Hadley looked at Maurice keenly and she almost laughed out loud but seeing the man's weary eyes were not holding signs of jokes she decided to spell it out. "What? You really meant it?" Hadley asked and Maurice nodded his head. "Yes, I want to have kids with you," he says and Hadley looks at him rather weirdly. "But why now? Why all of a sudden?" Hadley asked, and she watched as the man got drowsy as his eyes were closing back gently on their own and she knew the effect of the anesthesia must not have worn out."It's just that when…I felt my life slipping away from me…I think.." Maurice was saying but he fell asleep without finishing up his words and Hadley panicked thinking it was something else.She rushed to call a doctor and Maurice was attended to and his family also came to the hospital after hearing that he had woke up.After the doctors attended to him they made sure to keep him sedated so he could get enough rest.After some time Maurice woke up and his eyes searched for Ha

The time stopped as Hadley watched Nicholas let go of Maurice's grip on him and she felt her world stop as she closed her eyes hoping that she was hallucinating.Hadley opened her eyes back still hearing the breathing sound of the man and she knew that it was no joke. Maurice has really fallen."Ahhh! You demon! What have you done?" Hadley yelled rushing to the man and she reached to slap the man's cheek but Nicholas held her hands in midair."What are you doing!" He yelled, looking at Hadley, whose eyes were brimming with tears."Are you crazy you just dropped…what ammi doing…I should go and ask for help!" Hadley bellowed, jerking her hands away from the man and she took her heels trying to go look for help but Maurice's voice behind her stopped her movement."Where are you going?" Maurice asked, and when she turned around thinking that her ears were playing tricks on her she was surprised to find Maurice standing unscathed looking at her."What? You are.." Hadley could not complete

Days passed, and Maurice was finally discharged from the hospital but as time passed Hadley kept getting withdrawn because of her father's pressure on her.He kept pressuring her about her sister's health, and making different threats about her so that Hadley couldn't succumb to his threats. She hasn't come up with a plan, and she couldn't inform Maurice who just woke up to help her out.“What are you thinking about?” Maurice asked, and Hadley jolted in fear hearing his words because she didn't know that the man was behind her.“When did you get here?” she asked, trying to get the man's hand off her but the man wasn't letting her go.He could sense that she hadn't herself the past few days, and it might be that his secret fears were finally surfacing.Maybe she wanted to leave him, Maurice thought, but he was planning to hold onto her no matter what.“Did you just get out of the shower? You have to change or you are going to catch a cold!” she reprimanded seeing that Maurice was dripp

The starry night was illuminated by the moon, but Hadley felt gloomy as she looked at it. She was devastated and didn't know what to do.After she left the party while chasing after Maurice, she had this unsettling feeling that something was going wrong, and she didn't even know what that could be.“Are you not coming in, ma'am?" Hadley heard one of the maids ask, and she beamed her a smile telling her that she was fine.“No, I am going to wait for my husband," Hadley replied, asking the maid not to worry about her. Yes, Maurice wasn't home even though they left the party together. He was kind of her to ask her to enter the car but immediately he dropped her off the zoomed off without saying a thing.How was she supposed to explain to him when he wasn't even giving her a chance to do that?“It is all that prick's fault, how could he have hugged me? That demon from hell should be castrated!" Hadley cursed but she stopped herself seeing that she was yelling at that quiet night.“I just