“You know what is worse than fear?” He asked me, his eyes pinned on mine while I looked down at him in the wheelchair he sat in rather comfortably. I shook my head and he breathed out. “Me.” “I will help you ruin everyone who brought tears to your eyes. I will bring them to your feet. I will make them cry, and plead for your forgiveness.” “A… and… what do I do in return?” I sniffed back the tears that laced in my eyes. “Marry me.” === Just when I thought life could not get worse after my husband divorced me after I miscarried our child, a sniper was sent to unalive me and while I ran for my dear life that midnight, a car bumped into me. Leaving a marriage and getting into another one almost immediately was one I had never hoped for, not especially when I thought I would be free again. But still, I accepted his proposal. And I married this crippled billionaire, but on our wedding night, he stood up.
View MoreShane raised his brows as the door to his room pushed open and Arthur barged in.Sitting on the couch, he leaned in, crossed his legs, and then tilted his head.“Ah, you have finally come to see me.”“Why? Have you been expecting me?” Arthur walked fully into the room.“I know you, Arthur. I know when you know something. Or, when you have something to say.”“Oh…” Arthur nodded his head and then folded his arms tightly across his chest.“Spill.”“Why don’t you start?”“Why should I? You came in here because you have something to say to me, is that not it?”“Regardless, I would like you to speak first,” Arthur shook his head.“Welcome to the staring competition, then.”“Tch, you asshole,” Arthur smacked his tongue.“What?”He covered the space between them and without saying another word, he pulled Shane up with his collar and then shoved him to the side.“Why?!”“Do you know what kind of pickle you put in?” He pointed his index finger at him.“Me? Pickle? Speak straight, brother,” he f
“Oh, am I seeing correctly?!”Shane hollered the moment Mia stepped into the living room and they all turned to look in her direction.“Hi, fam!” She waved her hands at them and then walked fully into the room.“Thought you have decided to live there forever,” Agnes grunted.“I could, you know. But, you are my family regardless.”“No one actually cares where you decide to live. You do not even need to tell which side you are on. We know already,” Arthur hissed.Mia rolled her eyes and turned to walk away before she stopped abruptly and then turned to look at her mother.“You amaze me, mother. You really do.”“What is she saying?” Agnes snapped her brows together.“She was in the hospital for a week, but… you never showed your face… neither did you call.”“So?”“I really have no problem with them…” she glanced at her brothers.“I have no problem with them not visiting. I really do not expect anything from them, but, you?”“Don’t rile me up, Mia. Just get on your way.”“No! Your suppose
“What?” Leilani widened her eyes and crossed her arms across her chest.“I am going to help you in the bathroom.”“You even repeated it!” She exclaimed and he laughed.“And?”“Since when have I ever needed anyone to help me in the bathroom?”“You have a wound on your back, Lani. We were advised not to get it wet till it’s time to come for cleaning.”“I can manage.”“You can’t.”“Then… help me get Martha. I am sure she will be more than glad to help me in the bathroom.”“Will it not be somehow if she comes to do that when you have me right here with me?”“Will you get her or would you prefer that I bury myself in the bathtub there?”He breathed out and rolled his eyes, “You’re so stubborn.”“What do you say?”“I’ll get Martha now.”“Good.”He rolled his eyes and then walked out of the room.————“I am sorry for being a bother,” Leilani whispered as the woman stepped in the bathroom with her.“Oh, silly!” Martha chuckled.“I feel so bad.”“I am more than happy to do this for you. How do
As the two men entered the library, Lorenzo shook his head as Mia didn’t stop walking after them and then sighed.“Listen, I understand that you wanna be of help, but now is not the time. I have been working on this for a while and I’ve never needed your help, so please…”“Ouch…”“Leave us be.”“No, no, you cannot force me away, I will not go,” she shook her head, entered fully, and then settled on the couch.“Mia.”“I will not go. I am in this with you. They probably know that I have chosen your side already and what is my gain if I lose both sides?”“What do you want? Money?”“Don’t offend me further, brother.”“You are the one driving me crazy, Mia.”Still, she did not answer, she crossed her legs, and then folded her arms tightly across her chest.“Just leave her be,” Nicholas shook his head.“No, I can’t. That is Mia, remember? A chatterbox! Who knows what she is actually planning?”“Hello, I am still here, sitting,” she raised her hands and waved her hands at them.“I didn’t whi
Arriving the living room with Mia, Martha and Nicholas, Lorenzo stood up from his chair, and then moved over to Leilani who leaned on Martha.“What are you…” she widened her eyes and then glanced at Mia.“What? What is that that look for?” Mia rolled her eyes.“Lorenzo, you…”“She knows,” he nodded his head and took her gently from Martha.“Mia knows?!” Nicholas and Martha hollered and then exchanged glances.“Why do you all find it so surprising?” She smacked and then moved closer to the couple.“Because… because it is you, Mia! Fuck, what have you done, Enzo?” Nicholas broadened his eyes“She has known about it for seven months, trust me. I felt so much like a fool when I found out,” he shook his head.“Oh, you do not need to be embarrassed, brother,” she patted his shoulder and then took Leilani’s hand in hers.“How did she find out?” Nicho moved over to Lorenzo too.“She's sly, trust me. You don't even wanna hear it.”“Tell me.”When Lorenzo hesitated, Mia breathed out, staring at
