"Hold on a minute. I'm coming," Meredith told her husband before looking back at her daughter. She had entered the gate into the home, so she alighted and ran towards the gate. She entered and looked around a little before seeing her. She walked closer to her and turned her around. "What are you — Oh!" Her eyes widened. She wasn't Rhoda. She had been mistaken."Huh?" The lady was surprised, but then smiled. "Hello, ma. I am Zoe. Do you need any help? Are you looking for someone?" Zoe asked her. Meredith sighed. "No, my dear. Never mind. You just looked like uhm… Well, I thought you looked like my daughter," she explained. But this lady seemed to be a little skinnier than the one she saw entering the gate. Maybe she was mistaken. And she looked no way like Rhoda.Perhaps she just missed her daughter that much. She knew she had been a bad mother to her, barely calling or texting to check on her. "No problem, ma. I shall take my leave, then," Zoe said and started walking away after the
Rhoda decided to escape her misery by reading. She had been digging her head into the 'After' series. She got herself a bowl of popcorn as she continued the third book of the series. It was dinner time and any good and responsible wife would be in the kitchen, preparing food for her husband, but since she wasn't one, she could only do what she could. Be on her own, in her own world.Moments later, Jeff returned home and went to sit beside her on the three-seater chair. She took that as a call to go to her room, so she rose to her feet to leave. Jeff grabbed her wrist and made her sit back. "Stay," he breathed to her face, making her frown. "You're drunk." He would never be doing what he was if he was sober. "No, I'm not. I drank a little," he said, bringing his right thumb and index finger closer to each other. "Oh!" She nodded. Of course, no drunk person would ever admit that. He looked at her face and held it for a while before she looked away. His expression suddenly turned s
Jeff came out of his room and walked down the stairs into the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. He had been trying his best to avoid running into Rhoda after the intense moment they shared a few nights ago. Aside from the fact that remembering everything that transpired that night embarrassed him the following day, Rhoda hasn't been helpful as well. She had asked him if he remembered anything from that night and he had denied remembering anything. He knew she wanted to talk about it, but he was too ashamed to do that. She had not been any different from her usual self, though. She didn't try to get closer nor did she try to pester him into discussing their passionate moment together. But her presence had been troubling his heart. Just like now, Rhoda was in the kitchen trying to take a dish from the cabinet above her head and his eyes were so stubborn they weren't looking from her thighs and bum. The huge top she was putting on had rode up and was making him sweat all of a s
Jeff starts to round up in his office as he awaits the arrival of his friend. He had called Francis over to have a man-to-man talk with him regarding his sister. After the drunken conversation he had with Rhoda, he decided to give him a chance. Maybe he had actually changed. Maybe what he felt for his sister was real. He decided to give it a trial. And talking of Rhoda, he was still as clueless as ever as to what to do. He liked her, but he very much knew he couldn't start anything new with her. Why?Aside from their open marriage contract, he was still struggling to get himself to trust her. If he must start anything, he has to trust her. And that was a difficult thing to do for him. After the heartbreak from his ex-girlfriend despite how much he loved and trusted her, he couldn't bring himself to do so again. Not even when he had seen her doing 'it' in the bathroom of a bar. He had been celibate for months now and that wasn't easy. He could have chosen to do it outside, but he k
Sharon got tired of dancing in the bar and decided to go outside for fresh air. Her date for the night has not gotten there so she decided to call and wait for him outside. She walked outside and was slapped by the naturally calming air, so she stretched her arms apart and breathed in as much as she could. Her phone started ringing. She brought it out and said, "Hello." It was the person she was waiting for."Why are you not here yet?" She asked and listened to his excuse. She sighed and smiled. "Okay. Don't stay too long, I'm waiting for you." She was about to hang up but brought the phone back to her ear when she heard him talking. "Come on. I don't think we can make use of the bathroom again. The last time, I suspected someone saw us," she said in a low voice and turned around to see if no one could hear her.To her surprise, the phone of the man behind her dropped to the ground and his mouth was wide open. It was obvious he had heard her and that shocked him. She hung up and too
Sharon brought in the brown envelope she had found at her door and walked in. She wondered what was in there and from whom it came from. But after opening it, her curiosity dwindled. She knew who it was from.There were a few pictures of herself in different places and she looked at them in shock. What was shocking was that she had never been in those clothes and had never been to those places where the pictures were taken. She recognized one of the places to be the house her biological parents were living in. That was when everything made sense. How could she have believed they had no child? Every couple wants children. Then, she realized that the reason she was forsaken was because of this lady that looked so much like her. Anger filled her up immediately and she squeezed one of the pictures in one hand. She looked into the envelope again and saw another picture she didn't bring out. It was a picture of her… No, not her. It was a picture of the lady in a wedding dress and beside
Kelly looked behind her to see who Rhoda was referring to. She looked back at Rhoda and touched her hand. "Are you okay? Is he someone you know?" She asked."Yes, I am fine. Excuse me for a moment," Rhoda replied and walked towards Nas and they moved some feet away from Kelly. "What are you doing here? How did you find me?""Good day to you, too," Nas replied, still smiling.Rhoda's heart started melting seeing him smile. His smile had been what she had fallen in love with when she saw him for the first time. She tried to look hard even though she was not. "I'm sorry. I'm just surprised to see you. You wanted me out of your life, remember? You said you never wanted to see me again, so why —""That's because I thought I could live without you, Rho."She loved him calling her that. She always has. And he was doing that on purpose because he knew. "It's been over a year and I can tell you lived just fine. It is so obvious," she said while looking at him from head to toe. She admitted he
After lunch, Rhoda went to the living room to get the book she had left there. She was going out to see Nas later in the evening. She had no idea if that was too soon, but she also wanted to see him. She wanted to know what happened to him. She hated to admit it but she missed him. As he talked to her over the phone, she realized how much she did. Seeing and talking to him re-ignites all the feelings she thought had gone. She had totally forgotten about Jeff. It was not going to work out with him anyway. Other than the question she had refused to give him the answer to the previous day, he had not talked to her as he used to. She could feel he was distant. He wasn't acting like it, but she knew he was.Their so-called 'friendship' was not growing, but it was not stuarting either. She was brought out of her thinking realm by the ringing of a phone. It was Jeff's. She took it and went upstairs to his room to give it to him. "Your phone is —" She opened the door and froze as she walke