In The Vehicle.Phil and his wife laughed merrily over their accomplishments“Hubby,” she called out.“Yes, my baby.”“I think we had judged Mom wrongly.”“What do you mean?” Phil asked curiously.“It is obvious that Mom traveled to Cairo specifically for Louis and not because she was dating another man.”“I think you are right. That is what I noticed too. Mom is so concerned about her children. Before I met you, I was never aware that the four of you were not from the same mother.”“Yes. You are not wrong if you think that way. Everyone thought so. They thought that Arthur was our biological father, too. I pray that things work out between the two of them.”“I pray so, too," they concluded and drove home silently.At the Bailey International Conglomerates, Seven OaksNow, Louis' team members had returned from Cairo after the Exhibition. So, he began to plan to return to Seven Oaks as well.“Father," Louis called his father when they were in his office. His father, who was busy with
Thursday – At Arthur's ApartmentArthur woke up that morning feeling unwanted. When he walked into the bathroom for a wash, he took a fastidious look at himself in the mirror and consoled himself.'But I had been like this when she was crushing on me. Why did she lose those feelings?'When he could not get any answer to his questions, he took his bath and returned to the bedroom to dress up for work. Afterward, he left with his son. Meanwhile, Nichole woke up too with a slight headache. To avoid brooding much over Arthur and his unsteady love advances, she left for work very early. In the evening, they all converged at her place for dinner.When Arthur, who had made up his mind to draw her attention to him just like before, and his son arrived, Nichole was taken aback when she cast her eyes on him. Although he was casually dressed, he was charming. He wore a white T-shirt and a pair of white shorts, which revealed his long, hairy legs and arms. He also stylishly brushed his short ha
Now, despite the option that Nichole gave to him, Arthur was infuriated, and it affected his sense of reasoning. To him, 4 PM meant that she did not plan to come back to Dover that day. Then he mumbled to himself, 'This is ludicrous. She wanted me to take her to her date. That would not be possible.'Meanwhile, he combined his position as the Family Head, who must be respected, and her potential husband, who must protect the woman he loved. Then he demanded, “Why 4 O'clock? What time will we come back to Dover?”Nevertheless, Nichole, who had resolved to put her beautiful plan to work, inquired, “Do you intend to come back?”“Why not?” He responded angrily.Then, without waiting for her to speak, he thundered authoritatively, “We are leaving by 1 PM. I think that is the best I can do for the two of you.”Nonetheless, with a tone of finality, he believed that she must accept his order without further argument.“But you said…” she tried to explain but he would not listen.“Good night,
He adjusted himself to ensure that they maintained some space between them. Nichole took a step by inching closer, but Arthur disrupted her, by shifting away.'You can't fool me. You want me to take you to your date. No way.' He concluded within him.Soon, Louis' janitor served lunch and Louis announced, “Father, Mom, shall we move to the dining table?”“It is all right, Son,” Arthur said and walked to the table without waiting for her to get up.She appreciated him as well and walked to the table, too, and sat beside him. Soon, they began to eat silently. Then, Louis' phone rang. He checked the caller, and it was Freya. He smiled and picked it up while his parents looked on.“Hello, Big sister. I’m glad to hear from you.”Now, his parents concentrated on their meal when they discovered that the caller was Freya.“Last born, how are you?” Freya asked him.“I'm fine, Big sister. And you?”Freya ignored his question and went straight to the point.“Where were you going with Mom, that sh
“Phil observed it the day Denise and Angel got married.”The name of Olivia, whom he knew that they had renamed Angel and Denise, sent a chill down his spine, but he braved it and carried on with the conversation.“That is serious.”“Yes. I can't stand Mom marrying another man, nor Father marrying another woman. Do you want that?”“No way. Who would love us the way they love us.”“Did you see what I mean? Then pray and do anything possible for things to work out between them.”“I will be the happiest person if they come together. See you later, and regards to Daniel and Brother-in-law.”“It is okay. See you later, too.”At the Bailey Native HomeNow, Nichole kept mute and the confused Arthur gambled by driving to her house, not sure whether it was the right decision. When he got to the front of her apartment and parked, he unfastened his seatbelt and looked at Nichole, who was sitting absent-mindedly. Then he proposed, “Let's get out of the car, Nichole.” However, instead of complyi
She knocked on the door and pushed it at once without waiting for a response. The startled Arthur turned suddenly when the door opened and behold the woman he loved, his heartbeat and Princess Charming, willfully walking into his bedroom.'Children are indeed unifiers,' he mumbled to himself.“Why is your phone switched off, Arthur? The children and I are worried. Even Daniel wanted to speak with you.” Nichole breathed freely and poured out all her worries at once.Now, he chuckled and maintained eye contact with her. He got up from the bed and walked up to her. He threw his two hands apart and requested, “Come to your Prince Charming, Nichole. I won't hurt you again. Never.”She hesitated a bit and locked eyes with him before she reluctantly walked into his outspread hands. He cuddled her before giving her a long kiss. Meanwhile, her phone kept ringing while they were kissing. Then, she released herself and pleaded, “Please speak with the children. They had been worried.”He collect
