CHAPTER 24

“You don’t have to worry about that. I think the best thing for you is to ask him and hear his opinions on family but there will be no way he wouldn’t his baby,” Vivian said.
“I am so scared I don’t know what to do,” Selena said and Vivian reached her hand for hers.
“I am here for you. If he does something funny, we will just teach him a lesson,” she said humorously and her friend started laughing. It was better now; she smiled seeing how she had managed to make Selena loosen up a bit.
“So, did you go the hospital yet?”
“Yes, I went and I will go there again to have a sonogram taken. I can’t wait for that,” Selena said happily.
“Then take me with you when you go. Your husband won’t be going right?”
“I will keep him in the dark for now. When it is time, I will tell him,” Selena answered.
“Just don’t take too long,” Vivian advised her friend.
“Don’t worry, I will not do that.”
The two friends finished their lunch and returned back to the lecture hall for another session of classes. Soon she will be here alone after Selena goes for a maternity leave; she will be lonely without her.
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Sean sat in the Chairman’s office and looked at the old man. What was he trying to do?
“Can you do it”’ he asked him and Sean just looked at him.
“Isn’t that project supposed to be handled by Andrew?” he asked instead of answering.
“It is but I think you are more suitable than him,” the old man.
Something didn’t feel right at all. He felt as if he was in the middle of an ongoing battle that he wasn’t aware of.
“Can you be honest and tell me what you are brewing this time, because I don’t want to be part of it?”
“You know me so well. I wish the other kids could read me well like you do. Whatever you do, you always manage to bring the best out of them. You make them so competitive,” the chairman praised him in a weird way.
“I’m glad to hear that but now I have a family and I don’t want to be stuck in the middle of these games anymore,” he told his step dad straight flat.
“You really love her?”
“Yes, I do and I don’t want to be involved in these politics anymore. I just want to be out of this,” he told him.
“You are no longer that ambitious as you were when you were young how disappointing.”
“I learnt such a great lesson from all that and it’s time for me to stop taking them. If there is nothing more then I will take my leave father,” Sean said as he stood up.
“Can you do me one last favor I wouldn’t want to do anything that will make your mother sad anymore?” the chairman asked.
“Okay; what do you want from me?” he asked and waited as the chairman narrated the whole issue for him.
He has always known that this man was a calculative man and was full of schemes but this one was an insane one.
“Can you do it for me?” the chairman asked.
“What do I get in return for that?” he asked, his step dad had taught him that there is nothing as something for nothing.
“What do you want?” the chairman asked.
Sean pondered over the issue and looked at the old man.
“If I do this then promise me that you will never engage me in this kind of politics and let me live in peace. I am sick and tired of schemes from this family,” Sean told his father.
“If that is what you want then I will give it to you as long as you hold your end of the bargain,” the old man said.
“We have a deal then,” Sean said and left the office.
Why should he be the sacrificial lamb all the time? If it wasn’t because of his mother he would have done something so terrible to this family a very long time ago.
Sean returned to his office and sat down in his chair. He smiled as he looked at the picture that was on his desk. He smiled seeing how happy his wife was. He was going to make it up to her for the rest of her life. How would it be if she were to conceive his child?
He would really love it, seeing how small their baby would be just made his heart flutter. He was going to start trying. They had been intimate for a long time and he knew that his wife was not on birth control, so why was there no news?
He was perfectly fine, was there a problem with her? Even if she was infertile, he would never leave her. She had stood with him for a long time and gave him so much love and support, which is why he will do the same for her.
He was in the middle of planning his future when his older brother barged into his office.
“What the heck are you planning?” Andrew yelled at him as he came closer to him.
“You need to tell me so that I can understand brother,” Sean said as if he wasn’t aware of what Andrew was talking about.
“Don’t try to act all lame and foolish. You know what I am talking about. Let me warn you, you stay the hell away from my project or I will make you regret!”