HEART ROBBER : CHAPTER 51 – THE END
CHAPTER 53
The first legal arrangement was more like an unending interrogation to Diana, her lawyer reached out to the Bensons for a formal meeting but they presented her with the positive DNA reports for some reason Jimi decided to honor the meeting.
They met three days later at their company in the conference room, she was just zooming in and out of the room, watching her lawyer and the Benson’s lawyer argue baselessly at the conference table. Sometimes, she gets so nervous that she stammers.
The questions were basically why she didn’t inform Jimi that she had a child for him. Although she insisted that she visited Mrs Benson seven years ago but Mrs Benson decided to fabricate, fight dirty and deny that Diana and her sister never visited her and she only found out about the child
When jimi took her to their family hospital and their blood type matched and Abby had the same kind of allergies Jimi had when he was a kid. They had a do over for the tests and it came out positively again
Virtually things was already turning AWOL for Diana, it was pointless and meaningless arguing about false information and paternity
The evidence speak for themselves and Diana and her lawyer, barr Uche were just stressing over the facts for no reason
Barr Uche had to call Diana to the lobby when it looked like she was just trying to humiliate him and make him look stupid at his own job
“Diana….. How are you feeling”
“Like an idi.ot”
“Well I understand that things are not going as you thought it would but I want you to stay positive. Cases like this are very complicated”
“How long is it going to take”
“Honestly I don’t know, they seem to have made up their minds”
“So that’s it, my daughter is going to be taken away from me…. Am going to lose her”
“Cmon Diana, don’t you say that, we may not have much to go on but I do believe they will have to consider us somehow”
“I don’t need consideration, what I want is my daughter, Abby is my whole life and I can’t stand to imagine what my life would look like without her in it…. So just go in there and do your job”
“And what do you think am doing, am putting in my best to make sure that we are not at loose ends….. I’ve been talking non stop in there if I had the kind of evidence the Benson’s have I would have closed this case hours ago but no am stuck and your words that doesn’t even tally most of the time. It’s like am pushing a lost battle”
He snapped
“I get it Barr Uche, I know you are doing your best, I get it we don’t have anything but my words to back me up, no solid proof and it puts us in a difficult position but I am begging you, adjourn the meeting if possible just enough time to get my mom down here and we can take this to court”
“Your mom….. Bringing another member of your family isn’t going to change so much and no court will approve cases like this because of such, its too minor to fabricate or prolong”
“Then what do they expect me to do…. Just give Abby up”
“No of course not”
“But you sound like you have given up”
“Am with you all the way. Look they expect you to come to terms with your boyfriend’s family and”
“He’s not my boyfriend” she pointed out
“Okay…. The child’s father, don’t say he’s not because he actually is, there’s DNA results proving he is. You know he is”
“Am not denying that he’s Abby’s father. I just deny him the right to ever father her. He can’t walk into our lives after all these and expect everything to be handed to him on a golden platter”
“Honestly, that’s not up to you, your relationship with him even complicates this the more, sometimes the things that we don’t take account for seems to be what trips us over”
“Pls lemme worry about my mistakes while you focus on getting Abby back to me”
Uche rolled his eyes
“Excuse me please…. ”
A voice interrupted and they turned to see Jimi standing few feets from them
“Oh Mr Benson…. It’s you”
“Yeah .. Can I talk to Diana please”
“Uhm sure, is that okay with you?” He asked Diana and she nodded
“Okay, let’s just wrap up on time. I have court session in an hour”
“I’ll be quick”
Uche walks away from them
“I don’t have anything to say to you, whatever is left to say will be communicated through my lawyer”
She said folding her arms together
“I have a preposition for you”
“And you think am interested”
“Am just trying to be reasonable here I didn’t want to go through any of this but you’re insisting on bringing the law into this I just have to play along.
I still think we can settle this amicably, left to my mom she didn’t want me to be a part of this, she wanted to handle this herself and we both know what that feels like”
“So what you need a thank you for your sympathy card”
“No… She didn’t want me to find out because she knows I will never be in support of this”
“Tell it to someone who cares”
“You’ve been Abby’s mother for a long time, you deserve to remain that but without me standing in my way… She’s my daughter and I will take full responsibility for that, nothing has to change”
“Oh everything has already changed, the moment you came into my life again… You ruined everything, You keep taking my loved ones away from me”
“You can’t blame me for what happened to Dorcas, I had no idea that we had resulted into pregnancy… ” Jimi ran his hand over his mouth
” we don’t have to go down this road, we are two adults we can work this through without the law without all this drama…. All we just need to do is agree for Abby’s sake”
“You must be insane to think I will share Abby with you”
“But we both know that I can’t just walk away… Abby needs me. Am her father”
“Don’t you think Abby would be better off without you, better off without the trouble and commotion that you bring”
“No I don’t think so, she already started calling me daddy without even knowing that I am actually her father, she needs a father figure in her life, she needs me and I will be there for her”
“I’ll get her a father elsewhere…. You don’t have to worry just continue with your bachelor hipster life”
Jimi nods disappointed
“I thought we could reach a conclusion but I was wrong… My mom was right.. You are stubborn and you like things tough…. Let’s see how tough works for you”
He adjusted his suit and walked away.
Her lawyer tried to convince her that the Bensons will use everything including their influence to win an open and shut case but this is actually different because they are actually the winning side and they don’t even need to fight
He told her that they should have at least come down to a bargain but all that sounded like rolling drums to her.
HEART ROBBER : CHAPTER 51 – THE END
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