Nina's and Selena's apartment
The abrupt ringing of a cell phone sounded in the living room.
Selena who was busy watching a K-drama turned to check if it was her phone ringing. When she realised it was not hers but Nina's, she raised her voice towards the kitchen and called out,
"Nina, you have a call!"
Nina shouted from the kitchen asking who it was.
Selena went to pick up the phone but paused when she saw the caller ID.
Realising there was no response after a while, Nina walked out from the kitchen and looked towards Selena who was behaving weirdly curiously.
Selena looked worriedly and cautiously answered as she handed over the phone her,
"It...is Sophie" she noticed how Nina's hand paused for a second after hearing the name before taking the phone from her.
Before Nina could answer the call, it ended but she didn't have to wait long as Sophie called soon after.
She answered the call and cautiously placed it beside her ear.
"Nina!" Sophie's excited voice sounded from the other side. "I missed you so much!"
Nina unconsciously smiled when she felt her excitement. Although she was a year younger than Sophie, she sometimes felt like she was the older one as the other woman always behaved like a child sometimes.
"How are you, Sophie? How is K City?
"I am no longer in K City, I am back in Nova. I just came back today which is also why I am inviting you to come over. I want to introduce my fiancé to you!" It was obvious from her tone that she really adored and treated Nina like a real sister.
Nina suffered from consecutive shocks, first is that Sophie was back in Nova. Second is that she wanted to invite her over to the Walter' mansion and the third one was that she wanted to introduce her fiancé to her.
She couldn't help thinking if she had not been informed that she and her brother had broken up so she decided to tell her now.
"Sophie, me and your brother..." Her words got cut off by Sophie.
"Yes, my brother too. He is also..." Sophie paused for a while and no longer continued what she originally planned to say." Anyway, you must come. I am waiting for you"
Although Nina was curious about what she wanted to say initially, she decided not to care about it anymore. She also felt helpless at Sophie's excitement. She could never bear to reject the woman as she was one of the few people in the world who made her heart feel warm.
She agreed in the end even though she didn't plan to in the beginning.
Sophie hanged up feeling very satisfied.
Selena had heard everything since the call was on speaker and looked worriedly at Nina, she asked curiously,
"Do you really plan to go?"
"I don't have a choice, do I?"
Selena couldn't help thinking in her heart, 'It isn't that you don't have a choice, you just harbour your own selfish motives for going'
She sighed helplessly at her foolish friend but as a good friend, she suggested she should go with her as emotional support.
Nina was happy to accept as she was actually feeling nervous.
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Mrs Walters removed the ear she placed on Sophie's cell phone and sighed in relief after the call with Nina ended. If not for her timely interruption, she was afraid that her insensitive daughter might have blurted out something she was not supposed to say and ruined her plan.
Sophie looked curiously at her mother and asked innocently,
"Mom, Why did you not want me to tell Nina that brother was also going to be here?"
"Silly girl, it is so that we can give her a nice surprise!". 'More like a shock' she thought evilly to herself.
"Alrighty! Mom, let's go downstairs. Brian is waiting for me. I do not even understand why you pulled me upstairs just to make a call. It's not like there is a secret" Sophie murmured incontentedly as she made her way downstairs.
Mrs Walters thought shrewdly to herself as she laughed in her heart, 'Of course I will pull you upstairs as I don't want my future son-in-law see me trick my own daughter!"
Sophie turned back timely to see a wicked look on her mom's face. She looked startled as she asked weirdly,
"Mom, what evil plan are you brewing in your mind? Do you even know you look like an evil old witch right now?"
Mrs Walters cleared her throat uncomfortably and knocked Sophie's head.
"This is why I usually said you are insensitive, who tells their own mother that she looks like an evil old witch.
"Mooom! I am just saying my true thoughts out loud! Who told you to have such a wicked look in your face."
Mrs Walters sighed helplessly as she looked at her daughter thinking,
'Forget it. I am already used to it anyway.'
She cheered up when she remembered that Nina was coming.
'Hmph! I will tolerate you this time since you helped me solve a massive problem!' She thought arrogantly as she made her way downstairs.
