Ch. 11..15: The Wife I Never Met chapter 11-15

Chapter 11

She looked staight in to his eyes, trying to find any clues of lies but found none. Liam’s voice was so resolute and left no doubts in her that what he said was indeed the truth. So she looked down and mumbled.

“I see” but wait she couldn’t just let him off that easily. ‘huh, lets see how you can explain this’. So in a low voice she said.

“what about when I called you last night, you were so uninterested in what I was saying. why are you here now, care to explain.”

With that Liam pulled her into his embrace, and looked at this woman in front of him.

” well firstly when you called, I was in a meeting with 20 people so I couldn’t talk,. Secondly I missed you and lastly I figured you’ll need my support since you’ve seen the person who annoyed you the most.”

With that he gave her long and passionate k**s, it was so long that Ciara felt that she was really going to be suffocated.

Only when her legs were about to go jelly did he let her go. They locked eyes, with Ciara lost in the moment. She was so mesmerized that she even forgot the reason why she was angry at him in the first place. Liam finally looked up and frowned a little, it was the first time that he noticed the layout of the room.

It was small with only a bed, coffee station and a bathroom. Noticing his frown, Ciara couldn’t help but ask in a low voice.

“Hey, what is wrong?”

“was this room booked for you by the crew?”

“yeah, why?”

Thinking about the money he had invested in the movie, but his wife only received such a treatment. He felt that the room was no different from a match box, but of course he couldn’t say that to Ciara. So He only replied with a sneer.

Seeing that, it was as if Ciara could read his Mind.

“Hey hey, this room is big enough ok! Look i can even stretch myself, oh yeah and can even do a few yoga positions”

She said that enthusiastically while demonstrating with a few moves, not noticing the pit she had dug up for herself as the man’s gaze darkened.

He tried masking the l**t by deepening him voice.

“I see, but this room is clearly not big enough for the two of us. Im leaving.” he took a few steps and noticed that no one was following him.

“Aren’t you coming “

This annoyed Ciara a little, she felt really comfortable in her room. Did she really have to change rooms. ‘arhg this man is really annoying’ of course she didn’t say that out loud, but ended up saying in a low voice.

“this is really not fair”

Liam smiled little, seeing that although the little woman in front of him was complaining but she had started moving her things. She was a little obedient.

“Leave that, someone will come and get your things “

“ohw no, that’s really fine. You shouldn’t bother anyone as I’m already used to doing this”.

Liam didn’t really feel explaining anything to her, so he only looked at her for a while, spun his heels and went straight to the door and left. Seeing Liam’s behavior, Ciara sighed. She had no choice but to follow him.

She ran to catch up with his long strides, when she finally caught up with him she was panting, trying to catch her breath.

“you…. Hey slow down, are you trying kill me or what. You know if I keep in running like this I’ll end up fainting from exhaustion.”

Liam ignored her and kept his pace walking towards the elevator. They both entered and rode to the last floor which was a penthouse. The only Penthouse in the hotel, which was Liam’s private suite. No one was allowed to come to this floor unless given the green card by Liam. And only the head cleaner was allowed to clean the pent house.

So they finally reached the last floor, Liam opened the door using his key card. He then led her inside.

Upon entering the penthouse Ciara couldn’t hide the shock she felt, that she even stood rooted in one spot. If someone told her there was a penthouse that big in this hotel, she would, without a doubt tell them that they are lying. But now she had withness all of this with her own eyes.

She slowly lifted her legs and moved toward the glass wall which showed the 180 degree angle views. There was even an artificial lake, which they had a full view of.

The penthouse had very expensive finishings, the theme was different from the hotel. It’s theme was on the masculine side, you’d be able to know that it belonged to a man without even asking anyone.

“Did you book this entire penthouse?” of course she felt that her question was dump, why would she even ask knowing very well how wealthy the man was of course he could afford it. She still looked at him expectedly waiting for him to answer.

“No” he said this nonchalantly, as this was normal to him, and not something to be proud of. He then continued.

“I own this hotel sweetheart”.

