L
Year
you bring s
e I stood trembling in the corner of the room, the blue duvet wrapped firmly around my
was standing behind her m
as h
ght and the last thing I remembered was her ta
he dr
when the realizat
o happened to be her fiancé, Carl Har
t
me... why would Linda drug me a
rance, my face stinging from the excruciat
I slowly brought my left han
and smear mud on our famil
how it happened,"
she would tell her mum the trut
d my lips. "I did
nd I flinched fearing what
huh?" she questioned, h
see no man to do it with
a disg
for my man, but you wouldn't believe it,"
h
ith her fiancé's family, I was least interested in him and I couldn't even
reat Jenkins was caught in a one-nigh
line," my stepmom
, how could I be ent
stepmom clutched my hair tightly in
e look her in the face which was
you are marrying into the Harrison fami
ound and my ass slapped hard against the
until my devil of a stepsister squatted in fro
didn't you?" I
ps curled into one o
p to me," she sighed and reached out to bru
what you've done?
da," a tear slipped down
re you've had a taste of Carl's joystick,
, what the hell are you s
. "I doubt yo
you'll have more of him when you get married
so many unansw
a do this to
s I caught
een so left in the
sen
acing with a mix of avidness and nervousness as I clutched
rns of our new phase of life together. I exchange
f the charming billionaire boss, Carl Harrison, the CEO of HARRIS LTD com
waited for my husband's re
into the office, a wave of anticipation sweeping over me. My eyes fell on Carl who w
rli
s. "I told you to stop calling me that when we are at work,"
," I mumbled, glancing a
ack a bit and adjusting his tie while I beamed, my hands were behind
arted, his eye
ower lips, and he arched one of his brows at me when
luring pink lips of his, then proceeded to kiss
uttered, and I got up from
's wr
height towering over me as he walked awa
" he said as a matter of fact and I blinked severally
n't
understand what
ough his hair and stared
oned, my heart
a place in my heart, you know that she was my first love
h
gister what he said. His words hung so heavily in the
is a
een with you, your heart still lo
d. My sister was always a gorge
husband, still made my hea
and I snapped my g
et would give away. The revelation that Carl's heart was still en
I felt he was adjusting t
hat I was pregnant with his child, but i
ivo
an't be left at the most critical stage of my life, es
t to say, but "I love you" seemed to be the only sentence tha
offed, and I stared
mination as he stepped closer to me,
rriage for two years, and you've even overstayed your welcome? Our marriage was a mistake
never did... There's so much yo
how much of a trouble you
fused. "What
ge happened because you drugged me and orchestrated that scandal
queezed the test result in my hands that I was about to show him. "That'
etter than to have trusted someone like you," his voice grew sharpe
chestrate any scandal. Linda set me up and you and manipu
g up Linda's name in your lies
ou have to belie
my decision. You're fired, Alma. I don't want to see you again. Our m
ered in shock, not
papers and sack let
-wh
et him go like that, I hugged him from
htly around him. "Think about it. You must
gressively disentangled himself from me and pu
s left leg, refusing to let him go, I couldn't just let
d his leg forcefully from my grip before I could
he weight of his accusations and the finality of his decision hung in the ai
,
Carl, for the sake of