“Don’t disappoint me Richard, go and experience her sorry state, then you will hate her for being filthy and I will help you finish her off.” Mandy thought as she smacked coldly.
Unbeckonist to her, her erily smile had fallen to Richard’s eyes.
When she was gripping his shirt, he has quickly put a mini camera on her sleeve button. It was so tiny that is was not visible to the naked eye.
After he received Linda’s call, although he almost flipped out from anger, he forced himself to calm down. He could not make any informed decisions when he was angry and it could even lead to more fatal consequences.
Thus he started to go through everything that has happened. Although his father’s health was not so good, it was not to the extent that he will suddenly faint. He was using the best medicine in the world and he had ordered the maid to be administering it on time. His father also loved his body and could not make a fuss about not taking the medicine.
His father fainted and Amanda was kidnapped, he was pretty sure that someone was trying to lure him away from saving Amanda.
Although he was angry, he had been watching Mandy’s expression, and seeing her uneasy expression after he received the call, his suspicion only grew.
When she gripped his shirt and told him not to go, he immediately knew that he was right. He has always know that Mandy was not a good person, but every time he wanted to deal with her, Amanda had always stopped him saying that he should consider his father’s feelings even of they were not on good terms.
Richard has always relented because he listened to his wife more.
After he left the corridor, he made a series of calls as he issued several commands.
He called his assistant and told him to head to the hospital to keep watch as he left in his car.
Although he appeared calm on the outside, his heart was very nervous. He did not know if he will make it in time.
“Amanda hold on. I’m coming to save you!” He thought silently in his heart..
Amanda was still in the car. The speed has reduced since they were out of town and the terrain was not good.
She was still trying to distract her kidnappers.
“Who is your boss?” Amanda asked.
“You have no right to know who our boss is?” The person who was sitting in the passenger seat said.
“How much did they pay you. I will pay you double… no triple… you know what I will just pay you however much money you want as long as you let me go.” Amanda threw out her bet.
From their conversations, she had learned that this people only cared about money and they will do anything to get.
They were a gang who did illegal activities to make a living.
“Are you kidding? Do you know how much money was paid just to get you?” The man in the passenger seat said. He seemed to be the most talkative among the three of them.
“I’m not kidding, just name your price. As long you let me go I will give you whatever you want.”
Seeing that their bro was almost brainwashed by the woman, the two sent her nasty looks.
“Shut up woman. You will not convince us of anything. Our boss only commanded us to kidnap you. Everything is beyond our control.” The one sitting beside Amanda said.
Actually they did not know how much money their customer had paid, all they knew was that it was a good amount of money and if they did a good job, they will be rewarded handsomely.
Seeing that they were getting angry, Amanda immediately shut up and closed her eyes to rest. She did not know if Richard will find her in time.
….
Richard on the other hand, was already racing. He has passed many red lights and was starting to alarm the authorities.
He had placed a GPS tracker on Amanda’s phone. Luckily when Amanda was forced out of the car, she was still clutching her handbag and now it was with her.
Seeing the red dot on his phone disappearing into the suburbs, he had a bad feeling. What if he lost the connection with her. After all the outskirts had poor network coverage and even the GPS could not function well. He could only urge his driver to driver faster.
The person who had been called boss stood up and moved to where Amanda was. He bent infront of her and held her chin up forcing Amanda to look at him.
When she saw his face closely, Amanda got the shock of her life and her heart almost stopped beating.
Wasn’t this Godfrey, the one person who was feared in the whole country.
Rumours had it that he was the most dangerous gang leader in the underworld, no one messed with him and remained alive.
She had heard of him in her past life. She remembered his face because he was once number one on the criminals wanted list. His pictures were posted everywhere and everyone in the city knew him. The government had put a 100 million bounty on his head. To many, he was known as the godfather of her underworld.
But even when she died, the person had not been found.
In both her lifetimes, this was the first time she has been in close contact with him.
Amanda felt that God must have played a prank on her. Did he give her another life just to die at the mercies of this gangster?
“Woman, do you know who I’m?” Godfrey asked when he noticed that the woman before him was looking at him with fear and trepidation. It seemed she knew him and was aware if his ruthless methods.
Amanda shook her head like a chicken pecking on the grains.
“You are really beautiful but unfortunately you offended someone you shouldn’t have.” Godfrey said, revealing a bloodthirsty smile.
“Sir, I think you must have made a mistake here!” Amanda tried to sound as calm as she could.
“I’m just a nobody who does not know how to offend anyone. Maybe you got the wrong person. Just let me go and I will tell no one about this.” Amanda said. She tried to sound as pitiful as she could in the hope of gaining this man’s sympathy.
But hell… this man had seen and been through a lot, her little tears could not work on him. His heart was cold without any feeling. He was like a war machine and only cared about the money.
“Boss, the woman said that she can give us whichever amount we want, as long as we let her go.” The person who had been talkative in the car said.
“Really?” Godfrey asked with interest.
