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SEASON 2…
Story by:- Racheal Dennis
Episode 10 ?
Elena (Katie) ???
Later that evening…..
It’s 8:47pm. I’ve fed Peace and managed to get her to sleep. Currently, I sat in my small living room, staring at my phone screen as the messages roll in one after the other.
I don’t know why, but no single message has brought a smile to my face.
Rather my disappointment increases with each message that comes by, all the places I sent applications keeping rejecting me.
“Grrrrrrrrrrrh!”
I picked my phone and throws it across the living room angrily, now I have no choice but to go back to H. M. M.
“Ouch!” I hear Ariana’s voice wince.
I look up and see her holding her stomach, leaning on the door frame. I quickly rush to her.
“Ari, are you ok?” I asked.
“Do I look ok to you? Were you tryna kill someone?” She groans.
I escort her to a chair and help her sit down.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were gonna come in” I apologized.
She smiled weakly and nod her head reassuringly. I take a seat next to her.
“You didn’t come to the restaurant today… Are you ok?” She asked.
I nod.
“Is Peace ok too?”
I nod again.
“Then why weren’t you at the restaurant?” I didn’t say anything.
I can’t tell her that I didn’t go to work because the boss is my ex-husband.
In fact, I can’t let her know that I was once related to Harry, Stephano’s spies are everywhere, who knows if they are here too. I don’t want to involve her in this trouble.
She gasped loudly and turned to me.
“Or is it because of the rumors going on in H. M. M?” She asked.
Rumors?
“What rumors?” I asked her.
“People in the restaurant are saying you’re the lost wife our boss came to look for two years ago. Is that why you didn’t come to work? Is the rumor true?” She asked.
Yes. But I’m sorry that you can’t know that, it’s for your own safety. The less you know, the safer you’ll be.
Stephano is a vicious man, I don’t want your bl©©d to be one of the bl©©ds he’ll drain.
Ariana snap her fingers across my face.
“Katie?”
“Huh?”
“Are the rumors true?” She asked me again.
“What did you called it just now? Rumors…. So why believe what you haven’t confirm if it’s true or not. Hear say is not reliable” I told her.
“But some of the waitress said they witnessed Mr Marcella being extremely nice and gentle with you. Some even said he declared that you’re his wife”
Of course. Harry had to make a big scene with his PDA.
“Don’t believe them, how can low life like me be Mr Marcella’s long lost wife”
“But… ”
I shake my head at her. If I don’t get her out now, she’ll force the truth out of my mouth. I stand up and take her hand, then I pull her along with me towards the door.
“Ari, I need to get some sleep now. I’ll have a busy day tomorrow”
“Katie, list…. ”
“Good night, Ari. Dream about your Knight in shinning armour” I said. Then I locked the door before she can say another word.
Today has been a sad day for, I hope tomorrow will be good.
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The next morning….
I woke up very early, I got myself and Peace ready. I’ve decided to resume work at H.M.M today, since no other restaurant is ready to employ me. But first, I’m gonna drop Peace off at a daycare.
Right now we’re at our small dinning table, having breakfast.
Well, you can say our little munchkin is having breakfast, because I’m feeding all the pancakes to her. I forgot how much she loves pancakes.
Just then my doorbell rang.
“Here” I put a small piece of pancake on Peace’s hand. “Eat this piece, mama’s gonna go check on the door, ok?” She nods tries to put the pancake in her mouth all at once, I laughed at her silliness.
I head to the door and open it. Harry stands in front of me, his hands tucked in his pants pocket.
“G-good morning, Mr Marcella” I stuttered.
I unconsciously looked down at my clothes to see if I’m presentable enough.
No…. Why am I checking my clothes and why did I stutter?.
“Morning, beautiful” he titted his neck and tries to look inside. I guess he’s looking for Peace.
“Mind if I come in? I have something very important to discuss with you” he said.
“Hmm, can it wait till later?” He furrows his eyebrows questioningly. “I.. I.. want to resume work at your restaurant and I don’t wanna be late” I said.
I feel my cheeks flame up in embarrassment, I mean it was just yesterday I boasted that I’ll resign from H. M. M and get a job elsewhere. Now I’m going back, it’s really embarrassing.
“Nobody fired you in the first place, darling. And besides the restaurant is yours too, so you can come in anytime”
“You… ”
“Elena, can I come in, please?” He studies my expression, “We really need to talk” he added.
I sigh and gave way for him to come in. He steps in and I close the door.
He inhale deeply and smiled.
