Chapter 10: Chapter 10
HAYDEN AND HAYLEY
Sweat trickled down her face, as she clutched unto the white bedsheets, with one hand in her hair, tugging at it roughly.
"Just one more, push with all your might, one more, now..... pushhhhh", The doctors encouraged Janelle who was on the verge of giving up.
"I... am... tired", she whispered.
"You can't be.... just one more, we can see the head already", they assured her, their faces were filled with pitiful looks, she couldn't tell what it meant, but she was sure it wasn't a good sign.
"Now", they chorused in one voice, and she obeyed immediately, screaming and pushing with all her might.
"Ohh yeah!!", they exclaimed as the first one came out.
"God!!!", she screamed, "It's over", she said, smiling triumphantly as she heard the cry of her baby, she raised her both hands towards them, signifying that she wanted the baby in her arms. One of the nurse took the baby from the doctor and went to wash the baby up.
"Is it a girl?", she asked, with a sweat stricken face.
"A boy", the doctor replied, yet with a look could not decipher.
They nodded their head negatively, she arched a brow at them.
"One more baby, we just saw another head", the doctor said, Janelle could tell that what they just said were lies, they knew earlier but had decided against telling her, so she won't be scared.
"Fuck you all", she screamed at them, her head bumping against the head of the bed.
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Renee sat beside Janelle, she had been transferred to another room, she held the female babe in her hand, while the male suckled from Janelle's breast.
"They are beautiful!!", Renee exclaimed.
"We still have a lot of talking to do", Janelle jabbed.
Renee laughed, "You know you would not have believed me if I had told you earlier, I was always dropping the hint, but you always muted me whenever I tried saying it", She recounted.
"I was thinking of how I would cope with one, now look, there's two", Janelle sighed, her eyes tearing up immediately.
"You should not be doing this, I am here for you, all the way, it won't be a problem, they are very much mine like they are yours, they are lovely that's all that matters", Renee gave a genuine smile.
"He has his eyes", Janelle sighed.
"He's their father, what do you expect?", Renee questioned.
"Can I cope with seeing this beautiful eyes everyday, I know he was going to haunt me forever. I wanted a girl, but seems like they all got a trait from their father, look at her hair and her nose, so pointed", Janelle laughed.
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TWO YEARS LATER.
"They are still sleeping right?", Renee questioned.
"Yeah, wanted to put them in the nursery yesterday night, but they disagreed, Hayden clutched onto my dress saying he wasn't going to let me go, while Hayley threatened spilling chocolate drink on my bed....., so I let them stay with me", I sighed.
I am stubborn, yes, I do know that, but looking at my offsprings, I realize just how little of stubborn I am. Hayden the Possessive freak, just like his dad and Hayley, the one that always gets what she wants, also like her father. Now that keeps me at lost.
"The email?", Renee arched her brow at me.
Ohh yeah, that's true. Renee has been much of a help to me, since I was little, I have always dreamt of being a Model, until I met Rashid and you know the rest of the story, all I wanted went down the drain.
I never got to continue with what I love so much, My Career. Now, I just got an email from Bella's Modelling Agency. I had to start working with them from next week. That's too early to start, I don't even know what to tell my kids, but what I'm sure of is that I would continuously keep in contact with them.
I walked to Renee and covered her hands in mine, "Thanks for everything. You don't know how much you have done for me, I would be forever grateful, you are a helper to me, the kids, I am so sure you would treat them as yours.....
"As mine?, Not as mine, when they are mine already. You need to focus on your career right now, I can take care of the children, but now.... your career. You shouldn't be thanking me, after all, what are sisters for", She replied me.
I embraced her in a tight hug.
"So does that mean that you got the work to be a model for them?", She questioned.
"Of course yes", I said with a loud shrill.
"But...., I don't know how Silas would react to this, I don't think he would want this", my voice dropped.
"You sure don't know Silas, I talked to him over this issue, yesterday night, you need to see his face, he looked so fucking happy. You know that man is obsessed with your kids, you know that right?, When he heard about your job hunting, the first thing he said to me is....., So the kids would be leaving with her right?, that's what he told me", Renee resumed.
I gave a sad smile, I wished they would have their kids someday, it was so heartbreaking, hearing this from her. I felt a soft tug on the edge of my night robe, I looked down.
"Momma", Hayley smiled at me, showing me her toothless gum, just like her father, she was an early riser, while Hayden took over me, we slept like the world would come to an end sooner.
I bent down and picked her up in my hands, while she gave out a loud scream as I threw her up in the air and let her fall into my arms.
"Momma top dat", she screamed.
"You said mummy should stop that?, Tell me you don't want this", I tested, tickling her on the sides of her stomach as she began flailing her hands and legs in the sky, giggling loudly.
"Shhhh, you sure don't want to wake your brother up, do you?", I asked the little girl in my arms, who has grown so much to look like her father.
She always wanted things done in her own way, "Ohh momma, I wanna eat my bied with wom mielk", and whenever I tried refusing her from having her bread with warm milk, she ends up trying to take the house down with her endless cries and screams.
I too was as stubborn as she is, I sometimes, ignore her, infact I mostly ignore her and give her what I think is healthy for her, but trust Silas to make sure she haves what she wants whenever he's around.
I always told him how he's spoiling the young girl, she doesn't have to get what she wants all the time, but he would just brush it off, spoiling her with pizza, barbecue, fresh fries, small chops and the rest of them..... Sighs.
"Haidin, he's a gun star, that's what he tells me oul tha tim", Hayley says giving me a fake pout.
She was trying to say the role Hayden takes from all the little children shows they watch, Hayden saying he is a gangster. Children!, I laughed the thought off, they would want to be whatever they see on the television.
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"Rashid there's nothing you can do about that, it's either they are buying the company off, or they are going to buy more than half the shares, which is indirectly making way for them to inherit the oil company", The Emir said.
"Father, I'm not against them buying shares from us, what I'm against them doing is buying more than half of the shares, father can't you see that they just want us to give up the company for them. They have even started selling the shares of the company at an extremely lower rate, even though we finally succeed in buying that oil company, there's nothing we can gain from there.
In the next five years to come, we still wouldn't have been able to accumulate a dime from the company, because the income would probably be less than the outcome... at this point there's nothing we can do about it", Rashid complained.
"Farouq has agreed on giving out this company to our family before the shares has been totally sold off, it's not just our company but theirs also and you don't just expect us to forfeit this one, just because we have many others... it's a big no.
Yet we still have someone who is ready to surrender everything to us, but.....", The Emir paused, looking at Rashids' face to know how he would be able to take what he's going to say in.
"But what?", Rashid retorted.
"But there is price, a very heavy price", Emir Abdul resumed.
"And what's the price?", Rashids' brow creased in a heavy frown, the contours of his face hardening as seconds ticked.
"You marrying Abla, Farouq's daughter", Emir Abdul replied.