Chapter 61: Chapter 61

: Messing with his head

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Chris

"Hmmmn baby" she moaned.

"Tee"I groaned louder.

Her slender hands were working their way down pulling off my pajamas short. Her hair flying all over the place framing her face and mine as she kissed me.

Each touch and melding of our tongues igniting a fire so sweet it coiled in the pits of my belly.

I wanted more!

No I needed more!

Grrrrhhhhh! Grrhhhhhh!

I woke up sharply, silencing the loud alarm clock.

God it was just a dream.

It felt so vivid and real, but there was still a large space on the hotel bed which I lay on and an even larger one in my heart.

My groin region on the hand was liking the effect of the semi wet dream that just ensued. I desperately needed a shower to calm my horny self down.

Its been two solid weeks, when was she going to come home?

I stood under the shower head as it poured cold jets of water all over me, the coldness of the water was supposed to calm my raging libido but was doing little or not.

Instead flashes of me and her in another shower stall was playing instead.

I switched off the train of thought quickly, trying so hard not to be more aroused than I already was. I needed to be in Johannesburg South Africa today.

I slept in a foul mood last night, and the mood transferred to this morning. Last night I attended the Nigeria Future Awards as a guest. I have won the awards five years in a row and I was to present the award this year. Nina was also invited and somehow Francis picked me up before going over to my fathers house to pick her up.

I really don't want to keep complicating my life where Nina is concerned so after lots of consideration, she was staying with my parents till the baby was here.

I went to see her and the baby everyday, and she suddenly has this look in her eyes. She wears the same look tonight, she looked at me like she actually loves me. Not in the brother and sister way, but in that lovers kind of way.

How come I never saw it? It makes me feel weird and wrong. Having her look at me that way felt like I was cheating more on my baby.

Nina had accidentally almost tripped on her how after wearing those ridiculous heels knowing she was almost close to her Expected delivery date. I had rushed to catch and all the camera life was on us. Paparazzi and the reporter squad were clicking away with their overly bright cameras.

The moment she was stable on her feet, my hand that may across her waist burnt me. Almost like I was holding hot metal, because me here with my hands on Nina's waist isnt helping my case at all.

After the little incident, I kept to myself far away from her, because although I was her baby's daddy I wasn't her date to this occasion.

We left the dinner and award ceremony late and Ben called my attention to me and Nina's pictures swarming the internet.

A part of me was scared and angry. I had enough marital issues already than to be seeing these tags and pictures of my hands on Nina's waist and she gazing lovingly into my eyes.

I prayed she did not see any of those pictures, because I don't want extra gasoline on my already lit fire.

I thought about calling her but I did not know what to say or how to explain why plus its 12am already.

I got back to my hotel and into bed last Night after giving a strict order to have my Public relation team and even hackers pull those pictures down.

She was on my mind all the night as I turned and turned from side to side. Maybe that was why she came to sexually torment me in my dream tonight.

Remembering the events of last Night made me even more angry and frustrated, in addition to this fear that was forming in the pit of my belly. Something was wrong, but I did not just know who.

I dressed for work and sat at the edge of the bed to pray a little, for my wife and children.

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"Good morning sir" The air hostess greeted as I boarded my private jet.

"Morning" I replied.

After settling in, I fiddled with my phone and wandered if it was too early to call her yet.

The scowl that sat on my face alongside my all black attire was saying so much about how today was not a good day at all.

"Ben is the security update for my family in yet?" I asked.

I was a man of means and so my family was an easy target to get to me. I put a full shadow security detail on them in Ibadan and one of their major jobs was to tell me where and how each of them was doing with lots of pictures included.

"Nothing as of now sir"

I glanced at my Cartier watch that sat on my wrist. It was 9:00am already, why was it taking so long already.

In my semi aroused state, mixed with this strange niggling fear I settled in the chair trying to sleep a little.

Johannesburg was going to be a blood bath, as it has was a new take over which I invented. The last two weeks had been hard as both my pride and heart was hurting but has been beneficial for my company, 17 hour a day was no small feat.