“I perceive something delicious” he turns to me. “What are we having for breakfast, baby?”
I blush when I heard him call me baby, it reminds me of our life in Peoria. I quickly use my hair to cover the blush.
“Mr Marcella, please don’t mock us” I said as I lead him to the dinning table.
“Why will I mock you, Mrs Marcella?”
I stop on my tracks. I can’t remember when was the last time someone called me Mrs Marcella. I glared at Harry but he simply smiles and sends me a wink.
He walks straight to Peace and squat to her level, he wipes the corner of her mouth and ksses her forehead.
“Hey baby, how are you doing?” He asked her.
“Fine” she answers a smile. She cuts the pancake in her hand and dip one part on the chocolate syrup.
“Eat” then she tucks the pancake in Harry’s mouth without waiting for his reply.
The syrup splashes all over Harry’s face, making it look as if he has mustache and Peace burst into fits of laughter.
I shake my head at her naughty and sit back on my chair.
“Mama look, h-he’s got mus-tache” she points at Harry and continue laughing.
I didn’t even know when I joined her laughing.
Harry also join in our laughter, he dips his hands on the chocolate syrup and rubs it on Peace.
Peace gasped dramatically and stands on her chair. She drops her pancake back on the plates and carries the chocolate syrup and starts spraying it on Harry.
Harry runs about the dinning room trying to escape from Peace, but my little devil isn’t having any of that. She climbs down and start chasing after him.
“I’m gonna get you!!” She screams.
“I’m sorry, please have mercy on me, princess” Harry plead as he continues running round the dinning table.
“No mercy! No mercy! No! No!”
I laugh as I watch the scene before me.
“Stop running! No mercy!” Peace screams.
Harry feigns being tired and falls down, Peace pounce on him and poured the chocolate syrup on his face and clothes.
“I won!!” She jumps happily.
“Yes, yes. You are the champion” Harry agrees.
“Alright, Peace. That’s enough” I told her.
She gets up from Harry’s stomach and offer him her hand, I laughed. She wants Harry to take her hand and stand. Harry did and pretends to stand up with a lot of help from her.
“Thanks champion” Harry said.
Peace giggle.
“Now listen” she pulls on Harry’s ear and place her free hand on her waist. “If you promise to be a good boy next time, I won’t put chocolate on you, ok?”.
Oh, like they say ‘like mother like daughter’ . What she’s doing to Harry right now, is exactly what I usually do to her and I’m not surprised that she said my lines without making mistakes.
Harry raised his hands up.
“I promise, I’ll be a good boy next time” he said pretending to be scared.
Peace laughed and wipes his face, but that only worsen the situation.
“Peace, you’ve got yourself dirty. Whose gonna do the laundry?” I scold her.
She doesn’t say anything, she simply blinked innocently and shows me her tiny teeth.
“Hey, don’t blame her. I caused this, you can blame me instead” Harry said. I rolled my eyes.
“Don’t interfere, this is the way I discipline my daughter”
“Actually… She’s my daughter too” he said.
I snapped my head towards him.
“What do you mean?” I asked him.
He brings out some papers from his jacket’s pockets and hands them to me.
“What are these?”
“That’s what I wanted to discuss with you” he paused and fixed his gaze on Peace. “Elena, why did you leave without telling me about our daughter?”
Oh my God! He knows.
“Peace, go over there and play with your dollies” I told her.
She nods and runs off to the living room. Harry and I sit on our chairs.
I open the papers. DNA test results and it’s…. Positive!
It’s positive… Does that mean he’s gonna take Peace away? No! That’s not gonna happen.
I throw the papers on the table.
“Why Elena? Didn’t you tell me and choose to leave instead?”
I can’t tell him the truth, I can’t let him know it’s because of Stephano. I want Harry alive.
I need to come up with a lie, a lie that will make him hate me if possible.
“Well…. T-that because…. I realized I don’t love you” stupid Elena! That is not even a good enough reason.
“What?”
“Yes. Meeting you, being friends with you and you proposing marriage, it was all too fast. I didn’t have the time to grasp my feelings, by the time I realized that I don’t love you I was already pregnant”
Harry shakes his head.
“Even if you don’t love me, you shouldn’t have left with my baby. You shouldn’t have left without telling me about the pregnancy” he said. From his posture I can tell he’s trying hard not to lose his cool.
“I knew if I told you about it then you wouldn’t have let me go, would you?”
“Of course not!”
“See? That’s why I didn’t tell you about it” I told him.
He stays silent for a moment, taking fast deep breaths.
