As requested by the two kids, the group went to the stables to ride horses again.
“Where’s Simon?” she asked Uncle Ben.
She noticed an empty stable and she had a bad feeling about it.
“I haven’t seen him since last night, my lady” Uncle Ben replied.
“Pa, did Simon talk to you last night?” she asked worriedly.
“Yes, it was quick chat. Don’t worry about your brother.”
“He can take care of himself” the old man immediately dismissed her.
“Get me a horse” she ordered a servant.
“Papa, let’s talk” Amanda started.“How did you rescue Penny?” her tone is accusing.“Sit down, would you like some tea? It would be a long story” Sebastian rang the bell for the servant.After the servant delivered their tea, Sebastian started his story.“It started when Jack called me that Penny was taken”Jack informed him of the exchange between the old lady and the red-haired lady who was trying to take Penny away.He gave the color of the car, the size and the number behind the car.He also described the gu
Mark carefully knocked on the study room and was invited to come in.“When do you plan to get married?” Sebastian asked immediately.Mark was surprised to hear the old man.He sat in front of the old man and sized him up.He wanted to see the sincerity behind his words.“The soonest possible”“Does it mean you already agree?” Mark asked in disbelief.“Of course not” he scoffed.“No one deserves my daughter, especially someone who casually spreads his seeds” he smirked at Mark.“That was even before I met her” he explained himself.Sebastian just raised his eyebrow in doubt.“If you want to get married soon, you need to work with me. I’ll give you a month” the old man said.“I’m listening” Mark replied.“You need to convince her to accept her responsibilities to her people”
“Not really, he just mocks my donation and challenged me to a poetry recitation” Mark lovingly smiled.“He did that to you too?” Amanda chuckled.“Yeah, well it’s all fun”“He said he agrees to our marriage” Mark pretended to be excited.“If you will agree to his request”Amanda felt her world stopped after hearing his last sentence.How could she agree to such demand?“Did you ask Papa what he wanted me to do?” she tried to calm her voice.“Hmmm, I did not enquire.”‘Technically, I did not enquire. He just told me. So, I’m not lying, am I?’ he defended himself.“I thought it should be between the two of you” Mark could feel the hesitation in her eyes.“Darling, now that Penny is safe. I need to go back to the city to handle some matters”“Since the kids a
Back at the Golding villa.Amanda was feeling conflicted to let Mark go.She’s having a feeling that if he leaves now, they would not see each other again.“I will come back next week. What are you worried about?” he hugged her lovingly while he prepared his bag.“I will miss you that’s all” she hugged him like she doesn’t want to let go.“Jack, daddy will go back to the city for a week. Take care of mom and Penny, okay?”“Yes, daddy.” Jack nodded.“But is it true? You will bring a lot of babies when you come back?” he asked excitedly.Mark felt nervous at little Jack’s comments.He also doesn’t know what would happen if there are more ‘Pennys’ in the whole country.“Haha. Don’t listen to grandpa. He’s just kidding” he hugged the little guy then turned to Penny.“Penny, sweethe
“Deal” she changed to a work clothes and went back to join her father and the body guards.After driving for some time, they reached the guest house.As soon as she saw the artwork, her mouth fell in admiration.It was a depiction of a mother who embraces a lot of children with more children running towards her.The woman was very simple looking but the warmth in her smiling eyes give comfort to the street children.They found home in her arms.Amanda felt like crying while looking at the wall-sized artwork.“Can you share the inspiration behind your work?” she suddenly got curious about the boy.The young man shared how his family moved to the Northern province for better opportunities.His father is a skilled farmer but they had no land in the Eastern Province.When they moved here, they were immediately given a piece of land and were given a target to produce every year.His fathe
After bathing the kids, she put them to bed and checked if Mark called her.When she saw no missed calls, she decided to take a quick bath before calling him.She filled her bath tub with warm water and soaked her whole body.While looking at the ceiling, she suddenly felt the tears falling from her eyes.For the first time in many years, she feels her feet on the edge of a cliff.And one wrong move would mean falling off to her death.When she accepted being a single parent, she knew there’s only one way to go.So, she endured moving forward.Now she has been presented with a lot options but she doesn’t know how to decide.It seems like the more option you have, the more difficult it would be to choose.The state of the common people in her land has disturbed her emotions.She has never seen this side of Northern Province before.She thought their land is perfect like in a fairy-tale.
‘access to a lot of information’‘your action would say so’“Speaking of the heads of families, why are you not representing the province?”“The mayor said they could not get a new budget because you’re not representing them?” she accused her father.“I just don’t like it. They’re debating up to the last cent, Amanda.”“Do you know how insulting that is?”“I’ll just give them my assets so everyone would shut up. Saves me time” he started walking towards the garden.Amanda wanted to cry.She tried to control her voice but she wanted to burst out.“Pa, no matter how rich you are, you cannot always use your money to fix things”“There are policies that normal people need to adhere to because they don’t have millions to fall back on” she explained.“Look at you, you see
The next morning, Mark was already working in his office when Adam came in for his morning report.“Any news about the registration?” he tried to hide his excitement.“Oh, that. I didn’t know you have a very active sex life boss?” Adam tried to make fun him.“And you’re bouncing all over the country” Adam did not hold back his laughter.Mark just gave him a confused look.“Well based on their initial interviews, you had a one-night stand with all of the women and their children were the product”“So far I have a tally of close to 1000 registrations”“I let them draw blood to avoid suspicion but not to proceed with the comparison”“It would just be a waste of resources”“I wonder how many families will be broken if the husbands find out about their wives’ one-night stands with you” Adam playfully roll a pen in