“Yes boss. Just name your price. My boyfriend is very powerful and rich. Whatever price you name I will give it you as long as you let me go.copy right hot novel pub
” Amanda readily nodded.
“How unfortunate. The person who contacted us wants you dead, but after we’ve had out fun.” Godfrey said eerily smile.
Amanda felt goosebumps all over her body.
“Drag her over and prepare the cameras.” Godfrey ordered.
“My boyfriend is Richard Howell, he will never you let you off incase something happens to me.”
Hearing that, Godfrey stopped in his tracks. He knew who Richard was. Although he was just a CEO, he had a lot of contact in the underworld. He was not someone he did not want to mess with.
He was just a little surprised before he regained his confidence. He knew that a man like Richard will never risk his resources just because of a woman. When one is gone, he will just find another.
“Hehe you think that I’m scared of you. You are just a small fry, why would someone like Richard care about you. You are just a play thing for him. Once he gets tired of you, he will just cast you aside without caring about you.” Godfrey said.
“I would also like to have taste of a woman who will attract someone like Richard.” Although he had not planned on touching this woman as he deemed her dirty, he was now interested.
He was not the godfather of underworld like most people thought. He was only a stand in for his boss. Not many people have seen his boss because he was the one who usually accepted missions and talked to their customers.
Even those who followed him thought that he was the boss, but only he knew that there was someone more powerful than him.
Amanda felt despair. Even Richard’s name can’t make them yield, was she really going to die here today?
…
Back at the hospital, Leonard was wheeled out of the operating room. His face was pale and his eyes was tightly shut.
When Mandy saw him, she immediately hurried over but was stopped by Thomas. She somehow felt guilty because of what she did.
Leonard has treated her well since she was young. But she could not even spared his life in the name of achieving her goal. But her guilty soon fade away as she thought that she was doing him a favour by getting rid of Amanda.
“Why are you stopping me from seeing uncle?” Mandy asked Thomas.
Thomas eyed her coldly and said nothing.
From what his boss had said, this woman must the one responsible for getting Amanda kidnapped. She planned all of this and she still dared talk to him.
“Who are you stop me? You think that because you are Richard’s assistant you can do as you wish. Do you believe me that you will be fired once I tell him that you stopped me from taking care of his father?”
“You don’t have to worry about that Miss Mandy. It was the boss’s orders that you should not get close to his old man. You should just stay as far away as possible.”
Mandy was astounded. She could not do anything. She did not even get the chance to talk to the doctor and tell him what he should say.
As the nurse wheeled Leonard to the ward, Thomas followed the doctor.
“Doctor how is the patient?” Thomas asked when they reached the doctor’s office. Richard had specifically instructed him to do everything discreetly. Mandy was not supposed to find out anything. She was a suspect and they should not let her plan succeed.
“The patient was given some medicine that stimulate the heart attack, that is why he fainted.”
Thomas was shocked.
“You mean to say that someone intentionally tried to harm him?”
“Yes. The heart attack was induced. Someone must have placed the medicine in his drink.” The doctor said after seeing the analysis report.
“Thank you doctor. Other than me, do not say anything to anyone.” Thomas as he strolled out with a grave face.
He made a phone call and ordered his men to go to Richard’s house and collect evidence. After questioning the maids and finding out that Leonard fainted while he was drinking tea, they took his cup, luckily the maids had panicked and they had not touched anything.
The cup of tea was taken to the hospital so that the doctors can run more tests.
….
Vallery was discharged from the hospital and everyone was finally happy and relieved. Peter had also returned from his business trip and had gone to see his grandson.
Seeing them come at her with undisguised expressions and seeing their ugly faces, Amanda felt like throwing up.
The moment they tried to touch her, she hit the filthy hand away.
“Don’t touch me with your filthy hands.” Amanda said coldly.
“Woman, you better behave. We don’t have time to play games with you.” The man whose hand had been slapped away said in a sinister voice.
“You think that I’m afraid of you. Don’t you dare touch me. I warn you to keep your filthy and dirty hands away from me.”
“Hahaha, what are you going to do? You cannot be thinking that someone is going to save you or you are going to escape right? No one has ever escaped from the hands of our boss! You better cooperate before things get ugly.”
After the man said that, he tried to touch her again. Amanda took the chance and bit his hand hard with all her mighty. The man winced in pain not at all thinking that the woman will suddenly bite him. His hand turned numb from the pain.
“Woman are you a dog? How dare you bite me? Do you want to die?” The man said angrily as he sent a tight slap on Amanda’s cheek. She felt her head spinning from the slap and felt her vision blur.
Her face tilted to the side from the impact of the slap, a five finger imprint was already visible on her cheek. She could even feel a metallic taste in her mouth. She was pretty sure that she has lost a few teeth and even her mouth has been torn apart.
Sure enough when she spat out the blood in her mouth, a few teeth feel.
“If you touch me again, I will bite your fingers off.” Amanda said. Her face had already swollen to a pig’s state.
