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CHAPTER 79ONE WEEK LATER Lloyd had been working overtime trying to salvage what he could of his businesses that weren’t directly linked to their company. He had transferred most of his personal shares in other companies to either Kyle, Nancy or the twins but he knew deep down, that the only reason he easily got investors to partner with him was bacause of their family empire, which may likely crumble any minute from now.Today was the day for the company’s Biannual shareholders meeting. All seven major shareholders including Lloyd and Lucas were present. The executive directors of all the companies under them were also present with their assistants.Lucas had been trying to speak to Lloyd to no avail since that night and if it wasn’t for Lloyd’s plan, he would have totally skipped the meeting.Lucas was confident that Lloyd would not say anything about what he had revealed to him. He was smart enough to know that that would be the beginning of both the company’s and their personal d
CHAPTER 80A few days had passed, Lucas was yet to sign the divorce papers, still trying to find ways to cajole Veronica into staying with him. Veronica had moved out of the mansion, into an apartment she owned in Nancy’s estate, so she could be closer to the family.Lloyd wanted her to move into one of the spare bedrooms but they were just too small to accommodate her and her things.Lloyd had traveled overseas, all in a bid to salvage the situation with some of their foreign investors who had found out about the huge debt their company was in. Government officials were also breathing down their neck and everything just seemed like a royal mess but Lloyd was handling it all well, with Nancy by his side, giving him the necessary support he needed.Nancy awoke to the sound of her phone ringing. It had been ringing for a while and she had been too sleepy to pick it but the caller was relentless. Eventually she gave in and when she saw it was Lloyd, she had a little bit of motivation to
CHAPTER 81After Nancy ended the call, Lloyd called twice and she didn’t pick. He felt that she was probably too nervous to discuss it with him now, so he let her be. Instead, he texted his trusted sidekick in all things Nancy, Emily. Once Emily saw his text, she instantly knew what he was planning to do.Lloyd asked her to add a few more people to the guest list of the party, including her influencer friends because he had something big planned to celebrate her birthday and their pregnancy.While Emily got to work, Lloyd canceled all his meetings and hopped on his jet, making his way back to Coral city immediately.He was so excited about the pregnancy. He was going to be around for this one, unlike the twins, when his actions forced Nancy away. The prospect of a pregnant Nancy gave him so much joy and he kept imagining her with a baby bump all along the journey. Him playing with it, talking to the baby in her womb and all the other things that he saw men do with their pregnant wiv
CHAPTER 82***FLASHBACK***Lloyd was well aware of what transpired between Nancy and her parents, especially her father. He practically disowned her because of Lloyd and the next thing on his redemption list was to restore thier broken relationship.A few weeks ago, he and Veronica made the journey to Emerald bay to find Theo and Thelma, Nancy’s parents.Thelma immediately recognized him and fearing her husband’s temper, she persuaded him to leave.“You can’t be here. You can’t be here, you must go now,” She said, blocking his path from entering the house.Lloyd gave her his signature smile. “I have no intention of leaving ma’am. Not until I talk to you and your husband. This is about Nancy, it is important.”“We promise we mean no harm, we just want to set things straight, do it the right way,” Veronica added.Their main target was Theophilus and there was no way in hell they were going to leave, until they got a chance to talk to that man.Thelma wanted to panic when he mention he wa
CHAPTER 83Lloyd initially wanted to plan a big jaw dropping proposal. He had been itching for months to ask Nancy to marry him but after finding out that she was pregnant, he couldn’t wait any longer and so he had Emily invite all her influencer friends with the biggest reach so the proposal could go viral at least, since he couldn’t wait for the football finals where he planned to propose to her in front of 120,000 people.“Will you make my life complete and be mine forever?” Lloyd asked.Nancy just stood there with her mouth agape. She couldn’t move, her heart was pounding so hard in her chest, that admist the screams and cheers and choruses of the people urging her to say yes, her heartbeat was the only thing she could hear.She looked at the man kneeling down in front of her. The look on his face showed her how anxious he was to hear her answer. She took some seconds to admire how handsome and sexy he looked. Those brown eyes, his plump pink lips. His well faded buzz cut and the k
CHAPTER 84It was the following day after Nancy and Lloyd’s engagement. Theo and Thelma were staying in an hotel that wasn’t too far from the estate. It was one of the two five star hotels in the city, where only the elite of the elite could afford to stay. Neither of them had been told yet of Nancy’s pregnancy. Lloyd wanted Nancy got be the one to inform them about it.He had made his intentions known to them and to the world. Nancy was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. Getting their approval and blessing was his aim and he already had that.He knew Nancy wasn’t a deeply bitter and resentful person. If she could forgive him once he showed her his intentions were genuine, surely she could find somewhere in her heart to forgive her father.Lloyd rented the penthouse of the hotel for his future in-laws. The penthouse had its own outdoor, rooftop bbq area and infinity edge pool.It was at the pool that Nancy and her father finally had the chance to talk. Nancy had ju
