Anita frowned as she knew Patrick didn't want to sleep with her without protection, and Anita really wanted to get pregnant for Patrick, so she became annoyed."Why babe?. There's no need for that. I want you to make love to me like that, without the cond*m." Anita spoke, but Patrick refused."No," Patrick said, and Anita got embarrassed as she saw Patrick putting on his trousers back.Anita drew closer to Patrick to touch him again, as she was still n*ked, but Patrick still didn't want to."What's wrong, babe?. Don't you love me enough to make love to me without protection?. Ain't I not pretty enough for you?." Anita asked sadly, and Patrick sighed and replied, "No. It is not like that, babe. Look, there's nothing wrong with us doing it without protection, just that I preferred it that way since we aren't yet married.""Hmm." Anita frowned."Then let's get married," Anita told Patrick, but Patrick didn't say anything as he walked away to his stairs, going upstairs to his room.How wou
"Not about that. There's a girl I'm in love with and hoping to see soon someday," Patrick said, and Chris stared at Patrick in shock, writing it all over his face."You can't be serious, bro; why not tell Anita the truth all these while?" Chris asked, and Patrick shook his head at hearing Chris."No. I wanted to, but I couldn't. I thought we wouldn't last long together. I am just confused, as she has refused to break up with me. I like Anita, but I can't just stop thinking about Tina.""Tina. Who is Tina?" Chris questioned, and Patrick sighed. Not wanting to talk about Tina, Chris wouldn't take no for an answer, so he pressed on and asked again. "Guy, who is Tina?. Where does she live, and why haven't I seen her or heard of her yet either? Where's she?."Patrick was quiet, and Chris probed further."Guy, I am not leaving here until you tell me who Tina is?. I'm already waiting for your wedding bells with Anita, and now you're coming up with this excuse: If it is play, stop it."Chris b
Patrick raised his head and stared at Chris with fretting eyes."I don't think her mother would lie to me either. She said her daughter traveled to her elder sister's place; that's why Tina's not around.""Hmm, Okay. What does she look like?. Does she look like those wayward ladies? I mean, like your sister type, Sharon, for example?" Chris asked, wanting to know more about Tina, but Patrick's eyes narrowed at him."No, it was her first time, and I was her first," Patrick replied, and Chris gasped, "What!?""You mean you took her pride! How could you, Patrick?" Chris stared at Patrick in disbelief."I can't believe you are this kind of person, Patrick. What if she comm? tted su! "It's obvious the lady didn't love you then, and you were the one, literally admiring her, and yet you did such to her, wow!" Chris shouted, and Patrick couldn't say anything next. He took his wine bottle beside him, held it up to his lips, and drank from the bottle directly while staring at the ceiling fan rot
The last time Chika visited her was to see Godsent. Chika bought seductive clothes for her and told her, "Not because you already have a child out of wedlock, you should be dressing local. You should rather dress hot and look after yourself."Tina had refused Chika's advice, but Chika went on to purchase beautiful dresses for her from the city and even asked her to try them on, which Tina did and was speechless as she looked so hot in the dresses that she thought of what people would say. When they saw her dressing hot, Chika had told her whatever people had to say was their business and didn't concern her, and besides, they already knew she has a son.Tina had thanked Chika then for the clothes and escorted Chika off. Now the young man standing in front of her was asking her for her mobile number again."Are you sure you're not lying to me? Or you don't want to give me your number?" Chris asked, and Tina smiled at him and replied, "Of course not. I don't have any phones.""Okay." Chri
While Patrick got out of his bathroom, he came out to his room and was shocked to see Anita in his room and on his bed, smiling at him as she stared at him seductively.Patrick gulped and was lucky he had tied his towel around his waist, as he mostly stepped out of his bathroom bare, without any towel on him, but luckily, he tied his towel after drying up his wet body in the bathroom.Patrick was angry; he was thinking too much these days about what he truly wanted, and Anita, too, on the other hand, wasn't even giving him any space to think properly, as she was all over him wanting him to propose to her.Patrick respected his relationship with Mr. Bright; if not, he could've sent Anita away since the initial stages of their relationship. But now Anita has succeeded in painting the whole media about them, and at some point he was beginning to forget about Tina too.Patrick frowned and asked her, "What're you doing in here?."Anita stared at Patrick sweetly and smiled, replying, "Nothin
Mama Tina was through cooking. She remembered the phone the handsome young man who had visited her at the market had given her to give to Tina. She tried remembering the young man's name, but she forgot if she even asked him for his name.Coming out to meet Tina seated on the bench, Mama-Tina brought out the phone and gave it to Tina as it was a brand new Android phone, and Tina was surprised at first as she collected the package of nylon from her mother and asked, "What's in it, mom?.""It was a mobile phone gift from a young man at the market today. He told me to give it to you. You remember that young man who was asking me the other day, "Am I truly your mother that is now talking to you?" Mama-Tina asked, and Tina replied, "Yes, mom, I remembered him, Chris. So he truly bought this phone. I thought he was joking.""Well, he's not. I collected his number from him on my phone. For you to call and thank him very well. Where's my phone self?" Mama- Tina stood up and started searching f
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
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