Chapter 48: Chapter 48

Chapter 48.

Luke is making a turn slowly. No hurry in Africa. He is obviously very miffed and upset at the way Diana just handled us but trying so much to focus ahead. Earlier on I had decided that I am going to stay focused and strong for me. I am not going to blame anyone for my misfortunes. I am going to make sure that I plan myself well enough to be able to feed the innocent soul growing in my stomach.

A few months from now, probably five or so months, I will lay to bed. I will bring a soul into this world and that’s what matters to me right now. No more Harry and company. they can go to hell for all I care. I have this family whom I don’t know where their love for me is headed to but I will appreciate all forms of their existence.

Relevant to that, I will take advantage and stay as peaceful as I can. I want to make sure that the baby, by all means, is okay always.

I ignore my teary eyes and smile at Luke who I realize has stopped turning around and is looking at me straight in the eye.

‘’He is here.’’ He whispers gently his eyes turning swiftly to look at the side of my window. I follow his gaze and I have never felt like I am feeling right now. I am somewhere between happy and sad, between confusion and awareness, between facts and fiction.

What I am seeing right now is something that I have only seen on movies. I didn’t expect to see him and if I start explaining how I get out and fall into his arms, I’d be lying big time because the next thing I know is that he is churning and spiraling me around.

I had missed this chap.

At the moment, I will forget, ignore and snub what I have gone through for the past few days and just savour the moment. I want to relish the little time I have with him. I want him to be fine, I want to be fine and I want us to be fine.

‘’Baby, I can’t believe you are here. This seems like a miracle, a dream or even an imagination. How are you? You went away from me, baby. You left me asleep and decided never to show up. I have agonized and angst-ridden. Where have you been my beautiful queen?’’ I roll my eyes when he finishes saying that. he was supposed to take care of me, not to sleep.

I don’t respond to him, instead, I hold onto him even tighter. I want to feel him I want to be sure that he is here for sure and I want to make sure that I am not walking away from him unless it’s super necessary.

I pull my head away from his chest, to look at him and I see a very honest Harry standing before me. He looks devastated. He kisses my hair fondly and I feel some heat running through my blood. He has no idea that I am pregnant and that’s one of the things that I will be telling him as soon as we settle down.

‘’Let’s go, beautiful.’’ He commands and I glance at Luke whose looks I cannot decipher. I signal him to go and I hope he does. Harry either ignores him or is too preoccupied to look at him and ask questions.

He is about to open the gate when I stay put. ‘’I cannot go in there, your wife to be is there and she will want to cause chaos which I don’t think I am willing to handle for now. I hate violence, Harry.’’

‘’Same here, darling. Let’s go.’’ We walk back to his car. Luke is still there. He hasn’t made a single move. I tap on his window and inform him that we are going to have a chat with Harry.

He gives me that warning look which says ‘You got to be very careful.’ And I nod at him with a smile. Harry who went ahead is leaning on his car when I lift my eyes from speaking to Luke, his hands are nicely propelled nicely in his jeans pockets. He smiles and I blush.

He opens the door and steps aside to give me way. I sit shotgun and he booms the door then literally runs to the other side.

He doesn’t ask me anything about Luke until we hit the highway.

‘’I was at the hospital and dad told me that you were there. Are you okay? You don’t look really good.’’ He asks and I roll my eyes at him. Of course, I do it secretly because I don’t want him to see me. He made me go to the hospital and now, here he is asking me if I am okay.

‘’I am,’’ I say trying not to say much. I want to know why he has been behaving like that. I hate to say this but I don’t think with all honesty that he deserves to live. I hate what he has made me go through this past few days.

‘’You are lying to me, beautiful.’’ He states calmly. He is so calm and compost I hope he knows that I am just about to explode. ‘’You should at least tell me the truth so that I am aware of what’s going on in your life. You have kept me out these past few days and that makes me feel like a mug.’’

‘’Sorry about that.’’

‘’I got the sarcasm.’’ He says almost seriously. ‘’Anyway, I want to know, beautiful. Tell me, I assured you that I wasn’t going to marry that evil witch but you still disappeared on me. How would you do that to me, baby?’’

‘’Because this whole thing isn’t working,’’ I say without interest.

‘’You think it isn’t?’’

‘’I know. I love you, you know that, right?’’ he nods. In fact, he pulls up at the side of the road and parks the car. ‘’Your mum doesn’t approve of me, he has an arranged marriage for you and as it is, your preference is the elegant city girl who isn’t …’’

He raises his hand up. ‘’Stop. Don’t say a word further. There is so much that you don’t know just yet. That elegant city girl maybe my mum’s choice but she will never be mine. I call the shots here and make the final decisions.’’

‘’I hope you make wise decisions.’’

‘’You’ll see, I will make the best final decisions in the end.’’ He says and goes ahead to drive again.

I shake my head. ‘’You and your mum, aren’t you friends? That’s a stinker if you don’t follow her leads.’’ I say very gently. His mum who doesn’t like me for him.

Well, I know they differed at some point but was that enough to make them enemies? Anyway, I need to stick my nose where it belongs.

I realize then that Luke is following us from a distance and I am either glad that he is or maybe not happy with him. I don’t know what to think.

A stint of silence brews between us and I am glad it does because I don’t feel like talking to him anymore.

He pulls up at his titanic parking lot and gets out in a rush. He opens the door for me and holds the small of my back as he leads me to the apartment.

We stay quiet as he motions the elevator, after a few seconds the duple door opens charitably and he lets me walk in before him.

Such a gentleman.