CHAPTER 85“This is all your fault Nancy,” Allison muttered to herself as she stared at her father where he sat on the couch in their living room.He was lucky not to have lost one of his eyes, where a shard of bottle had pierced him slightly. The doctors said it would take a while for him to heal completely and except he uses cosmetic surgery, he would be scarred for life.“Ally,” Ethan called. His entire face was wrapped with gauze and bandages but he could see with one of his eyes. Apart from the occasional pain he felt from his wounded eye, he felt perfectly okay.“Give it up. This obsession with Lloyd has gone too far. I will no longer be a party to this madness,” Ethan’s voice was curt and calm.“No Father, you can’t say that. I want Lloyd. Lloyd is mine,” Allison protested immediately. She couldn’t believe her ears. She had given up too much to lose. She killed Chloe to cover her tracks. She was desperate at this point. Lloyd was going to be hers or no one else’s.“I know but Ll
CHAPTER 86It was two days to the final hearing on the case of Nancy’s attempted murder by Melanie Granger. The last two hearings have shown with concrete evidence that Nancy was in fact not at the scene of Chloe’s murder that night and without doubt, Melanie Granger and the assassin were going to be spending a long time in Jail.Lloyd had just returned home from work that day. Each day was as ethic as the last but he was grateful for his stress reliever that he had at home. “Wifey…..” Lloyd hugged Nancy tightly and buried his face in her neck, inhaling her smell deeply. The scent of her body gave him so much peace and reprieve. He held on tightly to her for about a minute, not wanting to let her go.“Good evening sir,” Marla’s voice came out of nowhere.Lloyd groaned. He really didn’t want to let go of his wife right now. Not raising his head, he waved Marla away but Marla didn’t leave.“Sir, I’m going to the trade fair tomorrow. I was hoping to get your permission to take the day of
CHAPTER 106FIVE YEARS LATER“Stop it Harmony, give it back,” Kayden screamed as he chased after his sister who had taken his legos. Harmony giggled as she ran circles around their playroom and Kayden chased after her giggling as well.“Catch me if you can, catch me if you can,” Her little shrill voice filled the air.“Got you,” Richard grabbed her and Kayden pulled the lego out her hands, baring his tongue at her.“Not fair,” She folded her arms and frowned at him. “Richard helped you.”“Who wants hot chocolate?” Leo stepped into the room with four mugs of hot chocolate on a tray.The triplets chorused. “Me, me,me.”He handed them one each and took one for himself, before he sat in front of his gaming console and someone who looked exactly like him appeared on the other side of the screen.“Ready to get your ass kicked bro?” Lex asked. He was spending the weekend with his favorite uncle Kyle and his favorite aunt Emily. Actually, if you ask him, he would say he’s babysitting their th
CHAPTER 105It was 3am when Lloyd woke up a few weeks to Nancy’s due date. He heard her crying and he thought something was wrong.“Hey…...what’s the matter,” He asked softly, cupping her face. “I’m hungry,” Nancy replied, still crying.Ever since she entered her third trimester, her hormones have been acting up and had her all over the place. She cried over every little irritation but Lloyd understood perfectly. The books he read actually did a good job of preparing him for the journey. He found it amusing how almost everything he read about pregnant women seemed to be evident in his wife.“What do you want to eat, anything, I’ll have the chef make it for you,” He said, wiping her face and pecking her cheeks.Nancy pouted but she kept silent. Her cravings these days have become weird and absurd and this was one of those moments.“What is it? Tell me, what do my babies want?” Lloyd asked again, rubbing her stomach and peppering it with kisses.“Ice cream,” Nancy replied. Lloyd glanc
CHAPTER 104“Don’t put that there Kyle, bring it this way,” Emily was dishing out instructions left and right, organizing everything for Nancy’s baby shower and gender reveal party.Nancy was now in the middle of her third trimester and heavy. Her bump was really big because of the three she had in her.“I’m going to work you so hard later tonight for working me so hard like this,” Kyle replied, taking the ladder and pinning the ribbons up.The thing about Emily was that even if she hired an event planner to organize events, the creative ideas were exclusively hers and if she didn’t like something, she would change it.“I look forward to it,” She replied, pecking Kyle’s cheek and blushing.They were having the party at the backyard of their mansion. Everything was almost ready and a few guests were already arriving.“I’m telling you, he is not just president in name but in other departments, if you know what I mean,” Veronica said, winking at Nancy and Diana.Both ladies laughed at her
