“I told you, she is not your daughter,” I said, folding my arms over my chest and ignoring the arrival of Roxanne after him. She had followed him in her high heels after he rushed after me and my daughter like an angry bull.
“She is not his daughter?” She questioned when Silas couldn’t ask anything else. It replaced the angry expressions on his face with blankness.
“How many times do I have to repeat the same thing over and over again?” I sounded extremely annoyed, and they noticed.
“How do you know that?” Roxanne stepped between Silas and me, but I was still able to see his face as he was pretty tall and towering over her from the back.
“I did a DNA test,” I lied, raising my brows and then slanting them to look annoyed.
“But you didn’t have my DNA sample, then how did you prove if the child is mine or not?” he wasn’t taking anything seriously. Weird how he ca
“Idiot!” I grunted, watching Hope from outside the room as she FaceTime Desmond. I didn’t tell him much so that he doesn’t leave everything behind and comes here for her. His own life and career should matter to him as well.It was the next day, and I was still bitter over what Silas had said about me last night.“He thinks just because he gave me a lift, he can say whatever he wants about me?” I was pacing back and forth anxiously and biting my lower lip.“Ughh!” I grunted and slapped my forehead. The weather was clear and nice but Hope refused to leave her room, which was sort of a good thing since Alpha King Silas had already warned me to keep my child away from him.“Nobody wants to keep a relationship with me? What did he mean by that? Did I not tell him that my husband loves and cares for me?” I pouted, “Oh no! I only said that about Hope. Silas needs to know that I am in a fortunate
“Silas look, she is so cute.” Roxanne had made us join them and I couldn’t say no because of Hope. She was being too clingy to Roxanne and there was nothing I could do but to see my mate and my child with her.“Hm!” Silas responded, fixing his jacket and then scrolling through his phone for a moment before he raised his face and shared a quick glance with me. I looked away awkwardly and sat there like an outsider.“She looks more like you.” His attitude changed after he saw me suffering. He was now giving reasons to upset me.“Really?” Roxanne asked, watching Hope play games on her phone.“Look at her innocent face. I hope she grows up like you.” The compliment to her was a slap to my face. I wanted to argue back, but I was silent for the sake of Hope. There was so much happiness in her eyes after sitting with them, she looked comforted.I felt like letting the tears fall down, but t
The dinner finally came to an end and this entire time, Hope hadn’t sat next to me. Roxanne fed her while Hope sat in her lap.I felt like an outsider, to be honest. I might look like a strong person, but every person gets upset. The way Desmond ignored me tonight made me think about where I am in my life. I did so much for Hope, but I feel like she isn’t happy with me.I have never seen her this happy before and where it was a calming thing; it was also concerning.“I am ready,” Hope broke me out of my state of immense thinking and rushed out of her room wearing a beautiful white dress. She looked like she had walked down the stairs of heaven looking like an angel.“You look pretty, but you cannot go,” I stole eyes from her, “Mommy has some work and you will be facetiming your father,” I announced excitedly, hoping that would make her happy but she looked mad as hell.“I don’t want to tal
“NOOO!” My blood-curdling scream echoed through the park while I rushed to hold my dead daughter in my arms.“Hope!” I cried, clinging her dead body against my body, “My daughter!” I screamed crazily, feeling her blood soaking my dress.“Please wake up!” I begged her,“Wake up!”Suddenly, the voice started to sound like I wasn’t talking. It appeared to be within me and much more calmed than I thought it should be.“Octavia! Wake up,” it was Icy waking me up from a terrible nightmare, I call.“Icy! Sh---e ki----lled Hop---,” I sat down on the couch and looked around to the realization that it was not reality.“It was merely a dream!” Icy tried to comfort me, but as a mother who had spent her pregnancy wondering somebody would poison her any time, I was not taking it lightly.“Merely a dream? It was the nightmare that had s
"Good night," I heard Silas greet me as he walked out of the door, saying nothing else.I stayed still in my spot and then took steady steps to reach the door and lock it. I then checked up on Hope to ask her how was her day and she didn’t look very excited to share anything with me.“Are you still angry with your mommy?” I stood in the door, watching her pout and forcing her eyes shut to pretend like she had fallen asleep.“Good night, and just know that mommy loves you more than anything,” I kissed her forehead and left her to sleep. Walking out of her room hit differently. I felt defeated and alone.I sat down on the couch and held the phone in my hands, thinking about how to correct my mistakes.Me: I am so sorry that I hurt you. I was actually pulling a prank on you as April fool’s day is arriving. I should have known it will hurt you immensely.It wasn’t long before he called my number and I at
“Excuse me?” I asked sternly, making sure my body language says it all.“There is something I need to talk to you about,” once he explained, my muscles relaxed a bit. How should I say that I was kind of disappointed in myself for getting the wrong idea from his words?“Get in,” I said and waited for him to enter first. The moment he walked past me, his scent filled my nostrils with a feeling of comfort, and I hated myself for it.He does not deserve me feeling any kind of way about him, especially comfort.“Have a sea---,” before I could even offer him, he sat down and got comfortable.“Recorded the video?” he asked as he noticed my camera gear.“Yeah! It was a bit messy. The camera keeps messing up,” I added and sat down, leaving the couch for him.“I will have someone come over and look at the settings.” He added, fixing his coat and then looking aro
After that whole thing happened and Icy confessed to noticing Silas feeling the mate bond, I threw up out of fright and anxiousness.I could feel the fever in my body. The condition turned so bad that I couldn’t even walk to my room and lie down in peace.I fainted right on my spot and on the cold floor of the living room.“Mommy! What happened to you? Please wake up,” I woke up to the dying cries of my daughter and her gentle hands over my arms.She was trying to shake me into waking up from the floor. I must be gone for hours because she had returned home, but then who brought her home because recently, I have been picking her up from the school myself.“My mommy is not getting up, something has happened to her,” she rushed towards the door to shout and get the attention of the person who had dropped her at the door and had turned around to leave in haste.“Octavia!” it was Silas’ voice.
“Your father called to tell me that he won’t be available for some time because he will be busy at work,” I lied, hoping to calm Hope down before she starts throwing tantrums like always but it did look like none of my words affected her because she pouted at then slammed the teddy on the floor.“I WANT TO SPEAK TO MY FATHER!” her scream terrorized me, “I WANT TO SPEAK TO MY FATHER!” she screamed again while I tried to reach her and get on my knees to hold her by her arms.“My daughter! He will talk to you but he is busy right no---,” I was beginning to panic and tell her to calm down but she wasn’t really ready to hear anything I have to say.“I WANT TO SPEAK TO MY FATHER!” she shouted in the same breath as before. Tears were springing down her cheeks. She seemed to be choking on her own breath.Her sight was terrifying. I hugged her but it did not change anything.“Fine