Ellie and the kids were watching a movie when Cesar came into the living room or more like danced into the living room shocking them. They'd never seen him dance before so this was something extraordinary.He had headphones on and he was really in his own world dancing salsa to whatever song he was listening to and then Miesa burst out laughing which caused the others to laugh also.“Dad! What are you doing?”. Tristan asked amidst laughter.“Dancing." He replied.“Yeah we can see that." Ellie said. "Why are you dancing?.”“Should there be a reason my love?". He grinned at her before he went to insert his phone in the Bluetooth dock and pressed play then the song he’d been listening to filled the living room.“I love this song!”. Ellie exclaimed as she stood up and started dancing as well.It was a Spanish song by Diego Torres and Carlos Vives titled Un Poquito. It was Cesar’s favorite song but now it seemed his lovely wife had the same in common with him.“We won’t be left out Mimi".
Have you ever wished you could turn back the hands of time to change so many things? Things that you regret saying or doing? Or not doing because of how angry you were at someone and then you find it's too late to do that thing and you're filled with regrets. That was exactly how Ellie felt when she got to the thirtieth floor with Gina and a security guard and just barged into his office without knocking only to find her dear husband in a pool of his own blood on the floor near his desk. He’d refused to pick up the phone when Gina tried to inform him of Ellie’s arrival so they’d gone up with a security guard just in case she had to boot someone unwanted out of his office. “Oh my God!”. Gina gasped and immediately did the sign of the cross. “Cesar!." Elyon screamed and ran to where he was. "Cesar!.” Hot tears began to stream down her cheeks as she cradled her husband's body in her arms. "No, please wake up." She sobbed. Quickly the security guard went to check his bathroom just in
“I was...twelve when my parents took me to go live with my aunt Cecile and her husband Aaron." Ellie began in a flat voice. "My dad lost his job and...my Mom didn’t make enough to sustain us so they decided that I’d go stay with my aunt for the time being which I did.”Cesar said nothing, didn’t even turn to look at her as she talked and she didn’t mind. She was ready to tell him the reason why she hated being tied up. He was not talking to her and even went as far as to pretend she didn’t exist which made Tristan annoyed that he was blaming Ellie for something that wasn’t her fault.Someone donated blood for you so you wouldn’t die and you didn’t like it? big deal!.“My aunt was so much in love with her husband that she was practically blind to all his faults which was no surprise because she’d terminated three pregnancies for him." Ellie chuckled darkly. "He didn’t want or like children and she accepted it." She took a deep shaky breath. "He didn’t object to my coming to stay with
“Ma’am...Mrs Sandoval is here to see you.” A maid informed Arya. “Let her in!”. Arya was surprised to hear that Ellie had come to pay her a visit but she was also happy because she'd be able to ask her how Cesar was doing. The maid curtsied and left. Arya wondered why Ellie came to see her and she hoped that everything was okay. She’d heard from one of the doctors that Cesar had requested for an exchange transfusion immediately he found out and even threatened to sue the hospital so they’d done his bidding without further argument. Ellie walked into the drawing room with the maid and looked around ignoring Arya on purpose at first. “Welcome to my home Elyon. Please sit.” Arya gestured to the single chair opposite hers. “Thank you." Ellie forced a smile and sat down. “Tea?”. “Um...no thanks.” She shook her head. If Cesar knew she was here, he'd scold her but she couldn't get his confession out of her mind. She'd wanted to confront Arya about it but decided against it at the las
Annie jerked awake as she felt the cold splash of the water and she shivered. She tried opening her eyes but realized that she’d been blindfolded and gagged, tied to a chair like a criminal about to be interrogated by her captor.She became scared and whimpered. She couldn’t see a thing but she heard voices coming from somewhere and then she heard a door open and close. She felt the presence of someone in the room with her but otherwise there was silence and she hoped that whoever it was, wasn’t planning on killing her.Her voice was muffled by the duct tape covering her mouth and she jerked in her chair as tears streamed down her face wetting her blindfold.The person walked forward and yanked off the duct tape making her scream in pain.“Ow!that was mean!". She protested. "Couldn’t you have done it slowly?”. She hoped the duct tape had not bruised her mouth. She couldn't afford her picture to be taken by those crazy paparazzi with a bruised lip.The person said nothing.“Hello? Say
“Hello Lorenzo." Cesar greeted him like an old time friend. "Remember me?”. Lorenzo frowned as he tried to get his vision to focus on the man in front of him but was having trouble because it seemed as if the world was spinning and he wasn't drunk. “Who are you?”. His words were slurred and he felt like he was dead drunk. What the hell did they inject him with?. “Did you hit him too hard?”. Cesar glared at the man beside him. “He tried to escape sir. We had to...” The man started to explain. “If he doesn’t give me what I want, you’re dead.” Cesar growled at him. “Yes sir.” Cesar faced Lorenzo. “My name is Cesar. Cesari Sandoval. Rings a bell?”. He asked. “Don’t give a fuck who you are.” Lorenzo spat. “Okay". Cesar agreed. He took a seat on the chair in front of Lorenzo straddling it and placing his arms on the back of the chair. "Will you answer this question for me then? I promise to let you go if you do,Infact...I’ll give you five million. Who sent you to kill me?”. “Fuck
Ellie sat in bed going through a book about pregnancy and she was smiling like a loon. She couldn’t believe she was actually going to have Cesar’s baby a second time. It was a dream come true but… her smile faded when she remembered the first time she’d gotten pregnant with Miesa...it hadn’t been a smooth one because Miesa had been a big baby so she had to have C-section to get the baby out and she’d almost lost her life as well.She didn’t want that to happen again. She wanted to have a natural delivery this time. She was still pondering over this when the door to the bedroom opened and she scrambled out of bed and went to the sitting room hoping it was Cesar.“You’re still awake?”. Cesar looked surprised to see her.Ellie said nothing and rushed to hug him tight.Cesar froze and didn’t relax until Ellie got herself and released him. He didn't think he was ever going to get used to someone hugging him without that reflex action of freezing.“I’m sorry." She apologized. "I...forget.”