Nina and Selena were the one who arrived first at the Walters' mansion. The maid excitedly brought them inside the house. "Madam, miss Nina and miss Selena is here", She announced happily the moment they were at the door. "Nina is here?" Sophie's excited voice asked from the living room. Before Nina could even make sense if what is happening, she came barreling towards her and hugged her tightly. "I missed you so much!" Nina looked helplessly at Selena who also shrugged indifferently. Her expression which seemed to say, 'Its your problem, not mine' Nina turned to look at the woman in her arms who still can't stop acting like a child and said helpl
"Your sister?" Justin asked incredulously. "Yes, Nina and Selena are my sworn sisters. We came from the same orphanage but we are closer than real brothers and sisters anyway." Brian replied calmly. "Seems like she didn't tell you. You are not that close after all." He sounded happy at the end. Justin turned to look at Nina and asked incredulously, "You didn't cheat?" Selena rolled her eyes at him and said furiously, "Of course, little darling would never cheat. I was the one who came up with that plan to mislead you to think she cheated. She only agreed because of how much she was hurt. YOU are the one who cheated, not her!"
Three months had gone by in a blink of an eye since Nina started living with the Walters. She was now six months along, her stomach had swollen to a considerable size although she still looked almost the same. The difference was only in her bosom which were obviously fuller, swollen stomach and waist that had gotten thicker. After vomiting for the third time that morning, she weakly trudged to the living room and plopped down under the watchful eyes of Selena and Sophie. "How do you feel now?" Selena asked worriedly. "Terrible. There is nothing in my stomach so I have been vomiting bile. Ah! being pregnant is such a chore" "It must be the baby. Do
Walters Mansion It was already afternoon when the ringtone of a phone broke the peaceful atmosphere in the living room. "Nina, it seems like it's your phone ringing", Selena looked up from the TV series she was watching and pointed Nina's cell phone on the couch. Nina's head snapped up from the TV series, impatience clear on her face. She snatched up the phone and looked at the caller only to see it was an unsaved number. "Who is it?", Sophie asked curiously. "I don't know. It is an unsaved number." "Answer it, darling. It might be important", Mrs Walters pointed out. &nb
An hour later, a black Lamborghini made his way to the entrance of the mansion. Donning dark shades, a very handsome and gentle-looking man wearing a casual white shirt, dark pants, and leather shoes stepped elegantly out of the car. Nina, who had heard the sound and guessed who it was, came out with the other curious women just in time to see him close the door. Selena and Nina were beyond shocked to see the man in front of them, His jet black hair was cropped short exposing his seductive brown eyes, he had a friendly smile on his face as he looked towards them and opened his mouth, a mellow voice capable of seducing anyone with weak will flowed out. “Are you that shocked to see me, love?”, He chuckled good-natured as he admired the shocked look on their faces.
Selena looked curiously at him, probably questioning what made him act out of character, before answering coolly, “She went out about half an hour before you came in” “Went out? Where did she go?”, He asked, the surprise evident in his voice, as he wasn't expecting the answer he got. “Her friend came, and he took her for a drive. He was a really handsome one!”, Sophie replied provokingly. “Her friend? Was it Charlie?”, He asked turning to Selena as Nina's agent and CEO of her company, Charlie was the only male friend he could think of close enough to bring her out for a drive. “No, it wasn't Charlie. It was Ty”. Color drained from Justin
Nina woke up to the sensation of someone touching her face gently. Her heart skipped a beat as she dazedly thought to herself, 'Could it possibly be Jay?', She was about to experimentally open her eyes when she heard him whisper in her ears. "You are mine now.... Mine... Just mine!", He whispered with obsession as he caressed her face adoringly. She was startled at the voice and If she wasn't afraid of being found out, her face would have shown the deep shock she felt in her heart! 'It was Tyson!', and if she wasn't mistaken she heard obsession in his tone. Yes, it was obsession! Then it all came back to her; his call to her and then he came over to pick her up. They later went on a leisurely drive while eng
Brian, Selena, Sophie, Mrs. Walters, and Charlie all sat inside the living room of the Walters mansion with increasingly solemn looks on their faces. The air seemed stifling making the usually bustling place seemingly deserted. All the maids were nowhere to be seen as they all hid away, aware of the current tense situation. Brian spoke up and broke the stifling atmosphere. "Justin has called but there is still no good news. The car Tyson used to take her out has been found inside an abandoned factory. It seemed he has made intricate preparations before he executed his plan." "So what do we do now? What if he hurts Nina?", Sophie said anxiously.