VALERIE'S POV "What the hell is wrong with this idiot?!" I questioned aloud, glaring at my phone for even letting the call go through. I should block this number as well, why is he even calling me?"So what if I blocked his lines?! It's my phone and my choice, I can do whatever I want with it!" I yelled at the phone, before moving to block the number he used to contact me while cussing under my breath,"Distasteful ignorant jerk ass!" So disrespectful and unapologetic about his actions that day at lunch, rather he wanted to use the same move again! Twice! "Not on my watch! What does he even think of me, huh? That I'm so dumb and foolish not to notice that he's trying to play smart?! Humph! Some intelligent man he is, Mama Joyce you're wrong I tell you!"This nigga is dumb as hell! And I'm done letting Dick heads like him have access to me. There, blocked! Let's see the next number you will use, partner," I sneered and turned my screen off, just in time to hear a deep throat clearing
VALERIE'S POV 4:55 PM, At Papa's house It has been a couple of hours since I switched off my phone to stop the incessant phone calls from that dick head Hudson, picked up the kids from school and even enjoyed lunch together before we headed for the 'family meeting' that was to be held right here, at the Hernandez Estate.The minute we arrived, Papa had immediately left me to the dogs using the kids as excuse. Last time I checked, they were enjoying fruits at the pool side just by the other side of the mansion. And so therefore, I was forced to 'bond' with my amiable aunties and uncle.Note the sarcasm there. The murderous stares I was receiving right now were farrrr from amiable, I'm telling you.Infact, just staring at them sent all the wrong type of signals to my brain. Signals that I should only be having when I'm faced with a serial killer, all my brain wanted me to do was run and hide. Just like I had always done when I was younger.It was unbelievable that the people I should
VALERIE'S POV Patricia's words seemed to catch Papa's ears though, cause he turned to face her, his gaze cold. "Oh? That means you lot don't help to ease her burdens, do you?" He asked, holding each of their gazes one by one. "No papa, we do!" Patricia argued, slightly touching his arm cause their seats were much closer than the rest of us. "Then why are you here laying foolish complaints instead of dealing with those arrogant employees that you employed?! Are trying to drag the company to the ground?" Patricia gasped at his words, pulling back her fingers. "Huh? Answer me!" He spat angrily, causing Patricia to jump in fright. "You better check your phone's, check the news, crosscheck with all your lame as connections! All the staffs you organized for that stupid protest are currently relaxing in jail! Jail Barbara, jail!" Papa spat, his tone mocking. All three of them shared weary glances before immediately reaching for their phones. "So you did it?" Papa asked, looking at all
Chapter 61VALERIE'S POV All throughout the ride home, my mind kept buzzing with what Papa had said. My boyfriend?How could Papa even think that?!I had three kids. Three 4 year olds to take care of plus a company! What time do I have to think about men?Pfft! Just ridiculous!Flashback to before the ride*****"Hey, what's wrong?" Papa asked, his cheesy smile instantly morphing to worry in a minute."Something up with your belly? Is it the juice?" He asked further as I slowly reduced to a moaning mess to the ground.The juice? Of course he would think it was the juice, and not what his information was doing to me. I couldn't even believe it. But I wasn't so concentrated on my phone earlier, or was I?Ugh, good heavens! I probably was.All those times I kept checking my phone, every notification or buzz, just to catch Hudson at the game he was playing.I had been blocking every line he used to call, hell I had been blocking every number a call came through with. I didn't even check i
VALERIE'S POV Huh? I blinked a few times, to make sure I wasn't seeing things, that my brain was not making up scenes that weren't even there to begin with or worse, wrongly interpreting the contents of an innocent message but guess what?Those words still remained there. Unchanging and most definitely the exact way I read them a minute ago. "Take your time and go through your notifications, cause I'm just getting started with your fine ass"Fine ass?Wh...whose fine...fine ass?Me? As in... Me fine ass??An involuntarily scoff left my lips the more I analysed the text. I couldn't help the baffled expression that now graced my features. Hell, I couldn't even fully grasp the implications of those words.Did he even realize who he was sending this -Okay, hold on. Just hold on, let's not jump to conclusions now shall we? Let's take this logically,First of all, who would even send me such a text? And at the middle of the night at that. I checked the time on my phone and sure enoug
VALERIE'S POV I woke up the next day to an empty house and the scent of a very much mouth watery lunch. Yes, lunch. I woke up unbelievably late today, like 2 pm in the afternoon kind of late. And you know what else I woke up to? Messages!Tons of them! All from Hudson.He had been trying to convince me to meet up with his Grandpa throughout the night and this morning. From the messages, after I dropped my phone last night , he had sent about 6 to 7 messages that went without replies before he stopped.I guess it finally dawned on him that I had gone to bed. But that didn't stop him though, cause he resumed again this morning, dropping more and more messages. There should be at least almost 90 unread messages all from Hudson.He just wasn't giving up. At first he was being forceful and seemingly intimidating but when he saw it wasn't getting any reaction out of me, he opted for much nicer words, pleading even.The very last ones I read was what resulted to this dull ache that was cu
VALERIE'S POV "Aby," I repeated, trying out the name on my tongue before smiling at the bright faced little girl. She seemed like the quiet type though, with her sleek blonde and big brown eyes that seem to shine the more she stared at my kids.Anyone could see she loved being around them. Well, I had to issues letting little kids mingle and become friends, plus she looked around their age judging from her height. "Aww, what a cutie pie..." Nanny Beth gushed and pinched her cheeks a bit. Not too hard, just a soft pull but the little girl smiled even more at the gesture."Alright people, let's all have lunch" I said, standing up to my normal height and soon we were all seated at the dinning table, Aby included. We said a bit of prayer and everyone digged in. We were having pasta & spicy chicken sauce, stepped down by chilled pineapple juice. The kids were loving it, and I couldn't help but notice how much Aby ate. She didn't look or had any signs that she was starved or anything b
HUDSON'S POV *Knock on the door* and a voice followed after, "Boss,""Boss, the other Sim cards you used have been taken care of. Nothing to worry about," James stated as he walked deeper into my office until he was standing directly in front of it.But even at that I did not acknowledge him. I could not acknowledge him, I mean how could I? When my entire focus had been ensnared by the sleek rectangle on my desk, all day!"Boss, you know staring at your phone all day won't make her reply to those texts, right?" I immediately scowled at those words, did he think I didn't know that already?Of course I knew that! I knew exactly how stupid and ridiculous I looked staring at my phone all day, but yet, I just couldn't help it.It was as though one moment away from my screen would make me miss a text from her. I mean, what if she sends a text and then deletes it. How would I know?I know these all sound like excuses but I just couldn't stop staring at my phone. As though reading my mind,