As my eyes closed in sleep, I let it cold hands embrace me closely.

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After settling down in the hotel, holding meeting after meeting with Shareholders, my team of Lawyers, my executive team and my accountants then creating plans and strategies for this takeover. I was exhausted!

Once during the afternoon, I took a break and tried calling her again but all to no avail. All i got was the automated voice that told me the number was switched off.

I was clearing my things off the office desk when Francis and Ben came in.

"Hey!" They greeted with a somber look on their face.

I checked the clock in my hand and it was 9PM already.

"Whats going on?" I asked instead.

They both kept quiet, and I raised my brows.

"Is the driver here?" I asked again.

"Yes" Ben answered this time.

I made to zip up my bag containing my laptop and other devices.

"Sit down Christopher" Francis said.

"Why whats going on, did someone die" I asked chuckling sadly at my twisted humor.

I said down and faced them, "What is it" bracing myself for the bad news to come.

"Sir, the security detail sent in today's report a while ago."Ben said, He was my chief security officer after all.

"And??" Suddenly feeling that discomfort again.

"Your wife is in the hospital"

Temi!

"Whats wrong with her?" I asked shooting up from the chair.

"She miscarried the baby last night" Ben said as calmly as he could.

I felt like the wind was knocked out of my sails, and I had to quickly sit as I was told to earlier.

No!

For a little while I stared into space, waiting for the claws that came with the news to sink fully in my mind and soul.

Temitope!

Oh my God! How is she, what is she going through alone right now.

Make arrangements I am going back to Nigeria tonight.

"I have done that already. Ill stay back to tie something's up" Francis said.

I nodded my head"Give me a moment alone please" The hand that gripped the desk trembled slightly as I spoke.

Leaning forward to rest my head on the table, I felt sucked back in into the maze which is consistent of the highs and low.

Every time I get a leg up, there is always something pulling me back down. Life is sometimes unfair to me!

Throughout the ride back home I had my eyes closed and clenched while intermittently calling home. I called Temitope over and over but her line was still switched off. My father in law wasn't picking up neither was my mother in law.

The constant worry which was my life for the last 5hours. It was 1:am when we touched down back in Lagos. After much arguments I decided to leave for Ibadan early in the morning.

Unlike the last 2weeks tonight I drove home.

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Ibadan

The thud of my heart hammering beneath my ribs cage, the wetness of palm which I thrust in my pocket, the sour after taste that sat on my tongue, the constant worry in my belly alongside the ache in my chest were my companions as I stepped into University of Ibadan teaching hospital.

Ben was waiting outside the hospital when I got there it was just 7:am in the morning and we made our way toward the ward where she was.

I pushed the door to the room where she was  and saw her and my mother in law. Her back was towards the door, for a little while I couldn't go further I just stared. She looked so small curled up around herself lying on that bed with drips hanging on her.

Her mum pulled my hands and dragged me outside.

"What are you doing her?" she asked, a frown marring the usual face that greeted me with smiles. She was kinder to me than any major woman figure in my life.

"To see my wife." I stated as a matter of fact.

"Haven't you done enough. She doesn't want to see you that's why we didn't tell you about it" she retorted.

I winced slightly "Doesn't matter, I want to see her and my kids"

"Just go away, haven't you done enough yet. So much for promising us to love and honour her"

"Mummy! Just this once can't someone see that I'm hurting too, the child was also mine. How about how it feels to loose my child too!" I  shouted.

She looked taken aback from my outburst and a small look of pity crossed hers.

"I am sorry Ayomide, I really am but she doesn't want to see you, or the kids yet. Since yesterday morning all she does is sleep, when she is awake she looks around not really looking she hasn't even cried yet. I don't even know what to do or how to help her" She said and started crying.

"I'll wait for her to be ready to see me, tell her that. But I'm not leaving this place mummy until I see her and hold her" I said.

I took the seat on the lobby, while she went back inside.

Only then did I put my head in between my legs and let the tears fall.

I messed up so much little one forgive me.

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