Rose couldn't help but feel jealous from Carmen calling Roman's phone. She was angry Roman's girlfriend had to ruin their passionate make out session. The call had ruined the most passionate kiss to they had ever had. No man had ever mad her feel the way Roman made her feel with his kiss. Not even Daniel.It was like a billion butterfly got lose I'm her belly when she connected lips with the billionaire. Rose was sure this was an experience she would never forget. He tasted like the chicken soup he had made her and she wished she explored his mouth a little longer. Rose stared hard at Roman as they sat in silence while only Roman's ring tone filled the room. When it finally stopped, Roman took Rose's hand but she retracted it like it was fire. Roman's phone sound again as it rand out loud whilst also vibrating. He felt like throwing his expensive Iphone at the wall but he kept still. Carmen was best in ruining perfect moods and moment."Carmen, again?" Gulping nervously, Roman nodd
"Daddy, when will aunty Rose be back?" Christopher asked as his father tied his shoe lace. It had only be two days since Rose had gone on her break and the twins wouldn't stop asking about her. Their father had explained to them that Rose was on a break but they still kept asking about her. They really missed her."Christopher, I've told you your aunty Rose is on a break and won't be back until the week is over." Roman tried not to snap at his son as he explained for the like hundredth time. He was tried having to repeat the same thing over and over again but he understood they were still kids and they missed her so much. He also missed her too. "I miss her. I miss her, daddy." Christine who was sitting on her bed said. She had her backpack strapped on her back. She was dressed and ready for school and the only person keep the waiting was her brother. "Oh, sweetie, I miss her too but she needs to have some time to herself." Roman finished up tying Christopher shoe lace then he star
"What did you both have for breakfast?" Rose asked, with a smile."Daddy made pancakes and I hate pancakes." Christopher pouted with a frown etched on his fore head. One thing Rose would never forget about Christopher was how much he hated pancakes. It was werid for her to hear that when she just started to work with he Hendricks. Why would anyone hate pancakes she always thought. Even Margot knew Christopher hated pancakes and his sister too. "What did you make pancakes for breakfast when you clearly know Christopher hates pancakes?" Rose directed at Roman for the first time since they started the video call. She tried her best to pretend like there wasn't there people on her laptop's screen as she only focused on the twins. The twins were balanced well on their father's leg as they spoke with Rose. The moment their father walked into he house, they started to remind and pester him about the video call with Rose he had promised them in the morning. Roman couldn't have forgotten b
The day dawned crisp and clear. The sun poured through my window. Another day had dawned, bringing with it new hopes and aspirations. The light of dawn seeped into the room. Rose rubbed her bleary eyes and walked to the window. There was a pearly glow in the sky. The ray of sunlight lit up the room. The dawn chorus of melodic birdsong drifted in.Rose rolled over in her bed and used her pillow to cover up her face. It was to protect her yes r be light seeping into her room through the window. She immediately regretted not pulling the curtains over. She wasn't ready ready to get up from bed. She still wanted to be deep in sleep but she knew she had to get her butt out if the bed. She had made a promise she as going to pay a visit to the orphanage and she had to be there today. And the earlier she got there, the longer she was going to be there and the later she got there the shorter she was going to be there. She enjoyed being there so it was best she set out early.Reluctant, she too
Chapter 33Margarita was the one in charge of the orphanage. She was a sixty years old woman from Mexico. She was plump and full around the corners, she was very full because she was too big to fit a normal plastic chair. She was really tall with short, shining black hair with an overly long fringe that always got in her eyes all the time.She had started the orphanage since she was twenty five. After getting married, she and her husband tried to have children. They wanted seven children, it was always their dream to have a house full of kids and lots of grandchildren and even great grandchildren.The first shock came when they tried for two years and there was no head way. They tried and tried and out in all their efforts but none of the procedures ever worked. They did surgery, had to take a lot of medication to and exercises. They even tried other options but it always never worked. Her husband was frustrated and so was she. It started o tale a toll on their marriage and so thier
Chapter 34"What?" Margarita sputtered.Rose gave a beating to herself mentally. She had just told herself she didn't want to burden Margarita with that and in less than a second she jusr ratted herself out. Now Margarita was definitely going to be bothered."Why? How? When?" Rose didn't know which of Margarita's question to answer first and this was exactly what she was avoiding. She didn't want to get the old lady all worried especially about her. Rose didn't even like anyone get bothered it worried about her. It made her feel like a burden and she didn't like to feel that way.That was the way she felt when she was taken to a foster care home when she was six. She felt like a burden to her foster parents. Although her foster parents let her visit the orphanage a lot and even spend holidays with the other kids she just always felt like a burden that was why she worked hard to fend for herself. She was working ao many jobs just to take care of herself and cover all her expenses. She
Chapter 35Rose didn't know how but she was in a red dinner dress and silver peep toe heels. Her hair was gelled and styled to the side. Tiffany had helped her with that and her makeup and so here she was before Daniel. How he managed to get her to come, she had no idea but she was seated and had a plate of salad before her. She took a forkful of salad and directed it to her mouth.Everything turned sour when Margarita recievee the letter from Mr P**e. Mr P**e was the owner of the land the orphanage was built on. His father owned it but when his father died some years ago, P**e being the only offspring of his inherited the land. Mr P**e's father was really nice man before he died. He always frequent the orphanage and he always donated to any cause of the orphanage. He would bring lots of toys and food for all the children. Rose could remember having a doll he go for her fifth birthday. The toy was still at the orphanage till now.Mr P**e's father was also understanding with the paymen
Chapter 36"Christine! Christopher! It's getting late!" Roman called the twins. They had said they wanted to eat out for dinner and Roman had just learnt of a new restaurant that just got opened around the beach. "No pizza for you both if you're one minute late to the car." He threatened. In a twinkle of an eye, the kids were standing before their father but Roman gasped. "What are you both wearing?" The twins were in a pizza costume, the both of them were dressed in a big slice of pizza costume only thier hands, feet and head in view from the costume. "Daddy, we're pizza eating pizza." Christine giggled."Happy Halloween, daddy." Christopher embraced his father's legs. With a frown, Roman asked, "first things first, how on earth did you get this costume? And Halloween is eight months away. So why are you both dressed this way?""That's too far away." Christopher grumpled with a pout."Margot told us not to tell you we cajoled her to getting you the costume." Christine told her dad
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