He then comes after me and takes back his hand to where it was. I am glad when we get to the floor because I think the winches suck. I hate being in them.

I stay patient as he gets the key and opens the door. We walk in together and he leads me directly to the bedroom. I swear I just need to rest thus I don’t even bother to resist.

He lifts me effortlessly and lays me in the middle of the bed after helping me get rid of my shoes.

‘’Ice cream, I want vanilla.’’ His eyes shoot open when I place my request. I literally have no idea where he will get it but maybe he should run to the store and get it.

‘’You eat ice cream? I thought you had told me that that’s not something you would wanna eat?’’ he asks surprise showing all over his face.

‘’One more question and I am out of here.’’

‘’Calm down, beautiful, I want us to hold a serious talk. Let’s talk about what you wanted to tell me that day and that’s after I bring your ice cream.’’ I nod gently at him.

He leaves the room without saying another word and walks back in seconds later with a big container in his hands. I swear I am one hundred percent sure that he didn’t go to the store.

‘’Baby, here comes your ice cream.’’ He says and I realize that he has a spoon and a small bowl. ‘’Get up and have it.’’

‘’Where did you buy this?’’ I know it doesn’t matter where it was bought but does he store ice cream here? Is he bringing other girls here?

He helps me get up and I sit cross-legged in the middle of the massive bed. Some people are surely blessed. How does he not even live here but he has such a monumental bed? Anyways that’s it for them who were born in rich families.

‘’Hey, I have been spending so much time here. Apparently I also like vanilla and since I cannot do alcohol, I resorted to have this to make me feel cool. I had no idea where to look for you, I just thought you would show up one day. Where did you go, beautiful? And who was that guy with you?’’

I eye him to gauge his reaction before I speak. ‘’ That guy is called Luke, you have met him before, right?’’ he nods.

‘’Yes, I have. I remember he once hoarded you from me.’’ He says with a big smile and I nod at him.

‘’He rescued me when I left you asleep that day and took me to his home. His parents are so good to me, they take good care of me and they are always there for me. I have been staying with them since then.’’ I tell him what Luke told me about fainting and I watch as his eyes shoot wide open and his smile disappears. He must be feeling horrible that I left him asleep and I could have gotten hurt.

‘’Why did you leave me, asleep baby?’’ He asks calmly.

‘’Because I knew and I still know your mother, she is very powerful and I know that he is going to make you marry that girl whether you like it or not.’’

His face falls. ‘’You don’t know that for sure.’’

‘’I do. You kissed that girl right in my presence and you want me to believe that you have nothing going on with her? That your mum is imposing this on you? Do you …’’

‘’Calm down, beautiful.’’ He takes the bowl of ice cream from my hand and scoops a big portion then puts in in my mouth. I feel really good as the frozen stuff flows down my stomach. I wanted this. Then he scoops another piece and smiles when I automatically open my mouth. He teases me then pushes it into his mouth and I frown at him but I smile when I realize the fun in that. He does it in turn and within a few minutes, the bowl is empty.

‘’I wanted you to take the ice, you were concentrating too much that you forgot about the ice cream.’’

‘’Really?’’

‘’Yeah, really. Anyway, I didn’t kiss that girl, she kissed me and she did it because she saw you. She achieved her evil plans of making you leave and that’s what pissed me off the most. I hadn’t seen you and that’s why I had to force her to talk.’’

‘’Did she?’’

‘’Yea, a little.’’

‘’Okay,’’

‘’What were you doing in the hospital, baby?’’

‘’What everyone else does there. You are either a doctor or a patient. In this case, you already know that I wasn’t there as a doctor but as a patient. Your actions with her made me faint and that’s the reason I was at the hospital.’’

He moves closer and pulls me into a hug. ‘’I am so sorry, my love. You don’t deserve to suffer because of that girl, or anyone else for that matter. I will make sure to keep you safe from my mum’s ire and I will always be there to support you. Okay?’’ I nod. Do I have an answer? Am I sure that he’ll do that? I can’t answer any of that.

He then takes his phone and makes me listen to a recording. A conversation between Anita and Diana, that’s what he tells me, I wouldn’t know if that’s Diana’s voice but I definitely catch Anita’s.

‘’Will you forgive me for being a jerk?’’ I shake my head.

‘’I don’t understand.’’

‘’I love you, Clarita. You are my Clarita. I have discovered that mum and Diana’s mum are blackmailing each other and I want to know what they did in the past that has come back haunting them. I want you to forgive me because I will be marrying that girl just because I want to find out the truth and not because I love her’’

I shake my head in disbelieve. ‘’You are just going to leave me to marry her?’’

‘’I won’t leave you. I just want you to know that I am marrying her for investigation purposes. I heard that they were deported and I also wanna investigate what she did wherever she was, then I will be personally calling the cops on her. You understand what I mean?’’

‘’When will you get married?’’

‘’Tomorrow in the evening.’’ He says boringly. ‘’I want you to come home in the morning though, so I officially introduce you to my family as the woman I love and the woman I am going to marry. I know I will shock them but that’s okay, they don’t have to arrange my life for me.’’

‘’Why don’t you just stick to one thing? If it’s her, let it be her and if you want me, then it has to be me. You cannot bite your cake and still have it.’’

‘’Clarita, please give me time. Just a little time and I will sort all these.’’

I don’t respond in that regard. ‘’the sole reason why I looked for you today, and the reason why I wanted to talk to you a few days ago is that I am pregnant. I have missed my …’’

‘’You are what?’’ he is deadly serious as he asks that, his eyes wide open at me and I freak out. I hope he doesn’t dump me because I got pregnant for him.