|VALERI’S POV|The last few hours have been a roller coaster of stress, with Grey Remington showing up at the Clinton baking company to pick me up for shopping.I was completely taken aback by the fact that he knew where to find me, uncomfortable with his pretentious act of acting like the perfect husband to me, and suffocated with being choked by his attention because I didn’t ask for any of it, but he won’t let me be, and I just had to deal with it because there was no valid excuse I could tender as a valid escape reason.I knew that the whole motive behind the shopping and unnecessary attention was to give the impression that he loved and appreciated me which worked quite well in my past life, but I found it extremely disgusting in this life.I tried to shoo him away from me but he claimed he wanted to keep me company while I packed, so I had no choice but to tolerate him.I eventually got the perfect escape to pretend to be asleep after Grey stepped out of my room to attend a Zoom
|VALERI’S POV|With the help of the PNEUMIA app, I am able to access the important reservations that Grey booked in advance for us via the link he sent, and on checking into the chic hotel in the heart of the city, my heart starts pounding with the thrill of what is to come ahead of me.“Wow, this place is amazing!”“Can’t wait to unpack and call Vee,” I mutter as I drop my things and I start to fish out for my phone in my bag.“Hey, mama…” I speak up as soon as the call connects, but Vee’s end of the call is quiet.“Before you eat my ears out, you need to know that I called you as soon as I got into my room,” I explain almost immediately, only for the phone to start vibrating on my ear.“Hey babes,” Vee says, waiving me as soon as I pick up the video call.“If you are all dressed to go out, we can always talk later,” I suggest.“It’s not a big deal,” she waves.“More so, my date won’t be here until the next ten minutes, so we have enough time to catch up,” she says.“I have only been
|GREY’S POV|My day started with a series of impromptu meetings and I just had to be on the ground even though Kyle offered to attend the meetings because I have a problem of making sure that I get things done by myself, and towards the end of the meeting, Kyle had to book Valeri and me another flight because we missed our flight already.The flight was quite interesting at first because it was quite interesting to watch Valeri make a fool of herself but she eventually slept and I just ended up going through the magazines that were provided on the plane.When I got bored, I slept for a while and woke up a few minutes before the plane landed, so I woke Valeri up so that we could finish the offboarding formalities.Immediately after we finished our offboarding formalities, I turned on my phone to talk to Kylee who confirmed the dinner reservation that he scheduled in advance with the CEO of Tobias International Holdings, so I dropped Valeri off at the hotel and came all the way here so
/Valeri’s POV/ My heart pounds in the rib cage of my chest as I begin to pace back and forth, stomping my feet impatiently at each end of the room as I stare at the sealed envelope of my baby’s gender in my hand.“This won’t work……” I mutter as I take out my phone to call my best friend Vivian who is like an extra brain that God has blessed me with to help me come up with solutions when my brain fails me.“Hey Vivian,” I say as soon as the call connects.“Hold up…….” Vivian stays, stopping me abruptly. “Did something happen?” She inquires and I contemplate whether to tell her or not because in as much as she helps me think when I am stuck but she also has the bad habit of blowing things out of proportion. “You know what….switch this FaceTime call to a video call so that I can see you because your suspense is killing me,” she says impatiently. “Actually….nothing is happening,” I lie only for my phone to start beeping for me to accept the video call request from Vivian. “So what is
/Valeri’s POV/ I further open the door to get a clearer picture of what is going on in the room and I realize that the person Grey is having such a heated conversation with is Madison, his friend who has been staying with us for a while now. “I told you already that I have my plans so why the fuck are you meddling and putting me through unnecessary stress?” My husband raises his voice at her, his gaze so sharp that sends shivers down my spine. “What other plans do you have Grey?” She questions poking him in his chest. “You wanted to crumple the Donalds to give them a beautiful taste of what it feels like to be betrayed by someone they trusted more than anything in the world and you did that, you took over Donald’s hard work and crumpled it like it a used piece of paper in a matter of months and you did that, ” she starts to narrate and I hold on to the door like my life depends on this because if my family is the same ‘Donald’ that she just talked about then it is over for me. “Wh
|Valeri’s POV| I jolt awake to someone splashing water on me and it takes me a while to recover from the sudden shock that came with being baptized with water in bed, that too in a really strange room. “Thank goodness you a finally awake, otherwise I wouldn’t have known what else to do,” my bestie, Vivian remarks.“You had me thinking of how I was going to break it to your parents that you slept and refused to wake up on your big day,” Vivian shudders. “What exactly are you talking about?” I inquire from her because just a few moments ago, I saw myself getting killed and more than that being a dream it felt so real to me. “I was expecting you to wake up early so that we can start with preparations for your big day, but when I got to the room you were sweating profusely like you were behind chased in your dream, you even cried,” she informs me and I quickly touch my face feeling the tears on my face. “Did you just say big day?” I ask Vivian and she nods. “Which big day is it?” I a
/Valeri’s POV/ “Okay...” Vee finally speaks up. “I am extremely lost without any idea of what is going on here, so can you please make all these make sense without being so weird?” My best friend asks in a voice that tells me that she is at the edge of losing her sanity. “It is a long story,” I dismiss. “And I have nothing but time to listen to your story however long it may be so can you start?” Vee answers. “The thing is that I think I kinda went back in time to what my life was a year ago,” I inform Vee and she strangely looks at me before she bursts out laughing. “You are pulling my legs, right?” Vee chuckles but I shake my head. “Just so you know, your strategy at making that joke didn’t sound as nice as it must have sounded in your head when you came up with it, so try harder next time,” Vee says patting my back. “This is not any form of joke, it is real,” I say trying to dismiss Vee's remark but it doesn’t look like she is not going to understand my plight. “You know wh
/ Valeri’s POV/ “So…. What’s next?” Vivian breaks the silence after pressing her phone for a while. “What do you mean by what next??” I ask her trying my best to sound curious. “I meant to ask what you have in mind,” she asks, setting her phone aside and looking at me dead in the eyes. “Nothing,” I answer her flatly. “Nothing?” She says with her eyes widening in shock. “Are you kidding me?” She practically screams at the top of her voice making me shudder at the fear of going deaf because of the pitch of her voice. “Of course, not,” I answer her immediately, with my eyes darting back and forth, wondering why she is overreacting all of a sudden. “What happened to the declaration that you won’t be marrying Grey Remington?” She questions. “I still stand on my decision not to marry him, and nothing is going to change that,” I stand my ground. “Then I am guessing you have a plan so……let’s have it,” Vivian says crossing her leg, waiting for me to fill her in with what I have gott