Helen closed her eyes, cracking her brain trying to guess what Denzel was calling her for. “The debt has been paid what else could it be with these rich folks”. Helen couldn’t guess right the reason for the call.“Best bet is I pick up to hear what he has to say”Helen said to herself. The phone stopped ringing. She felt a leap of joy in her. Her joy disappeared soon.Denzel rings her phone again. She rolled her eyes and picked up. “Hello sir, I was doing something when you called. Hope no problem?”.Denzel went straight to the reason he called. “Where is the girl?. Well, that’s not necessary. Tell her to get her things packed, we are moving her away till she gives us a grandchild”.Helen’s eyes pry everywhere. She has no answer to my whereabouts. She hid under the next statement Denzel said. Helen scoffs,“Will tell her to start packing up right away”.“Better, Michael will call her. He's picking her up tonight”Denzel said. Helen nods, “Will get her ready”. Denzel chuckled, “it will be
Helen shivers as she reads the message. “What has Wendy got us into?”Grace cried. Helen fidget till the phone fell off her hand. Grace picked her mother's phone up,“Mommy, your phone fell”.Helen started sobbing, “I should have kept her home. I should have not allowed her to run away”. All her words were filled with regrets. Grace screamed at her, “she wasn’t in bondage here. She only wants to leave”.Helen yells back, “Then she can leave and not put me into trouble. Where do I get to see such a huge amount to pay back”. Grace felt sorry for screaming at her mother. She did all to protect her and not to lose the house.All Helen had done was in support of her child. Grace pat her mother’s back, “We will find her when the day breaks”. Helen wiped her face, “Are you sure?. Do you know where she can be?”.Grace nods, “Yes, we will go to the same Brown and Val restaurant to wait on her”. That is a hopeful word. Helen stopped crying. She moved to her room, Grace followed her.Grace said, “
He looked around to confirm. The waitress saw his prying eyes. She scoffed, “You didn’t trust my words. Continue to search. She isn’t here. Will get your order across now”.Michael raised his hand, “No, no need for it. I will come back later”. The waitress sighed , “Okay bye”. Micheal stood up and moved to the exit. He walked past Helen and Grace.The two were still running their eyes everywhere to get a hold of my appearance. Michael walked out and sat in his car. Denzel’s call came through, Michael stared at his phone for a few minutes.He doesn’t know what to say to his dad. He hit his car steering continuously. Finally, he summoned the courage to answer it. “Hello Dad”. Denzel's voice was sharp, “Michael, is she sitting in the car with you now?”.Michael exhaled, “No Dad, was told she isn’t at work today”. All hope Denzel had fallen apart at that announcement. He hissed, “Michelle must not hear this. This is bad news”.Michael shakes his head, “This is getting intense, I didn’t si
“Just one week ultimatum”Michael said and drove away. Helen heaved a sigh of relief. Grace got to Helen before Michael’s car could leave the parking lots.If he had waited forty seconds more. He would have seen Grace with Helen. It would have been Helen’s worst nightmare.Grace could see when she was approaching that Helen was standing close to a car and the car drove off. “Mommy, who is that?. And what just happened here?”Grace questioned.Helen fixed her gaze on Michael’s car ensuring he had left. “Which question do you want me to answer first?”She asked. Grace rolled her eyes, “anyone you find comfortable”.Helen exhaled, “Let’s go back to the restaurant to sit and discuss. I don’t want to lose any chances of seeing Wendy”. Michael and Helen kept trying to reach me. The drugs Val gave me have begun to work. I placed my phone on silent to enable me to get enough rest.Helen and Grace walked back to the restaurant silently. They sat close to the window. Helen starts looking around,
I am not a social media freak. I didn’t check my messages there. I don’t even get notifications. I made use of it consistently then because I was trying to reach Val. We had diner and went to bed.In Denzel’s house. He still had nothing to tell Michelle. His phone keeps ringing for a long time. He had no choice at the tenth time the phone rang but to pick it up.“Hello Michelle. Have been busy with meetings since”,Denzel lied. Michelle had been married to Denzel since her youthful age and she could detect his lies easily. She pretended to believe him. “Sorry my hardworking husband. Means you didn’t hear or know anything about Michael and her surrogate”.Denzel stated, “Will know how far Michael has gone with it by tomorrow”. Michelle acknowledged, “Ok, that sounds hopeful. Would have love to connect Michael to the call but it’s late. So, bye”. Hurriedly, Denzel replied and ended the call, “Ok”.He ended the call quickly to avoid Michelle insisting on calling Michael that same night. “