“Hehee I have never seen a defiant woman like you. Don’t you fear death?”
“I better die than be touched by you!” Amanda said.
Why would she be afraid of death when she has already died once. If this was her fate, then so be it. But she was a little regretful as she will not get the chance to spend more time with Richard.
“Boss she is refusing to cooperate, what should we do with her?” The man did not bother to talk to her anymore and turned to his boss.
“You have become really incompetent. You cannot even handle a single woman, don’t tell me you need me teach you what to do!” Godfrey said.
Having been ridiculed by his boss, the man got angry and roughly pulled Amanda’s hair. Amanda felt a stinging pain on her scalp and gave out a painful moan.
“Don’t touch her face though. I don’t want to have s*x with an ugly woman.” The boss said.copy right hot novel pub
He liked to watch people be tortured. It gave him some kind of relief.
“Yes boss.” The man nodded.
Having gotten his boss’s approval, the man was not gentle at all. He pulled Amanda by her hair without caring if she was getting hurt or not. Amanda felt so much pain. Her knees had been scraped since she was practically walking on them.
Her hair seemed to have been pulled out from her head. Her scalp became numb as she let the man pull her away. She did not even cry out in pain.
***
Richard was anxious and had rushed the driver several times. He wished he had wings so he could just fly over and rescue his girl.
The car soon stopped where the red dot had disappeared. Before even the car steadied, he had already jumped outside. On the way here, he had used up almost all his contacts to get people to surround this area. Since he was in the millitary before he took over the family business, he had alot of friends who he could contact to give a helping hand.
He did not know the strength of the enemy and would never take any risk. He would not put Amanda’s life in danger. Thus he made a lot of preparations. If those people did not know their place and wanted to play with fire, he did not mind opening one for them.
Richard walked forward as he gave a series of instructions in his walkie-talkie. As he moved forward, he saw an old building in the distance. The house was dimly lit and he guessed right away that, that was where Amanda was being kept.
“The location of the target has been locked, everyone stay alert and wait for more instructions.
” Richard said. If it was possible, he just wanted to quitely take Amanda and leave this damned place. He did not know how she was or if those people had mistreated her.
Richard rushed over without thinking about anything else and kicked the door open with a heavy kick.
The people in the room were shocked as everyone became alert.
“Who is it? Who dare bang in my territory?” Godfrey asked coldly as he pulled a gun and held it in his hand.
Richard entered the room without any fear. The aura that he was emitting was like that of the king of hell who has come to claim lives.
Everyone including Godfrey could not help but shudder. The temperature in the room suddenly cooled down.
Amanda, who was half conscious, thought that she was hallucinating due to pain when she saw the familiar figure of Richard. She wanted to utter a word but no word came from her mouth. She had been tortured beyond recognition.
Her face was swollen, although that man was told not to hit her face, he still gave her a few slaps.
Richard entered the moment they were starting to set the cameras, their boss had already removed his belt.
“Where is she?” Richard asked coldly without caring about the guns that they were pointing his way.
“I don’t know what you are talking about!” Godfrey said. Since it was dimly lit in the room and Richard was still standing at the door, Godfrey did not recognize him right way.
“The woman you kidnapped, where is she?” Richard asked, walking slowly towards the the room.
“You come into my territory and you want to act arrogant? Who do you think you are?” Godfrey asked.
“You don’t have the right to know who I am, just hand over the person.” Richard said coldly, he was starting to lose his patience.
“Are you talking about her?” Godfrey said as he pointed his gun at a certain corner.
Following his hand, Richard saw a woman crouching in a corner.
Her beautiful hair was in a mess and she was in a terrible state. She buried her head in her hands and was even trembling.
His pupils immediately dilated, he sprinted and in a blink of an eye he was before Amanda. Anger wailed up in his chest when she saw her beaten beyond recognition.
He immediately hugged her but Amanda tried to push him away. She might have thought that they were those people who still wanted to abuse her.
“Don’t touch me, stay away from me…” Amanda cried as she waved her hands in the air aimlessly.
Richard had no other choice but to comfort her lightly.
“It is me… it’s me… sorry I’m late… I will take you home.” Richard said as he stroked her back lightly.
Hearing the familiar voice and smelling the familiar scent, Amanda could not take it any more and the last shred of consciousness that she had maintained collapsed as she was shrouded in darkness.
When Godfrey clearly saw who the man was, his legs finally gave way. Even the gun he was holding in his hands fell down on the floor.
“Richard Howell… so this woman was telling the truth.” Godfrey was in a state of panic. Although he pretended to believe that woman when she said that she was Richard’s woman, but in realy sense, he did not believe her at all.
How could Richard Howell date a lowly actress. Before they accepted any mission, they had to do a thorough investigation on the person they were dealing.
They only knew that Amanda was a little famous in the entertainment industry, although she had a backer, the person who posted the mission refused to divulge any information, so they could only rely on the little information they gathered.
