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CHAPTER EIGHTY
Stillness
"Hey!" I greeted my friend, Achraf as he alighted from the boat. My hands in my pocket, I moved closer to him
"Hey, Kyks" he replied
"I thought your kids were coming with you"
"Yeah, Hiba changed plans last minute" he explained "Something about some shoot, I don't even understand her anymore"
We turned toward the house and started going up the stairs
"How are things with her?" I asked even though I knew they were not good.
"As fucked up as things can be" He stated shaking his head "But she is trying. I can see that. For the kids, we are trying to be civil with each other"
I patted his back to comfort him
"And how is your lady?" He inquired innocently and I let out a heavy sigh as the tight knot in my throat refused to loosen up
Sensing my distress, he stopped walking and gave me a hard look
"Is Marcus still in the picture?"
I turned back to face him on the stairs
"I wish I can go back to the days when Marcus was my biggest problem"
His look soften at that "Is she not improving?" I shook my head "What is the doctor saying?"
"They are trying to manage the situation but they are also asking us to prepare for the worst"
"She could lose the baby?"
I nodded my head in frustration "I don't know what I am going to do if that happens"
"Hey! Let be hopeful"
"If anything happens to the baby, it would break her, maybe us too"
He climbed up the last step between us and placed his hand over my back
"Hey, have faith" he tried to console me
"This is not the way my life should be right now" I lamented strongly "I should be in Madrid living the life with my healthy wife expecting our first kid. This was not what I envisioned at all and to make matters worst, the doctor is asking us not to attempt having another baby after this"
"Why?"
"With her health status, Bewa might not live through another pregnancy"
"Fuck!" He exclaimed "I guess it was a good thing, Frances harvested her eggs when she did"
"What?" I threw him a glare
"Hey!" He raised his hands up "I am just trying to let you know that hope is not lost. All I am saying is that, if things go to shit and I hope it does not. You and Bewaji have viable zygotes somewhere and all you just have to do is find a surrogate to carry them to term"
"What zygotes?" A voice asked and we looked toward the direction of the voice to find Alice standing at the top of the stairs
I froze, then my heartbeat quickened and echoed in my ears
"Hello Alice" Achraf greeted
"Achraf wanted to say hi to Bewa" I managed to find my voice hoping to distract her "His kids couldn't make it"
"I asked you a question, Kylian. What viable zygotes do you have with Bewa Somewhere"
"I am going to let you explain this, I will be inside with the lady of the house" Achraf said and ran up the stairs leaving me to face the music with Alice.
"Start talking Kylian"
Mouth opened with eyebrows widen, Alice looked at me with shock
"So Bewa never had Polycystic syndrome?" She asked with a low voice as she looked at me with wonder.
I nodded
"This was all a grand scheme set up by Frances and Lola to steal Bewa's eggs?"
"Technically, it is not stealing if she consented to it"
"Are you seriously on their side right now?" She shouted at me
"Of course not, all I am saying is that legally, she didn't steal the eggs"
"And when all this was going on where were you?"
"I know how this looks but she did all of this without my knowledge and I wouldn’t have found out if you didn't inform me about her test result"
"But why will she do this?" Alice questioned
"She wanted to speed things up, so we can be done with Bewa"
"And all she could think about is concocting this demonic plan, is she the same France we both know?"
"Believe me, I asked myself that question throughout the remainders of our relationship. She changed so much"
Alice hissed and suddenly hurries up the rocky steps
"Where are you going?" I questioned her
"Where else, to inform Bewaji of course"
I hurried after her and grabbed her arm strongly to stop her
"What are you going to tell her?"
"Exactly what you just told me"
"And how are you going to do that? Hey, Bewa you remember the test you took that confirmed you had PCOS, turns out it was a ruse. Frances, your best friend wanted you out because you were sleeping with her boyfriend" I tattled sarcastically
"Yes, maybe I should tell her like that" She yelled back at me
"In her condition, knowing how hard she takes things, I thought you love her"
"There is just too many secrets, too many atrocities that has been done to that woman and she does not even know that"
"And you think the time for her to know that is now, when she is in danger"
She scoffed "When you put like that, you make me sound unreasonable"
"That is because you are" I blurted out without filter. I sighed lightly and continued in a low voice "Is it unfair that she is in the dark about the situation, yes and she deserves to know the truth but there is time for everything and now is not the fucking time for that"
She paused and sighed heavily. I can tell that she was very shaken by what she just learnt
"I can't believe it was all a lie" She looked at me with anguish "You were aware of how this messed her up, she thought it was her fault. How could you know about this and not tell her"
"How would I tell her, without exposing the truth?" I defended myself
"So what, to save yourself, you allowed her pain and misery to continue. You let her carry the burden of something that was not her fault. How could you do this to her?" She chastised in disgust and I lost the last line of defense in me
"You make me a selfish man when you put it like that"
"That is because you are, you are much worst than Frances herself and you claim to love her. You don't deserve" she argued and my heart broke at her utterance. Alice has always been our biggest supporter. if she is saying this, then something is wrong with
"But you are right, there is no use putting her through unnesscary pain" She continued " But after she has the baby, you will tell her"
"Of course, I...."
"And not just about the zygotes" She cut in "But about everything you have kept from her, if you don't, I will be your biggest nightmare"
I hesitated "Of course" I agreed
"So, where are the zygotes?" She asked
"What about them?"
"Do I like how they came to be? I fucking don't but Achraf was right about one thing, if things go to shit, It would bring relief to Bewa if she has something to fall back to, so where are they?"
"I don't know anything about the zygotes, Frances handled everything"
"And when was the last time you fucking spoke to her?"
Oh shit!
"Lola harvested the eggs, they must be with her"
I brought out my phone to call Lola and she picked up on the second ring
"Hey Kylian! Long time" she greeted
"The zygotes you made with my sperm and Bewa's eggs, where are they?"
"Why are you asking me about them?"
"What do you mean why am I asking you about them, you made them, didn't you?" I was practically yelling into the phone
"Yeah but Frances transferred them" she stated
I experienced a sudden stillness as the news struck and my heart pounded vigorously in my ear
"What do you mean by that?"
"It means exactly what I just said, was this not a joint decision"
"Were you not aware that Frances does not represent me anymore" I lashed out at her
"I don't appreciate your tone, Kylian and this happened before that ordinance"
Suddenly, I remember my last conversation with Frances. This was what she meant when she said she took what she wanted and that she would make me suffer painfully
"What did she say?" Alice asked me when I dropped the call
"Frances had them transferred"
"Shit!" She exclaimed, she paced a little, then turned to me with a scorn "Of course, you won't be Kylian, if you don't royally fuck up. I don't care what you have to do, you must get those zygotes back"
She walked past me but not before nudging me with her shoulder
TO BE CONTINUED ON NEXT SATURDAY, 9.00PM WAT.
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