Just as the doctor promised him, he was at the island two hours after the call. When he knocked, Denise received him in the parlor.“I'm delighted to see you, Dr. Harper.”“It is good to see you, Mr. Bailey. You look good.”“Thank you, Doctor, for the compliment. Kindly take your seat.”“Thank you. So. What is wrong with your wife?”Denise took time to explain all his observations while the doctor listened attentively. The doctor smiled when he observed that Denise was panicky. Then, he tapped his shoulder and consoled him, “It is nothing out of the ordinary. So, don't panic. Can I see her?”“Thank you, Doctor. Let me get her.”“It is okay,” Dr. Harper said and rested on the couch.He walked back to the room and returned with Olivia.“Good morning, Dr. Harper," she greeted him.“Good morning, Mrs. Bailey. How are you?”“I'm fine, Doctor.”“I can see. If you don't mind, please look at me.”Olivia looked at the doctor and he observed her eyes. He requested a midstream urine specimen on
“I can't ask for more,” she hinted him. Then, Arthur released her, looked into her eyes romantically, and assured her, “I am glad that you are mine now.”“I feel the same way. I love you so much, Arthur.”“I know. I'm sorry once again that I kept you waiting.”Before she could respond, his lips covered hers, and he gave her an intense kiss in their standing position. He released her for a second for a breath and continued afterward.Now, Nichole held him with her two hands on his waist, and she was sexually aroused as well as him. He kissed her neck, nose, temple, and back to her mouth. He wanted Nichole to guide him to the next step to avoid appearing desperate. Just as he wanted, she slipped her hand into his Polo T-shirt and ran it on his chest before pulling his nipples. He moaned, laid her on the bed, and kissed her before he asked softly, “My dear, are you ready to give your body to me?”Nichole, who felt that she was in a dreamland, nodded in the positive before she responded
At The BarracksBrown arrived for the meeting at 7 AM. As the head of his family, he knew what to expect from the other Family Heads but he was prepared for them.“Good morning to you, our Patriarch,” he greeted him“Good morning, Brown. How are you?”“As you can see, I am good. What about you?”“I could not catch a sleep last night because of today’s meeting.”“It is expected. We cannot run away from our responsibilities.”“You are right. If those before us had run away from theirs, who knows where we would have been by now.”“You are right.”At that point, the scumbag, Stephen, walked in and greeted them, “Good morning, our Patriarch. Good morning, my Family Head.”The two elders did not bother to respond to his greeting nor glimpse at him. The Patriarch ordered without looking at his face, “Wait in the hall.”“Thank you, our Patriarch,” the momentarily repentant Stephen said, walked to the hall and took his seat. He watched the family heads trickling in gradually before the Patria
Denise paused and looked at her innocent face without responding, but she continued, “Are you still mad at me?”“Eat your food first,” Denise responded and kept feeding her. She took two more spoons and stopped. “I am okay. Thank you,” she sobbed.Unfortunately, Denise failed to respond to the situation. He was angry with the woman that he must save her life.‘I have to concentrate on saving her life first. I can get angry later,’ he advised himself and smiled. He scooped the food and then urged her, “Sweetheart, I don’t think you are okay. Just take more spoons and you will be okay.” Olivia saw it as an opportunity to strike a bargain with her husband, and she quickly asked, “Answer me. Are you still mad at me?”Denise smiled and asked her too, “Can I ever be mad at my beautiful Angel?”(Peck)She gave him a dampened smile and wiped the teardrops that trickled down her cheeks with the back of her hand. Denise was emotional at that point. He dropped the plate and the spoon on the
Now, he gave her a call for the second time. The phone rang several times and timed out.“She must have gone to sleep,” he concluded and went to sleep as well.At the Tourist Center.The Officer was happy with the changes in Jude’s composure. His youthfulness radiated as he was constantly happy. The moisture that usually gathered in his eyes whenever he wanted to speak was not there. He enjoyed making music with his piano rather than watching the television. When the Security Officer got to his room that afternoon for his lunch, he observed that he spoke freely with him; more like a relation than a stranger.“How is your day going, Jude?” he inquired.Jude smiled, paused from the keyboard, and responded, “My day is going well, Sir. And you?”“Fine. Your lunch is here.”“Okay. Thank you, Sir. How about the boss?”“The boss is good. He sent his love.”“Oh! I hope I will meet him soon.”“Yea! You will meet him sooner than you can imagine. Just relax.”“It is okay, Sir. Thank you for your
