ZORIANA'S POV
I sighed wearily as I let my pen drip some more words into my diary. It's been a week already and my department have finally completed all necessary projects for the semester, finally we could all go home now. My head felt heavy and was buzzing with several thoughts. There's a lot to do, including preparations for the get together Cassy and I have been planning for a while now. They'd be returning today as promised and I have this ominous feeling this December break would be different. I already prepared myself for my trip, I decided to quickly grab lunch at the Crown's Lunch Cafe before going to the park and boarding a vehicle to gwagwalada. Meanwhile, I've been updating my diary during this past week and was just concluding it here after eating, my luggage was right outside at a safe corner under the care of the trustworthy security man. While scribbling some more words in, I reminded myself that I have to hurry up because I still have to go pick up Cassy and Carter from the airport. I also made a mental note about posting the get-to-gether which was in not less than two days, on Christmas eve to be precise _because Christmas's in three days_ on our private childhood friends W******p group chat and hope that many of our childhood friends would turn up. I stared down at what I'd written so far and silently read through it, while thinking it's perfect. *Dearest future husband, Ahough I've already told you about Jerry, George, Emmy, Onyeka, Divine, Winner, Kenneth, Miracle, Wisdom, Samson and several other guys whom I've once held a touch of feelings for, including LPL, my first love. I want to now tell you about my personality. Like most people often say, I'm simple and love tending to myself personally without anyone's help. I'm sometimes shy but I'm a loud mouth amongst my closest friends and family. I tend to always be blatant(I like saying things exactly as they are). I usually don't care about how convenient it was for the other party, in as much as it's something that my conscience is likely to suffer from later on, I'd rather come out clean and tell the truth. This particular attitude of mine have made people sometimes mistake my sincerity for being arrogant or rude, but I'm trying to adjust a little if necessary. I'm a deep thinker and I'm also extremely emotional at that. Little things others might overlook easily gets to me. Reasons why I'm extremely careful, observant and selective when choosing my circle. I love to eat a lot but I'm a huge fan of snacks and various milky drinks. I tend to get easily heartbroken because I fall in love quickly and when I do, it's always hard to stop loving. In simpler terms, I'm just someone who loves deeply and when I get hurt, I naturally shut out from most people and become extremely withdrawn. Healing from the hurt usually takes a long while and lots of effort from my love ones and myself. Cautiously, I try to avoid opening my heart to people easily but so far, there's not been a time when I've successfully refused to succumb to loving others once my fragile heart choose them. So note; you must NEVER BREAK MY HEART hubby. I'm someone who can be crazy, playful, funny, passionate, emotional, lazy, hardworking and also romantic, because I'm human afterall. I've not met you or maybe I probably have, right now I wouldn't know but there's this love burning within my heart anytime I think of you, the fire lightening my eyes, the passion and the promise in my heart just for you is extremely unexplainable. You're someone I look forward to loving forever, You're someone I wanna be with forever, You're someone I want to hold onto and also support forever, You're someone by whose side I want to fight life's battles with and conquer together... You're someone I want to respect and adore forever, Your hand is the pillar and support I want to cling onto forever, You're the light I desire to lit up my days forever, You're someone I want to proudly and boldly showoff to the world as my husband and then the father of my children, You're someone I look forward to cuddling with every other night, I want to proudly call you mine, forever... You're someone whose weakness I wanna be for as long as there's life, You're that person I want to look forward to the future with forever, You're someone I never want to ever stop loving forever, You're someone who I'm willing to go crazy for, forever, I look forward to arguing and settling with you too, You're someone I want to be my weakness, I want to melt under your loving gaze forever, I look forward to your pampering and love babe, Under your care I look forward to being treated like a Queen, I also look forward to serving the Almighty with you forever, You're just someone whose entire existence I believe, will make life meaningful to me forever, You're someone I will dare to kiss, hug and even cuddle in public without minding the opinion of society, I pray and hope we would be loving each other even in our bad days forever, You're someone I trust to love me in words, in character and in your actions forever, I want you to be my superman and my hero, You're someone I want to go skydiving, swimming, hiking, traveling, siteseeing, eating and drinking with forever, Dear future husband; you're someone I want and pray to be my perfect match, made in heaven... I look forward to accepting your imperfections and I hope you're looking forward to mine too because our imperfections are what makes us uniquely us, and these are what makes us perfect. Dear future husband, you're someone I want to hurry and find God if you haven't, find yourself too if you haven't, then quickly; come find me. I'm patiently waiting for you. With love from Zori. Heart. Your future wife, After going through all I've just written now, I smiled in satisfaction just as a message notification popped on my phone screen. At a quick glance, it turned out to be a message from Cassidy. 