Upon hearing the question from Kate Opula went ice cold, stared around for onlookers before whispering to Kate, “Can we please talk in my chamber? I got awesome news for you.” she shot a lopsided smile at her.Dragging Opula by the arm, Kate and Opula paced into Opula’s chamber, “Tell me sister, who is responsible for it . I hope it is not who I think it is. I am not good at guessing so you can tell me straight away,” Kate demanded.Opula swallowed hard, “Your sister is pregnant for Rod Benson,” she lied and opened her arm for hug. They hugged engagingly before Opula said again, “This is my biggest achievement right now. I knew we were back for good but I never expected pregnancy now. I can’t wait to reveal it to dad and Rod.”Kate went ice cold, arms folded as she listened to Opula gabble about her pregnancy. Opula was forced to pause for one minute and query Kate’s countenance.“Why the look on your face, Kate? You don’t seem to be happy for me, don’t you?” Opula asked and shook Kat
Eva was more than a darling to me. Although my baby bump was yet to be pronounced I was already getting thicker on my arm and waist, and there was need to go shopping for dresses that could hide these pregnancy symptoms.I was financially crippled ever since Opula and Kate blocked the credit card Brian left for me and I was at the mercy of poverty if you should ask me.Earlier today Eva had hosted me to a warm breakfast of chicken and fried potato, which I least expected at the time and midway exploring the breakfast she took out her credit card.“Your dresses are getting tighter. I don’t want preying eyes to notice your pregnancy. You need to do some shopping. The pin is 1900. My credit card covers you,” she whispered to me and squeezed the credit card into my arms.I wanted to open my mouth and appreciate this diva but my trembling lips failed me and suddenly the only way I could appreciate her was to wink my moistened eyes at her. I raised my gaze to fight back tears.She squeezed
For over thirty minutes now I had been at the boutique down town, buying some nice dresses which Eva demanded I do. I really needed to know the balance on Eva’s credit card and the boutique’s cashier revealed to me it was fifty thousand dollars.“Oh my goose!” I exclaimed upon hearing that figure. I had to phone Eva to confirm if I was to spend all of that on dresses alone? To my amazement she responded in the positive and ordered me to spend all of it.I couldn’t believe it. Promptly an idea jumped into my mind to save part of it for rainy days; days I wouldn’t have a dime on me. Brian was still in coma and Fanny had stopped paying me my incentive. I needed to save for days of lack. As a pregnant woman I needed more money.“I will spend twenty thousand dollars on dresses,” I said within myself as I began to pick up some baggy gowns which could cover my pregnancy and thickness.Ina a few minutes, I was able to pick up twenty dresses which the twenty thousand dollars could afford. As I
“Melissa is biting more than she can chew and the only way to teach her a lesson is to withdraw all incentives and privileges from her. She is only entitled to food and shelter hence forth,” that was the voice of Fanny.He was seated with Eva who had come to query his decision about limiting my privileges.Eva shook her head, “Father that is too harsh. Don’t forget she is a woman and as a woman she needs money for her upkeep. If Brian were here he wouldn’t let her suffer. We need to be wise in our dealings with her.”Fanny sighed and his jaw sagged in wrath, “What are you insinuating, Eva?” he fumed and pulled out the blue documents, “This is the contract marriage documents. She has fulfilled her roles as a contract wife to your brother. Ordinarily, she is supposed to accept divorce and vacate this villa.”Eva interrupted him, “She has affirmed countless times that she is in love with Brian and obviously she is. Don’t forget the irreplaceable roles she played in the survival of Brian.
