Aria realized she was snuggled up against Frank in bed the next morning the moment she opened her eyes.
Frank on the other hand was still snoring away with his arm snaked around her waist and holding her in place.
She leaned in a bit closely and tracing every features on his face with the tip of her finger. His full eyebrow was perfect, falling against each other in a well defined line. She caressed the bridge of his nose leading to his chiseled cheekbone before pecking him on the side of his lips.
"I would have really preferred that kiss on my lips you know?" Frank had told her before poking each eye open, one at a time.
She jolted back a little at the sound of his voice.
"So you weren't sleeping?"
"I was actually waiting for you to kiss me out of my slumber" he replied with a smile.
"You will have to wait till I brush before you get that kiss"
He grabbed hold of her before she could hurry o
Frank drove in the speed of light back to his house and found the course of his predicament waiting just like he had been informed by his butler Larry.His anger was evident at this point as his sight fell on the estranged figure waiting by the side porch leading up to his house.Each step he took towards the unwanted guest took him a step backward, and down memory lane before he finally came to a halt before her.Sandra BasseyThe woman who has cost him so much pain and distress was staring right back at him with the same intensity as he had once remembered.A little smile graced the side of her lip the moment their eyes met for a split second.Those eyes!Those were the same eyes that have lured his senses over the past years and caused him untold pain and even at that, she still has the nerve to show herself at his door step with that same smile on her face.What a hypocrite she truly is..Frank never thought a
"It's about your son!"Those were the only word she needed to grab his attention as Frank whirl around to meet the sly smile on her face."What did you just say to me?"She took the liberty to take two steps closer in order to stand just a breath away from him. Satisfaction evident on her face."You heard me" She gave a careless shrug"..You have a son_our son to be precise but I bet you don't want to hear about him so I will just leave"She began to walk away with a knowing grin on her face. Now she was sure she finally has his full attention if not his whole senses. She was counting on his weakness to do the needful and it did indeed."Wait!" His voice shaking with rage as he called at her.Stopping a few inches away from him, she turned and raised a brow at Frank who took two long stride to stand in front of her.His anger evide
*Frank wished he didn't have to subject the little boy standing before him to needles and pricking but Sandra Bassey has left him with no other choice but to request for a paternity test just to prove that he was indeed his.Frank could see the question in his searching eyes as he stood beside his mother. His brown eyes that was almost hazel was looking at him with keen interest which only reminded him of himself when he was little and very much curious indeed but other than that, he can't seem to find any other resemblance of his on the little boy.Daniel was brown skin and fairly handsome with full lips. He was not more than five, yet he looked like he was older than his actual age.Frank didn't bother to look at his birth certificate that he was presented with. All he wanted was the paternity test results.He walked over to wh
**"Hello lovebirds"Both Aria and Frank had raised a questioning brow at her direction not sure if she was referring to them or not.Sandra reached forward and pulled out a chair for herself and settled down beside them on the table with a smile sprayed across her face.Aria knew she was the same lady they had met at the book launch and also the same one who also happened to be Frank's ex fiancée. What she couldn't understand was her reason for inviting herself over to their table and even worst, acting as though she was welcomed.Frank on the other hand looked more than just bothered by Sandra's presence at their table. He was visibly enraged even though he hasn't said a word to her. The little twitch and unconscious tapping of his left foot against the tiles floor was like a ticking bomb waiting for explosion.Aria had noticed the cynical look in her eyes t
"I guess you have confirmed the test result for yourself as well?" Sandra's eye narrowed with amusement as she sat across from a fuming Frank who arrived at her table not long ago."Just cut the crab and tell me why!_why now? Why did you keep him a secret until now"She gave a careless shrug and just leaned back against the chair."You can say it's because Daniel has grown up to realize that Samuel is not his real Dad or that I want to be a good mother to our son by telling him the truth. It hasn't been easy keeping him a secret all these years you know?""A good mother you say? How did you raise him for five years while another man was claiming to be his father? That sound like a terrible mother to me if not despicable" Frank spat angrily at her.His eyes were bloodshot as he stared into her calculative ones.All he could see was the lies that lay bare behin
It was around 40:30pm when Aria got home that evening after all the things she had to endure earlier that day. She was mentally exhausted as her mind haven't had a single rest with the thought of Frank and that woman.She couldnt even get much work done at the office as she barely struggled through most of the manuscript she was overseeing. Thank God it was Friday_she could easily go through the rest at home before monday and so she took them along with her when she closed for that day.With her brown leather bag in one hand and the file containing the manuscript in the other, she stood facing her door while struggling to insert the key through the keyhole which was proving to be difficult due to the amount of load in her arms.Still faced with the task of unlocking the front door, she accidentally dropped the key in the process as well."You have got to be kidding me right now" she groaned out in frustration."Let me get it for you"
* Aria woke up the next morning with a splitting headache as she lazily reached for her medicated glasses seating across from her right on the lamp stand before dragging herself to the bathroom to do her morning routine. She couldn't sleep throughout that night as she kept turning and tossing the length and breadth of the bed. Aria was practically restless even when she finally thought she had closed her eyes and shut off her mind and was sleeping_she woke up with a scream. She had nightmares of that woman snatching Frank away. Staring at her reflection in the vanity fair mirror that hung facing her on the wall, she pulled off her glasses and squeezed her eye lids closed for a moment. Opening it again; she could see how disoriented she was looking. Her hair was packed into a messy bun in the middle of her head. Her eyes were pretty red and swollen, thanks to all the crying from last night. Dark visible bags circl
Aria stood with wide eyes. Her mouth slightly agape as her eyes narrowed in on the unexpected scene before her.Her eyes darted from the little boy seating by the corner watching whatever he was interested in on TV while Frank stood not two inches away from the woman in red facing his butler Larry.Her eyes blink a few times as the ongoing scene registered in her mind and suddenly everyone went still like a song on a pause, every single head was turned at her direction.What was going on?Was she intruding on something?Doesn't seem like it but the presence of damn woman at his house so damn early in the morning was definitely not the kind of scene she was hoping to come home to.She took a step closer and stood before Frank. Her expression giving her thoughts away as she low key asked him what could be going on and why in the world was that woman in his house.Did she spend the night there?"Look who