Nina's POV
My eyes became glassy with tears but I chose not to cry. Crying was for the weak girls who didn't understand the term strong. Yes, he cheated but that didn't mean it was the end of the world. In the first place, why was I with him? It can't be the s-x...Trust me it was bland and boring. Oooh yeah! He helped me so much when I began my part job while still in University and this is a major boost to my career and that made me feel indebted and blindly in love with him.
To make things worst, my Red coloured not so big Sedan car broke down just two blocks away from his house. Pride won't let me go back and ask for him and it's night already. Of all places my car broke down in this silent neighbourhood, everyone is always in his house minding his business, most cans here are ordered. I scratch my hair in annoyance, my phone was still at Lucy's.
I walked down the Lucero Estate street having all sorts of crazy ideas in my mind Was I the only one in love? For how long have they been dating??? I hope they both get struck by lightning, I hope he grows fat. l hope his d-ck falls on. One moment I was walking listening to heartbreak songs and the next I was lying in a puddle of mud.
"Oooh, sh-t..." I swallowed my other words after seeing the perfect being take off his helmet and shook his tousled dark hair which was thick and lustrous to its perfect messy shape. He had an almost symmetrical face, smooth, spade-shaped beard, natural warm undertone skin and to add it up those midnight hazel eyes
Like have I have never met a handsome guy with hazel eyes before? Drolling, the night could not hide his beauty.
"Hey," I sent him a weak smile.
"Would you care to stand up? I want to know if you are hurt..." He rudely replied with rather sweet voice instead of the baritone voice I was already imagining in my head.
"You should help me up. You are the one who threw me here..."
"Young girl, that's what you get for being absent-minded on the road...So are you hurt?"
"Why do you care?" I managed to stand on my feet.
"Because you middle-class people love to be dramatic. One moment you are okay and the other you are busy looking for me claiming I broke your bones..."
In a spur, I hated that handsome man. He was a product of the devil and the angel In a spur, I hated that handsome man He was a product of the devil and the angel of death herself. Such arrogance.
"Don't worry, this one doesn't bother arrogant men..." I tried wiping the mud off my stylish little black dress with nude pantyhose and black booties but all in vain...
"Okay", He wore his helmet and got back on his bike but I wasn't ready to let him go that easily after calling me middle class and a girl!.
I began collecting the mud and hitting him...
"How am I supposed to get home all muddy, How will I walk down the streets looking like the ghost of an old wicked queen?"
"You are crazy, stop! Are you being serious?"He cried out walking towards me He took his helmet off again
"Do you know who l am?"
"Do you know the hell of a day I have had?"
"How dare you hit me with that disgusting mud"
"How dare he cheat on me?"
"What are you even talking about?"
"Why did you throw me in that puddle of mud? Did Frank send you to rub it in?
"You are really crazy. Are you sure you don't have a borderline disorder?" He began shaking me while my eyes were focused on those perfect lips which were ripe for kissing.
"Do crazy people do this?" I smiled wickedly, smearing the mud on my hand on his lips
"F-ck sh-t! What wrong with you??" He staggered back and I ran. He would have followed me if he wanted to.
I walked for a while hoping to soon get a cab that dropped me off or a nice looking Samaritan to ask for a ride or phone that was willing to carry a girl who looked like she just resurrected from horror.
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"Hey, what happened to you?" Lucy asked when I got inside the house.
"A handsome man happened..."
"Give us the juicy details. Did you get his number? Did you get his name?" The lovebirds began jumping up and down in excitement.
"He ate mud," I replied dryly and went to the guest room which is also my room when I come over.
"Are you okay?" Lucy asked throwing me my night cream when I got out of the shower
"Is it that obvious?"
"We saw it.." Williams showed me an Instagram post of Frank and his girlfriend where he claimed he was going to soon be a father.
"Okay," I said coldly and sank into bed
"You know we are here for you if you needd anything..." She assured hugging me
"Thank you and please switch off the lights on your way out." When I was sure Jane had gone, I sat upright and begun sulking about Frank. He never posted me on social media, was I a sidechick?My eyes were filled with tears the more I manage to fight them.
He wasn't worth my tears and I wasn't gonna cry. Yes my heart was shattered, my chest was heavy with sob but I wasn't gonna become a weakling. I was about to cover myself and sleep when my phone pinged with message after messages.
Albert:Hey Nina, I have some good news
Albert:Call me As soon as possible, it's urgent.