Michael didn’t answer his phone, he came out of his car. He yelled, “Who the hell owns this car”. The car owner had gone inside the restaurant to order food.Brown had driven us off to the hospital. It was the hospital he and his family use. We walked into the doctor’s office directly. Brown had called him before we got there.“Good evening doctor”Brown shakes the doctor. “How are you Brown?, get a seat,”The doctor said. I sat also, “Good evening” I greeted.“Good evening Miss”,The doctor shook my hand. “She has been running hot and has been vomiting”,Brown told the doctor. He brought out his stethoscope and placed it on my chest and on his ears. “Not bad,”he said. “Brown,I would have to run a test on her”.Brown agreed, “No problem, just want her to be fine”. I followed the doctor to the lab to run some tests. A pin was used to get a drop of blood from me.Elsewhere, Michael was in rage. Cursing out loud to the owner of the car in front of him. Michelle ended the car when she couldn
Denzel shivers,“His at the?, wait, you said you are at the airport right. Will come pick you up”. Michelle rolled her eyes, “Will be waiting”.Denzel knocked on his chauffeur’s door. “Wake up, come and drive me to the airport and hospital”. The chauffeur woke up, rubbed his face and collected the key from Denzel.Quickly, Denzel hopped in the car. “Take me to the hospital from there you drive to Jameson hospital”He ordered his chauffeur. Denzel was frustrated, “I don’t even know what else to do?. Oh my!”.Denzel nagged all the way to the airport. “Michelle will be angry at me. She will call me incapable. How did I let this happen. Helen will pay me all, I don’t even need the grandchild anymore”.Michelle was sitting at the waiting chair. She had been standing for too long. “Speed it up a bit. Step on the gas. Michelle doesn’t like to be kept waiting”Denzel commands his chauffeur.Denzel got down before the car will finally stop. He ran into the waiting room looking for Michelle. He wa
Val was in disbelief, she looked at Brown. She saw that Brown's expression didn’t change. “Brown, you know about this?”. Brown nods his head slowly.The confirmation didn’t sit well with Val. “Brown, how did you know?. The hospital?”Val asked. Brown managed to speak up, “Yes”. I cut Wendy’s speech off, “Val, Brown, allow me to continue please”.“Ok”they chorused. I begin, “You both have shown me the love I haven’t felt since the demise of my father”. My eyes were heavy about to release the tears it held. If I should allow my emotions to get in the way. I might not finish what I am about to tell them.Hurriedly, I wiped my tears and continued. “The period of time my family was in a financial crisis, I was used as the sacrificial lamb”. “Sacrificial lamb,”They repeated.It sounds strange to them. I scoffed and continued, “My stepmother heard about a billionaire who was willing to have a surrogate mother. And was willing to pay the surrogate mother off”. Brown and Val sighed, “ok”.I ex
Grace saw him and screamed. Ethan had slightly cut Helen in the arm. She pushed him backwards heavily. Ethan hit his head on the floor and passed out. Everyone heard the scream in their rooms.They rushed towards its direction. Liberty was the first to get inside the room. She saw Helen bleeding from the hand. And Grace shivering at a spot. She didn’t notice Ethan was on the floor. She became scared at the level of the blood. Helen is wasting. Help! help!!She cried out. Her husband joined the room. Jacquelyn ran inside also, she was the first to notice her husband on the floor.“My husband is dead”,she screamed. She dragged her husband’s body to herself. Helen looked at the direction. “Oh, I didn’t kill him. He stabbed me,”Helen said. Grace could not understand. Roman was so scared he called the emergency number 911.“Hello, someone is dying here. He is not breathing anymore”Roman trembles. “What happened?. Give your address for a dispatch”The receiver said. “Ok, dispatch is on the
They became startled, Grace held her mother’s hand. Helen used one hand to signal to her daughter not to make any sound, “Remain silent”. Ethan keeps hitting and banging the door.The other members of the house were awake by the actions of Ethan. Jacquelyn knew it was her husband throwing tantrums. Liberty knew it was Ethan. It’s not his first time doing things like that when he's drunk.Liberty’s husband,Roman, came in ten minutes earlier than Ethan. The noise woke everyone in the house.the whole household were used to Ethan being a mess except for Helen and Grace. They were the only ones who were scared in their rooms. And maintained silence.Jacquelyn woke from her sleep and approached the door. The whole house was awake by then. Jacquelyn opened the door and moved close to her husband. “It’s late, why the noise?”She queries him. Ethan was still drunk and speaking gibberish, “I own this house. You lock the door and keep me outside.I have been knocking and my key isn’t opening it”.
