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THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-ONE
KACE’S POVWe got no response, so I knocked again, and this time the door opened. But the person I saw got me confused and surprised.Nanny Agatha stood In front of us with a child in her arms. She looked at us with surprise evident on her face. I guess she was surprised to see the venture family here.We were also surprised to see her in this house. I hoped it wasn't what I was thinking. Calm down Kace, maybe she is working for them, I said to myself inwardly.“ Nanny Agatha!! “ Tessa called her name and went to hug her. She hugged Tessa back and when they pulled away, Tessa carried the baby from Nanny’s hands and held her.“ To what do I owe this surprise visit? Please come in and make yourselves comfortable “ Nanny Agatha said gesturing for us all to go in as she opened the door wider.We all went and sat down on the sofa in the sitting room. The house wasn't big, but it was cozy and had a nice feeling. So this is my mom's family house? Wow.“ Nanny, how have you been, “ I asked he
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-TWO
KACE’S POV“ What?! “ He exclaimed in shock with a frown making its way to his face, after hearing what the person who called him said. “ Kace and I are coming back right away. What time is it over there? “ My dad asked and the person replied to him. He ended the call after telling the person.“ What's the matter, Dad? “ I asked him when he ended the call and he looked really worried.“ All the investors in the company suddenly want to stop investing in the company “ My dad whispered in my ear and my eyes widened in shock.I was still trying to understand why each time I tackle a problem another one would surface from nowhere. I was getting tired of all this.“ Nanny Agatha. Let's all go back together. Even if you don't wanna come to live with us or work for us anymore, I'll buy you both a house and we'll search for a job for Barbara. I don't want to leave you guys here “ I said to them and they both smiled.“ We'll think about it and when we decide I'll give you a call, “ Nanny Agat
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-THREE
KACE’S POV“ Can I know why you wanna go there and what your plans are? “ Was the first thing Agent Maynard asked when I got into the car.“ It's simply. What I intend to do a give him an offer he wouldn't refuse. Just like they say, a businessman would give you information when you give them an offer that's too tempting to refuse, “ I said to Agent Maynard with a smirk and he smiled in understanding.He drove off heading to Baker’s Club. Whatever it was gonna take for me to leave that club with my aims achieved I would do it, I said to myself inwardly.************************************We pulled over into the parking space at the front of the club and my phone beeped with a message from Tessa which made me smile.She was checking in on me and asking me when I would come home. She said she had a surprise for me. If there's one thing I loved in this world it was Tessa’s surprises.I replied to her that I would be home soon and alighted the car with Agent Maynard. We walked to the fr
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR
KACE’S POV“ I thought that she would only take the money once, but she kept on doing it. Even when Tessa’s dad asked me, I lied to him telling him I didn’t know what was happening because I didn’t want her to kill my family. It kept on occurring till the funds in the company were drastically reduced, having had enough of her wickedness, I decided to tell Tessa’s Dad the truth. But that day the worst happened “ He said and paused as he stared into oblivion reminiscing about what happened.“ What happened? “ Agent Maynard was the one who asked this time around.“ I didn't know she had eyes on me. So I went to Montgomery mansion. I had just driven into the mansion when my phone began to ring, I checked and saw that it was an unknown caller. When I parked my car in the mansion, I picked up but didn't get out of the car. Turns out she was the one calling and do you know why she called me? “ Mr Baker asked us and we shook our heads in negation.“ She called me to give me a warning that she
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE
TESSA’S POVI was shocked when I found out that Nanny Agatha was Kace’s Aunt. It’s no wonder that I always thought they behaved like a mother and son. Turns out she was his family. I was happy to see that Kace had finally gotten to see the face of his biological mom and she even wrote him a letter. Back there at the orphanage, I didn’t get to read the letter well because I was focused on comforting him.But when he gave me the letter and picture to bring home when we alighted from the plane and he went to the company with his dad, I read the letter while Eliana was driving me home. I was also in tears while reading the letter.My mother-in-law and Drake were not pleased with the outcome of things at all. But I couldn’t tell how Triss felt because all through she had a blank expression on her face. Knowing Triss for a long time now I knew that she only did that when she was up to something.Eliana dropped me at home and headed back to work but my things were brought to me by my mom’s
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-SIX
TESSA’S POV “ Yeah, it was wonderful. Take that as breakup sex. That’s the last sex we’ll have because I’m leaving you, Kace “ I said with a straight face instead of reciprocating Kace’s smile.“ Huh, “ Kace asked with a look of shock on his face. He adjusted himself into a sitting position on the bed as he looked at me with furrowed brows. A frown made its way to his face and that was when I saw it, Fear.I resisted the urge not to smile after I saw that he was scared to lose me. I didn’t mean it when I said I wanted to break up with him. I can never leave Kace, I love him to the moon and back.I tried keeping a straight face but ended up laughing hard. He looked so funny with that expression on his face. Seeing that I began to laugh he figured out that I was joking and rolled his eyes at me.“ Seriously? “ He asked and sighed as he glared at me.“ Seriously Babe, you should have seen how you looked just now, “ I said to him amidst laughter.“ You wanna have a good laugh huh? Huh? “
