Chapter Sixty Eight

The soft sound of the ocean waves woke me up.

I opened my eyes and picked up my phone to check the time. It was almost seven am. I unlocked it and then replied to all the messages I received over the night. I'd got three from Alex which was her basically asking me what the yacht ride was like and that I should send more pictures of myself on the yacht. Two were from my younger sister (she had texted it from my mom's phone). The messages were just about her keeping me updated on everyone at home and how they needed money for her and my other siblings' tuition fees and how my mom's restaurant wasn't doing well because there isn't enough money to get the necessary ingredients for the dishes. I replied back with a promise to send her money later in the day.

I was yet to receive the half payment as agreed by our contract from Aziel. And I'd been meaning to ask him about it since our wedding day, I'd just been holding out to see if he would bring it up first.

I decided that I was going t