I went to the bathroom to check my cheeks. It was red and swollen. “You will be fine. It’s a matter of time,”I told myself. The pain has reduced a bit but I still have to take drugs. Doctor Mason gave me some pain relief which won’t affect the baby.I fell on the bed and stared at the ceiling. No one was coming to save me. Val was the only one I could speak to, to be calm. Michael has my phone with him. I opened the rules booklet for the house. There were many rules. “Wow, it even has sections”. Some rules have divided sections.On the first page were rules to the sitting room and diner table. Whoever gets to the sitting room first decides what channel to watch. Business news must be watched in the morning and night. No phone is allowed at the diner till the diner is over. No eating after the forty minutes the diner has started. “Funny eating is even timed,”I chuckled.I was reading the rules to be familiar with the house and to avoid getting into troubles with them. Same time, readin
He looked at me pitifully. “The situation that brought you here is just a terrible one. I will help you as much as I can”he promised. I don’t really believe him.he might change his mind in a few minutes. He opened the door. “Come inside," he urged the nurse. Olivia was still standing outside.The nurse came in with a bag. Doctor Mason ran a blood test on me. He tested it and it came out positive. I was truly pregnant. He ran another text on me. It says I am three weeks pregnant. “Now is not the time for stress.I will tell them also. Have you started living here?”.I nodded, “Yes, I moved in yesternight”. “Ok, avoid their wrath, especially Michelle and Michael. Avoid their wrath at all cause. And you will be fine”.Doctor Mason had been with the family for a very long time. He knows their ways of life. “They are all ruthless,”he added. “Ok thanks sir.I will be careful”I said.Doctor Mason’s words scared me more.he said they are ruthless. They displayed two deadly attitudes in my sight
I was scared, I held onto my chair like the noise would fall off me. His screaming sounds like it will cause an earthquake. I held onto the chair tighter. His family all frowned their faces. “The main reason she should have a book to read. Hey Pauper, have you ever seen a picture of the interior design of this house in the media?”.I shaked my head, “No ma’am”. “Your first day here, you are already sending pics and videos to another man. When our child is with you. A Carter is in you”Denzel smirks.Michael stood in rage and slapped me. I fell from the chair. I hit the floor so hard. His family didn’t rush towards me. The house helper who had gone to collect the house rules booklet from the library was back.She tried to help me up. Michelle scolds her, “Don’t you dare?”. The lady withdraws. I was still on the floor. My cheeks stings. I held it with my hand. What a cruel act. I managed to gather myself to sit on the floor. “Give me the book”Michelle ordered the househelper. She collect
I made a sign of the cross before I opened it. Diaries are people’s secrets. They pour their hearts in there. I was not willing to be nosy but I couldn’t hold myself back from opening it. Had the urge, I couldn’t resist it. “Are you sure you are ready for this?”. I said to myself to boost my courage.I was about to open the diary when I heard a knock on the door. “Good morning Miss”. I threw the diary over the clothes. The voice sacred me. I don’t know what would have happened if it was Michael who caught me with his diary.“Who is there?”I asked. “It’s your personal helper, Olivia”. I scoffed, “Personal helper. It’s gotten to that, wow, a personal helper for me. That sounds sweet,”. I approached the door. I gently opened it. I see a young lady standing at the door. She wore the uniform for the housekeepers.“Hello miss”I smiled at her. The young lady has a booklet with her, “Hello madam”. I smiled and looked at her. “Madam, I will be reading the schedule for you about today”. I shru
“What!!!”,”Helen screamed. “Repeat what you just said”.Helen stood up in rage. “Mommy, stay calm”.Grace encouraged her mother. Helen wouldn’t sit. “Explain to me in detail the reasons why the money I have been sending for you to make this house stand erected hasn't been diverted to your families uses?”.Liberty and Jacquelyn stood. Liberty tried to persuade Helen. “Helen, you need to hear us out”. Helen started shouting on top of her voice, “Hear what exactly?. I have been suffering to see the money since the death of my husband. Part of what made me run into the debt crisis was this also”. “Oh my goodness!”Liberty murmured.“Yes, I have been in a financial crisis for a long time. I still struggled hard to send money to keep this house. My child and her step sister all dropped out of school because of all this”. Helen would not stop ranting. She was pissed and poured out her mind for her sisters. She was becoming bitter seeing the way her sisters who are to make the house look good ar
Jacquelyn rolled around on the bed. She could not get a good sleep. She and her husband quarrel a lot. Jacquelyn was tire of having it. Since she couldn’t find sleep she took her phone to scroll through it.There she saw her sister had called her countless times. “Oh my goodness”. She dropped her message. It was the middle of the night and she didn't want to call her. She might be interrupting her sleep. She sent her a text saying, ‘I have been busy. I just got your call. Will call you back when the day breaks’.Helen woke early by six o'clock in the morning to meet her sister’s message. Helen waited for an hour more to call her by then the day must have been bright. At exact seven in the morning, she called her. “Hello Jacquelyn, been calling you all through the night”.Jacquelyn replied,“ I'm sorry about that. I was busy. How are you?”. Helen announced, “Am okay. Am at Peterside. I Want to get the key to our parents house”. It’s been over ten years since Helen came there since the d
The driver increases his speed to get home quickly. Michael cautioned him, “There is a baby on board. Drive carefully”. I smiled. He turned at me. “What’s funny?. Am not a comedian”.I smiled because he said there is a baby on board. The baby is inside me. And not out yet. “Nothing, I'm just smiling,” I replied. Michael scoffed,“If that will make the baby healthy keep smiling”.I stopped smiling. “I feel bad seeing you wearing that thing over my child”. I know he's talking about the restaurant apron. The driver reduces his speed. We got home forty five minutes later. It was a slow ride. The chauffeur rode gently to avoid Michael’s rage. The house was a magnificent house. It’s so big and spacious. I didn’t expect less from the owner of the Lawrence court.His house is the most beautiful and biggest in the court. He owned it of course. The chauffeur drove into the house. The car was parked at the parking lot. I stepped out of the car. “Would have gotten the door for you but I know there