Albert:Are you asleep?
Albert:Girl this news is hot.
Albert was kinda of my manager. I didn''t pay him yet but he always found jobs for me while he insist I should not bother , he is doing this to build his portfolio before he starts a Marketing Agency.
"Hello,what' s the news " I asked with an unenthusiastic voice the moment he received the call.
"Guess what?" He screamed excitedly.
"Come out with it, I have had a rough day..."
"Carlos Valdemar wants you to be his designer for his next album which is to be launched in two months."
"Carlos Valdemar ,the same famous singer his royal highness or another Carlos?"
"The only one you know Boo, he saw you work and ordered that I find you Girl, I am happy for you."
"So when do I start?"
"Tomorrow you will go for and interview and if you pass, you will sign a contract .I am sending you the address asap please don't be late..."
"Okay.."
Distinguished Ladies and gentlemen that's what we call favour and luck... I have worked with a lot of celebrities before but Carlos Valdemar was on another level, he was the fucking Duke of Moroccan He was like a god and me working with him was a lifetime achievement... He had a twin brother who ventured more on artistry and an arrogant big brother who didn't care much about
Watch out Moroccan I am about to paint this town blue! I made a happy dance hopping off my bed all thoughts of Frank replaced with a desire to make this work and hopefully prove to my father regardless I can still work with the Royal Family and just maybe get re-owned! I laughed at my crazy thought already planning tomorrow's first impression outfits.
Chapter Eight SixNina's POV13 years later.I tried to get out of bed when Prince Stefan held my hand."Where are you going so early in the morning?" He pulled me back to bed and wrapped his arm around my waist."You know I have missed being so closed to you.We are both busy with work and I barely even hold you like this anymore." He rested his head on my back.Prince Stefan should understand that for the past thirteen years, things have changed.We have a teenage boy and an eight year old who thinks is a princess."Prince Stefan, it's Saturday and Ethan will soon wake up very hungry." I dropped his hand from my waist and quickly got out of bed but he jumped out of bed and stood Infront of me."Ethan can wait.All I want is to hold my wife for some few minutes.I miss kissing these lips, I don't know even how they taste anymore." He begun c*ressing my lips.""Prince Stefan please not now." I stammered but he didn't listen.He held me
Chapter Eighty FiveNina's POVFinally the D-day was here.I was excited that Stefan gets to finally perform the rites required but I was also anxious.He is unfamiliar with our traditions, what if he messes up? Dear God,help that stubborn man to do things right.I was so lost in thoughts when I heard Ethan cry.I rushed out of my room like a mad woman and found his lip bleeding.My poor baby.He was rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands wearing a sad face.Only heavens can explain the pain a mother feels when she sees her baby in pain.The moment he saw me, he ran to me."Mama?" He wrapped his hands around my legs."What's wrong baby?" I picked him up."Mama me fall." He cried out.I looked around and saw Britney agitated."What happened to him?" I raged out at her."Am sorry .I went to go for a glass of water when he fell." She stammered..I looked around and saw Britney agitated."If you can't look after Ethan, don't play with
Chapter Eighty FiveNina's POVFinally the D-day was here.I was excited that Stefan gets to finally perform the rites required but I was also anxious.He is unfamiliar with our traditions, what if he messes up? Dear God,help that stubborn man to do things right.I was so lost in thoughts when I heard Ethan cry.I rushed out of my room like a mad woman and found his lip bleeding.My poor baby.He was rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands wearing a sad face.Only heavens can explain the pain a mother feels when she sees her baby in pain.The moment he saw me, he ran to me."Mama?" He wrapped his hands around my legs."What's wrong baby?" I picked him up."Mama me fall." He cried out.I looked around and saw Britney agitated."What happened to him?" I raged out at her."Am sorry .I went to go for a glass of water when he fell." She stammered..I looked around and saw Britney agitated."If you can't look after Ethan, don't play with
Chapter Eighty FiveNina's POVFinally the D-day was here.I was excited that Stefan gets to finally perform the rites required but I was also anxious.He is unfamiliar with our traditions, what if he messes up? Dear God,help that stubborn man to do things right.I was so lost in thoughts when I heard Ethan cry.I rushed out of my room like a mad woman and found his lip bleeding.My poor baby.He was rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands wearing a sad face.Only heavens can explain the pain a mother feels when she sees her baby in pain.The moment he saw me, he ran to me."Mama?" He wrapped his hands around my legs."What's wrong baby?" I picked him up."Mama me fall." He cried out.I looked around and saw Britney agitated."What happened to him?" I raged out at her."Am sorry .I went to go for a glass of water when he fell." She stammered..I looked around and saw Britney agitated."If you can't look after Ethan, don't play with