Cesar felt strange as he alighted from the car then reached out his hand to help Ellie out. He felt as if he was being watched but when he looked around, he didn’t see anything suspicious.He smiled at Ellie and they walked into the hospital, took the elevator to the second floor and walked over to the nurse’s station.“Good morning sir, ma’am." The nurse greeted smiling widely at them. "Dr Quinn will see you now.” She gestured for them to go ahead.“Thank you Sharona." Ellie smiled. "How’s Nathan?”.“He’s good.”They walked to the doctor’s office, knocked on the door and when they heard Dr Quinn’s response for them to come in they opened the door and walked in.“Oh Mr and Mrs Sandoval, good morning.” Dr Quinn stood up to shake their hands then gestured for them to sit which they did.“Morning.” They responded.“How are you feeling today Mrs Sandoval?”. Dr Quinn inquired.“Good." Ellie replied.After Ellie’s blood and urine had been taken for test, they waited for the doctor to return
Months later “Cesar!”. Ellie screamed. "Cesar!”. Cesar rushed into the closet and stopped short when he saw Ellie holding her stomach and she was breathing heavily. He looked down at the floor and made a face. “Did you pee on yourself?”. He asked. “My water just broke idiot!". She snapped. "The baby’s coming!”. Cesar froze as he stared at her. “What?”. “Cesar!”. She screamed. Cesar jumped. “What do I do?”. “He’s asking me stupid questions!." She exclaimed through gritted teeth as she tried not to scream out. "Hospital!”. Cesar nodded and yelled for Maia to get the baby bag before he proceeded to lift Ellie up in his arms but he didn’t expect her to beat him up. “Hey!what now!”. He protested. "I'm taking you to the hospital." “I’m in my underwear idiot!." She gestured to her body. Cesar looked at her and bit his cheek to stop himself from laughing then he nodded and went to get her a dress. “I have to change first." Ellie said. “You’re cranky." He stated drily and went to
Cesar stood on the balcony just staring at nothing in particular. It was the last day of their stay in South Africa and they'd enjoyed every bit of it. Sun City was fun but they had to go back home and he had to go back to work.He and Ellie had gone for her check up today and everything was looking good but Ellie hadn't wanted to know the sex of the baby so he'd told the doctor to whisper it in his ear which made him smile like a Cheshire cat."You're not allowed to do that." Ellie had protested hitting him immediately they walked out of the office. "That's called cheating.""No it's not." He'd complained. "I have a right to know if I want to."She had huffed which made him smile. She went silent for a long time even as they got into the car and Warren drove away from the hospital so he turned to look at her."You're not mad, are you?". He asked. "I can unknow it if you want."That brought a half smile to her face. "Unknow it?there's no word like that." She scoffed. "No I'm not mad.
