“This is your baby.” My OB-GYN, Layla, who was performing my ultrasonography, pointed to a white stone that was inside my belly. “You are ten days pregnant, and till now it’s going well.” She smiled at me and turned to the monitor again. “The baby looks at you, so do you. I don’t see anything to worry about.”
A drop of tear slipped from the corner of my eyes seeing the little thing on the monitor, there was a human body inside me growing every day, living with me, moving, and one day he/she would come to this world.
This was my baby, my child. I was the mother.
Suddenly, I had the desire to do better in life, to live a good life, to make a good life for my child. I wanted to prepare a blissful life for my child, which I didn’t have. A wonderland, a cheerful place with love and laugh, everything I didn’t get my child would own every single one of them. With the security, love of bo
Nathan didn’t come home last night after he left without saying a word to me. When I was in the shower, getting ready for bed, Nathan was right in the room, but when I came back from the bathroom, he wasn’t in the bedroom or anywhere in the house. He didn’t reply when I texted him or received the calls. Later in the night, he messaged me saying he was in his parents’ house as some urgent work was coming.I assumed he would be here in the morning, but I woke up late and the note on the kitchen counter informed me he was here when I was enjoying my beauty sleep.The day was long and tiring and lonely. I was so used to my job that now staying home all day felt annoying to me. The morning sickness that I was experiencing because of the pregnancy was worse. This morning I was in the bathroom for half an hour, gagging near the washbasin. It felt like seasickness. The headache that came after I was done with my vomiting was somet
“She is dead.” Matero entered the study room of my parents’ house and announced the news.“Great, perfect,” I shouted.“Shit.” Luke kicked the chair where he was sitting a few seconds ago. Mom silently fell back on the settee and closed her eyes, and the man whose new house prison was waiting for him was nowhere to be found.“Where is he?” I asked with composure as much as I could provide this moment.“I don’t know.” Mom replied without opening her eyes.“Someone call him and tell him to come home, please.”Luke was already on the phone seeing his expression and cutting the calls and calling, again and again, which proved our great father wasn’t picking up the calls.The clock kept ticking, time flew away faster than yesterday. A moment the sun was in the sky shimmering the earth radiantly, the next moment the darkness cons
This was my second time in the Hall mansion. The atmosphere was similar to the first time I was here, but yet there was a difference. The tension in the air was evident. There was something else that I couldn’t point out until I met Amanda.When I came to the house, Nathan and Luke were in the study room with the force lawyers. They were inside for three hours, and they locked the gate from the inside the whole time. Mrs. Harrison, the housekeeper of the house, was in the kitchen, preparing dinner for everyone, even she was anxious about the current situation.It was a rough patch for the Hall family, of course, sort of make or break situation. I didn’t see Amanda. Mrs. Harrison told me she was in her room and refused to come out or eat anything. After I made sure Luka and Nathan had their dinner, I filled the tray with plates of food and made my way towards the second floor of the house to the master suite. Amanda and Richard’s
“Nathan, oh God.” Lyra moaned, and my lips sucked her clits roughly.We were at my parents’ house for our traditional Sunday night dinner. Oops, my mistake, it was my parents’ house when they were married. After the divorce, it was my mother’s house. This house belonged to my grandfather. According to his will, if ever my parents got divorced, my mother would be the owner of the house. As expected from a great grandfather.He was such an amazing person, compassionate, polite, down to earth. Sometimes it amazed me how my father was his son. There was zero similarity between them in personality, even in their thinking there was a gap as huge as the sky and the land. That was the reason for most of the fights when my grandfather was alive.My father was the only son; he was born after several miscarriages, and it understandably thrilled my grandparents to have a kid of their own. They lavished their kid with money with
It was Thursday morning. In the restaurant, we all began our work, the kitchen was busy preparing breakfast, the hall room was being swept, and Mrs. Margaret was busy running between the kitchen and the hall. She was on her toes for some unknown reason, without anything she was getting angry at other people even when everyone was doing outstandingly well.She instructed everyone on their duty, although all of us know our work perfectly well. Penny was out of the country with her family for a small vacation. If she were here, I might have asked her what processed her perfect manager. But since she wasn’t here, I had to cope with the mystery, which I didn’t like at all.As usual, I was in the corner of the room preparing lemonade and fresh orange juice for our breakfast buffet. This was the only thing our chef let me do, and I was very grateful to him. This changed when I yelled at Penny about Nathan in front of the entire staff the oth
“You are kidding me?” Penny shouted from the other side of the phone. “This can’t be true. Veronica didn’t do that.”“Well, my dear friend, it is the truth!” I exclaimed.“So Veronica threw herself on your fiancée. And you did nothing?” she dramatically sighed. “You should have at least slapped her. She deserved one.”Penny was someone I could trust with my secrets with my close eyes. She had been with me from high school, and we had a long history before becoming friends.Our relationship started as enemies. She was my bully with her girl group, and I was her victim. For the first time, she attacked me in the cafeteria; I didn’t really understand her motive. We both were two different people of two different worlds. How I did something wrong with her or how my behavior provoked her to do something with me was out of my indulgence.Later, in
Sometimes later, we three were standing in the living room of my house, in the McCoy mansion. I didn’t summon up a single thing that happened between the restaurant and our way here. I recalled the happiness that I saw in Nathan’s eyes, tears that fell from Amanda’s eyes, which were the witness to her pure joy. I remember hugs, warm words in my ears, blessings, laughter, excitement, but I had no idea what came out from whom.How did they express their exhilaration at this news? How? And why?I was in a daze after coming out of the bathroom. I wanted to tell the truth. I swore I wanted to clear this fucking misunderstanding so badly, but before I could open my mouth, the joy spread like a virus from Amanda to all over the restaurant. Not only Nathan and Amanda, but all the people who were present in that small place were clapping, taking pictures, and congratulating us.The power of social media, which was faster than news
My new secretary, Jessica, was the prime example of clumsiness. We had hired her to work for me exactly three days ago, and she already made the mess, not only in my office but in the entire Hall corporation.The first day she was here to do her job, she was nervous. Understood, this was her first job after graduating from college, so I got to work on her nerves, but I failed to comprehend how this woman’s brain worked.Day-1.She didn’t need to do much, as I would be out of the office for most of the meetings with Japanese clients. She was supposed to be with me, but seeing her jumpy situation, I decided it would be great if she stayed in the office and organized a few files according to date on the computer.My previous secretary, Anna, arranged everything perfectly, that made it easy for me to work. But Jessica deleted everything that was in my system.My IT department somehow recovered everything, and Jessica