Mrs. Bright stared at Anita in pity, and Anita replied, "Nothing, mom, I'm just a little sad.""Don't give me that as an excuse. What happened, or do you want me to ask your father to reprimand and ground you in this house?. Now tell me the truth: why are you crying?."Mrs. Bright was a no-nonsense woman, and she didn't have the time to pamper her children much like her husband did. She was mean and didn't waste time disciplining anyone who messed up with her, be it her children. That sometimes made Anita and her siblings wonder if she was truly their mother or stepmom. But nonetheless, Mrs. Bright could be sweet sometimes."What's the problem?. Did you fight with anyone? Tell me the truth?. You know I don't like to be kept waiting?" Mrs. Bright questioned, and Anita answered, "Is nothing serious, mom?""Nothing serious, and you are looking this red?. Did you stare at your face in the mirror at all?. Anyway, if you don't want to tell me, you can as well stand up and dress up quickly. A
Tina acknowledged Chris's invitation to his sister's wedding, and she bought a new beautiful short knee-length gown as she hadn't yet mastered how to sew properly.Tina was still learning and couldn't yet style a gown, so she bought an already-made cloth since it was cheaper, and she went to the wedding, a traditional marriage ceremony, and she was 20 years old or older.Though Tina had given birth to Godsent, she looked more mature and bigger, like one in 25 years of age or older, and she became the center of attention as she stepped into the venue.Tina was with Chris, but a lot of guys still looked for opportunities to woo her, and Chris's sister, who was the bride and celebrant, became jealous when she saw her husband also staring in her brother's direction, and she noticed it was probably the yellow lady that was with her brother that stole her husband's attention too.Chris sister wondered where her brother got such white beauty from because she hadn't seen such a pretty white la
Patrick got home and was welcomed by his longtime friend, as they had been friends since Patrick started earning millions. The guy was a club addict too; he loved spending money entertaining strippers and hot sexy ladies like Patrick, as he was Patrick's bossom friend named Alex.Patrick ushered Alex into his living room as they both sat down on his living room couch, and his house attendant offered them wine with fried chicken.Alex, as usual, didn't come alone to Patrick's house, as he came with his new girlfriend, and they were both chatting to entertain Patrick.Patrick did love the company of Alex, as no one could ever get bored with a friend like Alex around. They were entertaining him with the latest news in the entertainment industry that has been happening in City A. And after their fun moment, Alex bid to use his leave as he got a call from home.Although Alex was a good friend to Patrick, Patrick still didn't know the source of Alex's wealth, as Alex could be talkative, but
Tina continued, "I am Godsent mom truly, not my mother. Although he is now calling my mother his mom and calling me Tina because I am not always around him, I am still his mother, and I love him.""Hmm," Chris hummed when he heard her last statement. He felt choked, became angry, and didn't know when he let go of himself and questioned her."Why would you say that you love him?. How did you have him? Did you also love his father?."Tina got stunned by Chris's outburst, and she became sad as Chris sounded a little bit annoyed.Tina became quiet, not knowing how to answer him as she hadn't fully told Chris about her past yet, and she didn't know if her mother already told him with the way Chris just reacted and Chris continued."You are not supposed to love him for what his father did to you. Where's his father?.""I don't know," Tina replied as her face turned red in sadness, facing downward.Chris drew nearer to her and pulled her closer to himself, and he apologized to her."I'm sorry
Patrick greeted her politely, "Good afternoon, ma." And Mama-Tina lifted up her head to his face, as she was previously facing downwards and arranging her fruits. Of course, she carried Godsent on her back and backed him with her wrapper, the norm African way of mothers carrying their children behind their backs, using her wrapper to tie Godsent hold so as to support him onto her back and not fall out.When Mama-Tina lifted her head up and faced Patrick, she was struck by his resemblance to her grandson. Although it seemed to her that she had seen his face before, she couldn't really remember where she had seen him.Patrick seemed to have changed, as though he had become more manly and looked more mature and bigger than the last time she had seen him, and Mama-Tina felt strange, like a cold breeze had swept through her and blown her away.Making her wonder if she was okay.She recollected her mind and snapped out of her daze, and she asked him, "What do you want to buy, sir?."Patrick
Tina normally returns late in the evening from her seamstress's workplace. Though before Tina returned, her dad and brothers were already at home with Mama Tina before she returned.When she stepped in, her mother couldn't help but speak to them about what she had seen earlier in the market."Papa-Tina, do you know that a customer of mine actually came to buy something, and this young man resembled Godsent very much? Just that he's dark in complexion?."Tina stiffened as she clearly heard what her mother just said, and her heart skipped a beat as her father replied, "It can be possible Godsent just seemed to resemble the person, or don't people look alike to people they didn't know before?."Mama-Tina shook her head and said, "I don't think so. He resembles Godsent so much, and even one of my talkative customers mistook him for Godsent dad while talking to him."Papa-Tina just frowned and said, "You women like assuming things a lot, so because the young man resembles Godsent, that auto
