75. Macy looked at Angela who seemed to relive the moment she learnt that Mr. Philips wasn’t her biological father.“I couldn’t believe it and I thought that that doctor had made a mistake and I went to the teacher and showed her the results.She said that we would redo it and it came back with the same results four times! Four times! Imagine that! Four fucking damned times.You know what the teacher told me?” Angela asked as she tried to stand up again and she fell down on her ass and hissed.Macy didn’t move from where she was seated as she watched her struggle again to get up and sit on the bed.Macy knew that it would take at least four to five hours for Angela to start feeling her mortal skills again but Macy didn’t tell her that.Angela sat down with difficulty and breathed in and out hard as if she had just scaled a mountain.“No. Tell me what the teacher told you,” Macy probed as she answered the question Angela had asked.Angela looked at Macy and laughed. She produced a man
76. “Me? Get caught?Who do you think you are talking to?I am Angelica Yuan Philips!The first daughter of the Philips family and the heir to the Philips empire.I am the most beloved of my parents and they all, including that idiot I call a husband, eat from the palm of my hands.Hear that?They all believe in me.Come on Macy,” Angela changed her voice and adopted the innocent one she usually used before other, “do you think that anyone would believe that I would do anything bad? I can’t even kill a mouse let alone a person.Ha ha ha!” She said and laughed hysterically until she laid on her back on the bed.After she had laughed to her fill, she rose up again and faced Macy.“And do you know why I am telling you all this?” She asked and Macy shook her head.“Please, enlighten me,” Macy said and by this time, she was genuinely shocked.This isn’t what she had bargained for.This was like investing in the shares market projecting a profit of 1.02% but then getting a hundred percent
77. As Macy was being dragged away by Richard, what she did not know was that she had created quite the stir in DC as a whole.When she was doing it, she wanted to just shame Angela and make people hate her and at least let everyone know that Angela was a fake but what she hadn’t banked on was the fact that it was now going to be a police case.She and May had called some tabloid journalists and they had put a small microphone on Macy and whatever she and Angela were discussing was being transformed through video and audio.At the start of the broadcast, only a few hundred people were tuned n but word spread like bush fire when people realized that the famous actress the tabloids had talked about was actually Angelica Philips.No one could believe that the woman who had an angelic smile just like her name was a devil reincarnate.If they hadn’t seen and heard it by and for themselves, they would have thought that someone somewhere wanted to tarnish the name of the queen.If Macy had
78. “Hello?” May picked the call for she was the one who received and it was a new number.They had expected that when people started watching the live broadcast, those who knew Macy like the Philips family would start calling her and as such, Macy left her phone with May.At this time, Richard had already arrived and he was standing next to May outside the room where Macy and Angela were as they watched what was happening on the phone.“Hello, I want to talk to Macy please,” Andy said when he realized that the one who had received his call wasn’t Macy.“She isn’t available at the moment,” May answered and as she was about to hang up, she heard the name.“Tell her it’s Andy,” Andy said and May looked at Richard.“Who is it?” Richard asked.“Andy,” May said simply and she put the phone on Richard’s outstretched hand.“Hello?” Richard said as he put the phone to his ear. “Who is this?” Richard asked though he already knew it was.“I am the one who should be asking you that question. Who
79. "Andy baby, how are you?" The Jones matriarch asked as she encompassed her son in a hug.Andy bend and laid his head on his mother's shoulder and he felt like he had a million and one things to tell her but he didn't even know where to start.He relished her warmth for a while and then raised his head."Are you okay?" Mrs Jones asked as she looked at him.Andy looked at his mother and felt tears sting his eyes and his nose.He looked upwards and breathed in and when he looked at his mother again, he had a small smile on his lips though it didn't reach his eyes."I am well mama. I am well," he said as he walked past her into the house.He didn't want her to see him she'd tears.He had tried not to get hurt by all that he heard Angela say but there was no helping it.He could still not believe that Macy was right all along.Andy always thought that Macy was jealous of them as Angela always said but now, he knew better.He walked into the living room and found his father who was sitt
80. "I want to kill her! I want the damned bitch dead!Oh my goodness.My baby boy.My baby boy.Mama is so sorry.I swear I didn't know.How could I have known?"On the other side of the city, things were worse in the Philips home.All along, they had been lying to the Philips matriarch that it was Macy who didn't want to come back home.They told the old lady that Macy had refused to stay in the same house with Angela and when she tried asking Macy, Macy just went with the flow for she didn't want to worry her grandma.She also knew that if she told the old lady the truth, the other family members, her parents to be precise, would deny everything and back up their adoptive daughter whom Thwy treated better than their real one.Macy didn't want to argue with them and she was waiting for the right moment to drop the bomb and this was better than she had expected though she didn't know that she would also revisit old wounds at the same time."But she might be under the influence of a d
