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Year

you bring s

e I stood trembling in the corner of the room, the blue duvet wrapped firmly around my

was standing behind her m

as h

ght and the last thing I remembered was her ta

he dr

when the realizat

o happened to be her fiancé, Carl Har

t

me... why would Linda drug me a

rance, my face stinging from the excruciat

I slowly brought my left han

and smear mud on our famil

how it happened,"

she would tell her mum the trut

d my lips. "I did

nd I flinched fearing what

huh?" she questioned, h

see no man to do it with

a disg

for my man, but you wouldn't believe it,"

h

ith her fiancé's family, I was least interested in him and I couldn't even

reat Jenkins was caught in a one-nigh

line," my stepmom

, how could I be ent

stepmom clutched my hair tightly in

e look her in the face which was

you are marrying into the Harrison fami

ound and my ass slapped hard against the

until my devil of a stepsister squatted in fro

didn't you?" I

ps curled into one o

p to me," she sighed and reached out to bru

what you've done?

da," a tear slipped down

re you've had a taste of Carl's joystick,

, what the hell are you s

. "I doubt yo

you'll have more of him when you get married

so many unansw

a do this to

s I caught

een so left in the

sen

acing with a mix of avidness and nervousness as I clutched

rns of our new phase of life together. I exchange

f the charming billionaire boss, Carl Harrison, the CEO of HARRIS LTD com

waited for my husband's re

into the office, a wave of anticipation sweeping over me. My eyes fell on Carl who w

rli

s. "I told you to stop calling me that when we are at work,"

," I mumbled, glancing a

ack a bit and adjusting his tie while I beamed, my hands were behind

arted, his eye

ower lips, and he arched one of his brows at me when

luring pink lips of his, then proceeded to kiss

uttered, and I got up from

's wr

height towering over me as he walked awa

" he said as a matter of fact and I blinked severally

n't

understand what

ough his hair and stared

oned, my heart

a place in my heart, you know that she was my first love

h

gister what he said. His words hung so heavily in the

is a

een with you, your heart still lo

d. My sister was always a gorge

husband, still made my hea

and I snapped my g

et would give away. The revelation that Carl's heart was still en

I felt he was adjusting t

hat I was pregnant with his child, but i

ivo

an't be left at the most critical stage of my life, es

t to say, but "I love you" seemed to be the only sentence tha

offed, and I stared

mination as he stepped closer to me,

rriage for two years, and you've even overstayed your welcome? Our marriage was a mistake

never did... There's so much yo

how much of a trouble you

fused. "What

ge happened because you drugged me and orchestrated that scandal

queezed the test result in my hands that I was about to show him. "That'

etter than to have trusted someone like you," his voice grew sharpe

chestrate any scandal. Linda set me up and you and manipu

g up Linda's name in your lies

ou have to belie

my decision. You're fired, Alma. I don't want to see you again. Our m

ered in shock, not

papers and sack let

-wh

et him go like that, I hugged him from

htly around him. "Think about it. You must

gressively disentangled himself from me and pu

s left leg, refusing to let him go, I couldn't just let

d his leg forcefully from my grip before I could

he weight of his accusations and the finality of his decision hung in the ai

,

Carl, for the sake of