Chapter 5: I love him

Chapter 5

I LOVE HIM

“No! This is absolute bull shit! She must be stupid to think that I'll agree to all these conditions!” Grey yelled, throwing the paper on the bedside table and hitting the walls with his hands over and over again.

The sound of his scream was so loud that it scared Cynthia who was in the kitchen with his mother. They ran upstairs to ask what was all the shouting for.

“She is trying my patience and pushing me to the wall. Just take a look at what she's demanding before she'll sign the papers. Her plan is to render me bankrupt, but that will never happen.” He handed the pieces of papers to Cynthia which they both read with his mother.

“Impossible! She wants to take over the company as well? I thought the company was in your name?” His mother asked.

“That's why I said it must be unreasonable to think that I'll just give her what she demands on a platter of gold. The company is mine and will forever be mine” Grey added, hitting the table with his hands.

Cynthia became lost in thoughts. She knew that she's only pretending to love him for the moment because of his possessions, which she's planning to gradually convince him to will them to her after their wedding, then she can get what she wants and travel out of the country.

They were altogether in the room, still digesting Lila's heavy conditions, when Grey's phone beeps with a message. He brought out the phone from his pocket and read the message.

“I need your response before the break of day tomorrow. And if you fail to agree to my conditions, be ready to watch yourself tomorrow in the air beauting me mercilessly which leads to my first miscarriage. And you know what that means right? You can be jailed for attempted murder.

“What a fuck! She's now threatening me.” He threw his phone on the bed, sat discovering his face with his palms, he sweat profusely in the cold evening.

“Wow! So Janell is his daughter? Could that be why he was ever supportive of her in all aspects?” Lila kept wondering how they've been able to conceal the secret with no one suspecting them. She scrolled through her phone checking the f******k page of Cynthia. Unbelievably, she came across a picture of Cynthia with a man and her daughter, cropping the man's face out, the caption reads ‘my complete world.” Even without seeing the face from the statue, Lila could clearly know that the man in the picture is her husband.

“Com'on girl, don't tell me you're still drenching in thought about these two people.?” Eucharia asked as she seized the phone from Lila.

“Oh, you can have your phone. You have a call from your stepmother.” Charia handed the phone back to her.

“Lila, please come to the hospital now! Your father was shot by a stray bullet.”

Lila and Charia left immediately to the general Hospital.

“Good evening ma, please I'm here to see one Mr. Sims that was rushed in this afternoon following a gunshot.” Cynthia greeted the attendant at the reception.

“How are you related to him?”

“He's my father. Please I need to see my father.” Lila added.

“He's in the ICU, ma” the attendant directed them to the ward.

On reaching there, she saw Grey and Cynthia seated outside. Deep down her heart, she wished she could just get a gun and end the life of those two immediately, but she quietly walked past them and went to check on her dying father.

“Oh, father, please wake up. I don't know how I'll survive if you leave me. Please wake up.” Lila cried, holding her father's hands.

“You witch! Why all the crocodile tears? Killing your mother was not enough for you, and now you want to kill your father as well?” Mrs Elena told Lila who was praying for her father.

“Excuse me, what do you mean by me killing my mother and now my father?” Lila turned angrily and faced her.

“Yes I'll say it over and over again. You killed your mother.”

“You fail to provide a man with what he needs. Now tell me, is it a crime for that man to love another woman who gives him happiness and peace? If not for your stupid reaction towards my daughter and Grey, nothing would have taken your father out of the house just to go and plead with you to forgive her.” Mrs Elena added.

Lila didn't say a word till she left the ICU. The only person she would have talked with was her father, but he's in pain and in another world.

On her way out of the hospital premises, Janell ran and hugged her tight.

“Big mummy, I've missed you. Why have you not been coming home since the day I and mummy came to your house?”

Lila was moved by the little girl’s concern and her eyes were full of water, but she managed and controlled the tears from flowing so as not to show her weakness. 

Although she despises the mother, Janell is still innocent, and she's such a lovely child everyone will like at first sight.

“I'm sorry baby, I was out of town for some few days but I'll soon be back to the house. Just take care of daddy and your mummy.” Lila convinced the little girl to have some relief.

“Please, Lila, I'm sorry! A loud voice came from behind as Lila and Eucharia were about to kick off their car.

She turned and saw Cynthia running towards her.

“Please, forgive us. In all you'll do, I'm begging you to still remember that you once loved him and I'm still your sister. Please, I'll take all the punishments you want to give, but just forgive Grey.”

“I hate you Cynthia! That's all I can tell you for now.” Lila entered the car and jammed the door. Wining up the window glasses, Cynthia threw a paper to her in the car. Lila carried the paper and read.

“You can hate me but please, give a second thought to the divorce conditions you gave Grey. I still love him and I'm carrying his second child already.