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98. Macy was running through a maze as she laughed merrily. She and two children were playing hide and seek and she was the one who was hiding.“Maaaa! Come on out now. You won't be It," the voice of a boy said and Macy stopped."Kay, have you found her?” A girl asked.She could clearly tell that the girl was Mel but she had no idea who the boy was.His voice want familiar.She decided to go to them and see who it was. From her memory, she could remember playing hide and seek but she couldn't remember who the boy was.As she ran back, the maze dissipated and she found herself in a house.The house looked Victorian and everything in it screamed opulence. She looked around and couldn't remember whose house it is as or what she was doing there.“Mel?" She shouted but the voice echoed back to her.The chairs in the house looked expensive. Very expensive and she wondered whose house it was and why she was there.There was no sign of life save for her and then she saw Richard.His eyes la
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98. “Yes boss, they won’t leave and we have tried everything,” that was Moses, Mr Philips personal assistant said through the phone.Since the day they found out that Macy had been the good one in the story all along and that their favourite daughter was the villain, they had felt so remorseful that Mr. Philips could barely go to work. Mrs Philips, the one who was usually and always everywhere, wasn’t anywhere to be seen.The two, at the command of old Mrs Philips who was now calling the shots, were cooped up inside the house. They couldn’t even show their faces to the world because they were too embarrassed to.Angela was the person they introduced to everyone as their daughter. In fact, some of their closest friends didn’t know the truth. The media, the public, the Board of Directors of Philips Enterprises and the authorities were all at their necks. Everyone wanted Angela. The media – the story would sell and they thrived on such gossipThe public – she had killed a teacher and a
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100. As Mr and Mrs Philips were kowtowing and currying favours with their mama bear who didn't seem to care and who seemed to wish that they would just disappear off of the face of the earth, Macy was in delirium.She didn't know where she was or what to make of the situation. All she knew was that the place she was in was very hot and she wanted to get out.She could feel someone touching her with something cold and she wanted to ask the person to decrease the temperature even more but she didn't have the voice to.After a while, she felt something prick her hand and she could feel something cool and soothing running through her veins and sleep took her.But even in sleep, she couldn't sleep well because she kept having the same dream… no, the same nightmare. She wanted to wake up but even when she did, she couldn't even open her eyes. They were heavy and her body just wanted to sleep.But she could feel that there was wormhtjhg important she wanted to do but she couldn't remember wh
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101. “When I disappeared for the five years, I was actually running away. Running away from work and from my family. I was tired and injured. I was limping and even if my leg healed, the bones never aligned and it was painful but I was determined to live a normal life.So, I changed my identity and all and got a job in a cafe.It didn't pay much but it kept me going until I fell in love.But now that I am in love, I am not sure that what I had wout Cassy was low at all. Now that I think about it, I think I was just grateful to her because she stood up for me when everyone else was insulting me.”"You are in love? Who's Cassy? And who are you in love with? And why didn't I know all this?” Joey interrupted and Richard groaned with annoyance from deep withing his throat.“If you interrupt me again, I won't tell you," he warned.“Sorry. It's just curiosity and … never mind. Go ahead,” Joey said."It all stared one day when I was sent to deliver food like I always did and this time, it was
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102. “So, just asking… don't look at me like that Rich. You know I love you and I always got your back and that's why I want to know and if not from you, from who else?” Joey defended quickly after he saw the look Richard was giving him.Richard wasn't a fan of talking about his issues and he didn't have many friends.But from that day he talked to a boy who was being bullied from home to school, he had a person stuck to him as a parasite and he liked Joey's talkative nature and Joey didn't seem to mind even when Richard was quiet.All Joey did was talk for the both of them until Richard grew fond of him and well… here they were.Richard knew for sure that Joey would rather die than tell anyone anything about him and that was why he was here answering the man's questions.“Ask," Richard said and Joey beamed.“If she didn't plan to get you, how did you know that she was the one who you did it with?Of all the women who could have come your way, why her?" Joey asked, trying to analyse t
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103. “So, it wasn't a dream? It was all real?" Macy asked as she sat on the bed.Joey was done examining her and he had concluded that she was alright.They had both been surprised that they had been talking for two hours and that's why they hadn't even thought of looking in on her.But Macy was a fighter and no sickness has ever been able to put her down.“No. It wasn't a dream," Richard answered as he held her hand.Macy looked at the interconnected palms and felt strange.When Richard first asked her to be with him, she would never have thought that they have more together than Mel and the love she had tried to deny because she wasn't pure, according to her standards.But who would have ever thought that she fell in love with the same man who took her first?She couldn't believe it and she had been so shocked that she ran a fever but she was okay now.“Yo, Rich…” Joey called with a smile that told Richard that he wasn't going anywhere and wanted an intro."Don't you have anywhere t
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104. Macy looked at the caller ID and it was a new number. A number she hadn't saved in her phone book and she didn't answer.Richard didn't say anything as he looked at her and continued holding her had playing with her fingers.“So, have they been located? Maxwell, that is," Macy asked to break the tension she could feel brewing between them.She knew that Richard felt guilty for her breakdown but she wanted him to know that it wasn't any fault of his. “It wasn't your fault you know," Macy said looking at him kindly.He seemed lost in thought as he hadn't even answered hernqiestion yet.“What? Oh, sorry. Cash is still looking for them but he tells me he's on their trail. I am trying to think who might be helping them,” Richard said because something didn't feel quite right.He knew that Maxwell was just a doctor and even if he had money, it wasn't to such an extent that he could hide.Thay would only mean that someone was helping them hide. Someone who either didn't know that the c
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105. Macy rode to the address and it took her roughly forty minutes and that meant that she was there before time. She had a few minutes to spare but what meant that she had time to survey the property and maybe get a hang of it.The address she had been given was an abandoned factory. It looked like it was once a paper factory since there was a lot of empty pulp drums lying around empty and all dried up.She went inside the old and dirty premises and it was all quiet.The only sound she could hear was the sound of her boots connecting with the floor softly.She knew the silent foot and she thus walked silently and she could only hear the sound of the boots because she had a trained ear.The silent foot was where one would walk silently no matter the size of their feet or the type of shoes one was wearing. It called for one lightening their legs and making the torso carry most of the weight.This is achieved by bending outwards at an angle of seventy five degrees and then projecting t
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