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN
KACE’S POVWhen I got home and saw the surprise that Tess had in store for me, I was elated. I had been craving to be inside her for a while now.Every moment with her was encrypted into my moment. I knew I could never want another woman like the way I wanted her.I made passionate love to her and it was like we were doing it for the first time. Each time we had sex, it was always like that was the first time we were touching each other and I loved it.When she tried to pull a prank on me after we were done having hot sex, I was scared that she was serious because I had heard stories of girls who have sex with their boyfriends and break up with them Immediately after.I had never felt such a relief in my entire life of existence like the one I felt when she began to laugh and I figured out she was joking.After we took a shower and sat on the sofa in our bedroom, I told her everything that happens with Mr Baker. She was glad that we were making progress, but she became more worried th
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT
KACE’S POV“ What is happening, Vin? “ I asked Vin with my eyes still fixated on Tessa. Vincent too looked surprised at her behavior. His brows furrowed for a while, then he facepalmed and sighed.“ Kace, can you guys please leave the room for Tessa and I. I need to run some tests on her “ He said to the soldier and I.We left the room and stood outside waiting for Vin to finish carrying out the test. During my waiting period, several nurses came in and out of the room. It was a Miracle that I didn’t have a panic attack.Why did this happen to Tess at this time that she is pregnant and why the fuck can’t she remember me. I saw Tessa’s mom and Eliana rushing to me with worried looks on their faces.“ What happened to my daughter? '' Tessa's mom asked as the soldiers who were guarding them went to stand with the ones that guarded Tessa.“ What’s happening Kace? “ Eliana asked as she held both my shoulders and jerked me hard.“ I’m still trying to process everything that I heard too. Ask
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THE ARRANGED BRIDE EPILOGUE
KACE POVIt's been five years since I proposed to Tessa officially and we had a big wedding.Triss was taken to the hospital that day and was revived but her tongue got burned because of the poison and till date, she hasn't been able to talk. She was taken to a mental asylum first before she was finally taken to prison.Drake on the other hand met a beautiful girl at our company. Her name is Beverly Wayne. They got married three years ago and she is currently pregnant.My cousin Barbara met Vin and they began to date. Vin didn't mind that she had a child. He loves and cares for her as though she is his biological child. They got married a year ago.Brandon and Eliana got married a year after I had my official wedding with Tessa, which was four years ago. They have a baby girl, whose name is Shantel, she is just one year old. Brandon’s parents came to apologize to Brandon a few years back.Tessa’s mom adopted a little boy because she said it was boring staying in their big mansion alon
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-EIGHT
TESSA’S POVKace slept off while I stayed awake gazing at his handsome face. When I wanted to close my eyes to sleep, I got a text from Triss asking that we wear matching outfits.I smiled when I saw the message and tested her back agreeing to it. She then told me she had already ordered the outfit and mine would be delivered to me tomorrow. I finally slept off with a peaceful mind.*************************************The sound of birds chirping woke me up from sleep and I stretched before yawning as I sat up on our bed. Kace was sleeping and he looked handsome even while sleeping.I hadn't slept and woken up with a peaceful mind like I did today, in a long time. I was in a good mood. When I attempted to get down from the bed, Kace's eyes snapped open.“ What is it by the time? “ Kace asked as he swiftly sat up on the bed. I checked the time on the phone.“ 9 am why are you asking? “ I asked him. He sprang out of bed headed to the bathroom and cursed under his breath.“ I have a me
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-SEVEN
TESSA’S POV“ I overheard her and Drake talking about it the day I had that accident. She wanted to threaten Drake because he said he’ll expose her….. “ I said and trailed off mid-sentence when the next thing we heard was a female voice screaming.It was coming from the direction where the maid, Agent Maynard, and the policemen went.We all went there and saw the maid standing with her hands covering her mouth as she looked into the room with a horrified look on her face. Agent eyes were widened in surprise too.When we got there and I looked inside the room I saw my mother-in-law lying down in her pool of blood. There was a knife covered with blood beside her.I gasped at the sight in front of us. She was stabbed to death. Could it be that she committed suicide? Or someone killed her. How come no one knew about it until now?“ Rachael!! Rachael!! “ My father-in-law called out her name and wanted to run and hold but was held back by Kace and Agent Maynard.Drake had a shocked look on
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-SIX
