The games were over by the time Kelvin and Leila returned to take their seats. They must have taken too long in the restroom because some of the guests were already leaving.
He walked Leila to her seat and kissed her fiercely. The song changed as the MC invited the couple of the day to the floor for their first dance. They danced alone for a while before the MC opened the floor for everyone who wanted to dance.
Guests trooped to the dancefloor. This was Kelvin’s chance. He turned to his pretty wife. “Do you want to dance?” Leila shook her head. “I guess I’ll go find Mia for a chat. Will you be okay on your own?”
“No. But I’ll try to be until you return.” She threw her arms around his shoulders and whispered, “Don’t be too long. I don’t want to miss you.”
Kissing her made him feel better. “I won’t.”
A cloud of artificial smok
The house was dead silent as the young couple stormed in. A cloud of anger hovered over them. Kelvin opened the front door for his wife and she got in without a word.Leila quickened her pace and stomped into their bedroom. She locked the door before he could enter and the knocks that came after almost shook the door off its hinges. Her husband knocked persistently for a while.“I’m not opening the door until you call him back to work.” The knocking stopped. But Leila couldn’t be sure he heard her. “He didn’t do anything wrong, Kev. You can’t just fire an innocent man because you are in a bad mood. Call him back and I’ll open the door.”Leila wasn’t sure what she heard. Was it a grunt or a groan? She pressed her ear to the door to pick out any sound but nothing. “Kev, please. Don’t fire him.”“Goodnight, Leila.”His words poured o
Kelvin was nervous. Leila could feel the waves of anxiety rolling off him as he got on the phone with the doctor. She tried to calm him but she was a big ball of nervousness herself. What if she wasn’t pregnant? What if she was? Maybe she got off the pills too soon.They would be seven months old in a few days. But were they really ready for an addition to their family?Her husband dropped to the sofa, he beckoned her with a finger for her to sit beside him but nervousness made her sit opposite him on the single sofa. She wanted his call to end first. Kelvin frowned but didn’t force her to join him. He spoke some more into the phone and sighed.“He wants to know when your period was supposed to come,” Kelvin murmured with a hand over the speaker of his phone. “Has it been up to a week?”“Two weeks,” she confirmed.Kelvin blinked. She smiled but it didn’t reach her eyes. Allowin
One line. It said one line. Leila wasn’t pregnant.Kelvin snatched the stick from her. “Baby, it says one line.” His confusion should have been cute but she wanted to knock it off. “What does one line mean?”“It means I’m not pregnant,” she spat out and stormed out of the bathroom.Kelvin’s footsteps echoed behind her but she didn’t look back. He tried saying something but she blocked out his voice. Getting out of her clothes, she changed into her nightgown and pulled the cover over her head.The cover was pulled down and Kevin’s worried face came into view. “Hey, don’t let it get to you.” But it had already. “We can try again, Leila. It’s not the end of the world. Plus, you can never tell. The kit might be wrong. You will have to take the test to know for sure.” Deep down in her guts, she knew the test was right but she fo
The test was negative. Leila turned the paper over, willing the word negative written in red ink to fade away. But it didn’t. Kelvin snatched the paper from her to stop her from staring at it. She had been expecting this but it broke her heart even more.Leila searched her husband’s face for a sign. A sign of anger or disappointment but there was none. He placed a kiss on her forehead, said something her brain couldn’t process to the doctor and they left.Inside the car, he didn’t say a word to her. Instead, he pulled her to his laps and kissed her. Tears soaked her cheeks and his tongue stuck out to lick them. Her eyes fluttered to his face, he kissed her nose and she managed a giggle.“I’m sorry,” she muttered.His brows shot up. “For what?”“For giving you false hopes.”Kelvin shook his head. “Don’t do that.” His thumbs wiped the re
“Open,” Kelvin said. He stretched a forkful of noodles to Leila and she opened her mouth. “Good girl.”Their bath took longer because Kelvin had fucked her in the bathroom with her hands flattened against the wall. And her moans so loud and constant Kelvin had teased her about it.Yet, as the compliment left his lip, her vagina spasmed and she grew wet. It was weird for her to feel this much need to have him but she couldn’t resist touching his knee. Leila was horny. She needed her husband’s dick inside her again.She forgot the taste of the noodles. “Are you okay?”Leila’s eyes opened to Kelvin’s worried glance and she nodded. She took the fork from him and fed herself without his help. She was physically fine. But sexually? She couldn’t answer that honestly. They already had sex enough times today but she wanted him again.“I’m good.”
The couple were about stepping into Tech Valley when Kelvin received a call. Leila pecked him and walked further into the building alone. The elevator opened and Leila’s humming died down. It was not empty. Leila offered Mike a smile and he waved awkwardly, moving to the other end of the elevator. She gripped her bag, lips pursed as the elevator began its ascent.The silence was suffocating. She felt Mike’s eyes on her a couple times but said nothing. When she couldn’t take it any longer, she snapped. “What is it?”Mike jumped back. “Nothing. Nothing ma.”“Ma?” she queried.“Sorry. I mean, Mrs McKenna.” He knew. How did he know? But she didn’t voice out the question. Mike swiped his palms over his trousers. “My apologies.”Leila drew out a breath through her lips, she offered him a tight smile and marched out of the elevator as soon as it stopped at her
Kelvin was fussing over Leila and it was beginning to annoy her. His arm flexed as he placed the empty plate she had been fed from on the dresser. He caught her staring and winked. Something coiled in her belly and she looked away before she jumped her husband.His attention returned to her when he noticed her forlorn expression and she swatted his hand reaching for her forehead. He was enjoying this too much.“Are you alright?”“I said I’m fine, Kev,” she snapped. Closing her eyes, her chest heaved as she let out a breath. He should be at work but he was here hovering over her like a mother eagle. It was just a little cramping. She would be okay. She managed a small smile and huddled closer to her husband. “I’m sorry for raising my voice. I’m fine.”“You don’t look fine to me,” he mumbled but he didn’t touch any part of her face again. “You look sick.&rd
Kelvin was missing his wife. He had stopped himself from calling her so many times but with each passing second, it became harder. He wanted to be with her every second of the day and he didn’t care how creepy or obsessive it sounded.Amara was still trying to brief him about the meeting they would be having in a few minutes. He should pay attention as this meeting would be big but he couldn’t shake off the bad feeling that settled over him.Was Leila okay?“Sir?” He looked up to his assistant. She had dropped the files to the table and was no longer reading from her tab. The details on her tab were the same on his but he had stopped paying attention long ago. He leaned back into his seat, hands running over the armrest. “Should I come back later? You seem…”“Distracted?” he finished for her. Amara didn’t reply. “Yeah. I think you should. In about… ten minutes. I n