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143: No
Kelvin stood, then sat. He stood again, then sat again. His wife promised everything was fine but he was so restless he could barely do anything. He opened his laptop to work but the words on his screen blurred. He shut down the laptop on his study table and locked his hands behind his head. They had been doing fine for a while now. She couldn’t be sick, he would have known. Wait, what if she was pregnant?
He jumped when his phone rang. Startled, he grabbed it from the table. It was his sister, Madonna. A grin touched his lip as he picked. Madonna’s voice filtered into his ear in a high pitch. He kicked his legs under the table and his grin widened.
“Mum’s here,” she said after the pleasantries.
His smile dimmed. Kelvin ran one hand through his hair. This wasn’t what his mother told him. She would not be in California until a week. His fist met the table. That was his issue with her. Making decisions that cou
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His Contract Wife 144: Positive
Leila sang along to the song playing from the radio, messing up the lyrics without a care. The car from behind overtook her but she didn’t give a shit. She wouldn’t have minded if someone slapped her. In fact, she might have turned her other cheek to them.Nothing had been able to affect her since she saw the result of the test. Positive. She was pregnant with her and Kelvin’s baby. Fifteen weeks pregnant. How did she not notice? The increased appetite. The weight gain. The breasts heaviness. It wasn’t just her getting fat, it was her body adjusting to accommodate their baby. She rubbed a hand over her belly. It was a boy.She couldn’t say for sure but she felt it would be a boy. A boy that would be named after his father. In her excitement, she had crushed the doctor in a hug. They would return later after she told her husband the great news. She didn’t mind waiting to find out his gender but if Kelvin wanted to know it
His Contract Wife 145: No result
First try. No result. Second try. No result. Third try. No result. A frustrated growl tore out of Kelvin’s lips. He tossed the phone on the bed and paced the room.He fucked up. Knowing his mother-in-law and wife’s history, he shouldn’t have suggested her staying here to Leila. Was that why she wouldn’t pick his call?His phone rang and he rushed to it. His chest sagged. It was his mother, not Leila. He didn’t pick. She was the cause of all these. Leila had been excited, what did she want to tell him? Why wouldn’t she pick his calls? He pinched his nose and growled again.Frustration ate at his insides. He wanted his wife. Kelvin stared at his phone for a long time before it hit him. Freya. She was going to Freya’s. He could call Freya. As he was about to dial her number, his phone lit up with his wife’s best friend’s number.Fate was working in his favour. He wasted no time in
His Contract Wife 146: Mother or child?
Kelvin waited. He waited for the laugh or smile, anything that would tell him today was not real.A child? Leila had a child? How didn’t he know that?“Mr McKenna?”“What child?” Kelvin finally asked the doctor. “I don’t understand. Are you saying my wife is pregnant?”“Yes. About fifteen weeks gone. We don’t have time right now. We need to save one. Mother or child?”“No.” Kelvin shook his head. They had to save both. They must save both. He pointed to the door of the room the doctor exited and told him in a small voice, “I’m not picking. Now, you will go in there and save my wife and kid. You got it? Both of them will be fine.”“Mr McKenna. It doesn’t work that way.”Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.Kelvin’s head hung low. No, they couldn’t do this to him. He couldn’t p
His Contract Wife 147: I’m here
Morning came faster than Kelvin anticipated it. He got out of bed, took a shower and forced himself to eat. His only goal was to be strong for his wife. He sent Amara a text message before leaving the house. For now, she would have to handle things in his absence.The drive to the hospital was the fastest ride of his life. A nurse attended to him with a smile. Leila was fine and awake, she had asked after him this morning. His grin was dampened by the fact he had to give up their child for his wife’s life but he managed to rein in his emotions and followed behind the nurse.Peeping through the glass, he smiled at his sleeping wife. He didn’t want to be the one to tell her about the baby. The nurse left him alone and he went inside.His need to be closer to her took over his senses and he crawled into the bed to be with her. Her eyes fluttered open. Leila smiled and his heart stopped.“Baby,” he murmured over and over ag
His Contract Wife 148: Broken pieces
Leila’s heart was crushing. Her heart was breaking and the broken pieces were breaking all over again. What did she do? Was it because she got pregnant? They both wanted the baby. He told her he wanted a son.The door opened after she was tucked in bed. The broken pieces of her heart broke into tinier pieces when her parents, instead of Kelvin, walked in. Her mother came over to her side and hugged her tight.“What happened?” her mother asked. Her father had not said a word. He wasn’t a man of so many words.“I don’t know.” She stared at her nails. She had chewed them out of impatience. “I told him I was pregnant and he started acting strange. I don’t know.”“The nurse told us he has been coming everyday.”“I know,” Leila murmured. Her mother sank into the chair her father pulled out for her and Leila threw him a smile. The nurses on duty tol
His Contract Wife 149: He picked me
“I don’t understand,” her mother answered.Leila didn’t understand either. She had a baby before the accident and now Kelvin was saying there was no longer a baby. She wiped the tears falling down to her cheeks. How could the baby be gone? She didn’t get the chance to meet their child or tell Kelvin about it.“He killed my baby,” she said but the voice sounded like it belonged to someone else instead of her. She pulled her knees up to her chest and rocked herself. “Kelvin killed my baby. My husband killed my baby.” “How?” her father asked. Leila stared up at him with tears in her eyes. He sounded like he didn’t believe her. She was not lying. “I mean, how’s that possible?”Closing her eyes, she pushed a pillow under her head and pulled the comforter over her body. She needed to be alone. “They asked him to pick, he picked me.”
His Contract Wife 150: Too much
It hurt. It hurt too much.Kelvin couldn’t describe the pain effectively but all he knew was that he wanted it to end. If this was a phase, it was taking too long to pass. Leila was silent in the car as they drove back home. He knew what she had gone to get. He had seen it when she dropped it on her lap. A pregnancy kit. She was only setting herself up for more pain and heartbreak but he didn’t know how to stop her. The baby was gone. They lost their first child.Did she think he wasn’t hurting too? He was the one who made the choice. He would live with that forever.They got home and she dashed upstairs without waiting for him. Kelvin delayed to follow her. He knew what to expect and he didn’t want to be there when she realised he had been telling the truth all along.After about ten minutes, he decided to go up. It was better to face the situation now, once and for all. His ascent to their apartment was sl
His Contract Wife 151: Come with me
Work was only a means to pass time. Kelvin had lost the zeal to work but he continued at it. He missed the random texts from his wife before she bursts into his office. He missed their office fucks. Their lunch time together. The stolen losses on the corridor.Amara sent him an email, the long awaited email and instead of joy, he felt despair. They had been waiting for approval to visit London and finalise the plans for Tech Valley new branch. His fingers shook in trepidation. This would have been a good time for him and Leila to travel to London so he could show her some of the beauties in that city without his parents’ interruption but she wasn’t even talking to him.The most he got out of her was a grunt and murmurs of approval each time he brought her meal. He had learned to cook pasta because of her. When Kelvin had served her a plate full of pasta that was golden brown because he had taken it off the pot too late, she had eaten it all up without
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