Chapter 12

Indeed she had never expected that answer from him, she felt that poverty had restricted her imagination. She thought if she really wanted to be with Liam, she’d better up her game. She had to work hard, hard enough to be able to stand beside him proudly. Yes she knew that this was a hard goal to achieve, but she’d work hard to achieve it. ‘I’d better up the quality if my scripts ‘. She thought to herself.

“Liam I see, you are are wealthy man, how many properties do you have?”.

“We both are wealthy , sweetheart. There’s a lot, I’d have to count for you. You see, Jones group has branched in to a lot of different industries so it’s really difficult to tell, but what you have know is that you can afford anything you desire.”

Ciara’s mouth was shaped into an O, it’s evident that she was shocked beyond imagination. For the past five years, since she had a fall out with the Williams, she had lived on a budget. She had to work hard to earn what she had.

” Are you sure?, remember you can’t go back on your word. I’ll shop till your pockets runs dry. Huuh, I’m rich, hahaha.” she was so happy even though she knew that shopping was never her thing. She had always bought necessities and had never shopped to show off.

Liam laughed at the happy woman in front of him, but still took out his secondary black card to show his sincerity and handed it to her.

“hahaha, jeah I never lie, take this for when you need to shop to your heart’s desire.”

She took the card without hesitation, fearing that he might ask it back she stuffed the card in to her bra and even patted her breasts a few times to show that the card was secured and no one can get it from there.

Coming from an extremely rich family Liam had never seen such a reaction hence he was amused by his wife, so much so that he even laughed his lungs out. ‘I see there’s alot to explore from this woman of mine, huh.’

And speaking of exploring he thought of the yoga positions that he could explore with her, so with that thought in mind, an idea flashed through his head and felt that he had to voice it out but in a wise manner.

“Hey would you like to see the space where you can practice your yoga? “

Well Ciara was oblivious to his intentions, so when she heard his suggestion, she readily agreed. In fact she was happy to see the space, she was even picturing a studio with a view like the one seen through the living space.

” ohw yes Liam I’d love to see it, I can even try out the new positions I learned. Oooh it should be great.”

Liam’s eyes darkened even further, but still patiently directed her to the space alleged to be a yoga space. So they climbed up the stairs and walked toward a room nearby. Liam indicated for her to open the door, so she took a deep breath in and then breathed out before opening the door and walked in. But when she walked in she noticed that, that room was not a studio but a bedroom. It was huge and could fit her entire apartment in it, so she assumed it was the master bedroom. With a dumfounded look on her face she turned to Liam and said.

” But Liam, this is not a studio but it’s a bedroom”.

“yep I know. Don’t you think that it is spacious enough?”

” It is, but… Huuufpm…”

He never gave her the chance to finish her sentence, as he buried his lips in to hers for a while before saying.

“princess, did you notice how spacious the bed is?… How about you show me all your yoga moves, teach me would you.”

His voice was so hoarse that you could literally see his l**t. He said this while gently pushing her pushing her toward the bed.

Ciara on the other hand felt that people were really deseived, they had a wrong impression of him.

She felt that he was very shameless, this is the very man who was rumored to be unapproachable and aloof, the one who would never look at a woman and also avoid all those who would throw themselves at him.

Before she could even collect herself from her thoughts, she noticed that the man had started undressing her, so she felt that she had no choice but to go with the flow.

On the other side Laura was kicking up a fuss, when they got in her room she started cursing Ciara with all her might. She felt that the reason why her night was a disaster was all because of Ciara. If Ciara did not attend the party maybe Liam would have noticed Laura instead. She would have enjoyed all of Liam’s attention to herself. But Ciara ruined everything for her. She gritted her teeth and looked at her agent.

“why did that assistant had to come, that Ciara girl or whatever you call her. Look at how she embarrassed me today. Who does she think she is, she’s not even qualified to be Liam’s girlfriend.”

“well she’s not an assistant, but the screen writer of this movie, so behave yourself.”

