There was just something about her that he couldn’t place his hands on and since he had started seeing her in that light, doing anything with any other woman had seemed so alien to him but he did know how to go about it coupled with the fact that he had noticed that she was not so comfortable around him and it made him wonder what she thought about him in her head even though he knew it could never be something good.He contemplated everyday on how he should go about telling her of his true feelings and when he didn’t come up with any good idea in his opinion, he decided to ask her aunt to help him and talk to her on his behalf. A part of him objected still because it felt like she would not see him as a real man but he managed to convince himself that given the circumstances that their relationship was in that was the best way to go about it and he believed it had up to a fifty percent chance of working, if not more. After his lunch one day, as Caroline came over to clear his dishe
Ava went home feeling even more confused than she had been before the conversation with her aunt Caroline. She had actually gone to have a conversation with her thinking that she would concur to all the intrusive thoughts that she was having but instead she had filled her head with even more thoughts that she did not know what to do with. It was as though she was losing her mind each passing minute.She got home and was met with a warm hug from Jane, who was playing in the garden.“Mommy!” she screamed excitedly in a high-pitched voice as she tried to wrap her little arms around Ava’s knees.“Hey my sunshine” Ava smiled as she reached down and took her into her arms to give her a proper hug. Just then the door busted open and Jayden ran over to them.“Welcome Mommy!” he said continuously while tugging at the hem of her dress. A smile creped onto Ava’s lips because she was happy to see her babies too after a long day and she needed to also use the opportunity she would spend with them
Ava was now more receptive to him and he liked that a lot. They were not obviously where he wanted them to be yet but a win was a win to him and he hoped that it all just continued to get better and better as time went on.He was getting ready to go to pay a visit to his cousin, Christopher, whose son was celebrating his birthday and although he had a lot of work to do, he just could not miss his best friend, Alex’s birthday because he was not going to hear the end of it ever, if he did that. He had bought the gift that Ava recommended and he hoped that he was going to like it because that was really all he could think of as he was very terrible at gift giving.He was putting the final touches to his outfit when Caroline knocked on his door with three taps to notify him that breakfast was ready. It was a little silly method that they had both devised because he was somehow always late for breakfast and she didn’t like it at all so she gave him the idea and he had accepted it because
Ava thanked the heavens that she dressed casually that day because she would not have known what she would have done if she had needed to change and Ethan had offered to drive her back to her house so she could be able to change because she didn’t want him knowing where she lived at all. She needed to keep that and her children a secret for now until she was done with her investigation and finally knew if he was the father of her children.They had left the office together almost immediately after she had said yes to him. He had just gone into his office to get the document he came for and she had used that opportunity to tidy up her own space quickly. As usual, the got stares as they walked out together but something Ava did not dare miss was that they stare were not a heavy as it was when she was walking in or out of the office alone.She didn’t let it bother her so much then because her mind was actually already plotting on how she was going to go about this to get as much inform
Ava's thoughts were all over the place the day after the birthday party. Ethan had dropped off at the supermarket because she had lied that she needed to get some stuff just so he won’t be able to drive her home and he had insisted on waiting and those few minutes she was trying to figure out how to escape but a call from Christopher, who was calling him to come help out with something back at the house saved her and she couldn’t have been more happy to bid him farewell and then she had actually bought a few things so as not to garner unnecessary stares from the owners of the store before she left and took a cab back home.The kids were already at sleep and she went in to give them both a kiss before going to hers. She had called her aunt to help bring them home from school and it had been a smooth process because Caroline had the keys to her house specifically for moments like this. She undressed and stepped into the shower and as the water ran over her body she could not help but
Ethan ran his hand for the thousandth time over his hair as he tried to make sense of Kimberly's sudden reappearance. It was as if demons from his past had come to life, in the form of the woman he had once been married to. Her claim that the child she brought with her was his had thrown his life into a big storm. A child? With Kimberly? What was he supposed to tell Ava? He knew the history between them all too well. They had been intimate a few times during their marriage, but he had always been cautious about not having children, considering how terrible the relationship had been. If the child were truly his, why had Kimberly kept it hidden from him for three whole years? The timing and the circumstances were too suspicious, especially when he knew that she was the type of woman that would do anything at all to get what she was even stooping as low as selling her glamour shots to big magazine just for some clout and a few thousand dollars.Ethan couldn't shake the feeling that Ki
Even though the plan didn’t totally go as planned, Kimberly marvelled in the chaos she had created. She knew that the media coverage would tarnish Ethan's reputation some more and if she was to be honest, the news had missed him.It seemed like little miss secretary was changing him or trying to rather but she had carefully crafted her narrative to portray him in a negative light. A man who was denying his own son just because he thinks that the child’s mother is lying. Her ultimate goal was to leverage the situation for financial gain, using the public's perception against him. And it really had to work because the truth was that her return had nothing to do with a genuine desire for a family reunion or a belief that Ethan was the father of her child. It was a calculated move born out of desperation. Broke and drowning in debt, Kimberly saw Ethan as her ticket to financial stability since she didn’t have any other choice. She intended to exploit their shared history and manipula
Ava could still not come to terms with what had happened with Christopher. Even though she had not known him for long, she still found herself being pissed at what he had to say about Ethans situation. The audacity that he had to have had to mention something like that to her was really beyond her. He didn’t even stop to think that she was going to mention it to Ethan and that she was going to do because there was no way in hell that she was going to sit back and watch him talk bad about Ethan. If he was doing it with her then how many other people was, he doing it with.She had still not spoken to Ethan for days as he was still not coming into the office yet so she decided to pay him a visit at his house. She knew that he had been holed up in there for a while because Caroline had mentioned it to her. So, after work when evening she decided to go unannounced after confirming from her aunt that he was actually at home. The kids were going to be staying with their aunt for a while.