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61 Lucky Me
The next day, I got up early to walk near the beach. My doctor advised me to have frequent walks so I can give birth easily. I'm so excited to see Athena. One month more and I will be able to hug her. The place is so calm and listening to the sound of the waves and the chirping birds make me love this place more. Marshville is more than 500 miles away from my city and I never imagined myself to be in such a place until my retirement.
After an hour of walking, I went back to the apartment and found Danny setting up the table for breakfast.
"Good morning madam. I bought some eggs and bacon from the store downstairs while you are out. You need to eat breakfast."
"Thank you, Danny and please, call me Joan. We need to go grocery shopping later. We have a lot of things to buy. Please don't hesitate to get what you want and need. I will pay everything. I put you in this mess, so I have to take care of you."
"I don't regret coming here with you. This place is so
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The Love I Have Hoped For 62 Baby Athena
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The Love I Have Hoped For 63 My New Family
I woke up the next day in an unfamiliar room. Sunlight from the window with light blue curtains indicates that it's around 8 o 9 in the morning. I feel so tired even I just woke up. I can feel pain all over my body. I touched my tummy just to check that I already gave birth. It's not a dream. But where is Athena?I tried to get up despite being in pain. I'm already wearing hospital gown and a tiny tube is still in my wrist. I pushed myself to get up, but I failed."Hello! Is anyone there?" I shouted as loudly as possible. This is one of the moments I feel fear creeping in my body. What if they are all working for Geoff and he has Athena now?"Hello!"I heard footsteps coming to where I am. After a few seconds, familiar faces came from the door."Joan! You're awake." Dorothy said. She is now carrying a baby in her arms. "We were outside. We were just showing Athena how beautiful our place is.""Can I see her?" I asked."Of course. She
The Love I Have Hoped For 64 Athena's Birthday
Two years later..Today is a special day. Two years ago from this day, I gave birth to an angel. For the past two years, I was able to forget the miserable situation I was in. I was able to start a new life, a life without fear and a life filled with motivation. Three months after I gave birth, Susan, the owner of the convenience store gave me a part time job. Danny also did some part time work in the clothing store. I and Danny were hesitant to accept the job offer at first since we were worried of who would be taking care of Athena, but many women from the village volunteered to take care of her. I had to pump breast milk for her every time I had to leave for work.Athena grew up around many of her grandmothers. She remembers each of their names, something that took me months before doing (I am really bad with people's names.) She started talking when she was 1 year and 8 months old and at the age of two, she can now make short sentences and use even difficult words for her age. I gu
The Love I Have Hoped For 65 The Guest in Room 201
The next day, I woke up early to go to work. My working time in the motel is earlier that Danny's schedule so I woke up earlier than her. I prepared toast and fried egg for breakfast. Athena came out from the room before I was done preparing breakfast."Good morning my princess." I kissed her cheek and hugged her as part of our morning routine."Good moning mommy. I'm hungly." That is also always the first thing she says when she wakes up, so I make sure to wake up early every day to prepare breakfast. She still cannot pronounce the sound of 'r' properly and I found her so amusing every time. I carried her and put her on her chair to eat breakfast."Should I wake Aunt Danny up? She is also hungly." She asked"We can wake her up later, sweety. Aunt Danny was tired yesterday because of your birthday. She will eat breakfast later." I gave her a cup of hot chocolate and put toast on her plate."Will you go to wok today? Will I stay with glanny Dolothy?
The Love I Have Hoped For 66 The Annoying Guest in Room 201 (2)
I went back to the reception area immediately. I know he wanted to have the linen changed and requested for two towels, but I need to calm myself down first before going back to that room."How arrogant! Does he thing he's the only guest this place has?! Am I a robot who can do all his requests in a flash?! Even a robot can't do that! If he is rich, why don't he just buy a place where he can stay and hire some helpers!" His attitude makes me furious and I had to let it out. I'm not the type of person who gets mad easily. I was able to endure being cheated on for a long time. I didn't even felt anger towards Lance before, but this guy is different. He's getting into my nerves!I tried to divert my attention to other things and decided to call Dorothy."Hello. Hi, Dorothy. Can I talk to Athena?""Hi Joan. She is playing with John outside. Wait, I will call her. Athena, your mom is on the phone!" I could hear her shouting away from the phone. "She's coming.
The Love I Have Hoped For 67 Sarah Got Sick
The next day is a normal day for me. I got up early as usual to prepare breakfast, give bath to Athena and send her to Dorothy's place before going to work. I was a bit nervous to be at work today because of the guest in room 201 but I don't have a choice but to go to work and face him. I just hope he isn't as grumpy today as yesterday.I arrived in the motel without Sarah in the reception desk which is uncommon. She normally stays here and reminds me of the things that need to be done during the day. She normally comes to the motel very early in the morning whenever we have a guest and when we don’t have one, she just gives me a call if something needs to be done. Marshville is very safe and residents can leave their houses, even their businesses open the whole night without having the fear of burglary.I wonder where she went.I looked for her in the kitchen then to the linen room, but she isn't there. Did she go home last night?I started checkin
The Love I Have Hoped For 68 The Exposure
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The Love I Have Hoped For 69 The Proposal
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