in the eyes one day and tell him who his father is and why he wasn’t in his life growing up. It would kill me to have to tell him that his father died, and I had a hand in it. “Ethan, I don’t want Nick in our lives, he might be innocent on somethings, but he has done a lot to me and his presence in our lives right now, is putting my son and everyone I love in danger.”Ethan nodded, he knew as well as I did that the decision I made to keep Nick away, was not taken lightly. I was sorry he was sick but as guilty as I felt, I couldn’t let him back in, not with Sandra still on the loose and not when he is still protecting the woman. “I k
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.