81. Macy let Richard lead away from that room and she felt like she was in a dream.Seven years ago, she was still that naive girl who had come from a small village in rural Connecticut and had thought that Angela had her interests at heart. Weren't they sisters after all?She thus still believed it when Angela said that she was sorry for all the pranks she had pulled on Macy and that she wanted to apologize.That was why and how Macy found herself in the hotel with Angela where her drink was spiked.She wasn't sure if it was the food or the drink but she had been drugged and her body was on heat.Through her stupor, she could tell that Angela had organized for men to sleep with her and the last thing Macy wanted was to lose her virginity to strangers.She had talked to Andy earlier in the day and he had promised her that he would return and she had even taken the key card at the receptionist.She was ready to give herself to him because he had proven to be a good man who had waited
82. Macy looked at Richard long and hard and decided that this was the prize she was to pay for what she decided to do to Angela.She knew that she wasn't worthy to be with Richard for he was a good man and deserved a good woman but she wasn't that.The fact that she had slept with someone she didn't know made her feel dirty and like she wasn't worthy.Even though she loved the child she had carried and loved with albeit for a few months, she hated herself.But on the other hand, she was happy that the man was unknown for had he been known who UT was, she was sure that she would have been forced to marry him and that was something she didn't want to live with.She wanted to be free and do what she wanted.She this decided to tell Richard everything and make him realise that she wasn't worthy to be called mama by Mel.She didn't talk in the vehicle and Richard didn't push her.She waited until they came to the villa and luckily enough, Mel was asleep and she thus wouldn't have to prete
128. By the time Richard and Macy were done with entertaining the guests, time was far much spent.They thus decided to retire to their room and then leave for their honeymoon the next morning. Richard carried Macy across the threshold as was traditionally unacceptable for a groom to let his wife to enter the door walking in her first day as a wedded wife.Macy was so happy that she felt as if whatever she had going through was being compensated. By the time Richard was placing her on the bed that had been decorated with red roses, her ribs were tired from all the laughing.She was happy.She had two children and a man who adored her. She could not ask for more. “Do you want to take a bath first?” Richard asked her after helping her take off the high heeled shoes she had been wearing.“Yes. I will go first,” she told him.“Okay. I will help you prepare the bathtub," he offered."No. That's okay. I want to have a shower because I am tired. I just want to lay down,” she said and he n
127. The moment was intimate and all Richard could see was Macy. He didn't want to think of everyone gathered in the hall because he hated crowds and the reason why he did all this was for her.Another reason he held this wedding on an island was to make sure that not many people attended.The air was charged with excitement as those gathered waited to hear what Richard would say. Some wondered if it would be as heart touching as Macy's or if it would be blunt. As Richard took a deep breath, the crowd fell silent, anticipation hanging in the air. He turned to Macey, her eyes sparkling with joy, and began to speak the words he had carefully crafted in his heart. “Macy,” he started, his voice steady yet brimming with emotion, “from the moment I met you, I knew you were the one I wanted to spend my life with. You are my rock, my confidante, and my greatest adventure. With you, I have found a love that I never knew existed.”Tears glimmered in Macey’s eyes as Richard continued, recountin
126. “Macy, darling, we are so sorry for everything that we did. Please find it in your heart to forgive us," Mrs Phillips said and Macy just stood there both embarrassed and angry.She wondered why they had to make a scene even though she had allowed them in.“We are also thankful that you allowed us to your wedding. Thank you so much darling," her father added.“Just sit and let us continue," Macy said feeling all embarrassed because there were other people in the hall who weren't family and although it wasn't a secret now after the live broadcast of Angela washing her dirty linen in public that these people had neglected their own daughter and nurtured the one who had killed their own son, she wasn't ready to deal with them.This was supposed to be her day and not theirs.“No, darling. We won't sit unless you say that you have forgiven us," her mother, Mrs Phillips, said and she sighed.“You do realise that today is supposed to be about me and not you, right?" Macy asked the two wh