Tristan dreaded going back to the home he'd grown up in. He'd been treated worse than a slave. Spat on, abused and whatnot and he'd thought he'd never have to come back but here he was staring at the house whilst seated in the car. He'd been too excited to see Abby so he'd left his aunt Evie's house two hours earlier forgetting that Abby's school didn't let out until two pm and it was just one pm so he had to wait one hour before he could see her. His phone rang bringing him out of his thoughts and he took it out of his pocket, sighed then answered the call."Hey Gwen." He said. Ever since he started following her on Instagram and other media platforms, she somehow got her hands on his phone number and had been disturbing him since then. He liked her, she was a very nice girl and all that but he didn't want to get her hopes up continuing this charade. She was just eight years old so she had no business crushing on him or any boy for that matter."Hi! Are you busy?". She asked."Yea
The next day “Oh my God!". Ellie exclaimed suddenly as she stared at her iPad. She looked horrified and he wondered what she'd seen that could have made her look that way. “Are you okay?Is it the baby?”. Cesar asked. He hoped it wasn't the baby. They were still within the vicinity of the airport and a hospital surely wasn't nearby that they could take her to. "Talk to me." They were on their way to Evie’s from the airport and the kids were asleep. “No! Look." She thrust her iPad in front of him. "Cassandra Nash and her family are dead...all of them.” Cesar read the news article and felt no remorse whatsoever that Cassandra was dead. Infact he wanted to celebrate and shout from the rooftop that they were finally free. He still had enemies but they were ones who wouldn't dream of trying to hurt him and his family. Not if they valued their lives. “You’re not saying anything." Ellie spoke up when he kept staring at the news article and pictures. Cesar returned her iPad. “I have noth
A Week later“Sir...Dom has arrived.” David informed Cesar.“Finally! I thought he’d never get here." Cesar rolled his eyes. "Bring him here.” It had only been a week of waiting for the guy to finally get his butt here but it had felt like years and Cesar hated waiting for anyone. If not that he really needed the guy, he'd have just let him go. Find someone else to do the job.David nodded and left. Five minutes later he returned with Dominic.“Thank you David." Cesar waved him away. "Sit Dom.” He gestured to the chair in front of his desk. "I’ve been waiting for you.”“Why?”. Dom asked.“David didn’t tell you?”. Cesar arched a brow.Dom shrugged.Cesar picked up some pictures and passed it to Dom who took it and checked it out. The indifferent expression on his face turned stormy which surprised Cesar.“Cassandra Nash.” Dom spat.“Yes.” He nodded.“You know her?.” Dom asked.“Not personally." Cesar said. "I have scores to settle with her.”“She hurt you?”. Dom rumbled.“Tried to blow
Cesar was worried about Ellie because she'd refused to go out after that bombing incident. She also had nightmares about Cassandra trying to kill her and it didn't help that Tristan seemed to agree with her that the woman would stop at nothing until Ellie was dead. He didn't know why Cass was hell bent on seeing Ellie dead even after she found out the whole truth about how Belle tried to kill Miesa. Granted, Belle was her niece and she wouldn't want to see her hurt but better Belle being in a coma than Miesa dead. He tapped his finger against his chin in thought as he stared at the TV without really seeing it. It'd been a few weeks since the incident but it still seemed like it happened yesterday. People were still talking about it and he knew that more one television presenter wanted to interview him to talk about that particular incident but as usual he'd declined. They knew better than to ask for an interview but they did so anyway which annoyed him. Thankfully they didn't ambu
“Arya...calm down I’m fine." Cesar told her. "No, there’s no need to come over.” He didn't know why he'd unblocked her number but now he was wishing he hadn't. He'd been talking to her for almost ten minutes now and he felt a headache coming on.Arya kept rambling on the phone making Cesar sigh. She was clearly very worried and wouldn’t rest until she saw him. He didn't want her to come. She'd want to hug him and he wouldn't be able to stand it.“Mom!”. He cut her off.Arya went silent.“Thank you." He breathed. "I’m fine. I’ll send you a photo if you want proof.”“That’s fine." She said in a shaky voice. "I’m so glad you’re okay Cesar.”“Yeah.” He muttered. "Thanks for calling."“Can I send you ice cream? I know you like rocky road.”“Uh…okay". Cesar said. "Sure.”“Give me...ten minutes. Kisses.” She hung up.Cesar dropped his phone on his bedside table with a sigh.“You okay?I heard you yelling at someone.” Ellie walked into the bedroom.“I wasn’t yelling…per se." He said. "Arya wou
Cesar and Ellie took Miesa for her monthly checkup and they were very happy when the doctor told them that Miesa’s cancer was in remission but she’d need to continue maintenance therapy for a couple years until they were sure it wouldn’t come back. It was wonderful news for them especially Miesa who'd been worried she'd never get to live forever with her family.“I’m so happy mommy, daddy." Miesa smiled big at them as they walked out of the hospital. "I’m free!”.“Yes baby." Ellie smiled back. "I’m happy too.”Cesar’s phone rang as they got close to the waiting car. He took it out of his pocket and frowned when he saw Tristan’s name on the screen and picked it. Ellie and Miesa decided to go get ice cream while he talked on the phone.“Hey kid, what’s up?”. He asked.“Dad…please please tell me you’re not in the car right now?”. Tristan’s voice shook.“Uh...no. why?”. He frowned.“There’s a bomb. Don’t get…”As if on cue, there was a sudden explosion that threw Cesar off his feet and he
“How’s Elyon doing?”. Oliver asked Cesar. They were on FaceTime.“Fine. Thank God I got there the time I did or it’d have been a different story.” He said.“And the guys?”. Oliver inquired.“Dead.” Cesar replied flatly. He couldn't have let any one of them go free after what they did. It was not possible.Oliver’s eyes widened. “All of them?”.“Yes. Including...my dad.” Cesar said. Even now he still couldn't believe everything that had happened. That maniac had been his father who'd hurt his mother and his mother had hurt him because he looked like his father and then he killed his father because he'd kidnapped his wife and hurt his mother for the second time. Not that he gave a damn about Arya now… far from it. The damage she'd done to him was enough to last him two lifetimes.“What do you mean? I thought you said your father was dead?”. Oliver looked confused. "I didn't know a person…"“Oh that was just wishful thinking." He stated drily. "Arya told me something else.”“Wow. So you