Chapter 13

“screen writer or not what does that have to do with me” she was so clouded by anger and jealousy that she did not even notice that she’s been saying the wrong things.

Laura felt that she could never be at rest till she makes Ciara pay. She wanted revenge high and low. She even wanted to recruit someone who can help her in this journey, and it should be a person who didn’t see eye to eye with Ciara.

So she took out her phone and sent a message to the person she had in mind. She remembered that this person in particular didn’t like Ciara as she even tried to embarrass her during the games. ‘it must be because of that Dex guy’.

After sometime her phone beeped with a notification showing that there was an incoming message. When she read the message, she beamed with excitement especially when reading the last part where the the other party showed interest in working with her.

“hehehe, you see when you work hard anything can be achieved”.

Don’t be fooled, that was definitely not a happy laugh but an evil one…..

The following morning Ciara woke up with a heavy hand wrapped around her waist, that’s when she remembered that she had spent the night with Liam, her husband. She slowly opened her eyes, Liam’s handsome face with the best features she’s seen and bare chest came to view, she took a minute or two to admire him.

‘I can’t believe I get to wake up to this every day, these girls will sure hate me if they found out’ she then stroked his cheeks.

“handsome”.

“like what you see sweetheart?”

It’s only then that she realized she had spoken out loud. She was so embarrassed that she couldn’t bring herself to look at her man, so she instantly buried herself under the blankets and screamed her lungs out.

Just when she thought she had to dig a hole to hide from all the embarrassment, a knock came to her rescue. But instead of opening the door, Liam just laughed heartily. He found her reaction very funny but this annoyed Ciara a little, so she slowly uncovered half of her head and said.

“Hey go get the door!!!”

“hahaha” he still laughed while shaking his head. He then stood up carelessly and grabbed a robe to dress his naked a*s body.

“ohw my God Liam!” she said this while hiding her red blushing face using both her hands.

” What? It’s not like you’ve never seen it before.” He then opened door and found his assistant waiting with two other people with him. He had brought breakfast for the couple, while the other two were holding Ciara’s luggage from her previous room.

After they’ve delivered everything, they were sensible enough to leave the couple to enjoy their breakfast in peace.

Once breakfast was over, they cleaned up, preparing for the day ahead. Liam wanted to drive Ciara to the shooting site but She had other thoughts, she insisted on using her own transportation. She felt that arriving with Liam would make things more complicated than they currently were.

Liam had no choice but to let her be. She had managed perfectly before they got married, surely she can still do the same now. With that he got up and left the penthouse, he still had some inspections he needed to do, for a couple of firms in this city.

Not long after that Ciara also walked out of the hotel, it only took her twenty minutes to to reach the site. When she got there something she never expected happened, immediately after she got off the care Laura came running to her and enthusiastically greeted her.

She was taken aback for a moment, this was the same person who was rude to her earlier. Why was she now acting as if they were friends. But what came next shocked her even further.

“Ms Ciara I know i was not good to you earlier, although I didn’t know you were a writer I still can’t justify my actions. Why don’t you forgive me, will you”.

Ciara felt that her apology was not only insincere but was fake as hell. She thought Laura was up to no good but she just couldn’t wrap her finger on it, she decided to play along.

” It’s all in the past, don’t stress about it” she said that while flashing a fake smile back at Laura.

Seeing that everything was going according to her plan she pulled Ciara and wrapped her arm around hers. If one didn’t know, they’d swear the two were best friends judging from how intimate they appeared to be.

She then went on to fill her in on a story about a certain someone who was dumped by their fiance only two weeks before their wedding day, and now the man was dating that particular someone’s cousin. And now the woman lived her life miserably as would often lock herself up and cry.

Hearing this Ciara’s frown deepen, what she couldn’t understand was how Laura managed to get this kind of information about her, although most of it is not true, she still didn’t like how Laura dug out her past, worse she was not even famous that it could be blogged about. So what she needed to figure out now was Laura’s motive.

 

Chapter 14

But now she just couldn’t take it anymore, so She decided to excuse herself for the time being. Upon noticing Ciara’s reaction Laura felt that she had reached some sort of achievement thus grinned viciously.

