“I don’t want to see you with that man any longer!”Raymond exploded the moment he entered with his family.Elena drew her brows together and asked. “What are you saying?”“I know that you two have been meeting since you returned to the state. He has been coming to your office literally every week!”“I have it under my control!” She snapped back.“If you do have it under your control, he would not show his fucking face there today. You must have given him the impression that he is welcome or something!”“What impression? The impression that I might want him back again or what?”“Guys, it’s okay. We don’t need to shout over that…”“Then why has he been visiting your company every damn time?!”“That is his problem and not mine! Why would you even assume that I might want to forgive him or something?” She interrupted her mother.“That is because women tend to have a weaker heart and before we know it, you have forgiven him and gotten everything behind you!”“Well, I am sorry to disappoin
Elena returned her property to her bags, as she glanced at her wristwatch repeatedly. It was quarter to two and her kids had cried to her before she left home in the morning that she must come pick them up from school.At first, she had declined that she would not be doing that as she had a lot of work to do, but when the two of them burst into tears as if they had planned it beforehand, she agreed to them and then promised to come pick them up.Afterward, she told their chauffeur to not bring them back as she would be going for them herself. At least, she would be meeting with their homeroom teacher and then doing the necessary things as their parent.That is killing two birds with a stone.She grabbed her bag, and then her phone before she hurried out of her desk.The door opened as she looked through her bag to check if she was not missing anything and then stated, thinking it was Marvella, her assistant.“Cancel my schedule for the next couple of hours,” she said and then raised
“See who we have here!”Ryan exclaimed the moment Zeke barged into his office, not minding the men who sat with him.Still looking as if he had just seen a ghost, he dashed to Ryan, dropped his hands on his table, and then exclaimed.“Guess what?”“Let’s take a break, please,” Ryan said to the two men in front of him and then clasped his hands together.After the man exited the room, Ryan stood up and before he could ask Zeke what was going on, Zeke burst out.“Elena has children!”Ryan twitched his mouth upward as if he didn’t hear the news and then walked to the small refrigerator in a corner of his office.He nodded his head, opened the fridge, and then brought out a bottle of water.“I think you need to drink cold water and chill. There is no way—”He was saying while he stretched the bottled water to Zeke but the man was quick to slap his hands away.“I saw them! Two children!”Ryan raised his brows and then opened his mouth agape. “Wait, you are not joking?”“Jesus, have I ever
“You are pregnant, Mrs. Russo.”..Elena felt her stomach tied in a knot again for the umpteenth time as she remembered the piece of information the doctor had said to her at the hospital a while back.The last thing she had expected now… at this critical time was being pregnant, still it did not help but make her assume that it was only going to strengthen her relationship with her husband.Her marriage has almost hit the rock button— IF it has not even hit it yet.Of course, he did not love her.They did not marry because they loved each other. She loved him, it’s him who did not spare her a glance.She had been married to her husband, Zeke, for three years and all through the three years, she could count the amount of time that he had looked at her.Zeke did not like her, and he never hid that fact. After all, it was a loveless marriage and she had forced himself on him.Had she, though?Three years ago, because he needed to get some inheritance from his grandfather or something,
“We are divorcing, Elena. Game is over.”Elena does not know which was more surprising. The words her husband had just said to her or the fact that the woman her husband was cheating on her with was her best friend.Her best friend. Camila. She sniffed gently and stood up grudgingly, leaving the brown envelope on the floor.“Z…Zeke, no, Camila?” She breathed heavily.“I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and now… that is it. I hope you will sign it without any problem and…”“Zeke, that is my best friend!” She hollered.Both were painful, and she is yet to know which was more painful.She stared at Camila who looked away from her and settled on the table in the room. She looked like she could care less as she had been caught and right now, she wished for nothing more than to slap that look off her face.Camila had been her best friend for many years, and this was the woman she had told everything about what was going on in her marriage.“I think you should give him a bit of space
Elena winced in pain for the umpteenth time as her lower belly shook in pain and stood from where she sat, then walked to the tall standing mirror in her room.She raised her chiffon top and then stared at her flat belly.Wondering why her stomach hurt, she poked the lower belly gently and then winced again as the pain hit her.“Aw!”“I should go to the hospital tomorrow…” she said to no one in particular after glancing at the wall clock and realizing that it was almost seven in the night.After she had left Zeke’s company in the afternoon, she had come straight home and had been literally sleeping since then.The last thing she wanted was to think about the divorce paper that she had received earlier the day as it does nothing than bring tears to her eyes.Finally, she trailed her eyes to the brown envelope on the nightstand beside her bed and then exhaled.It was not a dream, indeed. Her husband has presented the ‘death note to her.’As she stared at her reflection in the mirror fo
“Fortunately, she arrived here earlier, else it might have been a different story entirely.”The doctor said as he adjusted the intravenous drip and then turned to look at Aria who stood behind him.“Is she okay now? And the baby?”“Yes, I must say, he is a fighter. He hung onto his mama really well,” he said and Aria smiled weakly.“Thank you.”“She should be awake soon. I will come back to check up on her,” he said and she nodded her head.“Alright. Thank you, Doctor.”After the doctor exited the room with the two nurses, she returned to sit beside her sister’s bed and then picked up her phone to check the time.It was almost six in the morning, and all she had been waiting for through the night was Zeke’s call.Was he not aware that his wife was not at home… in the room with him?Or… had he gone on a trip or something?She knew she had to keep all options open.Her sister has a nice relationship with her husband… as she had been told.It had taken everything in her to not go to the
Zeke could swear that he heard no single thing amongst what the woman on the stage in front of him had said as all he wondered was how a person could not have changed a bit in the last six years.In a split second, he asked himself if he was seeing correctly and if the person in front of him was his ex-wife, Elena.As the woman rounded her speech and everyone clapped their hands for her, a waiter stopped in front of him, and without thinking twice, he pushed the man away and clasped his hands together.Watching her being escorted out of the stage and to the door at the back of the stage, he hurried to the direction, without giving a damn about the people that were obviously looking at him.As he got out of the event hall which led him down the hallway, he looked around and saw the men who had escorted her in front of a door, he dashed there.“Excuse, sir. You can’t enter.’Zeke raised his brow at the man who just said to him and then looked at the other man beside him and took a step