The clerks noticed the same attitude and were astonished. Without looking back, she walked to the car park, got into her car, and drove to the gate. She stopped and got out of the car. The Security men were surprised to see a woman who was raging a few minutes ago walking solemnly to their office. Quietly, she picked up her phone and drove away.‘What must have happened? Who is the President of the Bailey International Conglomerates?’ She mulled over and drove on. Nevertheless, she never considered calling Stephen, neither was she aware that she narrowly escaped the police arrest. Now, Denise had sent for the Security Officer who drove to the Admin Block after Lorene drove off.“You called me, Boss,” the officer stated.“Yes. Why did you call the cop on that woman?”“I did not call the cop, they just came.”“How? What do you mean by they just came?" Denise furrowed his brow and asked him.Incidentally, the security officer was not aware that Denise was not in the picture of the arra
At the Gate.‘He would be surprised to see me,’ she fantasized and parked. She honked with the confidence that she would not be turned back anymore. Then, the Chief Security Officer, who had seen many of her types since the previous week, walked up to her by himself.“Good day, Ma’am. How may I help you?” he asked her politely.The new face she was seeing for the first time looked more mature than the security guard who had embarrassed her the previous week. “I wish to see the President,” she said confidently.Now, the CSO observed her again and inquired, “Are you on an appointment with him, Ma’am?”“Yes. He must be expecting me. Please open the gate. I want to avoid keeping him waiting,” she made clear.The officer locked eyes with her and then declared with a mockery smile, “I see. Sorry, Ma’am. The President is not on the seat.”Just like anyone would be, with a surge of hostility and violence, she got out of her car and began to rant, “What do you take me for? A kid? After int
Under the present circumstances, Stephen’s head could not process the information he got at the same time. From the stranger’s speech, he grasped that he was aware of the issue at hand. Then, he looked at the two elders and inquired, “Oscar’s wife?”Stephen, whose purpose of visiting his Patriarch was to find a solution to the river of problems that was drowning him, had just discovered another problem.All the same, he had to straighten things out, “I don’t have anything to do with Oscar’s wife. I ….”However, the Patriarch and the Family Head thought that his explanations were lies and aggravated his already bad case. The Patriarch rose from his couch with his military demeanor and the might of the Patriarch of the Bailey’s family and thundered. “I will not hesitate to throw you out of the barracks after the soldiers have court-marshaled you if you think you can dance on our intelligence.”Now, Stephen was aware that he had screwed up and that making excuses would cause him more t
At the Barracks The daily drilling of the young soldiers, which Gen. Bailey looked forward to every morning, took place at 6 AM and lasted for one hour. As a matter of routine, he was in his studies, reading through the dailies after his breakfast, when he got the email from Barrister Guidance. He quickly read through it and was timorous. “Has Stephen gone nuts? How many women does he want to have at the same time?” The nonagenarian Patriarch asked while cold sweat formed on his forehead. He went through the mail again and discovered another serious point.“Accusing Arthur of using Nichole as a nanny is an insult that her children would not take. No wonder Denise was distraught during the meeting,” he thought.At that point, he got a call. He looked at his phone and discovered that the caller was Brown. He took a second look at his phone and vacillated between picking up the call and ignoring it. Shortly, the call timed out.When he was about to concentrate on his emails, he got a
After their breakfast, they prepared for work and got out of the house at once. Then, Lorene stopped him off.(Peck)“See you later, Love,” Stephen said and got out of her car.“Bye. Love,” she responded and drove off to the hospital. It was quite unfortunate. Stephen had devoted his love to her, who possessed all the attributes he needed in a wife, but she was in love with Arthur Bailey and not Stephen Bailey. “This is good. With a wife like Lorene and her friend Evelyn, I will have a blissful marriage,” he mumbled before he boarded a chartered taxi.Then, he sat comfortably in the back seat. While he was approaching his house, he turned on his phone to transfer the payment for the ride, but an epiphany occurred when he saw the different breaking news popping up on his phone. He punched on one of the news and saw his resort as a heap of rubble. Then, he looked at it critically to confirm that his eyes were not misleading him. When he confirmed it, he rested on the headrest of the
The other Family Heads attacked him at once and demanded, “Why did you not ask her son before he left?”Now, Zoey could not help but laugh. To defend himself and maintain his dignity, the Family Head explained, “I was about to ask him, but before I looked up, he had gone.”“Coward. You knew nothing but to insult and push a fellow Family Head," Brown blurted out and the Family Head rushed at him, but he was restrained by the other Family Heads. Then, the Patriarch ordered, “Go home, all of you. The meeting is over.”They began to file out one after the other, still barking and yelling at each other. Then, Oscar shouted, “Zoey, get into the vehicle and let us leave here.”Zoey glared at him and got into the car. She did not relent in rubbing it in his face, “Can you shout at me, Oscar? You could not raise your voice when it was necessary.”Oscar, who was used to such berating, ignored her. He turned on the ignition and drove off.At The Tourist Center After Denise got out of the cal