CHAPTER 103A week after Lloyd and Nancy returned from their trip, Lloyd had a final surprise for his family. He was moving them to a bigger house, a mansion he had been building since he reunited with Nancy.It was meant to be completed before their wedding but a few delays along the way happened so he had to wait a bit. It was the morning of the day he wanted to take them to the house and the family was having breakfast together. It was just Lloyd, Nancy and the twins.Thelma and Theo had returned back to Emerald Bay, Diana was at home but in her room, Emily was on an engagement honeymoon with Kyle In Dubai, according to her.“We’re moving to a new house soon,” Lloyd announced out of nowhere. He had not discussed it with Nancy before so she was shocked, the spoon of eggs she held to her mouth couldn’t go further than her lips.She dropped it back on her plate. “A new house?” She asked Lloyd, giving him a light scowl.“I like this house,” Leo said.“Is it a big house like our old man
CHAPTER 102“Here goes nothing,” Lloyd whispered, taking off her blindfold.It took some seconds for Nancy’s eyes to adjust but when they finally did, “Wow,” was the only word that escaped her mouth as she took in the breathtaking view of the city of Paris at night.It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, the lights and ambience were out of this world. She could see the famous Eiffel Tower in the distance, standing in all its glory and its marvelous light, and the atmosphere smelled of such delicious food that her stomach growled.Lloyd had brought her to the rooftop terrace of the hotel that had a 360 degree view of the city. It was called the Eiffel penthouse. They were both casually dressed but they still looked as sweet as ever. Lloyd wore loose white pants with a black shirt, he left the top three buttons open and his sleeve was rolled to his elbow. He wore black suede loafers on his feet. Nancy on the other hand wore a long white evening gown that could easily pass fo
CHAPTER 101“I’m going to miss you mama,” Leo said as he hugged his mother tightly.“Me too. I’m going to miss you,” Lex added, joining his brother in the hug.“We’re only going to be gone for three days, I’ll be back before you even know it,” Nancy replied as she hugged her boys back.It was the following day after the wedding, they were flying to Paris for their honeymoon. It was supposed to be a two week vacation but because of Nancy’s condition and not wanting to be away from her kids for too long, she had Lloyd cut it short.Their entire family had come to see them off at the presidential Villa. Kennedy had given them the presidential jet as private transport to Paris.“Don’t I get a I will miss you hug too?” Lloyd enquired, smiling at the boys.“We will miss you too daddy,” The boys ran and hugged him too.“Can’t we come with you?” Lex pouted and Nancy gave Lloyd an inquiring look but he shook his head. These three days were going to be for them and them alone.“This trip is for
CHAPTER 100“The first time we met wasn’t the first time I saw you. It was three months before then.” Lloyd was surprised and his jaws literally touched his feet. Nancy chuckled amidst her sobbing, seeing how shocked he looked.“As a young hustling girl who was just through with high school, with dreams to become a world class chef, I was baking and selling treats at a construction site not very far from our home to the local laborers when one day, Lloyd came to visit the site. He was the most handsome man I had ever seen and I immediately fell in love with him. I made sure to stick around till he left and then I got his card from one of the engineers.”“Here’s something I've never told anyone before,” Nancy chuckled slightly, remembering the lengths she went to, to secure Lloyd’s attention the first time.“I lied, gathered what savings I had then, left home and tracked him down to coral city. I spent over a month stalking this man, learning everything about him, knowing everything a
CHAPTER 99The venue for the wedding was a private garden within the high brow areas of the city. The garden was big enough to serve as the wedding venue and the reception area. Both settings were already beautifully arranged.Lloyd stood on the podium, under an arch that had pictures of his and Nancy’s favorite memories printed on it. They had a total of forty to fifty invited guests. The seating arrangement was set with about 20 seats on each side, leaving the aisle open with Lily petals all over it. The number of security personnel at the venue was almost twice as many as their guests. With the president openly attending the event, no chances were taken. There was no press present and the media crew hired to cover the wedding were the only people that weren’t friends or family aside from the security.The venue of the wedding had a pale pink and white decoration and almost everyone was seated and Lloyd was waiting for Nancy’s arrival. He was very nervous. His palms were sweaty, h
CHAPTER 98ONE MONTH LATER“I’m nervous, mom,” Lloyd said to Veronica as he adjusted his bow tie in front of the mirror. It was their big day. The day he would finally say I do and be married to the most beautiful, most amazing, sweetest, most wonderful woman in the world. The love of his life, the woman of his dreams, his heartthrob, his sweetheart, his amor.The events of the past month were still fresh in his mind. Nothing would ever take away the dread that he felt at almost losing his child, but he was grateful. Grateful that it was all behind them. They could finally look forward to the future and hopefully never have to keep looking over their shoulders for where the next trouble may come from.Kennedy, using his powers as president, convinced Lloyd not to try and press any charges. He had a much better way to make Allison and Marla pay. Their arrest was never documented. It never went into the books. In fact, in the eyes of the nation, they were still wanted for kidnapping the