Patrick sat down beside Mama Tina's shade and was staring at little Godsent, who was busy playing on the floor besides Mama Tina's table.It was already noon and schools were already closing with a few students passing by, and Patrick still sat down on the chair Mama-Tina offered him earlier as he was waiting for Jude to return.When Jude returned, Mama-Tina told him, "Take that young man to Tina's workplace and make sure to return back here before going home.""Okay," Jude replied, and as he wanted to complain, he stared and remembered he had seen Patrick's face before as the one who had dashed him money, so he kept quiet and followed Patrick in his Jeep while Patrick drove off in his direction.As they got closer to the tailoring workshop where Tina stayed, Patrick parked on the opposite while he thanked Jude and gave him some money to transport himself back since the tailor's place was a bit far from the market where Mama Tina's shade was. and Jude thanked him and left.Inside the t
Patrick stared at Tina, waiting for her to say something, but no, she was biting on her lower lip in the most seductive way that was turning him on, and he spoke teasingly to her."Do you know you look so charming and tempting me to kiss you with the way you're biting on your lower lips like that?.""Hmm.." Tina frowned, and she cussed inwardly, having heard the rubbish he said.[Instead of him begging for my forgiveness, he is here, looking at my lips.] Tina thought and shook her head, then replied, "I don't want to have anything to do with you again. It's all in the past now, and I have moved on. So you should as well move on, and you shouldn't have come back here looking for me. We should act like nothing ever happened between us, and just please excuse me."Tina wanted to walk away from Patrick, but Patrick quickly caught her hand and held her closer to himself, hugging his chest.Tina collided with him and screamed, "Let go of me!." Not minding the onlookers staring at them and pa
Mella rushed and drove back to the police station, as Chris was already released, and asked to sign the undertaking papers, saying that he would never do anything to Tina or Patrick again, and he sighed the undertaking note.After Chris was through signing and was giving his clothes and shoes to wear, as the police officers had seized his clothes on the day he was arrested, he just returned back from work and hadn't even gone inside to change his office clothes because he was speaking to Tina before he was arrested.Chris collected his clothes and wore them, then he set to leave for home, as he wondered who granted him bail, as he was earlier told in the morning that he was going to court the new week.Chris brother Evan was called by the police officer who informed him about Chris being released from their station, and his brother prepared to go to the police station with Chris Car to welcome Chris, as he knew how to drive, so he decided to use Chris car to pickup Chris and bring him
Finally, it was Mella's turn to see Patrick, as Mella had waited for almost four hours before it got to her turn, as it was already noon.Mella was led to Patrick's office by an assistant who came out to escort her. And the assistance could tell Mella was a big man's daughter from her prestigious look, as Mella loved putting on suits that exposed her full cleavages, and she liked attracting men's attention to herself.So Mella could tell the assistance that came to escort her was admiring her beautiful look and bossom, as her suit perfectly hugged tightly to her body and brought out her sexy shape."Welcome, ma'am. You may go in now to Patrick in his office," Dave said to Mella."You don't need to knock again; just step Dave said, and Mella replied,"Ooh! Thanks."Mella winked at Dave. As it was part of her lifestyle to wink at people as a form of appreciating them, she gently opened the door, pushing it open, and she walked in.Patrick sat in his executive office seat and was facing t
Mella was happy to know that Chris still liked her, as she had thought that probably if she opened up her true feelings to Chris, he would reject her. And she thanked Evan for telling her the whole story and drove back home.Mella planned on visiting Patrick in his office during working days, as she didn't know his house except for his company, and she has heard a lot about Patrick and seen him on trending hot male celebrities in City A who have money and aren't yet married.Mella sighed as she wondered if Patrick would forgive Chris on her behalf and grant him bail too, or better yet, end the case.Mella decided to visit her family house first to rest over the weekend, so she wouldn't worry much about Chris being in the police cell.Her family lived in the heart of City A too, as her father was a billionaire, so she decided to pay her father a surprise visit, as she hadn't seen him to thank him properly for assigning her as the new CEO.Arriving at her father's mansion, Mella went to
Evan calmed down and said, "Fine, I will explain the situation better to you, for you to understand what I meant." Then he paused and looked at Mella's face, and he continued,"My brother is in love with the same lady, Mr. Patrick, whom his friend is also in love with. My brother and her have been in a relationship for up to a year now, and I am only just getting to realize from the police station that the said lady already has a child for Mr. Patrick before she met my brother, and Chris knew about this and still wants her even though she has a child for Patrick.""What!" Mella exclaimed as she stared at Evan in disbelief."Honestly, the situation at hand now is that my brother kidnapped her from the village and brought her here to live with him in the city, even with her son, and that was why Patrick arrested him. Because the said lady and his son had been declared missing by the lady's parents in the village," Evan said."Hmph..." Mella sighed with a deep frown settled on her face."