'We're at the airport now, about to board the plane.'ARLOWE'S POV “I’m so sorry, babes. I got carried away with my fling and failed to look after you well, even when it was I who took you there.” She apologized sadly. “It’s not your fault, Nick, so don’t be sorry. I have even more stunning news for you.” I led her to the bed and showed her the note, the mask and clothes the masked individual had left for me. Nicky was as stunned as I had been. Also, I showed her the text I had gotten from the unknown contact that was likely Adams Hathaway. And again, she was stunned silly by the absurdness of the whole situation. I mean, this was a man who seemed hell bent on making sure I was punished because of some misunderstandings and he was definitely aware that up until yesterday, I was his cousin’s wife so what in the world was he thinking? After some moments of silence and bewilderment, Nicky suddenly spoke up. “We would have to contact the attendant who supposedly led you to meet Adams Hathaway yester night. Then, we would be
ARLOWE'S POV "The fuck, Arlowe! I've been calling since forever! What the hell happened to you?!" Nicky worriedly yelled the moment my call went through. "N-Nicky...I... I..." My voice broke as tears rolled down my cheeks. "Babes, are you okay? I couldn't find you at the club. Where are you?" Her worry was so evident in her voice. My hands trembled as I held the phone to my ear, one hand clutching the duvet to myself while my eyes roamed around the room fearfully. "I'm... I think I'm in a big mess, Nicky. I...I must have... I can't believe I..." I stuttered through my words, not even able to comprehend or even say what my situation seemed like. "Arlowe, tell me, where are you? What do you see?" I pushed a hand through my messy hair in my frustration and the duvet fell to my waist. "I swear I don't know. It seems like a h-hotel room," "What!" Nicky gasped in disbelief and I sighed, wiping my tears. I couldn't believe it either. But the reality of what I had
ARLOWE'S POV Several minutes later, we arrived at the most popular nightclub in town. And I turned to stare at her with uncertainty. "Relax, Arlowe. We got this." She smiled and adjusted my skimpy dress. For us to successfully blend in, we had to dress for the occasion. This was Nicky's idea of helping me resolve my issue tonight and it was the only way possible at the moment. She had received a rare information which came with a high monetary price, that informed her of Adams Hathaways' location at the moment. He was said to be at this Palatial Club tonight. And it was the only time I had to see him and possibly plead his understanding face to face before I would receive the court order tomorrow. And although, the idea of coming here didn't sit well with me, I just had to since I'm really desperate. I have never been to a club before, so I don't know how these things work. Thankfully, I have Nicky to guide me. "Let's go," she smiled at me and linked our arms toget
ARLOWE'S POV It's absolutely ridiculous and unbelievable how my whole life could turn around from bad to worse within just a day. The more I think of it, the more perplexed and horrified I feel. Who would have imagined that I would get into trouble with a man I had never seen or even know what he looks like?Defamation of character and slandering? Ha! Isn't the accusation even heavy in the mouth of that Jonathan Kingston? Probably, the walls now have ears. Since it seems words I said in my anger and frustration, while at Eric's place, has now somehow found a way to get me in a deep shit hole. Just some days ago, I had yelled back at Eric in my anger over the ill-manner he was treating me and had asked him to go find the source of his problems and sort it out, and that he stopped pouring his aggressions on me. In my words, I had said, "I am not the cause of your frustrations, Eric. Go find that mysterious zillionaire cousin of yours whom you feel threatened by that you
ARLOWE'S POV Some hours later, I arrived my family home in Seattle and my family's coldness towards me was even worse than ever before. Apparently, the news already reached them even before I did. Grandfather must have received the news already. It was obvious that once the marriage was ever over, the business alliance between both families was over too, as well as all the goodies that came with partnering with the Hathaways' Starlight Group of Companies. Grandfather's icy blue eyes stared piercingly at me and I immediately knelt before him with teary eyes. "I'm so sorry grandfather, I tried to stay back and save my marriage but Eric was so determined to throw me out." I apologized even though I did nothing wrong. "I told you she would bring nothing but shame to this family," Kennedy, my mother's older sister said as she walked in the living room and went to stand behind her father. "You're just like your mother. No, you're much more worse than her. I would never have
ARLOWE’S POV “Eric please, you must reconsider. You can’t do this to me! You’re ruining my life!” I pleaded with tears running down my cheeks. But my husband wasn’t even paying me the slightest bit of attention as he tossed my luggage at me, not minding how the boxes rolled down the stairs to fall at my feet. “This marriage is over, Arlowe. Take your things and get out of my house. I never want to see you again.” He coldly stated as he turned around to return to his room. However, I couldn’t let him do this to me without a fight. My family would never forgive me. I would become an outcast in society. I hurried after him and held his shirt, “Hubby please don’t do this to me. I promise not to complain over anything again. You can bring in whomever you want to the house and do whatever you please with them. I won’t disturb or argue anymore, just please don’t abandon me. Please, babe,” I looked up at him with teary eyes, but his cold obsidian eyes glared back unflinchingly at