Godfrey did not have enough power in the underground like most people thought and only relied on the fact that his boss did not show himself in the public, to mess around. But he could not use the resources of the underworld like he wished.
So, with his little resources, he was not able to gather more information about Amanda. But he was also disdainful that she was only a little actress, who he needed not to pay attention to.
Having seen Richard come to personally rescue her, Godfrey knew that he had screwed up big time.
His boss had warned him several times that he can mess around as much as he want, but there are some people he dared not to touch. Richard happened to be one of those people.
“Mr Richard, sorry I didn’t know that Amanda was your woman, even if I was given a thousand guts, I will never dare touch her.” Godfrey did not wait for Richard to say anything. He kneeled down and started to kowtow without a care in the world.
His subordinates were astounded seeing their boss kneeling while banging his head on the ground.
What exactly was going on? They looked their boss dumbfounded. Seeing that they did not yet understand the seriousness on the matter, Godfrey stood up, kicked them to make them kneel before going back on his knees.
Richard only looked at them coldly without any expression on his face. He was hugging Amanda lightly, afraid that he will hurt her more than she already is if he exerted any more force.
Looking at her disheveled look, he did not want to think about the torture she had gone through. Her face was swollen, her body was covered in stains of blood, a huge piece of her hair was even missing.
Her breathing was unstable. Richard’s heart was hurting so much. He felt as if someone was squeezing every blood vessel in his heart with a forceps.
He walked over to the sofa and laid her down gently. As he was leaving, Amanda subconsciously clutched at the corner of his shirt. She was frowning in discomfort.
“Don’t worry, I’m right here. Nothing will happen to you… I will take you away in a while.” After saying that, he lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead.copy right hot novel pub
The light kiss immediately cooled Amanda down.
He then walked to the people who were kneeling on the ground.
“Who took her?” Richard asked, his voice was laced with sheer coldness.
Everyone looked at Godfrey without answering.
“Was it you?” Richard said, pointing his gun at Godfrey’s head.
Godfrey was scared stiff. He knew that if he delayed even for a minute, his head will be blasted open by the bullet.
“Bastards, why are you not talking?” He yelled at his minions.
“Who captured her when you went over?” Godfrey yelled.
“It was big 4!” Everyone pointed at the tall man who was kneeling at the far end of the room.
Without wasting a second, Richard fired a shot, and then another shot.
The man called big 4 fainted on the ground as his two hands were shot. The shot was precise and it hit his tendons accurately.
“Who touched her?” After shooting the man, Richard looked at them and asked again.
Everyone was trembling and even others peed on themselves.
Whoever was pointed at, his hands were shot.
They thought that Richard was the demon king, his aura was dark and oppressive even Amanda who was unconscious could feel it.
She heard gunshots, although she could not open her eyes, she was scared and curled up into a ball.
After Richard finished quenching his rage, he took Amanda and left the place. His was still angry though and really wanted to kill those people, but he could not as he still needed evidence to put someone behind bars.
“Come over, I want a confession, after that call the police.” Richard said over the walkie-talkie.
“Roger.”
Godfrey thought that the disaster was over and that the man had let them off, but hearing solid footsteps coming from outside the house, he knew that he was too naive.
Soon, he saw men wearing camouflage uniforms entering the door one after another. They were not too many, as Richard had ordered others to go back since it was not a big deal.
“Who is so disrespectful as to kidnap our sister-in-law?” Someone asked coldly.
“I’m yet to meet my sister-in-law and yet this people wanted to kill her?” Another person added.
“Brother Richard is so secretive it’s been long and he even got engaged but he is yet to introduce us to our sister-in-law, he is so mean.”
“Maybe he just want to let sister-in-law leave a carefree and normal life, you know how messy our circle is, I bet sister-in-law doesn’t know his other identity.” A young man who appeared to be in his late twenties said.
Hearing the familiar voice, Godfrey was shocked. Wasn’t that the voice of his boss.
Why is he here?
“Let’s see whose balls have grown to the extent that they can even kidnap Richard’s woman.” The man, called Andrew moved forward.
Andrew was the godfather of underwolrd. Many people did not know him, because it was Godfrey who used his title.
“Boss…” suddenly Andrew heard someone call him. Few people had the right to call him boss. They could be counted by fingers.
“Andrew, is it your person?” Actually, although all this people were army veterans, they too had unimaginable power in the underworld and they had their own people.
“It’s you!” After hearing the voice of the person who had called him, Andrew immediately rushed over and threw a deadly kick at man who who was trying to stand up.
The people who had fainted were jolted awake by the sudden voice.
Looking at their boss who his bones had been broken from the single kick, they drew in cold air. They could not help but tremble.
…
Richard rushed Amanda to the hospital at a lighting speed. When they reached the hospital she was rushed to the emergency room, Richard had doctors check every inch of her body and see if she sustained any internal injuries.
Seeing the doctor come out, Richard immediately rushed over.
