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
Mama-Patrick saw the way her son drove in, driving in like someone who had been chased. And when Patrick retired back to his chamber, he said he wasn't hungry, and she wondered who could have possibly annoyed her son and where he might have gone since morning.Normally, if Patrick wanted to go out before, he let her know whom he was going to visit in their village and sometimes informed her where he was going too, like telling her he was going to see a friend and not emphasizing which of his friends he was going to see, but he let her know at least.Mama-Patrick walked down to Patrick's chamber to see him, and she saw he was pacing up and down like someone in deep turmoil.When Patrick had returned to the village recently, Mama-Patrick noticed her son had been in deep thought, not even wanting to eat her food, and she was becoming increasingly worried over what the problem could be.She wanted to ask her husband, but she knew he would definitely dismiss her and tell her, "Patrick's man
Papa-Patrick sent his last daughter to go and call Patrick for him, as Patrick was still in his room and he wasn't ready to leave yet for City A, as he still had a week off. Although Patrick could've returned, he wasn't ready to face Anita either.Amanda came knocking on Patrick's chamber door, and she spoke from outside his room door, "Big brother! My father requested you come and see him now.""Hmph!" Patrick frowned, as he didn't even want to go out yet."Why's my father calling me? If he needs anything, can't he just tell his servant to get it for him?." Patrick murmured and sighed as he stood up and went out to see his father."Your mother said you have a child outside there; is that true?" Papa-Patrick questioned, and Patrick frowned at hearing what his father just asked him."It's true, dad." Patrick replied, and they all exclaimed, "What!" except for his mother, who sat on the bench too, shaking her legs."Who's she, and where's she from?" Papa-Patrick asked, and Amanda questio
Patrick had already planned on returning the following day to City A, as his assistant had called him on the phone to inform him about an important contract worth millions of dollars that needed him to fix, and he didn't want to inform Anita about it, that he would be around the following day, as obviously Anita wouldn't allow him to rest or concentrate on his work either."I had to lie to her, so I can think of a better way to explain Tina's situation to her, so she can at least allow me to be or better still move on with her life," Patrick said to himself, and he sighed, thinking about what to do.Later in the same day, Patrick decided to go visit Tina in her village, and he knew her mother might be wondering what had happened since he had no longer visited her shade since the last time he saw her and also saw Tina too, and Patrick couldn't face Mama-Tina again.Patrick knew, "The guilt of what I did is troubling me, and I am so sure Tina's mom might embarrass me for what I had done
"I am sorry, Tina; please forgive me. I promise to make amends, please?. I can sponsor you through whatever school you want. Your mother told me then, when I came to ask of you, that you were writing your school scholarship exam; that was why she asked you not to come to the market then, but I didn't know it was precious to you, and you were very brilliant with your academics then. I felt bad for what I did. Please forgive me." Patrick pleaded, but Tina shook her head in disgust, crying."It has already happened. I guess you enjoyed sleeping with me, right?. Just move on with your life, and I won't bother you at all. Let me also do the same with mine.""No!" Patrick stood up, and he sighed."Fine, I will be leaving for the city tomorrow. When I return, I will come to make things right and marry you.""Marry me?." Tina laughed out first, surprising Patrick, and he smiled, but Tina quickly said, "I will not marry you as I already have someone else I am in love with, and I wish to marry,
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