‘huh! I guess it’s true then, doesn’t she know that she is nothing but rejects from her ex, why will Mr Jones even look at her.’ with that she polished the rest of her plan in her head.

Soon filming started and everyone was busy except for Ciara of course, who sat idly and watched on as people went about their work.

Seeing that everyone paid no attention to them Dexter took the opportunity to strike a conversation with Ciara.

“I didn’t know that you were this heartless and lacked self control” he then snorted at her.

Confused by what Dexter had just said, Ciara widened her eyes and asked.

“what do you even mean?”

“huh! Now she’s gonna pretend as if she is clueless.” he said it as if he was mocking Ciara for something .

“Don’t act all innocent with me, I saw you at Crowded a few days ago. Huh, the way you were so all over Liam Jones that night, you’d swear it was your first time seeing a man. You said you wanted to save yourself for our wedding night but instead gave yourself up the first chance you got. I was so naive to think that you were a decent woman with self worth. ” he then glared at her not trying to atleast hide the contempt and anger shinning from his eyes.

Although he was angry and felt betrayed, he had still hoped that Ciara would regret and beg him for forgiveness. But to his dismay Ciara’s response was far from that.

With an indifferent expression on her face she said.

“firstly Mr Dexter, I’m not the one who left you exactly two weeks from your wedding day without any explanation and had to deal with the guests telling them the wedding was canceled and had to answer all the questions coming from all those nosy aunties , now tell me who’s the heartless one huh?

She then cast a look at him, and just when he wanted to say something she stopped him with her hand raised up, signaling him to stop and then she continued.

” I’m not done, you say I threw myself at Liam the first chance I got? So what? Well let me tell you something mister. What I do with my life has nothing to do with you, you lost the right to question me the moment you sent that sms.” with that said, Ciara did not even wait to listen to what he had to say. So she immediately turned to leave and headed towards the restroom.

She went in and went about her business, when she was done, she exited the cubicle only to find someone waiting for her. She was already used to her, so she wasn’t bothered by her presence. She could easily guess what Boity was there for, hence she pretended to not have seen her and went straight to the wash basin, washed then dried her hands. Just as she was turning to leave, her face was welcomed by a very hard slap.

It was so sudden and caught her off guard that she didn’t get a chance to react. It was her very first time being hit, no one has ever had the gut to do that, not even her own parents. Which explains the reason it took her so long to register the incident.

Holding her stinging red cheek that had been slapped, she asked.

“Hey what the f*#k is wrong you? What did you do that for?”

“Now that my friend is for seducing my boyfriend, you better take that as a warning. Next time it won’t just be your cheek.” with that she turned and took a few steps toward the exit.

On the other hand, Ciara was confused as hell, as to how she had managed to seduce Dexter when all she did was try her best to avoid any interactions with him. So she said to Boity in a low voice.

” well you should try telling that to your boyfriend”.

Boity immediately paused in her steps and said.

“Ciara don’t you get it?, Dex doesn’t want you, that’s why he chose to dump you just before he could get trapped by you. He doesn’t love you, get that in to your head”. With said Boity left the restroom.

Ciara was thinking about all the retorts she could have used to refute Boity but failed. Looking at the departing woman, Ciara was so infuriated by herself ‘why did she stand there and not say anything when Boity was throwing insults at her’ arhg she stomped her feet and also left.

As she walk out she noticed that people were staring at her in a weird kind of way, it was like they pitied her. It was likely that they overheard what happened in the rest room just now, so not wanting to talk about it she decided to leave the shooting site at once.

Seeing her red swollen cheek with five fingers printed on it, people at the site didn’t want to comment or take sides. They felt that since Boity was Dexter’s girlfriend they couldn’t afford to offend her, hence they pretended to have not seen a thing.

But unlike the rest at the filming site, Laura couldn’t and would never let her leave that easily especially when her plan was not fully put in place. She was just hoping that Liam could be there, to witness Ciara embarrassing herself. She wanted her to feel the exact same shame she felt the previous night at the party.

