"Rose! Why did you scream that way?!" David asked, confusingly and worriedly as he stood in front of her and his hands gripping her shoulders to shake her off her trepidation. "D-david?!" Rose cried shockingly on seeing, hurriedly she hugged him as if he would disappear any moment from her sight. David was disturbed about everything, he hugged her back softly before pulling away from her. Slowly, he lifted her chin with his finger. "Why are you looking this way? Did anyone hurt you?" He asked, curiously and Rose wavered her head aside. "No, I didn't.. It's just that, I saw a text," she was explaining, quickly she bent down to the floor to pick up her phone as she scroll through her message but couldn't find any thing. "H-how is this possible?!" She muttered, gawking speechlessly while David signed deeply in what seems to be a relief. "Can you tell me what the hell happened?!" He asked again, still worried on seeing the her raw tears again. "N-nothing, don't worry," Rose shutter
Rose spun instantly to take the kid's away, but she stopped when she discovered Christine was still in the room and hadn't seen a thing. Then, she spun back to the duos to yelled at them. "Can you not see that what you were doing is wrong? What if the kids had seen you guys, huh?" Carmen got exceptionally irate and furious at her guts, she pulled away from Roman as she flounce towards Rose. "Please hold it, I will not have you speak to me in such manner! And besides, it's your duty to hold them back as their babysitter," Carmen shuns her, nastily. "Just take a good look at yourself, woman! Have you no shame at all?" Rose asked and that elicited Carmen to feel embarrassed by the way she was half unclad to the world. "Do not forget your place in this house babysitter, I can do whatsoever I want and I didn't see any reason why you should meddle with my business!" Carmen raves, her chest raising and falling heavily. "That's enough Carmen!" Roman growls and that induced Carmen to tur
Chapter 18Days into weeks, things were going accordingly as it was predestine to prevail. Presently, it's prematurely morning. Rose could be seen dressing up as she prepared to leave for work while Daniel was still spreading on the bed. "Hi babe!" Daniel mumbled sleepily, his half lid eyes staring at his girlfriend who was already almost done. "You woke up late again?" She scoffed at her him."Yeah, I am just a little tired," He murmured while he kept tossing and stretching on the bed."Hm, no work today?" Rose arched her brows, striding to the dressing mirror to pick up her purse. "Definitely, there is!" Daniel stared and Rose merely nodded. Mesmerizingly, he kept gazing at Rose lovingly while thinking of the right time to propose to her. His mind filled with the thoughts of marrying her already, and he speculated that proposing her at her working place would be better. "Er... Why are you staring at me like that?" Rose asked with a grin as she strode to the bathroom. "Nothing
It was next morning, a glorious sunny morning it prevailed to be when Rose had woken up from her deep slumber. Her eyes snapping open like a book to the new unusual world around her, she was shocked, and alarmed when she realized herself on Roman's bed. "What?!" She screamed, panically. Hurriedly, she sailed out of the bed as memories of last night filled her head and coupled with assaulting margarine in her skull. Not minding checking on the kids or her strict boss, she scurried out of his room and jogged down to the sitting area. Hastily, she grabbed her purse from the couch and raced of the building as if her pants were on fire. Hence, she got to the road and bode a cab which took her home speedily. : : Finally, Rose got home and she strode frantically to her apartment after paying the cab driver. Promptly, when she got inside the sitting room. She met her boyfriend standing worriedly with cellphone in his hand as he paced to and fro. Rose attempted to tiptoed past
"Sir, why are you not saying anything?" Rose asked again as she was losing it already. Roman was still quiet, he looked at Rose and scratched his head again this time. "I locked them up," he divulged. Rose widely gasped, her eyes dilated in disbelief as she appeared to be shocked at what her boss had just said. Roman knew Rose will hate him for what he did, but he was confused at that time and had no option than to lock them up as it was was the only thing he could come up with at that moment. "What?" Rose said to him and instantly, she rushed to their room. However, when she got to their room, she didn't caught a glimpse of them and she sighed in what's seems to be a relieve because she felt Roman lied to her.Roman was walking behind her, as he got to her spot and she swiveled back to look at him."I knew you won't lock them up, sir. I was only shocked when you told me, so please tell me honestly where are they?" She asked him but this time with a smile.What she had just said
Roman took out a small box from his dressing table. He opened up the box and took out a burgundy vintage tie he had gotten on his last trip to Paris. He had travelled to the City of Love for a business trip. His partners were over there and it was a major deal, he had to bend to their rules just so the business contract wouldn't be pushed over has it had been done for a few weeks. After sealing the dear, he decided to celebrate by getting himself something and the expensive bow tie caught his attention. He took it over his neck and adjusted it to the right fitting. It was a nice pair with his black, suede tuxedo. Standing before the massive mirror in his room, he ran his thumb over his left eyebrow. Roman's sandy blonde hair was gelled back and he had black boroughs clad on his feet. He finally moved from the mirror when his phone chimed. He moved to the bed and got a hold of it. It was a message from Carmen changing their plans. Roman was supposed to get her from her place but now