Chapter Eighty FiveNina's POVFinally the D-day was here.I was excited that Stefan gets to finally perform the rites required but I was also anxious.He is unfamiliar with our traditions, what if he messes up? Dear God,help that stubborn man to do things right.I was so lost in thoughts when I heard Ethan cry.I rushed out of my room like a mad woman and found his lip bleeding.My poor baby.He was rubbing his eyes with the back of his hands wearing a sad face.Only heavens can explain the pain a mother feels when she sees her baby in pain.The moment he saw me, he ran to me."Mama?" He wrapped his hands around my legs."What's wrong baby?" I picked him up."Mama me fall." He cried out.I looked around and saw Britney agitated."What happened to him?" I raged out at her."Am sorry .I went to go for a glass of water when he fell." She stammered..I looked around and saw Britney agitated."If you can't look after Ethan, don't play with
Chapter Eighty FourStefan's POVI pressed my hands against the incubator glass trembling.The pain had unpleasant warmth to it.The wait of holding my son in my arms was giving me a burning pain .Tears spilled down my face as I looked at him.It was a profound deep love never to be replaced.This is the greatest love one could ever feel.He had a chest lead on his chest, a pulse oximetry on his finger, an IV on his hand and an oxygen hood placed over his head.Not for a moment did he cry, it seems he was strong as his mother."Son, I can't wait to hold you in my arms.Your mother loves you so much too.Be strong for us my baby.We love you."Nina's POVOne week laterEthan you are my sun, moon and all of my stars.Holding a baby in your arms is one of life's greatest pleasure.I wanted to drink that moment.The moment with my son, Ethan Valedram.His looks were so perfect and his smile divine.I can't believe I carried him in my arms
Chapter Eighty ThreeStefan's POVI could barely feel my fingers from the massage I was from giving Nina.It had become a habit of mine to massage and bathe her since she could barely even reach her knees. It was the much I could do for her.Her belly was growing bigger and bigger by the day.She was now seven months pregnant which was by God's grace.She has been on and off hospitals and nothing seems to change . She is more pale, more weaker but full of enthusiasm to meet her beloved son and hold him in his arms.The persisting headaches, the unbearable abdominal pains, the nausea and vomiting were nothing when it came to this fearless mother to be.Never look down on mother's my friends.But if it was possible for a man to carry a child inside him then I would have been more than willing to and take the pain from herAfter fearing God, fear mothers.They can be very dangerous and persisting when it comes to their children.
Chapter Eighty TwoNina's POVI think I was too harsh on Stefan.He was just concerned about me but I am a selfish mother.Nothing or no one will make me get rid of this baby.We have a bond and since the day he begun growing inside me we became one.I should go and talk with him softly and sweetly.I will assure him that I am okay and we can do this.Yes it becomes unbearable at times but that's the fruit of our love and we aren't giving up on it. I was about to get out of bed when I heard footsteps towards the door.That must be Stefan,even thou I wasn't angry at him anymore I won't show it .Let him suffer for a while.I pulled the bedsheet over my head and pretended to be fast asleep when I felt a soft pat on my shoulder."Go away Stefan.I said I don't want to see you. "I cussed out. There was no reply."Stefan I know you are there.Just leave or I push you out.""Excuse me madam,sir Stefan sent me to bring you some toast and baby shake."
Chapter Eighty OneNina's POVI walked into the kitchen to make some baby shake and found Carlos making his favourite chocolate milkshake."So how is the baby elephant doing?" He joked and I slapped the upside of his head."Do I look fat to you?""You said it not me." He raised his hands dramatically."Fool!!!!""I love the glow in your face.You look happy and it makes me happy.I told you he loves you."I couldn't help but blush.Was it that obvious that I was happily in love?"And thank you for being there for me.Who would have thought we would have fallen in love with different people?" I shook my head reaching out for the blender when I felt his hand on mine."Missy, I will make you the baby shark.Just sit on top of the counter and tell me anything." He wiggled his eyebrows and I shrugged. He lifted me on the counter and begun making the baby shake."So how are you right now? Do you still have those killer headache