At the time Opula was eavesdropping on Fanny’s conversation with Eva, Opula had decided to remain at the door and listened to what Eva had to reveal to Fanny.“What do you have to tell me?” Fanny asked anxiously and pointed Eva to a chair close by, “Please do make yourself comfortable,” he said warmly.He had to make Eva comfortable because she was sweating profusely on the face and neck. He wondered why she was sweating in winter. Unknown to Fanny Eva was battling within herself whether or not to reveal my pregnancy to him.I had warned Eva, likewise Salsa never to reveal my pregnancy to anyone for whatever reason. Revealing my pregnancy would be the worst thing that had ever happened to me at the Fanny villa. Such news could go down well with Fanny but not with Opula and Kate.Those two evil sisters could go at any length to hunt for any life because they knew what I stood to gain if I shouldn’t get pregnant for Brian. In fact I stood to gain more from my pregnancy than from divorce
Immediately Eva was done with Fanny and was about leaving Fanny’s chamber she bumped into Opula at the entrance. They locked gaze, shot furious eyes at each other and sighed almost at once. Opula perceived Eva was in the devil’s pot so she avoided her troubles by giving way for her to walk through.Chuckling mockingly, Opula cat-walked into Fanny’s chamber with the good news she had still hanging in her mind. Upon seeing Opula, Fanny forced a smile and said, “Daughter the smile on your face is so contagious that my anger gave way the moment I saw you.”Opula reached out for juice instead of alcohol; this was unlike her. Fanny noticed it and right about now Opula had started applying the best of caution just to ensure she took care of the unborn child in her womb.For now it was only the family doctor that knew about the true paternity of the baby in her womb. No one would know, not even any member of her family would know she was pregnant for Ken.Rod Benson wouldn’t even deny sleepin
Never had a revelation made Fanny to sit down and ask repeatedly, obviously doubting if he heard her well or that she mistakenly pronounced that name.“Please did you say you are pregnant for Rod?” Fanny asked, fostering absolute attention this time around.Already Opula was cracking a smile then a giggle, “You heard me right father. I am carrying Rod Benson’s child in this stomach. It is one week old. It has been confirmed.” she took out a paper and gave to Fanny, “This is a copy of the paternity result.”When it came to mischief, Opula often overdid it ; that was not the exact paternity result from the family doctor. As soon as she received the paternity result which had Ken as the father of the child, she took it to a typist, who retyped it and altered the information to Rod Benson.“Rod Benson tests positive to DNA?” Fanny read out as he sat down in shock. Profuse sweating dwelled upon his nose and he felt his knees losing its joint. This was more than a shocker. He read the test
Heavy jubilation hung over the villa. Being pregnant, I was often to prone to fall asleep. But this afternoon, during my nap, no other voice hung over the villa than Fanny’s voice. It was so huge that I thought something disastrous had happened.But the moment I came to the window I saw Salsa and a handful of other chefs putting the dining room in order and serving dishes and wines in the most attractive manner with ribbons and flowers.Already Frank and Tony were well seated beside their wives, Kate and Eva. The only people absent were Opula and Fanny who was still busy chanting loudly in his chamber and making noisy phone calls to some of his associate.Soonest Salsa started advancing to my chamber, with the saddest mood decking her face. I couldn’t just wait to ask her reason for the banquet and why Fanny was chanting this villa into depression.“What is happening, Salsa?” I asked the moment she walked into my chamber, obviously to deliver a message to me. And when she hesitated to
The chairman tossed his head in disapproval, “Have you forgotten you took an oath of honesty for this contract? You assured us that all your information and data are correct to your best of knowledge. R and D limited is a company founded on honesty. We abhor dishonesty, Rod Benson. You can’t be married and you claim to be single. This is not even a case of divorce.”“No, please , listen to me, chairman,” Rod interposed him, “Opula is only an admirer who claimed to be pregnant for me. She is just desperate to be my wife and because I am not giving her the attention she decided to go public about it. I have never been married. You can ask my father.”Once again the chairman shook his head in disapproval, “I have no business with your father but you Rod Benson. You have breached the contract agreement on honest and code of trust. We can’t go into joint partnership with a tycoon whose marital status is questionable to the receptionist. Let’s call it a day, Rod Benson.Rod’s eyes flinted
Rod Benson was full of smiles as he drove into the complex of R and D Limited. Today was the D-day , the CEO of R and D sent for him to come over for official finalization of the fifty billion dollars joint partnership with Benson Group.His eyes sparkled with impatience when he alighted and gazed upon the towering sky scraper of R and D limited. His father, James had told him, the joint partnership was going to be stepping stone to their acquisition Of R and D limited. If he could lose anything in the world, definitely not the contract, because in few years time, the Benson Group would be the highest shareholders of R and D.Today was more than a feeling of Halloween to Rod as he curved his cheeks with contagious smile.“You are welcome to R and D limited,” the securities chatted indistinctly to Rod , with a gentle bow and a gorgeous smile, which ushered him into the elevator .The fact was that Rod had attracted the joint partnership deal and James Benson’s joy knew no bound the day
It was late hour when I heard my door creak and a figure walked into the dark chamber. Whosoever the figure was must be conversant with the villa and must have passed through the security manning my entrance, so I wasn’t anywhere close to the edge of fear.Rather, my eyes were welled up with tears as I stayed up all night staring at the photos of Brian and recalling the good, timeless memories we shared; the unforgettable excruciating moments with Brian as an insane man and the only night I had with him upon regaining his sanity.Indeed life had not been fair to me and I wondered what my end would look like.I stayed put as Eva sneaked into my inner chamber and when I turned on the lantern, she whispered to me, “Turn off the lantern fast.”I could see she was having a huge bag across her shoulders; obviously the bag was stuffed with things I couldn’t tell but from the way she trudged under the weight, the bag must be heavy.“What is it? What is happening Eva?” I whispered and shot my