Patrick helped Tina strip her of her clothes, leaving only her pants and bra. As the dim lights were still brightly on in his room, he could clearly see her body.Tina didn't seem to have lost too much weight, but she already forgot that her stomach had grown out a little over the past few weeks of staying at Chris house, as her protruding stomach was now visibly showing that she was pregnant.Tina was shy, as was standing to Patrick's view, and she didn't want to turn around for Patrick to see her stomach or to face him either.She already brought her medicine with her, and the pregnancy test result was in it, but she didn't even remember all that when she was in Patrick's car, except now that she was with Patrick in his bedroom.Patrick pulled Tina closer to himself as he had already pulled off his top and was now slightly bare with Tina, with his bare chest facing her.He pulled off his trousers and was left in only his shorts, as he wanted to help Tina take her bath. Then he unhook
Mama-Tina continued speaking to Tina on the phone, and she said, "It's okay, my daughter. I'm just happy that you are found. I hope nothing happened to you and Godsent?" Mama-Tina sounded a bit worried, and Tina replied,"No, mama, we are fine. We will soon come home to see you and Papa. How're Papa, Richmond, and Jude doing?.""They are all fine, Tina, and I am also happy to hear that you were found. Take good care of yourself, and please give the phone back to my in-law."Tina sighed as she heard her mother call Patrick her in-law, while she gave Patrick back his phone and continued feeding her son, as she didn't have the appetite or strength to eat much before, not after all the things that Chris had said to her, but now she felt better and could feed her son.Tina wanted to leave Chris house immediately, so she went in and packed only her things that she used to bring with her the first time Chris brought her from the village, leaving all the things behind that Chris had bought for
"Freeze! don't move!" The police officers ordered Chris to stand up. And Chris was so shocked as he stared at the police officers, wondering what was going on in his home."We're from City A, Police Command, and you are Mr. Chris Douglass. You are under arrest for the kidnapping of one Miss Tina Praise and her son, Godsent, so you have the legal right to remain silent as anything you say shall be used against you in the court of law." The police officer said all in one go to Chris, and Chris stared at him in shock. As he was speechless, he wondered who could've found out that he was the one responsible for Tina's disappearance. Chris thought the last time he had visited Patrick, he never told Patrick anything to make Patrick suspicious of him, and he was still wondering who fished him out as the villain behind the mask and got him arrested.Just then, Patrick walked in just as the police officer handcuffed Chris and wanted to drag Chris out. Patrick stared at Chris with dagger eyes,
Tina stared at Chris in shock. She couldn't believe her ears and thought she was so stupid to think Chris wouldn't know who Patrick was.She never thought of this at first, as she knew Chris was from the same village as Patrick, and Patrick was also well known even in the city. Only by searching his name on the internet did she see him, so how would Chris not know so much about Patrick too?Tina stared downward, as she couldn't meet Chris again. So Chris was even friends with Patrick and close to Patrick; why didn't he tell her all these years?.Chris knew Patrick well and knew everything about her, and as he watched Patrick tell him how he made love to her and how she was craving his touch, Tina felt disgusted as to how some men could boldly tell their friends about their sexual lives.She couldn't even tell her best friend or her mother, as she couldn't discuss something as private as that with anyone."So was that why you brought me here to the city, out of jealousy?" Tina suddenly
Mama-Tina couldn't believe her ears when Patrick told her that he knew Chris well, as Chris was his boss's friend.Mama-Tina was speechless even more when Patrick also said that Chris even visited him last week before he traveled home, and she became worried."What if he is not the one who took Tina away?" Mama-Tina asked Patrick, getting more worried. As she assumed, if truly Chris came to visit Patrick and Patrick told him that his girlfriend and child were missing, then that means Chris wasn't the one behind Tina and Godsent's disappearance.Patrick stared at Mama Tina, and he gave her back her phone and said,"Mama, if Chris is not the one behind Tina and Godsent's disappearance, then we will find out. Don't call his number, as I already left my village and I cannot drive back there to go check in his family house, to know if he took Tina there, but I will go to check his house in the city, even if it means me arresting him. As he can't take Tina away and take my son away too, it c