Along the highway, Rose could be seen inside the car alongside the kids as Jason drives them to school. The sensation was reserved, Christine clogged into Rose's arms while Christopher rested his head on her shoulder. Anyone who takes a note of their sight would think she's their mother. Meanwhile, Rose was mentally alone with her thoughts. Her eyes watched the numerous cars but her mind wasn't interested in them as she was more focused on her boss -Roman. She doesn't know why but anytime he looks at her, she felt nervous and uneasy even when she struggles not to show it. To be sincere for once in her lifetime, she hasn't felt this way towards a man. Not even David, her boyfriend. Something wasn't right, she just couldn't wrap her fingers around it. However, whatever it was, she'd figure out it soon. Momentarily, they arrived at the school and Jason drove directly into the school yard. Other kids could be seen as they dressed in the same school uniforms as the kids; sky blue clo
Meanwhile, Roman and Carmen were still inside talking in the restaurant. "I have to leave now," Roman said while adjusting his suit."Why? You just got here." She sounded disappointed."I am so sorry, but as a father and a businessman my schedule is quite tight." He said to Carmen trying to sound nice."Don't you have someone taking care of your kids?" "Of course I do." Roman nods in assertion. Carmen heaved in defeat, she realized Roman wasn't going to change his mind about leaving."When can we meet again?" She asks him."I'll have to check my schedule first." He said to her while standing up from his seat."So....." She looked at him waiting for his reply."Don't worry I'll call you." He said to her with a smile."It's nice to finally speak to you, but I hope next time we'll have enough time to talk." She stretches her hand out.He places him on her hand as well. "I hope so too." They both shook hands for a while staring at each other before they finally released their hands.C
Roman instantly hang up the call, he was not ready to listen further as he prepared to leave the room. "Sir what is going on? What happened to the kids?" Rose asked frantically, her eyes held so much worried and fears. Roman couldn't reply to her questions as his head was in disarray. "Follow me!" These were the only words he was able to say to her and without hestitating, they both rushed out of the room and hurried downstairs.When they got outside, Jason was preparing to leave the mansion. However, Roman stopped him instantly."Jason, the keys!" He growls at him as he strides to the car, Rose paces behind him. Meanwhile, Jason stopped walking and turned back upon hearing his boss orders. "Let me drive sir, you hate driving, I can take you to wherever you want to go," he said but Roman looked extremely impatient as rushed inside the car and this made Jason gape confusingly if everything is okay."Jason, give me the keys!" Roman growls this time, and Immediately Jason handed the
have told you to always talk to me more nicely." Eva said, walking comfortably into the sitting room and she sat down on the expensive silk sofa like gentle lady. "You bitch!" Roman growls, moving towards her angrily but Williams hurriedly stopped him.Meanwhile, Rose still stood startled at the scenery as she held the door, she eventually shut the door and walked closer to them. And when Eva noticed her again, the only thing she felt towards her was raw hatred."Who is she?" Eva asks Roman, still staring at Rose irritatingly."That does not an answer to my question, why are you here?" Roman asks instead, he angrily ruffled his hair. "At least offer me a glass of water." Eva muttered with an eye roll, she crossed her leg over the other as she watched the folks gawk at her spitefully. And when she noticed the atmosphere was a bit too tense, she decided to spill the tale. "I want us to make a deal." She said this time with an obvious frown."A deal? To who?" Williams asks her before
the kids and their father sat at the dining, Rose quickly went into the kitchen to prepare the kids favorite."Dude, I have to leave now," Williams said and Roman sprang to his feet. "You leaving so suddenly?" Roman asked, he got to Williams and they both walked to the living room. "Yes, dude. I have a lot to do, that's why," Williams explained and Roman nods. "Bye uncle!!" Christopher and Christine said in unison, waving their hands at him and William smiled as he blew an invisible kiss to them instead. Roman chuckled as he watched them, then he turned to his best friend. "I will walk you to the car," he offered. "Alright!" William replied and they both walked out of the mansion. They both got to Williams car and he stepped inside, while Roman simply stood as he watched his best friend zoomed out of his yard. The cold breezes whack across his face, and he breathes in appreciatingly as he strode back to the house to join his kids at the dining. "Why did you two agree to go wit
“I'll be leaving now sir!" Rose was saying as she got to the living room, her face. However, she sounded like she was in rush of which was. She's nervous about David, surely her boyfriend would be deeply worried about her and its getting late already. "You'll be here tomorrow?" Roman finally asks when he noticed he has been gawking at her for to long. "Yes sir!" Rose replied, she seemed surprised to hear the question because definitely she'll be working tomorrow."Tomorrow is Saturday, I want to take the kids out and I want you to join us?" Roman said instantly when he noticed how weird his question."O-okay sir, they'll be so happy when they hear that," Rose said and Roman nods. "I'll be on my way now, sir," She mutters, feeling nervous again as she quickly whirled to leave the house.Meanwhile, Roman stood from his spot. Silently watching her leave the house, he suddenly wished she could dwell with them, she was really a source of joy to his kids. Abruptly, Roman smacked his he
"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
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