Eva was having a quiet cocktail drink by the pool when one of the servants hastened to her side, bowed to her and said, “Ma’am your father demand you come to the penthouse with immediate effect. He wants to have some words with you.”Eva was down in the deeps, her face was lacking luster. Right about now she was ready to blow hot at anybody and put them where they belonged. They had done the most unexpected thing to her and in retaliation she had done the worst unexpected thing which was the reason Fanny demanded to see her.At first she didn’t want to respond to the servant but for the fact that it was a servant she said, “Now you listen, “ she replied , the servant, “Go up there and tell my father I am too busy to be disturbed. Now move it!”she ordered and continued sipping her cocktail with impunity.The servant did not only shake her head in refusal, she went on her knees, “Please ma’am you know I can’t go on such errands. He is not just your father, he is my boss. He will get me
Eva had never been tensed and worried as she saw the police men barge into my chamber to search for the money. She thought it was a lost course because she was the one who kept the money under the bed frame in my inner chamber so the money was going to be searched out in no distance time.Eva couldn’t stay at a place and neither could she stop peeping at the ongoing in my chamber. She could hear the shuffling and ransacking of properties in my chamber and the next chant she was expecting from the police men was, “I have found the money!”While Eva paced up and down and sweated profusely, I did even the worse. For the past thirty minutes my knees had been trembling and unable to carry my body.When Eva stepped forward to me and saw the tears trickling down my cheeks, she swallowed hard and whispered to me. “Perk up dear and be of good cheer. I know they are going to search out the money. When I hid it under your bed frame I least expected my father going to the extent of getting the po
There was a heavy pandemonium when I got to the villa. The entire Fannies were out in the sitting room as heavy indistinct bickering hung over them. What the hell was happening? As if there had been waiting for me, a hush tranquility breezed into their midst when I walked in.I met a shocker; standing at the entrance of some chambers with his men was detective Sam, the same detective that arrested my mother, somebody I just met at the police station not quite long.“Nice to meet you again Melissa,” Detective Sam said smiling cheek to cheek, “Do you belong to the Fannies?” he asked.But busy-body Opula replied instead, “Poverty-stricken, gold diggers don’t belong to my family. She was my late brother’s contract wife, but today she is no longer a part of this family because divorce awaits her.”I gnashed my teeth and folded my fist before dimming my eyes at Opula. Of a truth those words got to me and I couldn’t keep back, “I could hit you right now Opula. I could hit you for referring t
“You ceased to be my mother from the moment you attempted to murder my husband. Henceforth, please, mark your boundaries and thread your path. My name is Melissa Luis and not Melissa Brant. I stopped bearing your name when I married Brian. You escaped jail this time; you may not escape it next time. You can go ahead and give my inheritance to the motherless babies’ home. I will be the most fulfilled heiress to know that you did. Brian is my everything. Good day Mrs. Brant,” I said through tears.And when I turned to leave, Rod grabbed my arm to stop me, “Please hold on, Melissa. We break up to make up. Can’t you see your mother is apologetic? Why can’t we make peace here and now? We can’t keep fighting and quarreling…”“Let her go Rod Benson,” mom fumed and sighed greatly , “ I don’t have a daughter. I used to have one but right now, no more. My daughter won’t stoop to as low as getting into a marriage contract with a rejected mad man who has done nothing but ruin to her…”Rod interru
Opula took it upon herself to reveal it all to Kate. This was the same paternity she wanted to keep secret and possibly die with it. But tonight she was revealing it to a third party. Opula never for once expected there would be a third party in the truth behind her pregnancy.And right about now, she was putting the blame on Doctor Bernard who made unscrupulous demand for forty percent share of the two billion dollars. Although Opula had given Doctor Bernard the impression of concurrence to his greedy demands, she couldn’t wait to have Kate talk to Doctor Bernard.“A night before the yacht party, Ken had promised to make me pregnant after failing all these years. he couldn’t stand the shame and ridicule anymore . I had broken down in tears and he had petted me after which we made love,” Opula narrated.Kate shook her head in agreement.Opula continued gently, “I never knew that was the night that changed the narrative. When I heard about Rod’s visit and arrival on the yacht, I wished
When Salsa received a phone call from the doctor about an emergency on her mother’s health, she never thought it was going to cost her tears. But little did she know that such call was tidbit of the disaster that had struck.“Where is my mother, doctor?” Salsa who had been sitting in front of the doctor for over a couple of minutes asked in a teary tone.Ever since she got to the hospital, she had watched the nurses and the doctor, pace up and down into the emergency unit to attend to her mother and after a little while, everything seemed to go ice cold. There was absolute tranquility. The nurse had disappeared out of sight and only the doctor stood at the door to stare pitiably at Salsa who was searching for answers with her investigative eyes.Shortly afterwards, the doctor had managed to invite Salsa to his office to break the news to her. And till this moment, the doctor had found it difficult to utter a word to Salsa.The door to the office creaked and opened to me. I barged in a