Chapter 15

Liam at that moment had just finished his last inspection and was currently busy with reports from all firms he had visited. That’s when he remembered that there was one place where he hadn’t visited, and that’s where his wife was.

He then handed over the report task to one of his assistants and then instructed the driver to drive to the filming site. His heart was longing to see this little woman of his.

…..

Upon noticing that Ciara was about to leave the site Laura called out to her.

“Hey Ciara, please don’t tell me that you were going to leave just like that with a word” she looked at her disapprovingly while still wearing a smile on her face.

” come on, come with me, I need you to help me with my dress, it’s kind of small, so I’ll need an extra pair of hands.”

“owh no I don’t think that’s appr…..” she wanted to politely decline, but couldn’t finish her sentence as Laura had started pulling her towards the change rooms.

As Laura was pulling Ciara toward the change room, she noticed a black car pulling out. She thought to herself ‘great now there’s even more people to witness Ciara’s walk of shame’. She smiled while lightly patting her shoulder.

All of this action didn’t go unnoticed by the man inside the black car.

” Stupid girl”.

At that moment Laura asked Ciara to go in first as she needed to answer a call.

“AAAAAH”

“Pang!!! “

A reverberating scream shortly followed by a loud sound of something heavy falling was heard , even Laura herself was shocked frozen , she was shocked and did not believe that something as light as a paint balloon could make so much noise.

Liam who was not far from the scene ran as fast as he could, but still felt like he was not fast enough. What if something terrible happened to his wife, he did not even want to think of the possible outcome.

When he finally got in to the change room, he found Ciara laying there motionlessly with red paint all over her body and a two litre tin of paint not far from where she was. Without wasting any time, he scooped her up and went straight to the car. He then looked at the directors and said coldly.

“I want a proper explanation when I get back here”.

He then shot a dangerous glare at the guilty looking Laura before getting in the car and driving away.

The car sped heading to the hospital, and all this time Liam was anxiously looking at Ciara while his hands were balled in to fists. He was silently cursing all those people involved in hurting his sweetheart.

It only took them fifteen minutes to get to the hospital and Ciara was then rushed to examination room.

It was discovered that she had suffered from a mild concussion but should be fine once she wakes up. The doctor then advised to keep her in for observation.

After the hospital bill were paid, a room was organized for her. All this while Liam was by her side not even once did he leave her, oh except when he settled the bill of cause.

While waiting for Ciara to wake up, Liam took a warm damp towel and started wiping her body clean. He was so gentle, you’d swear that he was actually cleaning an egg. It was only then that he noticed the red five figure prints left by Boity earlier.

He was so angry that he wanted to kill the culprit then and there, but he knew he couldn’t do that so he decided to call his assistant Larry.

Immediately when the call was connected, he shot commands at the person on the other end of the call.

“investigate what really happened, make sure you find the people involved. I want names, I want the person who dares lay a finger on my wife.”

Larry naturally knew what the boss was talking about. He can literally feel Liam’s wrath through his shaking voice. He felt sorry for the culprits who had messed with the wrong person.

“Don’t worry, I’m on it”.

“I want answers before the end of the day.” he didn’t wait for a response but cut the call right after his words fell.

He then continued cleaning his wife, looking at the pitiful state she was in, he vowed to protect her with all his might.

Seeing that she was still sleeping peacefully sleeping, he thought it would be wise to catch up on some work. So he took out his laptop and started working on it.

It was already late in the evening when Ciara started moving, she wanted to say something but her voice was a bit hoarse as her throat was dry. Noticing her movements Liam put his laptop on the side and got up and passed her a glass of water. She then drank the water and immediately felt refreshed.

It was only after drinking her water that she realized she was at the hospital.

“why am I here?” she was perfectly fine not so long ago, so what is it that happened, for her to wake up in a hospital bed.

“Are you sure you don’t remember sweetheart?” but looking at the confused expression on her face he continued. “That’s OK, it’s nothing to be stressing about. You should rest.”