125. Macy couldn't believe that this day was here. All her life ever since she found out that she had slept with a stranger and got pregnant, she never thought that she would ever get a man to love her but here she was.Not only did this man love her but was also the father of her child-ren.She followed Richard's footsteps until they came to the raised dais where her brother, Asher, May, Mel and Jared were standing.For the first time ever, Macy got to see May in a flowing dress.She had always seen May with leather pants or jeans pants and leather jackets. But now, she really looked like a girl.Macy stood on the left side of Richard where she was directed and they faced the people.She hadn't gotten the time to look at this place since they obviously had got there at night and she hadn't gone around since, well, she was getting ready for this.The hall wasn't as big and she even didn't know that they were on an island but she felt the waves hit rocks and she, at first, thought that
124. Life is a blessing and we only have one of it. In this life, we have plenty of challenges and heartbreaking events that we at times feel like we won't be able to move on from but as long as we have theones we love right beside us it makes it all worth it.One of life's gifts is finding someone you can share the rest of your life with, someone who will be there for you through thick and thin and love you for who you arenot what you have.Richard had found such a person who was currently lying in his arms. He wanted nothing more but to spend the rest of his life with this woman and no one else. As he lay on the bed his gaze lingered on Macy with a hard to describe smile on his face. He couldn't believe that he had been this lucky.He also smiled when he remembered when he was drugged by his brother. He almost killed his brother but now, he was happy and he would even reward Asher with the latest Tesla that he had been asking for.They had arrived at his uncle's villa on the Indi
123. “Mom, hurry up, we have to leave," Mel hurried her mother who was still getting ready. It wasn't that Macy wasn't ready it was just that she had just been informed by her man that they were leaving in an hour's time and they were going for a vacation. “What should I carry? Why didn't you tell me at least yesterday and I would have gotten ready!" She had complained wondering where to start. “Don't worry about that. It was a surprise and we already packed for you. All we want is for you to go with us," he has said and the children had beamed. “Yes ma, just wear something and let's leave. This will be my first vacation with my real family," Jared had urged and that was how Macy had found herself getting ready and now, she was wondering what to wear because she had even forgotten to ask where they were going. “Where are we going again? What do I wear?" She shouted from her bedroom and Richard shouted back, “just wear anything. One of those cute dresses of yours.” "Yes mama. The
122. Since Macy said yes to marrying Richard and they got their boy back, Richard had become like Macy's second cloth.He would be wherever she was and if he wasn't lying on her if she was sitting, he would be touching her here and there provided he could feel her.He even spent his days in the studio watching her film but Macy didn't mind although people started talking.For the first time, the mysterious first son of the Armstrong family started showing up in public.This clingy behaviour went on for a month though it wasn't as severe as before. He stopped following a lot but he would casually send cute texts and pictures whenever they were apart.All of a sudden, the ice cube who had no social media accounts created them and shared with the world that he was the happiest man alive.His IG moments were always filled with things like 'My Beautiful fiancè made me breakfast today #inlove' followed by a picture. Sometimes it was random pictures of Macy doing the most regular of things
121. Did you guys hear? The dark angel was finally picked up by the police.For real? Where? I wish I was there and I would have thrown the first stone.Bitch doesn't deserve jail. She deserves hell.I pity the women she will share a cell with. She might off them.Some people like her deserve Azkaban.Oh, only if Harry Potter wasn't fictional.This one doesn't deserve death. Let her suffer in jail for years and years.Lawwd! Why am I not the judge.Guys, y'all here talking about the dark angel and none of you pities the girl whose life she destroyed.Upstairs. You forgot her husband. Poor fella.If he needs a wife, yours truly is here.Upstairs… *laugh emoji* keep dreaming. If I were him, I would be running at the sight of women. Baaaad news! Upstairs: *gun emoji* *grenade emoji*Those and more were the snippets of conversation going on in the new account someone opened on Facebook dedicated solely to bashing Angela.She had been picked by the police the day after Doctor Maxwell con
"A wedding?" Ash asked, low-set ginger brows furrowing even deeper."Why so fast?" He shouted this time."A wedding," Richard said with a slow grin,and a collective set of gasps filled theair. "I'm gonna marry her on the thirtyfirst this month. I want to belong to her, legally. I want to say those vows you see in movies, to give her not just my mind and body and heart, but the very essence of my soul. I want to give it all since I'm in this relationship for the forever haul.""Er, a-a-actually, uh," Kyle stammered, looking flustered, "well, um... y-yeah,we could do that. But don't you think that we could give my sister some time to prepare? She is a girl and they tend to want everything to be meticulous," he said and they all looked at him.Dinner had been eaten and now, then men were in the pool room playing pool whole the women were somewhete catching up.Richard had just dropped the bomb that he wanted to marry Macy by the end of the month which was like a week and a few day