Rose took a sip from her cup of coffee. She had made it just exactly has she liked it and it was going to help keep you up for when the twins needed her and when their father got back home. There was something about the way he squeezed her shoulder. It was really casual but her heart sort of did a somersault at the contact. She shook her head light, she was probably overthinking and reading unnecessary things to his actions. She put her cup of coffee on the big, round, wooden coffee table close to where she was seated. She hand her legs sprawled across the leather sofa. She took the television remote and tuned the channel to somewhere that would help her get her mind off things. Although Steve Harvey was doing his thing in the flat screen television hanging on the wall, she just couldn't concentrate. She stook in a deep breath like her boss was around and she wanted to get a whiff of his perfume. He always smelled nice and she could pick on his scent from anywhere. When her phone s
Running his tongue over his lower lip, Roman's eyes appealed to the sight before him. He had attested the lingerie on Carmen and it was beyond perfect. It was like Victoria Secret had the red set made solely for the woman. The way her pale white skin shone from the red net fabric drove him crazy. Carmen was on the bed, legs crossed and her hands on the bed behind her back. Her red lips also complimented the seductive look and his little man was twitching already and his loose trouser suddenly felt tight.He didn't know how she got to know there was a hotel around here but he was grateful for it. After their dinner, Carmen told him it would be best to pass the night where they could have enough privacy. Whlist he settled the hotel bills, Carmen had gone in then he came in and sw the magnificent sight before him. "Red." He finally croaked out. Carmen had thought he was so shocked, she had made the man lose his voice. She liked the reaction on Roman's face. Her source was right about
Roman smiled. He was so proud of Rose. He had heen in the hall when she was called as the best graduating student and he couldn't be more proud. The wide grin etched on Rose features was so contagious that a similar wide smile also came spreading across his face. She looked beautiful as always in the pink dress and her hair was much longer than the last time he had seen her seven months ago. She also looked even more beautiful and she was. He liked that she was a very brilliant lady and not only did the award prove that but her speech was simply amazing. It was well articulated. It was worth every applause it got.Seeing Rose again after months of not seeing her was strange. She had changed a whole lot. It was a good kind of change because she was looking much younger and even more beautiful than she already was. He was mesmerized by her flawless make-up and the way the pink dress she had on hugged her body stature like it was a second skin. The way the dress bandaged her body and re
Rose made her way to the podium shocked and surprised. She never thought she would be give the honor if best graduating student. She knew for a fact she was very intelligent and brilliant but she had no idea she would be the best graduating student. Her grades had gone down when she had started to work to pay her outstanding debts so she never expected that she would get hmthe award. Getting into college, she always wished she would be called upon as the best graduating student and have the people she loved the most behind her as she went to receive the award. She had given up on her dreams of getting the honour of the best graduating student because she had become distracted because of the jobs she had to take up. Getting the award was like a dream come true to her because she given up on wining the award. She climbed up the stairs that led to the podium and she looked behind her but there was no one behind her to celebrate her. She had imagined Magarita walking behind her with th
A popular Chinese proverb said, the journey of a thousand miles begins with just a step. Rose had started walking those mile since she was born. She had risen and fallen. She had victories and failures. She had highs and lows. There were times she had great faith in herself and other times she would want to give up on herself. Many times she stumbled while walking that path. The path to success which was a really long journey of a thousand miles. Many times she had risen and believed in herself. Many times she believed in herself and did great exploit and she wasn't exactly where she wanted to be yet but she knew it was only a matter of time before she got to her desired destination. What he figured out was that no one had a desired destination but instead you yearn for more. When you think you have gotten it all, your get a new surge of energy. You begin to want more. You want more than you already have. Not because you're greedy but because because you know from your past victories