KACE’S POV“ Calm down! I’m safe and okay. I’m on my way to Brandon. He said we are to meet in the next forty minutes and the forty minutes is almost over so I’m on my way driving there. Shit!! let me call you back “ Eliana said and ended the call abruptly.“ What just happened, why did she curse and end the call so abruptly? “ My mother-in-law who I didn’t even know was listening in on our conversation asked me.That was the same question I was asking myself right now. Why did she end the call so abruptly? I was worried and so was Tess and her mom.I dialed Brandon’s number to ask him to track Eliana's phone so that we would know her location and go to check on her because I feared that she was in danger due to the way she ended the call abruptly.“ Hey Brandon, please can you track Eliana’s number? I think she is in danger, we were talking on the phone and she cursed before abruptly ending the call “ I said to him and he chuckled.“ She’s here with me right now. There is no cause fo
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-FIVE
KACE’S POV“ What?! “ I couldn't help but exclaim when I picked up Agent Maynards to call. I didn't wanna disturb Tessa but at the same, I couldn't help exclaiming.“ What happened?! “ Tessa asked me but I couldn't answer her because I was still talking to Agent Maynard. So I put the call on loudspeaker for her to hear what Agent Maynard too.“ His body and that of his daughter was found this morning in their house. It was a sorrowful sight to behold. They were found dead in their own pool of blood. Whoever perpetrated the act must have done it last night, " Agent Maynard said.Tessa, who was yawning a few seconds ago and wanted to go back to sleep, was wide awake now with a confused look on her face.“ Who are you guys talking about? “ Tessa asked us. I couldn’t get myself to talk because I didn’t wanna be the one to squash all her hopes that today may not be our victory day anymore.“ Hey Tess is that you? “ Agent Maynard asked her softly.“ Yes, it’s me. Please just answer me, is i
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-FOUR
TESSA’S POVSeeing Kace trying to communicate with his eyes to Agent Maynard and Brandon who just walked into the house with smiles on their faces was funny.I'm pretty sure that he was trying to tell them not to utter a word because Brandon was about to speak.Luckily Agent Maynard understood the message Kace was trying to pass across when he saw Kace's foster mom seated with my mom. He held Brandon’s hand and signaled for him not to talk.I also knew that deep in my mom's heart, if she was given the chance she'll shred my mother-in-law into tiny little pieces. My mom was nice and kind but she was also fierce when necessary.“ Good evening everyone “ Agent Maynard greeted us and we answered with a nod of our heads. I noticed that my mother-in-law looked at Agent Maynard warily.Eliana stood up and kissed Brandon passionately. They were lost in their kiss that I had to clear my throat before they pulled away from each other. Brandon sat down with Eliana while I sat with Kace. Agent Ma
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-THREE
KACE’S POVI drove home as my heart leaped for joy knowing that Tess had regained her memory. That means we would be able to know what happened before she had the accident. Argh, I couldn’t wait to see her.It took me just twenty minutes to drive to my house. My gatekeeper opened the gate for me and I drove in. I quickly parked my car and went into my house, heading upstairs straight.When I got to the front of my bedroom door, I paused and let out a sharp exhale before turning the doorknob of the bedroom door and going in. Hardly had I closed the door when Tessa ran and crushed me in a bear hug.I hugged her back as the scent of her shampoo graced my nose, it was soothing and made me realize how much I was scared if she didn't remember anything.The thought she was carrying my child too made me nervous and glad at the same time. What would be her reaction if I told her? I thought to myself but pushed the thought aside.We pulled away from each and shared a passionate kiss. It was sho
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-TWO
KACE’S POVIt was high time we put an end to all these things happening to us once and for all because I knew without any doubt, that all these things happening were connected to one person and so help me God the day we catch the person behind all this, I’ll kill that person myself, I thought to myself and stepped on the accelerator angrily, zooming off to Vin’s place. I pulled up into Vin’s parking space after twenty minutes and rang the doorbell. The door opened immediately as though the person had been standing at the door and waiting for me.“ What's up? How is Tess doing? Any good news regarding her health? “ Brandon asked immediately after I got into the house.It was noon and really sunny outside, so when I got into the house, I loved it when the cold emitting from the air conditioning in the house touched my skin. It felt refreshing.“ I don't know man, “ I said and slumped on the couch in Vin’s sitting room tiredly. It was only at this moment that I knew how exhausted I was.
THE ARRANGED BRIDE CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED-ONE
TESSA’S POVI woke up and found myself in a strange environment. I saw two people standing not far away from my bed and they seemed like they were having a heated conversation. The man with striking brown eyes rushed to me and called me babe when he saw that I was awake.Babe? Isn't that the pet name that lovers called themselves? So why was he calling me that? I frowned because I didn't remember knowing this man. So I asked who he was and he looked at me, surprised at the question I just asked.An elderly woman and a young lady around my age rushed into the room and they called me, Tessa. The woman said she was my mom but I couldn't remember anything.I was frustrated but didn't show it, these people seemed very worried and I felt venting my frustration would make them worry more.I told the handsome man with striking blue eyes and jet black hair that I didn't know him and also the woman. Although I tried my best to be polite to them.My mind and head were a mess, I was trying hard t
