"I saw the news this morning" Paul asked his daughter "How is he?"Celine sighed as her mind went back to the frail Mr. Smith she had left unconscious at the hospital."He's unconscious but the doctors are hopeful" She replied.Her father nodded in understanding. He looked out the window just in time to catch a little girl riding back along the road with her father trailing behind her, he looked to Celine and saw that she also noticed the girl and her father."I also taught you to ride a bike on this very road" Paul reminisced, earning a chuckle from his daughter. "Remember how I won't let you stay behind me, as I was. good enough to ride myself" Celine noted."Yeah, even when you'll make mistakes and fall. You won't let me pick you up. You'll say, Daddy I can do it myself" Paul paused for some seconds and looked out to the streets through the glass walls. "You were always so independent," He said, turning to look at her. "Thank you for being there even when I said I didn't need you
Maria stayed bottled up inside her apartment, she had tried going out to the grocery store and had noticed that some car was on her trail, it was oddly suspicious so she stayed put in her house all day. Xavier must have finally caught on, she thought. "He's unto me." She whimpered, her hands shaking and she tried to steady them by wiping her palms with the edge of her shirt but it was useless to do so, her nerves were skyrocketing at this point.Picking up her phone, she hurriedly dialed a number, "Don't send the woman out of the country, she'll be linked to me. Just hide her somewhere faraway" She whispered raspily into the phone once the person on the other end had picked the call."But ma'am…" the person on the other end started to object."No buts. Just do as I say." Maria snapped and ended the phone."What do you mean she paid for a flight but didn't board?" Xavier snapped into his phone.He had just come out of the shower when he heard his phone ring. Drops of water were still t
Xavier sat by his grandfather's side on the hospital bed, Mr Smith was slowly drifting out of his comatose state and gradually regaining his consciousness."Grandfather.." Xavier whispered, he was bent over, staring keenly at the elderly man's face to see if there were any signs of him waking up, his grandfather's brows lifted slightly to his relief.He rang a bell by the bedside to alert a nurse, less than a minute later, a female doctor walked into the hospital ward, accompanied by some nurses who held trays with medicines in them." We're going to wake him up completely now" The doctor explained to Xavier, she picked a syringe from one of the trays and drew liquid from a glass vial into the syringe.She injected the content of the syringe into the bag of intravenous drip that was going into Mr Smith's body."Is he well?" Xavier asked the doctor, he looked hopefully at the doctor."He's still extremely weak as there are still signs of the poison in his body but right now he's strong
Mr Smith wanted the wedding done as soon as possible, which means little time to round up preparations. He was to be discharged from the hospital a day before the wedding.It was going to be a grand wedding, maybe not as grand as it was meant to be initially but it was not lacking in terms of elegance and class.The wedding will be held tomorrow and Celine had to make a quick stop at the dress shop for the final fittings of her wedding dress. Alexis went with her . "I see the way you both look at yourselves, so fondly. You didn't tell me you've fallen this deeply " Alexis teased, Celine was twirling in front of a mirror in a gown and was admiring the neckline."Eh…it's just happened" she shrugged, looking away trying to hide to blush on her face, but she was too late as Alexis already saw it."Ooh ..look at you blushing at the thought of him. I'm sure you really want to see his face…too bad .." Alexis teased further."I could just facetime him…" Celine tried to reach for her phone b
"Your F"cking wife!" Maria had screamed before she passed on. Xavier's face fell as he stared at her lifeless body. To think he had really felt an iota of sympathy for her and yet here she was ruining his bride's name with her final breath…"How dare you…" he muttered under his breath and stood away from her dead body."Did you like my wedding present?" A deep, dark voice sounded at the door and like earlier, all eyes turned towards the door. It was Celine's turn to be shocked…"What in heaven's name…." She murmured as her eyes met Zack's cold eyes.'What is he doing here? I thought he had finally left my life for good ' she thought to herself…She stared at him as he made his way towards where Maria's dead body lay and kicked it, he had a gun in one hand and a knife in the other…"This gun eh…" Zack said with a maniacal smile on his face, "no don't be scared.." he said seeing that people's faces were already pale with fear. "It's not mine.." He pointed the nozzle to Maria's still bod
Zack had been arrested and Maria was dead, The wedding didn't turn out to be anyone's dream wedding but still Xavier and Celine were legally married and their bond couldn't have gotten any more stronger.The couple put in their best effort to let go of the memory of the incident that happened at their wedding ceremony and channeled all of their energy into enjoying their honeymoon.The honeymoon was enough to make up for the horrible mess of a wedding they had and they were okay with it.Sadly, their honeymoon had to be cut short as Celine had to return to the university for her finals and Xavier had to take over running the family business fully as Mr. Smith had officially retired. "I didn't want my death to meet me behind an office desk." Mr Smith had joked at his retirement party."My grandson, here,..."He said, raising his wine glass towards Xavier who stood hands intertwined with his wife. "He is very smart and diligent and I'm glad to announce to you all that Smith group of co
He was biting at his nails… they weren't neat, dirt had found its way into the gap between the nail and the flesh of his finger but he didn't care, he was lost in thought. Time was ticking, the moment was drawing near and nearer. Finally, all that he had suffered for was finally going to be worth it, all he needed was a reason to finally leave this hellhole of a place. He needed to cause a distraction, one big enough to enable him to slip away from this place without being seen, after that all he needed was a simple conversation with Celine and that would be it, the end of Xavier Smith. 'if only Xavier knew what was coming to him' Zack thought and snickered devilishly."Hey, Inmate 5467, it's time for duty" a prison Warden called from outside his cell room, snapping him out of his wild imagination. Zack gave a hiss at the unwarranted interruption but he had no choice but to oblige. After all, being a model inmate was all part of the plan. 5 MONTHS LATER… .Celine woke up with a split
Zack was sitting on the floor in his jailroom, his jaw was supporting his chin, he was lost in thoughts. He had been writing letters to Celine from the prison; he was wondering if she got any of the numerous letters he had sent. He was sure he got the address correctly. It wasn't easy getting her new address, he had to write to lots of other people who knew her before one of them finally gave in and let him in on her new address. It was in a fancy neighborhood but Zack didn't care, all he wanted was to get through to Celine. Their plan had to still be in place, right? He was thinking, "all she had with the rich kid was just a facade…" he murmured to himself."Bang!!" There was a loud bang coming from outside his cell… Zack jumped up with a start, he didn't know what to do? Was there a riot? He moved towards the cell gate and tried peeking through the bars….he could see the prison guards shuffling through…they were angrily hitting the bars with their batons…Zack hastily removed his han