“Doctor, how is she?” Richard asked, his voice sounded nervous and uneasy.
“She is fine. Luckily there is nothing life threatening, but she was lucky because her stomach was not hit or else she could have lost her baby.” The doctor said.
Hearing that, Richard’s mind turned blank. It was as if he had been hit by lighting as he stiffened.
“The baby! Do you mean she is pregnant?” Richard asked.
“You didn’t know, your wife is 8 weeks pregnant.” The doctor said.
“Ooh, thank you.”
Richard said, after a long. He did not know how to feel. He was too delighted that he laughed out loud.
The doctor looked at him astounded.
“What is wrong with this man? Can he have not known that his wife was pregnant?” The doctor did not mull over it for long and left.
Richard felt like crying. He was truly overjoyed that Amanda was carrying his baby. She was going to make him a dad. That feeling was too great.
But remembering that those people had almost killed his baby, Richard’s eyes turned frosty as he made a call.
“You don’t have to call the police, after you are done getting evidence, deal with them as you see fit. They almost caused by baby and my wife to lose their lives.”
“I got it.” The other person answered.
Amanda was enveloped in darkness, someone was chasing her, she tried to move towards the only source of light but she could not, no matter how much she tried, she could not reach it.
Her heart fell as she thought about the fate that awaited her. Was she already in hell. Had God really let her die?
Amanda fought to open her eyes but they were so heavy. Her eyelids seemed to carry tons of loads as she could not even move them. The darkness was suffocating her.
As she struggled with the darkness and almost gave up, she heard someone shout her name.
“Amanda hang in there, don’t give up. You cannot leave me alone. I will be right there to save you. Even if I can’t, I will gladly accompany you to hell. We will always be together, always.” The voice started to fade.
Amanda thought that the voice sounded familiar, but because of the darkness she could not tell out who was talking.
But she felt an explicit peace when she heard that voice. In her past life, no one cared about her like that. She even died alone in the prison.
Amanda fought heard to open her heavy eyelids.
What greeted her eyes was white a ceiling, it had a huge bulb that had already been turned off.
Her head was resting on a soft fluffy white pillow. Her hair was all over the place and her body was sticky with sweat.
Amanda looked at the blue and white walls and concluded that she was in a hospital. Seeing the IV bag hanged on the IV pole, Amanda was dazed.
It seemed that she was just having a nightmare and she was has not died.
She tried to move her hand but realised that something was clutching it tightly.
Amanda moved her head robitically only to come into view with a handsome face.
Richard was sleeping on the side of the bed while clutching her hand tightly. He seemed not to be sleeping peacefully as a frown was seen between his eyebrows.
He looked exhausted as his eyes, although closed, you could see the obvious eye bugs.
His santa claus had grown and it only added to his charm.
Amanda looked at the handsome face and immediately thanked the heavens that she was not dead.
Richard opened his eyes when he heard the movement beside him.
He was having a nightmare that he saw Amanda being consumed in flames but he could not do anything. No matter how much he called, Ananda never looked at him.
Opening his eyes and seeing that beautiful face infront of him, Richard was relieved.
“You are awake. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?” He asked, without releasing her hand.
“I’m fine just a little lethargic.” Amanda said. She was in fact feeling very unwell, but seeing his tired and worried face, she did not want him to feel heartache.
Richard reached out to touch her forehead, seeing that her fever had gone down, he gave out a sigh of relief.
She had suddenly developed a high fever at night. Since they could not administer any antibiotics due to the baby, they could only lower it naturally.
Richard stayed the whole night taking care of her and he had barely taken a wink.
“What happened?” Amanda asked.
“You were kidnapped!” Richard said.
“I know that. How did I end up here?”
“Silly, of course I saved you.” Richard said as he pinched her nose.copy right hot novel pub
“Did those people do anything to me?” Amanda asked.
“They just beat you, sorry I came late and made you go through all that… you almost lost your life and that of…” Richard did not finish his statement. When he was told that Amanda was pregnant, he was very delighted and forgot about everything.
After calming his mind down, he became unsure if Amanda will be willing to keep the baby, after all her popularity was on the rise and her career had just stabilized, taking a break for a year or so will mean that people will forget about her.
He did not want her to sacrifice her career because of him but he also hoped that she could keep the baby.
Seeing that Richard did not finish his sentence and he seemed to have a lot on his mind, Amanda looked at him with a questioning gaze.
“Darling, can I ask you something.” Richard probed lightly.
“What is wrong?”
“Err… if by any chance you got pregnant during this period of time, will you keep the baby?” Richard asked carefully, his eyes never leaving her face.
Amanda was stunned when she heard his question.
Why would Richard ask such kind of a question out of the blues. Was there something going on?
“Why do you ask?” Amanda asked.
“Mmm..can you answer first?”
“Of course it is our baby, I will keep it.” Amanda answered after thinking about it seriously.
