CHAPTER 48
LUCA’S POV
“Well there was a fire but we all had to rush down here because a rich pregnant woman decided to be stupid, I mean you are pregnant and consuming gin like water, how much more foolishness can a human being have”, The uniform man says and I almost want to hit him, aside the fact that he’s puffing his smoke at me, he isn’t making any sense.
“Let me understand what you're on about, you all had to come here because of a pregnant woman and not the woman who stays here?” I ask, the man puffs out more smoke, damn he should know he’s walking on a very thin line with his protruding belly.
“Aren’t you getting me? So we were at the office and then this emergency call came in, really frantic, woman said she was Kelly and her friend was bleeding at the Smith’s mansion, we all had to run down here because well someone died here few months ago and another person in blood, it mad the
CHAPTER 49EMBERLYNN’S POVI stretch and realize I'm cold, I try to pull the covers up my chin and I realize something is holding my hands down, I open my eyes and look down, I gasp and sit up when I see I sincerely have a hand on mine, I regret the action as my whole body protests, my head bangs and my eyes turn me, and I have the urge to throw up.“I’m sure one of the advice the doctor gave was for you to rest and be calm”, I hear and realize its Luca’s voice.When I feel my body settled a bit I look at him and see him sitting on a stool close to the bed, “This room is pretty beautiful, didn’t know there was such in here”, he says again and I look round.This was my dad’s room and there’s practically nothing overly beautiful about it, it was painted in ash, and even the drapes were black, giving the room a dark ambiance whenever, if you got in here, every time would be night for you.
CHAPTER 50AUTHORESS’S POVIf a needle fell right now on the floors of the Smith’s mansion everyone would have heard it like a speaker was put on the floor close to the needle.After all Kelly who was a nobody in every manner of speaking just called the CEO of Gold and Smith, a worldwide dynasty “mad”, well she didn’t call, she asked to be sincere but still it was an insult, one Emberlynn was not going to let side, especially as she had mini demons by her side, another fact she didn’t know.“What did you just say?” Luca asks feigning anger, he smiles inwardly, the opportunity to throw Kelly out of the house and Emberlynn’s life just presented itself, if he didn’t successfully make sure she was out she could pose a huge problem in the transfer of authority and ownership.“What did you hear?” Kelly replies looking straight at Emberlynn.“Everybody out”, Luca says using a v
CHAPTER 51LUCA’S POVI pace the office for the nth time, it’s been four weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds, oh wait 8 seconds now I say as I check my stop watch.Yes it’s been that long since Emberlynn started the process of transfer and for me it’s not taking forever, a freaking eternity is what it was taking.I rub my hand on my head and resume my pacing, this was William’s office but since the day the idea was presented at the table of the board I had started making changes.Thoroughly Kelly had been transferred to accounting to do whatever but Aria was back as my secretary because she was very good at her job and why not?Emberlynn surprisingly didn’t take Kelly’s words about the sex issue between Aria and I seriously, she even gave her blessings when I asked her whether she will be cool with the secretary thing.I lift my hands and check the watch on my wrist once again, its been over 2
CHAPTER 52ARIA’S POV“It’s getting late, what’s your plan?” I ask as I step into William’s office, oops, I meant Luca’s office.He doesn’t raise his head from whatever it is that has his attention over there, “Come look”, he says and I continue to advance towards his table.I finally reach and I join him to look at the documents on the table.“You're that happy?” I ask smiling as I see what it is that has his attention.“Yes baby, I'm that happy and I don’t feel like sitting down for dinner with a pregnant woman, let’s go to the club and blow drink to our heart’s content, let’s go be happy”, he says putting his hands out for me, I take it and he guides me around his desk, when I'm finally before him he pulls and I fall on his laps.“You know I can’t say no to you”, I say and he smiles big as if I gave him the best news ever
CHAPTER 53EMBERLYNN’S POI bring my wrist to my face and check the time again, its 6 already“Okay, everything should be set for the dinner by now, anything still cooking by now isn’t for this dinner”, I say as I walk into the kitchenThe chef I hired smiles at me and opens up whatever he is cooking over the fire, but it’s on really high heat“We’re all done, and if I dare say so myself but this is delicious, one of my best work yet your husband will enjoy it ma’am”, he says with a smile“Keep going that way and I might keep you for myself”, I say moving closer to the wonderful aroma emitting from whatever he has cooking“And I would love to stay but you know if an artist doesn’t feel at home he doesn’t produce his best work”, he says and I shake my headFrom Luca to Aria to even Kelly, all said this place wasn’t homely, well Aria d
CHAPTER 54LUCA’S POV“It’s pretty late”, Aria says bringing her wrist to her hands she gasps, “Wow, it’s later than we thought”, she says gathering her stuff.I take my phone from my pocket and almost mirror Aria’s expression a while ago, I've got 34 missed calls from Emb, numerous messages, the first few were messages saying not to forget and dinner smells heavenly and then the message tone got to annoyed and then worried and surprisingly it stopped, my eyes go to the extreme right and I see its 2am already.“Ðamn it really is late, Emb has been trying to reach me, I totally forgot about the dinner and I didn’t put my phone on vibrate, it was totally on silent”, I exclaim to Aria.“I didn’t remember either, she’s going to be pretty pissed”, she says and I shrug.“I won’t deny that at first I got a bit nervous thinking of how pissed she will be but
CHAPTER 55ARIA’S POV“You're pregnant too?”The test falls as my hands shake and I turn to find it, my heart going a million paces at the same time.Calm down I speak internally, it’s not like she knows who you are carrying for, random names, random names, I start repeating in my mind, trying to figure out one to use, James, Reese, Godwin, damn these aren’t names she will believe.“Here”, she says and I turn and see her standing there in all her princess glory, and my test result in her hands, the two red lines glaring at me, at this moment I think of how I should have listened to my mind when it told me that I should have waited till I went back to the town house, but I was anxious for it, I remembered Luca’s utter joy when he talked about our future and I didn’t want to disappoint him, at no time did I want him to think Emb was better than I.“Thank you”, I said cleaning my sweaty palm
CHAPTER 56EMBERLYNN’S POV“What?” he says as soon as I enter the room, I shrug pretending I didn’t purposely turn the dye into the shampoo bottle, now his hair is all pink and he can’t run out as he probably did want to.“Don’t glare at me”, I say with a pout, “You know there is no way I could have done that purposely, I was thinking of dying my hair and when I changed my mind I decided to not waste it”, I say.Even to my ear that doesn’t sound believable but I'm going with it nevertheless, there is no way he was expecting me to leave him be after the two shocks I received today.Well, expected is not the right word to use this time because he doesn’t know I know about he and Aria, to worsen the situation Aria is pregnant, I mean ARIA IS PREGNANT!!!I haven’t even had time to process that bit of information, I mean for how long has this been going on for her to be p