Roman's knuckles made contact with the hard wooden door. His knuckles stung and he immediately regretted knocking on the door hard. He made to knock again but this time, softly then he heard shuffle from the office. Roman waited for a few seconds hoping the commander would open up his door. When the commander didn't, Roman knocked again. Softly so his knuckles wouldn't suffer from a hard impact on the wooden. The shuffling continued making Roman frown. The police officer had the front desk had told him the commander was seated in his office although he didn't take his calls. And the shuffling coming from the office also confirmed this. Roman decided to go back downstairs to the front desk. Just as Roman turned around to leave, he heard the door knob click. He turned so he was facing the door again. The door was pulled open and commander Eric got before him with disheveled hair that looked like hands had been in them and a swollen lip with red lipstick stains which he had tried to cl
"Why's everywhere so quiet?" Rose asked Magarita as they walked up the little stairs that led to the front porch of the orphanage. The front yard had tables and shelves with wares which were being sold but no one was with those wares and there was no one around who seemed like they were interested in buying any of the items displayed. Well, maybe it was because it was evening already. Rose was freezing. She had on a sweater and on top a long brown coat with jeans and boots but somehow she was still feeling cold. Magarita had given Rose her scarf to rap around her neck but Rose still felt chilled. It was from her being in the hospital without going out for days. Her body had gotten really used to the warm temperature in the hospital. Magarita shrugged. She was holding Rose tightly and helping her with coming up the little stairs. Magarita was trying to be as careful as possible with Rose because the doctor had said she had some broke bone which were till healing so she was limping an
Daniel hand his hands on the steering wheel and his head was also on the steering wheel. His eyes were closed and he had a firm grip on the steering wheel. Daniel's heart was aching. The conversation with Roman had left him kind of breathless. He felt like he was running on a treadmill, or rowing away as if some ghost from thepast was chasing him. There is burning in his lungs as he desperately tried to drawin enough air to sustain functionality. Daniel are tired. His hands were tired and the grip he had on the steering wheel was loosening His muscles were giving out and he just felt his hand slipping away from the steering wheel. Daniel couldn't take the thoughts going on in his mind anymore after listening to his brother. "Are you okay?" Erin raised an eyebrow as she asked. She was itching to know what had happened between the brothers while they were in the mansion. Daniel had left with sullen look on his face and it seemed he looked worse than he had left. While she was out
Christine looks so much like mum." Daniel breathe as he sat on the sofa. He and his brother had just been able to get the twins to sleep after an hour of bonding with them. Daniel was really excited at meeting the kids. They were shy when Roman had introduced them to him as their uncle but soon Daniel was able to get them to open up and the three started to play so much but Roman just had to ruin the fun by announcing that it was past their bed time and they had to get to school tomorrow. Christine, Christopher and Daniel had let out loud groan and they wouldn't stop grumbling. They twins refused to go to bed except their uncle read them a bedtime story and he also came to see them the next day. Daniel was able to tell them bedtime story but he couldn't promise he as going to be here tomorrow. Daniel coming over the next day was solely dependent on how his conversation with Roman went. Daniel had decided to listen to Erin's advice. The only way to put an end to the mystery behind al
"You've got such a fine house." Daniel complimented, looking around the living room. He was in awe of his brother's beautiful house. The interior was top notch and even the exterior was tasteful. Roman's mansion was even more beautiful than their parents house. It had a lot of paintings. Many of which were abstract. Roman had a flare for paintings hile they were kids. He never drew but he loved them and knew a lot of painters and artiste. Daniel wasn't surprised to see so many paintings in his brother's house. "Thank you." Roman murmured as he watched his brother settle on a sofa. Roman was surprised to see Daniel in his house. He wasn't expecting that his brother was going to ever locate his house. First off, he had kept his house address away from him and the other members of his family and also he never thought Daniel would ever want to have anything to do with him fter their encounter at the hospital. Or was he here to pick a fight? If Daniel was here for that then he was certain
Roman looked around his bedroom ensuring that there as nothing missing and very furniture was in good condition. He had gotten most of the furniture in the house replaced. Left to him, he would have wanted them to sell the house and purchase another one so they could get away from the hurt and trauma they went through in the hands of the armed robbers some days ago but the mansion was where the twins had lived for the past two years. He had also asked them if they wanted him to sell off the house but they had refused. The twins loved the mansion and the people who worked there. They workers had grown to be family and they treated them nicely. Roman had no choice but to succumb to Christine and Christopher's decision. The only thing was that he wanted all three of them staying in the same room. Roman didn't feel okay with them in their room. He got panic attacks thinking about it. Since his bed was big enough for all three of them, he had decided Christine and Christopher come stay in