She loved Richard so much. He has always been giving in to her and pampering her. She did not know what to do to show him how much she loved him, if giving birth meant that she can pour her feelings to him, then she would gladly do it.
Hearing her answer, Richard felt his eyes tear up. He could not help but direct his gaze at Amanda’s flat tummy. Amanda followed his gaze, and seeing where he was looking, her mind could not help but run wild.
Richard engulfed her in tight hug. But he was careful not to touch her belly.
“Thank you so much baby, you have no idea how happy I’m!” Richard said, he could not control his emotions and his tears finally fell.
“Why are you thanking me?” Amanda was still in the dark.
“Thank you for loving me and bringing light into my life…”
“Baby, you are pregnant!” Richard took her face into his hands, looked at her direct in the eyes and said word for word.
Amanda was stupified and looked at him dumbly. Her mind was slow to process what Richard had said.
“What did you just say?”
“Baby you are pregnant, 8 weeks pregnant!” Richard repeated himself and pulled her into another tight hug.
Amanda hugged him back.
She was pregnant with Richard’s baby, that was great, she was worried that she was going to die for a second time and will not have the chance to spend more time with Richard, but God even added another blessing on top, Amanda let her tears flow freely.
“Baby, are you feeling uncomfortable any where? Why are you crying?” Richard asked in a hoarse voice. His eyes were still wet but he was asking Amanda why she was crying.
Amanda could not help but laugh. She reached her hand to wipe the tears from Richard’s face.
“Same reason as you.” Amanda said as she smiled sweetly.
“But how comes I didn’t feel anything, it is already two months.” Amanda said, feeling that she was rather stupid and careless.
“You schedule has been tight, you hardly had time to rest, how could possibly notice anything?” Richard said. He could not allow Amanda to blame herself.
“I did not even notice my periods.” Amanda said.
“It is okay baby. Isn’t everything alright now.” Richard said as he kissed her on the face.
“Look at me… I even forgot to call the doctor to come and check on you.” Richard said as he slapped his face.
“Hey.
…”
“Wait, I will call the doctor right now.” Richard said as he pressed the call button on the bed.
After the doctor did a thorough check up on Amanda and confirmed that everything was fine, then did Richard relax.
He tucked her in bed, and only after confirming that Amanda was asleep did he leave the ward. He still had somethings to take care of.
***
“Speak.”
“Boss Mandy has been arrested. The evidence was enough to put her in jail for five years.” Thomas said over the phone.
He has been working tirelessly over the night to collect enough evidence that could help put Mandy behind bars.
“Good. Make sure that she stays there.” Richard said.
“Yes boss. Your father woke up in the middle of the night, you might want to visit him.” Thomas reminded over the phone.
“I got it.”
***
“Hey bro, why are you so mean? It’s been almost a year, when are you going to introduce sister-in-law to us?” A cheerful voice came over the phone. The person talking was Andrew.
“Soon.” Richard said, and before the other person could say anything, he hung up the phone.
He was in no mood to deal with certain people.
“Tks… this brother is choosing love over us bros.”
“Are you only noticing that now?” Someone asked with disdain.
After Richard hanged up his phone, he went to his father’s ward.
“Good morning father, how are you feeling now?”
“Son, how did I end up here?” His father asked, rather confused. The last thing he remembered was him drinking tea with Mandy, but how he ended up in a hospital bed, he has no idea.
The doctor even said that he had undergone a heart operation.
“Someone gave you medicine to trigger your heart condition.” Richard said.
“Who dare to poison me? I rarely leave home.” Leonard said.
“Who was the last person you were with?” Richard asked. He did not want to say that name out loud as it disgusted him.
Leonard thought about it and his expression changed.
No way would Mandy do such a thing to me.
Seeing his expression, Richard knew that he had thought through.
“It is as you think.”
“No way. How could that be? There is no way Mandy could do such a thing. I have treated her like my daughter ever since she was young.” Leonard said. He could not believe it and started to cough profusely.
“But she is not your daughter after all, even if she kills you, there is nothing she can lose.” Richard said.
“And beside, she made people to kidnap Amanda. If I was not first enough, you would not have been able to see your first grandchild.” Richard said.
Thinking about how his wife almost lost her life and that of his child, the anger in his heart almost suffocated him.
“What did you just say?” Leonard asked, his face turning pale.
“I’m sure Mandy is not that kind of a person. How could she do something so evil when she can’t even bear to kill an ant?” Leonard said, his face turning pale.
“Do you think I’m here to frame that woman. Amanda is still lying in the hospital bed. Those people were arrested and are the ones who confessed. Do you think that I have so much time as to try and frame someone?” Richard asked. He was angry as his father continued to believe an outsider while he suspected his own son.
“Don’t worry, she is already arrested, if you don’t believe what I say, you can go to the police station to ask for evidence once you get better.” With that Richard left the room.
He went directly to Amanda’s ward. He did not want to stay out for long as she will be scared once she wakes up.
Richard pushed the door open and found Amanda curling up in a ball. She seemed to be having a bad dream.
