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The Center Cannot Hold

Author: Mol Des
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-18 12:46:45

I knew this was going to happen so I had myself checked often while discussing with mom. As I hastened into the toilet, the churning subsided, my guts were cold and it seemed like I wasn’t going to throw up again.

This was my first pregnancy and twins for that matter; issues like this were put into consideration whenever I set out to pay a visit.

“Melissa! Melisa!” mom called, “Are you okay!” she asked swiftly. She would have asked yet further if she hadn’t heard me defecate, “Oh I thought you wanted to throw up,” she said.

“No, as you can see, mom. I was only pressed,” I lied, “I will be out as soon as I am done,” I said loudly and continued with my pretense, even when it wasn’t my intention to poop.

Indeed things had fallen apart and mom like everyone else was expecting so much from me now. Rod Benson? What on earth would push him to my side despite the classic, rich, well lettered ladies in New York. Why me?

All that mom said was yet to sink into my head and they only started sinki
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  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son    A Survival not ill-fated

    When I got to the villa, I dared to enter my chamber but it was locked. This had never happened before and I wondered what could be happening. Whatever was happening had got to be a joke but it wasn’t. I pushed on the door and it was locked. I wonder who could have locked my chamber. I had never locked my chamber for once, so who could have done this?As I dared to open the door, my patience fizzled out and I boiled within me. What could be happening? Just then my mind went back to what Eva told me about the struggle I would face s now Rod started getting closer to me. Could Opula and Kate be responsible for this?Eva joined me shortly afterwards and was shocked by the latest development. When she checked on Opula and Kate, they were not around the villa let alone in their chambers. They had gone out with their husbands and Fanny Luis.I brought Eva’s attention to the garage and showed her their cars weren’t in place so it was obvious they had gone out. Soon Salsa came out to meet us

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   Through Thick And Thin

    “Perhaps you may want to give me better explanations. What do you have with rod Benson that makes him flinch into action when he hears you are in trouble? Are you dating him or something is going on between the two of you?”I dared to open my mouth to speak up and defend myself but I felt a styrene force shut my lips. This had not happened to me before. I wondered why I was finding it uneasy to deny having anything to do with Rod Benson. Rod had only demanded that we become best of friends and that was all and would definitely not exceed friendship.I shook my head in denial, “I have nothing with Rod Benson. He … he,” I stuttered and said in a breath, “Rod is just my friend and that is all . I can’t date or marry him. Brian is more than…”I was interrupted when Eva who had been on the steering wheel matched the break and the car came to a screeching halt. “Excuse me, Melissa. You are not serious, are you?” she shot her furious eyes at me and I forced myself to meet her gaze, “Once up

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   Rod Came Through For Brian

    I wonder what would inspire Doctor Bill’s cheeks to be dragged in smile while my husband was in dire need of oxygen. Ever since we got into his office he had been all smile like a suckling eagle that just learned how to fly.After he was done attending to the nurse who had been in his office, he corked a heavier smile at us as he opened Brian’s file.“You seem to be in your best mood today, doctor. There has not been anything short of excitement on your face since we got in here. What is the secret?” Eva said cheerfully, her voice coming up alive after a heartbreaking wailing.Eva had her car key firmly held in her arms and to an extent she had bubbles in her guts seeing the doctor’s excitement because of what she had come to demand form the doctor. When she told me about giving up her car in place of a sequel large unit of oxygen for Brian I doubted if the doctor was going to allow it.We didn’t want to hesitate about purchasing oxygen for Brian’s survival. Going to sell the car cou

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   I hope We Will See Again Brian

    When Eva walked into my chamber and met me wailing she was astounded and she scuttled to my side to know what must have rattled my cage. As she lowered her gaze on my hands and saw a small leaflet, she took it.“What? Is this from Doctor Bill?” she said, gaping at me and wondering if she could afford thirty thousand dollars for fresh oxygen supply for Brian. “Oh my God not now we don’t have the trust funds.”I sniffed heavily and shut my eyes to gain virtue. “Things are getting tougher, Eva. I am getting weary by the day. The bag of money we hid under my bed suddenly got missing without any clue of who stole it. Isn’t it better for the police to have found the money in my chamber than losing the money to a thief?”“There is no thief in this villa,” Eva said with conviction and breathed uneasily, “Never had it been recorded that a cent went missing in this villa let alone a bag of money and besides it is only you and I that know there is money in our chamber or did you tell anyone abou

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   Price Of True Love; Can He Pay It?

    I was discussing with Melissa the other day and she mentioned her love for Turkish gown. Although she is from a poor family, her sense of fashion is laudable. She was nagging about the incentive Fanny stopped paying her and how it has affected her number of dresses,” Salsa said to Rod who was smiling cheek to cheek.Today she wasn’t meeting Rod in his private jet but at a cocktail café. It was obvious Salsa had accepted her fate as regards her love for Rod and what she was out to achieve. Things would get more intriguing and shocking as she looked forward to making Rod marry me.Rod smiled cheerfully as he shook his head, “Are you sure she is going to accept it? My heart gets broken each time Melissa rejects my gift. I wish she would accept it if I should buy her the whole world,” Rod said with an iota of doubt.Salsa sucked a brief grin; and it was as if she had taken a personal decision to work out things between Rod and I; even if it would be the only feat she would achieve in her

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   Rod Confronts Fanny

    Fanny Luis was having a board meeting with his staff when the knocking of oxford sounded noisily close by. Although Fanny expected all his staff to be present at the meeting, he only thought the noisy shuffling could be coming from a guest.But the oxford knocked louder as the person walked closer and closer, Fanny threw caution to the wind with his speech. His instinct informed him that the person was as furious as he thought but he took solace in the fact that it could be a guest.With the boldness to continue the meeting, Fanny shrugged off any form of distraction especially the knocking of the oxford.In a short while, when the meeting got heated Rod barged into the conference hall and shot a disgusting frown at fanny.“Rod Benson?” Fanny called, uncertainty clouding his voice with scare hanging in his eyes. “Can’t you see that I am in the middle of a crucial meeting with my staff?” Fanny queried and rebuked his guts through his enraged staff which stood behind a pair of glass.R

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   Ill-fated Marriage

    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

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   New Wife For Rod Benson

    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

  • A Contract Marriage With The Billionaire’s Mad Son   Remains Of Our Love

    With the way Eva gaped at me, one could think I was responsible for the confusion brought upon the police men. Eva, just like every other onlooker thought the police men were under some sort of voodoo from me.Eva had to peer to me and ask, “Why didn’t they see the bag of money in your chamber? What is happening? Where is the money? Did you displace the money?” she asked anxiously.My brow ridge in utter bewilderment, “I am as shocked as you. I wouldn’t have touched the bag of money. I was waiting for the police men to come out with the bag of money but nothing of such happened,” I replied, shot an investigative gaze at my chamber and then whispered to Eva, “Hold on let me see for myself,”Quickly, I stepped into my chamber and met all my properties scattered all over the place. I wondered if emphasis was placed on my chamber or was this how they were going to search all the chambers.“That is my bed,” I mumbled and pointed Eva’s attention to it, “They actually searched it. Everything

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