“Well, then it’s a good thing that I found you now and I also got to find out about Peace. You said it was too fast back then, right? How about we take it slow this time. I promise I can wait, no matter how much time you need” he said quickly.
Honestly, I’m moved by how deeply Harry’s love for me is. But that’s what will land him in trouble, if Stephano gets to know that I’m back together with Harry then he’ll come for us.
I turned away from Harry and blink away the tears in my eyes.
“Harry, I said I don’t love you, what makes you think I’m gonna come back to you? I’m fine on my own, look around…. I can provide for myself and my baby…. ”
“She’s not just your baby, Elena. She’s mine too. Do you want our daughter to grow up going to and fro between her parents?”
“Don’t worry about that, I can take care of Peace just fine”
“No!” Harry stands up and come in front of me. “If you don’t come with me, and make our family complete, I’ll be forced to file for child custody”
I gasped loudly and stare at him with wide eyes.
“You wouldn’t”
“Oh, baby I would. I’ll have Peace under my custody and when that happens, I promise you, you’ll never set your eyes on me or Peace ever again” he said, his tone held seriousness.
No, I don’t want that to happen. My world revolves around Peace, I’ve suffered so much for her sake. Should I be straightforward now?
God my confused.
Harry heads towards the living room and carried Peace on his shoulders and heads out. I quickly stand up from my chair and run after him.
“Harry stop, wait. Harry!” He doesn’t stop, he keeps walking faster.
“Harry, put her down!”
By the time I catch up with him, he’s already put Peace on the back seat of his car and close the door. I tried to open it, but couldn’t. I guess it’s on child’s lock.
“Harry, don’t do this, you can’t separate a child from her mother”
“But you separated the child from her father for two years, right?” He asked angrily.
“You don’t understand”
“I don’t understand? Then make me understand”
I shake my head.
“I can’t”.
“Elena, I’ve been lenient with you because I love you so god-damned much that it even hurts me. Do you know that after you left I became nuts?”
My tears came running down.
“I was mentally unstable. All I could think of was you, when I fall asleep all I can see in my dreams is you and even when I’m awake all I see is you, Elena! After I recovered I didn’t hold any of the things you’ve done against, I still came all the way from Peoria to Seattle to for you, for two years. Two years Elena! But did you care about any of that? Why? I just want to know why you did all of this” he said, his eyes filled with anger as he speaks, betrayal evidence in his eyes.
I wish I could tell him why I left him. But I’m scared.
“You wouldn’t blame me if you knew the truth” I cried.
“Then make me know the truth. Tell me the truth Elena” he said.
“I can’t, but just trust me, I… ”
He scoffed and lets out a dry laugh.
“Trust you? Humph! I’ve done enough of that, I’ve trusted you enough, Elena. Maybe I should just give you a taste of your own medicine, maybe it will do you some good” he take out a small complimentary card and throws it at me.
“When you’re ready to talk, when you’re ready to tell me the truth call me” then he enters the car and slams the door closed.
“Harry, don’t go. Give Peace back to me. Harry, wait” I said as I tap on the door.
But he doesn’t listen to me, He drives off. I run after the car calling on his name but he still doesn’t stop, I run until I couldn’t and I fall down.
God, why am I going through this?
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Stephano ??
“Father when will my coronation ceremony be held?” I asked my father.
It’s been two years already, yet he hasn’t said anything about my coronation. Right now I’m the only candidate, I don’t understand why he’s still holding back.
Harry is no longer a threat for now. Or does he want me to kill him and take the throne?
That would be much easier.
“Stephano, go back to your mansion. I’ll discuss with the officials and get back to you”
What?
“That’s what you keep saying everytime. Can’t you ju…. ” My phone rings and cut off my sentence.
I checked. It’s the spy I fixed to watch Elena’s movements in Seattle.
“Father, we’ll continue our discussion tomorrow” I quickly leave my father’s chamber.
This call is very important, it might have something to do with Elena or Harry. Harry had been missing from the palace since two years, I know he’s in Seattle but I stayed calm because Elena didn’t show herself to him.
I answer the call when I got to a safe distance.
“Yes?”
“Boss, prince Harry has found out about Elena and her baby. What should we do?” My spy asked.
“Remind her of our agreement, try by all means to scare. After all, her Aunt is still here in Peoria, if she tells Harry the truth we’ll send her aunt’s head over as a late wedding gift”
“Yes, sir” I hang up.
Elena can never do anything without me knowing, because my spy is one of her friends. She thinks she has such good friends, what she doesn’t know is one is actually her enemy.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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