Richard walked over slowly and raised his hand to straighten the blanket.copy right hot novel pub
Amanda curled even deeper into the bed.
Richard felt his heart ache, he removed his coat and shoes and climbed in bed. He pulled Amanda in his powerful arms, hugged her tightly and rested her head on his chest.
Smelling the familiar scent of her hair shampoo, Richard’s body relaxed and he dozed off without knowing.
***
Mandy could not believe that she had been arrested.
**After she went to Richard’s home and found that they had already collected everything, she had a bad feeling.
She immediately went to her house and started to pack whatever she could. Richard left the hospital confidently that she now felt scared.
Since she has not heard from those people for a long time, she knew that things had not gone the way they had planned.
She tried dialing Vallery’s number, but it did not go through.
What could she not understand at this time, she had been used by Vallery as a knife. She thought that she was using her but instead she was the one being used. Vallery only wanted to borrow her knife to slain off her enemy.
But she could not suffer alone. Those people were contacted by Vallery, although they had her contact too, they did not know who she was. Even if they were caught and confessed, Vallery will not be left unscathed.
As she was still mulling over, she heard her door bell ring. Mandy was scared for some unknown reason and refused to open the door.
“It’s the police, open the door.” Hearing that they were police, Mandy felt her heart sink.
How could she escape without them noticing.
She looked around nervously and decided to go through the back door. She thought that the police were only at the front door.
But she did not expect that they were too many. The moment she opened the door, she pumped into another group of police.
She got the shock of her life that she even forgot to walk over. Her suitcase fell on the ground attracting the few police men who were strolling around.
Why were they so many, it felt as if they were arresting a national criminal.
“We have the suspect, she wanted to escape through the back door, all teams retreat.” One police talked on the walkie-talkie as the other went to cuff her.
“Miss Mandy right, you are suspected of intentional murder. Please follow us to the police station to assist in the investigation. You have the right to remain silent as anything you say might be used against you in the court of law.” After the police hand cuffed her, he led her away.
Mandy was still in a daze and it took her a long time to react.**
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At the police station, Mandy refused to say anything else apart from, “I want a lawyer.”
Mandy was given a chance to contact her lawyer and even called her parents, who were truly shocked at the sudden news, even her mother fainted from the shock.
After contacting the people she wanted to, stayed silent and did not say anything else. The police could not do anything and could only wait for her lawyer.
The lawyer arrived shortly, he tried to bail her out but since her crimes involved lives, the police refused.
Mandy could only be locked in the police cell as her lawyer thought of something else.
….
It was evening when Amanda woke up again. She had slept well as she did not have any nightmares.
She tried to move only to find herself secured in a warm hug.
Seeing that Richard was still fast asleep, she decided not to mess around and only rested herself securely in his arms. She did not wish to wake him up since she knew that he has not rested well since yesterday.
But Richard was a light sleeper, the moment she moved in his arms, he was already awake, he was just too lazy to open his eyes.
He wanted to see what his little woman would do, but he did not expect her to lie down quitely and not disturb him. Richard was amused and touched at the same time. No one has ever been considerate of him, only his woman.
He moved his hand gently and pushed Amanda so that she was lying on his chest.
“Did I wake you up?” She asked when she looked at his groggy eyes.
“Nope, I have slept for a long time. I feel refreshed.” Richard said as he pinched her nose.
Amanda moved in and captured his lips. Richard was startled and delighted as this woman rarely took the initiative to be intimate with him.
He hugged her tightly and deepened the kiss, not giving her a chance to escape.
Only after he felt that she was almost out of breath did he release her.
“I thought that I would loose you. You really scared me baby.” Richard said as he looked at Amanda with love.
“I thought so too, that I will never see you again, that I will never hug you again. Thank you for coming to rescue me.” Amanda said emotionally. She bent her head and gave Richard a deep kiss.
“I love you Richard Howell.”
“I love you too Mrs. Howell.”
Evelyne wanted to visit her daughter at the hospital but Amanda declined. Her condition was getting better and she will be discharged in two days time.
“Mom, you don’t have to come. It was nothing serious. I just fainted at work because I was exhausted.” Amanda said.
She could not tell her mother the truth for the fear that she will start to overthink and let her thoughts run wild.
“You need to take care of yourself. You always come home late and leave early. I don’t get to see you for some days and yet we live under the same roof. How can I not be worried?” Evelyne reprimanded her. Amanda was touched. In her past life, her mother did not even get the chance to say such words. Although it felt like she was being scolded, Amanda did not feel angry. In return, she was happy.
“I know mom, I also have some good news. I will tell you when I come home.” Amanda said.
“Just say it already, mom can’t wait to hear.”
“No I’m not saying. You will have to wait for me to come home.” Amanda said, was she trying to act cute with her mother.
“Then I will just call Richard directly.” Evelyne feigned anger.
“No mom don’t. Richard doesn’t know yet.” Amanda stopped her mom. Richard will never hide anything from her mother.
