Chapter 47
-GIRCENN
My time stands still as 1 stare at the little girl staring back at me.
My blood rises and then falls immediately.
There is no way on God’s green earth, I just heard this child call me daddy.
I glance at Naomi, she is standing five feet away from me.
She raises her eyebrows at me, holding our boys like her life depends on it.
I look up at Kimberly, my ex–wife who starts walking up to me, with a sinister grin on her face.
“Long time no see, Circenn” she beams at me.
As she gets close to me, she rests her hand on my shoulder and leans closer to my ear. “The cameras are getting in the way of a family reunion. So why don’t we head inside and save time”
Her thick chested voice chases every living soul in me and I try not to react in accordance to how I a
am feeling.
With my head jiggled and completely scattered.
I walk into the grand hall with my twins and their mother and then with my ex–wife and my unexpected daughter.
How the hell did things go south! And the stupid photographers did not fail to capture Kimberly and her moment. In a short amount of time, they can let things go astray by making up a story for the media.
I’ll be best if I buy them off.
I scoot close to Naomi and notice how intimidated she looks staring at extravagant surroundings,
The grandeur of the party, the lavish decorations and the esteemed guests seems to be overwhelming her.
Her eyes start to dart back and forth between the places.
She is trying to hide how intimidated she feels, but I can see through her like a clear boule.
“Can you stay with the boys for a few minutes? I have an important call to make”
She immediately turns to me and rests her fingers on my arm, as to keep me in place
“What’s going on? And that woman” she glances at where Kimberly is. “Who is she?”
She sounds just as surprised as I am.
dad.
I’m sure she didn’t hear the bullshit Kimberly muttered in my ear and how that little girl called me d
“I don’t know what’s going on either, but before things get out of hand. Stay here with the boys and avoid talking to my Ex–wife My last sentence rolls off my tongue bitterly and I watch Naomi’s face flinch at it
“That’s.. the Kimberly?” Naomi asks.
“Till be right back” I ignore her question and start to make my way down the hallway, where there are no eyes or music or any man–made shenanigans to disrupt my call.
Iphone Ralph when I get to a quiet area and he answers after the first ring.
I start to debrief him about Kimberly and encourage him to hurry and pay off the photographers to keep their mouths shut about my sudden
female child.
turn of events. So
I have serious doubts about Kimberly’s trustworthiness. And her unexpected appearance at a family gathering is quite a shocking turn until I verify that, that young girl belongs to me. I refuse to let another personal business of mine be undermined by the press
I throw my phone inside my blazer’s breast pocket and make my way back to the foresaken party.
How dare she
It’s quite surprising how Kimberly has reappeared in my life out of the blur, especially after she left me due to my perceived incapacitinon.
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And now she shows up with a child‘ The child I couldn’t give to her!
A damn child
That kid looks nothing like met
I feel so annoyed I could burst into flames any moment from now.
Kimberly is a liar.
That’s all she is, she is as pretty as deception can be.
Just like how she made me believe she was in love with me.
Kimberly is the first woman I have ever looked at and concluded to myself that I wanted her to be mine. When I had outdone myself and started a cosmetic company seven years ago. She was one of the models that stood out to me.
She was of pure beauty and every time she laughed, it did something to my head.
I decided to Ignore her after figuring out I am just attracted to her because of how beautiful and captivating she was to me and everyone else.
I really wasn’t ready to get glued to one person, but then one day I had a conversation with her.
I found out that she was just not pretty, but was also an interesting woman.
She was funny
She had a great sense of humor.
We got close in the nick of time and harbored the same feelings for each other, and like a compelled man, I proposed to her and got an expected
answer.
Our relationship got off on a rocky start, with our private lives into the spotlight from the beginning. As a beloved model, she was constantly hounded by paparazzi and fans, and while she lapped up and loved the attention. It took a devastating toll on our relationship.
I felt like our love was being suffocated by the constant inspection, like we were living in a fish bowl with the whole world watching our every move
Every date, every move, every intimate moment was splashed across headlines and I couldn’t help but feel like our relationship was more of a public spectacle than a genuine connection.
It was like our love wasn’t real until it was validated by the media, the pressure was suffocating and it ultimately crashed a part of us.
I tried to ignore Kimberly’s warn–off and convinced myself like a fool that our love was strong enough to overcome the chaos surrounding us.
I loved Kimberly with every fiber of my being 1 gave her my all, my heart and soul.
But as time went on, I realized my love wasn’t being reciprocated in the same way at all.
I was giving more, sacrificing more and loving more, while Kimberly seemed to be taking, using and exploiting my love for her own gain.
I wondered if she ever truly loved me, or if I was just a wealthy convenient accessory to her glamorous life.
The painful truth started to hit me like bricks. I loved her more than she loved me.
That was if she ever loved me at all.
And then when I got diagnosed with an early stage of Hodgkin Lymphoma, she got distant.
I thought my world was crashing down around me when I heard the devastating diagnosis. But somehow, I managed to keep my composure and hold onto hope after finding out the type of cancer was highly curable and I had nothing to drag about since it was an early stage.
I spent a full year in treatments, enduring rounds of radiation and chemotherapy, which ultimately saved my life.
However the aggressive treatment came with a steep price.
It left me infertile.
And Kimberly shattered my world with her words
“I care about you deeply, but I have to be honest with you Circenn. I need to be honest with you and myself- I want to have a family and my own childern one day. And I can’t see a future with someone who is unable to have children. I know it’ll wear off but when? It unglu take years and i just can’t I know this isn’t your fault but bean’t do this with you. I want my own family”
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I can still recall her words like it was yesterday.
part of my flesh. None of the treatment I underwent painfulness
Because every word she had breathed out felt like knives cutting through every part came as close as Kimberly’s words.
And now She’s back because she’s with my child. When she left because I couldn’t give her one.
No fuckin way.
I get into the hall and the party’s music makes me burn on the inside.
I make eye contact with Naomi who is at the other end of the hall and is about to fix a shot in her mouth.
She stops and tilts her head.
She looks gorgeous.
Not that I want to notice that about her. I have plenty more things to worry about than her in a red dress.
I look away and look around for Kimberly. When I don’t see, I take a stride towards Naomi and her boys.
“Is everything okay?” I ask
She smiles.
“Of course, why wouldn’t everything be!”
“Did Kimberly talk to you?” I ask.
Naomi shakes her head.
“Good. I don’t want that woman near y-
“And why are you running away from me Circenn
Kimberly’s thirk voice suddenly takes up the space between Naomi and 1