“Goodness, Leila!”Anna palmed her mouth and burst into tears the moment she looked through the glass and saw Leilani.“Oh, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know it was so serious!” She cried.Martha watched as the lady continued to cry and after a while, she moved over to her and then patted her shoulder.“She has gotten much better, so, take it easy, okay?”“When can I see her?”“She just fell asleep, so, maybe when she is awake although we don’t know when because she has been sleeping so much.”“I can wait with you guys, right?”Martha shrugged her shoulders off and then moved away from the lady.Anna kept staring at Leilani from where she stood and then muttered incoherently.After a few moments, her phone rang and she removed it from her pocket almost immediately.It was Caleb again.Caleb had not stopped calling her since the day he announced to her of the woman’s condition.He kept calling her every hour to ask if she had gotten a hang of Leilani yet.She moved away from where she stood
“I should be there with her. You know that,” Lorenzo hissed for the umpteenth time, looking out of the window.“God, you’re so stubborn,” Mia hissed.“What?”“She is awake already. You saw that, didn’t you? It’s been three days and I haven’t seen you take a wink of sleep at all.”“I am okay.”“You just need to freshen up, okay? You will return to her afterward.”“Understood, but why are you following me too? Should you not be with her?”Mia swallowed and shook her head again.They left Leilani sleeping and besides, she wanted to see something else.She wanted to see her brother, Lorenzo, walk in front of her.“Nothing,” she rolled her eyes and then looked away.___The remaining journey home was so silent as the siblings didn’t utter any other words to each other and as they arrived at the gate, Lorenzo gasped at the lady that jumped in front of the car.“Who is that?!” Mia snapped.“That lady…” Lorenzo drew his brows together.“Do you know her?”He tilted his head as he tried to reme
“How is she now?” Lorenzo asked after Nicholas stepped out.The man has been in the ward with some other doctors with Leilani and then he breathed out.“She is quite unstable, I must confess. And with our evaluation, other than her physical trauma, she might develop some psychological trauma such as anxiety, PTSD, and emotional distress.”“B… but, she is still undergoing treatment for something like that. Remember?” his voice broke.“I know,” Nicholas nodded his head.“She will be fine, Enzo.”“You know that you have to tell me the truth, right? You must not hide anything from me… not regarding her.”“She is going to be alright, I assure you. We just need to help her manage her emotions better when she is conscious. She has returned to sleep and will be awake soon, okay?”He nodded his head and then sniffed.Perhaps the news regarding Peter had made him more scared and unstable.He had thought that if Peter could lose his life because of the same accident Leilani was in, then his wife
“Don! Killian!”Caleb hollered as he entered the house, and then looked around.“Don!” He hollered again.“Do—”“For fuck sake, Caleb!”Don hissed as he descended the stairs, and then Killian walked out of one of the empty rooms downstairs.“What are you doing here again?”Killian asked as he covered the space between them.A stick of weed, Canadian loud hung loosely in between his lips and he breathed out.“What do you want?” Don asked also as he got to where he stood.“I told you…!” He started shouting but soon lowered his voice.“I told you not to touch her!”“What are you…” Don shook his head, confused.“That woman. Leilani. I told you to leave her out of this!”“So?” Killian raised a brow.“So? Really? I remember telling you not to…”“Exactly, so what?!”“You set her workspace on fire!” He cried out.Don and Killian exchanged looks, shook their heads, and then walked away.“I am still talking.”Killian inhaled the smoke deeply before he exhaled and then turned to look at his brot
“I am sorry to inform you that we lost the baby.”......Silence ensued as Leilani tilted her head and stared at the doctor for a few minutes before he moved closer to her and shook her gently.“Are you okay, ma’am?”“I… I didn’t get you,” she shook her head.Did he intend to pass that news to someone else?“We are sorry. We tried our…”“Hold on. What baby?” She cut him short, her brows pulling together.“What?”“You said I lost my baby. I don’t understand you,” she let out a dry chuckle.“You… you didn’t know that you were pregnant?”Leilani stiffened and widened her eyes. Pregnant?She had never been pregnant for once since her four years in marriage, so how could she have miscarried a baby she didn’t even have?“You are mistaken,” she shook her head.“I'm sorry, ma’am.”“No! There is no way I was… pregnant!” She cried out.“You are wrong with the test result. Run it again.”Her eyes darted as she shook her head at the piece of information that she had just received.There was no...
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