She was worried that he will tell her, that is why she warned him earlier, or else her mom would not be in the dark until now.
“Are you pregnant?” Evelyne asked.
Apart from this, she could not think about anything else. If it was work, Richard handled everything, so there is nothing he cannot know concerning Amanda’s work.
When she heard her mother had guessed right, Amanda was so shocked that she choked on the water she was drinking.
Richard happened to enter at that time, seeing her coughing profusely, he immediately went to pat her on the back.
“Why are you careless even when you are drinking water?” Richard did not know what to do with his woman. She will be the death of him one day.
Hearing Richard’s voice, Evelyne suddenly called out his name over the phone, and since he was bending his body towards Amanda, he heard her.
He took the phone from Amanda’s hand and put it on his ear. Amanda on the other hand was still coughing madly. Her eyes had already turned moist.
Looking at her disheveled state, Richard’s eyes darkened.
“Mom…” Richard averted his gaze and called out softly.copy right hot novel pub
“Richard is Amanda pregnant?” Evelyne went direct to point.
Richard was momentarily shocked. Amanda had told him not to tell her mother, how did she know.
“I guessed it. Amanda was being too mysterious so I just made a bold guess.” Evelyne explained when she heard nothing from the other end of the phone.
“Yes mom, Amanda is pregnant.” Richard affirmed.
“Wow that is great. How long?”
“Eight weeks.”
“I’m so happy. I can’t believe I’m going to be grandmother. Is that why she fainted at work? Sigh.. my daughter is so muddle headed, she did not even know that she was pregnant and yet she kept working.” Evelyne lamented although you could hear the joy in her voice.
“Come home soon. Don’t stay at the hospital for too long. It is not a health place and it also has a lot of negative energy which is not good for the baby.” Evelyne was delighted.
“I will start to brew some nutritious soup for her. Come home, come home!”
“Yes mom.”
Richard was used to calling Evelyne mom ever since, even before he proposed to Amanda.
Amanda felt like it was awkward at the start, but the man was comfortable with it so she just let him be.
….
Today was Mandy’s trial.
Her mom and dad woke up early to rush to the court house.
They could not bear to see their daughter end up in jail.
They have tried everything they could but it was futile. Even Leonard who dotted on her, did not want to help her anymore after finding out what she did.
Although Mandy tried to deny the charges, all the evidence pointed at her.
She tried to involve Vallery but the police could not find anything that linked the two together. Even the phone number she provided did not exist.
She felt despair and unwilling when she thought of how she going to survive in prison.
Why was she stupid to even think that Richard will one day love her back.
She regrets coming back from overseas. If she had remained there, she would still be living freely.
She did all this stupid things because she could not stand him loving another woman. How was she no better than that bitch?
Mandy really hated Amanda to the core. She blamed everything on Amanda and did not want to confess.
She could only watch as the judge read out her sentence word for word.
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Vallery had been unsettled ever since she heard that Mandy was arrested. It was especially so when the police came knocking on the William’s door.
She could only deny everything. If anyone knew what she did, that will be the end of her. She did not know how she could explain if they found out.
She has been staying at home ever since she gave birth. Everyone in the entertainment industry had forgotten about her.
Grandma had also warmed her attitude towards her due to the baby, in short, her life was a lot more better than before and she could not let anyone ruin it.
…
Leonard had already been discharged by the time Amanda left the hospital. Mandy’s action had given him a blow, he did not want to stay in the hospital so he could only recuperate at home.
***
It has been one month since Amanda was released from the hospital.
Her manager had adjusted her schedule, although she was pregnant, she tried to finish as much work as she could. Richard tried to stop her but she could not listen.
She could not just ditch the work because she was pregnant. It was a good thing that her belly had not started to show yet or it would have caused yet another bad news to her.
She had also met Richard’s friends who helped in her rescue mission and personally thanked them.
Today was the day for the annual film festival awards know as Kalasha awards.
It was entertainment based and many categories were chosen to be awarded.
Amanda as the upcoming artist, had acted in three movies and two of them were nominated. She had to attend the ceremony to show support for her movies.
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The event was taking place at Panari Hotel. A lot of media personality had already stood on the both sides of the red carpet.
Many rookies and upcoming celebrities slayed the red carpet as they made their way to the signing board.
Those well and established artists always came late, these small fries came earlier so that they can socialize and get some connections before the start of the main event.
Vallery was also coming along with Jason, she wanted to slowly establish her status again since she has already given birth.
They walked the red the carpet and received a lot of praises which left her quite pleased that people had not completely forgotten about her.
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“Yoh, did you hear that there will be a special guest today?” People started gossiping as soon they entered the hotel.
“Yeah I heard about it. But even if there is a special guest, we won’t even have a chance to meet him after all he must be someone distinguished.”
“We will just wait and see who it is.”
Everyone went to make connections as the celebrities streamed in one after another. It was really a feast for the eyes.
